because I'm better at brainstorming than writing anyway

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nabbed from jaina

If you make up titles for stories I didn't write, I will respond with details of those non-written stories.


fandoms covered so far:

Fullmetal Alchemist - Freedom Kittens
Princess Tutu - Reconstruction (spoilers!)
Harry Potter - Lazy Days (spoilers!)
Avatar: The Last Airbender - Nightblindness (spoilers!), Girl With The Weight Of The World On Her Shoulders, Five Buildings Zuko Didn't Burn Down (spoilers!)
Naruto - In a Forest Without Trees

Comments

[boosette.livejournal.com]

Nightblindness

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

hmmmmmmmmmm...a question, first. What's your view on Draco/Ginny?

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

ack, I totally misread the question. so forget that, and, uh...

Lazy Days

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Title: Lazy Days

Draco spends the summer after DH under house arrest, pending trial. He sneaks out one night (just cause he needs air; he's too scared of the aurors hunting him down to run away permanently.) It's unusually hot in England because of climate change (still being debated how much is a result of muggle industry and how much Voldemort is responible for), and Draco stupidly hasn't had any water all day, and actually faints on his broom. Ginny happens to be nearby and sees a person falling from a broom, and rescues him. This is followed by a long flight back to Draco's safehouse where she berates his "unconcious" person and ends up giving him an entire history of her relationship with Harry and Its Problems. At the end of the fic they reach the safehouse, Draco says something snappy, and she realizes he's been awake THE WHOLE TIME, so she pushes him off her broom so he falls six or eight feet to the roof. The end. p.s. Draco's now short one broom, since Ginny may save his wretched little life but no way she's saving his stuff too.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Title: Nightblindness

Another side effect of betraying the FN and becoming a rebel (besides losing his stuff) is that Zuko starts sleepwalking. One night Sokka is woken up just in time to stop Zuko from accidentally falling off a terrace. Zuko ends up hanging over the side and Sokka has to pull him up by hand (yay work those arms Sokka!). It makes for awkward enemy-friend male bonding time, much cool dialogue, and Sokka almost starts being Zuko's friend. For a night. Traumatic circumstances, and all! It is during Zuko's sleepy mumblings that Sokka is the first person to discern how Zuko got his scar, though Sokka doesn't ask about it when Zuko's awake so Zuko doesn't know he talked.

They're still not friends in the morning, but when the group sleeps Sokka always puts himself somewhere between where Zuko sleeps and the balcony side. Not cause they're friends! Because Aang needs a firebending teacher. And because Sokka doesn't like carrying all the food back to camp by himself after they go hunting. And he still has to learn how Zuko disarmed him when Sokka clearly has the superior weapon and greater natural sword-wielding talent.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

heeheehee.

hm. this feels like a one-shot. and it feels writeable, unlike my D/G fic of dooooooooooooooooooooooooom.

permission to steal?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

*for the record, I'm a book-7 Ginny/Neville secret-affair shipper.

For fanon I like Draco/Hermione, for canon I wouldn't wish Draco on anyone.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Steal away! But don't go too shippy. think more along the lines of unconventional bonding. Undertones are good, but not shippiness. I like gen fic that teases, and friendship fic, and realistic characters.

I'd love to read your version! Please, it saves me the trouble of writing it. Go with it with my full blessings.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

oh no, this isn't shippy at all. Ginny might get a bit carried away in the moonlight, but she'll quickly come back to her senses once Draco opens his big mouth.

yay! *squirrels away*

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall reading that theory somewhere (probably when you first wrote about it) and loving it.

ah. I'm in the market for Draco/Ginny stuff that doesn't a) demonize Harry and b) doesn't involve some sort of fated prophecy about Draco and Ginny falling in love. And stuff that doesn't involve post-DH Draco because the idea of post-DH D/G is nonsensical to me.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I am very amused by the idea that Ginny would really need someone to talk to but hasn't yet, so she ends up talking to Draco, the worst choice in confidants possible for discussing her relationship with Harry (wouldn't Draco love to know that Harry's not a perfect boyfriend, or anything bad about Harry actually.)

Plus, if you ever do write that epic, you could use this as a sort of prequel/flahsback, where Draco already gleans that Ginny isn't living in Happy Perfect Romance Land.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I don't think you'd have to demonize Harry to make a good Ginny/other fic. You'd just have to point out that since they got together, Harry's been a good friend but a crappy-ass boyfriend. Maybe he'd be an angel when the war's over, I don't know, but he pushes her out of his life in book 6 and during book 7 he basically disappears. He pretty much only wants Ginny when it's convenient or when he needs her. Sure maybe he has romantic fantasies about her when they're separated, but basically his attitude is "Wait for me like a good little woman, because I have Serious Business and you are not my equal or my partner, just my girlfriend and you'd get in the way."

It's not much of a stretch to break THAT up. And it doesn't have to demonize Harry, it just has to be realistic. Because when you get down to it, Harry doesn't treat Hermione or Ron the sometimes dismissive way he treats Ginny.

