The dead dogs of nowhere

Putting this here because of the good old days. I just finished a 7-season rewatch of Burn Notice. It has some legit problems (#Miamisowhite) but I think it was one of the best shows on TV for its time. It had two and sometimes three women in lead roles, and they were none of them beautiful teenagers. Jeffrey Donovan did well with the material he was given. And it had Bruce Campbell, one of the finest natural comedic actors around, and Coby Bell's mouth, have I mentioned Coby Bell's mouth? And his eyebrows? *fans self*

Also, I want to be Fiona Glenanne. I want to be Fiona Glenanne so bad. Anyway. Here's a fic without Fiona in it. Haha.

Title: You will disappear some day like that
Author: Zara Hemla
Fandom: Burn Notice
Summary: Chickens always head for the door.

( You learn what you are, but slowly )

Yuletide authors are up! So I'll reveal that I wrote two stories:

1) officially the one I wrote is called We will fix our hearts over and it's for Cam. It's a FNL fic, set in season 4, and Cam wanted lots of Street and Riggins and Lyla, but because it's set in season 4 there is more of the former two than the latter. Poor Lyla, she's just not on Tim's list of Things What Make Me Happy.

2) I also wrote a little story called That common consolation because I saw that my girl Viv was on the default list and I couldn't stand that she might not have a story. Of course it turned out that she got like ten stories, so hurray for the awesomeness of pinch-hitters. But this is her best Fringe one, if I may say so myself. (Ha.) It is, obvs., some Peter & Olivia shipping, because that's what Viv wanted and well, in my finer moments, I want it too.

This was a great yuletide. I got just the kind of story I wanted, and I also extended myself a little and doubled my writing output. Hurray!

This came out the way it came out because of the character whose point of view it is from. And yet I still like it even though it's fairly stilted and stiff. Also, I will leave the stories of B-squared getting it on to those of you who are so good at it. I like UST resolution as much as the next squealing fangirl, but I also really really just kind of like them the way they are.

Onward.

Title: Zack in Iraq, and other stories
Author: Zara Hemla
Site: If
Fandom: Bones
Rating: PG13
Summary: And Zack is, but they don't.

( In Basra they took his name away and he became Addy. )

Dude, my Friday night is SO BORING. So boring that I've been digging around through old files in order to delete them. And I found a fic. It was mostly done so I polished it up a bit! I think that a long time ago, I asked winter_baby to beta it for me, which is why I must still like it.

Anyway it's a Supernatural fic (yes, I must add to the piles and piles of dreck out there), set pre-series, with Dean picking a fight with all and sundry 'cause his brother is gone off to law school. Mmmm... Dean and violence. Checkity check it.

title: gravedigger
author: zara hemla
fandom: supernatural
rating: r
summary: where's a boy with bad intentions / gonna settle down?


( This is a story with mummified pretzels in it. )

Holy cow, I am posting this now, because I am so tired of wondering whether winter_baby will like it or not. This took forever to write! Why must I create such epic masterpieces! And the tone seems to change between beginning and end, but that's because it took me like two solid months to write.

Eeannnyway, this is a graduation present for my faithful BNF LJ friend, Ms. Winter "I Want To Make Out With A Guy Whose Last Name Is Gryll" Baby. Dark Angel. Max and Alec. I hope I didn't screw up and write Mac and Alex, which is a whole 'nother story, but I started getting way confused at the end.

Title: In the backseat of a black jeep on a back street
Author: Zara Hemla
Site: If
Fandom: Dark Angel
Rating: R
Summary: Don't make us go through this all again.

( Alec considers wearily that his legendary charm had probably led him to this point. It seems to have backfired in a major way. )

For those people who are interested, the story I wrote for Remix Redux is called Where Steel & Water Collide (the Black-Eyed Daughter remix).

It's Veronica Mars, Veronica/Mac, a remix of an interesting AU by soundingsea called Where Steel & Water Collide, obviously. In the AU, Cassidy kills Logan and then brags to Veronica about killing her father. She in turn kills him (Cassidy), then panics and takes off for parts unknown with Mac. I had fun writing it even though it didn't turn out as well as I would have liked.

Wrote this for nothing_hip, prompt of "Since U Been Gone." Ell oh ell.

Fandom: The Black Donnellys
Rating: PG-13 to R

Warnings: This contains spoilers for Monday's episode, "In Each One A Savior." Also contains derogatory & racist terms. The character thinks that way; this does not reflect my personal views.

( A leader had to convince himself, because no one else could, that he was invincible. )

International women's day! What? Isn't every day women's day?? Hee hee

Well, voleuse posted up 5 fics she'd written with female protagonists, so I thought that would be fun. Most of you have probably read these! But you can go revisit them. They're a li'l lonely and dusty.

01. +more days like this+ (Buffy).
I don't even really remember writing this one, but rereading it, I kind of like it. It's very formal, the way Buffy and Angelus deal with each other, like enemy countries trying to negotiate a truce.

02. Remind Him (Gladiator).
Seems like most of my fics involve turning a guy down, one way or another. Huh. At the time, I just liked the idea of Maximus going down on his knees. Yeah, you heard me.

03. In Winter (The Last Samurai).
I admired Taka in that movie more than I can say. So much that I watched that wretched film many more times than I ought to have (but I always quit after the springtime scenes :D)

04. Bridge Across the Maybe Sea (Spirited Away).
Lin is a contradiction in the film -- an adult who often acts like a child. I wondered why she'd have such a childish outlook, but maybe she was brought to the bathhouse as a child, herself, and aged slowly.

05. Tres Cher! (The Office US).
Over the summer, Kelly went (in my own estimation) from being a stereotype to a real person. So I wrote this fic in honor of her.

And so, the magic is over, the guessing is done, and for Yuletide I churned out Of Mice and Myth, which is set more or less in the universe of "The Long Dark Teatime Of the Soul." When I read the book again, it seemed almost impossible that I could pull a miracle out of such a contained universe, but a fortuitous viewing of "Hitchhikers Guide" (which was terrible) at least got me thinking about the confluences of events in the universe. Anyway.

The story that was written for me was Not To Fear Infinity, by elishavah, set in early Spooks, talking about what might have happened to Tom and Christine (and what is still happening to Ruth). It's really a great fic.

Tomorrow is winter_baby's birthday, but I may be off doing stuff tomorrow, I'm not sure, Fridays aren't so great for me. So here is your present early, Ms. Kate! This came about all because of the picspam of THAT SMILE. You know what I'm talking about.


title: take it easy (love nothing)
author: zara hemla (shutupmulder@yahoo.com)
site: if.sweetdarkness.net
fandom: veronica mars
rating: r (I tried to amp it up to nc17, but you know how much I suck at that!)
summary: for winter_baby on the occasion of her birthday.


Dear Winter baby! I apologize for all the stupid parts of this story; you know that long stories that require lots of thinking & coincidences are not my forte. But I wanted to do it for you! So forgive me please if any of it is stultifying.

( Welcome to radio silence. )