there's a darkness looming but the sun is shining bright

Challenge: da_reversebang
Title: Waking Up The Ghost
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Alec and Ben have met before, but it's a little tough to hang onto memories in a place so fond of brainwashing. While Manticore was trying to repair Ben after his run-in with Max, and making sure Alec wasn't headed for the same kinda crazy, they were often confined in the same places at the same times. Ben loved his stories. What Alec doesn't remember is that he loved them, too. Wouldn't have been so bad, except those Psy-Ops guys really got into your head, stirred up the bad and kicked the wrong mental doors open. It got hard to know what was real, what was sane.

Later, Ben decides it's safe enough to come back to Seattle and check on his little brother. Dealing with him starts to shake some of Alec's memories loose, and suddenly Ben's way of thinking doesn't seem quite so crazy anymore.

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Title: The Open Way's Too Dangerous (WIP)
Fandom: Dark Angel
Pairings/Characters: There are definite Max/Ames/Alec vibes in varying combinations, but nothing too explicit.
Rating: R
Warnings: Language. Crack. And I say again, this a WIP, so don't say you weren't warned.
Timeline/Spoilers: Takes place at some vague point before Freak Nation. Transgenics are a known "threat to public", but some individual faces aren't quite famous for it yet.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Not for profit. Title from the song First Wave Intact by Secret Machines. Also, there's a snippet of a quote toward the end that was extracted from the Dark Angel Wiki.
Word Count: ~9k so far.
Summary: Alec, Max, and Ames White mysteriously lose their memories and have to team up to fight off the gang of Steelheads who seem pretty intent on killing them. Many misunderstandings about the world around them and who they are to each other seem inevitable.

A/N: Ahhh, finally! Written for the da_reversebang based on cassiopeia7's MAGNIFICENT art prompt. Massive thanks to her for putting up with me. I fell in love with the art prompt immediately, and I kind of love this thing that it birthed, even if I haven't slept for days and any last-minute edits might come off wonky. My beta was my roommate, who's not familiar with canon, so any plot holes are entirely my own fault.

ETA 7/17/14: Oh geez. Just about a year later, what a mess. Short story: there was a huge, major plot hole that I didn't notice until the last second. I locked everything back up in a hurry to edit that, got one of those phone calls that no one ever wants to get literally in the middle of rewriting this thing, and that sent RL into tailspin where, unfortunately, fandom stuff fell to the wayside. I haven't been able to write worth a damn for a long time, but some gentle prodding from denyce (THANK YOUUUU) got me to look at this again and I decided to just post what I have now, and post the rest as it comes/is edited. An unfinished something is better than nothing, I think? I hope. Anyway, ENDLESSLY HUGE WHOPPING apologies to my artist, cassiopeia7, for the utter failure on my part. If nothing else, everyone should take a look at the art, because, again, it is magnificent!



♥ ART MASTERPOST ♥

PART ONE | PART TWO - coming soon

Graphics for ukefied's Dark Angel rock band AU: Some Rules for Success in the Music Business. If you haven't read it, you need to remedy that RIGHT. NOW.

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Just coming out of my cave to post this meager offering and run away again. I know I haven't posted anything anyone cares about in forever, but hopefully I'll find my worth-a-damn again someday soon. I CAN HOPE. I may bitch about how hard RL sucks later, after a week or two of sleep. Fair warning. Until then...

These are kinda random, and I'm not all that great at icon-making—they're so damn tiny, and I'm so damn BLIND—so there's nothing spectacular or fancy here. There's a reason I don't do these regularly. The attempt was fun for a minute, and then I just started cheating and making alternate versions. XD I like black-and-white, though, so there. Er, blue-ish gray? ANYWAY.

For denyce, for being awesome. ♥!



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The usual applies: don't hotlink, credit and comments are lovely, etc.. Credit goes to dont_be_so_base for, like, half the icon crops. (I told you I cheated.) Resources are here.

Story Title: Fight From The Inside
Fandoms: Supernatural/Buffy/Angel/Dark Angel
Pairings: Sam/Jess, Connor/Dawn possibly others (romance not really the focus here, though)
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence. Slightly disturbing treatment of tiny little X-5s. Minor character deaths very likely. Language.
Timeline/Spoilers: Ats: post Not Fade Away; BtVS: post Chosen; SPN: pre-series; DA: pre-series. It's around May of 2005 if that helps.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Not for profit. Story title from Queen's Fight From The Inside. Chapter titles from Pink Floyd's The Final Cut. No copyright infringement intended.
Summary: Demons, hunters, superpeople, genetically-engineered soldiers, and a college campus. Throw in some firearms and this is how it goes down.

A/N: 1st chapter is here. Thanks to trouble for the quick beta! I'm sorry I'm slooooow. I can't seem to speed things along for the life of me, but gradual progress is better than no progress, right? :D

( Dawn can't stop looking at her, at those eyes. )

I've had a huge block in all things creative this year (which sucks for more than fannish reasons; my job kind of relies on it too), but I'm trying really, really hard to fix it. In fact, after tooling around with pictures last night I sat down and wrote 4,000 words of fic. Just. Not anything I was needing to focus on. SOMETHING ALL NEW TO LEAVE UNFINISHED ARGH.

My muse is like one of those people who drives and drives and refuses to admit that they're lost--Maps? Where we're goin' we don't need no stinkin' maps!--and by the time they decide that okay, they might be a little turned around, they're at the bottom of the ocean.

Meh. But it's a start, right?

:/

Anyway.

I made some kinda-random art stuff. I've got a few fics on the backburner that I'm trying to gear myself up to write/finish. (Can you guess from the art what they might focus on? :P) Yeah, so that's mostly why this post is happening. I knew I had a point when I started.

Supernatural (Adam): 1 banner, 10 icons
Dark Angel (Ben, Alec): 3 banners, 10 icons

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