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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 11:36 am
This journal belongs to Faye, e optional. I will mostly store my creative works here, which include fics and the odd AMV or two.

The post will be updated with my completed fics (when they're done!).

Zootopia
Wilde Spirit verse
Exorcist Blues (Wilde Spirit remix)
A Zootopia remix in which Judy Hopps is an exorcist that specialises in hunting dark spirits. And Nick Wilde is dead, but not gone.

Zoo Boldly Go verse - Star Trek/Zootopia crossover
the map that leads to you
Nick knows the rules in Communications, including this unwritten one: never get attached to Away teams. But Ensign Judy Hopps from Security keeps making it back. Missing her check in with Nick just doesn't happen. Until it does. Now it's up to Nick and the starship crew led by Captain Bogo to bring their Away team back.

true colours (burn those jet pack blues)
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6
Judy Hopps doesn't do diplomacy. Nick Wilde doesn't do Away missions. Both of them are going to have to make up for what the other lacks if they're going to survive Draconis and maybe save Captain Bogo while they're at it.


Bleach
Fic - One Need Not Be a House
Ichigo is haunted in a Halloween fic that involves everyone.

Fic - A Hand That Meets My Own
Masaki has a counteroffer to make Isshin. Spoilers for Bleach 535, [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Random spec in fic form )

Marvel movie-verse
Fic - Centre of the Web

In order to recreate her identity, Natasha Romanoff decides to go back to her roots. She didn't bargain on going all the way to the start of the Black Widow program. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Fic - Ruffling Feathers
Sam disagrees with Loki - natural isn't always better. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Fic - Every Me and Every You
Natasha knows what it's like to know another person completely. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Fic - At World's End
A cultist predicted the world's governments and economies would fail on 30 June 2012, and that he and his followers would undergo a transformation that would allow them to fly and walk through walls. No really [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Fic - Lead my Spirit Home
If the villains could disturb the final rest of Steve Rogers, Captain America and a national icon, it was probably too much to hope that they would leave his best friend alone. A supernatural take on Captain America and the Winter Soldier. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Fic - The Circus is in Town
Tony Stark ran away to the circus as a kid, but he isn't sure he likes it there. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Pacific Rim
Fic - The Private Myth of Dreams
Mako and Raleigh shouldn't Drift together. Too bad no one told their subconscious that. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Fic - One Girl Revolution
Mako doesn't care that you shouldn't Drift alone. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Fic - You don't have to (but I don't mind if you do)
Three kiss that Mako Mori and Raleigh Becket did not share, and one they did. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Fic - No White Flag
After the movie, Mako and Raleigh set about creating the resistance that Stacker envisioned. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Fic - The Road to Hell (Is Paved With Good Intentions)
Magic girls vs Zombies, round 1. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Fic - The Baby Steps Guide to Recovering Your Memory
A girl who can't remember her name and a baby who gives her one go for a walk. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

Fic - Little White Tail
Those who see the Little White Tail will be granted a wish. [community profile] trope_bingo fill.

31_days challenge )

AMV - Scarborough Fair

FST - Time after Time: a Homura FST

Cross-overs
Fic - Bless the little queens
Fusion of Macross Frontier and Pacific Rim. All Ranka and Sheryl need is the power of song and the Drift to defeat the Kaiju

General
Music - Halloween 2011 Mix


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fay_e: Text: I am not afraid to keep on living (not afraid to live)
Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 07:54 pm
This is the Dec edition of prompts from #TimeTravelAuthors on bsky, where my answers are about my crossover fic, a question of time (AO3 link). The numbers are the days in Dec.



Dec 1: Story introduction

"a question of time" is the result when I decided my fave time traveller, Akemi Homura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica, should meet my other fave time traveller, Dave Strider from Homestuck.

Dec 3 to 7 responses )


Dec 9: Celebrations

While I have written a few birthday celebrations in my main fic "a question of time", I like Christmas so much I wrote a Christmas side story set in the same verse, Orange Crush in a Japanese Xmas set (AO3 link).

Here's a snippet from the side story that refers to Christmas and time manipulation.

“Merry Christmas!” she chirruped, reintroducing English and an overdose of the Christmas spirit to the scene, then planted a big wet kiss on his cheek.

