I am disastrously late, as usual, in catching myself up on fic postings. That being the case, you're about to get three things at once: my [community profile] unsent_letters_exchange fic, my [community profile] holmestice fic, and a just-posted amnesty story for [community profile] intoabar (the story is up on AO3, but the corresponding entry is in the mod queue on the DW comm).

First, for Unsent Letters, a series of journal entries that turned out to be rather more of a comedy than I expected going in.

Written By The Winners
Fandoms: Power Rangers Time Force
Rating: all ages
Category: F/M
Warnings: none
Words: ~3200
Relationship: Lucas Kendall/Nadira
Characters: Lucas Kendall, Nadira, Ransik Additional Tags: epistolary, poetry, haiku, limericks

If the poem had really been written to Lucas' car, then none of what had happened made any sense. Unless....

Piece by piece, Nadira unravels the tangle of mixed signals and unintended consequences.

Next, the Holmestice story, which, while not precisely comical, allowed me to indulge my fondness for (seriously obscure) Gilbert & Sullivan....

The Affair of the Statutory Duel
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes (ACD); The Grand Duke (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Rating: all ages
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: ~2600
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Rudolph (Grand Duke)
Additional Tags: secret history, royal intrigue, Great Hiatus

Either the following material is an out-and-out forgery...or just possibly, Gilbert and Sullivan owe the central plot device of their last operetta to none other than Sherlock Holmes.

(Which is to say, the story to which this summary is attached raises a hell of a lot more questions than it answers.)

And just tonight, a stupendously late (we won't even mention the year I put in the original request) [community profile] intoabar tale, in which I attempt to explain how legendary Power Ranger Tommy Oliver survived the volcanic explosion and complete destruction of a remote tropical island.

Where You Need to Be
Fandoms: Power Rangers Dino Thunder, Gargoyles
Rating: all ages
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: ~2800
Characters: Tommy Oliver, Katharine (Gargoyles), Ophelia (Gargoyles)
Additional Tags: crossover, interstitial

Death by drowning, Tommy Oliver reflected, was totally unfair.

I'd always wondered how Tommy survived the aftermath of Dino Island blowing up (as we see in an early episode of Dino Thunder). And then the dice-rollers at the Ficathon That Goes Into A Bar handed me the answer....

Amazingly, I have now actually made a bit of progress on completing old projects - in this case, the first of a whole slew of "Into A Bar" prompts that I asked for and then didn't get done during their initial windows. This one dates from 2018, and turned out to be a sequel - if rather an odd one - to a prior story of mine. So now I have yet another series in my bibliography, and one that is both very strange and evidently a long way from being fully resolved. (It's possible, I think, to read this one without having to look at the first, but I won't mind at all if you start with the earlier entry...)

Anyway....

Title: New Plan
Author: [personal profile] graycardinal / [archiveofourown.org profile] graycardinal
Prompt: Kali Cutter goes into a bar visits a high-tech research laboratory and meets…Dr. Bunsen Honeydew!
Fandoms: Austin/Murry/O’Keefe stories (Madeleine L’Engle); Muppets
Words: ~2500
Rating: Suitable for all ages
Warnings: none

In plain language, he was a Muppet. Except, of course, where there are Muppets one usually expects Muppeteers, and the Dr. Honeydew who’d just hopped off a stool behind a cluttered laboratory table to greet us landed on two perfectly ordinary feet (if you can use “ordinary” to describe plush feet wearing black rubber-soled sneakers) with no sticks, strings, or other Muppet manipulators in sight.

“I should advise you,” the scientist said in a mild, apologetic voice, “that this is a secure area, and anyone attempting to enter secure areas here at Q-36 is subject to potential shrinking, rabbitizing, multiplication, spectrographic diffusion, gravitational flux…”

For once, I actually got an entry into [community profile] intoabar on deadline! Go me!

Alfred Pennyworth walks into a bar and meets...Mary Russell!

Under the Hill and Far Away
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Mary Russell - Laurie R. King
Rating: all ages
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: ~1100
Relationship: Alfred Pennyworth & Mary Russell
Characters: Alfred Pennyworth, Mary Russell
Additional Tags: crack, magic

It's been almost half a century since Alfred Pennyworth, long-retired from British intelligence, has seen one of his oldest colleagues in spycraft. Now he's about to find out what she's been up to...and where.

...because I am in just that kind of mood. Signups for A Ficathon Goes Into a Bar have gone up, and whereas I am almost certainly going to sign up (because I am a sucker for crossover prompts), I am, as always, awash with more ideas than I am legally allowed to have under the challenge rules.

So let's see if I have correctly understood how this poll thing is supposed to work. I do not promise to abide strictly by the results, but I will absolutely take them into consideration as I contemplate the direction in which to take my signup.

Poll #28854 2023 Into A Bar: Who should go in this year?
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6


Who should I promise to send into the "bar" this year?

View Answers

Alexis Castle (Castle)
0 (0.0%)

Alfred Pennyworth (Batman franchise)
2 (50.0%)

Mary Russell (Mary Russell series • Laurie R. King)
1 (25.0%)

Victoria "Victory Anna" Cogsworth (Velveteen vs. • Seanan McGuire)
1 (25.0%)

someone else (to be specified in comments)
0 (0.0%)

What, you're signing up AGAIN?
0 (0.0%)

What fandoms should I offer for the character you chose above?

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Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
0 (0.0%)

Batman (1966)
1 (16.7%)

Candleshoe (Disney, 1977)
1 (16.7%)

Doctor Who (3rd Doctor)
1 (16.7%)

Doctor Who (5th Doctor)
2 (33.3%)

Gargoyles
0 (0.0%)

Leverage
2 (33.3%)

Mary Russell series (Laurie R. King)
1 (16.7%)

Mrs. Pollifax (Dorothy Gilman)
2 (33.3%)

Muppets (all media)
3 (50.0%)

Nancy Drew series ("Carolyn Keene", yellow-spine books)
1 (16.7%)

NCIS (seasons 1-9)
0 (0.0%)

Stargate SG-1
1 (16.7%)

Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? (DIC)
2 (33.3%)

Young Wizards series (Diane Duane)
1 (16.7%)

As I mull over my options (and the results of this poll), should I choose a combination that...

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...offers the greatest potential for over-the-top cracktastic goodness?
1 (25.0%)

...offers the greatest potential for sentimental coziness?
1 (25.0%)

...is most likely to seriously rewrite one or both canons going forward?
1 (25.0%)

...just might set up a sequel to an existing story of mine?
1 (25.0%)

...is nifty for reasons you'll explain in comments?
0 (0.0%)

Which of these hypothetical matches would you be most interested in reading?

View Answers

Alexis Castle meets Carmela Rodriguez (Young Wizards).
0 (0.0%)

Alfred Pennyworth meets Priory (Candleshoe).
1 (33.3%)

Mary Russell meets Owen Burnett (Gargoyles).
1 (33.3%)

Victory Anna meets Comet the Wonder Horse (Brisco County Jr.).
1 (33.3%)

OPTIONAL: Propose the one possible match you'd most like to see based on the above, including the character from whichever fandom you pick.



My "Into A Bar" story is live -- in this case, together with bonus podfic, courtesy of the estimable and gracious [personal profile] malnpudl 

Title: Chance Meetings  •  (podfic version by [personal profile] malnpudl)
Fandoms:
MCU, Castle
Word count: ~2300
Rating/Contents: G / no warnings needed
Summary: One of the five men in Manhattan most likely to be working for HYDRA has just left a brewpub in Morningside Heights.  Now that he's gone, it's time for the story to start....



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