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Elspethdixon's Big Damn Fanfic List

Being an index to every piece of extant-on-the-web fic by Elspethdixon since her freshman year of college, including the clichéd badfic, the abandoned WiPs, the one that turned up on McTabby’s Summary Executions, and the one with the word “orbs” in it. From Harry Potter to Pirates of the Caribbean, and beyond. Hopefully, the quality improves as ones moves down the page.

( Big Damn List )

Forward-dated to go at the top of my journal. Warnings are present in the headers on all multichapter fics. Warnings for ficlets will be provided upon request. All multichapter fics contain some degree of hurt/comfort.

So, in light of recent tumblr events, a statement:

If you want to save a copy of any of my fics to your hard drive - YES, GO AHEAD. (I have something like half a gigabyte of fanfic saved to my hard drive myself.)

If you want to print a copy of any of my fics out and keep it in a three-ring binder somewhere - YES, GO AHEAD.

If you want to lend the three-ring binder to every person in your English class/office/college dorm - YES, GO AHEAD.

If you want to turn a copy of any of my fics into an ebook and put it on your nook/kindle/iPad/etc. - YES, GO AHEAD (AO3 very conveniently lets you do this automatically)

If you want to email the ebook to all forty-three of your closest friends - YES, GO AHEAD (or just point them to AO3 and tell them to click the nice "download as epub" button themselves)

If you want to publish copies of said fic as zines and sell them for $$$? ASK FIRST.

I will probably say yes provided you're doing it as a for-cost zine instead of for a profit and aren't doing something likely to get all of us sued by Marvel/Disney, like publically listing it for sale on Amazon or Lulu, but still, please ask. If nothing else, I might have a clean, all-in-one-word-document file of the fic to make your life easier. (Also, it's usually considered polite in zine-making circles to give contributors copies of the zine)

Actually, let me mention that sued by Marvel/Disney part again. Disney is infamous for the rabid psychotic intensity with which they defend their copyrights. Listing Avengers fanfic for sale on widely-used public sites like Lulu, Createspace, Smashwords, or, god forbid, Amazon, is probably a good way to risk facing a C&D letter if the wrong team of corporate lawyers somehow notice it.

Zines have been around in fandom since long before the invention of the internet, and there's a whole culture and etiquette surrounding them, some of which is probably just us old school, pre-tumblr fans being fuddy-duddies, but some of which exists for a reason. Selling printed fic at cost and not making a profit is a fandom etiquette thing that corporate lawyers probably aren't going to distinguish from selling it to make money, so it's a good idea to try and stay under the radar. And, again, to ask the authors first, because while most of us will say yes, some fans are very, very sensitive about having complete control of their fic and will not only say no if asked, but be extremely upset if you go ahead and distribute it anyway.

(You know those artists who are so upset at having a piece of fanart reblogged on tumblr that they don't feel comfortable posting art at all anymore and delete their entire pixiv or deviant art account? That reaction is not unique to artists; some writers feel that way, as well)

ETA: And if it's co-written? (Which means pretty much all of my longer Marvel fics) Please, please ask seanchai as well before openly distributing any kind of printed zine. Just because my stance on fic is "Yes, go ahead, podfic it! Translate it! Save copies! Print it out and tape it to the walls of subway cars!" doesn't automatically mean that her response will be the same.

Title: Zero at the Bone
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None (fic is either gen or pre-slash, whichever you prefer)
Warnings: None that I know of, beyond some minor violence and Rorschach's issues. And the fact that "Zero at the Bone" is a really pretentious title.
Author's note: Written for the Watchmen kink meme, for the prompt "Rorschach feeding Dan sugar cubes in a h/c situation." This is set pre-GN and pre-Roche. They're both still pretty young here, under 30.

Thank you to kijikun, without whose efforts Rorschach's name would have been spelled wrong about 60% of the time.

( It was bitterly cold tonight, the wind off the river so far below freezing that it made his face hurt even through the mask )

Watchmen kink meme fic is done! And it only took me two months and twenty pages! Seriously, this fic took longer to write than our big bang.

So... anyone want to beta 8,700 words worth of almost-gen h/c to make sure Nite Owl and Rorschach aren't massively OOC and/or the fic doesn't contain any blatantly-doesn't-belong-in-1960-something anachronisms?

For kijikun, with hugs to her kitty.

Title: none
Author: Elspethdixon
Fandom: 616!Marvel
Pairing: Technically canon pairings/gen. Think of it as Pepper/Strange pre-het (or Strange/Wong pre-slash. Or both)


( Strange & Pepper are rescuing Wong and Tony from another dimension, which they were kidnapped to by, um, plot devices. Somehow. )

More of the AU I'm not writing. Because it has been eating at my brain and I can't help myself. (Note: narrator's opinions vis-à-vis Mary Winchester are definitely not reflective of mine. I'ma go read Wonder Woman pr0n now to scrub the misogyny out of my brain) Also, there is reckless screwing with both SPN and Watchmen timelines.


( November, 1969, a Comedian is killed in Vietnam )

Because they're now available to me in a format I actually kind of like, and because anonymous trolls are awful:

( Nightowl II ficlet )

Title: A Bright, Shining Horror
Fandom: The faerie-pr0n books Merry Gentry series
Pairing: Um, the canon ones. I'm not even going to try to list them for this fandom.
Rating: PG
Summary: Post-Swallowing Darkness. The Wild Hunt may be prettier now, but they're no less monsterous.
Disclaimer: The characters and situations in this story belong to Laurell K. Hamilton who is selfish and does not want to share. No profit is being made off this fan-written work.

( Merry's magic has remade us, turned what was once dark and horrible to behold into something beautiful and terrible as the dawn )

Written for xandervampsgirl for the fandomsecrets fic reccing thread. Because there were no Sholto fics.

1. I have now achieved one of my greatest fannish goals.

Alien invasion fic is now over 100,000 words long. I now have written something that's long enough for the maximum word-count category on ff.net.

It really makes me wish we didn't have Reasons for not posting the fic there, because I *so* want to have a fic in the very longest category.

2. Does anyone in Steve/Tony fandom who's going to comiccon want to meet up Friday/Saturday night?

As with the previous installments, some content has been paraphrased & quoted from Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen."

Story the First: The Steel Mirror
Story the Second: The Soldier and the Smith
Story the Third: Of the Library At the Young Woman's Who Understood Witchcraft
Story the Fourth: The Prince and the Princess

( Story the Fifth: The Little Robber Boy )