Fic title: Farther out to Sea

For this prompt post.

Star Trek: Voyager AU with divergence points at S2E25: Resolutions, and S3E5: False Profits

A plasma storm comes through only three weeks into their stay on New Earth, leaving Janeway without any means to continue her research, and she and Chakotay have a longer wait for Tuvok to return with a cure. In that time, they become closer, and get in the habit of sleeping in the same bed. (How often that means there’s more than just sleeping, I leave to the reader’s imagination.)

Two months later, Voyager is pulled into the destabilizing Barzan wormhole along with the Ferengi, and are spat out at one of the former terminus points, past the Denkiri Arm in the Gamma Quadrant, putting Voyager a century from home at warp 9, and an unknown distance from the Idran system and the wormhole that would get them to Deep Space Nine in a fraction of the time. (Fortunately for the Ferengi, they’re not deposited at the same place as Voyager.)

Janeway is faced with two major decisions, finding she is pregnant (the virus she and Chakotay had been infected with on New Earth interfered with both of their birth control), and she must choose how to deal with that, as well as making the decision on how to get Voyager home.

Character meme, with all HL minor characters: Rebecca Horne, Cory Raines, Grace Chandel, Gregor Powers, Katherine Sutherland, Danny Cimoli

Thank you! 😀 This was a fun set to work out.

For this meme.

Push off a cliff: Cory Raines (dude, I love you, but please, for the love of fuck, at a very large distance)
Kiss: Katherine Sutherland (mostly because I don’t think marrying her would work out well for either of us)
Marry: Rebecca Horne (she deserved so much better than she got)
Set on Fire: Danny Cimoli (I don’t remember a lot of the minor characters, but he irritated me So. Much.)
Wrap a Blanket around: Grace Chandel (I wanted to do that all through the episode)
Be Roommates with: Gregor Powers (eh. Mostly because I have no serious feelings about him one way or another, and so long as he cleans up after himself and doesn’t pester me about being sociable, I’m cool with it)

C, X, Y

For this set of questions.


C – A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

Just one? I will leave out those where I simply dislike one character altogether, regardless of pairing (like, say, Kylo Ren, or Palpatine), but here, have a list.

Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy
Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Duncan MacLeod/Methos (and not just because I don’t like MacLeod)
Odo/Kira
Julian Bashir/Ezri Dax
Aeryn Sun/John Crichton
Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler (as a romance, particularly)
Erik Lenscherr (Magneto)/Charles Xavier


X – A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.

Huh. I’m not sure there’s a trope I’m going to love in all my fandoms. I like the theme of found family across the board, but that’s not a trope. And I do not have the time to go poking around TVTropes to figure anything out.

(I don’t even do mirror-verse type things across the board, and that’s the trope that I use most broadly.)


Y – What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

Supernatural
Dishonored
Discworld
Game of Thrones
Sense8 (I think that’s how it’s spelled?)

And then there’s a whole list of things I’ve blacklisted either because I’m not interested and there’s a lot of it, and/or because it’s bad for my mental health for reasons I’m not getting into.

Theory and Practice – LadySilver – Leverage [Archive of Our Own]

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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Leverage
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer
Characters: Alec Hardison, Parker (Leverage), Eliot Spencer
Additional Tags: Relationship Negotiation, But not in the way you’re thinking
Summary:

There are some things Hardison does not want to hear about.

The first of three ficlets I posted for fandom_stocking this year.

Theory and Practice – LadySilver – Leverage [Archive of Our Own]

Diversionary Tactics – LadySilver – Highlander: The Series [Archive of Our Own]

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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Highlander: The Series, Highlander: The Raven
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Amanda Darieux/Methos (Highlander)
Characters: Methos (Highlander), Amanda Darieux
Additional Tags: neck kink, Seduction, Fandom Stocking 2016, Gift Fic
Summary:

Amanda’s never been good at being bored.

The second of three fandom_stocking stories.

Diversionary Tactics – LadySilver – Highlander: The Series [Archive of Our Own]

Never Ever – LadySilver – Highlander: The Series [Archive of Our Own]

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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Highlander: The Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Methos (Highlander), Amy Brennan-Thomas, Joe Dawson, Duncan MacLeod
Additional Tags: Drunkeness, Joe’s Bar, Gods, Drinking Games, Fandom Stocking 2016, Gift Fic
Summary:

Methos has been it all and done it all. Just ask him.

And the last of the three ficlets I finished for this year’s fandom_stocking.

Never Ever – LadySilver – Highlander: The Series [Archive of Our Own]

2, 11

2. Is there any specific ritual you go through while/before/after your writing?

Not always. If I’ve been having a difficult time, I’ll usually queue up one of the writing playlists, light candles and turn off the lights, and close tumblr, but that’s about it for before. Never really had anything I do other than sometimes loop a song for during writing. After – only when the writing has been specifically an offering, and thus mythology of a sort. Usually salt or water into the pot on the altar at that point, or other rituals of offering.


11. Weirdest thing you’ve ever written/thought about writing/etc.?

Erm. I think that all depends on how one defines weird.

Lies, Misdirection, and Terrible Truth was one of the most surreal things to write because of how my brain space was, at the time.

Queen of Mercy and Grace is equally surreal, if distinctly darker, and hasn’t held onto my brain for as long at a time.

Cats and Murder Kittens (also on tumblr) is a sort of AU I usually wouldn’t write, but it’s tooth-rotting fluff and never let it be said Obi-Wan and Maul can’t agree on at least one thing. Even if they can’t agree on how to murderize Palpatine.