He suppressed his first instinct to squeak and made sure he found his voice before saying in English, “Pretty sure those under the mistletoe are supposed to get kisses, not give kisses.”

“I didn’t know that! They don’t seem to know that, too!”

Despite seeing Dave getting kissed, Sakura let Jade plant a kiss on her cheek, too. Sakura came away with a black kiss mark and a drumstick that she’d sneaked out of the KFC bucket that was tucked in Jade’s arm.

He switched back to Japanese to remind Sakura, “I said I’d give you some, can’t you wait?”

Sakura took a huge bite of her drumstick and wiped at the crumbs and the lipstick mark on her cheek. “Chicken is best when it’s hot. And you should fix your face too.”

He was about to do just that when Homura brought on the black, grey and white Christmas of her time stop. He turned to her with a smirk. “That eager to clean – are you trying to one up Sakura in her chicken heist?”

The monochrome didn’t extend to Homura, which was why he could see the red in her cheeks as she tried to pry the bucket of chicken free without bringing Jade into her time stop. “Having an object to shield with would be – easier than trying to dissuade Harley-san.”

Dec 11 to 29 )
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Monday, December 23rd, 2024 10:31 am
I still want to do the fic commentary for a question of time (AO3 link), but it's such a major undertaking.

Instead, I've been doing bite-sized prompts from #TimeTravelAuthors on bsky, so I decided to collate the answers in this post.

This is the November edition, I'll back up the December edition another day. The numbers are the days in November.



Nov 1: Story introduction

"a question of time" is a crossover fanfic featuring my two fave time travellers: Akemi Homura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Dave Strider from Homestuck.

Homura thought she had lost her time travel powers thanks to her best friend's wish. Dave's arrival makes Homura rethink her assumptions.

Nov 3 to 13 responses )

Nov 15: Anyone running out of time?

SPOILERS )

Nov 17: Time Travel Direction

Dave Strider uses modified turntables to time travel, so he can both travel forward and backwards in time, and even pause in "time stop".

Here's a snippet of Dave describing the process:
Dave wasn't the kind to go bibbidi-bobbidi-boo. But it was his turn to infuse enough of his power to add his own glow, the light coincidentally taking the shapes of familiar gears. That was how he knew he could send his records spinning.

Instead of time catching on his timetables during a rewind, fast forwarding felt more like a slide, like a skateboard going down a ramp until enough of a time differential had built and speed started to come into things. As long as the board felt like it was under their feet, it should be fine.


Nov 19 to 27 responses )

Nov 29 was the same promo as the top.

Prompts fully updated! Hope you enjoyed reading!
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Monday, June 10th, 2024 06:41 pm
One last thing before we dive into the fic - I hate writing summaries.

But I think I did a good job with this summary:

(Homestuck-Madoka Magica crossover) On an Earth that seems reset to pre-SBURB normalcy, Dave Strider transfers to Mitakihara. There he finds the magical girl system, more universe breaking powers, and an Akemi Homura all too eager to fix her time abilities with his...


It gets the key elements in - a supposedly pre-SBURB Earth that has a Mitakihara and a Homura, so that Dave can meet her. But how did they get there? You'll have to read the fic.

Which you can do too, with commentary! In this part, I'll be swapping the fic commentary to be in blockquotes, with the main fic as the actual text.

If you prefer to read the version of "a question of time" without commentary, it is here on AO3.

Here's the commentary laden version )

Next chapter to be commented on!

In the meantime, you can check out the previous Part 3. Or go all the way to the start at Part 1? Or check out the tags below!
fay_e: Text: and I'll be your downfall (be your downfall)
Friday, May 24th, 2024 01:35 pm
Did you know that a question of time (link goes to the fic on AO3) was supposed to be entirely in Bro Strider's POV?

I blame this on coming across the kancho entry of Gaijin Smash while I was mainlining Homestuck. As I was reading, I had the undeniable thought in my head - if Bro Strider was a JET teacher, he would be immune to all this.

The idea just stuck in my head and wouldn't leave, and then grew an entire verse. I didn't know much about Japanese schools, but I could steal Mitakihara schools right? I could even get some DaveHomu in!

