Title: Hors d'œuvre
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: PG (for animal harm)
Characters: Leela, Fourth Doctor
Summary: Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. (Burt Bacharach)
Notes: Written for fandom_stocking 2009.

( Hors d'œuvre )

Setting: Phoenix, Arizona circa mid-September 1984

Premise: Character A (late twenties, average height and build) is killed, and her body is left in a swimming pool in an outdoor courtyard.

Search Terms: I'll be honest -- I was kind of scared to Google anything about dead bodies because there would be some nightmare-inducing Image Search results. I did read up on buoyancy of the human body and several of the Wikipedia articles ending in "mortis," so I have some basic knowledge of the science involved. I also read the previous posts to this community regarding decomp.

Behind the cut, questions about how corpses behave in water. ( Cut for squick. )

Thank you in advance for your help.

Where: Cardiff, Wales
When: 2040ish
Fandom: Torchwood

A woman is transported by the rift (a tear in time in the Cardiff area) to approximately the year 2040. There, they are rapidly discovered by the local as someone who is:

1) Behaving oddly, disoriented and confused, possibly lost, possibly under the influence or mentally unstable, but not trying to hurt anyone;
2) Not Linked (connected to the future internet/cellphone 24/7 via wireless broadband), which is usually either a punishment for certain crimes or a choice by religious fanatics - and she doesn't look like some sort of fundamentalist;
3) Armed with a handgun, with a concealed holster;
4) Not identifiable in any local (UK or EU) databases - no government record of her at all; no passport, drivers license, etc. anywhere they have immediate access to. They don't have her name yet, but assume very sophisticated computerized visual matching capacity, so there is no photo that matches her anywhere within hundreds of miles.

Granted that this is several decades in the future, I have to start somewhere - what would the Welsh police do NOW if they showed up in a similar situation? Would she be arrested, and for what? How big a problem would the gun (and lack of permit, if they are required) be for her?

Title: Aftermath
Author: Slaymesoftly
Rating: PG
Word count: 1845
Summary - Buffy runs into a very reckless woman while doing some post "Something Blue" thinking.

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"Snag," SGA, John/Teyla (really only to a tiny degree), rated G. Originally written for fandom_stocking for tielan. ~400 words.

( Snag )

"Details, Details," SGA, John and Elizabeth gen, rated G. Originally written for fandom_stocking for marag. ~300 words.

( Details, Details )

Fandom: Digimon Adventure
Pairing: Koushiro Izumi X Miyako Inoue
Theme set: Delta
Title: Right at Your Side 
Rating: PG-13/T
Warning[s]: None.
Notes: AU, unfortunately.

Only Miyako can convince him to leave the computer alone and go breathe some fresh air.

Episode tag to season three "The Return", in which Sam teaches John about the finest traditions of the SGC.

( The Finest Traditions of the SGC )

Authors: kagayachou and evocates
Fandom: Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Characters/Pairings: Sasagawa Ryohei x Gokudera Hayato
Theme Set: beta
Rating: PG-13
Warnings[s]: slash
Summary: 50 sentences on Ryohei and Gokudera's mutual dysfunctionalities of the Windshear variety.

( While they were never going to agree on who was the most important person in the world... )

A post by thistlerose reminded me that I was going to type up the soup recipes I enjoyed through last winter, so that when winter comes again, I'll remember all the tweaks and changes I made.

This post is brought to you by my failing memory: this summer, I couldn't remember what I packed for lunch through last summer. I can remember there was couscous involved. And maybe, um, something with steamed greens?

These recipes make enough soup for five or six lunch serves, plus two dinner serves - that's depending on the size of your vegetables and how thick you like your soup.

( Five Dal Soup )

( Pumpkin Toor Dal )

( Cauliflower Dal  )

Now I'm ready for when the winter weather comes back. *swelters* Please, flist, tell me wonderous stories of ice and snow.

Fandom: Chess
Pairing: Anatoly Sergievsky/Svetlana Sergievsky
Theme Set: Beta
Title: Your Ambitions Would Break Us
Rating: PG-13
Warning: Run-ons, excessive angst, mood whiplash
Notes: Unbeta'd. Mostly Svetlana's POV.

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I have a character who wants to burn his fingertips off with acid so that he couldn't be recognised by his previously taken fingerprints anymore (he's not the sanest person on Earth). Sulfuric acid would apparently be strong enough to do this, but how would he go about not damaging himself more than necessary (how long to keep the fingertips in the acid, what to do afterwards)? I've read first aid instructions for sulfuric acid burns but they only tell to rinse the burn in a mild soap and water solution and then get help. My character can't involve hospital or other people, although he has lots of time and resources to prepare and is very intelligent despite the situation.

The technology and medicine are about at the level of the early 20th century (mix and match alternate history).

Also, for those experienced with acid burns, how would this feel aside from "hurts like hell"?

And, in case I've missed something obvious, is there a better permanent and dramatic way to completely get rid of your fingerprints?

EDIT. Thanks for the answers, seems like sulfuric acid was overkill. Now I like the idea of open flame better, it creates a nice visual and actually fits better on a symbolic level. Never thought you could lose fingerprints that easily.

When I was at university, my lecturer mentioned a Roman epic poem that was pretty much the worst surviving piece of classical literature and hilariously bad. I can't for the life of me remember the author or the title, I think it was some sort of attempt at a heroic pastoral, but don't count on that. All my googling for "roman epic" "bad" etc just gives me essays about morality in the Aeneid and so on. Does anyone have any idea what the poem I'm thinking of is?

Search terms: Pregnancy after 50, women in fifties pregnant, conceiving in the fifties
Setting: Wisteria Lane, 2015

Situation: The character is fifty-three years old. I've looked it up, and there are women who have conceived naturally in their fifties. How likely is it for the fifty-three year old to get pregnant? In canon, there's a pregnant forty-nine year old, so I was wondering about the possibility of the fifty-three year old getting pregnant naturally.

I know there a lot of risks (That I'm thinking of using) in pregnancies for women in their forties and fifties, but I'm hoping the woman can go full term. Would that be possible?

Thank you in advance!

Setting: Modern day North America
Googled: "casket lock" "casket lock how common"

This is more of a personal-experience question than anything. I've got two characters temporarily trapped in a casket and am trying to figure out the likelihood of a lock mishap being the cause of their confinement. How common are locks on caskets in North America, and is it at all likely they would snap closed on their own if the lid slammed down?

Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Rose Weasley/Scorpius Malfoy
Theme set: Alpha
Title: Confined To Dusk And Shadow
Rating: R/M
Warning[s]: Sensuality, mentions of sex, some minor language
Notes: None.

(Confined To Dusk And Shadow)

Title: Peek into the Future
Author: Liz, aka amazonmink
Characters: Jude Tristan Rascaile, Taliba Krivich
Rating: Any Age Disclaimer: Harry Potter is JKR’s sandbox. I just like to build sandcastles.
Author's Notes:These characters are original characters based on events from Caliga RPG. Jude is Tonks' son with Bishop Rascaile, and this is set well in the future from the current time line at Caliga.

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The I Saw Three Ships archive is live! I received The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, which is Merlin/Morgana/Nimueh and has reincarnated!teen!Nimueh as Morgana's handmaiden-with-benefits. There is nothing which is not guh about that scenario.

If you can guess which fic I wrote, I'll write you a ficlet. Screening's on; I'll unscreen non-guesses unless told otherwise.

This entry was originally posted at http://alixtii.dreamwidth.org/325638.html. There are currently comments there. You can comment there, using Open ID (prefered), or here.

Showing off my shiny new icon for Death Game, and also answering a reader question, "What did you enjoy most about writing Death Game? What's your favorite part?"

I really enjoyed a lot of things about it -- the adventure, the teaminess, the lighter tone after a couple of pretty serious books, but I think my favorite thing was being able to spend some significant time on character backstories.

( Teyla, John, Radek, Rodney and Ronon )

That's me. I'm a canon nazi. I admit it. I am as serious as a serious thing.

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Fandom: The X-Files
Pairing: Mulder / Scully
Theme set: Alpha
Title: Without
Rating: PG
Warning[s]: Some sexual contact.
Setting: Post Season 9, pre IWTB, mostly.
A/N: Largely forgotten, I wrote these on the plane from Vancouver to Tokyo in September, 2009.

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Very simple: I just need some English words translated to Russian for one of my characters. I've tried Googling, but most of what's available in the area of translation and dictionaries are in Cyrillic, and...I can't really use that. (I also don't trust most internet language sites, due to inaccuracies.) Along with the words below, I'd also like to know if there's an endearing term a mother or grandmother might use for a young son/grandson. The boy's name is Brandon (he has an American father, so that's where that came from), he's about nine years old and very intelligent, living with both maternal grandparents and his mother. They live in Moscow and this takes place in present times (2004, exactly), if that helps. I've looked in the tags as well, and couldn't find what I'm after.

What I need:

Grandfather (and familiar variations)
Grandmother (I know "babushka", but that seems formal--are there other variations a young child is likely to use?)
Mother/Mommy
Hello (I've been told there are many variations on this, based on to whom a person is speaking and how familiar they are. Specifically, I need a greeting in person to an unfamiliar person, a greeting in person to a familiar person, and a greeting in answering the telephone)

I also need:

"Don't tell your grandfather."


Thanks for any help. I'll probably need some more in the future :)


Edit: I think I've got what I need now! Thanks, guys :D

I didn't go to Starbucks at all over this past holiday season, so I don't know: did they have the Eggnog Latte this year, or not? I just went today and they still have three holiday drinks available, but none were the Eggnog Latte. Trust me, this is story relevant.

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This Jack and Sam story is just lovely -- AU for The SGA episode The Last Man, so you know it's going to end sadly, but it's beautiful. It captures so well that thing best described by an old-fashioned word: gallantry.

A Step Ahead of You

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Hey all :) New member here (a friend very kindly referred me to this comm, and it looks brilliant for fiction writers!)

Anyway here's my question. 

Setting is present day. My character's been performing a lengthy heart massage on a man (but it failed and he didn't survive). Question is, would bruises from the heart massage appear on his chest, post-mortem?

I've been looking it up all around google and all I could find is answers that don't reassure me fully:

One source says that bruises can appear post-mortem (apparently a body that had drowned had a bruise appear on its forearm from being grabbed out of the water).
Another source says that post-mortem bruise needs great force to appear, so I'm wondering if a heart massage would be enough to make bruising appear. But since the other website seems to say that grabbing someone out of the water created post-mortem bruising... I don't know what to think any more.

So um... help? Please? :)

Okay, I've scoured erowid.org, justice.gov/dea, NYC, DC, and Houston DEA branch websites, and the obvious - Wikipedia and Google. Google search terms involved quote marks around various combinations of 'cocaine', 'kilo', 'seizure', 'transport', 'distribution', 'consistency', and 'qualities (of)'.

I have learned more about cocaine than I ever knew possible (including some details that help my plot along) - except for the main three things I need.

1. When compressed into kilo 'bricks' for overseas transport, what is the texture and consistency? Does it break down easily?

2. A dealer-slash-transporter makes off with a little less than 1 kilo. By the time he could have access to it, I'm assuming it would have already been broken and separated out into smaller packages, is this correct? Or would he be able to obtain a full brick?

3. Disposal. Character (very reluctantly) has to dispose of about half of the coke - situation is rushed and profit be damned, at this point he's just trying to save his skin. I currently have him emptying and flushing everything down the toilet (assuming it's already been separated out, as above), but am not sure if this would fly. How would one get rid of this much in a hurry? No one's beating down the door, but it needs to be within a few minutes. Stashing it anywhere is not an option; it has to be gone.

Any help at all would be appreciated. Or if you know of a drug enforcement agent who would be willing to answer these questions, please let me know.

Oh, and setting is current day USA; character obtained cocaine on west coast.

Setting: London, UK, 1916-1925

Situation: My MC (a young, educated, unmarried woman from the upper middle classes) is attempting to contact a dead writer in the hope that his spirit will help her complete his unfinished stories.

Googled: Any and every variation on Edwardian/postwar mediums/psychics, contacting the dead, automatic writing.

The problem: I can find a lot about the general existence of mediums in the 1900s, but none of it is particularly detailed: what would these visits involve? How large a group would be present for a single seance? Could I have my MC and the medium in a one-on-one session, or would that be unrealistic? How accurate is the stereotypical image of people holding hands around a rocking table? How much would a trip to a medium cost?

Relatedly, I've read that mediums/psychics became extremely popular after WWI and that their activities were the topic of serious scientific study - would there be any kind of social stigma attached to visiting a medium, beyond generally thinking the MC was superstitious and a bit of a flake? 

Any help would be appreciated beyond belief

ETA: YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING. AND FAST. VERY, VERY FAST.

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