Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

Title: Unguarded Moment
Fandom: Person of Interest
Rating: General
Words: 100
Characters/Pairings: Harold/John
Notes: Written for smallhobbit for the July round of Multifandomdrabblefest

Summary: Harold knows when John is not sleeping easily.

Also at the Archive

( John usually falls asleep first )

multifandomdrabble was fun, as always, and I was very lucky with gifts:

- Try A Hand Too by Lady_Katana4544 (Person of Interest, John/Harold, the worst fake couple scenario imaginable. So cute and fun!)

- Jam Today by Meatball42 (Person of Interest, John/Grace/Harold, lovely domestic fic, with John taking care of Harold and Grace both.)

- Pancakes by syrupwit (The Punisher, Karen/Frank, lovely quiet middle of the night scene.)

(Also, I haven't talked much about The Punisher, but I've watched all of S1 and a couple of S2 so far, and ugh SO GOOD.)

- let me google that for you by Hyacinthus (The Exorcist, Verity and and a stealth connection made with Kat Rance. So very Verity!)

And I wrote three:

- Homecoming (The Exorcist, Marcus Keane/Peter Osborne)

- Helpmeet (Hannibal, Chiyoh/Bedelia Du Maurier)

- New Pathways (Star Trek: Discovery, Hugh Culber/Paul Stamets)

multifandomdrabble has opened, and I received four lovely gifts:

Wives and Husbands by talkingtothesky
Person of Interest, Root/Shaw, John/Harold. It's lovely post-marriage fic, with them all sleepy and safe and in love. It's perfect.

The Goblin Line by Acacieae
Rivers of London, a sweet little dialogue between Nightingale and Peter, crammed with magical detail and world building.

Full Moon by sweetcarolanne
Harry Potter fic, a Remus/Sirius moment that has all the bittersweet love that make me love this pairing.

In This Moment With You by Lady_Katana4544
Another Person of Interest fic. This time it's John/Harold in a gorgeous moment of domesticity, snuggled in bed together. It makes me a puddle of goo, seriously.

And I wrote five:
See the Air I Breathe - Captain America: Winter Soldier, Steve/Natasha
Steve and Natasha know that finding Bucky won't be easy.

Terroir - Hannibal
An oyster is intimately impacted by the body of water it comes from.

Put Aside Childish Things - Captive Prince, Nicaise and Laurent
In the new capital, there are no pets under the age of majority.

Pass the Parcel - Person of Interest/MCU crossover
Clint really needs to ask for that raise.

Routine Upkeep - Firefly, Kaylee/Inara, Kaylee/Simon
Kaylee's learning what it takes to keep her crew going in hard times.

It's such a fun fest - this was my third year, and it's still as much fun as it was when it was run on Imzy. (RIP, Imzy! You were fun for five minutes.)

Tomorrow we're heading off to Melbourne for three or four days. We have a new catsitter who is lovely, and understands that she will most likely never see the cats because they will hide. I'm looking forward to getting lots of different pokestop gifts to send to my pokefriends, who are probably tired of that one Post Office stop with the spelling error in it.

Title: See the Air I Breathe
Fandom: MCU
Rating: Teen
Words: 3 x 100
Characters/Pairings: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
Warnings/Content: Huddling for Warmth, the Search for Bucky, Set post-Captain America: Winter Soldier, title from Winter Bird by Aurora
Notes: Written for multifandomdrabble

Summary: Steve and Natasha know that finding Bucky won't be easy.

Also at the Archive

( Steve knows Bucky isn't in this base )

Title: Pass the Parcel
Fandom: Person of Interest/MCU
Rating: Teen
Words: 4 x 100
Characters/Pairings: Clint Barton, John Reese, Sameen Shaw, Joss Carter, Root
Warnings/Content: Background Root/Shaw, Electric arrows
Notes: Written for multifandomdrabble

Summary: Clint needs to ask for that raise.

Also at the Archive

( John drags the latest number towards the roof and Carter follows. )

Thursday's headlines about Trump and the military made for a fairly hellish day in the old brain weasel cage. I want to say that I love and support all my beautiful trans and genderqueer friends. You are valued and your friendship is treasured, and I am glad that you're here. I am proud to know you. <3

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multifandomdrabble was so much fun! I posted my fics yesterday but I wanted to also link my gifts. I got lovely stuff!

Royal Circuit (100 words) by Trismegistus
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Damen/Laurent (Captive Prince)
Characters: Damen (Captive Prince), Laurent (Captive Prince)
Additional Tags: Teasing, Established Relationship, Fluff
Summary:

Laurent is a handful.

dog days (100 words) by sapphire2309
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sameen Shaw, Bear (Person of Interest)
Summary:

The heat gets to Bear.

