vaznetti

Like others on my friends list, I seem to be toying with a new fandom. So here's a character study, I suppose, for Sarah Connor.

Double Vision
by Vanzetti
PG, Sarah Connor, no spoilers beyond the concept
Thanks to hossgal for beta-reading
Summary: Sarah has not always found weapons beautiful.

( around 250 words )

I wrote this for eid_fic, a community set up to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, which occurs this weekend, by writing stories about Muslim characters. I am 100% behind the notion that writing is often the best response to a sense of exclusion in fandom, and the challenge gave me the opportunity to write about a character I've wanted to play with for a while. I recommend the community highly; you can find out more about it here.

Title: House of Shadows
Author: Vanzetti (vaznetti)
Fandom: Dorothy Dunnett, Lymond Chronicles
Ratings: PG, gen, c. 350 words.
Notes: The character Marthe is a European woman who converted to Islam. Spoilers for the end of Pawn in Frankincense. Many thanks to cofax7 for beta-reading. All mistakes are my own.

( Lyons. 10th day of Ramadan, 962 A.H. )

Title: Lightning fast and all alone (HL/SPN, Duncan MacLeod, John Winchester)
Author: Vanzetti
Gen, R for violence and language, c. 6400 words
Summary: The past weighs heavy on Duncan MacLeod, and the future on John Winchester.
Post-ep for SPN 1x 16, "Shadow."
Author's notes: Many thanks to Rhi and Rez for beta-reading and hand-holding. The title comes from Townes van Zandt, "High, Low and In Between." Freakishly appropriate lyrics here.

( Two men go hunting a demon; neither is quite what the other expects. )

Comments very welcome; part of me thinks I'm crazy for posting this on a Thursday, but it's done, so here it is.

I almost forgot I had this icon.

Long long ago, hossgal asked for Bobby (SPN) and Wesley (AtS) in that great crossover meme. And I was thinking about it off and on, and finally came up with this post-AHBL snippet.

( whiff of sulfur )

I had other thoughts, but who knows what they might have been. And oh, how can summer be over already?

Earlier lists of five here (SPN, Jericho), here (SPN, XF) and here (Primeval).

And finally... for celli and camille_is_here, Five crossovers the Winchesters didn't know they were in. (Alias, Jericho, Primeval, Angel, The Riddle-Master of Hed)

( five crossovers, under the cut -- mostly gen, mostly Sam and Dean. )

I don't think I've ever needed this many tags on a post!

Title: The Face of the Crocodile
Author: Vanzetti (vaznetti)
G, SPN/Sandman crossover, Gen or Bob
Sequel to The recovery of a sick man.
Summary: Death fulfills a promise
c. 1000 words

( The rain comes down hard and it's pitch black outside. )

I could not make this a proper drabble, but at 155 words, it might be an old XF drabble. Consider this a reassertion of the appropriate historical order; there are spoilers for Rome 2x08, although it is set some time after that episode.

Title: Whip Hand
Author: vaznetti
Warning: Adult themes.
Summary: Octavian has only known success.

( Octavian sits on their bed... )

Did I do any of the writing I ought to be doing on stories in progress this weekend? Sadly, not so much. Instead I wrote two and a half post-eps for "Home," of which this is the first.

Title: The recovery of a sick man
by Vanzetti
G, SPN/Sandman (post-ep for Home)
Summary: Mary has no fear of death.
c. 400 words, no beta


( Mary stands still. )

Considering that this is the fourth SPN crossover with Death I've started, and the first I've finished... I don't know what that says about me, actually. And even this is more a way of playing with a few ideas than a story.

So this morning I posted a serious story about Missouri Mosely. Now I am posting a somewhat different story, with Missouri in it. I want to say up front that this was not my idea -- I actually came across it a couple days ago via friendsfriends, and have no idea whose it was. If any of you remember, could you drop me a line so that I can let her know and apologize for stealing her really excellent idea for crackfic?

Untitled SPN/GA crossover. Crack. Resfic. Did I mention the crack?

( Adele Webber has a very good reason for keeping Richard out of the house )

I was hoping this would be funnier, actually. But now I've posted it, and can go watch Rome. Yay!

The Yuletide names are up, and it's time for the reveal. Here's mine.

Title: My hands remember hers
Author: Vanzetti
Recipient: random_flores, for Yuletide 2006
Fandom: Deadwood
Pairing: Joanie Stubbs/Calamity Jane
R for language, set post S3, but with no real spoilers
Many thanks to rez_lo for beta-reading in the face of my many insecurities. The errors of course are all mine.
Summary: Snow in Deadwood, December 23rd: a house turns inside-out, Joanie decorates and Jane goes for a walk.

