meridian_rose

90% public, 10% friends only


I'm polyfanamourous: An incredibly long but now rather outdated list of my fandoms is here ; particular past and current favourites include The Borgias, Da Vinci's Demons, Firefly, Legend of the Seeker, Revenge, V (2009), early Black Sails, The Orville, Deception (2018), Blood & Treasure.

All of my fanworks and most of my entries, including some original fic pieces are public. F-locked are more personal posts, and occasional discussions on things such as sexuality, as well as some original fic pieces.

My interests include reading, television and film, fanfiction, mythology and folklore, wine, walking, pets, digital photography, and I dabble in various crafts. I believe my bodily autonomy is paramount. I'm neither left nor right now, instead feeling more libertarian/pro-freedom than authoritarianism.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” C S Lewis

Original Fic masterpost ~ Disclaimer and Transformative Works Statement ~ Graphics & Resources post

Gonna do my very best, it ain't no lie (13644 words) by meridian_rose
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Poker Face (TV 2023)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Charlie Cale/Good Buddy
Characters: Charlie Cale, Good Buddy (Poker Face)
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 02, Pre-Season/Series 03, Good Buddy (Poker Face TV 2023), Case Fic, Romance, Drama, Happy Ending, Older Characters, mentions child grooming, Abduction, Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence, tv tropes: OC stand-in, small fandoms bang 2026, Community: 100fandoms, 100 fandoms dreamwidth, Prompt: Run, Title from an ABBA Song, Song: Take a Chance on Me (ABBA), Author has never been to Connecticut
Summary: Post season two. Steve, aka Good Buddy, is delighted to discover the hitchhiker he picked up is Charlie Cale, aka Pretty Vacant. They get along just as well in person and Steve eagerly offers to show her around his hometown in Connecticut.
The easy friendship soon blossoms into romance, though Charlie cautions him that she's still on the run, and a permanent magnet for danger. Steve is willing to take the risk, until a missing person case seems to prove Charlie right.
at AO3
TV tropes says this fleshing out of Good Buddy makes him an OC Stand in
Written for the 2026 Small Fandom Big Bang challenge which never completed the art matching phase due to the sad and untimely death of the organiser.
I remember fondly all of the small fandom challenges spikedluv, a well known name in a number of fannish circles, ran over the years and am grateful for everything she accomplished and the fanworks created because of her.

50 icons of Detective Watts (Murdoch Mysteries) for seasons_of_fandom The Eccentric Detective prompt which is a perfect description of Llewellyn Watts. There's a video on Youtube of Detective Watts being wacky for 4 minutes that shows some of his quirky behaviour and mannerisms.
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Various icons made for seasons_of_fandom
Westworld (TV), stock - other, stock - cats and dogs, School Spirts season 1



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I love this fest and thanks to a new mod (aflaminghalo) stepping up, it is running again this year.
Visit unconventionalcourtship or go directly to the sign-up post; read the rules, pick a day you'd like to post on and comment with your chosen date. 1k minimum fic, romance novel summary used for inspiration, any and all pairings (or moresomes if the prompt allows) are welcome. There's a link to a generator in that post which gives you plot summaries for inspiration, or you can find your own summary.

Round 2 of seasons_of_fandom is opening soon! Multifandom challenge community with original fic and stock icons welcome. Challenges include graphics, writing, and puzzle games.

Please check it out, and if you join tell them I sent you :)
Some no pressure pre-round challenges are already posted but the community and challenges open fully in April.

sign up post

14 tumblr graphics made for Seasons of Fandom - my favourite challenge, taking quotes or song graphics and pairing them with a different fandom.

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End of year fic meme snagged from flareonfury

Questions if you want to play:
<br />Fics Posted This Year: <br /><br />Total word count: <br /><br />Fandoms written in: <br /><br />Fandoms I wouldn't have expected to write this year: <br /><br />Looking back, did you write more fic than you thought you would this year, less, or about what you'd predicted?<br /><br />What's your own favourite story of the year?: I<br /><br />My best story of this year: <br /><br />Most popular story of this year:<br /><br />Story of mine most under-appreciated by the universe, in my opinion: <br /><br />Most fun story to write: <br /><br />Sexiest story/story with the single sexiest moment:<br /><br />Hardest story to write: <br /><br />Did you take any writing risks this year?: <br /><br />Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?: <br /><br />Stories I haven't yet written, but intend to:<br /><br />Stories I have started writing, but never finished:<br /><br />

Fics Posted 2025: 16 fics including a couple that I'd previously written some time back for Lands of Magic and finally got around to polishing and posting, one Yuletide fic, an unconventionalcourtship fic, and a fic for bethefirst which I'd started the previous summer but finally used the challenge as a push to complete and post it.

Hope everyone is enjoying "Twixmas" that time between the frantic lead up to Christmas and the New Year's return to work/school. I've done some in store and online sale shopping/browsing and some tidying/sorting. Taken down some decorations so it's all at once. Leaving the lights until last.
In lieu of writing posts I just seem to be dumping All the Thoughts about things like Beyond Paradise Christmas special and Lord of the Rings nostalgia in other people's posts. My own posts are sporadic but I do try and read my circle on a semi regular basis, and I'm committed to seasons_of_fandom which keeps me active in making icons, writing drabbles, playing games, and commenting on other user's works.

I received a truly lovely Yuletide gift fic in the Rivals fandom ♥ Look, I'm Emotionally Bankrupt First Bas had the brilliant idea of dressing them all up like the four musketeers for a fancy dress fundraiser; now he won't stop interfering in whatever's between Rupert and Taggie.
If this keeps up, Rupert swears someone's going to get run through with a dull sword.
My recipient seemed to enjoy the fic I gifted them. though another fic given as a treat (so same parameters) got more comments. Even when I write the explicit fic it's not quite good enough sigh

Upcoming is the Snowflake Challenge. Let's see how many/how late I do the challenges! Click the banner below to visit the comm.

The Winter Solstice has been and gone, and the daylight is returning slowly. Not that you'd know today, I haven't seen anything but grey skies! Wrapping is done. Cookies have been baked. Christmas is approaching. Season's greetings and happy Christmas!



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