alley_skywalker

How To Get Away With Murder
Connor/Asher. They work at the same firm. Connor is a hotshot, billing tons and tons of hours. Asher bills modestly, but he’s grown a reputation at the firm/local legal community for kicking ass at pro bono work. Connor is convinced this is all just a ploy to get attention and distract people from the fact that Asher is a mediocre lawyer. One day Asher comes to Connor for help with a pro bono case. Connor blows him off but is then assigned by a partner to help because it’s important for whatever reason. They end up working together. Connor realizes that Asher actually does care about the cases he takes. They learn some things from each other and win the case and fall in love, of course <3

Connor/Wes (and Connor/Oliver). Connor and Oliver have been on-off for years. Lately they’ve been on for a long stretch of time but the relationship is obviously not working very well. Still they refuse to admit it because both want to settle down already. Oliver’s hacking habit has persisted – lately he’s been doing some hacking for his company ala industrial espionage. It’s been going great until suddenly he gets caught. Connor feels guilty because Oliver gets caught initially while doing something illegal for Connor. Connor because Oliver’s defense lawyer. He takes Wes on as co-counsel because Wes is a specialist in this area of law or whatever. While working on the case, Connor and Wes fall in love/figure out they’re well suited to each other. They win the case, Oliver is free, but he and Connor are over. Connor and Wes “ride off into the sunset.”

Suits x Law and Order: SVU
Dana Scott/Casey Novak. Casey and Dana are opposing counsel on a case. They both feel passionately about having a strong case and they snark a lot at each other. After the case is done, they go out for drinks/coffee and end up having wildly passionate sex afterwards.

Dana Scott/Casey Novak. They are young law students together. Long evenings in the library sharing outlines and coffee. Stressing over OCI. Arguing over which is better/more useful – Law Review of Mock Trial. Arguing over career plans. Falling in love. (Some jealousy over Scottie and Harvey’s obvious hard on for each other.) Arriving in New York and the wonder of it all. And then…the sudden understanding that sometimes different lives pull you apart, no matter how much you care about each other.

Suits x War and Peace (modern!AU)
Theodore Dolokhov is a hotshot young lawyer in a boutique Moscow firm. Jessica is on the look out for someone who can handle the business of their international clients and perhaps represent some of their client’s interests abroad. She settles on Dolokhov and he accepts. He takes his associate, Petya Rostov, to New York with him. Petya and Mike get along splendidly, especially when they figure out that they both have crushes on their bosses. Dolokhov and Harvey, however, can’t stand each other. (No, this doesn’t yet have an actual plot, lol. Harvey/Mike and Dolokhov/Anatole would be romantic end-game, I know that.)

Title: Ides of March
Author: alley_skywalker 
Parings: Lily/OMC, Albus/Scorpius, Lysander/Scorpius (one-sided)
Word Count: 20,480
Rating: PG-13
Contains (Highlight to view): Elitist political ideology.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Many years have passed since the last Wizarding War but not all wounds have healed. Some, like Lily Potter, are bravely attempting to build bridges between the two sides, but not everyone is ready to move on. A revolution is brewing and it has all the potential to tear apart the tentative peace.
[Unknown site tag]Notes:  The lovely lemonade8  drew this lovely art of Lily and Amiri for my fic. Fic was written for the NextGen BigBang on LJ.


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So.LJ is down, has been for a few days. I know some people have been able to get on from time to time, but I haven't at all. It's frustrating. Not enough to make me leave the place or anything, since huge outages aren't actually that often, but when they do occur, I go through withdrawal. So, to lessen the effects at least a tad, I'm posting here! (Yuletide has been revealed but I'm gonna wait until LJ is running again to do a post-reveals post.)

First Day of snowflake_challenge   .

SELF RECS :D Basically, a time to be Narcissistic lol. So, anyway, here are my top-10 faves of my fics. They're not the most popular ones but they're the ones I feel are the best (or that I just like most...) In alphabetical order by title:

Before the Storm (Harry Potter; Antonin/Bellatrix, Andromeda/Ted, Lucius Narcissa, Rodolphus/Bellatrix)
Long and plotty. Covers my headcanon for the Black sisters and their relationships in the couple of years directly before the First War. I'm generally happy with the writing here and finally I've also produced something with a real plot lol.

