icarusancalion

Title: Only The Bold
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Gen
Rating: PG-13
Summary:

Hatake Kakashi gazed around the teachers' break room with a mix of humor and bittersweet fondness. Asuma flopped back on the futon in the corner with a grunt and lay like a sack of potatoes. His neck was covered in bee stings from when he'd pulled Chouji out of a poorly selected hiding place. Guy had a fringe of singed hair and only half an eyebrow from The Notorious Paper Bomb Incident. Kakashi would mock, but he himself had a bandage across the bridge of his nose where Naruto had stomped his face running from a carnivorous rabbit.

They all looked considerably worse than the kids, in fact.


https://archiveofourown.org/works/51393631


I noticed the girls all seemed to fall behind once the kids were doing real missions as Genin. Turns out Kakashi did, too.

Hello and happy New Year!

I'm extremely late for my SGA Santa (John/Rodney, PG). If anyone is available tomorrow to beta, that would be much appreciated. I'll have the first draft finished tonight.

And then I'll be able to read the fic written for me. :D

I also have three Naruto Shippuden fics ISO a beta, if there's any interest:

- A comic Shikamaru/Temari piece, PG-13 but with much nudity. ~4k words

- A Sasuke ficlet. PG, Gen. 700 words. Based when he's approached by the Akasuki.

- An epistolary post-Shippuden canon (not Boruto or the films), PG. ~3k words
Sasuke trying to piece himself back together. Naruto tries, Kakashi tries, but it's Sakura who makes headway into his self-absorption. Sasuke/Naruto, Sasuke/Kakashi, Sasuke/Sakura.

My favorite Naruto characters are Naruto, Kakashi, and Shikamaru (and Akamaru). Love the warm and compassionate Iruka, too. But for some reason, like Naruto, I can't help but try to fix what's broken in Sasuke.

Title: The Cold Wind of Harsh Truth (or How We Nearly Lost the Sunshot Campaign): A Treatise
Fandom: The Untamed/MDZS
Author: icarusancalion
Recipient: Amalthia
Pairing: Jiang Cheng POV; Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Fic belongs to me; the characters do not, yadda, yadda
Author's Notes: Thank you to theleakypen for persevering in sickness and health with neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night stopping the betaing of my first fic in the MDZS fandom. Also dedicated to my good friend Amalthia who introduced me to my new obsession, and obliquely requested Jiang Cheng.
Summary: The Atlantis expedition exchanges Christmas gifts, banter, and inside jokes.

("Truth was, Jiang Cheng would rather face a thousand battles than one humiliating moment of disapproval if he knew he was in the wrong. Right now he was wrong in so many directions, he was trapped like a fly in the spider’s web of his own pride. And so, true to form, he churned inwardly… and did nothing. But he did nothing with a lot of energy and frustration."

Jiang Cheng pisses off the cultivating world when he writes a treatise on exactly what went wrong in the Sunshot Campaign.)

I have fanficc'd. New fandoms! (For me at least.)

Anyone into Naruto? What about The Untamed?

amalthia suggested I post some of my observations about the differences between Netflix's "The Untamed" and the original web novel, as translated on Exiled Rebel's, and what I noticed about the first two chapters of the professional translation by Seven Seas.

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In other RL news: toothaches suck.

Watching The Untamed and enjoying it -- including the Mack truck sized plot holes. Not fannish about it, and not much time to write anyways. All my fic ideas are still SG-1 and SGA.

Grateful people enjoyed Veni, Vidi, Vici (or Rodney's High School Reunion): https://archiveofourown.org/works/43840062 No reply from my recipient, but what can you do but put your feet up, lean back, and mainline another episode of The Hurt-Comfort--I mean, The Untamed.

Also reading a web comic by Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions called Aurora: https://comicaurora.com/

I, of course, adore the haughty Erin Ruunaser. Great characters, amazing world building, every character is emotionally insightful but okay, fine. I'm not really a webcomic person (this is my first) but I loved the Ruunaser reveal. (You'll know what I mean when you get there.) I'm taking a break from it because they're doing zombies and I don't like zombies, so I figure I wait till she finishes that section and skim through it.

Santa gave me a flat tire for Christmas.

( I'm sure he didn't mean to. )

Welcome! sga_secretsanta has revealed the author names.

Fic: Veni, Vidi, Vici (or Rodney's High School Reunion)
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: John/Rodney
Summary: Mathematically, Rodney had solved the age-old problem that was the high school reunion.

For respoftw, who requested BAMF!Rodney.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43840062

It's good to be back.

Is anyone interested in betaing an SGA Santa fic? Rodney-centric (request is BAMF Rodney) -- I KNOW, I somehow always wrote John POV.

Not fandom-related, but I found this article fascinating:

https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/