Snippets from drafts under cut )

And now that you have all the backstory, I can start on the fic commentary proper! Link to that coming soon. In the meantime, check the other parts via links or the tags.

Part 2 || Part 4
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Saturday, May 4th, 2024 12:29 pm
It's been 13 years and an epic fic since I watched Puella Magi Madoka Magica, so it's time to revisit the series. Specifically how the years since and writing this fic has shifted my view of the series.

At that particular point in my life, I had grown tired enough of most media that I needed spoilers for the entire series before I would even start. I couldn't take the emotional toil of having a comfort series turn out not to be so comforting at all. I thought I would be pretty safe with PMMM. It was only 12 episodes and I already knew the major plot twists (including episode 3).

I also had a gateway character in Akemi Homura, and she made it to the end of the series, so I would be fine. Since I don't talk about it often enough - gateway characters for me are my entry point into any media. I need to have stakes in a particular character before I dive in. Homura was everything that spoilers promised and more.

Spoilers about PMMM  )

But then we come to the problem of Dirk Strider. And of Bro Strider. Check that out in Part 3 below.

Part 1 || Part 3
fay_e: Text: though our instincts say that we should turn and run (instincts turn and run)
Wednesday, April 24th, 2024 10:52 pm
I haven't commented on Taylor Swift's latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, because I know it has to come with a lot of backstory and caveats.

The summary of the backstory is this: I have been sitting with various forms of grief since 2019, and you'd think after five years, I know the shape of my grief. I have lived with it for all this time, because I cannot help but be aware of it.

You might want to mock my way of working with it, which is to write an entire novel about a crossover pairing that can probably be distilled down to a single chapter. But I know it's what I needed at the time (and maybe still do now).

That's why while I get some of the critique of The Tortured Poets Department, I cannot mock it. There are certain tracks - Down Bad, I Can Do It With a Broken Heart - that have captured my grief in a way that I never expected anyone to get. And those two tracks alone, for better or for worse, bring me back to my grief.

This is coming from someone who, when she first heard the album, made the complaint that it's too much like Midnights. But even if I don't agree with some of Taylor's sonic decisions, I can respect it. I can't throw stones, given the way I have chosen to express myself via niche fic.

But it's still disheartening to see critique of the album from people who haven't cared to listen to it (because Taylor Swift has a reputation) or who twist it to fit a certain perspective (because Taylor Swift has a reputation). Even if this particular album isn't the shape of their grief (and I genuinely hope that they never experience it), I feel that there isn't enough grace given to allow people to have other experiences, or forms of expression, or even to allow this album to just exist. And that's too bad.
fay_e: Text: though our instincts say that we should turn and run (instincts turn and run)
Saturday, April 13th, 2024 02:44 pm
Homestuck's 413 is today and it's almost 13 years to the day that I started watching Puella Magi Madoka Magica. So I thought it was finally time to do the director commentaries on my fic (link goes to AO3) a question of time featuring the crossover pairing of Akemi Homura/Dave Strider. Yes I write their names that way because the way their names are presented in their individual series trumps consistency.

Which is somehow related to the theme of this first part that will not quote the fic yet, despite being a director's commentary! But I think a bit of backstory is needed.

Specifically that my advice is not to get into a series through a fic featuring a crack crossover pairing.

Come down a rabbit hole with me )

Continued in Part 2 and more!!!

Or check out the fic commentary tag.
fay_e: Text: I'm the morning rain (morning rain)
Sunday, March 24th, 2024 08:21 pm
I realise I haven't posted on here for so long that I've forgotten how to write long form entries. My last few entries were a bit curt for DW, especially the ones where I was copying bleets from bluesky.

I've been telling the story about how I got into Taylor Swift a lot lately, so I thought I might as well record this here.

My colleague invited me to her wedding, where she had a video about the gatecrash at her house. Part of the tradition of fetching the bride over here is the gatecrash, where the groom has to prove his worth to the bride's family and bridesmaids before he's allowed to take the bride away. This particular wedding had one of the tasks for the groom to sing the bride's favourite song at the time - Our Song by Taylor Swift. The groom hadn't paid enough attention to know the lyrics, but he was rather quick thinking. Since Our Song was about Taylor Swift and things about her dates that she would put into a song, he wrote some lyrics on the fly using the same chords about the things about his dates with the bride.

