tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:171965Precious and Fragile ThingsNeed special handling...Wrathful and Unrepentant Jade2012-02-02T17:10:54Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:171965:690866Writing: Prompt 1/5 for my origfic_bingo2012-02-02T17:10:54Z2012-02-02T17:10:54ZNightwish - Storytimenervouspublic0<b>Title:</b> "Last Dance"<br /><b>Fandom; Pairings:</b> Original (Aria universe); Selene/Mykolas (M/F)<br /><b>Prompt:</b> Public display of affection (One of my January <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://origfic-bingo.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://origfic-bingo.dreamwidth.org/'><b>origfic_bingo</b></a></span> prompts. The other four will be posted soon even though I'm late. :P)<br /><b>Contents:</b> Sexual situations, strong allusions to sex.<br /><b>Rating:</b> R<br /><b>Word Count:</b> 836<br /><b>Summary:</b> The is the first and last dance they'll share in public.<br /><b>Notes:</b> Banged this out this morning because of a niggling idea that would not leave. Apologies for glaring errors I may have missed in my impaired state (I have a head cold). One, I love to dabble in the present tense for short scenes like this. Two, I don't think I've ever employed song lyrics before, and it's not something I'll make a habit of, but this was just too intergral to the scene in my head that I wanted to include some. The song is "Slow, Love, Slow" by Nightwish from their 2011 album <em>Imaginaerum</em>, and it's not the sort of song you might expect to come from a Finnish symphonic metal band.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xbow9faH3s">Nightwish - "Slow, Love, Slow"</a> (<a href="http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/n/nightwish/slow_love_slow.html">Lyrics</a>)<br /><br />His timing is perfect. He waits until the precise moment when the last song is slowly fading into the next before I realize the music is taking on a slow, sensual beat. I feel the press of his body at my back, his left hand on my stomach to hold me tight against him. The familiarity with which he touches me sets me on edge until I recognize the scent of his cologne. I feel the warmth of his breath on my ear and hear his voice.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://jadedmusings.dreamwidth.org/690866.html#cutid1">You owe me a dance...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jadedmusings&ditemid=690866" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:171965:689929[Writing] Lots of rambling about consent, plus excerpt.2012-01-28T21:52:11Z2012-01-28T21:52:11Zcoldpublic0I've been writing...or trying to do something that closely resembles writing. I've not been terribly successful. Between real life stress and a sudden inability to be able to type more than 100 words or so in a sitting, this year has been exceedingly difficult. However, last night I realized I'd challenged myself way too hard by trying to do something overly complicated for <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://origfic-bingo.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://origfic-bingo.dreamwidth.org/'><b>origfic_bingo</b></a></span>. I made the decision to scale back and just do a simple one-line Bingo and not focus on lengthy stories that link together.<br /><br />Naturally, I decided to write a little smut. (Who here is really surprised by this?) I thought I'd share a little snippet of what I managed to produce last night, and then I hope by Tuesday to have five little stories to post. (Not all of them will be erotica, okay?)<br /><br />First, just a little background and <strike>some</strike> a lot of rambling:<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://jadedmusings.dreamwidth.org/689929.html#cutid1">Rambling about consent issues, power dynamics/kink.</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br />Sorry for so much rambling and over-thinking. It's just something my brain had to pick apart.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://jadedmusings.dreamwidth.org/689929.html#cutid2">And the NSFW exerpt. Not terribly explicit, but also not exactly vague. Warnings for dubious consent.</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jadedmusings&ditemid=689929" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:171965:671633Role-Play: Death Knights2011-11-09T15:15:49Z2011-11-09T15:15:49ZGarbage - Nobody Loves Youcuriouspublic0Going to make myself write today for Selene to finish the story that's been sitting here for a couple of weeks. I love the idea I have and I'm going to run with it. Pity I don't know enough RPers on Virtue to really have more fun with it. There are hundreds of them, but I've never quite been able to figure out how to role-play over <em>City of Heroes</em>. Then again, Sam's the one I rp with on occasion, and really, I kind of like keeping it to just us and maybe one or two other people should that come up. I have WoW for larger group roleplay.