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Title: Enter the Mysterious Figure
Relationship: Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Lex Luthor, Heat Wave, Captain Cold, Dick Grayson
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion.
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 2500
Summary: Superman and the Dark Knight team up, and a Mysterious Figure seems to be pulling the strings behind the Injustice League.

( There was a rattling bang just outside the range of the camera, like someone knocking over something heavy, and both of the wrestlers spun to put their backs to each other, their fists up and ready. )

Title: My Hand Touching Your Hand
Relationship: Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion.
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 1900
Summary: The Injustice League gains in power, and neither Superman nor the Dark Knight can seem to find allies.

( I’m just coming back from a severe injury. You’re starting over with a new gimmick. It makes perfect sense we’d start off in the tag team division, so why not be on the same team? )

Title: Debut of a Hero
Relationship: Bruce Wayne/Clark Kent
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Martha Kent, Jonathan Kent
Continuity: Heroes of the Squared Circle, a DC/pro wrestling fusion.
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count 2400
Summary: Superman debuts in Metropolis, and his parents are there to witness it.

( The once-bare Metropolis apartment that he and Bruce shared felt like a home now, full of clutter and life, from the action figures lining the mantel to the books and papers piled up on chairs and tables rather than on the cases where they belonged. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 27
Chapter Summary: The Fellowship prepares to start its final push to Mount Doom, and Thorin comes to a hard decision.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo, Arwen, Aragorn, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings. Begins in 2968, twenty-six years after the events of "Clarity of Vision" and fifty years before the canonical events of "Lord of the Rings." Thus, characters' ages and the geopolitical situation will be different than LoTR canon!
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2600
Summary: Thorin Oakenshield and Bilbo Baggins have been parted for many years now, despite the love they bear each other. Now Thorin's research has uncovered a dire threat to Middle Earth--the Ring he carried a little while and then gave to Bilbo. Together with a group of companions composed of the different Free Peoples of Middle Earth, they must attempt to destroy the artifact before its Dark Lord can re-capture it.

( The fields were filled with tents, the tents filled with starving people, their hands gnarled and backs bent with decades of toil--and yet there was an electric energy in the air, something nearly like hope. People smiled and laughed over their meagre food, and when the wind shifted and gray ash drifted out of the west in a fine haze that coated everything, they merely knocked it off their tents and moved on. )

Well, this is going to have to be quick, because I only have a moment today in between five or six meetings, ugh. My hand is doing better, but my writing has suffered for it (I'm trying to only write in half hour blocks right now). I'm hoping that's a temporary loss to avoid worse long-term damage! But I have gotten SOME things done, at least. I can literally see the finish line in one series (well, the characters can literally see it now, I mean) and I'm enjoying planning some one-shots. How is everything with you? Inspired or not?

Title: The Haunts Where Jackals Once Lay
Pairing/Characters: Helena Bertinelli, Dick Grayson
Rating: G
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Fandom: DC Comics; Grayson
Summary: A wounded Helena Bertinelli waits in the desert to see if Dick Grayson will return, or if she will die. A missing scene from Grayson #5.
Word Count: 1100
Notes: For the Dick Grayson Diamond Anniversary Challenge!

( Deliver me, my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked. )

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 25
Chapter Summary: Three conversations on the road to Mordor, each about love, in their own way.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Arwen, Aragorn, Gandalf, Denethor, Theoden, Gimli, Dis, Legolas
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings. Begins in 2968, twenty-six years after the events of "Clarity of Vision" and fifty years before the canonical events of "Lord of the Rings." Thus, characters' ages and the geopolitical situation will be different than LoTR canon!
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: None
Word Count: 1900
Summary: Thorin Oakenshield and Bilbo Baggins have been parted for many years now, despite the love they bear each other. Now Thorin's research has uncovered a dire threat to Middle Earth--the Ring he carried a little while and then gave to Bilbo. Together with a group of companions composed of the different Free Peoples of Middle Earth, they must attempt to destroy the artifact before its Dark Lord can re-capture it.

( I ask you, my lady, for some scrap of comfort, some glimmer of hope that I will not sit bereft in the halls of my ancestors forever. )

Title: The Power Not to Do
Pairing/Characters: Superman/Batman
Rating: NC-17
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Fandom: DC Comics
Summary: After a close call being exposed to sex pollen in Gotham, Batman insists that he and Superman build up a tolerance to it. It's one of the more unusual first dates Clark has heard of...
Word Count: 3800

( Even looking back, Clark wasn’t sure when it had begun. Was there a fleeting wisp of dusky smoke, a faint scent of jasmine in the air? )

apgeeksout gave me the letter S!

Something I hate: Slugs. I was going to give some reasons, but do I really need to?

Something I love: Sami Zayn, professional wrestler and also professional human sunbeam.

Somewhere I've been: Shinjuku, the super-busy part of Tokyo.

Somewhere I'd like to go: The Seychelles, an island chain off the eastern coast of Africa. Turquoise seas and white beaches fringing tiny emerald islands... *dreamy sigh*

Someone I know: Sascha, my brother-in-law. :D

A film I like: Star Wars: A New Hope. Empire Strikes Back is way up there as well.

A book I like: The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling by David Shoemaker. Ironically, apgeeksout just asked if I'd read it! :D I have a Google Doc file full of quotes about wrestling, and there are many from this book. Here's one of my favorites, about the horrific murder-suicide of Chris Benoit (which I will put here because it will never be an epigraph for Heroes of the Squared Circle, because nothing like that will happen in that world): Chris Benoit was a world champion, and he murdered his wife and son and killed himself. The latter act doesn’t actually erase the former, but it suffocates it. In the arena of professional wrestling, when all the world’s a stage, when the crowd’s response determines wins, positions, and entire careers, a reprehensible act is enough to purge reality from the record. Benoit was only ever a star because the fans screamed for him to be. Now they withdraw those screams, and Benoit’s legacy is nullified. If any of this made sense, I would say it makes a certain kind of sense. That last sentence is so brutal and sad, and the whole passage sums up the strange paradoxes of wrestling.

Feel free to comment and ask for a letter of your own!

Title: Clarity of Purpose, Chap. 23
Chapter Summary: Thorin's rescue party overhears one conversation, interrupts another, and finds themselves in great danger.
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Arwen, Aragorn, Gandalf, Thrain
Fandom: Hobbit/Lord of the Rings. Begins in 2968, twenty-six years after the events of "Clarity of Vision" and fifty years before the canonical events of "Lord of the Rings." Thus, characters' ages and the geopolitical situation will be different than LoTR canon!
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: R for violence
Word Count: 2200
Summary: Thorin Oakenshield and Bilbo Baggins have been parted for many years now, despite the love they bear each other. Now Thorin's research has uncovered a dire threat to Middle Earth--the Ring he carried a little while and then gave to Bilbo. Together with a group of companions composed of the different Free Peoples of Middle Earth, they must attempt to destroy the artifact before its Dark Lord can re-capture it.

( Once Erebor is taken, my troops will fall back before your Ironfists. You shall be hailed as the liberator of the Lonely Mountain. )