Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

Title: Light Becomes What it Touches
Fandom: Person of Interest
Rating: Teen (except for Chapter Three, which is NSFW/Explicit)
Words: 22,785
Characters/Pairings: Harold/John, Root/Shaw, Harold/John/Grace

Summary:
When Grace's number comes up, Harold asks John to take her out of the city and keep her safe. On the road trip upstate, John and Grace must work around the secrets between them to stay alive.

Notes:
This was written for the Person of Interest Big Bang 2018.

It's a road-trip AU set during S3 Ep21 Beta (the one where Samaritan comes after Grace) and ending with Harold/John/Grace.

Thank you to lilacsigil for the betaing, talkingtothesky for cheerleading, and mulasawala for her art.

Title is from the poem "Monet Refuses the Operation" by Lisel Mueller:
The world
is flux, and light becomes what it touches,
becomes water, lilies on water,
above and below water,
becomes lilac and mauve and yellow
and white and cerulean lamps,
small fists passing sunlight
so quickly to one another
that it would take long, streaming hair
inside my brush to catch it.
(Monet Refuses the Operation)

Embedded art is by MulaSaWala, you can see her art post here: Light Becomes What it Touches Fanart

Chapter One (Rated Teen)
Chapter Two (Rated Teen)
Chapter Three (Rated Explicit)

Or read at the Archive: Light Becomes What it Touches

Title: Light Becomes What it Touches, Chapter Two
Fandom: Person of Interest
Rating for this Chapter: Teen
Words: 9,336

Embedded art is by MulaSaWala, you can see her art post here: Light Becomes What it Touches Fanart

Also at the Archive

( That evening, Harold directs them to the safehouse )

... escitalopram is making me a morning person. I don't know if I like this development. The emotional blunting seems to become more of a filter and less of a heavy blanket. I do think that's good. And today, when a particularly vile customer was nasty, I didn't lose my shit and cry. So, um, resilience? Maybe? IDK. (Be polite in shops, people. Be polite to your servers also.)

Joyful Links
Guys, the world is a trashfire right now, and I'm so sorry. If you're protesting this weekend, I send you strength and thanks and umbrellas to shelter you from sun (or water cannons should that be a thing.) If you're like me and have the chance and the need to hide from the world, I send you warm blankets (or cooling fans) and so many hugs.

I have some things that have brought me joy, and I hope they can bring you joy too:
- Via tassoss, this vid rec - Bob Ross - Happy Little Clouds
I am kinda earwormed with this now, but it oozes joy and contentedness and I am delight.


- I'm not sure where I saw this linked, but it was a good reminder of what a boost this vid is, an insta-classic from last year's Festivids:
they're good dogs Brent [VID] (274 words) by bessyboo, Platinumvampyr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: @dog_rates | WeRateDogs
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: @dog_rates | WeRateDogs - Character, Brent
Additional Tags: Dogs, Twitter, joy, Fanvids, Video Format: MP4, Video Format: Streaming, Download Available
Summary:

h*ckin good dogs.

- Via selenak, a fic rec for an X-Files/Batman crossover, with exactly (for me) the right mix of plot and feelings:
Grunt Work (9428 words) by audreycritter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The X-Files, Batman - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Bruce Wayne
Additional Tags: Crossover, Early X-Files canon, Young!Bruce Wayne, the grand become the Batman training tour, references to obscure canon, tw: child abuse (mentioned), tw: brief violence against a child, crackfic will break your heart, Minor Angst, Monster of the Week, Werewolf
Summary:

Dana Scully returns from her vacation to find that Fox Mulder has acquired an intern.

The first problem is that he’s lying about who he is.

The second problem is that Mulder knows that and doesn’t seem to care.

Whatever his motive, young billionaires don’t just run around pretending to be interns for no reason, and that’s a case to solve in itself.

(Or, Bruce Wayne had to learn profiling from somebody— why not the best?)

- Fandom crafters will always amaze me:
Custom Amigurumi Exorcist Playset
You have to love a product description like this: "The two figures are connected by the puke stream, but Regan can be moved from the bed."

Science Joy
Mostly from science tumblr:
- from everywhere but I last saw it via umadoshi: Hey what’s up, that HTTYD 3 poster got me fucked up
From a tumblr person with quals in animation and animal and veterinary science, who talks sexual dimophism in nature, and just plain common sense. (And while this isn't a joyous post, there is so much joy in the application of academic study to something you love fannishly. I love that.)

- How to start fires with lemons, or as science tumblr puts it: When life gives you lemons, burn life's house down

- Satan's balloon animals, the Portuguese Man O'War
(cw: tentacles. Lots and lots of tentacles.)

