John Blonde posts the last of his Hellblazer crossovers with Truth or Treason. "The best of the three," we're told. Methos is at his dissembling best, Constantine is annoyed to learn he's played by Keanu Reeves, and the annoying Chaos demon orchestrates a surprising denoument.
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14th January 2004 20th January 2003 13th July 2002 8th April 2002 8th April 2002 20th December 2001 8th September 2001 15th July 2001 12th July 2001 10 July 2001 27th March 2001 4th December 2000 27th November 2000 20th November 2000 two new
stories Light In Your
Eyes by arachne 6 September 2000 Two
shorts from John Blonde. Undercurrent
(HL:TS PG) is a sharply observed snapshot of the possible relationship
between Duncan and Cassandra after Revelations. In Q, no A (ST:Voy PG) Q visits Chakotay and asks just what did happen
to the Maquis warrior we all knew and loved. Plus one from arachne. A Foreign Country (HL:TS D/M
NC-17) is now available on site.
23 June 2000 We
are all working on stories, honest! Meanwhile new fics from John Blonde (X
Files/DC Comics' Sandman) and Mandragora (Angel/Buffy) are available in
Dance with the Devil a
new zine from Infinity Press. Click the
link for ordering info. Here's a couple of
excerpts: Devil to Pay by John Blonde (X Files/DC Comics' Sandman,
NC-17) The melody coming out from the piano is almost familiar.
Mulder thinks he should be able to name it, but can't quite catch the
tune. When memory finally presetns the cue card he nearly laughs out loud.
It is "A Few of MY Favourite Things" twisted around a Bossa Nova beat. He
likes the sense of humor, and his interest in the paino player kicks up a
notch. And Also
With You by Mandragora (Angel/Buffy,
NC-17) "That's--That's not true." The protest was automatic, falling
from numb lips. Angel clasped his hands tight to still their trembling.
What was Doyle playing at? No, not Doyle. Because horrible though it was
to admit whoever - whatever - had sucked him off earlier it hadn't been
Doyle, just like it hadn't been Buffy. Whatever it was that was haunting
him, he hadn't thrown it off yet. Not yet. But he would. He would
remain
calm, he would cope with this, just like he'd dealt with all the other
crap that had come his way. While you're here, don't forget to check out whitecrow's recs
pages. 25 February 2000: Added Motif by John Blonde C/P/T NC-17. John originally
wrote this as a favour for the gals on SaB - and to prove to that he could
write from a woman's pov. Yes it's a smut fest but, as always with John,
so much more... 4 December
1999: Updated the links & recs
pages. (Thanks whitecrow) 25 November 1999:
It's Highlander month! Added whitecrow's first HL
fic. Joie de
Vivre is a lovely frothy first-time story with
just the right amount of underlying angst. Methos takes Duncan for a night
on the town in an attempt to cheer him up... 23 November
1999:
Added new HL story. Not in the
Winter. D/M NC-17. So
what did happen to Methos' Watcher tattoo... 8 November
1999: Added a new HL story. Plat du
Jour was
originally written for a lyric wheel challenge, this version is slightly
revamped. Gen but lots of undercurrents. 4 October 1999:
Some time at the beginning of this year,
Mandragora announced that she was writing 'a small plot what plot'
featuring Duncan and Methos. What followed was huge amounts of research
and months and months of writing and re-writing. The resulting novel,
Tant Que Je
Vive is an exploration of love and the cost
of love, of Methos' past and the choices love forces people to make. Some
PWP! I love this story. It is, quite simply,
beautiful. 24 September 1999: You know
how it is, you read something and it makes you go...Welcome to our new
Rants page. First
up is Mandragora's essay on Tom Paris: prison whore. 15 September
1999:
Small
Moments (D/M NC-17) is now
available on line. The link takes you to the opening page of the web
edition of Futures Without End II. Any D/M fan should hurry
there - without pause - for a stunning selection of stories by some of the
best writers in HL. Plus artwork by Killa. Yum. 10 August
1999:
Lots
of new
things here. First off, from Andrea
Cough (B7, A/T NC-17) a first-time story in which
Tarrant picks up an unwanted souvenir from his encounter with Servalan on
Virn. Cough was originally published in
Liberator Fantasies.
