SGA fic; AB drabble

[mhalachai]

Hey kids.

1. A Stargate Atlantis fic for sga_flashfic:

Kryptonite in the Palms of Her Hands

Characters: Teyla Emmagen, John Sheppard, others
Genre: Gen, friendship.
Setting: Set generically after season 2, no spoilers for anything.
Rating: PG
Word count:: 2,790
Note: I wrote this without re-examining the challenge, thinking it was for a "superpower" story and not remembering the "secret" part. It's okay, though, as one can construe the secret as being kept from a select few. Basically, I'm colouring outside of the lines.

Teyla hadn't spoken in three days

2. An Anita Blake drabble.
Title: Cold
Characters: Anita
abvh100Challenge: #64 - Moon
fanfic100Challenge: #45 - Moon
Note: Extreme Danse Macabre spoilers. Hence the cut.
Word Count: 200



"Are you coming to bed?"

I stared up at the thin crescent moon. "Maybe in a bit." After a minute, I heard Micah go back in the house.

It was biting cold and painful out here, but anything was better than going back into that house, where Nathaniel and Micah waited.

It had been one of those bad days, where the inside of my head was so ugly that I didn't know myself. Most days, I could ignore the recent revelation that the ardeur had made Micah and Nathaniel love me... no, had twisted their minds up until they thought they loved me.

Today was not one of those days.

I exhaled slowly, my fogged breath rising in the still air. The sound was faint and shaky, and I hated it.

Today, I had thought of something so horrible, so... painful. What if, just as my ardeur sought out new powerful food in Micah, Jean-Claude's ardeur had done the same with me four years ago?

What if Jean-Claude's ardeur was the only thing that made him love me?

Couldn't anyone love me without being mind-fucked by vampire powers?

I went back in the house, but the cold stayed with me.

-fin

Comments

[necromancer5.livejournal.com]

Glad to see you are still with us. Was a little anxious with your comment about Anita being an annoying noise in your mind. Had an emergency care package of chocolate and Christie book ready ;).

But, this looks like you might be starting to work through that? Loved the Drabble, especially 'mind-fucked by vampire powers'. I think that is how exactly Anita would feel post DM if she ever came to her senses. Nice Job.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why you must continue writing Anita. You have the almost unique ability to make even her whiniest, sulky, stupid problems sympathetic. We need that, cause we sure aren't getting it from the books. I actually feel bad for Anita, and not in a, "Poor little character-assassinated ho-bag bitch. :tear:", kind of way either.

[practical-puss.livejournal.com]

And once again... that was me.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Most times, when I've worked it through enough in my mind to whine about it, I'm basically over it. This was an idea I've been playing with for a few days now.

I can see Anita being this insecure, because it's really not that far-fetched. How much of her life is built on a lie? she has to be wondering.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

This is why you must continue writing Anita. You have the almost unique ability to make even her whiniest, sulky, stupid problems sympathetic. We need that, cause we sure aren't getting it from the books. I actually feel bad for Anita, and not in a, "Poor little character-assassinated ho-bag bitch. :tear:", kind of way either.

I can't help it. I see whiny Anita and I don't like it, so I change what I see, add my own levels of motivation. It's probably what LKH meant anyway. At least, that's how I see it.

[practical-puss.livejournal.com]

Your!Anita is pretty close to the Anita in books 1-8, so yeah, run with it.

[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

Here's Hamilton's rationale for the sex overload:

"Anita is my eyes on her world, my camera. The camera had stayed steady on the violence for books and books. What did it say about me as a writer that I wanted to take the camera away for sex scenes but not violence? If the camera stays on track for one, it must stay on track for the other." [1] (http://www.likesbooks.com/lkh.html)

Here's the deal: The violence is almost always central to the plots, such as they are. Much if not most of the time, the sex isn't. Using her rationale, she should be documenting every time Anita takes a crap.

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

This is exactly what I had been wondering, sweets.
*couldn't anyone love me without being mind-fucked by vampire powers?*

Deep down, Anita still has so many insecurities. With every man in her life, it seems to me that she is still working out issues that she had with her fiance in college. Still waiting for someone to say, "Nope, sorry; you are unlovable, you are a monster." Still acting out due to the fact that she feels abandoned by her fiance, her father, and even her mother for dying...

What I noticed from previous books is how the one thing that still bothers her during police work is when a child is killed. I'm convinced that she is ultimately afraid of being pregnant because A)her life is dangerous and she doesn't want a child to lose its mother the way that she lost hers, and B)if something bad happened to her child, it would most likely be due to involvement with the preternatural, and therefore, in Anita's eyes, it would be her fault.


What is your take on this observation?

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

She's got a new blog entry up (from a few days ago) about why all the sex. It's sort of implicit that everyone who doesn't like the new direction is a blood-thirsty prude. Anyway, I've officially stopped reading the blog. Teal text on black background aside, I just don't care enough to slog through a 500-word paragraph.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

All very good points. I'd also add that part of Anita's fear of commitment in all aspects of her life (mostly seen with the men) would extend to a child, even more so. Maybe she'd see it like something holding her down.

I dunno. I know how I've interpreted Anita's reaction to the baby thing, but I have been known to read too much into fandoms I write in.