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DC/Legends of Tomorrow

Flash Sideways Story-verse
Lecturing Lenny fav.me/dakmz7o
1 chapter
A preview/older draft of a scene in my Flash Sideways fic.
This version has Lisa lecturing her older brother about his sex life. In public.
Takes place during Flash S1E15 Out of Time.

Flash Sideways fav.me/dake5ig
9 chapters
In which the Legends team discovers and discusses the consequences of changing history when it affects someone with an eidetic memory. Namely, Leonard Snart.
Framing story end of Legends S1E3 Blood Ties; main story spans Flash S1E15-16 Out of Time and Rogue Time.

Enemy of My Enemy fav.me/dav2uh5
A sequel to Flash Sideways.
4 Chapters
The Reverse Flash, masquerading as Harrison Wells, is annoyed at Leonard Snart's constant interference with his plans for Barry... and then he learns that Len has an eidetic memory and remembers certain things he shouldn't even know about.
Takes place immediately following the events of Flash S1E15 Rogue Time and extends into S1E22 Rogue Air.

Recruitment Drive fav.me/day7w4n
A sequel to Flash Sideways
3 Chapters
Leonard Snart tracks down Shawna Baez to his Rogues for a very specific purpose. Days later, Shawna helps Lisa track down Roy Bivolo for a job of her own.
Takes place during and after the events of Flash S1E22 Rogue Air and S1E23 Fast Enough.

Time May Change Me fav.me/db3zxsk
7 chapters.
The Legion of Doom wants to recruit Leonard Snart to their cause, but they don't expect him to buy the "change your destiny" spiel all that easily. They decide, instead, to prepare him, to change his history so that he is properly motivated to work for them.
"Prequel" to Flash Sideways. The Legion's interference sets it at some point during Legends Season 2. Slightly alternate timeline to What Could Have Been.

Legion of Doom fav.me/daq28ru
4 chapters
Random theory in which the Legion recruited a much younger, pre-Flash Leonard Snart. He remembers being part of the Legends, but the Legends do not, and he must find a way to cope with this fact and evade Darkh's control.
First chapter takes place during What Could Have Been, a Flash Sideways prequel fic. Following chapters follow an alternate timeline to Legends Season 2.

Majummed Story-verse
Beginning of a Legend fav.me/dbidpaa
3 chapters
Prologue to the Majummed story-verse with vague ties to my Flash Sideways story-verse.
What happened to Leonard Snart when the particle accelerator exploded, and why doesn't he remember it? Takes place during the night of and the morning after the explosion.

What If.... My Headcanon was Real Canon?
Assorted ficlets that rewrite certain episodes just to see how my fanfics would influence canon events. Written purely for my own curiosity, not intended as fix-fics though some might resemble that.

Infantano Street fav.me/dcn39uz
1 chapter
In which Barry recruits Len to help him steal the power source from Argus. Assumes Flash Sideways to be real.

Reflex fav.me/dcobaee
1 chapter
Julian Albert (because Caitlin joined Savitar) is checking Len's medical condition to be sure he's able to help with the aforementioned theft.

Random fics
Confessions fav.me/dan8ivz
6 Chapters
Leonard Snart finds himself confiding certain secrets to the assassin Sara Lance... and the two discover that there are things Len doesn't even know about himself.
What are those secrets, and why did he feel the need to tell Sara about them on the day they met?
Trigger warning: non-con discussed in Len's childhood. Rated mature for the portrayal of that non-con in one chapter, in the form of a nightmare of a memory of a child who didn't understand what was being done to him in the first place.
Takes place during Legends S1E1, before the crew takes off for their first jump through time. Told from multiple perspectives.

Final Thoughts fav.me/dahl3we
1 chapter
Explores the destruction of the Oculus Wellspring from Leonard Snart's perspective, and kicks off events in a few other fanfics.
Takes place at the end of Legends S1E15 Destiny.

Blind Date fav.me/dall6pf
1 Chapter (for now)
In which Lisa Snart manipulates her older brother into going on a blind date... with Barry Allen.
AU for obvious reasons; no idea when it would "take place" within the Flash continuity, besides at some random point after Len discovers the Flash's identity in Flash S1E16 Rogue Time.
Might be continued if I ever decide what they do on their date, but for now the two of them discovering what Lisa had done is good enough for me.

