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Author has written 23 stories for X-Files, Sentinel, Ouran High School Host Club, Rat Patrol, Harry Potter, Man From UNCLE, Magnificent Seven, MacGyver, Misc. Books, Rurouni Kenshin, Clamp, and Gatchaman. DarkBeta because, when i reviewed a friend's light humor pieces for Harry Potter, tragedy and philosophy kept crawling in. My seven favorite authors: Madeline Brent, John Buchan, Lois McMaster Bujold, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Janet Kagan, Peter O'Donnell, Mary Jo Putney, and Sharon Shinn All the universes i play in belong to their creators (and, legally, to their distributors). I claim nothing; i own nothing; i am without attachments. (Media-wise, anyhow. I'm nowhere near a personal satori.) August 2012: Self-San, who is echoingthedepth on DeviantArt, has created several images for "The Hunter and the Ouran Hosts". (DarkBeta keels over in shock and astonishment.) They are amazing graphics! (More keeling over.) Look for: http://echoingthedepth.deviantart.com/gallery/38932542 Bunny Adoptions (i shan't write them; maybe somebody somewhere will) -- "My name is Angus MacGyver of the Clan MacGyver. Look, can we talk about this?" (and Methos in the background shouting, "Mac -- no, the other Mac! -- drop the katana and back away. He's got a penknife!") -- the William Morris poem, "The Haystack in the Floods" done as an X-files fic. Mulder and Scully fleeing through the heartland, sold out by the Lone Gunmen, Cancerman giving Scully the choice between life as a researcher and life as a research subject . . . . "Had she come all the way for this / to part at last without a kiss . . . that her own eyes might see him slain / beside the haystack in the floods?" -- Rurouni Kenshin/Sherlock Holmes TOS cross-over: post-Reichenbach and pre-Return, Holmes passes thru Nippon on the way to Tibet. -- The four Melendy children open the papered-over room at the top of the Four Story Mistake, and find in it an applewood wardrobe bought from a country estate in Britain on the way home from a European tour. -- The castaway boy from Randall Jarrell's The Animal Family (which i'm certain occurs somewhere on Narnia's margins) was Prince Cor. Pet peeves: "If that's what you think, you've got another thing coming." It's supposed to be: "If that's what you think, you've got another think coming," i.e. the first 'think' was defective so you're due a replacement. Ungrammatical, but mildly amusing. "If that's what you think, you've got another thing coming," doesn't mean anything at all! You can defuse an argument, and diffuse scent, but if your character can't defuse the bomb it's going to diffuse itself, all over the place! "They're on their way there" is correct, but if you switch homonyms around it isn't. And i'm really embarassed to mention that rogues may wear rouge, but rouge almost never goes rogue. | |||||||
1. Gameboard II: New Game »AU. Everybody's dead. How can there be a sequel?Gatchaman - Rated: K - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 3 - Words: 2,969 - Published: 11-20-122. Gameboard III: Gameplay » reviewsAU. Kids. Wars. Use. The usual.Gatchaman - Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 3 - Words: 3,290 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 11-20-123. Alphabets 2: Round for Seven Voices » reviewsAU. Sentinels are scary. Guides aren't. At least . . . that's what they want you to think! Yet another riff on Susan Foster's GDP universe.Magnificent Seven - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 6 - Words: 9,585 - Reviews: 40 - Updated: 7-6-10 - Published: 2-25-094. Colony 3: Lake » reviewsModesty Blaise AU. Somewhere, their adventure continues still.Misc. Books - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 6 - Words: 10,000 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 2-8-095. Colony 2: Beach » reviewsWho ELSE would you take with you to a desert island, eh?MacGyver - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 6 - Words: 7,125 - Reviews: 22 - Updated: 8-23-09 - Published: 2-8-096. Colony 1: Coastline » reviewsEveryone's going on a long, long trip . . . .Sentinel - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 6 - Words: 14,036 - Reviews: 23 - Updated: 8-16-09 - Published: 2-8-097. Colony 7: Plains » reviewsPioneers . . . again.Magnificent Seven - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 5 - Words: 7,254 - Reviews: 21 - Updated: 8-16-09 - Published: 2-15-098. Colony 6: Inland Sea » reviewsAU. See, there is a way to leave war and bloodshed behind! Maybe . . . .Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 5 - Words: 7,556 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 8-2-09 - Published: 2-15-099. Sevenborn » reviewsAU. Noble-Ezra summons slave-Chris to his room for an evening of . . . exchanging haiku? Only on the internet could a mind of my perversity find a home.Magnificent Seven - Rated: T - English - Western - Chapters: 4 - Words: 10,567 - Reviews: 14 - Updated: 7-26-09 - Published: 2-8-09 - Ezra S. & Chris L.10. Colony 5: Desert » reviewsSoldiers without a war and citizens without a country; who are they then?Rat Patrol - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 5 - Words: 6,956 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 7-26-09 - Published: 2-15-0911. Colony 4: River » reviewsSuppose they all just . . . disappeared.Man From UNCLE - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi - Chapters: 5 - Words: 10,650 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 7-26-09 - Published: 2-8-0912. The Hunter and the Ouran Hosts » reviewsAU. In a school where lineage and money matter most, blood and power are linked for a reason; a price some families are willing to pay.Ouran High School Host Club - Rated: T - English - Horror - Chapters: 9 - Words: 11,871 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 6-14-09 - Published: 10-19-08 - Complete13. Alphabets 1: In A Foreign Land » reviewsAU. Clamp School Detectives. Imonoyama Nokoru is a Guide. Takamura Suoh is a Sentinel. They're in a world where such things don't always work out well.Clamp - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 3 - Words: 4,786 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 5-31-09 - Published: 2-20-0914. Gameboard I: Endgame » reviewsAU. Wasn't victory always the least likely outcome?Gatchaman - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 4 - Words: 4,693 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 3-29-09 - Complete15. The Stray Guide Affair » reviewsAU. UNCLE takes on THRUSH regularly, and the KGB, CIA et al when required. But how well will they do against the GDP?Man From UNCLE - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 3 - Words: 2,962 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 2-20-0916. Six Mad Kings » reviewsModern AU, mixed with The Sentinel. "Six mad kings and you, locked in a room; that's a sestina."Magnificent Seven - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 5 - Words: 5,024 - Reviews: 37 - Updated: 2-15-09 - Published: 2-1-0917. Sea Changes reviewsWhen you oppose an entire corporation of Evil Mad Scientists . . . it can be tough filling out the blanks on the insurance claim form.Man From UNCLE - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,223 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 2-1-09 - Complete18. Juvendus Delinquus » reviewsAU A belated 5th year fic. After being cursed by an unknown enemy, Snape hides out in absolutely the least likely location.Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 3 - Words: 2,946 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 1-4-09 - Published: 12-28-08 - Severus S. & Harry P.19. Host of ExilesAU. No one escapes the island of exiles.Ouran High School Host Club - Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,551 - Published: 12-14-0820. Formations » reviewsThe Rat Patrol and Dietrich find something unexpected in the temple of Bucephalas. Warning: unfinished.Rat Patrol - Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 2 - Words: 1,834 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 12-7-0821. Parting Is All We Know reviewsHe believed in anything. She believed in One.X-Files - Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,155 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 10-5-08 - D. Scully - Complete22. Clan of the Cave Panther: Coda reviewsHow many times has Blair called him a Neanderthal?Sentinel - Rated: K+ - English - Spiritual/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 573 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 9-29-08 - Complete23. Grave Visits reviewsHe believed in anything. She believed in everything.X-Files - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 802 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 9-29-08 - Complete
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