Another gift for the ouat landcomm. Prompt: Oh, that would be wonderful! ♥ I don't really ship her, so I prefer gen, and I especially like fics from before she appeared on the show (her fake memories), but I would love anything you write! :) For dance_the_dance. I will probably write a proper Dawn drabble for her, because this was just way too rushed! Word count: 977



Buffy this, Buffy that, Buffy's going to college. Big whoop. Dawn had been getting excellent grades from the get-go, but did anyone buy cake when she got As? Nope. That was a Buffy privilege, along with the super strength, super friends, super boyfriend...

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Another gift for the ouat landcomm, posted here and named after the fact. For kadie_darling. Prompt: angst is good. Here's a few prompts, beginning, family, regret, missing you. Angst and regret. S7 Spuffy. Word count: 372




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Hello, inactive journal! This is a gift fic for spartan_muse of the onceuponaland comm, and was (unexpectedly, really) too large for the comment box. It is, for the moment, untitled. I do plan to update my journal more... when, I dunno.

Prompt: There's a song I happen to like a lot. I never thought I'd use it with them but why not?

"Not Strong Enough" by Apocalyptica feat. Brent Smith (Shinedown)

Basically that one's about being unable to stay away from their beloved one. In one line he even compares himself with a moth drawn to the flame. I kinda like it. For me it applies to the fact that Mulan went though many things to accompany Phillip in his quest to find Aurora and that just speaks volumes.


Word count: 1242. Mulan/Phillip



Her papery skin was pasty pale and sagged off of the thin bones of her face. One eye of milk-white, the other black as pitch, both framed by hanging wisps of cobweb hair. A witch. She sat in a creaky chair, and with creaky bones leaned forward. "I know you," came a whisper like firelight. "I know you inside. I know what you want." One corner of that hollow mouth tipped up. "What you seek."

An ivy-ridden tower, cracked and grey and oh-so-tall, flickered through Mulan's mind. A princess tower for a princess fair. A threat to Phillip's princess, no doubt. Mulan's hand was already on her hilt, a few inches of naked blade peeking out. But she kept silent.

"I can give him to you."

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Exactly what it says in the title: LJ is crazy weird. This formatting thing is super off. All my text is bunched together; I had to manually put in paragraphs. And if I try edit it again, it gets bunched together. So now I'm scared stiff of editing my entries. Here's an example:



Both of them jerk their heads up, as if woken from a reverie. “Yeah,” Robin finally answers. “Of course. What’s going to happen now?” “Cancelling the wedding, fabricating a story—no need for things to get blown out of proportion,” Ted blabbers. In other words, lie outright to preserve both Marshall’s and Lily’s dignity. “We’re sending a Watch to find Lily. Just make sure she’s safe.” “Bringing her back to the castle?” “No,” Marshall says, after he’s dismissed the guards. “No, she ran to get away from here.” And unspoken, the words away from me echo painfully.


As opposed to:



Both of them jerk their heads up, as if woken from a reverie. “Yeah,” Robin finally answers. “Of course. What’s going to happen now?”


“Cancelling the wedding, fabricating a story—no need for things to get blown out of proportion,” Ted blabbers. In other words, lie outright to preserve both Marshall’s and Lily’s dignity. “We’re sending a Watch to find Lily. Just make sure she’s safe.”


“Bringing her back to the castle?”


“No,” Marshall says, after he’s dismissed the guards. “No, she ran to get away from here.”


And unspoken, the words away from me echo painfully.



Stupid LJ.

Title: Fairytale
Author: drizzlydaze
Pairings: Barney/Robin, Ted/Victoria (not one of those Victoria fans, but it fit the story), Marshall/Lily
Summary: AU in a fairytale universe. It was a kingdom run by a dying king. Luckily, he had a son. They always do.
Rating: G
Notes: It's been a while, hasn't it? This chapter has a lot more frustrating mysteries to untangle, and very few resolved. -evil smile- And less action than the last chapter, I expect, so prepare yourself. If the format's weird, it's because LJ is being weird. I'm trying to fix it now. If it's not weird, it means I've succeeded and it's fixed!

