Requests - For a limited time only

I've been having trouble with writing lately, so, I'm going to do a fic request meme. Except I'm going to be a bitch and take no more than five to do. If there're five requests already, you can still comment: I might choose you over them because it inspires me more. You can make more than one request for that same reason.

I'll be aiming to answer with anything from 100-1000 words, with the latter for preference. I'll need a prompt and a preferred rating, as well as your fandom and character/pairing choice. And if there's anything you don't want, let me know that, too. One thing I will definitely not write is anything sexual about children or young teenagers.

Fandoms I'm (potentially) offering:
-Final Fantasy III
-Final Fantasy IV
-Final Fantasy VIII
-Final Fantasy X/X-2
-Final Fantasy XII
-Kingdom Hearts/CoM/II
-The Dark Is Rising
-Phoenix Wright
-Good Omens
-Neverwhere (comic or book 'verse)
-FAKE
-Firefly

Slots:
-No Better Wings, for shunka_shuutou (FFXII, Vaan, Penelo, Balthier, Fran, G, 359 words)
-Friends, for feywood (FFIII, Luneth/Arc, G, 513 words)
-Inertia, for irish_ais (FFVIII, Squall, Edea, G, 658 words)
-Metaphysical, for yuumoya (PW, Phoenix, Maya, Mia, G, 354 words)
-The Leonids, for darthanne (TDIR, Will/Bran, G, 265 words)

Edit: No more requests, please. Sorry. ♥

Musing: Strikethrough/Boldout - Why my outcry

A lot of people have been doing posts about why LJ is important to them. I had to mentally debate for a while about whether I should post it here or on my personal journal. I elected for here because, well, I promised that this would be the place where my personal life and fandom touch, and that's what this is about.

LiveJournal provides the parts. The bits you need to make a community work. Fandom, for many people, provides the glue. It isn't always the case, but it is for me. The minute I started sliding in to join LJ fandom, I started becoming "stuck" here. Before that I could have gone off to any other journalling site just as happily, as long as it had as many shinies.

I don't think there's much that needs to be said, though. It's the same story as for many others: fandom has welcomed me. I have friends I would never have met otherwise, I'm engaged to someone I would never have met otherwise, and here I can express myself largely free of the homophobia that to some extent surrounded me when I was still in Sixth Form.

I'm not sure whether fandom was what really helped me figure out my sexuality: the timing was right, and the girl who introduced me to the concept was the first girl I had feelings for. Certainly writing in fandom and speaking to people I've met through fandom has helped me be more open.

And then, well, I've just plain had fun.

To switch metaphors -- LiveJournal is important to me because it provides the dancefloor. Fandom is my dancing partner of choice, and the dance has been a good one. Ladies (and gentlemen), can I have the next dance? ;) And probably the one after that, too.