Behold (Star Wars; Obi-Wan/Anakin)
This one is older. It won an award for Best Poem in the Saga category on TFN in the 2008 awards. Technically, it can be read as gen if you like (I mean, I did post it on TFN lol). I really do like this one. I remember I wrote a huge chunk of it in my head in the shower...yea my mind works like that lol.

Dear Agony (Harry Potter; Scorpius/Lysander, Draco/Ernie)
I like my writing in this, that's all I can say.

In Love and War (Harry Potter; Antonin/Pansy, Draco/Pansy)
Like Before the Storm there's all that length and plot to be proud of. I feel like I rushed it a bit at the end, but it works, it really works. This one covers the Second Wizarding War. As for the Antonin/Pansy thing...it's mostly UST so no Lolita-esque awkwardness lol.

My Better Half (Eugene Onegin; Onegin/Lensky)
Again, I really just like my writing in this one. And the sex scene managed to not be terribly awkward.

Our Beautiful Disaster (Harry Potter; Severus/Evan)
Another one of those fics that's just solid. I like the writing and the pacing. Pacing, I think. is the one thing I struggle with.

Seasons (Harry Potter; Lily/Alice)
I wanted to include a femslash fic? I like the imagery here most. It's quite solid, IMO.

Reasons (Harry Potter; Severus, Regulus, Barty, Evan, Antonin, OCs)
I've tried to write the whole 'why the FWW DEs became DE' type thing a few times, but I think this is the best all around. The boys represented here cover all the different types for me -- the younger son who is willing to please, the half-blood who hasn't had a good experience with muggles, the son of liberal Purebloods who wants to be proud of his heritage but is made to feel ashamed plus doesn't have enough raport and and support at home, the happy Pureblood who has only seen the worst of muggles and is honestly convinced that the world's evils come from them, etc.

The Color Red (War and Peace; Dolokhov/Anatole)
Yes, I like my writing here, it's my OTP and it's just a fic I feel all warm and fuzzy about.

Whisky in the Snow (War and Peace; Dolokhov/Anatole)
I wrote this at 6AM after pulling an all nighter, Despite that, it came easily and the writing is good. Aside from the poem, this is the shortest piece on this list, but I think that's part of it's strength -- packing lots of emotion into a small amount of text.

I also wanna give an honorable mention to my You and Me series. War and Peace; multiple parings but mostly slash. I wouldn't call this an overall best sample of my writing per se, but the epic proportions of this (relative to my usual) is still impressing me. I'm hoping to get the 3

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Fandom: War and Peace
ft: Anatole Kuragin

OMG these were hard. Partially because Anatole isn't exactly in most scenes. But beyond even that, just quality issues. I have the movie in a file which works fine on my movie editor from which I can snag caps but there are subtitles and things but even worse, the quality isn't as high as it could be. Now I got the new, higher-quality DVD set for New Years but for some reason the damn things just won't convert correctly (or at all) from VOB to AVI/DiVX. Soooo...I have to try and snag caps straight off the DVD, which is annoying. (Another cause of angst is the sudden lack of vidding capabilities with this movie which I hoped would be solved with getting the DVDs. Sad day.) Anyways...

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Table for the "Battle of Hogwarts" challenge on potter_land.

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Fandom: Queer as Folk, ft. Brian Kinney




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Title: Thus We Spiral Downwards (Part 2)
Author: Alley_Skywalker
Genre: Drama, angst
Characters: Antonin Dolohov, Evan Rosier, Severus Snape, Regulus Black, Ashley Mulciber, Angelus Wilkes, Jack Avery, OCs, other DEs
Rating: PG-13 (for propaganda and war themes)
Word Count: ~ 8,000
Summary: The training of young Death Eaters, their friendship, the dangers they face, and the War that will inevitably take its toll. 

 

 

 

 

 

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