<br /><br />Speaking of WoW, playing around on Savitry (who is level 76) has me thinking about Death Knights. I've written a couple of stories for Savitry and, in my head, her background is written. However, I've been toying with an idea, but I'm not quite sure how reasonable/logical it is.<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://jadedmusings.dreamwidth.org/671633.html#cutid1">Some musing on the nature of Death Knights.</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jadedmusings&ditemid=671633" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:171965:664768CoH: Sam and I RP...and it's beyond silly.2011-10-19T12:27:07Z2011-10-19T12:27:07Ztiredpublic0And this is why you do not give god-like powers to every single hero and villain who makes it to level 50. Upon discovering the first of Ninjaweazel's clones, Selene, who is currently recovering from having an entire building fall on her (a long story I may or may not write), makes a crack about not wanting to wake up to a world full of Weazels.<br /><br />NinjaWeazel: *laughs* Making one damn near killed me. I'm not sure if I could do a second one whole-cloth.<br />NinjaWeazel: Yet.<br />Selene: ...there is just the one, yes?<br />NinjaWeazel: Yes. Technically.<br />Selene: *pinches the bridge of her nose and inhales sharply* It was a yes or a no question. What do you mean 'technically'?<br />NinjaWeazel: Well, I sort of... infused part of my energy into a dying Praetorian soldier.<br />Selene: How do you sort of *infuse part of your engery into a dying soldier,* particularly one that is in an *alternate dimension*?<br />NinjaWeazel: Well, I was in Praetoria.<br />Selene: And you thought, "Well, I've seen the sights now to complete the tour by finding someone near death and giving him part of myself"?<br /><br />To be fair to NinjaWeazel, there was a little more to it than that. Just a little. Selene thinks the screening for the Well of Furies needs to be <i>a lot</i> more rigorous.<br /><br />(My boyfriend has the craziest RP characters, I swear. Let us never forget the Black Mage in one FFRPG campaign who punched monsters in the face rather than burn them to a crisp from a safe distance.)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jadedmusings&ditemid=664768" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:171965:615153Writing: Tamingthemuse Prompt (Yes, I am immature.)2011-06-12T00:31:32Z2011-06-12T04:29:56ZRammstein - Reise, Reiseaccomplishedpublic2<b>Title:</b> Homesick (Part 4/?)<br /><b>Fandom; Pairings:</b> Original; AU Selene/Ballari<br /><b>Prompt:</b> #255 - Jackhammer<br /><b>Warnings:</b> Allusions to violent sex.<br /><b>Rating:</b> R<br /><b>Word Count:</b> 2,152<br /><b>Summary:</b> Before she can plan her next job, Selene needs to clear her head at a dance club. Sadly, this means dealing with an entitled jerk.<br /><b>Notes:</b> I admit it. My inner twelve year old giggled when she saw the prompt and wouldn't let it go. And who better to use it as an insult than Selene? Uh, anyway, you'll realize that I've skipped part three, which hasn't been written yet. It's on my list, but first there's another piece I have to finish (this weekend), so sorry about that! I'll let any interested parties know when it's written (and yes, that part will be NC-17).<br /><b>Journal-Specific Notes:</b> I need to do another post for filters so people can let me know what they want to see. Any erotica I've written/will write is filtered (what little there is), and if you want to be in that filter, just leave me a comment or PM me. LJ or DW, doesn't matter, the filters work on both journals. <br /><br />After a full day of playing mistress and inventing new ways to torture and pleasure my pet, I wasn’t exactly in the mood to plan an assassination. My mind was too jumbled and my emotions too erratic to focus on such a detail oriented task. Though Ballari seemed to have accepted and even enjoyed discovering my dark side, I wasn’t foolish enough to believe she wouldn’t have a change of heart when it was all over. I thought it best I look for a way to unwind and clear my mind somewhere away from the beach house. That meant spending a few hours losing myself in the music at one of the local dance clubs.