My Fics

Updated 25 April 2024

~ - in progress

^ - on hiatus

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040

Chen Qing Ling/Modao Zushi/The Untamed

Daomu Biji/The Lost Tomb

Granting You A Dreamlike Life

Guardian/Zhen Hun

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek: Voyager

World of Warcraft

Other

Fic Masterlist

So hey, here is a list of all of my fics currently up on AO3. Some of these are, uh. Old. I’ve been posting fic online for almost 25 years and am now gradually rehoming the old ones to AO3, so you can really see the changes in my writing over time.

Updated 26 June 2021

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040

Chen Qing Ling/Modao Zushi/The Untamed

            ~  Do You Want To Have A Blanket Fort? - Nie Mingjue & Nie Huaisang, background nielan

            ~  Blanket Forts are the Best Wingmen - nielan

Daomu Biji/The Lost Tomb

           ~  Cat’s Paw - pingxiesang

           ~  Cats and Dogs - pingxiesang

           ~  A Very Memorable Birthday - pingxiesang

           ~  Braids and Other Evils - pingxiesang

           ~  Those who fear darkness have never seen what light can do - pingxie

           ~  Shine a little light - pingxiesang

           ~  Ears and Other Related Calamities - pingxiesang

           ~  Of Foxes and Mushrooms - pingxiesang

           ~  A Knight in Bloody Armour - pingxie, pre-pingxiesang

           ~  The Path to Paradise Begins in Hell - pingxie

           ~  Living With Inlaws - pingxie, pre-pingxiesang

           ~  Ghost in the House - pingxie, pre-pingxiesang

           ~  Can’t Help Falling in Love With You - pingxie, pre-pingxiesang

           ~  Where Angels Fear to Tread - pingxie, Iron Triangle origin

           ~  All Good Things - pingxiesang

Guardian/Zhen Hun

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

           ~  When The Drabbles Came - crackfic

           ~   Day Of The Drabbles - crackfic

           ~   Drabble Nor - crackfic

           ~   Attack Of The Killer Drabbles - crackfic

           ~   A Drabble A Day Keeps The Doctor Away - crackfic

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Original Series

Fic Tag Game

Grabbed from @hils79, because it looked like fun.

Name: Merinnan, which I’ve gone by for... fifteen years now, I think? Prior to that, I mostly used Calicia (and sometimes Zoi).

Fandoms: Like Hils, I’m only going to list the fandoms I’ve actually written fic for.

Star Trek: My very first fandom, and the one I’ve written the most fics for (so far - I suspect that DMBJ will overtake it. It certainly already has in terms of word count). I was (and am still) primarily a DS9 fan, and was a huge Kira/Dukat and Garak/Bashir shipper back in the day. Most of my Trekfics are DS9 fics, but I also dabbled a little bit in TOS and TNG, and had one or two crackfic crossovers that involved Voyager characters. Discovery has tempted me with a few fic ideas, but I haven’t written anything for it yet.

Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon: aka, the show that first had me seriously questioning my sexuality. Look, Haruka and Michiru are #goals, don’t judge me. This is also where my Zoi name came from, after the first season villain Zoisite, whom I cosplayed several times. Unsurprisingly, my main ships are HaruMichi and KunZoi. Despite this fact, neither of my published Sailormoon fics are HaruMichi.

Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040: A short-lived fandom, but one I still liked enough to write a fic for and get the OST CD.

World of Warcraft: I wouldn’t say I’m really part of the fandom, per se, but I’ve been playing since the dying days of Burning Crusade, am a huge lore nerd, and started writing a crossover fic that is currently on indefinite hiatus. I do plan to come back and finish it, but first RL got in the way, and now I have to try and remember where I’d actually been planning to go with it.

A Court of Thorns and Roses: That crossover fic I just mentioned? Yeah, this is what it’s a crossover with. ACoTaR fandom went sleepy for awhile, but it’s back up and kicking now that A Court of Silver Flames is out - if any of you are still following me, it’s great to see everyone active again! To the surprise of no-one who knows me, I’m a big Nessian shipper.

