you can't take the firmament from me

The challenge: write 100 stories in 100 fandoms using the table prompts.

001.	universe	002.	edge	003.	cleave	004.	distance	005.	away
006.	home	007.	key	008.	star	009.	dust	010.	shadows
011.	old	012.	new	013.	borrowed	014.	blue	015.	promise
016.	dishonour	017.	wreck	018.	fix	019.	crack	020.	discover
021.	fiddle	022.	fire	023.	water	024.	waves	025.	salt
026.	balm	027.	fear	028.	wear	029.	mask	030.	truth
031.	courage	032.	hope	033.	raised	034.	fall	035.	spring
036.	birth	037.	morning	038.	welcome	039.	belong	040.	share
041.	count	042.	mean	043.	teasing	044.	fantasy	045.	game
046.	work	047.	bed	048.	turn	049.	swing	050.	kitchen
051.	cull	052.	quell	053.	arrested	054.	inside	055.	chance
056.	alive	057.	sleeping	058.	late	059.	rain	060.	bottle
061.	steal	062.	brilliant	063.	theory	064.	practice	065.	war
066.	storm	067.	voyage	068.	swim	069.	wallow	070.	settle
071.	ground	072.	space	073.	silence	074.	screech	075.	snap
076.	scratch	077.	bug	078.	lighting	079.	faded	080.	ghost
081.	history	082.	time	083.	mirror	084.	drawing	085.	trailed
086.	way	087.	run	088.	here	089.	heart	090.	perfection
091.	right	092.	sanction	093.	can	094.	collection	095.	crowd
096.	oversight	097.	graduate	098.	laughing	099.	unless	100.	final

( Fandom brainstorming. )

Title: draw back your bow
Fandom: One Direction
Rating: R.
Length: About 14,000 words.
Characters/Pairings: Niall/Louis.

Summary: Niall is a cupid who takes his job very seriously. He's grateful for all the help he gets from his friends and from his own magic. But what happens when he gets a name without any hints? Will he be able to figure out Louis Tomlinson's love match, and, possibly, find his own love in the process?

Notes: Big thanks to onthehill for looking this over, to annemari for cheerleading, and to annemari and fiarra for all the Nouis support this year. Special thanks to the lovely mods of 1dsummerbang for running the fest and giving me a reason to finish! It's always nice when I can finish stories I've been writing for nine months.

Notes about the story: there's alcohol/drinking. In terms of secondary pairings, there's background Harry/Nick, Harry/Zayn, Zayn/Perrie (it's knowing v-shaped poly), and Liam/Sophia.

Also on AO3.

( draw back your bow )

Title: Halcyon
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: NC-17
Length: About 12k.
Characters/Pairings: Mikey/Frank, secondary Ray/Gerard.

Summary: It started, as it often did, as a favor for Gerard. Gerard was the reason Mikey was a supermodel who wore both suits and dresses for work, and Gerard was the reason that Mikey helped out a budding designer named Frank Iero.

But falling in love...that was all Mikey and Frank, really.

Notes: For bandombigbang 2015. Be sure to check out the wonderful complementary art by chibifukurou!

This story includes references to depression, addiction, and mild gender dysphoria (Mikey is genderqueer). The non-binary stuff riffs off my personal experience and isn't meant to represent a greater whole. (Also, I'm DFAB and Mikey's DMAB, which means some of it was speculation by necessity.) Thanks to the mods of this lovely challenge (I can't believe I've been doing it for four years now!). This story is in tribute to the great people I've met through bandom, many of whom helped me sort through gender identity stuff through example or direct conversation or both.

Also on AO3.

( Halcyon )

Title: a river for a soul
Fandom: One Direction
Rating: NC-17.
Length: About 1800 words.
Characters/Pairings: Liam/Harry.

Summary: That's what's strange about getting off with one of your mates after years of friendship. You know things.

Notes: Taking my cues from none other than One Direction themselves, it's the middle of the night, and I'm sharing stories I've been sitting on! This is the first of two stories I wrote months ago, and I don't know why I never posted this one, but...I didn't? Until now, of course.

Thanks to onthehill for being so great about checking over my random stories. Anything off is my doing.

Also on AO3.

( a river for a soul )

Title: Top Flight
Fandom: Taylor Swift/Model RPF
Rating: NC-17
Length: 9182 words.
Characters/Pairings: Taylor/Karlie

Summary: Taylor hadn't thought about a new Weyr under her guidance as an opportunity to make friends. The most she'd allowed herself to hope for was to be left alone.

Or: Taylor is the first female bronze rider in Pern, and Karlie is Ista's new Weyrwoman.

Notes: Originally written for the TSwift Tribadism Tropefest, but I finished this super late (and then sat on it for a while for no reason), so I'm posting it on my own.

This story contains gendered slurs and talk of rape culture. There's no "dragons made us do it" like in Pern canon, though. Related to that, I took a lot of liberties with Pern canon in both major and minor ways so I could address things like gender roles and equality, consent, and people who aren't straight. It's still pretty recognizably Pern, though.

Also on AO3.

( Top Flight )

Title: My Light is Electric
Fandom: One Direction
Rating: NC-17.
Length: About 23,000 words.
Characters/Pairings: Louis/Zayn (endgame), Louis/Liam, Louis/Harry, Louis/Niall.

