So pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns

Himself is off doing photography things this weekend and I've finally got a chance to start my long-planned FNL rewatch. Will be posting about the rewatch as I go along (which I imagine will be breath-takingly slowly). I'm trying to figure out things here about story-telling and what makes a good story. And I'd love to hear any thoughts about the show that anyone else has. (Eventually, I'd like to do the same detailed rewatch for Leverage and Sons of Anarchy, but we'll see how this first one goes.)

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Title: You Just Don’t Know It Yet
Author: fleurlb 
Yuletide Recipient: devilc 
Word count: 10,500
Characters: Hastings Ruckle, Buddy Garrity Junior, brief appearances by Luke, Tinker, Becky, and Coach Taylor
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Spoilers Spoilers for all of Season 5 of Friday Night Lights

A/N: Thanks to devilc , for providing the opportunity to work with two of the most criminally underused characters ever. Thanks also for providing a reason to step outside of my usual comfort zone and dive into slash. Or rather, fumble my way slowly. :)



Summary: Hastings Ruckle has a simple plan for Dillon, Texas: no attachments, no drama. It's a foolproof and simple plan, until Buddy Junior shows up and ruins everything.

When Hastings Ruckle rolled up in Dillon, Texas, he’d already memorized twelve home addresses and had suffered through being the “new kid” at eight schools. He saw Dillon as a cross between a challenge and a prison sentence: survive the next two years and then he’d be free. Able to attend any college he wanted. Able to set down some roots and live in the same damn place for four whole years.

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Dear Sweet Yuletide Writer,

Thank you so much for signing up for Yuletide and offering to write my favourite fandom. You, truly, are a pal.

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Title: Ranger School
Author: fleurlb 
Fandom: Leverage
Rating: PG (language)
Characters: Eliot
Word Count: 3050
Spoilers: None - set pre-series
Warnings: Um, there’s a snake. Also, my motto is 'never let the facts get in the way of a good story', so I may have possibly taken some small liberties with how Ranger training words.
Disclaimer: I own nothing here (besides Charlie Mac) and am just having some fun.

Author’s Note: So, ziplocless very graciously donated money for help_pakistan in exchange for a story from me. She gave me some great ideas, but the story just refused to be written. Then, my baby ate my life and I embarrassingly fell further and further behind. Now that I’m slowly getting a small fraction of my life back, I realized that the reason I couldn’t write the story I wanted to write was because I had to write this story first. Downside, ziplocless’s story is still depressingly and mortifyingly late. Plus side, at least I’m make progressive even if I can’t make promises on when the ‘real’ story will be finished.

Summary: His Ranger buddy has a major personality flaw, but maybe, just maybe, Eliot will be able to get through the training without hurting the guy.


Eliot rolled into Ranger school confident that he could make it through the grueling experience. He wasn’t being cocky. He was being realistic. In his unit, he’d been known as Steamroller: single-minded and unstoppable. Eliot knew that all he just had to keep putting one foot in front of the other no matter how much his body wanted to quit, and he’d have his tab.
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Title: Excitement on Craggy Island
Author: fleurlb 
Crossover: Father Ted/True Blood (yes, seriously :))
Characters: Father Ted, Father Dougal, Father Jack, Mrs. Doyle, Eric, Pam
Word Count: 4,000
Rating: PG

Spoilers: None that I can think of.
Warning(s): None that I can think of.

Disclaimer: I own nothing here and am just doing this for fun.

Summary: After the Great Reveal, Eric and Pam are sent to Craggy Island on a public relations outreach mission.

A/N 1: Thanks to my recipient, Basingstoke, for requesting both Father Ted (#3) and True Blood (#4). My match was for True Blood, but after I saw Father Ted, the first scene popped into my head and I couldn't resist what is possibly one of the craziest crossovers ever. 

A/N 2: Special thanks to my fabulous beta, elzed, for her speedy and thorough review. She kept me honest on voices and canon.
Speaking of canon, this diverges slightly from the True Blood canon.

A/N 3: Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. :) Please hand-wave or consider AU as necessary.