While the happy ending to that story is that the groom successfully charmed the bride for her to agree he passed the task, this is more of a prelude to my story. Thanks to that video, I was tempted to look up the original version of Our Song. Taylor Swift did a good job, but it was too cutesy for me. I went to check out the rest of her Youtube channel...

Thanks to the wedding happening around the time of the release of Fearless, I found the songs Tim McGraw and Love Story. Both blew me away and cemented me as a fan. Fearless was one of the albums I loaded up on my then mp3 player and played the tracks of repeatedly. I've been a fan ever since.

I probably will elaborate on the other entries I made about Taylor Swift at some point. I'm also toying with some entries about my latest fic.
fay_e: Text: how she rocks in keds and tube socks (rocks keds and tube socks)
Saturday, March 16th, 2024 02:36 pm
I'm going to be posting about Taylor Swift a lot, so I wanted to compile some of the personal rankings that I'd made.

Albums:
1. 1989
2. folklore
3. fearless
4. Red
5. reputation
6. Taylor Swift
7. evermore
8. Midnights
9. Speak Now
10. Lover

Track 1 openers:
1. Tim McGraw
2. The 1
3. Fearless
4. Mine
5. willow
6. ... Ready For It?
7. Lavender Haze
8. State of Grace
9. Welcome to New York
10. I Forgot You Existed

Closers:
1. Begin Again
2. Clean
3. Our Song
4. evermore
5. Mastermind
6. Long Live
7. Daylight
8. New Year's Day
9. hoax
10. Change

I might go into details why in other entries.
fay_e: Text: I am not afraid to keep on living (not afraid to live)
Sunday, March 10th, 2024 04:22 pm
Starting off with a meme!

list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern


1. a question of time (Homestuck/Puella Magi Madoka Magica crossover)

Monday morning, and Dave Strider was already checking off several tropes.


2. Orange Crush in a Japanese Xmas set (Side story for the above crossover)

Dave should have realized that like everything that he’d experienced since he’d come to Mitakihara, Christmas in Japan only shared the same name as Christmas in the States.


3. all bets are off (when you're an honest liar (Zootopia, Nick stayed in the mafia!AU)

The bar, with mega fauna in high energy and rough housing each other, reminded Judy of the ZPD bull pen on Monday morning.


4. If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked A Cake (Zootopia, Part 2 of the above Mafia!AU)

Everyone in the mob knew Koslov liked parties.


5. Mercy (Zootopia, Part 3 of the above Mafia!AU)

Nick had just barely rolled himself into his pull out bed like a lump of limp linen when his phone started buzzing.


6. the map that leads to you (such a heavenly view) (Zootopia/Star Trek crossover)

They had an unwritten rule in Comms - never get attached to Away teams.


7. true colours (burn those jet pack blues) (Sequel to the above crossover)

Judy Hopps had made many sacrifices when she enlisted for Starfleet.


8. Exorcist Blues (Wilde Spirit remix) (Zootopia AR where Judy Hopps is an exorcist)

"Is it evil spirits this time Mom?"


9. Wilde Spirit (The Karmic Shuffle) (Sequel to the Exorcist!AR)

Nick's repeated visits to Cliffside didn't make him like the place any better.


10. i carry your heart (i carry it in // my heart) (Part 3 of the Exorcist!AR)

Judy had grown up on her family farm.


Pattern: Holy BALD STATEMENT Batman! All my fics seem to start with a sharp statement that I either lean into in the next sentence, or completely contradict. But it makes me roll laughing with how short my sentences are.
fay_e: Text: This shit is bananas, b.a.n.a.n.a.s (I don't know) (bananas)
Saturday, January 28th, 2017 03:05 pm
Since I began using a bullet journal this year, and I just joined the [community profile] bujo comm on using/ learning to use bullet journals, I figured I might as well talk about how I use my bullet journal.

The basic tools of a bullet journal can be found in this one page bullet journal reference guide.

Despite the suggestions of most of the bullet journal community and the guide, I don't use a lot of the elements of the bullet journal.

