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I am very very very tired - got up sixish following a very unsettled night and spent several hours race-marshalling on Queen's Green. (Got up before my AO3 kudos email! that is my definition of early.) It's for charity, it was good fun if freezing cold, and there were literally more than a thousand runners - it seemed very much like every local business and every university faculty had a team, which made for a feeling of general camaraderie if very unwieldy team names. (It's quite difficult to shout, "Go, go South Cambridgeshire District Council!" but people womanned up and did it.) Work had four teams. I stood there in my high-vis and attempted not to yawn.

Anyway. I am tired and trying hard not to fall asleep. To that effect, let's do this, nabbed from fahye:

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School/College AU

I should probably warn you I'll just end up writing you snippets. My fandoms are all listed on my AO3 page.

edited to add: haven't seen yesterday's Doctor Who. So anything but that but things related to yesterday, I mean. Doctor Who in general is fine!

Fic(lets):

for philomytha, Aral and Simon and telepathy

for ladymercury_10, Amy/Rory, huddling for warmth

Comments

[avanti-90.livejournal.com]

Vorkosigan, Aral/Alys, pretending to be married or historical AU. (I can't decide between the two, so whichever you prefer.)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

As the canon is set hundreds of years in the future on a colonised planet somewhere else in the galaxy, Earth in the early 21st century is a historical AU, right? Right?

…right. No title for this, as it really is a snippet from a longer story that doesn't exist.

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They meet on a bench on the South Bank and watch the tugboats go past on the river. A small group of jugglers is entertaining some schoolchildren a little further down; behind, the sound of traffic is muted but present. Aral has always enjoyed the everyday sounds of the city.

"This is your way, of, ah, wooing me," Alys asks, laughing, taking a bite of her sandwich. "Professionally, of course."

"Of course," Aral agrees, and shrugs, waves a hand at the river in general, making its last slow curves into the estuary. "The whole of the city at your feet. As a bonus, it's the only place where you can't see that damn thing."

That damn thing is the London Eye, revolving slowly just above their heads and not, indeed, in their direct line of sight across the water. "I rather like it," Alys says. "It transformed the skyline."

"Ah." Aral pauses. "Your area of expertise."

"Public relations?" Alys looks at him. "A coalition government's not worth the agreements it's built on, if that. It's just a name for something that doesn't exist yet. It will exist when people believe in it."

"Belief," Aral says, quietly. "My wife often says no government exists until people believe in it."

"Well, then." Alys smiles. "You need me."

"Does this mean," Aral says worriedly, "we're going to talk about things like branding, and corporate direction, and…"

"We're going to talk about whatever I want us to talk about," Alys says. "If you're very lucky I won't begin by addressing the colour of your ties."

Aral laughs and reaches for her hand. "Welcome aboard."

[avanti-90.livejournal.com]

Ha! Aral wooing Alys for public relations and branding and corporate direction! Not to mention the color of his ties. I love it.

[philomytha.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's perfect! Especially the belief factor in politics. And Alys would be a most excellent spin doctor...