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Title Art for Various Stories IV by StarWatcher
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), NCIS, Stargate Atlantis, The Sentinel (TV)
18 Jun 2025
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Title art for stories that strike my fancy -- if I can find images that match my ideas.
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Newest chapter is a cover art inspired by an old pro-fic Sci-fi story, Study in Still Life, by Eric Frank Russell..***
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A very basic "how-to" for finding "lost" fic in the multiple small, scattered archives that we used pre-AO3.
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Title Art for Various Stories III by StarWatcher
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis, The Old Guard (Movie 2020), Star Trek, Lucifer (TV), Witchblade (TV), The Sentinel (TV), Magnum P.I. (TV 1980), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Quantum Leap (TV 1989), NCIS, Criminal Minds (US TV), Arthurian Mythology
13 Dec 2023
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Title art for stories that strike my fancy -- if I can find images that match my ideas.
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Newest chapter is a cover art inspired by an AU Old Guard story -- Though my Soul May Set in Darkness (We Will Rise in Perfect Light), by Knoepfchen.***
Okay, that does it for this batch of cover art. If I make any more, I'll create a "Title Art IV" post. I have no idea when -- or if -- that will occur; my muse is growing even more erratic than whatever is "normal" for her. -
Duncan’s Dilemma, or, Richie’s Road to Ruin by StarWatcher
Fandoms: Highlander: The Series
10 Mar 2022
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Richie is in love, but heading for heartbreak.
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"Charlie Safehouse" Floorplan - Revised and Improved by StarWatcher
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
18 Aug 2021
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My best interpretation of the floorplan of the "Charlie Safehouse" -- because I spent my first dozen or so viewings frustrated that I couldn't figure out where the action was happening in relation to previous actions, and how the rooms all fit together. (Yes, sometimes I'm dense.)
NOTE: The white can be glaring. I've put a buff-colored version below the explanations, if that's easier on your eyes. Added: my new computer shows it as a much brighter yellow than I thought, so it may not be "buff" to you. But I still think it could be easier on the eyes than the white version.
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Blair did not stay after the dissertation mess, but left Cascade to let the furor subside. Some time later, both Jim and Blair write a letter to the other, hoping to reconnect. A little angsty, a little hopeful, and eventually, all of Major Crime working to bring Blair home.
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The year is 2258. Jim Kirk is a Lieutenant on the U.S.S. Farragut, Spock the science officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise. When the ships come together for a priority landing party, these two strangers find themselves fighting against the odds for a chance at life in an alien world, and the only way they'll make it through is by relying on each other.
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- Part 1 of Sha Ka Ree
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29 May 2021
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Sha Ka Ree by ThereBeWhalesHere. 180,5K
This. Is. INCREDIBLE!!! When I started reading, it grabbed me and didn't let go -- I was swept away and surrounded by the beautiful imagery and the sheer empathy the author created for these young men. I did nothing but read, eat, and sleep for two days; thank goodness for retirement. As Runpunkrun said in a review on Dreamwidth, "Jim and Spock's relationship is created from scratch, and it's wonderful seeing the way their friendship builds, the shared yearning for more, all of Spock's slow emotional work as he tries to incorporate these new feelings into the rest of him, and Jim's best attempts at being patient with him." I love the way they work together for survival, and then forge a deep friendship, each supporting the other, until it becomes more. It was a wrench to put it down for mundane things like sleep; plan to read this over a long weekend when you don't have much else to drag you away from it. And then my art muse jumped on me with both feet, and I created cover art.
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A lonely monk with too many jobs around the monastery finds some of them have been done by a mysterious benefactor.
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08 Sep 2025
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The Mouse Prince by what_alchemy. 3,7K
This is the sweetest fairy-tale ever, sort of a cross between Cinderella and The Frog Prince... but with a surprising twist at the end that is absolutely delightful.
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Genoa managed to destroy Tunisia's navy, leaving the royal family to sue for peace. A treaty was struck, and Yusuf was offered in marriage to the King of Genoa's second child, the Princess Veneranda.
At least, that was the plan.
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30 Aug 2025
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A Fine Arrangement, by Sharkie. 24,6K
Yusuf has no choice but to make a political marriage to bring peace between Genoa and Tunisa... but when the bride-to-be runs away with her lover, Nicolò it forced to become the substitute marriage partner. Yusuf and Nicolò find they are well-pleased by these developments... until they learn that Nicolò's father and brother have decided to hold Nicolò's mother for ransom. Throw in escape under cover of night, each enjoying copious amounts of married sex, a touch of palace intrigue as Nicolò doesn't know if his family's actions will reflect on his position, and we have a thoroughly enjoyable story.
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There can be no misinterpretation or confusion on Yusuf’s part when what Duke Nicolò says is “But I didn’t want a husband, what does my brother think he’s doing?”
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Diplomatic Complications by Sixthlight. 14,4K
Arranged marriages may be common in wealthy families -- but when the groom doesn't know a marriage has been arranged, and certainly doesn't want one, it throws a wrench in the works. Nicolò rejects the idea of marriage, and Yusuf can only accept that -- but everyone around them really, really want the two men to be married. Yusuf doesn't know how to do the seduction that Nile suggests, but a friendship slowly grows between them, and then more, which leads to a thoroughly satisfying ending.
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Very good,” says the Prince. “Now. Listen carefully. Congratulations, Signor al-Kaysani and Signor diGenova; you are to be married. To each other.”
(or: Yusuf and Nicolò are ordered to marry each other to end a family feud, while both pining for their secret lovers (each other). This goes about as well as you’d expect.)
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Men of Their Word by Sixthlight. 18,5K
When two very stubborn men are forced to marry each other to bring peace to their families -- and the city -- they determine to have as little to do with each other as humanly possible. But something has to give -- eventually -- and each learns that the other is [a] not a monster, and [b] actually quite talented and likeable... and [c] that Prince Andy knew what she was doing all along. <snicker> Very neat little twist at the end.
Also, I love how the background is fleshed out, both for the period and for the hints of Yusuf's and Nicolò's family life -- just enough to let us know what experiences have made them what they are, but the story is so much richer for that. Excellently done.