madimpossibledreamer: iron man flying (iron man)
2025-05-19 02:00 pm

See You Time Cowboy

Main Points: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover
Summary: This is another ancient work along the same lines as initiative meetings, Time After, and Torchwood: Aftershock.  It's been sitting in a document probably just as long as those, though I copied and pasted it into my prompt document a while ago.
Word Count: 1018
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Spike/Xander

one of the longer ones )
madimpossibledreamer: Tatsuya holding a motorcycle helmet under his arm and looking at a swingset (tatsuya)
2024-03-06 11:14 pm

idle thought #544

It’s really ironic that I came across the confession from an anti that if respawning existed they’d absolutely brutalize and murder a person when I’m in between posting my chapters in The Secret Histories about that. Log Horizon actually has a really good arc on the subject, showing that while killing NPCs who don’t respawn is worse, killing (especially repeatedly) a PC who will is also a crime. If someone murders Captain Jack Harkness or Chas Chandler (from the TV show, not movie), does that mean it wasn’t a murder? Nope, still murder, just didn’t end with the death. If anything, it’s more akin to “non-con” which they absolutely hate: you’re giving someone trauma, fear, pain, presumably non-consensually (and if it is consensual, guess what, that’s closer to BDSM, which I’ve heard they also hate) that they’re going to be dealing with for the rest of their lives. Desmond correctly identifies this as f’d up.

madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (jiraiya|yosuke)
2020-09-22 02:55 pm

Torchwood Aftershock: Halloween 24, 25, 26, and 27

Wow, we're to the end of this one.
also i need to be better about using tags.  I'll work on fixing that for previously written stuff...coming to a dreamwidth near you soon.

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover
Summary: Would you look at that, more stuff from 2012. This one is a follow-up to a Choose Your Own Adventure Halloween adventure I may or may not finish eventually where Xander ends up with Captain Xan in his head. There's mostly drabbles in this one, with one that's an AtS crossover, a couple that I'll vaguely bundle into one as a Bargaining tag, a couple I'll vaguely bundle into one as a Tabula Rasa tag, and one drabble I'm labeling Slayer Prom because it mostly just involves them dancing in front of a bunch of slayers.  It also has Proto-friend!ship Xander and Buffy interaction.  (I think I echoed the scene later in the Self-Made Hero'verse.)
Word Count: 1476
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Warning: Uh, not explicit, but there is more brief sexitimes.  I forgot it existed.  Mostly it exists because Cordy makes for great I Am Not Amused writing (she has the same exact reaction to Slayer's Mad Whelp Xander showing up and threatening Angel with a knife).
/flaily hands *still* don't know what I'm doing with regards to warnings/journal age restrictions...

eleventh part )
madimpossibledreamer: Paper lanterns floating over a fleet of ships. (lanterns)
2020-09-08 04:00 pm

Torchwood Aftershock: Halloween 21

I remember playing this track a lot around the time I was writing this.

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover
Summary: Would you look at that, more stuff from 2012. This one is a follow-up to a Choose Your Own Adventure Halloween adventure I may or may not finish eventually where Xander ends up with Captain Xan in his head. This is a tag to Buffy vs Dracula, and Xander dies again in this one.  He really needs to learn to stop doing that.
Word Count: 1707
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Warnings:  There's some making out in this one between Dracula and Xander and Spike and Xander, not quite consensual on either front, though it's mild compared to either BtVS or Torchwood standards.

ninth part )
madimpossibledreamer: Jotaro thinking 'yare yare daze' (jotaro)
2020-09-02 06:12 pm

Torchwood Aftershock: Halloween 20

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover
Summary: Would you look at that, more stuff from 2012. This one is a follow-up to a Choose Your Own Adventure Halloween adventure I may or may not finish eventually where Xander ends up with Captain Xan in his head. This isn't really specifically an episode-tag but more an arc-tag-the label Initiative should give away what this one's about.  It's really quick and there's not much to it, but Xander does die again in this part.  Mostly this is a Riley POV thing going "what is happening?" 
Word Count: 1360
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Spike/Xander

 

eighth part )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Eye from manga drawing. (edgeworth)
2020-08-25 04:18 pm

Torchwood Aftershock: Halloween 18 and 19

well our roommates are going on vacation at some point in the next few months and while they'll be taking precautions that does not actually translate to me feeling safe, so.  My anxiety is through the roof right now, but I talked it over with my sane roommate and we've figured out some precautions we're going to try to take, so it's...something.