Summary: Alphas aren't just meant to be ravished, and that's as important a lesson as just how fun ravishing can be.

Louis hates being an omega sometimes, but he can cope. His alpha bandmates are happy to help him break his heats, and he's happy to help them through their first heat or knotting experience. Everyone wins.

Falling for his one other omega bandmate, on the other hand, isn't something Louis's prepared for.

Notes: Written for 1D Big Bang. Make sure to check out the great mix by Bohemu here!

Special thanks to the wonderful onthehill for looking this over, and to the mods for putting the whole thing on.

( Other notes. )

( My Light is Electric )

Title: our hands were just that close
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: R
Length: ~1900 words.
Characters/Pairings: Frank/Gerard.

Summary: The first time Gerard lies on the gurney on the Black Parade tour cycle, he's alone. (A daemon AU.)

Notes: Written for a prompt on bandom_meme. Also on AO3.

( Content notes/notes on daemons. )

( our hands were just that close )

Title: Like Portia and Ellen
Fandom: One Direction/Radio 1 RPF
Rating: NC-17
Length: About 10,425 words.
Characters/Pairings: Harry/Nick.

Summary: "Did I agree to move in with Harry Styles?"

In 2020, Nick's done with the Breakfast Show, moving to LA for his new job, and ready to be a proper adult. Mostly.

Notes: Note about content: there's non-explicit talk of vomit in the story. For spoilery info on some of the canon used for this story, see the end notes.

So many people helped me with this story! Thanks to:

-Hllangel: your prompts were not only perfect and very helpful, but they fit and fleshed out an idea I already had and wanted an excuse to write. (Also, it was really hard to keep this quiet on Twitter. ilu ♥)
-onthehill: Champion beta and Britpicker who got this back to me on Christmas Eve. I took some creative liberties with the Briticisms - I figured Nick in this version of events would be familiar enough with the US to use "freeway" instead of "motorway", for instance - so any changes/errors are mine.
-Everyone involved in wrangling this challenge/creating the collection/etc. It's been a blast!

Also on AO3.

( Like Portia and Ellen )

Title: (So We Could Start It) All Over Again
Fandom: Bandom (Fall Out Boy)
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~7k.
Characters/Pairings: Pete/Patrick.

Summary: Pete is Patrick's escort when Patrick's not busy being a superstar producer and Pete's not busy worrying about his failing band. When Patrick hires Pete to help a struggling group in the studio and stops hiring him for sex, can they adjust to their roles changing, or will they go their separate ways when the album's finished?

Notes: My second of two stories for akamine_chan's fanworks auction; thanks to sperrywink for the donation and the detailed prompt (and sorry for taking so long!), and thanks to faildamaged for the beta. Title's from One Direction's Over Again.

Also on AO3.

( (So We Could Start It) All Over Again )

Title: And highways I call home
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance/Fall Out Boy)
Rating: R.
Length: ~7k.
Characters/Pairings: Mikey/Patrick.

Summary: When Mikey joins Fall Out Boy on tour for a couple weeks, he finds out all kinds of surprising things about Patrick. That he's a werewolf is pretty low on the list.

Notes: This was written for akamine_chan's fanworks auction (and my deepest apologies to glitteryv for going so far over the projected finish date, oops). The story's set loosely in summer 2014, with some liberties taken for creative reasons/because I felt like it. Title's from MCR's Summertime also because I felt like it.

Additional content notes: ( Mildly spoilery. )

Also on AO3.

( And highways I call home )

Title: Any fin is possible
Fandom: One Direction/Radio 1 RPF
Rating: NC-17.
Length: 6066 words.
Characters/Pairings: Harry/Nick.

Summary: Harry falls off his ship and washes up onto an island. Turns out, he's not the only one looking to get home.

Or: in which Harry is not a pirate, Nick doesn't like a cuddle (except when he does), and they both have magical secrets.

Notes: Biggest thanks in the world to onthehill for not just Britpicking, but catching missing words and so on. Any remaining errors are mine.

Also on AO3.

( Any fin is possible )

Title: Triptych
Fandom: One Direction
Rating: R.
Length: About 3200 words.
Characters/Pairings: Zayn/Louis/Harry.

Summary: The centrepiece of our exhibition, Triptych is simultaneously the most inviting and least accessible of Zayn Malik's pieces.

Notes: Big thanks to onthehill for the speedy Britpick; any mistakes left are definitely mine. Thanks also to the usual suspects for their help/support, the mods for running Remix, and to the author for creating such an interesting story and taking part in a fest that let me play around with it.

Also on AO3.

( Triptych )

Title: Barnacle
Fandom: Bandom (Fall Out Boy)
Rating: PG.
Length: About 1000 words.
Characters/Pairings: Pete/Patrick.

Summary: It's not like biology's ever paid attention to anyone's plans, much less Patrick's avoid-Pete's-heat tour plans.

Notes: I originally wrote the concept of an asexual character in an alpha/beta/omega universe not the desperate type, an Avengers Pepper/Natasha story. I was going to leave it there, but romantical commented with "In my head, Pete and Patrick are now Pepper and Natasha." and this happened. Whoops.

Also on AO3.

( Barnacle )