Taming the Muse

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Brian/Justin NC 17 AU
A/N: Vietnam, 1965
Summary: Justin Taylor, a young, idealistic aide worker, is brought in to help tutor a teenager on a French plantation by a mysterious government agency.
Includes the prompt "Mime" from tamingthemuse.

Memorable entries for Gothic

Gothic, Part Four

*link is flocked on my fiction community.

I'm sorry this comes so late but with Mother's Day yesterday and me spending today at a computer course there has been no free time for me. Just got home. Anyway, here is this week's member update.

We are glad to welcome two new members to the ranks of the writers. monjinator and nleseul welcome to the community! We do hope you enjoy your stay!

Unfortunately we didn't escape losses this week either. rhiana_fayette only had one week so no awards this time around. strickens_girl wrote for five weeks this time around and that gets her the Calliope award. Hoping to see you both back here soon!


-piksa-

Title: A Duel?
Fandom: Harry Potter
Prompt: #95 (mime)
Characters: Severus Snape (x2), Hermione Granger (SS/HG pairing)
Warnings: (creative) cursing
Rating: PG
Word count: 7x100
Disclaimer: I do not own this. I do not make any money from my playing with them.
Summary: (Part 6 of a drabble series I was struggling with recently.) Severus and Hermione have enjoyed a romantic dinner and spent the night together. In the morning, Hermione opens the wardrobe to be confronted with mirror-Snape, Snape's Headmaster portrait who, when he miraculously didn't die in the Final Battle, refused to be still, and who can now wander the Hogwarts portraits, and real-Snape's mirror, at will. And what is he doing? Why, fencing, of course. Thus, defending his maybe-girlfriend's honour, real-Snape challenges his mirror-self to a duel...

Part 1 (Grunting at Dinner)
Part 2 (When You're Old and Grey)
Part 3 (Two Snapes)
Part 4 (You Like Fencing?)
Part 5 (Snape versus Snape)

New! Part 6 (A Duel?)

Hope that this post is done okay! I was really struggling with this drabble series, so TtM has given me a good kick up the backside. :-)

Here's the poll.

Voting standards can be found here. 7 is average, and 10 is 'Wow, this person should be published!' Also, as a reminder, you only have to vote for the stories you've read. You can also 'add' to your vote, so if you vote for Person A on Monday, you can go back into the poll and select the link 'Fill out poll' and vote for Person B on Tuesday.

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Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

~calypso

And here we go…

( Voting! )

Hello all,

I hope everyone had a fantastic day.

We're introducing a new feature here to allow you to contact the Mods. It's difficult with having multiple mods to receive questions and answer them in a timely manor because we all do mod posts. So what we've done is created another, shadow mod.

Any comments on posts made by this shadow mod will be forwarded to all of us, so we can answer things more quickly.

We're also going to try to start doing mod posts with this user account as well, and post a link to this post on the sidebar so you can contact us easily.

It's a new system, so there's bound to be some bumps with it, but hopefully it will make things easier in the long run.

~Your tamingmods!
(calypso)

It gives me great pleasure to award lit_gal her 75 week banner. Congratulations, sweetie!!! You rock!

It's so hard to get your muse to produce week after week, and you do it. Spectacularly, I might add. I sat with gaping jaw at what you did just to post 'chimera.' But you've done more than that - by starting this comm, you have given so much support to so many authors. I, for one, would probably have never taken the plunge to write if it hadn't been for you and taming. And so we also say - Thank You!

Here are your pretties:





In addition to your shinies, you get to tickle our muse with a prompt of your choosing. And boy howdy, we've all seen some of the prompts you've come up with so I'm sure it'll be fun. Click here and comment and your prompt will 'air' week 96.

~tamingmods (calypso)

BTW - Voting will be up late today. I'm off to do Mother's day celebrating with my family. Wishing a Happy Mother's day to all the moms who contribute or simply watch taming. You are awesome!

Title: Released Frustrations
Author: Zippit
Fandom: NASCAR
Character(s): Clint Bowyer/Dale Earnhardt Jr/Kevin Harvick
Prompt: #94 - Danger Zone (7.39)
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 3336
Written For: tamingthemuse
Disclaimer: If you recognize anyone in this piece, I am in no way affiliated with or know them personally. I am neither making a profit nor plan to do so. This is nothing more than an exercise in fiction. This is a result of an overactive imagination and I claim no truth to these words.
Author’s Note: SLEEPY
Summary: Clint gets an unexpected post race celebration.

