extrapenguin

I'm always too late for Sunday Six, so, have a Monday Mix (of Guardian content) instead!

First up, a rec:
Flesh from Bone, Soul from Flesh by ratbones is over 30k of excellent casefic, and still has two chapters to go for a bit of that WIP experience!

Then, some short flashfics of mine, done for

brush_and_lantern:
Arranged Betrothal (362 words, G) for this month's theme
alien reproductive stuff (515 words, G) for the anniversary post
I think I'll try to do little flashfics in the comments every month; it's been fun so far!

Finally, from the WIP mines:
Spaceship rental is over 9k currently and still needs to expand. Other stuff feels like too much of a spoiler at the moment, so have this scene:

She floated in the aether.

It was the same multicolored aether she'd floated in for all the time she'd been floating. In the blink of an eye, she'd left her world and its anchors behind and was now floating unmoored.

The aether's splotches of color moved. It was impossible to say whether it was due to her moving or to whatever was causing the color slowly flowing.

She floated in the aether, unable to alter her surroundings.

The soulmate AU is now almost 3k! I also have an idea of how to outline it and what sorts of fleshing out it will need afterwards. Have a few paragraphs of that one, too:

"Da Qing!" Zhao Yunlan yelled as he burst through the door with brand-new cleaning supplies in his hands. "We need to clean up immediately!"

"Here I was, thinking you'd never change your slobby habits, and suddenly you discover urgency," Da Qing grumbled from where he was ensconced upon a pile of lightly-used clothes on the couch in his cat form. "Can't it wait for tomorrow, or be a gradual process? It'll take at least a week of deep-cleaning to get this place clean. Why are you doing it in a hurry? Can't you just take your guest to a restaurant instead?"

Now, off to do the watch notes on episode 18 and maybe some ficwriting or icons...