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Just a quick entry: So, "The Perfect Cocktail" recently aired, and it had a sort of cockamouse cameo at the end. Ted saw it at the Arcadian--with spawn! So the question was: how did it get cockaspawn? I just watched Season One's "Love Solutions", which featured the cockamouse, and Marshall and Lily said it was hermaphroditic, like the seahorse. So that's the answer! It didn't breed with the GNB snakes or anything, and in any case, they would still be eggs--I don't recall saying eggs.

So, Season Six is coming to an end, and I decided that I needed to get this 'Nora' issue off my chest. Some say she's what Don was to Robin, but since I watched Season Five all in one go (and therefore just thought of Don as a date-of-the-week kind of thing), I can't really sympathize with that point of view. The thing is, I had always thought that, despite being a hardcore Swarkles shipper, I would be fine if Robin ended up with someone other than Barney, so long as he was super awesome, but I would really just hate the show if Barney ended up with someone other than Robin. The reason for this is simple, of course: Barney's first love, Shannon, crushed him and turned him into a suited up figure of awesomeness, who had sworn off love; but he made an exception with Robin. That was what made BrOTP so special and lovely, with him even pining after her for a year.

So when I heard about Nora, I was wary and annoyed. Then I wondered if she was just a girl-of-the-day, like Anita, whom Barney had special interest in, but only because she had written the book. And Desperation Day came out and I... was impressed, against my will. I was impressed by Nora's character, how badass (maybe not the right word, but still) she was, and, admittedly, enamored by her British accent (:P). But the next episode she appeared in, A Change Of Heart, ruined her. She was now gullible, totally the opposite of her sassy character in Desperation Day, and had borrowed some of the trademarks of BrOTP--nursing Barney back to health, laser tag etc. And now I was disappointed. The writers... really, how could they do this? How could she fall for Barney's lies (even though Lily said the lie was a lie, but still: she should have had him pinned down as a serial womanizer, who wouldn't want marriage), as well as the gang's deceit. Before, I was at least happy that if she was going to be around for a while, she would not only be bearable, but actually likeable. Now the memory of the writers warping and spoiling her character will always ruin it.

Now, I still believe Robin and Barney are endgame; there's no way Nora's sticking around for that long, or that Barney relapses with her. But c'mon! Can't the writers at least make a decent love interest? I might forgive them if she returns to her original character in Desperation Day, or if they alter her character once more to make it awesome, and keep it that way, but only time will tell. In the meantime, it's gotten us some pretty good Barney/Robin interaction. Can't wait for the season finale!

Title: Fairytale
Author: drizzlydaze
Pairings: Barney/Robin, Ted/Victoria (not one of those Victoria fans, but it fit the story), Marshall/Lily
Summary: AU in a fairytale universe. It was a kingdom run by a dying king. Luckily, he had a son. They always do.
Rating: G
Notes:  Longer chapter this time. I cut it a bit to make it shorter... Also, a warning: this chapter gets the story even more AU.

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Title: Deal
Author: drizzlydaze
Pairings: Barney/Robin, Marshall/Lily
Summary: Definitely AU. Oneshot. Barney Stinson makes many deals. But he's never sealed a deal like this before.
Notes: Because there's too few fics with Barney and his violin. Desperately long, about 24 pages on Microsoft Word. It's too large to fit all in one post, so I had to split it up, but know that it's meant as a oneshot and read all in one go. This is why I haven't updated Fairytale yet. I've been working on this. Hope it's worth it!
Rating: G or PG


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Title: Deal
Author: drizzlydaze
Pairings: Barney/Robin, Marshall/Lily
Summary: Definitely AU. Oneshot. Barney Stinson makes many deals. But he's never sealed a deal like this before.
Notes: Because there's too few fics with Barney and his violin. Desperately long, about 24 pages on Microsoft Word. It's too large to fit all in one post, so I had to split it up, but know that it's meant as a oneshot and read all in one go. This is why I haven't updated Fairytale yet. I've been working on this. Hope it's worth it!
Rating: G or PG

 

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