A New Hobby (100 words) by Isis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lord John Series - Diana Gabaldon
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lord John Grey, Stephan von Namtzen
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fusion, Stealth Crossover, Drabble
Summary:

Lord John Grey visits Waldesruh again, and learns about Stephan von Namtzen's latest obsession.

Never alone (100 words) by Kayim
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Warehouse 13
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Claudia Donovan/The Warehouse
Additional Tags: Drabble
Summary:

Claudia can feel the Warehouse wherever she is.

That was a seriously fun exchange - low-key, easy to fill, easy to treat, easy to read. Would definitely drabble again.

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Thanks to nanodownunder and Camp NaNo, I've got a first draft of my wipbigbang. It came in at 48K (of POI Sentinel/Guide AU) Now I need to squish out the word bloat, edit it, and, um, find an Ameripicker. (Any volunteers? It's Root/Shaw, Harold/John, and my basic plan was this: "There are sentinels and guides. They touch each other on the face gently. A lot.")

I've been writing and writing and writing, and I'm 3K away from my 25K Camp NaNo total, but I'm floundering because I finished my main project, and my back-up project. I guess I should write some more 15kisses fics.

Also, I am trying to do nominations for femslashex. Nom nom nom!!

Writing! It's haaaaard but somehow words keep coming out of my fingertips like silly string.

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Linkspam!

- from rahirah, Photobucket alternatives.
(Omg, my profile is a mess. I need to fix it. Not that I've been using photobucket of late, but I don't change my profile much. FFS, photobucket, did you learn nothing from the delicious debacle?)

- From Mental Floss, 15 Things You Might Not Know About Nighthawks.
(The painting, not the bird. This was interesting to me, but there's weird capitalisation of headers in this article. I can't stop looking at it now that I've noticed it.)

- Migaloo the white whale is back on the east coast of Australia. He has a twitter! migaloo1. I'm always glad when he shows up, because it means he's evaded whaling ships again.

- From My Modern Met, Woman Turns Prosthetic Leg Into Chalkboard to Creatively Caption Her Travel Photos. (Somewhat in the same vein from The Betoota Advocate: Local Girl Refers To European Countries As Though They Are Actual People On Instagram.)

Speaking of mocking insta-culture, I was struck by the algorithm, and now my insta is No. Fun. At. All. I know why they did it, and if I were a business using Insta to promote myself, the algorithm would be great. I could overloook the ads, but the lack of chronological feed is killing it for me. I like the posts of people I know, because I want to say "Hey, I like this!" but then that prioritises their posts over the stuff I just ogle for teh pretteh. And it's kinda creepy the way the thing is measuring the time I spend looking at stuff. Though I did find this article interesting, about the formation of insta-pods to game the algorithm:
Instagram influencers use comment collusion to game the algorithm.

- Five ways with pesto
(For all you people overwhelmed with basil. Or beetroot. The beetroot one is so pretty!!)

- International Drone Photography contest.
(There's not much info about the individual photos, unfortunately. There's an image in here that looks like animal harm - men with spears surrounding a fleecy thing - but I did a bit of research and it's from this festival in Spain: La Vijanera. It's a guy dressed up as a monstrous bear aka the embodiment of evil.)

- World realises Americans don’t use egg cups, loses its collective mind
GUYS GUYS IS THIS TRUE? But how do you egg??? HOW DO YOU EGG AND SOLDIERS???
ETA: I did not realise how much of a thing this was! This is an egg cup:

You cut your toast into strips - the strips are the toasty soldiers, and you dunk them in the soft-boiled egg. You use a teaspoon or a coffee spoon to eat the rest of the egg when the yolk is all nommed. Optional extra, possibly from my Nonna: push your spoon through the bottom of the empty shell so that witches don't steal it and use it for a boat.

- A Wrinkle in Time first look: Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, and more
(Late to the party on this, but wow, this looks gorgeous.)

Come Along On A Virtual Tour Of This French Butter Factory
(Please enjoy this vaguely erotic video about making butter. How tenderly they caress the butter! How they run their fingers through it!)

- Flower crown free crochet pattern
(I will never be bored of flower crowns.)

- Name of Groans: The Search for the Most Truly Awful Restaurant Name in America
(Baguetteaboudit!)

- Mind MGMT, Flutter Adaptations in the Works at UCP as Dark Horse Re-Ups Pact
(Upcoming adaptations at UCP - I'm most interested in this: Podcasts 'Tanis' and 'The Bright Sessions' are also being developed for the small screen under the renewed deal.)

- From The Toast: Movie Yelling With Nicole and Mallory: The Hunt for Red October
(This capslocky review gave me all the feels. They appreciated all the right things about this movie, like Beverly Crusher and "Perhaps I will need two wives" and "One ping only, Vassily!")

Also, I have now completed my pharmacogenetics training. Cheek swabs for everyone!!