Mo Dao Zu Shi / Chen Qing Ling / The Untamed: I came to this fandom via ACoTaR, actually, after a certain person (hi, @rhysand-vs-fenrys!) wouldn’t stop gushing about it :-) This is the fandom that really and seriously got me back into regular fic writing again after 15-ish years. I’m a multishipper here, and have written / am writing WangXian, NieLan, XiCheng, XuanLi, and XiSang.

Guardian / Zhen Hun: MDZS fandom led me to Guardian, which, along with DMBJ, has devoured my life in a way that hasn’t happened since my Star Trek days, and I love it! WeiLan is my major ship, but I’m also quite fond of the DaMian life raft.

Zhu Yilong: Yes, I’m going to list a person as a fandom. Zhu Yilong is one of the stars of Guardian, and is both incredibly pretty and an incredibly talented actor. So much so that I have suffered through some truly terrible dramas just to watch him in them. I do not write Z1L-fic, since RPF of living people is a personal squick of mine, but I am working on a massive crossover fic of most of his characters.

Mo Du: Guardian led me along to more of Priest’s works, such as Mo Du, which is now officially my favourite book, and I adore the main WenZhou ship. The Mo Du fandom right now is pretty tiny, and I’m still working on my first fic for it, but I hope that it will grow with the donghua due out this year, and the drama having just started filming.

Daomu Biji / The Lost Tomb: I initially came into this fandom because of Zhu Yilong, who played Wu Xie in the Reboot / Reunion / Chongqi drama, and then I got sucked into the fandom pit of all of the books and dramas and spinoffs, and it’s wonderful and fantastic. I have written so much for it, and have so much more planned. PingXie and PingXieSang are my main ships here, but I’m also a HeiHua fan, and very much enjoying the RiSang pool noodle that @kholran created.

Tropes: Hurt/Comfort and crack are my major ones.

Fic I spent most time on: A toss-up between Endings and Beginnings and Reunion, both DS9 fics. Endings and Beginnings is an alternate ending to the show, while Reunion is a Gul Dukat-centric fic set around, oh, season 5ish? Both were written for and initially published in print fanzines, so in addition to time spent writing, there was a lot of back and forth for editing, etc.

Favourite fic(s) you’ve written: Look, I honestly couldn’t say. I like most of the fics I’ve written, and there are several that I’m really proud of and really like.

Fic I spent least time on: Silent Graves, a super angsty DMBJ/Lost Tomb Xiaoge fic. I think I wrote it in like 15 minutes.

Longest fic: Cat’s Paw, a DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXieSang canon rewrite fic I co-wrote with @xantissa, at  247 826 words. For fics written by just me, not with a co-writer, then that would be Nevermore, my WIP MDZS/CQL XiCheng Pacific Rim AU, at 22 276 words and counting.

Shortest fic: Every entry in my DS9 Drabbles series, with each one at exactly 100 words. Although if you count them as a quintdrabble, then Indiscretion (a DS9 missing scene vignette about Gul Dukat, set during the episode of the same name) at 169 words.

Most hits/kudos/comments/bookmarks/subscriptions: The answer to all of these is either Cat’s Paw or Nevermore, so I’m going to give the next highest.

Hits:  Those who fear darkness have never seen what light can do, a DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXie supernatural AU fic co-written with xantissa.

Since this fic also takes the highest kudos, bookmarks, and subscriptions after Cat’s Paw/Nevermore, I’ll skip to the next fic along on each of those.

Kudos: Stars fall like diamonds, a DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXie missing scene fic from Reboot/Reunion/Chongqi.

Bookmarks: A Knight in Bloody Armour, another DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXieSang supernatural AU fic (but a different supernatural AU) co-written with xantissa.

Comments: Ears and Other Related Calamities, yet another DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXieSang supernatural AU fic (of a different again supernatural AU) co-written with xantissa.

Subscriptions: The Rescue Job, a Guardian WeiLan Leverage AU, currently at one chapter complete and posted out of a planned five chapters.