- Not really science, but pleasing to me: 16 Anime Horses Rated by Someone Who Doesn’t Watch Anime
This comes after discovering My Horse Prince, a dating game where the handsome boys are centaurs only like, not human torsos on horse bodies as seen in mythology everywhere, but HUMAN HEADS ON HORSE NECKS.
( I am not joking - don't click under here unless you want this in your dreams )
- Whale watching season is starting here, and we have a return customer called Odd Lips, who seems to be checking out all the beaches along the coast to have her calf: Southern right whale at Logans Beach
(I love whale watching season, most especially because of the united front of whale watchers who telegraph the locations and identities of the whales as they appear. And ferociously pursue and dress down anyone who goes too close to their precious whales.)


Reminders:
- The Person of Interest Big Bang:
Calling all Person of Interest fans
Signups are open for writers and artists

- Camp Nanowrimo starts tomorrow (at least in my hemisphere)
I'm in a cabin with people writing for the POI big bang, it's going to be fun. I hope.

- Sign-ups are closed but you can write treats for multifandomdrabble! Here's the request summary: Multifandom requests 2018.

Title: Right Here, Right Now
Fandom: Agents of SHIELD/Agent Carter/Captain America
Rating: PG
Words: 16300
Characters/Pairings: Bobbi Morse/Jemma Simmons, Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers, Angie Martinelli, Dottie Underwood, Skye|Daisy Johnson, Alphonso (Mack) Mackenzie, Lance Hunter, Leo Fitz, Melinda May, Natasha Romanoff
Warnings/Content: No warnings
Notes: Set immediately after the events of the S2 finale and going AU from there. (This was entirely written before the new season of Agents of SHIELD premiered, so please forgive discrepancies, like Daisy still being Skye.) Thank you to lilacsigil, a very patient beta.


Summary: Trapped in 1946 after being swallowed by the monolith, Jemma Simmons knows she must protect the timeline and get a message back to her team (and Bobbi.) The enemies of the SSR have other plans, and home seems a long way distant. In the present day, though, Peggy Carter is discovering that it's never too late to go to the rescue.

Read at the Archive: Right Here, Right Now

( Fic and art under the cut )

Thylacine (21169 words) by st_aurafina
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Sanctuary (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Helen Magnus, James Watson, Nikola Tesla, Imogen Worth, Declan MacRae, Henry Foss
Additional Tags: The Five, Victorian, Australia, Cryptozoology
Summary:

Helen Magnus was resigned to taking the slow road back to the twenty-first century alone without changing history. Then Imogen Worth was found alive under the rubble. Now, with an unexpected ward and paradox at her side, the road to the future has taken a startling turn.

Art and fanmix post by skylar0grace.





(Written for wipbigbang. Set after episode 4.01, Tempus. So many thanks to lilacsigil and dbalthasar for their help with this fic!)

Title: The Persistence of Memory
Fandom: X-Men: First Class, X-Men comicsverse
Rating: PG
Words: 19.5K
Characters/Pairings: Emma Frost/Moira MacTaggert, Natasha Romanov, Sage
Warnings: Sixties-era misogyny, James Bond levels of violence
Notes: Thank you to lilacsigil for beta-reading, to artmetica for the beautiful art, and to chosenfire28 for running xmenbigbang.

Summary:
After Cuba, Moira is left with no memories and a career in tatters. She should know better than to engage with another telepath, but the opportunity to reclaim her life is too great a temptation. When Magneto and his new Brotherhood attack, Moira offers their target, Emma Frost, another option. She is surprised to find that Emma has an agenda of her own: to find and stop the scientists responsible for Shaw's anti-telepathic helmet.

This tentative alliance becomes a frantic dash across Europe with the USSR's best agent on their heels. Car chases, lipstick cameras, midnight journeys to Moscow, brainwashing and fighting on top of trains: can a disgraced spy and a vigilante telepath stop world powers from exploiting mutants again?



( Full sized art, links to fic, art and fanmix  )

But I am clambering right back up again.

In a fit of madness, I signed up for xf_bigbang - I reasoned that if I have to default, as long as I do it before the artists are assigned, I'm not hurting anyone. (I feel really wretched for dropping out of LGBTfest, even though it wasn't a fic for any one person as such.)

It's a Twin Peaks/X-Files crossover. I've plotted it out. I know who dunnit. I've written oodles and oodles of backstory - 5K of backstory. And there I'm stalled - my actual word count is pathetically low. I think my problem might be that I like the backstory better right now. I'd keep going with that, but the backstory is Twin Peaks-centric, and it's meant to be an X-Files story. *sighs* I will keep pelting words at the screen and maybe it will be okay. And if it isn't, who am I hurting?

Things I am watching and enjoying but haven't had the time to squee over:

The Good Wife - this is dead smart, sexy drama. I love every character on this show (we've just got to the episodes with Alan Cumming stealing every fucking scene he's in), but most of all, I draw sparkly hearts around Kalinda Sharma played by Archie Panjabi.

( hopefully there is video embedded under this cut... )

It is so cold tonight, we are huddled under the lilac blanket. And we're going to Daylesford this weekend. IT MIGHT SNOW! I am so excited. We picked the best possible weekend to go up a mountain.