Sonic the Hedgehog/Knuckles the Echidna

Spectres of the Past
Cover fav.me/d35xqst ToC fav.me/d7eozqt
23 chapters plus related stories
A glimpse into the childhood and career of the Guardian Spectre. He's survived numerous tragedies, loved, lost, and somehow loved again, and continues to fight on, even though he isn't always certain just who, or what, he should be fighting against.

Liaison fav.me/d34qtt8
2 chapters
A brief look at Spectre's then-wife Jani-Ca and her friends as they help her look into Spectre's condition. Takes place towards the end of, but not after, Spectres of the Past. Rated mature for sexual themes.

Nightmare Spectre fav.me/d6yco2v
1 Chapter
Explores what might have happened when Spectre was abducted and forced to receive the Dark Legion's cybernetics. Explores both his memory of the event and Grandmaster Luger's thoughts on the matter.
Timing is... all over the place.

Uneasy Alliances fav.me/d35ezpa
2 chapters
The next chapter of Spectre's life tells of how some of his fellow Guardians cope with his fate and try to ease his suffering.

Endings, New Beginnings fav.me/d35pde8
1 chapter
The final chapter of Spectre's history... and the beginning of so much more.

Self Reliance fav.me/d36907e
1 chapter
Alternate Universe in which Remington and Komi-Ko are brother and sister. Members of the Chaotix attempt to flirt with Komi-Ko... with disastrous results.
Written only for laughs, but it did inspire some of the elements in Bad Blood.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Stiletto's Tale fav.me/d58jy73
5 chapters
A look into the events that led to Stiletto's initiation into the Royal Guard... starting shortly after she moves to Canterlot.

Wisp's Tale fav.me/d6no231
4 chapters
A look into the events that led to Wisp's temporary retirement from the Royal Guard... starting with how he meets Stiletto.

Vincentia's Tale fav.me/d6xo44g
5 chapters
A look into the events leading up to Vincentia's final painting, starting with her recent arrival in Ponyville.
Told from multiple perspectives, including Vincentia's and up to three different canon ponies.

Character Bios

Sonic/Knuckles

Voalt Remington the Echidna fav.me/d5q1raw
Jani-Ca the Echidna fav.me/d4in6hi
Raki the Dingo fav.me/d4iqqoi
Aki-Ra the Echidna...meleon? fav.me/d4ifgp2
Tyson and Elys-Ia fav.me/d9nvc96

My Little Pony

Swift Shade the batpony/air elemental fav.me/d6hu1i3
Wisp the Pegasus fav.me/d6hvfu6
Cloak and Dagger the fire and earth elemental twins fav.me/d6ng7xo
Stiletto the Pegasus fav.me/d6hzfdh

DC/Legends of Tomorrow

Majummed (Earth One) fav.me/dbl1hu8
Majummed (Earth Two) fav.me/daip8cj

In Progress

DC/Legends of Tomorrow

What Could Have Been fav.me/daxugnx
A prequel to Flash Sideways.
A criminal venture organized by the Santinis leads Leonard Snart to working for Tess Morgan and Harrison Wells. He is surprised to learn that he actually enjoys working for them... until the Reverse Flash screws it all up. Leonard's friends must cope with his apparent descent into madness as he tries to cope with memories of a timeline that doesn't exist.
Story begins in 2000.

Legends of Another Day fav.me/db1oc23
A sequel to Flash Sideways.
Leonard Snart, aka Captain Cold, is trapped in Iron Heights after killing his father and surrendering to the Flash. His sister, Lisa, however, is in Central City in the midst of Vandal Savage's attack on the city. Leonard must cope with discovering the destruction of the city, and his memories of a timeline that no longer exists.
Takes place during Flash S2E8 Legends of Today and Arrow S4E8 Legends of Yesterday.

Frustration fav.me/damjztu
In which the bar fight is over much too quickly for Sara Lance's liking; she wants some more action, and decides Leonard Snart is a convenient way to get it. But the fight with Chronos gets in the way.
Trigger warning: non-con suggested in Len's childhood.
Takes place during Legends S1E1 Pilot, during and immediately after the bar fight... and a little after the fight with Chronos. Told from multiple perspectives.

