Walking the Line Between "Hobby" and "Mental Illness"

Title: Dealer's Choice
Characters/Pairings: Keith/Lance/Shiro
Summary: Matt has a plan to get Shiro laid; Shiro has a lot of misgivings about this.
Notes: Mundane AU kind of a thing, because I wanted a thing where Lance and Keith take Shiro home from a club and bang him like a drum. Smut, the barest trappings of plot, Shiro's body issues, pancake-waffle discourse, and Shiro bottoming like a champ (hah!). 6277 words.

( Matt grabs Shiro's real hand and hauls him forward, ignoring all the laws of physics regarding inertia, relative mass, and force that say he shouldn't be able to budge Shiro. But then, physics really can't account for a Holt who's got the bit between his teeth, so Shiro ends up paying the cover and following Matt inside the club in spite of all his misgivings. If nothing else, he'll get the chance to tell Matt how wrong he is, and that is not an opportunity to be missed. )

Title: Ill at Ease
Characters/Pairings: Aomine and Kuroko
Summary: Aomine has his doubts about being an overgrown catboy, but Kuroko doesn't (and doesn't mind proving it).
Notes: Continuing on in the catboy!Aomine vein, a bit of fic about the aftermath of his transformation, taking place after "Workplace Accidents and Other Hazards." Adult for smut; 3184 words.

( Kuroko ran out of patience the afternoon a customer entered a shop, saw Daiki loitering there, and immediately turned and went out again. )

Title: Call and Answer
Characters/Pairings: Eren and Jean
Summary: For reasons known only to himself, Jean's always the one Eren calls.
Notes: Adult for smut; generic modern-day professional adults AU (like Jean is a hedge fund manager kind of a thing). Canon character death (sorry, Marco, sucks to be you). Beware of feels; Eren's messed up and apparently determined to take Jean down with him. 2362 words.

( Eren calls him at a quarter of twelve, forty-five minutes after Jean switches his bedside lamp off and maybe twenty minutes after he falls asleep. )

Title: Tribute
Characters/Pairings: Aomine and Kuroko
Summary: Aomine doesn't particularly want to be a tribute to the god on the mountain.
Notes: Adult for smut. Written for Porn Battle XV. AU in the Mushishi-flavored vein. 3711 words.

( Tribute to the god on the mountain, his frozen balls. More like the headman of the village was pissed that he'd caught Daiki in the barn with his pretty daughter and figured that getting rid of Daiki by way of a slow death by exposure was only fitting. )

Title: Like Mr. and Mrs. Smith (But Totally Not)
Characters/Pairings: Aomine/Kuroko, Momoi, Kagami, Alex, Imayoshi, Susa, Wakamatsu, Sakurai
Summary: The one where Aomine's a hitman and Momoi's his handler and Kuroko is his target, and y'see, that's where it all gets kinda complicated...
Notes: You know that movie with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie? Kinda like that. But not. Hitman AU; adult for guns, smut, violence, and Em indulging the hell out of herself. 27,989 words.

( 'This one will be easy, you said. Practically a cakewalk, you said. No problems at all, you said. Hah!' Satsuki jammed a fresh clip into her Beretta, took a breath, and then threw herself around the corner, firing steadily to cover her retreat. )

I've been looking at my folder for Works In Progress and have concluded that some of them are never actually going to be finished, generally because I had a neat idea, wrote a scene or two that fulfilled whatever yen I had in the first place, and then never felt particularly compelled to finish the rest. (It's all to do with how I write: I write to find out what happens next, so if I figure that out in too much detail, I no longer feel all that fussed about writing it down.)

So here are some things that I will never actually finish writing, edited up a bit, with closing notes that summarize roughly what would have happened in the rest of the fic, had I finished it. Caveat lector, dear readers: these are things that I am laying to rest because I will not be finishing them.

( Competence Kink: in which Yamamoto is very confused. 671 words. )

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( All Cats Are Bastards: How Gokudera and Uri came to understand each other. 1396 words. )

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( Augmentation: Kyouko/Haru with implications of Tsuna/Gokudera and eventual Tsuna/Kyouko/Gokudera/Haru. 1326 words. )

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( Recruitment Opportunity: The one where the Varia recruits Bianchi. 1698 words. )

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( Creatures of the Night: the one where Bianchi is a vampire and Dino is a hunter. 2291 words. )

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( Grad School Is Hell: in which Dino is a hapless graduate student. 2034 words. )

Title: A Kinda Sorta Fairy Tale
Characters/Pairings: Midorima/Takao; Akashi
Summary: This isn't a fairy tale, Takao knows better than that.
Notes: Teen, because yakuza AU. Based on this set of pictures from Pixiv [partial translation here]. 10931 words; beware of Feels.

( They're not like that, Kazunari knows this for a fact, but it's beginning to occur to him to wonder whether Shin-chan knows this. )

Title: A Year in the Life: Dino
Characters: Dino, Romario, Reborn, Bianchi, Yamamoto, Kyouko, Gokudera, Tsunako
Summary: In which Tsunako gives Dino some things to think about.
Notes: Continuing the re-imagining of the Daily Life arc from Dino's point of view. Genderswap, mafia and gender politics, shameless fribbling, but no bears. Part of Choice: The Betrothal Arc. Series Index. General audiences. 18,886 words.

( Dino stared at the name on his phone's display with a sense of deep apprehension before he could bring himself to answer, because Reborn had an unerring sense for the best ways to puncture a man's ego. )

Time for another round-up of Tumblr drabbles!

( Ordinary People, AoKuro, university, 1309 words )

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( Ordinary People: how cuddling works now, 918 words )

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( Rule 63 'verse, MidoTaka, makeup help, 787 words )

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( AoKuro, library, 655 words )

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( AoKuro, pool, 898 words )

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( AoKuro, career-ending injury, 412 words )

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( AoKuro, martial arts AU, 1000 words )

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( AoKuro, solo, 583 words )

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( Aomine/Fem!Kuroko, married with children, 1097 words )

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( MidoTaka, Married AU, 625 words )

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( MidoTaka, unconscious seduction, 1578 words )

Title: This Time Round
Characters/Pairings: Enjolras/Grantaire
Summary: The revolution is about to start—but it hasn't started yet. There's still time for a few things to be said.
Notes: Adult for smut. Written for Porn Battle XIV, to the prompts AU and yearning. One part book canon, one part musical, one part movie, and one part SF AU. 2776 words.

( When Enjolras raises his eyebrows—what is it now?—Grantaire says, 'You know you're going to get us all killed.' )