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover
Summary: Would you look at that, more stuff from 2012. This one is a follow-up to a Choose Your Own Adventure Halloween adventure I may or may not finish eventually where Xander ends up with Captain Xan in his head. Episode tag to the Angel episode In the Dark and an original one mentioned in the notes as Confrontation.  Still contains some of that Xander vs Scoobies vibes I still don't know how they ended up in anything I wrote.  To be fair, I do think Buffy would have issues understanding why Xander would make possibly ill-considered decisions to hold onto power (again he needs to stop trusting strange swords, because Captain Xan is not nearly the worst of my versions of Xander at this) and be able to help out because she really wants a normal life and doesn't understand why anyone would choose differently. Destiny is Buffy's counterpart from Torchwood Aftershock, and Emily is Willow's counterpart.
Word Count: 2503
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Spike/Xander
 

seventh part )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (creative)
2020-08-18 02:50 pm

Torchwood Aftershock: Halloween 17

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover
Summary: Would you look at that, more stuff from 2012. This one is a follow-up to a Choose Your Own Adventure Halloween adventure I may or may not finish eventually where Xander ends up with Captain Xan in his head.  I'm sorry about Spike's accent being written so thickly you could cut it with a knife.  I'm trying to do better in my recent stuff.  I don't actually know if I'm succeeding.  Also there's a paragraph marked possibly up for cutting, only I never got around to any actual editing so you get to see that one too.  It does have a bit of that Xander vs the Scoobies feel that is not my cup of tea, my spoonful of jam, etc, so I don't know how it ended up here.  Episode tag to The Zeppo.  Canon sex, only given that Xander's actually in a relationship at this point it's not consensual.  (Jack might be up for threesomes and all sorts of poly, but I can't believe he'd not care about consent and not care about good communication.  So that's reflected in Captain Xan.)  So...this is the aftermath, so it's more hurt/comfort, but it definitely 100% calls for a Viewer Discretion Advised warning.  Also Faith is Dame Not Appearing in This Fic, but given the episode and mention and...yeah, she gets tagged.
Word Count: 2633
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Warning: Offscreen noncon, the r- word related to noncon is actually used.  Viewer Discretion Advised.  Stay safe, my lovely readers!

sixth part )

madimpossibledreamer: Jotaro pointing at the camera (point)
2020-08-11 12:00 pm

Torchwood Aftershock: Halloween 13, 14, 15, and 16

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover
Summary: Would you look at that, more stuff from 2012. This one is a follow-up to a Choose Your Own Adventure Halloween adventure I may or may not finish eventually where Xander ends up with Captain Xan in his head. These are definitely not episode tags (and I've got a note calling the first one 'deadly tea party'), and the other ones are really short drabbles (I've got "white night" listed but other than the obvious reference to Xander I don't know what that's about).  There's some making out and slightly cringey dialogue.  This was definitely before I knew how to write relationships...  That being said, I really like the conversation with Dru.
Word Count: 2018
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Spike/Xander

fifth part )
madimpossibledreamer: Jotaro pointing at the camera (kujo)
2020-08-04 12:07 pm

Torchwood Aftershock: Halloween 12

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover
Summary: Would you look at that, more stuff from 2012. This one is a follow-up to a Choose Your Own Adventure Halloween adventure I may or may not finish eventually where Xander ends up with Captain Xan in his head. This one is definitely not an episode tag (and I've got a note calling it 'bounty').
Word Count: 2546
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Spike/Xander
Warnings: Underage drinking, Xander actually figuring out he doesn't stay dead

fourth part )

madimpossibledreamer: Zhuge Liang concentrating and looking thoughtful. (concentrating)
2020-07-28 01:04 pm

Torchwood Aftershock: Halloween 8 & 9 & 10 &11

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover
Summary: Would you look at that, more stuff from 2012. This one is a follow-up to a Choose Your Own Adventure Halloween adventure I may or may not finish eventually where Xander ends up with Captain Xan in his head. This one I actually had some episode tags for how things changed through the series. We've got the second half of Innocence, Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered, Killed by Death, and one instance of Spike & Xander fight-flirting.  There's one summary but it's mostly fanfic.
Word Count: 1838
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Spike/Xander
warning: some torture but not graphic like the Slayer's Mad Whelp story Place of Despair, kiss + some making out (& possibly dubious consent as the halloween Captain Xan is a bit more into it than Xander who hasn't accepted it yet)

third part )
madimpossibledreamer: red and black comic-booky picture of an original Jojo's Stand. (jjba)
2020-07-21 05:55 pm