Catalyst fav.me/dckzlam
Following a time skip of a couple of years after the particle accelerator explosion, Leonard Snart, Robber of ATMs, has mostly settled in as a member of the Legends. He still finds it uncomfortable every time someone remind him of the good he has done, but that doesn't stop him from jumping in head-first now and again to protect the team... with unpredictable consequences.
Takes place during Legends S1E8 Night of the Hawk and S1E9 Left Behind.

Alternate Universe fav.me/dai13my
What might have happened if Leonard Snart (and others) had never joined the Legends... and Zoom took notice of him.
Much OOC because of reasons.
Framing story during Legends S1E14 River of Time; main story between Flash S2E12-13 Fast Lane and Welcome to Earth-2.

Necropolis fav.me/dcptlto
A "what if" based on a remark Kendra makes in a chapter of Catalyst. The Legends visit a necropolis to find an artifact that might help in the fight against Savage, but a rocket launcher destroys Leonard's escape route, leaving him stranded on a pillar with no way down. Carter tries to rescue him, but Len's recently-developed fear of heights interferes. Takes place between the first two episodes of Legends of Tomorrow season 1.

Sonic the Hedgehog/Knuckles the Echidna

Bad Blood fav.me/d36f73l
Tells about Remington's childhood and the trials he faced that led to him becoming Constable of Echidnaopolis.

Kancho the Chameleon bio fav.me/d4igy9r

Sonic/Knuckles story-verse headcanon fav.me/d70qhx3
Assorted canon/fandom theories that I've developed for my fanfics, and such theories as created by other fans that I simply choose to believe.

My Little Pony

Winter Lotus bio fav.me/d6usid7
Siren Song bio fav.me/d6vnwqm
Pony Elemental "bio" fav.me/d6i40x7 (needs editing)

Friendship is Magic Headcanon fav.me/d6sf0z7
Assorted canon/fandom theories that I've developed for my fanfics, and such theories as created by other fans that I simply choose to believe.

Doctor Who

The Prince and the Doctor fav.me/d73ypbh
Featuring the Tenth Doctor and Martha.
Ten promises Martha a visit to Camelot to see knights and dragons, and instead visits the planet Asgard to see knights and dragons, with a brief stop at a modern-day Renaissance Festival along the way. Once they reach Asgard, they discover that something is seriously wrong, and they must help the crown prince figure out who's behind the recent change in politics.

Spies of Cybus fav.me/d78iwab
Doctor Who/Spies of Warsaw crossover
In which the Tenth Doctor (following the Battle of Canary Wharf) meets Jean-Francois Mercier (roughly two decades before the book/movie)... and some Cybermen.
The two must figure out what the Cybermen want and why it requires not upgrading anyone. But Jean-Francois is not, as his sister phrases it, "acting like himself," and cannot seem to decide whether the Cybermen or his lookalike is the real enemy.

Sensory Defensiveness fav.me/d79xfb4
Based loosely on a dream I had.
In which Ten is running from his own future. Jack Harkness and Sarah Jane fear he is completely withdrawing from reality, and they fake an "emergency" to try to get him involved again.
But their fake emergency turns out to be more real than they had anticipated.

Doctor Who headcanon fav.me/d77ye5f
Assorted canon/fandom theories that I've developed for my fanfics, and such theories as created by other fans that I simply choose to believe.

Tree Fu Tom

Origins/Twigs' Greatest Fears fav.me/d95svcg
How Tom met the Treelings, and why Twigs is afraid of jelly.

Table of Contents to my finished fanfics
Progress report (of sorts) for my incomplete ones
To-Do list of those stories I have planned but have not yet begun, or those that are on hiatus (listed separately from the merely "incomplete")

Currently includes the Sonic the Hedgehog/Knuckles the Echidna, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, DC/Legends of Tomorrow, Doctor Who storyverses... and a few other random things as I go.

