"This above all, to thine own self be true"-William Shakespeare

I finished my Power Ranger Day fic last week and I was super relieved to have it finished early, because for the past couple of years I only seem to be able to write for Christmas exchanges. Plus Halloween is the busiest time of year in my business and I've only had a single day each week for the past three. Add to that the fact that my laptop finally bit the dust (I've borrowed my sister's once or twice, otherwise it's just my Kindle.) and I was ecstatic to have gotten the assignment knocked out.

Then I saw that a certain overachiever (whom I love and adore ♥) had written 7 treats. And I check the Treat Archive and what do you know? There are exactly 7 treats in there. So tonight has been a flurry of ficlet writing for me. I didn't get 7, but I did my best. It feels good to be writing again, even if it's only little things.

The timings great too since it's officially the Christmas sign up time of year again. I've gotten my assingments for two of my favorite exchanges and now I'm waiting not-so-patiently for the others to start sign ups. 58 days til Christmas, people, let's get cracking. :)

Title: Straight Forward Question
Fandom: Lost Galaxy
Pairing/Characters: Mike, Leo, Leo/Kai
Genre: Sibling fic, brotherly love
Warnings: None
Word Count: ~1000
Author's Notes: A gift for rivulet027 as part of Alpha's Magical Fic Exchange 2012. Thanks for the awesome prompts and the perfect excuse to mainline the entire season of Lost Galaxy. Many thanks as well to punkpinkpower for the lightening fast beta.
Summary: Mike wants to know what's going on between Leo and Kai.

Read on AO3 or below the cut.

( Mike waited until he had Leo alone. )

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Did everyone see the announcement that Saban is releasing PR on DVD? Yes? Carry on with your day.

Title: Mistletoe Monster
Fandom: MMPR
Pairing: Adam/Tommy
Genre: First time, Christmas, humor
Warnings: None
Word Count: 846
Summary: Rocky's hanging mistletoe everywhere. Adam fears for the safety and sanity of the city. Tommy makes his move.
Author's Notes: Written for second_batgirl's stocking

( Adam watched Rocky's progress around the juice bar with a wary eye. )

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Title: Kith and Kin
Fandom: PR SPD
Pairing: Jack/Sky
Genre: family, friendship, established relationship
Warnings: None
Word Count: 1291
Summary: Jack meets Sky's mom
Note: Finished ages ago, no idea why I haven't posted it yet. Written for the prsw22 prompt Family.

( The quiet dignity of SPD was shattered as the leaders of B-Squad made their appearance... )

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Just now watching the first episode, so I thought I'd record my thoughts as I go and then go read all those other reaction posts. :)

( Spoilers )

All in all, I liked it. I didn't adore it, and I wish we could have started at the beginning. I feel like the only one I really know is Mike. In fact, his is the only name I remember. In other seasons our first impressions of a character might have been one dimensional (Ethan's a computer nerd, Nick likes motorcycles, Sky is anal) but at least we had a first impression of everyone by the end of the first episode.

Early days though and my DVR is set to ride out the series. Go, go power rangers. :)

ETA - I love that everyone else's reaction posts are filled with race issues and gender issues and special effects. Whereas I'm concerned with color coding outfits. :)

Title: First Date
Fandom: Power Rangers
Pairing: Tommy/Adam
Genre: Romance, schmoop
Warnings: None
Word Count: >800
Summary: Adam shows Tommy how to make a bad first date perfect.
Note: Welcome back serpentine85! Written for you based (very, very vaguely) on your suggestion for my Pink Card of Schmoopy-ness prompt 'caught in the rain'

( Tommy wished he could say that he was surprised when his car engine sputtered and died in the middle of nowhere. )

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Title: A Dangerous Gift
Fandom: PR: Ninja Storm
Pairing: Hunter/Dustin
Genre: First time, humor, friendship, romance
Warnings: None that I'm aware of
Word Count: 2544
Summary: Hunter gets some advice on how to snag Dustin
Note: Written for mystik_ivanow who donated generously for help_pakistan. Title is from the quote "Advice is a dangerous gift..." ~ J. R. R. Tolkien, Gildor Inglorion to Frodo in, The Lord of the Rings, from The Fellowship of the Ring, Bk. I, Ch. 3

( When Hunter found himself falling in love with his very male friend, he did what any self respecting man would do - he ignored it. )

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I am so jealous of you guys. I'm not jealous of the panels or photo ops or PR people you'll be meeting. I'm jealous that you'll be together and I won't be there. Know that I love you and I'll be thinking of you and anxiously awaiting your reports and photos and safe returns.

♥ I love you!

Title: Pretty Princess
Fandom: PR - LG
Pairing: Kai/Leo
Genre: established, humor
Warnings: None
Word Count: ~ 1700
Summary: Leo's prepared for his 'surprise' wedding shower - it's just too bad no one's arranged one yet.
Note: Written for wedding - shower on my schmoop_bingo card. Many hugs and credit to rosabelle for her contribution regarding Kai's reaction to Leo's fuzzy red boa.

( Leo's smile was a little too bright for six o'clock in the morning. )

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