Disquiet
(ST:Voy Tu/p PG) by John
Blonde is the result of a challenge on the SaB list to write UST. There
was some disagreement as to whether the U stood for unresolved or
unacknowledged but everyone agreed that ST stood for sexual tension. Mmm -
feel the undercurrents. Finally, the Links and
Recs pages are up and
...<g> well, at least, crawling. Huge kudos to whitecrow who is
putting the whole thing together. If you think we've missed some classics,
or you want to be added to the links, then write and let us
know. 30 July 1999: Added
Blood
Brothers by John Blonde. Original fiction,
NC-17. "A dark monstrance couched as a vignette," says John. Disturbing,
compelling, haunting. 21 July
1999: Added Rhyme or Reason by John Blonde.
Clever, elegant, beautifully
subversive.
Here's
John's own description: From DC Comic's 'Hellblazer' and Anne Rice's
Vampire Chronicles, John Constantine and the vampire Lestet come together
for a museum heist at the instigation of an annoying Chaos magician. Rated
R for drugs, mild sex, and weirdness. 14 July
1999:
Official site
opening.
John Blonde ventures into HP with Parselblade. "This is the Snape
we know and love;
the Dumbledore we respect, and the Malfoy we delight in sneering over ...." A mean little story, in which Snape acquires his sneer.
John Blonde's The Real Thing comes to the web. It was written for a zine that was never produced, to have been titled It's Different for Gods. John has trouble with inspiration. Hot Ares sex ensues. Funny, sexy, and as usual, more than the obvious is going on.
Arachne's Not in the Winter (Highlander) has been revised. New stories by arachne were uploaded. Two are in the Harry Potter fandom - Unicorn and Perfect Circle feature Severus Snape and others. Four new stories by arachne in the Lord of the Rings fandom - 2 feature Elrond and Cirdan (Choices and After) set when the ring was first taken by Isuldur, and 2 others (Cold Comfort and I Will Follow) set during the Fellowship, feturing Legolas and Gimli.
John finally posts the novel. It takes place in a world where Voyager returned to the alpha quadrant while the Dominion war still rages. Tom Paris, renegade war hero. Chakotay, battle-scarred captain. Seven of Nine, fledgling spy. John gives us a straight-ahead action story that will keep you reading to find out what happens next! (Rated R, some slash elements, hosted on Geocities.)
Presence (ST:VOY) is based upon some fine stories by BratKatze and whitecrow. Look, and you'll find those, too!
Olivia dips her toe into The Sentinel. Happily, she writes a stand-alone. A post-TSbBS exploration of the mechanics of change, named
The Meaning of Motion (TS) is now up on Olivia's page.
The WIP that time forgot... Chapter 12 of Olivia's
A Lonely Death (WIP) is now up on Olivia's page.
John Blonde's
Devil to Pay joins Mandragora's offering to Dance With the Devil in an online appearance. (X-Files/Sandman NC17)
Finally and deplorably delayed (mea culpa, mea culpa), the quirkily savage And Also With You (Angel) is posted in its entirety, courtesy of Mandragora.
The behemoth kicks on! Chapter 11 of Olivia's
A Lonely Death (WIP) is now up on Olivia's page.
whitecrow has updated the
Recs Page in an ongoing and tasteful attempt to subvert every true fan's spare time. Give in.
Undertow : (HL: TS) Duncan and Methos en detente, courtesy of John Blonde, who adds to the astringent elegance of Undercurrent in this companion piece.
Chapter 10 of Olivia's
A Lonely Death (WIP) is now up on Olivia's page.
Andrea has discovered
the joys of html programming and put together her own page. http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/Andreyah/holodeck4.html
Don't
forget to add it to your book marks.
Olivia Pandoemonium has
gained a new author. Olivia writes beautifully dark and twisty stories in
the X Files universe, shortly to expand to encompass Immortality and the
United Federation of Planets. Highly recommended. We're proud to welcome
her amongst the fallen.
Sense or Season by John
Blonde. Sense or Season from
John Blonde continues the Hellblazer crossover introduced in Rhyme or
Reason. As ever, with John the writing is spare, elegant and
multi-layered.
Light in Your Eyes (HL: TS, R(D)M NC-17) by arachne features a
Richie/Methos pairing but is actually as much about Methos/Duncan.
The events of The
Messenger leave Richie and Methos uneasy about themselves and where they
stand in relation to Duncan.