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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Just wanted to let you know I'm working on that doc you sent me. :)

In the meantime.... AHHHHHH.... so many of these look interesting! I'm a sucker for time travel, though. Tell me about Meeting Fire Lord Zuko - timetravel. :D

This one was a particularly random few paragraphs of an outline of idea... I think that the point of this fic was to play with the idea of a different kind of time travel: instead of someone coming from the future to the past to solve a specific problem (like Draco in the fic that you're reading through now), I'd have a handful of people from the PAST come to the future through some sort of timetravelling vacuum, just to throw them together and see how everyone would react. Unfortunately, I only seem to have scribbled down the setup and not the actual meetings, but I'm sure that a younger Gaang (plus Iroh) meeting Fire Lord Zuko - a fire lord who is competent and actually wants to help them - would have been epic. >_>

This fic's main timeline would have been about ten years after the war's end, and many of the Gaang now have children. Iroh is recently deceased, and so Zuko is still wearing mourning white. (I think I wanted it this way so that he would be more brutally honest with the Iroh from the past). Anyway, this is a snippet of the outline for you:

It often falls to Sokka to babysit all of the kids (he has babysitting experience from his youth at the south pole). Nobody really wants to give them to nannies that they may not be able to trust, and the Gaang members have a lot to handle, job-wise, and it’s not as if Zuko can drag toddlers to conferences and trade talks, Aang and Katara still fly all over the world, and Suki still runs security with her Kyoshi warriors… and so Sokka is a man-mom, essentially. The kids spend lots of time with their parents and all, but during the day, when everyone’s busy, Sokka’s often the one the kids hang out with. He’s the “cool” uncle/dad anyway. Katara and Aang do bring their kids with them, oftentimes, especially on the longer trips, but for short ones, they like to give the kids the stability… so it’s not rare to see Water Tribe/Earth Kingdom/Fire Nation kids running and playing in the Fire Nation palace gardens.

(Side note: Toph is that crazy aunt with no kids who shows up and causes earthquakes. No-one ever suggests she babysit, though.)

Sokka likes to take the kids out flying with Appa when he can, because it’s something more interesting to do. They had been flying through a cloud, and Sokka had been trying to encourage Aang’s one airbending kid to come back into the saddle where he could keep an eye on her, but she was giggling and playing with him, swooping in and out of the mist with the glider her father had made for her… She was attempting to sneak up behind him and scare them all, but instead snuck up on… the second Appa with the time travellers! (The other Appa’s passengers are a younger version of Sokka, Aang, Katara… and Iroh, who never saw his nephew find his way/destiny again.) Cue shrieks from the airbending girl and the startled Gaang. Aang almost automatically tried to airblast whatever was coming straight for Appa’s face, leaving a girl tumbling down through the sky… and older!Sokka, of course, swoops down and saves her and gives her a scolding… (Sokka has mad Appa-driving skills)

(Yeah, this was mostly just a random idea for a scene. When the two Appas finally fly out of the cloud so everything could be clearly seen, older!Sokka clearly recognizes the others for what they are. I think that he pretty much just decides to let his Aang deal with trying to figure all of this out. Sokka hates dealing with things like this, which quite obviously must be spirit-world shenanigans.)

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Meeting Fire Lord Zuko - timetravel