Unfeathered Notes

OMG, "Walk Through the Fire" is "Tonight" (the ensemble version) from West Side Story.

This revelation brought to you by me finally catching up with the 'new' (4 year old) movie of WSS tonight, and sitting there going "this feels really familiar, with everyone singing in counterpart and walking purposefully towards the camera - oh wow it's OMWF!

I mean, I probably made the connection way back when I originally saw OMWF but that was, what, 24 years ago (bloody hell) and I've obviously forgotten again in the intervening almost quarter century.

Other things about the new movie: ( Cut for length )

Oh my god, OMWF is 20 years old. How the hell did that happen?????

Wow, this series had no new parts for over a decade, and then two new, full-length, kinky stories in 12 days!!! I'm really rather pleased with this one, and especially the way it seemed to come to me out of thin air. Thank you, rounds_of_kink, for the inspiration!

Title: Under His Spell
Fandom: Torchwood/Buffy
Character(s): Jack Harkness/Rupert Giles
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: D/s, bondage, writing/painting on skin, light breathplay
Word Count: 2,967
Spoilers: Buffy: early S7; Torchwood: pre-series
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: Jack is fidgeting; Giles devises ways to keep him still
Betas: Unbeta'd
Author's Note: Written for the April Fool's Mini-Round 2020 at rounds_of_kink inspired by the prompts: meditation and spine and the kinks: bodypainting or inkbrushing on someone's skin, discipline or punishment, talking and communication issues (silence) and situational engineering (a tiny bit). I also seem to have managed to include D/s, bondage and the inevitable (for me) breathplay! I didn't really manage to get April Fool's in there, although there is a bit of a twist so perhaps it's a slight April Fool's on Jack…

Read it on AO3

This work is unbeta'd so please do let me know if you spot any typos or bits that don't make sense!

Title: Morning After
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood
Character(s): Rupert Giles/Jack Harkness
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: The morning after Connection
Betas: Unbeta'd
Author's Note: A quick drabble inspired by a few phrases I found scribbled at the bottom of my original draft of the second part of Connection, while I work on vastly remoulding that and adding a lot of new stuff to it – hopefully I'll actually post it one day soon!

Read it on AO3

...I'm still trying to decide where to post new fics other than AO3, if anywhere. My earliest fics were posted in my LJ personal journal, then later in my LJ fic community, then I moved to DW (with mirror posts to LJ) and posted them in the DW fic community, and then the few recent ones have all been for exchanges or challenges so posted to the appropriate communities on DW/LJ! So I have fics everywhere!

I *think* what I'm going to do from now on is make AO3 the main archive (I am very slowly getting everything posted there) with links from each fic there to the original LJ/DW posts so I can still get at the comments - because I love the comments, and yes I do still go back and read the comments! Not just because they're great for my ego, but because so many later fics have been inspired by comments to the earlier ones!

So yeah. I don't think I'm going to actually post this one to DW, just to AO3 with links from here and my Master Fic List.

(Also, please note, this waffle here is longer than the actual drabble I came here to post. That's me, folks!)

Woah, long, long time since my last post. Long time since I even logged in as Unfeathered, to be honest. My transition out of fandom back into real life has finally become complete enough that now I'm even too busy in RL even to tag my RP threads, a lot of the time. How things have changed since I first started out on LJ, desperate for an escape from RL!

But, even though I sincerely doubt anyone's still reading my journal, I had to come on here and share that I've just shared Buffy with my son for the first time. ( Cut for length )

Anyway. I'm just so chuffed that, having shared the whole of Doctor Who (except Torchwood, obviously!) with him, I can now share my first fannish love with him too!

I've started watching Buffy again after a bit of a hiatus, due to the fact that last year I finally (after 8 years) finished my viewing of all seasons in order. The reason that took so long was that at the end of 2005 I became a mother and everything else pretty much went out the window! And also the fact that Buffy was over and I got into the Doctor Who/Torchwood fandom instead (and started writing fanfic and role-playing), so watching Buffy and Angel moved a long way down the list of priorities. But actually, the slow-down was good because it meant that by the time I got to the later seasons of both shows which I hadn't liked so much originally, I really, really enjoyed them.

( Cut for rambling )

Title: Burying the Past
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood
Author: unfeathered
Pairing: Rupert Giles/Jack Harkness
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Bdsm, breathplay
Word Count: 2,312
Spoilers: Buffy: Chosen, Torchwood: Exit Wounds
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: "I need you to immobilise me, blindfold me, gag me, smother me, and then I need you to make me like it."
Beta: The wonderful mad_jaks who stepped in at very short notice to work her usual magic.
Author's Note: Written in one day (!!!) for hllangel's GLBTQ PORN BATTLE.
Author's Note 2: This is set in the same verse as Connection and its various other ficlets.

Burying the Past

Okay, so last Thursday I was bored at work and Morgyn prompted me and fic ensued. It's probably the least plotty PWP I've ever written, but I enjoyed writing it and it was an interesting exercise because it's entirely without dialogue and entirely without mentioning names.

Title: Two of a Kind
Fandom: Torchwood/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: unfeathered
Pairing: Jack Harkness/Faith
Rating: NC-17
Genre: PWP – very PWP
Word Count: 1061
Spoilers: None (set post-series for Buffy)
Disclaimer: Not mine
Summary: An encounter in a dark alley
Beta: Unbeta'd

Two of a Kind