Nanni

If you got the opportunity to add one thing to the canon of any of your fandoms, what would that be? Maybe there’s a character who didn’t get much of a backstory/storyline and you’d like to do something with them, maybe a show was axed too soon and you had thoughts on what could happen in a subsequent season, maybe there’s a new episode you’d like to have added.

I know this is one of those "the book is too short" comments that Tolkien wrote about in the forward for the authorized paperback editions but - !

I wish we came back to Farmer Maggot and the rest of the family at the end of Return of the King, during the return to the Shire. He's such a huge and vital presence during the chase through the Shire, and we never meet him again, nor is he ever referred to after Tom Bombadil tells unspecified stories about him while Frodo and company are staying in his house. The journey and the story skips right through the Marrish during the Scouring chapter. Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin ride through it in about a paragraph after spending the night at the bridge gatehouse.

We're introduced to Tom Cotton and his household, who Sam has remembered or talked about several times during the journey through Mordor, instead: and it's an interesting portrait! I don't want to lose it! But I really do wonder: what did the Maggots do? What kind of response did Maggot have, to Frodo, and to Merry and Pippin, who he knew quite well, when they came back changed and marked by big and sometimes mystical experiences?

trope_bingo is doing an open amnesty round for their twelfth round, and they're having folks generate their own cards using An Owomoyela's bingo card generator if they don't have an outstanding card.

I don't currently have an outstanding card I'm pretty sure, so I went to use the card generator, because I cannot resist widgets, and also I've been intending to work on actually getting words down (on paper) and up (on the web).

The card generator is so cool! One of its pre-set list possibilities is the Arne Thompson story type typology! I am definitely going to have to play more with that! (And write Owomoyela a nice note. And their fiction sounds up my alley too!)

( Trope Bingo card under the cut )

Maelstrom and Gyre, Transformers G1

Maelstrom and Gyre are a pair of twins who got the bad and creepy end of what should have been a fairly routine labor contract. They broke it the first chance they got and, through a complex series of misadventures the details of which I am still pretty hazy on (I have several ideas about what might have happened, but I haven't pinned down any solid thoughts or written anything) they ended up in a position to get fished out of the path of an oncoming storm, refuelled, and put up for the night by Cheerly. Maelstrom, who is their self appointed spokesperson and also the one who's more likely to break your fingers, took the night to think and talk it over with Gyre, and in the morning told Cheerly that they had no where to go, no prospect of anywhere to go, and no job or any prospect of one.

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Moraine, Transformers G1

Okay, let's talk Moraine.

...I honestly didn't intend Moraine to turn up so often in my fic. She was initially just a walk on to move the plot (such as it was) along. She walked on. She walked off. She went backstage and metaphorically made cocoa and refused to leave.

( Weird little alien robot academics unite )

Agape of Chalcis, Doctor Who

Agape is that much maligned being, an original Companion. But she's not the Doctor's companion, she's Susan Foreman's! She and Susan wander around time and space, generally extremely lost, often with other people along as well, attempting to tend and nurture and heal an underage, undersized, and extremely traumatized former child soldier TARDIS, one of the few survivors of the Time War. There is a lot of tea drunk, a lot of places to stay begged (when the TARDIS panics it tends to kick them out and then shrink so small no one can get in), and a lot of weird mysteries to be investigated and days to be saved.

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Clarissant of Orkney and Lothian, Arthuriana

Technically Clarissant isn't an OC in the same sense as some of my others are. She does exist in Chretien, where she appears in one of his unfinished stories as a woman who was born to a dead mother in what may or may not be the land of the dead. (Probably there would have been some kind of reveal, but Chretien died when the story was maybe a third of the way on its way, so whatever was going on there remains mysterious.) But basically I did what so many an Arthurian storyteller has done, and while pretending I was merely embellishing on what was already there I uh.

Basically created a whole new character. *coughs *

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Title: That Thin Atmosphere
Author: Tiamat’s Child
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Word Count: 1325
Rating: T
Characters/Pairing: Sam Wilson, Steve Rogers
Summary: Sam dreams about wings.
Warnings: None.
Notes: Written for hc_bingo, for the square “wings.” A birthday present for guinevak, who, when I mentioned it to her while brainstorming, suggested some elaborations on the prompt, and sent the story this direction. Happy birthday!

( That Thin Atmosphere )

Title: Wrought a Good Work
Author: Tiamat’s Child
Fandom: Les Miserables
Word Count: 1225
Rating: K
Characters/Pairing: Fantine/Jean Valjean
Summary: For Fantine, it's personal.
Warnings: None.
Notes: Written for a kinkmeme prompt: “Footkink.”

( Wrought a Good Work )

Title: Touched the Universe
Author: Tiamat’s Child
Fandom: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Manga)
Word Count: 500
Rating: T
Characters/Pairing: Kushana/Nausicaa
Summary: Sometimes Kushana thinks she approaches what it's like to be Nausicaa.
Warnings: No standard warnings apply. Suicidal ideation. Post series.
Notes: For kink_bingo, prompt: blades.

( Touched the Universe )