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Master List of Elizabeth Culmer's Fiction
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FANFICTION:

General Disclaimer: These stories are based on characters and situations created and owned by other people and corporations. I make no money from this borrowing of intellectual property, and intend no copyright or trademark infringement.

Organization: This list is organized primarily by fandom; within each fandom, it's arranged first by associated story cycles and then by date. Word counts and writing dates are approximations.

Warning Policy: Any story with explicit sex or other potentially problematic content (mostly death, torture, or various forms of psychological, familial, or societal dysfunction) will be marked as such; otherwise all stories are equivalent to PG-13 at most -- i.e., there may be some darkness, violence, or mentions of sex, but it will either be off-page or non-explicit. I do not use any content rating system unless I am posting to a site or community that requires or encourages ratings, because I think movie-style ratings are counterintuitive when applied to written fiction, and because I have never found ratings particularly useful for anything other than denoting the presence of explicit sex, which I am already warning for.

Quality Rating System: I've marked my favorite stories with asterisks, on a scale of 1 to 4. The more asterisks, the more I like the story. This doesn't necessarily mean that stories without asterisks are bad, just that I don't like them as much. Also, I am not claiming to be an arbiter of taste; you may love stories I dislike, and vice versa. I am just providing a heads-up about the ones that I think are best written and/or most interesting.

Harry Potter Fanfiction

Naruto Fanfiction

Angel Sanctuary Fanfiction

Chronicles of Narnia Fanfiction

Minor Fandom Fanfiction
(currently includes BtVS/A:tS, Final Fantasy 7: Mercverse AU, Homestuck, Inception, and Star Trek)

Miscellaneous Fanfiction
(currently includes American Gods, Batman (Nolan!vers), the Bible, the Black Jewels series, the Bourne trilogy, Captain America, Code Geass, The Dark Is Rising, The Darkangel, Death Note, Enchanted Forest Chronicles, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, Gormenghast, Hexwood, The Homeward Bounders, Labyrinth, Lucifer, Merlin, Ranma 1/2, Saiyuki, Seaward, X-Men, and Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Crossover Fanfiction
(I do not cross-list crossovers under their component fandoms; this is the only place to find them)

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ORIGINAL FICTION:

These stories are all mine! *grin* I use the same warning policy and quality rating system as for my fanfiction.

All Original Fiction

You know what I hate about summer? (And it is summer now, make no mistake.) This is the season where I cannot turn my computer on until the temperature in my apartment drops below 80F, which does not happen until 9pm at the earliest, and even then I need my fan on high aimed right at the tower from about a foot away. Also, even then the machine still runs sluggishly. Also also, the room is still disgustingly hot, because did I mention 80 degrees Fahrenheit?

*wilts*

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Yeah, not writing anything for a bit until the weather cuts me some slack. Sorry. Too hot, cannot brain, ask again in September.

There are not WORDS for how much I hate summer.

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I got over $800 from the federal government in tax returns. Maybe this is the year I should give up and buy a damn air conditioner.

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Via penknife:

1. Pick a pairing or a character
2. Ask me my particular headcanon regarding something about them
3. Post to your journal to share your own headcanon!

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Whatever, I am impatient, I posted the Femgen fic. Hopefully it and the Davesprite fic have jointly purged the inclination toward angst I seem to have been suffering these past few days.

Blueprints: This is how you build a castle. This is how you build a life. Ariadne, 1,150 words.

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In other news, I spent the afternoon doing some background research for an encyclopedia my dad and some other guy have been working on for the past several years. It is about mass spectrometry, both the technical details and the people involved in the field. So today I dug up a little bit of information about Richard F. K. Herzog, a little about Johannes Geiss, and not much of anything about Georges Slodzian, Harold W. Washburn, and Heinrich Hintenberger. (Or rather, not much at all biographical; it's fairly easy to get professional information on them, like Washburn's patent applications, and Slodzian's and Hintenberger's research. But where and when they were born, where and when they were educated, where and when they died... eh, who knows!)

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Btw, if you know anything about these five men, please do feel free to tell me. :-)

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Hey, so, I just finished last year's Femgenficathon story tonight. (Yes, I know, it is nearly nine months late. I fail at deadlines forever; this is not a thing anyone is arguing about.)

It is roughly 1,150 words of Inception fic, basically angsty Ariadne backstory about her childhood and her interest in architecture and art as related to a dead father and a younger half-sister and stuff.

