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I was wanting to update tonight but it's gone 11pm and I wanna get to bed. (I got involved in watching the new David Attenborough program.^^) So, as a mini-update until I can get on properly, take this photo of one of the butterflies we had at the zoo today. These lovelies are beauts!


This is the Indian Leaf butterfly (Kallima inachus) from South-East Asia. Sitting on a pitcher plant. (Please click to see it bigger. The thumbnail really doesn't do it justice.)

Will be back as soon as I can with a proper update! :)

Okay, first of several fics to be posted! This is the way-belated response to sasha_b's prompt for the Prompt Meme. I actually wrote it aaages ago but, with being MIA and all, just haven't posted it... Sorry!! BUT on the up-side, I wrote two responses to the prompt and decided, since I'm so late, to post them both. :) Two for one!

Fandom: King Arthur (2004)
Prompt: Arthur/Lancelot, "knees"
Final note: This was the first time I'd attempted to write A/L. It's light. I'm finding my feet with these two.

Title: Ready, Steady, Ambush!
Characters: Arthur & Lancelot (mentions of others)
Length: 435
Rating: PG
Summary: When the knights are still young and learning, Arthur invents many war "games" to train and teach them. Lancelot, however, doesn't always approve.

( It is a perfectly good training exercise )

Title: Damsel in Distress
Characters: Arthur & Lancelot
Length: 618
Rating: PG
Summary: Lancelot has trouble showing gratitude for his rescue.

( all trussed up like a brace of rabbits )

Feedback is love. ♥ Hope you enjoyed, Sasha!

Fandom: Tamora Pierce
Title: A Surprising Blow
Characters: Kel/Zahir
Length: 147
Rating: PG
Summary: As the King's squire, he'd only been average at best. Kel's about to learn first-hand how much better he's gotten.
Prompt: Kel/Zahir "be fair" from rain_sleet_snow for the Prompt Meme. (Of which there are two slots left.)

Author's Note: Oh dear. Firstly, it's been yonks since I've done anything TP-related. Secondly, I never really paid Zahir much attention. (Whoops. Sorry Zahir.) (I did skim-read PotS for any bits with him in; after which I decided I couldn't fret too much about this being OOC when there's so little of his character in canon anyway.) Thirdly, it isn't very shippy. (Sorry May.) I couldn't get it shippy (without resorting to sickly sweetness) and stick to the prompt and still be relatively close to drabble-length. Maybe when I'm more practiced again I can give it another attempt for you, May... :P

Anyway, enough excuses. I hope you like!

 

 

Fandom: King Arthur (2004 movie)
Title: The Dead Hours of Night
Characters: Gawain
Length: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Perhaps there's a darker side to Gawain, perhaps there's a part of him that's horribly resigned.
Prompt: 6a from ka100 
Maybe the season
The colors change in the valley skies
Dear God I've sealed my fate
Running through hell
Heaven can wait

Long road to ruin
There in your eyes
Under the cold streetlights
No tomorrow
No dead-end in sight

Long Road to Ruin, Foo Fighters

( In the dead hours of night )

Feedback is love. ♥ Also, there are still a few slots left on the prompt meme, if anyone's interested.

Nabbed from May:

The first TEN FIVE people to comment in this post get to request a drabble of any pairing/character of their choosing from me (word prompts are good too). In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. (You don't have to, but it would be kinda cool if you did. Just sayin'.)

I've halved the number of people because otherwise I would not cope AT ALL. I don't want to not be able to write fics to people's prompts, or get so busy it takes me weeks to finish all ten, so I'm just doing five for now. Maybe once I've done these five, I'll put it up again for the other half.

Also, I can't promise the drabbles are going to be exactly 100 words long every time. Depends how particular I'm being.

I'll try my hand at anything from: Tamora Pierce, Robin Hood (BBC), King Arthur (2004 movie), Doctor Who (New-verse), Torchwood, X-Men (movie verse, incl. Wolverine), Iron Man (movie-verse), plus at a stretch - Nolan-verse Batman, or PotC. Is that enough of a choice for you? :P

Fandom: King Arthur (2004 movie)
Title: Affinity
Characters: Galahad
Length: 100
Rating: G
Summary: Compassion and affinity came to Galahad abruptly.
Prompt: Picture prompt, over here.

Author's Notes: Ha, clearly the picture warped in my head when I went to write this. It doesn't look like I thought it did when I go back to it now. Oh well!

( lift up lanterns to expose faces )

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Fandom: King Arthur (2004 movie)
Title: Anticipation
Characters: An unnamed knight and his mother.
Length: 100
Rating: G
Summary: She hated the agreement, and there was nothing she could do but wait for them to come for her son.
Prompt: Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. [Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.]

Author's Notes: ka100 has been restarted, woo! I've been waiting for one of the prompts to catch my muse - and I loved this one. Something different for the fandom. This probably doesn't technically fit the community's rules, since the main character is supposed to be one of the knights, but hey. Enjoy anyway. Cross-posted at the community, here.


( so long to anticipate )

I think (in fact I'm pretty sure) someone just spoilt the entire main plot point of Torchwood series 3 for me. I've been carefully avoiding spoilers like the plague - and a single, inconsiderate, unsubtle comment in a fic summary/AN has, I'm sure, blown all that. For fuck's sake, people. It really isn't hard to keep things totally spoiler-free for a few weeks. Bloody hell.


(Sorry, it might seem like over-reacting, but I hate not being given the choice of spoilers. I hate having spoilers thrust upon me without warnings when I'm deliberately trying to avoid them. I used to always read/watch as many spoilers as I could get my hands on, but had too many occasions when this ended up ruining the final product for me. Now, for something I'm really fond of, something I'm really looking forward to, I like to keep it all a surprise. Thanks, fuckers idiots that ruin that.)

Fandom: Torchwood -- so it all belongs to the BBC & RTD.
Title: Three Times a Valentine
Characters/Pairings: Rhys-centric, Rhys/Gwen (cameos from the team)
Rating: PG for language.
Words: 3,272
Warnings/Spoilers: None really. Set between 'Meat' and 'Something Borrowed'.

Summary: Rhys has to learn to cope with Torchwood and all it entails - even when it's subtler things than getting shot. (Hopefully not sappy. I didn't want to do a sappy Valentine's Day fic.)

A/N: Yes, the place in "Plan B" is loosely based on my memories of Cardiff's The Pancake House. "Rarebit" is short for 'Welsh rarebit', which is basically a yummy, Welsh version of cheese on toast. Finally, I'm not sure if what Rhys actually does to Gwen's phone is, er, doable - but, hey, artistic licence.

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