Torchwood Aftershock: Halloween 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7

i am ready for autumn this heat wave is giving me anxiety
that being said listening to torchwood ost again makes me smile
looking back on it years later there are some definite missteps in the writing of that series (hence please read Milady Dragon's work; she elevates it to where it should have been) but the music is definitely a treat

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover
Summary: Would you look at that, more stuff from 2012. This one is a follow-up to a Choose Your Own Adventure Halloween adventure I may or may not finish eventually where Xander ends up with Captain Xan in his head. This one I actually had some episode tags for how things changed through the series. There's more for this one-the starting one has Ethan and there is some legit dialogue from one particular episode but I'm not sure which one as I didn't label it at the time. Then there's What's My Line, Ted, Bad Eggs, and Innocence (part 1, since I'm breaking it up so it's not over 2000 words.)  This one fluctuates rapidly from actual fanfic to summary and slightly tweaked quotes.
Angelus and Drusilla actually do drink Xander's blood in this one.
Word Count: 1394
Rating: Teen

 

second part )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (the universe is unimportant)
2020-07-14 03:48 pm

Torchwood Aftershock: Halloween 1 & 2

font decided to randomly change.  also then I messed something up in fixing it, so now I have to recopy it over and fix it line by line I guess because it's being a pain.  yare yare

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood crossover
Summary: Would you look at that, more stuff from 2012. This one is a follow-up to a Choose Your Own Adventure Halloween adventure I may or may not finish eventually where Xander ends up with Captain Xan in his head. This one I actually had some episode tags for how things changed through the series. The two for this one are during Lie to Me and The Dark Age.  Biggest issue for this one is that tense changes rapidly.  You have been warned.  (Yeah, I could probably fix it.  Might if I feel like it, but I definitely don't now.)
I don't think it's warning-worthy but there is a drunk Angel contemplating drinking Xander's blood.
Word Count: 1686
Rating: Teen

first part )
madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (creative)
2020-06-16 03:48 pm

Time After

LTW is Localized Temporary Wormhole.  the beginning is titled Chapter 1: Not in Kansas, but there are no further chapters, so it's being left as is.

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Torchwood AU
Summary: This one's from 2012, so it's a little more current than the others.  It's maybe a spinoff of Torchwood: Aftershock, only Captain Jack also exists.  I like this vulnerable version of Xander; he's more what he'd actually be if he was a Time Agent.
Word Count: 3591
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Xander/Spike
Warning: very vague, but there is a mild reference to abuse.  also very mild dirty talk for above pairing

 

more Time Agents on the run )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Zhuge Liang concentrating and looking thoughtful. (red cliff)
2018-12-18 10:11 am

Fanfic Rec: These Tables are Numbered

v  These Tables are Numbered (Source: Fanfic.net)

Ø  https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5305496/1/These-Tables-Are-Numbered

Ø  Torchwood

Ø  Jack/Ianto

Not the best mystery I’ve ever read, but it’s an interesting mystery with Jack and Ianto and goes into the background of Torchwood a bit.  While it doesn’t have the depth of Milady Dragon’s works, it is fun.  I’ve reread this a couple times.  It’s a popcorn fic?  (It’s also possible my mystery standards are just ridiculously high.  But it’s also one of my favorite fluffy ship!fics.  Take that as you will.)

madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (Default)
2018-10-20 11:41 pm

Author Rec: Milady Dragon

v  Milady Dragon (Source: dreamwidth)

Ø  https://milady-dragon.dreamwidth.org/profile

Ø  Torchwood

Ø  Warnings: It’ll take you practically forever to get through all of the stories, but it’s worth it.  Also, sex, Jack/Ianto (but easily skimmed if you want—except for the particular ship but if that’s true than you probably shouldn’t even be here in the first place).