Is anyone willing to give it a quick beta check?

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FYI, askerian, that Homestuck shipping post you wanted me to do is at 5,000+ words and I am not even through analyzing the various Karkat ships, let alone my second-tier favorites or the random other stuff fandom has presented for my reading consideration. (Dave and Terezi and all the general background stuff is basically done, though.)

*shakes tiny fists of RAGE in your general direction*

Now I am going to faff off to bed, because otherwise I will probably attempt to fill another kinkmeme prompt by writing sickeningly fluffy Terezi/Nepeta first kisses instead of doing anything useful like work on my WIPs.

Argh, how do I BRAIN???

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Operation answer kinkmeme prompts with depressing fills that spend more time on angst instead of the requested kink is GO. Apparently.

Prompt: There was a picture on tumblr that made me think of this, where it was Dave transforming into his sprite form. What I'd really like, is if someone would simply write him changing? You can have angst, or whatever you like added onto it! A bonus if it creeps between being painful for Dave, and being pleasurable? If not, just including details like sensations and how he feels about his changes?

In response, approximately 2,400 words of angst with incidental (and utterly gen) description of transformation:

Me, Myself, and Die (kinkmeme version) / Me, Myself, and Die (AO3 version)

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I would like to feel cheerful again, please?

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Random ff.net review for my Narnia/Stargate SG-1 crossover remix ficlet, plus reply:

Review: I love this. I thought I was the only person who wondered about Susan.

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Reply: Oh no, MANY people wonder about Susan! My personal take is that she's actually the person who exits the series in the best shape, seeing that she's the only major character who isn't dead. +wry+ A lot of other people think she was hard done by, though, and are angry at Lewis for shutting her out of heaven or some-such. This has never made sense to me, because of the whole "she's not dead! how is survival a punishment?" issue, and also because Lewis's own theology is pretty explicit on the notion that as long as you're alive, there is always time to find god or whatever, but a number of people seem to interpret getting into Aslan's country as a one-shot deal -- you miss your single chance in "The Last Battle" and too bad, so sad, no heaven for you!

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I dunno, mostly I just think Susan is awesome and practical and if she wanted to live in England while she was stuck living in England, so what? That's just rolling with what life threw at her. But anyway, the Problem of Susan is such a big issue in Narnia fandom that, as you can see, it has its own name complete with Ominous Capital Leters of Portentous Doom. Pretty much everyone who writes Narnia fanfic has a take on it and has probably written a story dealing with the issue at some point.

Cheers,
Liz

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It's always a little shock to remember that no, fandom is NOT mainstream culture, and even within fandom, things that are taken for granted by one subset will be completely obscure to most other subsets. I mean, the Problem of Susan is a phrase I knew before I even knew about Narnia fandom... and yet. Clearly not a universal constant!

(Also clearly not a universal reaction -- as you can see, I mostly consider Susan's survival a problem because of other people's reactions to it, not because I think being alive is an inherently awful fate when compared to, say, dying in a hideously painful train crash. But maybe that's just me.)

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back to part 8

( Trollstuck, part 9 )

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The trouble with this chapter is that I can't jam any chatlogs into it, since it's an important plot point that Aradia has her laptop turned off and stuck in her sylladex which is why she doesn't answer Jarlia a bit later in chapter one. (Wow, English grammar just failed me there...) Ah well, so it goes.

Anything I say about locks, volcanoes, and archaeology is basically down to about five minutes' research on Wikipedia. In other words, don't trust me too much. *wry*

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back to part 7

( Trollstuck, part 8 )

continue to part 9

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You're stuck being Aradia for at least one more section, maybe two. (It depends on which direction you pick and how the writing goes.) After that, other options open up. *grin*

Also, FYI, I have decided that the inhabitants of this nameless town were killed largely by a pyroclastic surge one day after the initial eruption of the volcano. (In other words, they baked. Very rapidly.) The town was then buried over the next several days. The reason Aradia is not finding any carbonized organic material is that minor earthquakes over the subsequent millennia broke the seal over the town and let some air in, which apparently disintegrates that type of remains very fast. The reason she can move around inside the hives is that Alternian construction of that era was A) very solid and B) designed to be completely light-proof during the day, and since the pyroclastic surge happened around noon, all the doors and windows were shut so hardly any ash got in.

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