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Necropolis 4: Recovery

When Carter woke, he felt refreshed and completely dry.
How long have I been asleep?
The play of lights outside the window told him they were back in the temporal zone. No information there.
A fresh outfit lay folded at the foot of his bed. He dressed and donned his armor—now clean, though he was sure he would have woken if anyone else had entered the room—and left to find answers.
He didn't encounter anyone until he reached the corridor to the Med Bay. Sara stood guard outside.
Carter looked away from the assassin. "Still want to find out if the League can stop me from reincarnating?" he asked. "Who knows? Maybe they came up with something new since the last time I dealt with them."
"I'm still thinking about it," she replied. "Go on in, if you really think you need to."
He gave her a curt nod and approached the door. But voices within made him hesitate.
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Necropolis 3: Rescue Operation

"He better get back down here soon," Sara muttered. "I don't know about you guys, but I can't keep this up for much longer."
Rip shook his head. "I don't think we can keep this up for long even with Mr. Hall's aid," he admitted. "The good news is, this lot has some peculiar ideas about leadership. They won't attack if there's nobody in charge."
"We take out the warlord, we win?" Mick asked. "What's the bad news?"
"The warlord will only attack if he sees a chance to take out whomever he believes to be our leader," Rip said. "But he'll be staying out of the thick of things as long as possible."
Sara groaned. "And since Leonard is the only one who isn't 'in the thick of things,' the warlord's probably going to target him."
Rip nodded. "That would be my theory, as well."
"Then we gotta find this guy," Mick said.
"Any ideas?" Sara asked.
A body flew off the pillar and crumpled on the ground in front of Mick.
"Found him," the arsonist said before he unloaded a full clip

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Necropolis 2: Recon Mission

Leonard gritted his teeth and kept moving. Carter had flown up to him a few times to comment on his progress, but the thief had kept his mouth firmly shut.
Decades of surviving under Lewis' control had told him exactly what the demigod had been doing. Carter had almost certainly wanted to provoke him, to force him or Mick to start a fight, ready to claim—and rightly so—that he'd only been defending himself if either of them retaliated; frightening the thief might have been a bonus but it had never been the man's intent.
And that alone was reason enough to ignore him. Why give Carter that satisfaction when Leonard could claim that he was simply trying to concentrate on the climb?
And the fact was, Leonard did need to concentrate. The ledges were considerably wider than the map had led him to believe, but so were the gaps separating them, and many of the bridges threatened to crumble under his feet. Seven times he'd had to signal to Sara, so that she coul

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Necropolis 1: Low Tech

Ray made another adjustment to the Atom suit's wiring, and a shot hit the deck between the criminal pair.
Mick jumped. "Watch it!" he snarled.
Leonard merely glanced down to examine the burn mark, and watched with mild curiosity as it vanished from his sight.
"Sorry!" Ray said quickly. "Sorry." He sighed. "What's the point of us even giving this a second thought? Rip has already seen the future. He knows exactly what's in store for each of us. Might as well have stayed dead, 'cause the world doesn't need any of us." He glanced at Sara. "You're just a lost assassin." He transferred his gaze to the two thieves. "You're just a pair of good-for-nothing criminals."
Mick glanced at him. "I can live with that," he said, and returned his attention to his own weapon.
Leonard had to agree with Mick. The professor had been right, after all; people didn't typically consider you a legend until after you were dead. Making a mark on history held a certain appeal, and half

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What If: Reflex

"Okay, now close the right eye," Julian said.
Leonard closed his right eye as instructed and opened the left. He tried not to flinch at the light shining directly on his pupil.
"Tracking's good," Julian said. "Both eyes dilate and constrict properly. No more double vision?"
"No," Leonard replied. "I'm fine. Or I will be as soon as you quit trying to blind me. Can we get on with this?"
"Not quite yet." Julian set the light down and picked up a rubber mallet. "I believe next is—"
"I hit back," Leonard said.
That hadn't been true for years, but he still found himself astonished at what he could decipher about a person's medical skills by how they reacted to such a comment.
Cisco looked up from the monitor and watched them with a gleam in his eye.
So glad one of us is amused. Leonard refrained from rolling his eyes at the kid's expression.
Julian's mouth opened and closed a few times. "It's to check your reflexes," he finally replied.
His eyes were narrow, but his hands

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What If: Infantano Street Recruitment

