amedia

My first slash vid!!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33688045

You could probably watch it with gen goggles as a friendship vid, if you prefer. :-)

Story title: Live and Let March
Author: Amedia
Rating: G
Characters: Barney Miller, Stan Wojciehowicz, Marty Morrison, Daryl Driscoll
Ship: Marty/Mr. Driscoll (background, canon)
Summary: Wojo works crowd control.
Word Count: 389
Author's note: Inspired by a ficlet request from noxelementalist: "Fandom: Barney Miller. Character: Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz (can be gen involving him or pairing of your choice). Plot element: It's Pride parade time, and as a fine and upstanding member of Greenwich Village own 12th Precinct, guess who's doing security?" This was a thought-provoking prompt and I hope I did it justice! I went with gen.


( Live and Let March )

Story title: Tackling
Author: Amedia
Rating: Really depends on how much you read between the lines. My imagination wants to give this a hard R but the words on the page are probably only about a PG.
Characters: Wojo, Harris, Dietrich
Ship: Harris/Dietrich
Disclaimer: No copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Summary: The removal of some old filing cabinets inspires nostalgia.
Word Count: 150 (a sesqui-drabble)
Author's note: Prompt response ficlet. chorale requested Barney Miller with the prompt, "filing cabinet."

( Tackling )

So I'm finally putting stuff up on AO3! Old stuff - nothing new to see, move along. :-)

I've put up all of my Rat Patrol and Barney Miller stuff - basically anything that has a Dietrich in it - and I'll be gradually putting other stuff up as well. The Amedia account there will essentially mirror my site on fanfic.tv, but may give the fic a little more exposure and also provide a backup when fanfic.tv is down for maintenance.

ETA I'm I thought I was the first person there ever to post Barney Miller fic. Hope I'm not the last! Yay! There's MORE! (see settiai's link below).[End ETA]

I dithered a bit and decided to add a "warning: offensive language" tag to "On and Off" in case the language used by the gay-bashers might bother people. I think the language itself is appropriate to the context, but if someone doesn't feel like reading it they shouldn't have to.

It's a nice interface, easy to use, although it's incredibly slow - is that always the case, or did I pick an especially busy weekend to start using it? I hardly feel I have the right to complain, given that all this wonderfulness is free, and I can use the time while I'm waiting for pages to load to sort laundry play sudoku.

Title: Stress Relief
Author: amedia
Pairing: Harris/Dietrich
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Missing scene from "Stress Analyzer."
Word Count: 346
Disclaimer: No infringement intended.
Note: Published in Diverse Doings 9, May 2002.

( Stress Relief )

Title: On and Off
Author: amedia
Pairing: Harris/Dietrich
Rating: PG
Summary: Undercover in a gay bar.
Warning: Offensive language.
Word Count: 4428
Note: Published in Southern Hospitality, August 2001. Beta'd by TODS.
Disclaimer: No infringement intended.

( On and Off )

It occurs to me that, while Flammantia Moenia Mundi is a splendid place to archive stories, people are much likelier to stumble across them on LJ. So I'm going to post some older fics here. (I'm still working on new Tin Man fic as well.) If you've read these before and were hoping for more, I truly apologize; I do have a couple more on the back burner, but I would like to wait until my current flame dies down a bit, if you know what I mean.

I also did a couple of Barney Miller prompt responses a while ago:
Prompt: Dietrich & Harris, an arrest gone wrong.

Prompt: "You know how to make Eggs Benedict? I'm impressed."
"Not as impressed as I was last night."

There are so many reasons to love the Barney Miller Christmas episodes - we have two of them on tape and always re-watch them this time of year. "Christmas Story" is so heartwarming; Fish's "heh, heh" when he imagines people beating up Santa is a masterpiece of comic timing, and the whole plot with Yemana dating the prostitute is really sweet. (Hey, I didn't say it was *wholesome*!)

And then there's "Toys," which has such a splendidly slashy moment (and it's NOT between Harris and Dietrich, although they get some adorable bickering in). Barney and his estranged wife Liz are going over cancelled checks:

"What's this one?" Liz asks. "Mariani's for $36?"
"It's that nice Italian cafe on 23rd street," Barney says. "Dinner for two."
"Oh," says Liz, significantly.
"Inspector Luger," Barney confides. "He's had his eye on me for years."

Hee hee!

There's another Christmas episode that I've seen, "Homeless," but I don't have it on tape, and it's not on YouTube. Alas!

settiai, whom I met way back in Barney Miller fanfic, is now writing Tin Man! Squee! Go encourage her! http://settiai.livejournal.com/1019886.html

It's here: http://www.squidge.org/keikokin/viewstory.php?sid=844

Yay!