thedeadparrot

Thanks for taking my poll everyone. :) The results were quite interesting (to me, at least) and oddly enough, fairly close to what I expected.

On a vaguely similar note,

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Which just goes to show, if something exists, someone's probably written slash about it on the internet.

Did you guys know that Citizen Kane is not so much about one man's rise and fall from power as much as the breakdown of Charles Foster Kane's big gay love with Jedediah Leland?

I mean, think about it. They were "close in school" *winkwinknudgenudgesaynomore* and then they go and start up a newspaper together, and Leland is still totally in love with Kane, right? He's practically slobbering all over Kane's declaration of rights thing.

Then, later on, during the dancing scene, Leland's all jealous and stuff of the can-can dancer Kane is dancing with, and he can practically sense that Kane is pulling away from him. Then Kane goes away on vacation and comes back engaged, and Leland doesn't look happy for him at all, just kind of depressed.

After Kane loses the election, he and Leland have a separation, and Leland's drunk because it was bad enough that Kane went out and got married on him, but he also cheated on his wife with another girl too, and being numb was better than the pain. So Leland decides to go to Chicago to get away from Kane and so that he doesn't have to see Kane every day and feel bad about what he can't really have anymore.

When they see each other again for the first time for years, Leland's still jealous as fuck of Susan, and while she does suck, he's got extra vitriol for her just because. Also, Kane's hurt and angry at Leland because despite their separation, he thought their relationship had meant something, and in his hurting, he fires Leland. Then, in order to make it final, Leland shreds the check and returns the "present" Kane gave him a while back, and the breakup is official and angsty and tragic.

THE END.

That's totally the story Welles was trying to tell.

(Also there was stuff in there about Rosebud and the need to be loved, whatever the fuck that was.)

Title: Earth, Clay, Death
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Pairing: Roy/Hughes
Summary: "And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we eat and sleep with death."
Rating: PG-13/R -ish
Feedback: Please?
Notes: Extraordinarily late response to yahtzee63's Greatest Movie Lines Challenge. Unbetaed, very short, and in manga canon. Warfic.

( Earth, Clay, Death )

Title: Surface
Fandom: Fullemtal Alchemist
Pairing: Hughes/Roy (big surprise, eh?)
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 1,259
Summary: "Things have been shifting between them for some time."
Discalimer: I own nothing. *prostrates self before Square/Enix*
Notes: Betaed by crazythorn and mukashi_mukashi. You guys rock.

( Surface )

Title: Maybe Tomorrow
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Rating: PG for language
Pairing: Hughes/Roy
Summary: "It glows brighter here than it does in New York."
Word Count: 3,937
Feedback: The best thing evar. Flame away, even, if you feel like it.
Disclaimer: I own nothing and make no money. It's all Square/Enix.
Notes: A rockstar!AU that takes place in Tokyo. "Heavily inspired"* by Lost in Translation. No, it's not self-indulgent and gratuitous at all. Title stolen from a Stereophonics song. Once again, lots of love to crazythorn for reading it over.

Kain = Fury. Just in case anyone was wondering.

*ripped off from

( Maybe Tomorrow )

Another note: I sorta want to get more beta readers. crazythorn is teh awesome, but I'd like to get more opinions. Any volunteers to become one?

Title: Masters of War
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist
Rating: PG-13/R ?
Pairing: Hughes/Roy
Summary: One hundred days of the Ishbal Civil War
Feedback: The best thing evar. Flame away, even, if you feel like it.
Disclaimer: Don't own anything. I make no money. Etc.
Notes: Follows the manga canon, mostly, as I know in the anime that Hughes wasn't actually at the war. There's some anime stuff thrown in there as well.

Much thanks to crazythorn for the beta.

Title and lyrics come from the Bob Dylan song. Yes, I know that's cheesy.

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( Masters of War )

This is part of my Bob Dylan multi-fandom fic(let) project. Basically, one Bob Dylan song - one fandom. Over 500 words and incorporating a few lyrics. So, yeah, this is my first one. I reserve the right to leave large blocks of time between ficlets if I do so desire. This is probably going to be the last one for a while. I do have rsficathon to think of.


Title: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Fandom: Olympics slash
Pairing: Phelps/Thorpe
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 627
Disclaimer: I made it all up. All of it. None of it really happened.
Feedback: Please, sir, may I have some more?
Summary: A nighttime meet up.
Notes: Unbetaed. My first foray into Olympics slash. Based on the Bob Dylan song of the same name.

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Title: Clean Break
Author:thedeadparrot
Fandom: Beatles slash
Pairing: J/P
Word Count: 556
Summary: An ending before a beginning.
Notes: A tossed off ficlet while in NYC. Kinda disjointed. Not betaed. I love feedback of any sort.


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Title: Don't Steal Our Sun
Author: thedeadparrot
Fandom:: Harry Potter
Pairing: S/R.
Rating: PG, if that.
Spoilers: none really, just the existence of the Marauders.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, yo.
Summary: A hazy, MWPP, summer sunset.
Feedback: Anything, really. Heck, I'll even take the flames.
Notes: Mostly a mood piece, not a lot of plot. Inspired by the lack of air conditioning. Lots of love to librae for the beta.

( Don't Steal Our Sun )