"And I assume saving your girlfriend requires us doing something... less than lawful?" Leonard asked.
"We need to break into ARGUS," Barry replied. "And steal an alien power source."
"The Flash, a thief?" Leonard smirked. He flexed his right hand, making sure his fingers were plenty limber for whatever he might need to pick up. "That's my kind of mission." He frowned. "Just one problem; when are you from? When's this heist supposed to go down?"
"Um...." Barry shuffled his feet; he wouldn't look at the thief. "2017," he mumbled.
"Hmmm.... sorry, I'll have to pass," Leonard said. He turned around and walked into the Waverider.
Barry followed close behind. "But Snart, I—"
"Mr. Snart!" Rip snapped. He glared at the thief. "How many times do I have to tell you people, to stop bringing in—Mr. Allen?"
Barry sighed and removed his cowl. "So much for keeping it a secret," he muttered.
"Everyone on this ship already knows who you are," Rip replied.
Leonard

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Frustration--Leonard Snart

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Trace 3: Field Work

Vanishing Point

Damien stared at the chart, his amusement warring with impatience as he waited for Eobard's tantrum to run its course.
"Agh!" Crash!
And there went all of that sensitive equipment that Eobard had claimed was so very critical to their mission.
Damien chuckled. "Temper, temper." He turned around and grinned at the furious speedster.
"Don't test me, Damien!" Eobard snarled.
"Shouldn't it be the other way around?" Damien asked. "You sent me and Malcolm off to find the Kalabros Manuscript while the Legends managed to abscond with the Spear of Destiny. I should have that zombie speedster you're so afraid of eat your brain."
"No," Eobard murmured. "No, this... is actually a positive development."
"Or maybe he already has," Damien added.
Eobard shook his head. "With the entire Spear in the Legends' possession, we no longer have to keep going after it piecemeal."
"Yeah...." Damien said, "I'm a glass half-full kind of guy—"
"The Legendary idiots

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Catalyst 01: Night of the Hawk

Harmony Falls, Oregon, circa 1958

"Oh, boy," Martin said.
Leonard agreed with the sentiment. "Just when you think you've seen everything," he replied.
The bird-thing leapt for the two men, but Leonard quickly knocked it out with a blast from his cold gun.
A second creature dove at them. A second blast of ice sent it flying backwards.
"Guess those missing kids are no longer missing," Leonard added.
But what has Savage done to them?
And just how many people had that lunatic changed? Judging from the screams in the distance, they had a lot more than four missing kids to worry about.
A growl came from the shadows ahead, and a third creature emerged. A sour feeling built in the pit of Leonard's stomach; even the previous two creatures couldn't prepare him for this new horror.
"Oh, my God," Martin said. He stared at the creature advancing on them. "It's Jefferson."
Leonard eyed the creature warily. This thing was the kid?
"Jefferson," Martin said, "it's... us!"
T

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AU 13: Memories

Leonard slumped in his usual perch above the Pipeline, waiting for something, anything, to convince him that they actually had a chance. For the last fifteen minutes he'd watched as two of his Rogues, Roy and Shawna, struggled to take Nyssa down.
Mick waited near the combatants, watching for a chance to tackle the assassin, while Thea watched from a perch similar to the thief's own.
They battled it out within the Pipeline itself—with the repairs going on nearby, and Jay and Joe's argument upstairs, the tunnel was the only place big enough for the fight without the risk of damaging important equipment. And yet, even with Shawna's teleportation, she and Roy were losing.
Badly.
Oliver gave a piercing whistle that made Leonard clap his hands over his ears but did nothing to make the fighters hesitate.
"Ow," Thea muttered. She pointed to her left ear. "Can you do that again, Ollie? I think I can still hear on this side."
The archer shook his head. "Nyssa!" he called. "Mi

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Amber Character Bio

Name: Amber.
The name itself is a temporal paradox—when Leonard first met her from his perspective, that was the name she'd introduced herself with. But when Earth One's Mick and Earth X's Leo first met from hers (vis a vis a time travel mission), Mick recognized her and called her by that name, confirming that he would know her very well at some point in her future.
Where the name came from in Timelines 1.0 and 2.0 (both without Len or Leo's participation on Rip's mission, and thus without that initial meeting from her viewpoint) has never been revealed.
(Likewise, this is why she prefers to call call Len "Leo" after meeting the Earth One version.... this and the fact that she'd met him as a child when he still went by the name of Leo.)
Sex/Gender: Ambiguous. The identities Len is most familiar with utilize a female persona according to the traditional definition of the word; she has confirmed she is quite capable of taking male and other roles, though her a