<br /> <br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://jadedmusings.dreamwidth.org/615153.html#cutid1">While perusing the long list of clubs near my location on John’s computer, Ballari staggered into the room to check on me.</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jadedmusings&ditemid=615153" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:171965:609159Writing: Tamingthemuse Prompt2011-05-22T00:44:23Z2011-05-29T04:33:12ZRammstein - Ohne Dichhotpublic0<b>Title:</b> Homesick (Part 2/?) <br /><b>Fandom; Pairings:</b> Original; AU Selene/Ballari<br /><b>Prompt:</b> #252 - Samurai<br /><b>Warnings: </b> Talk of murder, assassination.<br /><b>Rating:</b> R (Eventual NC-17)<br /><b>Word Count:</b> 2,117<br /><b>Summary:</b> John stops by the beach house with a job for Selene. Trouble is Ballari might not like what this job requires Selene to do. (You don't need to read part one to be able to understand what's happening here, but <a href="http://jadedmusings.dreamwidth.org/607180.html">here's a link</a> just in case.)<br /><b>Notes:</b> This is something I banged out this afternoon, and it is a set-up for some kinky smut in part three, which I don't think right now I can fit into next week's prompt (Any joke in a storm), but we'll see. Either way I will write a part three soon and do my best to fill next week's prompt even if it's not Selene/Ballari. And this is one of those things where I sat down with one thing in mind and what came out was totally different. However, I happen to like what I wrote and I felt like I was in the zone, and that I've got Selene's voice nailed back down.<br /><br /><b>ETA:</b> Now with the proper version up here and less copy-paste fail on the part of the author!<br /><br />Every day Ballari would wake up before dawn and go outside to run through her katas with the sunrise as her backdrop. It never seemed to matter how little sleep she got the night before or how sore she might be from training and sparring. As soon as the eastern sky began to lighten, she was on her feet repeating the same movements she’d probably started learning the day after she took her very first steps.<br /> <br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://jadedmusings.dreamwidth.org/609159.html#cutid1">Not being a morning person in any sense of the word, I usually slept in, rousing before noon most days. But sometimes I’d stagger out of bed to make coffee and watch her from the large bay window in the den.</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jadedmusings&ditemid=609159" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:171965:607180Writing: Tamingthemuse Prompt2011-05-15T06:57:39Z2011-05-22T00:32:01ZSonata Arctica - Replicatiredpublic0<b>Title:</b> Homesick (Part 1/?)<br /><b>Fandom; Pairings:</b> Original; AU Selene/Ballari<br /><b>Prompt:</b> #251 - Melody<br /><b>Warnings: </b> N/A<br /><b>Rating:</b> R (Eventual NC-17)<br /><b>Word Count:</b> 957<br /><b>Summary:</b> Ballari could sing in her own way.<br /><b>Notes:</b> Two characters of mine from vastly different table-top campaigns. In my head, I'd always wondered what they might be like together and the roles they'd take on in a relationship. Those who are familiar with Selene will find that she seems a little OOC here, and I'd have to agree; however, this is also an AU Selene who has suffered another loss and who finds herself in a strange world. Next part she'll show a little more of her old self. Those who remember Ballari might find it surprising to see her show a more vulnerable side, but it seemed right when I put her with Selene. (Technically it's the <em>City of Heroes</em> versions of them that I made, but there's no real mention of the world they're in so I didn't feel it fit that fandom.)<br /><b>Journal Specific notes:</b> This isn't filtered in my Smut filter because there's no sex as of yet. There will be, possibly in part two, at least that's my plan for now. If you want to be in that filter and either aren't already or aren't sure you are, just drop me a line.<br /> <br />I’m not the sort of woman to get sentimental. Emotions can be hazardous in my line of work—empathetic assassins are soon dead assassins. Even so, there had been the occasional exception to my “no attachments” rule; Mykolas and Karl sprang to mind, two men it still hurt to think about. Yet, despite the continued pain of their losses and the potential for betrayal, I found myself inexplicably drawn to Ballari again and again. <br /> <br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://jadedmusings.dreamwidth.org/607180.html#cutid1">Maybe it was our shared loneliness.</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jadedmusings&ditemid=607180" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments