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elasticella ([personal profile] elasticella) wrote in [community profile] femslashficlets2019-12-13 08:38 am

Lit Quotes: 1-15

fandoms after the jump: the 100, community, criminal minds, dollface, elementary, game of thrones, harry potter, the little mermaid, the magicians, neopets, still star-crossed, supernatural, the vampire diaries

Title: familiar like my mirror, years ago
Fandom: game of thrones
Pairing: daenerys/ellaria
Rating: t
Prompt: 1. I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me. Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Ellaria is too old to be in need of rescuing, but she does enjoy the sight of a silver-haired princess at her gates, three dragons atop her shoulders.

Title: a series of unsent letters
Fandom: harry potter
Pairing: lavender/parvati
Rating: t
Prompt: 2. The realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful. Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
Word Count: 869
Summary: Dear Lavender,
This is stupid.

Title: in the morning you'll decay a little
Fandom: the vampire diaries
Pairing: katherine/lucy
Rating: t
Prompt: 3. You have come to do an autopsy and at the first excision found a beating heart. R. Erica Doyle, Proxy
Word Count: 371
Summary: Lucy should go home.

Title: she speaks in third person (so she can forget that she's me)
Fandom: the vampire diaries
Pairing: elena/katherine
Rating: t
Prompt: 4. Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Word Count: 551
Summary: “Where are you going?” Elena asks. As if there’s a plethora of underground options for her to flounce off to.
“My room, you can listen there,” she says lightly, laughter bouncing off the walls as she walks away.

Title: sugar spun spiels
Fandom: criminal minds/elementary
Pairing: joan/penelope
Rating: t
Prompt: 5. Then they took the last step together, and when she kissed her, her mouth as warm as summer, the taste of her sweet and clear, she knew, at last, that she was home. Malinda Lo, Ash
Word Count: 506
Summary: Joan is used to walking into familiar spaces and finding them askew, as much as one can get used to such a thing.

Title: grace in your eyes
Fandom: the magicians
Pairing: julia/margo
Rating: t
Prompt: 6. Stand and face me, my love, and scatter the grace in your eyes. Sappho
Word Count: 301
Summary: In one universe, Quentin isn’t invited to Brakebills.
(It is admittedly the longest time loop to date, but for all the wrong reasons.)

Title: exquisitely crafted (out of gingerbread)
Fandom: dollface
Pairing: maddie/stella
Rating: t
Prompt: 7. That conversation we were always on the edge / of having, runs on in my head. Adrienne Rich, Twenty-One Love Poems
Word Count: 856
Summary: “The rum is gone, Maddieeee, come fix this! Why is the rum gone?”
She turns away from the kitchen table, glancing over to the living room where her three best friends are. “Oh no Jules, you are one drink away from sleepy drunk and you-”

Title: second chances
Fandom: the 100
Pairing: echo/raven
Rating: t
Prompt: 8. when she looks at me / i float in a warm lake / feel my muscles go weak with want Pat Parker, My Lover Is a Woman
Word Count: 509
Summary: “You’re thinking too loud again,” Echo teases, kissing down her spine.

Title: heat of her breath in my mouth (i’m alive)
Fandom: supernatural
Pairing: bela/meg
Rating: t
Prompt: 9. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
Word Count: 326
Summary: Bela breaks easy.
She’s known for ten years that she was destined for hell, there’s no reason to make her stay unpleasant.

Title: Intermediate Conflict Resolution
Fandom: community
Pairing: bitta/michelle
Rating: t
Prompt: 10. We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Word Count: 573
Summary: Michelle likes to think she has self-respect. Not enough to leave her comfy nook of teaching at Greendale, or enough to be the bigger person in what’s clearly become a fight between her and an undergrad, Jeff on the side nearly irrelevant.

Title: your promised heart
Fandom: the little mermaid
Pairing: the little mermaid/sea witch
Rating: t
Prompt: 11. I want to possess you completely— / Your jade body /And your promised heart. Wu Tsao
Word Count: 1000
Summary: “Magic is never free. But I am the only witch of the water, it grows lonely.”
“Oh,” the mermaid breathes, and there’s no point in revealing that the Sea Witch herself made sure of it. (Her house of bones isn’t only made out of drowned sailors.)

Title: a creature of appetites
Fandom: still star-crossed
Pairing: isabella/valentina
Rating: t
Prompt: 12. the moonlight striped her, marked out places where the whispering thing would slip through and she would unfold. Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching
Word Count: 501
Summary: The Doge has Princess Isabella eating tea cakes and talking nonsense, and Valentina can already see the iron-tipped spears at their gates.

Title: taken by dreams
Fandom: harry potter
Pairing: lavender/parvati
Rating: t
Prompt: 13. The border is longing; when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. Tove Jansson
Word Count: 532
Summary: It’s like this: Lavender knows she has a habit of falling in love too easily.

Title: don’t say it’s unholy (green grows slowly)
Fandom: neopets
Pairing: illusen/jhudora
Rating: t
Prompt: 14. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her. Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
Word Count: 434
Summary: She still dreams of Dora, can’t help but separate the happy hazy memories from before away from the faerie that- ugh, she can’t even think it.

Title: the prison of your regard
Fandom: the 100
Pairing: clarke/josephine
Rating: t
Prompt: 15. I tell you this / to break your heart, / by which I mean only / that it break open and never close again Mary Oliver, Lead
Word Count: 1000
Summary: There is a certain moral lassitude required in becoming immortal, becoming a goddess really.
It’s a shame Clarke would fit in so well.

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