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AU 12: Three Fronts

"29, 28, 27, 26," Cisco counted down. "Come on buddy, just 25 more to go."
Nyssa, clad in blue jeans and a t-shirt, examined a set of x-rays at another computer.
"Any luck with his injuries?" Sara asked.
"Not as such, no," Nyssa replied. "It's rather fascinating, actually. We of the League have always been trained to press on in spite of injuries, to tend to them only as the mission allows or if they imperil our success, but we are no more adept at healing than any other. But this man, Snart.... I've never seen anyone recover so quickly." She glanced over to see Leonard watching the monitor over Cisco's shoulder.
The thief looked up to catch her eyes on him, and immediately recoiled. He had barely stopped doing that since Henry had allowed him out of bed.
Nyssa quickly looked away before she risked panicking him again. Fear was a common weapon for the League, but it served no purpose here and would almost certainly interfere with the mission. "Physically recover,"

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AU 11: Best Laid Plans

Roy Bivolo crouched over the barely-conscious Oliver Queen and removed his mask. "Ah, damn," the metahuman said. "Lost that bet."
Shawna Baez smirked at him. "Told you. Pay up."
"Er... rain check?"
"Oh, god," Barry muttered, hiding his face in his hands.
Oliver groaned. "What hit me...?" He lifted one hand towards his head, and stopped short. "Why am I handcuffed to a chair?"
"Need me to hit him again?" Shawna asked.
Mick snorted. "That's supposed to be my job."
"I wanted to knock him out, not kill him," Shawna retorted.
"Oh, god," Barry muttered again.
"You missed a hell of a freak-out, Biv," Mick said, ignoring Barry completely.
Roy frowned. "Pity. But knowing Leonard, it's only a matter of time; I just hope I can see how my power works before he ends up dead."
"Hey, whoa, whoa!" Cisco protested. "That is just sick!"
Caitlin shot Roy a scandalized look. "You want to see if you can enrage Snart while he's having a panic attack?"
"Not enrage," Roy sai

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Trace 2: In Training

Vanishing Point
Leonard raced through the corridors, trying desperately to outrun his pursuer.
He burst into the council chamber—no place to hide—and looked around wildly for another escape route.
Several levels above, Damien and Eobard peered down to watch the show.
"How many times has it been?" Damien asked.
Eobard shrugged. "I lost count after fifty-two."
"So where'd you hide it this time?" Damien asked.
Eobard simply pointed to a higher level on the other side of the chamber.
Damien looked up at the level indicated and scoffed at the cold gun prominently on display. "He's been all over the place by now. He'll find it. You might not even have to step in."
"I'm done stepping in!" Eobard snarled. "I had no idea he'd be a damn coward without his sister. But he's useless if he won't fight."
"He'll fight," Damien insisted. "He'll do whatever he thinks necessary to bring her back. He simply has no experience with a proper duel."
"He never will have

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Tracing Time 1: Final Recruit?

"We're going back tonight," Leonard said.
"Back where?" one of his thugs asked.
"To the museum," Leonard explained. "That diamond isn't going to steal itself."
"Super gun freeze your brain, Snart?" the other thug scoffed. "The museum's going to be crawling with police by now. And the Streak."
"This can stop the Streak," Leonard said, hefting the cold gun. "It hurt him, and I know his real weakness. So we go, unless you want out."
"We both want out," one of the thugs growled.
click!
Leonard paused, barely turning his head when he sensed the guns pointed at him.
"Alive," the thug finished.
"So you thought ahead and made a plan," Leonard drawled. "Least I taught you something." He sighed. "So what are you waiting for? Shoot me."
Neither thug moved.
Morons. Clearly they needed another lesson in following their plans, but he just couldn't dredge up the energy to care any more. "You better put a bullet in my brain right now," he snarled. "Because if

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Sep 27, 2018

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*sigh*
And once again I have a story with only chapter one posted, or even written, for that matter.... and my brain decides I need to work on chapter 10-or-so.
(In my defense, I had just seen the Infantano Street episode of the Flash and the chapter I'm working on is based directly off of that--albeit without the scenes that require re-watching for specific dialogue--whereas the chapter I should be working on requires re-watching the tail end of Night of the Hawk and the bulk of Left Behind before I can write any of it.)