Basically, I just didn't like the way the ship was written. It was better in 7 than 6, but still frustrating. I really wanted Ginny to be something except Harry's Love Interest. I'm glad at least she had the DA.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I am another who likes fanon Draco/Ginny or Draco/Hermione.

The possibilities are just so interesting.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

"Girl With The Weight Of The World On Her Shoulders."

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Word.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Or they could just, y'know, drift apart. The demonization of Harry is a very strong theme in almost every D/G fic I've ever read, and it frustrates me because I don't think Harry is a slutty jerk, and I also don't hate him for being in the way of Draco/Ginny. I actually kind of like Harry. In my epic fic, they're dating but don't see each other for a while, and when they meet again they just go "oh. Well. That appears to be over, then." And it's awkward and people get angry, but he's not out to ruin her life because she doesn't love him like that anymore. *glares at D/G fanfic writers*

I can see that. I was just sad not to see more Ginny--I mean, I know why she didn't come along in the last one, because it's the Trio and Trios don't usually get additions that late on, but I liked the bits of her character we saw, and I have my own fanon additions to that, and yeah, I just wanted her to do something. Reading more about the DA would've been fun. *suddenly realizes JKR should write short stories about Hogwarts during DH*

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I am waiting for that perfect fanfiction novel: the other side of year 7. "Their Year", is what I might call it.

You know what I mean. The dream gen fic that matches with canon down to the details and basically follows the year through the eyes of Neville, Ginny, and Luna. A supplemental novel to DH.


Then I'd want an AU version where everything still matches canon, except the tiny detail of how Ginny and Neville accidentally fall in love.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Title: Girl With The Weight Of The World On Her Shoulders

Post war.

Toph doesn't want to inherit her family's economic empire after they're assassinated, but she can't abandon the people and the lands of her family to be exploited by the attorney (is there an ancient-sounding word for lawyer? they must have had them) who wants to make his fortune and his political career off the Bei Fong coattails, no matter what he destroys in the process.

Katara doesn't want be responsible for fixing the diplomatic problems of the Water Tribes (she's only sixteen for snow's sake!) but if they don't find a way to bring trade back to the South now that the war is over, the depleted tribe might have to relocate to the North to survive.

Toph has the means, Katara has the need. They both have the determination, but they've never worked that well together without Aang as buffer. Both young women will have to grow up, open up, and stand up. Each has the world on her shoulders, and each has to learn what it means to be a leader, and what it means to be a friend.

[flutingfrenzy.livejournal.com]

Freedom Kittens

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Damn you! That title + icon is making me want to do FMA fic and I'm so out of practice. Hm.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Title: Freedom Kittens

When Major Armstrong's private cat breeding business (uncharitably called a "kitten farm" by some) is discovered after Havoc and Farman crash at his house one night after an office party, Armstrong is forced to give his cats up to the state or pay exorbitant fees for illegal animal breeding and operating without a business license. Instead of releasing his beloved kits to the city shelter, he convinces Mustang that they can train the cats to serve the military.

Roy is appropriately skeptical, but Hawkeye's on vacation for two weeks so she's not around to back him up, and Armstrong wins him over with the promise of assigning six of the messenger-spy cats to work specifically for Mustang's office (he doesn't explain how to actually make this work, just promises that it will.) By the time Riza gets back, well-rested and sharp, she discovers herRoy's office has become a zoo, that her boss has suddenly become an avid supporter of animal rights, that Feury is suffering allergic reactions and can't come into work, and that in addition to the hair everywhere Roy's penchant for scheming has reached new and impressive lows. ("Cat spies, sir?" "Yes, Hawkeye! Briliant, isn't it? You'd never expect that tabby was working for Havoc. I mean just look at the thing.")

By the time Riza is done, the cats have all found homes, Major Armstrong is back to his regular work load, Feury is on the recovery path, Havoc has made $800 that no one can quite explain, and Roy goes home with one tiny kitten hidden in his jacket: a sandy, striped, razor-clawed monstrosity he fondly names Eddy.

[flutingfrenzy.livejournal.com]

This is my favorite fic. There is nothing not to love about it. I would quote the best parts back at you, but that would be, well, the whole thing. I mean. THERE ARE SPY CATS.

I actually think it could work in the canon timeline. Like, you know how Al and cats keep finding each other, but in the end they are always forced to part ways? ...See where I'm going with this?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I think I love it the most too. It's almost its own fic instead of an outline. I think I'm most amused by the mysterious $800 though. Even I don't know what that's about.

I took the idea of Roy naming his new pet after Edward from Indiana Jones. Also, season 2 of Doctor Who, with the dog having Rose's name. When Ed found out Mustang had named a pet after him, he'd go balls-to-bank ballistic.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I would be tempted to expand it except that it's been SO LONG since I wrote anything for the fandom or watched the show. I'm out of practice. WRITE IT FOR ME?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Maybe Al originally gave Armstrong the kitten that started on his entrepreneurial venture? (so misspelled that...)