I posted the first part of this fic for halfamoon 2008. That story stands alone now, but when I first started working on it years ago, it had a second section, and when I was trying to think of something I could do for this year's halfamoon, it occurred to me that I could revise and post Part 2. Sadly, computer issues prevented me from doing so before the deadline last night. I am hoping it is still okay to post today... and while I'm at it: HUGE thanks to the organizers of this amazing community, and to all who have posted over the past two weeks.

VICTORY, LATER - Part Two
By Jeannie

Rating: PG-13
Summary: Sequel to Victory, Later: missing scenes from the end of The Return of the Jedi. When I started, I just wanted to know what happened when Leia explained the whole "Luke is my brother" thing to Han...but the story turned out to be mostly about Leia confronting the shock of that revelation herself, and figuring out how to move forward in the aftermath of victory. Part One is Leia and Han; Part Two is mostly Leia and Luke, with appearances from Han and Chewbacca.

VICTORY, LATER - Part Two

Feedback always gratefully received!

An bunch of my SGA stories focused on Teyla: gen, femmeslash, and het, a meta, and two recs.

Black Lace, On And Off - Teyla/Laura
Rodney complains of Laura's mouth. Her tongue, he claims, is sharp, but then he never felt her tongue tracing soft circles across his lips.

Precisely My Cup Of Tea - girl!John/Teyla
Over time, you learn all kinds of things about yourself.

Five Men Who Never Wanted Teyla Emmagan - Teyla/various
The line between attraction and action is fine. At least five men in Atlantis walk it very closely.

Five Women Who Never Wanted Teyla Emmagan - Teyla/various
The line between attraction and action is fine. At least five women walk it very closely.

Possibility And Commonality - Teyla, Sam
Playing chicken with a Wraith dart definitely wasn't Sam's idea of fun. Unfortunately, it wasn't as though they had a choice.

Not Usually And Always - Teyla, Vala
It starts when Vala pulls a gun on Teyla.

Laws Of Parsimony - Teyla, team
"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem."

Fellowship Of The Fridge - Teyla, John.
Mere hours after her people leave the city of the Ancestors for the mainland, Teyla is missing them.

To All Things An Ending - Teyla, Elizabeth
Death is a constant companion to most races of the Pegasus galaxy. In the end, the Pegasus races remember not how a person died, but how they lived.

Persephone Longs For Home - John/Teyla
Teyla learns about pomegranates and living between two worlds.

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a meta

Five Suggestions On How To Write Teyla

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two recs

The Language Of Hard Nouns by siriaeve - Teyla, incidental Teyla/Michael
Teyla raised shaking hands to her face and traced the lines of her cheekbones, along smooth skin that was suddenly cooler to the touch, running her fingertips over the two slits in her cheeks which had not been there before. A strange cry forced its way out of her throat, high and inhuman; and that, she thought, with a sudden, dizzying clarity, was appropriate. How could she be human now; what was she anymore?

The Truth About Alliances by vipersweb - Teyla, team, incidental John/Teyla
Teyla always knew she should have explained the way alliances worked in Pegasus before someone else did. Too bad she doesn't have that option anymore.

It's still the 14th here, so I'm going to squeak in under the wire with my contribution to this ficathon.

Title: The Price of Passage
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: Teen (PG-13)
Spoilers: through "I Know What You Did Last Summer"
Summary: what Ruby did, what Ruby knows. 800 words.

The Price of Passage

This was a great year for vids about women. Here are just a few of my favorite vids focusing on female characters since last Valentine's Day. (Obviously I'm leaving out a lot, so please feel free to add more links in the comments or post your own list if you think I've skipped something fantastic.)

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Title: Not a Floating Spar
Author: bronze_ribbons
Fandom: FAKE
Characters: Diana and Carol
Timeline: After Like, Like, Love
Words: 130
Rating: G
Note: Title from Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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Out of the Woods

Fandom: Lord of the Rings (movieverse)
Characters: Éowyn, Éomer, Theoden
Rating: all ages
Summary: Even as a young girl, Éowyn didn't mess about.
A/N: Written for halfamoon. This probably stomps all over Tolkien, which is why I set it in the movieverse. 530 words.

( Éowyn thought she saw light up ahead, but refused to let herself hope. )

I thought I'd do a little roundup post before the end of this wonderful lovefest, and mention a few of my favorite fics I've written with female leads.

I had a faint hope of finishing my current WIP with Faith Lehane from Buffy in the Supernatural world, but it has gotten increasingly complex and I have no idea when it's going to be finished. If anyone cares to come along for the ride, it's up to 22 chapters and I update every workday unless something comes up. In Living on a Prayer Faith has a slayer dream that sends her on a reluctant journey back to her hometown on a mission to save Castiel.

A Faith story that's pretty unusual for me is Annunciation, narrated by Willow, featuring Faith, a Venus and a handful of Virgins.

And I loves me some Dawn Summers Existential Issues. I've written three stories in which her made-up history and her issues around not being "real" are key (heh) elements.

Indelible is told from Xander's POV, but the story is about Dawn's existential wig when Oz returns from his world travels and doesn't remember her.

Pentimento: 52 Moments That Never Happened to Dawn (and One That Probably Will) is a series of drabbles that explores the fake memories the monks created in Dawn and everyone around her, set in BtVS seasons 1-4 -- with one drabble taking place in the future.

