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Title: "Nine Rules For Living in a Broken World"
Fandoms, Characters, Spoilers: various. See individual headers.
Rating: PG-13.
Notes: These nine drabbles are responses to International Blog Against Racism Week prompts. They are all set in the Dark Angel universe, but can be read with no knowledge of that world beyond this: In the future America is a third-world nation, and almost everyone is terribly poor. Each drabble can be read individually. I will probably comment on the IBARW context of these drabbles upon request at the drop of a hat.
Summary: How we endure, survive, thrive, spar, fight, and emulate squirrels.
Do they (want to) have sex (with each other)? All subtext is definitely, one hundred percent on purpose.
Words: 900.
Disclaimer: Created, owned, and copyrighted by people other than me.


I. Dance alone.
[Dark Angel. Original Cindy. For webbgirl]
( one )

II. Dance with your head held high.
[Dark Angel x Angel. Original Cindy and Gunn. For malnpudl]
( two )

III. Dance together.
[Angel. Gunn, Wesley, and Fred. For callmesandy]
( three )

IV. Dance in the snow.
[Stargate: Atlantis. Ford. S1 continuity. For sweetcommunist]
( four )

V. Dance like fighting.
[Stargate: Atlantis x Buffy: the Vampire Slayer. Teyla/Faith. For thelastgoodname.]
( five )

VI. Dance; don't cry.
[Stargate: SG-1. Sam and Teal'c. For ctorres.]
( six )

VII. Dance through your tears.
[Firefly x Stargate: SG-1. Zoe. For rydra_wong]
( seven )

VIII. Dance with the enemy.
[Veronica Mars. Weevil/Logan. For amerella and mosca.]
( eight )

IX. Dance.
[Baby-Sitters Club. Jessi. For sangerin.]
( nine )

Title: "The Five Games You Play In Heaven"
Fandom: Buffy: the Vampire Slayer and Angel
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Through NFA. The rest of the header is behind a spoiler-cut for that reason. ( read the rest of the header )
Notes: Thanks to karabair, who suggested the dilemma posed in the first story. Apologies to Mitch Alboum, from whom I riffed the title.
Disclaimer: If I owned them, would they all be dead?
Summary: Five afterlives that might yet be; everyone is surprised.
Words: 4353
( go straight to the fic )