Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

This is written as an answer to sionnain's Hellfire: Seven Deadly Sins - I loved this piece of yours, Sionnain. I wanted to explore the other side of Emma's life.

It's a set of seven drabbles, each 100 words, each inspired by the virtues that oppose the seven deadly sins. They're mostly Emma Frost/Scott Summers, there's a suggestion of Emma/Kitty.

Diligence, in particular, is inspired by one line in Resting Place, also by sionnain.

ETA: These have spoilers for the current arc of Astonishing X-Men. Also, lilacsigil was my beta. Shame on me for forgetting to give her thanks.

( Chastity )

( Abstinence )

( Generosity )

( Diligence )

( Patience )

( Kindness )

( Humility )

Before the sign-ups closed for xmmficathon, I asked my flist what makes a good ficathon request. likeadeuce gave me a link to her post, The Care & Feeding of Ficathons and Requests which was hugely useful, and I recommend it to anyone signing up or thinking of hosting a fic challenge.

She also said "A good prompt for the XMMFicathon = Logan/Scott, cigars and a chest-waxing accident. Oh, you probably don't mean MY idea of a good ficathon prompt."

I know she was joking, probably. It was a hypothetical suggestion. But I thought - what if I got that for a request? Would I be able to write it? And it got so I had to write it. And now, likeadeuce, it's your birthday. Have a hypothetical scenario.

Title: House of Wax
Rated: PG for Scott/Logan UST
Words: 2285
Characters: Scott and Logan, set between the first and second movies.
Hypothetical request: Logan/Scott, cigars and a chest-waxing accident
Notes: Beta readers from heaven: lilacsigil and ion_bond. Thank you so much!

( This wasn't how a fight was meant to go. )

ion_bond, this was really fun to write, and they wouldn't shut up, so it went to 200 words.

Title: Three-Legged Men
Words: 200
Prompt: Doctor James Wilson and Foggy Nelson
Fandom: House MD and Daredevil
Notes: lilacsigil helped me get this right, and also suggested the title. She's so much ruder than me.

( Three-Legged Men )

For those times when bells and whistles just aren't enough! I've slammed straight into a TMJ flare-up, with all-new pulsatile tinnitus. I have sound sensitivity, and deafness, so I can't understand a word anyone says, and it's painful when they raise their voices. One extremely positive outcome is that I've tried ginkgo for the pulsing sound, and it's really effective. Bless the little ginkgo plant and its beautiful bi-lobal leaves. Actually, I think it's a tree.

X-fen around the world are in multiple-squee mode over the release of a seven minute trailer, and footage of young!Charles and young!Erik sitting on a couch. It's pretty damn exciting, I have to say. I haven't been too pessimistic about the third movie, after all, I saw Daredevil. Now I'm really looking forward to it, and we're even maybe going to the city. Ooh, big city! Pizza! Comics! Skyscrapers!

In the spirit of the upcoming X-Men movie, I have written Harry Potter fic. *sigh* Still, it's more than 100 words. It's 150 words. This brings my total written word count to... 950! Soon I'll stop counting, or something. Maybe I should try to write something with more than three paragraphs. It's a good goal.

The ficlet was for the Queen of Swords challenge for fandom_arcana. It was one of those strange, delirious ideas that come when you're not feeling completely right in the head. I thought that for a few moments before she died, Lily took on characteristics of the Queen of Swords.

It's here: Universal Constant