Here’s the last of the five.  The Dragon-Verse is my favorite (Ianto is a dragon, Jack gets called out for his bs, and there are happy endings even through all the usual Torchwood pain).  (I also super enjoyed the Wizard and Deathless Universe, though).  My favorites on this list are there because they take the original, spare no time calling people on their idiocy (trust me, there’s idiocy, and it’s problematic when no one calls anyone out on it), and yet still their love and respect for the original shows through.  True fans trying to fix things they love and make them better, and if a work of love is considered lacking we’re all living in the wrong universe.  Or something.

I might be a little tired, but never mind that. 

Gwen doesn’t get away with some of her horrible behavior (seriously, original writers, what were you thinking), and neither does Jack, and neither does anyone else.  Which makes for much better reading.  I also didn’t realize how problematic some of the Doctor’s behaviors are until her fics pointed them out, so they do a good job at making me think.  (It’s not unrealistic that he’s got issues, but damn does the main source material do a horrible job at pointing it out/even doesn’t show some of them as problematic, and that’s…that’s entirely wrong, because having companions is partly so that they can point that out to him.)

madimpossibledreamer: Zhuge Liang concentrating and looking thoughtful. (red cliff)
2018-09-20 10:46 pm

initiative meetings ii

that's pretty much where that particular one stopped.  the next couple posts under 'blast from the past' (my 'warning, fics in this tag are kinda old) might be, well, a little cringy, just ta warn ya.
~Dreamer~

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU (Torchwood: Aftershock)
Summary: Spike's cellmate is unexpected.
Word Count: 990
Rating: Teen (there's flirting and innuendo and a bit of horror but it's not too bad this time--it is however Captain Xan so.)
Spike/Xander

 

the xander's dead; long live the xander )

 

madimpossibledreamer: Izanagi|Souji in full costume holding out a hand (izanagi|souji)
2018-09-17 11:59 pm

initiative meetings

You know what else is suuuuuper old?  This.  It's actually part of Torchwood: Aftershock (you know, that thing I uploaded like a million years ago and you haven't seen since?) and, well.  There's also a Choose Your Own Adventure.  You heard me correctly.  It's unfinished.  It's also a different take on YAHF in the Buffy fandom, which is why I started it, but...CYOAs are a lot of work, tbh.
I'll probably waffle on what I should post of that (or the Torchwood: Aftershock stuff) for ages (I hate leaving things unfinished but it's also been a few times since I've had inspiration to write for it), but this two-parter can stand on its own and therefore I can stop feeling weird about it just sitting in my docs.  So there.
...I'm feeling a little down about the lack of Shadowed Suspicion reads, but then again, school's started and maybe people lost interest after such a long hiatus (or are at least waiting for the volume to end).  I'm still going strong on the next fight, even though it's been so long I forgot stuff and had to revise on reread (seriously, I forgot about the dragon statue. somehow.), but it's shaping up to be a monster, quite literally.  I'm also feeling upset because a good friend's behaving like a jerk, and both she and my dad are not only showing a dislike of anime (even though he likes Ghost in the Shell, what the blank) but also acting judgey for me liking it, which.
Man, the quicker I can get out of this job and house, the better.  Job hunting is a lot harder than I expected.
Anyway, these all contribute to issues writing.  I'll put aside my rant for now and let you get to the fic.
~Dreamer~

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU (Torchwood: Aftershock)
Summary: Spike has an unexpected cellmate.
Word Count: 680
Rating: Teen (there are makeouts; it's Captain Xan)
Spike/Xander

i need a place to sleep )

madimpossibledreamer: Eye from manga drawing. (phoenix)
2018-03-12 11:51 pm

Idle Thought #6

It's not perfect, since demiromantic is a type of asexual which Kirk definitely isn't, but he is romantically attracted to most things (if his flirting is any indication) but not sexually attracted to all of them.  As opposed to Captain Jack (Harkness, as I recognize no other kind) who flirts with everything AND is sexually attracted to them. I'd have to guess though if given the choice between romantic love and sexual love TOS!Kirk would choose romantic love every time.
madimpossibledreamer: Jiraiya|Yosuke jumping and using a throwing star (ace)
2015-12-15 08:21 pm

When Everything Changes

*Main Points:*
Torchwood/Edge of Tomorrow crossover
Summary: Captain Jack Harkness had a past once.
Word Count: 625
Rating: Gen
Notes: This has kind of been my headcanon ever since I first saw the movie.  May be confusing if you haven't seen said movie.