And, courtesy of a flashback/exposition within the chapter-10-or-so my brain also decided I need to work on yet another "what if," this one requiring the team to go on at least one attempted mission between Chronos' attack in episode one and the arms sale in episode two. And then I need to rewrite that flashback so it's a little less exposition and a little more just alluding to what (hopefully this time) will actually be a fairly short chapter.

One of these days I might continue writing these stories in an order that I can actually upload them.

Jul 6, 2018

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Currently working on (almost) the same scene from two different timelines, several chapters into What Could Have Been.
Because my brain doesn't want to tell me what happens in chapter 3.

Jan 2, 2018

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Oh the joy of epublishing....
Finding a typo in a "published" work and being able to fix it without printing off a whole new edition.
And then realizing you have half a dozen more copies of the story to fix.

Biggest Lies of Our Time? (social, not political)

by SideQuestPubs, Aug 2, 2018, 8:52:41 AM
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I would've created a poll for this just to see how some of the options rank, but I don't currently have a core membership (and can't be bovvered to get another one just for this) and I'm not sure I want to put it on my writerly FaceBook page.

But here is the question: What would you say are some of the biggest lies of our time.... albeit without bringing politics into the equation? (So leave your MAGA and similar ideologies at the door.) And why do you think it's a lie?

Me, I think there are a few specific lies that need to be on that list.
"The check's in the mail" seems to be a famous one. (Though sometimes the check really is in the mail.)
"The customer is always right." (As any retail employee knows... especially when that customer decides to be abusive.)
"It was just a joke."

That last may one need a bit of elaboration.
I will grant you, it is possible for "it was just a joke" (or more accurately, "it was meant as a joke") to serve as an explanation.... or part of one. If it is acknowledging the disconnect between how the joke was intended and how it was received, and if the teller of the joke is willing to take responsibility for what they'd said. Personally, I don't know whether this is my autism or me in general, but I find it hard to apologize without acknowledging that disconnect, which naturally requires acknowledging my intent; the apology just doesn't feel sincere otherwise. (My biggest failing in that regard is that my apologies don't always include the words "I'm sorry," so there's another disconnect for me to work on.)
I've made jokes that I didn't realize until hours later probably didn't sound the way I intended, and yes I will mention the fact that I have a weird sense of humor when I attempt to apologize for them. (Yes, #JohnBarrowman, I'm still calling it weird!

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But all of that requires the teller of the joke to own up to the fact that they said something that might have been offensive. To accept that they contributed, however unintentionally, to the insult that occurred. Even if they don't come right out and apologize, even though they have no control over how the recipient interpreted those words, the teller of the joke needs to be willing to take responsibility for the fact that they themselves said those words.

If, on the other hand, the phrase "it was just a joke" is accompanied by anger towards the recipient, by phrases like "get over it" or "get a sense of humor"....
If the joke-teller is so bad at reading their audience that they immediately assume upset on the recipient's part the very instant the recipient replies, even though the recipient was merely addressing the logical side of the joke (or gods forbid, joking back)....
Or worse, if the recipient is genuinely upset by that type of joke every single time it is told (case in point, one clearly at the recipient's expense, such as a "threat" to sabotage one of the recipient's sources of income in the name of maintaining control over the recipient's theoretical free time) and the joke-teller continues to tell jokes of that type.....
If the teller of jokes is upset when they themselves are on the receiving end of jokes of that sort, yet they continue to make the same kinds of jokes about other people....
Well, there is a reason the joke-teller assumed offense on the recipient's part, and the recipient is not to blame for that assumption. (No, not even if the recipient has a sense of humor so dry that they sound serious even when at their silliest.) And it was most definitely not "just a joke."

And the reason I'm not (yet) inclined towards posting this on FaceBook...?
Well, for one thing it has no place on the writerly page unless I can find a plot bunny in it.
For another, if I post it on my personal profile, past experience tells me that the parties who inspired this particular rant will see it and a) ignore it as they are clearly incapable of being in the wrong and therefore I couldn't possibly be talking about them or b) accuse me of "airing their dirty laundry" (never mind that they made it mine to clean up however I can the moment they flung that metaphorical laundry in my face) without me ever once mentioning who and what inspired the piece to begin with. Trying to talk with them in person, unfortunately, tends to lead to some combination of these two results.

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