Note: Flocked, but there are several members of TTM on my flist.

Released Frustrations

It's again prompt time. You still have a few hours to post your entry for the prompt #94 but those who have already entered Sunday here is the next prompt. The prompt generator has spoken and the prompt for next week is...


Mime


Let your imagination fly!



The tracking will be done tomorrow due to the fact that we are celebrating Mother's Day and I'm heading to my parents house now.

Title: Where the Heart Is
Author: meredevachon
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: Dean Winchester, mentions of Sam Winchester, Sarah Blake, and their daughter Mina
Series: Coming Home (the series formerly known as "the as yet untitled Sam/Sarah future!fic series")
Prompt #94: Danger Zone
Rating: PG
Word Count: 522
Disclaimer: Supernatural, its characters and situations do not belong to me. This is all in fun and for love of the characters.
A/N: Follows When the Fairy Tale Ends
Summary: Normally other folks handled the clean-up after his work was done, trying to put their homes and their lives back together while he moved on to the next danger zone, but not this time.

Read Where the Heart Is in my journal.

Title: Factius Cum Sacrificium
Fandom: Supernatural
Prompt: 94 – danger zone
Warnings: Spoiler for AHBL, dialogue quoted verbatim. Oh, and a character death.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: Around 2,000.
Characters: Sam, Bobby, Ruby, Dean, OC
Summary: Sam thinks he found a way to break Dean’s deal.
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation whatsoever with Supernatural or its creators. I’m only having fun. No infringement intended.
Author's Note: I don't know Latin, but I pieced together the title for this using a couple different online English-to-Latin translators. Factius Cum Sacrificium should mean something like "achieved with sacrifice". If you know Latin, I welcome you to correct my error and help me find a better suited title for this piece.

Title: Damsel In Distress 2/?
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger
Warnings: None
Rating: G

Summary: He had saved her from the Chimera, but why? Hermione wants to know--and so does Lucius.

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Title: War Wounds
Author: Philote
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Prompt: #94-Danger Zone
Warnings: Spoilers for The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe.
Rating: PG

Summary: In which Edmund is peeved, Peter is a bit bewildered, Lucy is wise, and Susan handles the kingdom (and her siblings) like a queen.

oOo

“I’m sorry; are you angry with me for getting injured in a battle to protect our home?”

Title: Understanding A Relationship
Fandom: Numb3rs AU
Pairing: Ben Eppes/Brian Lobo/Trent Lobo (All OMCs)
Prompt: 94. Danger Zone
Rating: R
Warnings: M/M/M relationship, implied incest, gay men 'commentating' on het sex.
Summary: Don watches Top Gun with Ben, Brian and Trent and Trent gives him something to think about.

Title: The Missing Piece
Rating: R to NC-17; PG-13 this chapter
Prompt: #94 - Danger Zone for tamingthemuse
Pairing(s): Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Spike, eventually Buffy/Angel/Spike (dominant pairing is S/B, though.)
Chapter: Fourteen of Twenty
Summary: There's a secret that fate wanted kept secret, and for many years, it was. Until it fell into the right hands of a Slayer who figured it out. As she searches for the missing piece to prove her point, there's a lot of people out there who want her dead because of it. Because this secret is going to change everything.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but the ideas in my head.

Wordcount: 1400

Previous Parts Here or Here


Pretty by sanity_oasis

Previously in The Missing Piece:

The vampire stepped forward, giving a small bow. “I needed to know if she was the Slayer, and I needed you all out of the basement. The Council will be searching the lower levels of the city for you.”

“Who are you?” Angel demanded.

The vampire let his brown hair swing back over his shoulder. “I am Erig, Erig Lustovan. I am the author of 'History and Order of Vampires and Their Slayers', but I am more help to you than that,” he explained, before closing his eyes.

“I was Christine Libet's lover.”

Fourteen

~Nebula

Title: Indecision
Fandom: Original Fiction
Prompt: 94 - danger zone at tamingthemuse
Warnings: None.
Rating: Teen
Summary: Sometimes decisions which should be easy aren't.
Disclaimer: I own this. Not that it's doing me a lot of good.
A/N: This was written in part as a response for my writing group, "It's wrong. I know it's wrong."