Like the rest of the world, on the night of the Great Reveal, Father Ted and Father Dougal sat in their living room, dumbfounded by the stories and pictures on the television. They’d been promised a “monumental revelation that would change the course of human history”, but they’d been expecting at most the collapse of a far-off government or news of a natural disaster. Nothing had prepared them for the truth that vampires existed.

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Title: Such a Thing as Monsters
Crossover: Leverage/Supernatural
Characters: Parker, Eliot, Hardison, Sam, and Dean
Word Count: 5,500
Rating: PG

Spoilers for Leverage: Up to and including “The Gone Fishing Job” (307)
Spoilers for Supernatural: Up to and including “Weekend at Bobby’s” (604)
Warning(s): None that I can think of.

Disclaimer: I own nothing here and am just doing this for fun.

Summary: When Parker encounters something that seems way outside the ordinary, Eliot has to call in back-up.

A/N: Thanks to zortified, for bidding on my cross-over entry in the help_pakistan  auction, and for your patience in giving me time to get the story finished. Hope this measures up to your expectations and was worth the wait. :)


When Eliot arrived at Nate’s apartment, he could hear the familiar sounds of Parker and Hardison bickering. He paused, hand on the door, trying to decide how annoying they sounded and if he’d need an extra cup of coffee to deal with them. He rated the argument as moderate and decided to chance going in.
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Meme: Repost this in your own LJ, tag eight people, swap any questions you don't like with new ones :)

I was tagged by otherpervert. I'm shy about tagging, so I'm not going to do that part. If you want to participate, by all means do and leave me a comment so I can go see your answers. :)

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OK, so I just broke my rule about not signing up for any secret santa exchanges this year. But, but, but, it's Leverage. And it has early signups/assignments and then an entire month of posting, so I'm happy to give this one a go, especially since I can probably get the story written before Lil'Bit's arrival. (And yes, this is the point in any conversation when I feel compelled to speak to my belly and tell LB to stay in there as long as necessary. :))

Anyway, if you're looking for something to do while you're waiting for Yuletide signups to start, consider signing up for Leverage Secret Santa. The turn-out last year was apparently fairly small, so join in and make it bigger and more fun this year. :)

So, LJ has apparently added some new functionality that will let you cross-post comments to Twitter and Facebook. I don't really understand the mechanics of it all, but there seems to be some messed up workflow in which I can f-lock a post but a commenter can still cross-post comments on the post to their Twitter and FB. This post explains all this a lot better than I ever could. 

There doesn't, as of now, appear to be any way to opt out of this entirely. Which, for reasons outlined in the above link, is massively annoying. My FB is a mix of personal friends and work colleagues, all of whom know nothing about my fan fiction hobby. And frankly, for a plethora of reasons, I prefer to keep it that way.

So I ask that you please not cross-post comments here to Twitter or FB. I also ask that if you're replying to a comment I left on your LJ, please don't cross-post the reply. And if you happen to love this new functionality and are opting in to automatic cross-posting of things on your LJ, please let me know and I'll send you PMs instead of comments.

I know this probably sounds extremely antisocial or paranoid (and honestly, I'm not even sure how FB would know that this account is associated with my FB account, since I use different email addresses), but I really do like to keep this part of my life compartmentalized.

Thanks in advance for your co-operation on this. 

Similar to help_haiti  and help_chile, there's now a help_pakistan, which I was kind of hoping would materialize, given all the distressing stories I've been hearing in NPR podcasts recently. 

I have two offerings in the auction:

A 2,000 word-minimum fanfic in any of a number of fandoms, including: Leverage, Friday Night Lights, Sons of Anarchy, Supernatural, Warehouse 13, possibly other fandoms including True Blood, Mad Men, Being Human, Veronica Mars, Freaks and Geeks

A 3,000 word-minimum crossover fic in any two of the following fandoms:  Leverage, Friday Night Lights, Sons of Anarchy, Supernatural, Warehouse 13, possibly other fandoms including True Blood, Mad Men, Being Human, Veronica Mars, Freaks and Geeks, Saving Grace

Bidding is open today and runs until Saturday, 28 August. The whole range of offerings include:

Art offerings (not graphics)

Word offerings

Audio offerrings

Freebie offerings

Misc. offerings