Sheenianni's journal

Candy Hearts Exchange Letter

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:21:26 GMT

Dear creator,
thank you in advance for creating a gift for me. My general likes, DNWs and information specific for various fandoms are listed below. Treats are very welcome!

General Likes: Friendship, Family (including Found Family), Warm Feels, Humor, Adventure, Romance (without Explicit content), Good people, Kind people (including grumpy or sarcastic but kind deep down), AUs (especially canon divergent), Ethical dilemmas, Both Sides Have a Point, Enemies-to-Friends(-to-Lovers), Love rooted in friendship, Characters standing by each other, Characters trusting each other, Getting to know you better, Quiet moments together, Characters being vulnerable, Building a future together, Queer people, Ace and queerplatonic relationships, F/F relationships, Awesome women, Competent people, Smart people, Happy or Hopeful endings, Libraries, Love of learning, Love of Nature, Love of Science, Crossovers/fusions between my fandoms

General DNWs: Explicit sexual content, Violence exceeding canon-typical level, Non-con, Gore, Fertility struggles, Character bashing and Wildly OOC characters, Blindness, Dark/hopeless endings, Non-canon character death

Fandoms:
Scholomance - Naomi Novik
Pairings: El/Liesel, El-Aadhiya-Liu
I love the themes of the series; I love El's humor and her whole personality - sarcastic, abrasive and yet a huge idealist, even though she doesn't want to acknowledge that side of her. I'd love to see more of El's friendship with Aadhiya and Liu, whether at the Scholomance or some years down the road. The moments when El meets Aadhiya's family in book3 are some of my favorite in the series - so warm and hopeful. I'd love them discussing the events of book 3 - the maw-mouth situation for Liu, all El's struggles during that period - or perhaps dealing with various matters later on. Just give me more of that amazing strong friendship and I'll be happy.
For El/Liesel, I'd love them more fleshed out as a real couple, whatever that means for them. Them coming to terms with loving each other; realizing they want to be together for more than just immediate comfort; building something lasting, whether conventional or not. I don't mind El/Orion or Liesel/Alfie still existing in the background, as long as they are not the focus of the story and it's a relationship of informed, consenting adults (I don't want any of the relationships to be viewed as "cheating").

Old Kingdom - Garth Nix
Pairings: Lirael-Disreputable Dog; Lirael-Imshi
Lirael as a queer-coded character with all her struggles meant the world to me as a teenager. I'd love to see more of her friendship with the Dog (missing moments, dream "but was it really just a dream", future or AU scenarios). I'd also love more of her relationship with Imshi, whether simply as friendship or as some version of queerplatonic or romantic relationship. Give me all the good feels there.
For one potential future fic idea, I'd love Lirael having a family, including children, whether that's her own, adopted or even some sort of "very present aunt/practically a third parent" scenario. "Messy, unconventional but loving" sounds particularly great.
If a past or present Lirael/Nick pairing is referenced, please keep it in the background (one exception: I would accept more Nick presence if he's the father in the family scenario outlined above, with him and Lirael as "split up but getting on well co-parents").

Uprooted - Naomi Novik
Pairings: Agnieszka/Kasia
If the book disappointed me in any aspect, it's that we got Agnieszka/the Dragon instead of this pairing. I'd love an AU of the story where Kasia and Agnieszka get together instead, or their relationship post-books, or Kasia recovering from her experience with the Wood and Agnieszka being there for her... Just more of their relationship, I guess.
If Agnieszka/Sarkan is referenced, please keep it as a past pairing and in the background.

White Collar (TV 2009)
Pairings: Neal/Sara
I just adore these two in so many scenarios, canon and AU. They're fun together and challenge each other, but they're also able to be vulnerable with each other (which is not first instinct for either of them). I love them working together (and occasionally against each other :D ), I love them standing up for each other and holding each other accountable. I love them meeting on the right side of law, I love stories where they meet more on the wrong side of it. I love the relationship slowly growing and almost creeping up on them, and one day realizing their "fun fling" is actually deep and real. Basically just these two with a happy or at least hopeful ending.
Would rather not Neal be in prison during the story. For other characters, I adore June, Mozzie, Diana; I don't mind Peter or El but I'd rather they weren't a strong presence in the story.