As always, feedback is welcome and appreciated.

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Indecision

Two years ago, a secret covert ops organization called Section One showed up in Jim's loft to recruit Jim and Blair (~read Shadows of the Past~). Now, two years later,  Section's new head, Nikita, tells Jim that he's supposed to work with a traitor from Stargate Command named Makepeace to get rid of a group of invading aliens called goa'uld.

Shadows and Siege, Complete
Sequel to Shadows of the Past
Fandoms: Primary: Sentinel.  Secondary: La Femme Nikita, Stargate SG-1
Slash
Rated: ADULT

"Danger zone" is in chapter 16.

Title: Walkabout
Author: Sunnyd_lite
Fandom: Firefly
Set: Just after the Movie
Pairings: M/I
Rating: G
Prompt: 94 Danger Zone
Disclaimers: All characters owned by Mutant Enemy and corporations. Written for fun not profit.
Word count: 644


( Wearing out the floor boards, Sir? )

Title: Retrograde Chapter 21
Author: guardian_erin
Rating: R
Warnings: crude language, adult situations, topics of self-harm, blood, character death, and violence.
Fandom: BtVS/Ats crossover
Pairing: Galen(Spike)/Buffy
Disclaimer: Write everying, own nothing.
Summary: While trying to crack Wolfram & Hart's spell, Willow accidentally raised a spirit. He's only interested in getting what he wants... Even if that means killing Galen.

"Nice how this entity forces Buffy to look at her own treatment and feelings toward Spike in the past." - kudagirl from FanFiction.net

Start at the Beginning
Read Chapter 21


I've been nominated!
If you've been enjoying this story, I'd appreciate a vote under 'Best Plot - Spuffy'
Thanks!

Title: Improvising Atonement, 13/?

Fandom: BtVS

Prompt: 94-danger zone

Overall Warnings: AU, m/m sex, non-graphic non-consensual sexual activity, violence, adult language

Rating: NC-17 overall

Summary: A vampire with a soul comes to Sunnydale to help The Slayer. Can a demon ever atone?

Previously...

( In your bed? He spent the night in your bed? )

 Title: Dock side
 Fandom: BtVS
 Prompt: 94 - Danger Zone
 Rating: Older Teen
 Summary: Part 33. Set during the summer before season 1, Xander's life is changed radically when vampires invade it. In the meantime Angel and Spike have their own, separate agendas.
 Word Count: 2,220
 Comments: Are greatly appreciated, loved and cherished.
 Previous parts: In reverse order, in tags here In my memories.
 Or, starting here with links to the next, at the end of each chapter.
 Disclaimer: here.

Warning (highlight the white area to see the warning text):

Vamp Xander story

33. Dock side and a really pretty banner in my LJ

Title: The Game
Author: blue_icy_rose
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1,009
Prompt: Danger zone
Warnings: AU, if you hadn't guessed that from the fact that it's a crossover. But at least one character would show you why it's AU.
Summary: Buffy's about to face off with a warlock intent on killing her. Sam isn't letting it happen without him.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything associated with Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Supernatural. They belong to Joss Whedon and Eric Kripke.
Author's Note: This isn't a full fic, it's actually just one scene that will very likely become part of something longer. But I didn't have time to write the full thing out or to write a fully chapter so this will have to do. Think of it as a sneak peek. But yes, with finals and then graduation today, there was no time for a new chapter of Darkness I Live In and I didn't get to write the other idea I had but hopefully you enjoy it anyway.

I used the prompt more as a theme this time.

The Game

This began as a drabble earlier this week and it expanded. It's for the very dear danna7001. She's someone that I aspire to be like.

*hugs*
~calypso


Title: The Subtlety of Family...1/1
Prompt : tamingthemuse prompt - Danger Zone
Pairing: Angel/Spike
Warnings: Angst
Summary: Angel want to know why Spike doesn't go to Buffy.

Title: Consequences
Fandom: ats/btvs
Pairing: Angel/Spike
Prompt: #94 - Danger zone
Warnings: m/m relationship, violence, Daddy!kink, spanking
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Angel makes some things clear
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters. They belong to Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy and WB. I just play with them


Consequences