( There's some kind of crud in Jane's eyes, sticking them closed... )

On a final yuletide-related note, I want everyone to know how much I love elishavah, because she is awesome beyond the telling of it.

(posting early by special permission)

Title: Iron Points North
By: Vanzetti
Fandom: Angel
For: inlovewithnight, in the female character gen ficathon
Summary: Fred needs to be somewhere else.

( It's only California. Not Europe, or the moon. )

Small print: Joss, ME, WB own it. All mistakes are my own; I know nothing about physics. Many thanks to jennyo for organizing the ficathon and to inlovewithnight for providing a neat prompt. I hope you like it.

As the yuletide author names are now up I can now claim the story that I wrote, Theseus and Ariadne Try Again, an Indiana Jones story with Nazis and snake goddesses and Marion Ravenwood. There were times, as I wrote, that I worried that the story was too much like canon, and that I was recycling story elements I'd used before here and there, but I'm cautiously pleased with the final result. It was a blast to write, too.

Some of the people who sent me feedback on it are on my friends list -- did any of you guess that it was mine? Or at least consider it a possibility? I have to admit that with so many Yuletide stories I would never be able to make any sort of guess at all.

I received just the kind of story I wanted, as well. Against the company of heaven, by lakester, may well be the only piece of fanfic out there for Julian May's Exiles Saga and Galactic Milieu novels, and it's very good indeed. And all about Marc! You know how you sometimes feel that your Yuletide author has read your mind? That's exactly how I feel about this story. There's a scene between Marc and Jon that's just perfect.

And finally, a single recommendation. The Blest Surprize, by Afrai (bravecows) is a Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell story with a crossover to the Aubrey and Maturin novels. It's a lovely look at Arabella Strange in the kingdom of Lost-hope, and the unexpected solace she finds there. Beautifully written. This is the sort of story Yuletide is all about.

ETA with a big fat "Duh!": I would also like to thank rez_lo and gryphonrhi for early hand-holding and Rhi, again, for last-minute beta reading, and monanotlisa for providing the German dialogue. All mistakes are mine; some of them might have been intentional.

I feel like I've been working on this story since the dawn of time.

Title: Advice for the Lovelorn Double-Agent
Author: Vanzetti
Feedback to: vanzetti @ populli.net
Archive: with headers intact
Category: XF/24 crossover
Rating: R (NC-17 if you're sensitive)
Disclaimer: The XF and 24 universes belong to their creators, not to me: I make no profit from my use of copyrighted materials. Also, I've never been to Kosovo, so forgive the inevitable inaccuracies. The geopolitics of both shows differ from our own.
Spoilers for 24 S1, X-Files Krycek eps through Tunguska/Terma.
Set: 1997
Thanks to Spica and Bardsmaid for beta-reading.

( Nina (Seduce and Destroy) Myers meets Alex (Do you want a mindfuck with that?) Krycek. Alternate summary: Alex Krycek has sex in one of my fics! Twice! Third alternate: Not everything is what it seems when Alex Krycek and Nina Myers meet in Kosovo. )

Hrm. Another Alias plotbunny brought on by work. I consider this a bad sign: Greek lyric should not be reminding me of TV shows. Meanwhile, in the story I'm actually writing, I made the mistake of allowing Sark to talk. He's very amusing, but he will not shut up. Bastard.

I did manage to break away and write something for random_hundreds. An XMM/BtVS crossover, as required by this week's challenge. Set pre-series and pre-movies too, and warping canon timelines beyond repair.

( Under the Skin, PG )

That probably makes no sense unless you realize that this week's crossover characters were Wolverine and Tara.

I was attacked by this crossover plotbunny this morning, so this is what I did instead of my taxes. A 24/XF crossover, set between S1 and S2 of 24 and after the end of the X-Files, starring Nina Myers and Marita Covarrubias, because I am nothing if not predictable.

( Love, Power, Freedom )

And now, to work.

I picked one to get rid of.

This is a post-Existence HL/XF crossover, not resfic, looking to be a Marita/Duncan romance. I was planning on something kind of like a HL ep--Duncan helps Marita get over her (already wishy-washy) feeling that she really ought to go back to Washington and kill Walter Skinner. But I'm not going to write it.

( Marita and Duncan )