It starts with the notebook )

I hope you had fun reading this, and you'll be inspired to do your own version of a bullet journal.
fay_e: Text: though our instincts say that we should turn and run (instincts turn and run)
Friday, January 27th, 2017 06:06 pm
I should update Wilde Spirits but this is late enough as it is. This was posted on AO3 on 15 Jan, and only made it here two weeks later.

Teaser and summary: "My name? With a name like Nick Wilde, why would I be embarrassed of anything?"
"Nick of the nicknames? A little too fitting." Judy sat back in her seat at the bar, with her arms crossed. "Are you pulling my leg with a fake name?"
Nick - if that was even his name - shrugged off her comment. "Maybe I am. And what's your fake name, beautiful?"
 
Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde have a different meet cute when Judy joins the force earlier - he tries to pick her up at a bar. Banter and flirting send temperatures sky rocketing, but is that all that's going on?

Rating: M
Genre: Shippy canon divergence
Warnings for: Pick-up lines of varying quality, dirty talk
Disclaimer: If I owned Zootopia, it wouldn't have taken me so long to locate a Nick Wilde tsum tsum.

We find our rabbit in a bar )
fay_e: Text: It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart (speak right to my heart)
Sunday, January 1st, 2017 09:26 pm
I had wanted to watch Moana, but due to a busier December in 2016 than I expected I didn't manage to escape to the movies until about 26 December. It happened to be a public holiday so there were a lot of kids watching, but since I was alone I managed to score a pretty good seat in the theatre despite buying a ticket just before the movie started.

It was completely worth it, both from a story angle and also from a personal angle. See, Moana was the movie that I wish Mulan had been like.

Some context first - Mulan is a story that is pretty personal to me. It's a childhood story told to me by my mother, and one of the key parts of the story is that Mulan's father saw that she was trained in the same skills as her brother. That was why Mulan decided to take her father's place in the war, and was more than capable of taking her father's place in the war.

Disney Mulan took her father's place in the war because she was rebelling against society's place for her, and she was definitely not capable.

Spoilers about Moana will tell you more )

THE WHOLE SOUNDTRACK THOUGH. I advise going to see the movie first, but after the movie, I kept listening to the entire Moana album on Spotify and crying my eyes out EACH TIME. EVEN NOW.

GO WATCH MOANA, AND THEN LISTEN TO THE SOUNDTRACK.
fay_e: Text: It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart (speak right to my heart)
Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 10:11 pm
I can't believe I forgot I was backing this up!

Summary:(Star Trek and Zootopia crossover) Judy Hopps doesn't do diplomacy. Nick Wilde doesn't do Away missions. Both of them are going to have to make up for what the other lacks if they're going to survive Draconis and maybe save Captain Bogo while they're at it.

Sequel to "the map that leads to you". Features Judy firing big guns, Nick sassing everyone and romance on a planet where reptiles are the dominant species and mammals are not.

Rating: T
Genre: Gen, slices of romance, sci-fi, action/adventure
Warnings for: Fantastic racism, if Nick had a tombstone it would read "dead from deadpan", STAGGERING LEVELS OF COMPETENCY
Disclaimer: If I owned both Star Trek AND Zootopia, I would be paying other people to write this.

Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5

i'll sing it one last time for you )
fay_e: Text: I'm dreaming away, wishing that heroes they truly exist (wishing heroes exist)
Sunday, December 11th, 2016 12:42 pm
Summary:(Star Trek and Zootopia crossover) Judy Hopps doesn't do diplomacy. Nick Wilde doesn't do Away missions. Both of them are going to have to make up for what the other lacks if they're going to survive Draconis and maybe save Captain Bogo while they're at it.

Sequel to "the map that leads to you". Features Judy firing big guns, Nick sassing everyone and romance on a planet where reptiles are the dominant species and mammals are not.

Rating: T
Genre: Gen, slices of romance, sci-fi, action/adventure
Warnings for: Fantastic racism, if Nick had a tombstone it would read "dead from deadpan", STAGGERING LEVELS OF COMPETENCY
Disclaimer: If I owned both Star Trek AND Zootopia, I would be paying other people to write this.

Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4

Oh ye of so little faith )

Part 6
fay_e: Text: though our instincts say that we should turn and run (instincts turn and run)
Friday, December 9th, 2016 11:26 pm
Summary:(Star Trek and Zootopia crossover) Judy Hopps doesn't do diplomacy. Nick Wilde doesn't do Away missions. Both of them are going to have to make up for what the other lacks if they're going to survive Draconis and maybe save Captain Bogo while they're at it.

Sequel to "the map that leads to you". Features Judy firing big guns, Nick sassing everyone and romance on a planet where reptiles are the dominant species and mammals are not.

Rating: T
Genre: Gen, slices of romance, sci-fi, action/adventure
Warnings for: Fantastic racism, if Nick had a tombstone it would read "dead from deadpan", STAGGERING LEVELS OF COMPETENCY
Disclaimer: If I owned both Star Trek AND Zootopia, I would be paying other people to write this.

Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3

gonna be weeks 'til I breathe again )

Part 5 || Part 6
fay_e: Text: I'm dreaming away, wishing that heroes they truly exist (wishing heroes exist)
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016 08:01 pm
Summary:(Star Trek and Zootopia crossover) Judy Hopps doesn't do diplomacy. Nick Wilde doesn't do Away missions. Both of them are going to have to make up for what the other lacks if they're going to survive Draconis and maybe save Captain Bogo while they're at it.

Sequel to "the map that leads to you". Features Judy firing big guns, Nick sassing everyone and romance on a planet where reptiles are the dominant species and mammals are not.

Rating: T
Genre: Gen, slices of romance, sci-fi, action/adventure
Warnings for: Fantastic racism, if Nick had a tombstone it would read "dead from deadpan", STAGGERING LEVELS OF COMPETENCY
Disclaimer: If I owned both Star Trek AND Zootopia, I would be paying other people to write this.

Part 1 || Part 2

that girl you know she act too tough )

Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6
fay_e: Text: silence falls between us, as the shadows steal the light (as the shadows steal the light)
Sunday, December 4th, 2016 08:35 pm
From the chapter "The Loving", a collection of poems by Rupi Kaur

i do not want to have you
to fill the empty part of me
i want to be so full on my own
i want to be so complete
i could light a whole city
and then
i want to have you
cause the two of us combined
could set it on fire
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fay_e: Text: If what they say is nothing last forever, what makes love the exception (what makes love the exception)
Sunday, December 4th, 2016 08:30 pm
Oh hay, I do have a free moment don't I? TIME TO BACK UP FIC.

The chapters will differ from AO3 because I decided to split the chapters here by POV shifts.

Summary:(Star Trek and Zootopia crossover) Judy Hopps doesn't do diplomacy. Nick Wilde doesn't do Away missions. Both of them are going to have to make up for what the other lacks if they're going to survive Draconis and maybe save Captain Bogo while they're at it.

Sequel to "the map that leads to you". Features Judy firing big guns, Nick sassing everyone and romance on a planet where reptiles are the dominant species and mammals are not.

Rating: T
Genre: Gen, slices of romance, sci-fi, action/adventure
Warnings for: Fantastic racism, if Nick had a tombstone it would read "dead from deadpan", STAGGERING LEVELS OF COMPETENCY
Disclaimer: If I owned both Star Trek AND Zootopia, I would be paying other people to write this.
Notes:Draconian dialects are in italics. Emphasis is in bold italics.


Part 1

the sweetness never lasts you know )

shot a hole through everything I loved )

Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6
fay_e: Text: and I'll be your downfall (be your downfall)
Saturday, October 29th, 2016 08:43 am
Neolithic Revolution
by Ali Shapiro
       
I'm tired of the way love turns us into animals.
I'm tired of roaring. I'm tired of you tearing
my flesh with your teeth, stalking me like prey
in the shower, lunging and growling; I'm tired
of pawing, and panting, and hunting
and wagging. Of course at first it was thrilling. The we
have no words for this
. The we are just
our bodies
. But look at my cortex. Look
at my opposable thumbs. I want out
of this stew, I want to use tools, I want to develop
agriculture and walk upright towards you through
this field of corn that we planted, on purpose, because
we were hungry, and human, and knew
exactly what we were doing.
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