Kindred Spirits is a humongous fic that started out as a ficlet and just grew. 20-year-old college student Dawn meets a sardonic and sexy academic who turns out to be Ethan Rayne, who has a complicated agenda related to Dawn and her mystical origins. Neither of them realizes exactly what they're getting into.

I wanted to share with you one Fiona Glenanne, the extraordinary leading lady of Burn Notice, because there's rather more ambivilancy toward her in fandom than I find personally acceptable. She is awesome and everyone should love her!

So, originally I was going to write fic (Working Title: Fiona's Adventures In NYC.) but it's 4,000 words long and shows no sign of stopping.

So, I went with the backup plan and thus, we have PICSPAM:

I apologize briefly for the quality of some of the caps; I'm working largely from the analogue broadcast rather than the HD broadcast or from DVD rips.




( Fiona Glenanne does not need to kill you with her brain. She has firearms and explosives and a pair of chopsticks for that. )

Like a few of you, I had intended to get something original written in time for this, but that's not how things turned out. So, in lieu of that, I offer a selection of my favorite female characterizations in my fics.

( in no particular order - with behind the scenes comments/tidbits, mild spoilers for the fandoms in question, and for the stories themselves )

title: Frivolous
author: victoria p. [musesfool]
summary: Susan's siblings think she's frivolous.
fandom: Narnia
character: Susan Pevensie
rating: g
notes: For copracat.
word count: 100 words

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[Frivolous]

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For Vividcon in 2007, I VJed a show called Relationships Between Women... and last year at Vividcon I joked that if only I'd waited until 2009, I could have more than doubled the available pool of fantastic vids to choose from for this theme. So, I thought it would be fun to post the playlist from the actual show with my comments about why I chose what I did then, followed by a playlist for a virtual encore vidshow, or Relationships Between Women 2009 (if I had to do it again now). In both cases, the vids all focus on relationships between women. I tried to include as wide an emotional range and variety of relationships as possible, and the women in these vids are friends, lovers, rivals, sisters, enemies, partners, alter egos, or all of the above.

( Then... )

( ... and now )

Natalie Lambert: Doctor and vampire confidant at your service.

"Solving a puzzle is it's own reward for me."

Drought by yunitsa - The Devil's Whore, Angelica Fanshawe
Summary: I would know love again if I had faith enough.

Angelica Fanshawe, this is your life! Spoilers for the whole miniseries, showing the paths Angelica's life takes and the choices she makes.


You Passed By by crickets - Battlestar Galatica, Kara
Summary: Kara has always been gone.

Spoilers through S3. This just sums Kara up, to me.


Ladies Night by counteragent
Summary: Professional competence is sexy.

28 different sources, all merging together to highlight how awesome the women are.

TITLE: The Wretched Cant Of It
AUTHOR: memories_child
FANDOM: The X Files
SPOILERS: None
RATING: 12
CHARACTER/PAIRING: Teena Mulder
WORD COUNT: 201
DISCLAIMER: They're not mine, I'm borrowing them. But CC, if you're reading this, I could do with a job...
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Well, my plans for writing the main female characters for The X Files and Californication didn't quite work out. I think I've managed to write Scully, Samantha Mulder, Teena Mulder, Melissa Scully, Margaret Scully and Ellen. So 6 out of the 14 I had planned, and most of those were about Scully. But I'm pretty happy with what I've come up with, and I've celebrated some of the strong female characters we have in the fandom at least. This is the last one.
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( She isn’t sure at what point lust turned into love. )

Song: One Girl Revolution (Battle Mix)
Artist: Superchick
Fandom: Multi-fandom, 89 in total
Details: 3:18 minutes, 54.7 MB, avi
Summary: How about a 155 girl revolution? (No, that's not a typo.)

Download and streaming links (here) at my journal, as well as a full list of included fandoms.


(Mods: I've tried to include all the necessary tags, but it looks rather intimidating! Please feel free to edit down if you would rather.)

Title: Do I Look Good in This? The Lois Lane Edition
Artist: unknown
Vidder: abby82 
Fandom: Smallville
Character: Lois Lane
Length: 38 seconds
Download: streaming and link
Notes: Even her sometimes questionable fashion taste cannot stop the awesomeness that is Lois Lane on Smallville. This is a celebration of Lois Lane and all her curious quirks. Created for svgurl's Lois Love Week.

Title: Someone Else's Shoes
Author: such_heights
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Tosh, Gwen
Rating: PG-13
Length: 3500 words
Summary: "This has happened before?" Gwen asked. Tosh really didn't know why she sounded surprised.
Notes: bodyswap! Written for halfamoon, to indulge my love of this trope, and because Gwen and Tosh are awesome. Thanks to iambickilometer for betaing!

Something this disturbing was bound to happen to her eventually.

Burn him like a blazing star
HP; Molly Weasley; g; 427 words
None of them has much heart for fireworks this year.

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The Burden of Perfection
Supernatural; Anna; g; 313 words
Anna is hungry.

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Title: Daughters
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG
Author’s Note: written for halfamoon  and rilina_fic .
Summery: "Tsunade learned all her best jutsus on the battlefield." Tsunade and her daughters.

Daughters