beboots | in-progress meme

In a continuing effort to procrastinate on my homework (my thesis draft is staring as balefully as a pile of papers can at me from the corner of my desk), and, encouraged by the AWESOMENESS of everyone who seems to read this journal and their participation in that let-me-tell-you-a-history-story meme I held a few days ago... (People can still post prompts, by the way! It is by no means closed! You may even post a second prompt if you wish!) I've decided to participate in another meme that's been making the rounds of my f-list...

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

Upon request, I will post a random line or two from any of these you choose. Assuming that the file adds up to a full line, that is.

I'm not sure if very many people know, but I do write quite a bit of random bits and pieces of fanfic. My problem is that they're generally just snippets of scenes and dialogue at best... although I have a LOT of sometimes incredibly long outlines. So my WIP folder is actually quite large. My problem is that they always seem to STAY as WIPs, and never, well, progress to completion. In any case, I will post bits (or even more than bits!) for those curious.

On a completely separate note, I'm also planning on making a picture post to go with all of the responses to the history meme, possibly tomorrow or maybe later today. You shall get a historical image to go along with the story, so that you can put names to faces! :)

Anyway, here is the list of documents in my bulky "My fanfic" folder... Some of the titles you may recognize from pieces I have posted before, but others, not so much... I also tend to have rather descriptive titles (some with fandoms, some mysteriously without!), so hopefully some will strike your fancy! Feel free to request up to three at a time. :)

A Night Fury in the King's Service - Temeraire HTTYD cross
A Traitor Redeemed - Avatar(2009)
Against Thy Own Kind
An Extension of Trust
Avatar(2009) - Time travel
Aziraphale & the Werewolf - Crossover GO & HP
Azula's Revenge - timetravel
Blue Spirit Joins the Gaang, more or less
Carlisle & House
Chid on the Dragon Throne
Childhood Friends - Toph in the Fire Nation
Chinese Formation - Temeraire
Crowley the Familiar
Dr. Horrible, turning on the League
Draco Timetravel actual fic
Dragon!Zuko fic idea
Fangs and Flamethrowers
Far Removed - hetalia idea
Fire Lord Iroh AU
For the Greater Good - Good Omens
Forgotten
Genderswitch Temeraire idea
Good Omens - HP crossover Idea
Good Omens X House crossover idea
Guillaume Laurent - Temeraire idea
Hallucination - a temeraire fic
Hikago - ghost busters
In a Land Without Technology
Invader Dib
Language barrier - hetalia idea
Laurence's privateers - Temeraire AU
Left for Dead - temeraire fic idea
Lieutenant Laurence - Temeraire idea
Meeting Fire Lord Zuko - timetravel
Nunavut Ascendancy - hetalia fanfic
Phenix!Zuko
Possession - Hikago
Professor Fell crossover idea
Reincarnation - Temeraire idea
Sasori Sensei of Suna
Star Command Zim idea
Strange, Norrell and Potter
Tea Cart Zuko & Iroh
The Betrothed - Mulan
The Tides of War - Temeraire
Tumnus in Spare Oom - Narnia HP crossover

Um... yeah. I get distracted easily...? Some of these fic bits have been sitting there untouched for several years...

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Billy believes that Penny is dead after that day at the homeless shelter, as does the world. She actually does recover and is placed in a sort of witness protection program to make sure that the Evil League of Evil doesn’t go after her again for her previous connection with Captain Hammer as well as the fact that she escaped them.

Penny actually ends up joining a new task force bent on taking down supervillains. She hears that Dr. Horrible joined the League on the strength of her murder. The League itself was very quiet that year, likely because they were planning something big. Penny’s group is trying to find out what. Unfortunately, very little is known about the members of the League besides their names and their fabricated backstories. They don’t even have a good photograph of Dr. Horrible’s face, and he’s the newest member. The only shots they have are of him with his goggles obscuring half of his face.

Billy – Dr. Horrible – is trying very hard to enjoy being evil. However, as it turns out, the Evil League of Evil is mostly about murder, money, and fame, and not so much on the social change aspect of the agenda. Still, Billy is in too deep. He’s also subtly and not so subtly insulted when many of the League members insist that he focus on the mad scientist side of things – coming up with evil weapons – instead of doing battle with superheroes. Billy knows where his strengths and weaknesses are, but doesn’t like to be told his weaknesses to his face.

(Mostly this fic idea came out of the "nooo Penny... ;_; " reaction I've always had to the ending of Dr. Horrible. I also love the idea of Billy helping to take down the Evil League of Evil from the inside. He's not all that bad, really... )

He's not all that bad, really...

He's a sweetie, really. His villainous aspirations always struck me as more idealistic than villainous.

(Didn't Penny find out right near the end that Dr. Horrible was Billy, i.e. she knows who he is?)

Well, this IS an alternate universe... and I was never sure about that. She didn't seem to recognize him as Dr. Horrible at the very end, anyway...

True enough.

I always thought she has a little moment of recognition, in "Slipping," where he sings "no sigh of penny good / I would give anything not to have her see / it’s gonna be bloody head up Billy buddy."

Buit it has been a while since I watched it and this is another thing I can add to my list of Things I Need to Watch over Reading Week.

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