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Fandomtrees, writing, holiday

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 07:27:40 GMT

I signed up for Fandomtrees again this year - it's a multifandomm holiday gifting exchange, similar to what Fandom stocking used to be. My tree can be found here.

My fandoms for this year are the Scholomance, Spinning Silver, the Old Kingdom books and White Collar. If you'd like to leave treats, the tag set at the website or the google spreadsheet works pretty well.

In other news, over the past year, I've pretty much moved to posting my fics solely on AO3. I hope to post the links here eventually, probably at the end of the year or in early January (I'm currently working on my Yuletidaassignment, as well as two fic for Fandom Trumps Hate). My Masterlist definitely needs an update.

In case I don't post before then, have a lovely holiday everyone :)

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I stand with Ukraine

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:17:41 GMT

Please help in any way you can.

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A beta-reader?

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 13:47:02 GMT

I don’t know if anybody still follows this journal. And if you do, whether you’re still into White Collar fandom after all these years. And if you are, whether you’d be interested in beta-reading my 53k (still growing) monster of a story…

If by any chance you would be, let me know? I’ll love you forever.

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White Collar Fic: Severance

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 14:39:30 GMT

Title: Severance
Author: sheenianni
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Mozzie; background Neal/Sara
Word Count: ~ 1,400
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Summary: Neal went to prison for Kate. He was not going to do it again for Peter. Canon divergent AU set somewhere around episode 3.7. Not a happy fic.

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Loki ep.4

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:21:26 GMT

OMG WHAT TWISTS!!!
...like, where do they go from here??? A week is too long to wait! And this season is only six episodes, they're going to end it in some really terrible cliffhangers, aren't they. Not fair. Not fair at all.
NEED. MORE.

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Star Wars & female reproductive rights (essays? stories?)

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 07:36:14 GMT

So I just ran into a prompt at 3sentenceficathon and it got me thinking...

What's the situation with female issues in SW (and especially, what is it like for female Jedi)?

There's the whole "Padmé's having twins and doesn't know" thing, but even ignoring that...

So the Prequel Jedi preach their "no attachement, yay celibacy" shtick. Let's also not forget that almost all Jedi were with the Order from age of one or less (and not of their own choice, but a choice made by their parents... anyway). If you extrapolate from here, what's the likelihood they get anything like informative and helpful sex education?

Who tells young Jedi girls about menstruation? Does anyone hold the little nine year old when she starts bleeding and instructs her on using pads (or other options)? Do they get their regular OB/GYN checkups? Do Jedi kids get instruction on contraceptives? What's the Jedi stance on abortions?

How different are things for the various species?

For several hundred years, Yoda (male) is the head of the council the council; you don't see many females there. Is it all hush-hush, look it up on the HoloNet? Older girls pass on (incomplete and inaccurate) information to the younger girls? What about Jedi who get pregnant?

Most fictional universes ignore these questions, and yeah that's debatable, but fair enough... Except Lucas opened this can of works himself with: a) immaculate conception, b) The Tragic Childbirth, and c) the No attachment/celibacy thing.

Are there any essays or fanfics that tackle this?

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Person of Interest drabble: On her feet

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 09:24:03 GMT

Title: On her feet
Author: sheenianni
Fandom: Person of Interest
Characters/Pairings: Sameen Shaw; Shaw/Root
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~350
Summary: Shaw needs to relax and learn a new skill. S5 spoilers.

A/N: Written for sholio’s Happy Distracting Comment Fest. Not sure on the "happy" thing but oh well...

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Old Kingdom/Abbhorsen series fic: Heart Rot

Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:17:50 GMT

Title: Heart Rot
Author: sheenianni
Fandom: The Old Kingdom/Abbhorsen Series (Garth Nix)
Characters/Pairings: Clariel
Word Count: ~ 940
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Clariel: The lost Abbhorsen
Summary: The Forest and Free Magic; two voices that call to her. After a long journey, Clariel begins her exile. Post-book (may or may not be part of canon, depending on your preference).

A/N: Written for the first day of mini_wrimo. There was this beautiful picture prompt of a peaceful misty road in tall grass which brought me here… Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

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Fic Masterlist

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 18:04:40 GMT

A list of my stories sorted by fandom and length. Fics without a listed pairing are gen, at most with background canon pairings. Last update: October 2019.
Note: Older stories have links mostly to LJ, newer are also linked to DW.

WHITE COLLAR:

( Epics )

( One-shots and episode tags )

( Drabbles )

STAR WARS( … )

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER/LEGEND OF KORRA( … )

CASTLE( … )

PERSON OF INTEREST( … )

HOUSE, M.D. ( … )

IZOMBIE( … )

CROSSOVERS AND FUSIONS:( … )

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"Books read BBC meme" (borrowed from pipilj)

Sat, 07 Sep 2019 20:27:24 GMT

Borrowed from pipilj:
The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

Expanded by me: put in italics those items where you have never heard of neither the title nor the author.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

So I’ve read 23 items on the list if I’m counting right? Not counting some others (Bible, Anna Karenina, The secret garden, a few more) which I haven’t finished, skimmed through for literature lessons or can’t for the life of me remember what they were about.

And 30(ish) books/authors that I’ve never heard of. I’d love to hear how they composed the list? Is it the list of a hundred most read books/series? If so, it’s weird to see some of the titles and authors omitted, such as the GOT books, The Book Thief, Stephen King, Jonas Jonasson (I absolutely hated The 100-year-old man but it is a pretty well known novel), Paulo Coehlo (The Alchemist at least is extremely popular here), something from Remarque (maybe he’s too German/central European?), Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Astrid Lindgren. From recent works, maybe Hunger Games, (ugh) Twilight or (UGH) 50 shades? Or how about Sophie’s choice?

Which books did you like; which are missing?

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Fanart: Talia Bishop (The Rookie)

Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:35:53 GMT

Medium: Fanart
Characters/Pairing: Talia Bishop
Rating: PG I guess?

Author’s note: I’m sad and angry. Thus, fan-arting.
Also, in this article from November, Afton Williamson sounded so excited about the show :(

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iZombie fic: The Z-family

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:35:04 GMT

Title: The Z family (as told in 25 moments)
Fandom: iZombie
Author: sheenianni
Characters/Pairings: Liv Moore, Ravi Chakrabarti, Major Lilywhite, Peyton Charles, Clive Babineaux; Liv/Clive, Ravi/Peyton, past Liv/Major, past Clive/Dale
Word Count: ~ 2100
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Seasons 1-4
Summary: The various moments in the lives of Liv, her friends, family and New Seattle over the course of roughly five decades. Post-Season 4, probably not Season 5 compliant.
Content Notice: Very mild sexual content, non-graphic mention of BDSM
A/N: A belated gift to cookielaura for fandom stocking (first posted over there ).

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Avatar: the Last Airbender Drabble: Icy

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 11:44:31 GMT

Title: Icy
Author: sheenianni
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Characters/Pairings: Zuko, Uncle Iroh
Rating: PG
Word Count: 214
Summary: Zuko sees snow for the first time.
A/N: Written for the Three Sentence Ficathon.

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White Collar Fic: Rats, Rescue & FBI

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 09:42:01 GMT

Title: Rats, rescue & FBI
Author: sheenianni
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke
Word Count: ~ 860
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Summary: Peter is kidnapped. Neal comes to the rescue. Season 1 AU.
A/N: Written for pipilj. for fandom stocking. Tried to combine some of your “likes” into one fill… ehhh :D I hope you like?

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White Collar Drabble: Empty Spaces

Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:30:31 GMT

Title: Empty Spaces
Author: sheenianni
Characters/Pairings: Diana/Christie
Word Count: 300
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Season 4
Summary: The aftermath of a break-up.
A/N: Was supposed to be Comfort!fic. Obviously didn’t work out.

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House M.D. Fic: A Loyal Companion

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:46:45 GMT

Title: A Loyal Companion
Author: sheenianni
Fandom: House, M.D.
Characters/Pairings: Gregory House
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,200
Summary: Some House introspection.
Content Notice: Thoughts about drug abuse, suicide, prostitution; some bad language
A/N: It was write House’s depression or wallow in my own. I picked writing.

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Fic: Saturday Morning

Thu, 31 May 2018 13:07:15 GMT

Title: Saturday Morning
Author: sheenianni
Fandom: A random university, probably somewhere on Earth
Rating: PG
Word Count: 700
Summary: The Lab is Alive!
A/N: Written for one of the getyourwordsout’s challenges. This was fun :D

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White Collar Fic: Thieves and Liars

Wed, 30 May 2018 13:45:44 GMT

Title: Thieves and Liars
Author: sheenianni
Fandom: White Collar
Characters/Pairings: Alex/Sara
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None
Word Count: 700
Summary: So much for the romance. Alex and Sara’s relationship falls apart. Post-Season 6 AU.
A/N: Written for one of the getyourwordsout’s challenges; set in the same universe as Something Stolen.

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White Collar Drabble: Heartless

Sun, 13 May 2018 08:36:58 GMT

Title: Heartless
Author: sheenianni
Characters/Pairings: Alex Hunter
Word Count: 444
Rating: PG
Summary: Alex goes swimming. Post-Season 6.

A/N: Written for one of the getyourwordsout’s challenges.

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White Collar Fic: A Summer in Prague

Fri, 11 May 2018 22:06:40 GMT

Title: A Summer in Prague
Author: sheenianni
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Mozzie
Word Count: 800
Rating: PG
Summary: It’s year 2002 when Peter and Neal meet again, and it’s under circumstances that neither of them imagined... Pre-series AU.

This is a remix, a missing scene or whatever you call it of my earlier story/art thing called Chasing Bonds. You might want to read that after finishing this one.
Written for the collarcorner exchange for polleekin.

A/N: First of all I need to apologize for taking so very long with this story. Full disclosure – there was a completely different fic which kept growing, and eventually it became clear it would never work without being significantly better fleshed out. As it is, I’m currently contemplating turning that concept into a full-blown original novel – if I ever get to writing it. So I decided to let that be for the moment and write this story instead.

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White Collar Fic: Caught

Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:14:46 GMT

Title: Caught
Author: sheenianni
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Diana Berrigan (pre-Peter/Neal)
Word Count: ~1,100
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Summary: Peter Burke would be disappointed if he made it too easy on him, Neal thinks as he runs. Pre-series AU.

A/N: Still in the middle of reposting my Stocking fics. This one is actually a year old, but oh well…

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Fanart: Olivia (Burying the Ex)

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 14:26:50 GMT

Medium: Fanart
Characters/Pairing: Olivia
Rating: PG-13

Author’s note: Movie’s cringe worthy at time (Travis!) but really need comfort!Olivia today to keep me sane.

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White Collar Drabble: Strays

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 12:30:24 GMT

Title: Strays
Author: sheenianni
Characters/Pairings: Kate, Neal, Mozzie (Neal/Kate)
Word Count: 432
Rating: PG
Summary: When Kate's life takes an ugly turn, Neal and Mozzie are there to help her pick up the pieces. The "they're all cats" AU that nobody asked for. Ahem.
A/N: Written for getyourwordsout during the Word Bowling Challenge. Essentially, you get ten words and then write a ten-line story with each word being on one line. I expanded it afterwards. ( Here are the words if anyone’s interested. ).

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White Collar Fic: Old Ties

Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:52:44 GMT

Title: Old Ties
Author: sheenianni
Characters/Pairings: Sara Ellis, Peter Burke (past Neal/Sara)
Word Count: ~1,300
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Season 6
Summary: Sara has closed the door behind the chapter of her life that was New York. Now she’s forced to open it again. Post-S6.
A/N: Written for veleda_k during Fandom Stocking.

( Migraine is a bitch. )

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