Fic you want to rewrite/expand on: We have plans for a prequel and a sequel to A Knight in Bloody Armour, and a spinoff fic for The Zhang Identity (a DMBJ/Lost Tomb PingXie AU that is complete but not yet posted. It will be posted in April as part of the Small Fandoms Big Bang).

Share a bit of a WIP: This is from an as-yet-unnamed post-canon fix-it fic for the Guardian drama:

I tag: ALL OF YOU! Are you a writer who hasn’t done this yet? Consider yourself tagged if you want to be.

MDZS/CQL Star Trek AU

* The Lans are a Vulcan family. Like Sarek did a century or so earlier, Qingheng-jun married a human woman. It...did not work out as well as it did for Sarek and Amanda.

* Xichen and Wangji were both encouraged to suppress their human side. Wangji was far more successful at that, while Xichen realised that both his human and Vulcan sides were important and he wanted to balance them.

* Wangji meets Wei Wuxian at Starfleet Academy. Wuxian is a a genius and a troublemaker who is almost expelled several times, but each time manages to - just - successfully argue against the expulsion. It drives Wangji insane, not that he’d admit that this human is making him ~feel emotions~. If they were at the Vulcan Science Academy, there’s no way Wuxian’s shenanigans would be tolerated.

* They graduate and get assigned to different ships. Wangji develops a reputation as an excellent and reliable officer. Wuxian’s reputation as a wild genius remains. Comparisons get drawn to the famous James T. Kirk...

*...right up until Wuxian finally goes too far, and interferes in a war between two alien races that the Federation was on...shaky...terms with, had been specifically keeping out of, and that Starfleet ships had been ordered to keep away from, because the Federation could not be drawn into this conflict.

* His interference results in the destruction of his ship and the loss of a most of the crew, including his sister and his brother-in-law.

* At his court-martial, Wuxian argues that the ship he intervened to save was carrying civilian refugees. But all the records say it was a military transport. He gets dishonourably discharged from Starfleet.

* Before anything else can happen, Wuxian disappears. Rumours start flying around that he was brainwashed to be a spy, was actually a legit traitor, and that the Wuxian who returned was an imposter surgically altered to look like him and the real Wuxian is dead.

* Wangji is determined to find out the truth, but there is surprisingly little information other than the court martial. He tracks down Wuxian’s surviving crewmates, but most of them can’t tell him any more - the crew who did see what was actually on the ship all died.

* A decade or so later, Wangji is captain of his own ship, near the border of the races from that old war. No-one has seen members of the losing race in years.

* Wangji’s ship gets attacked, but is then rescued by a squadron of ships. They’re tiny, seem to incorporate design elements of a few races but nothing to identify them as a particular race, and pack on HELL of a punch. No-one’s ever seen anything like them before.

* Wangji’s ship is heavily damaged, but the aggressors are defeated. The lead rescue ship hails him and...it’s Wuxian.

* Wuxian guides Wangji’s ship to an unrecorded settlement on a previously uncharted planet. The settlement is made up of the civilians that Wuxian rescued all of those years ago - the ship had been a military transport, yes, but it had been commandeered by a pair of siblings - Wen Ning and Wen Qing - who knew the war was unwarranted and unjust and were trying to escape to safety with as many of their people as they could. Other members of the settlement include a few of Wuxian’s old crew who were rescued by the Wens, and a few other maverick idealists who didn’t fit with their respective peoples.

* Once Wangji’s ship is repaired enough to leave, Wangji tells them to leave without him and that he’s submitting his resignation to Starfleet. Wuxian and his people start making preparations to abandon their home and find a new refuge, because they fear what will happen when their settlement becomes known.

* Several of Wangji’s crew, such as his younger cousin Lan Jingyi (who has become good friends with one of the Wen, Yuan), choose to follow Wangji and join Wuxian’s people.

* There is a lot of outrage over the news, and...I’m not actually sure what happens next. But, in the end, Wuxian and Wangji and their little settlement finally all get the peace and safety they deserve (and want), and Wangji learns that human emotions aren’t so bad after all (especially when Wuxian is involved)

Me: *finds some old fics in a long-defunct Trekzine she used to write for*

Me: Huh, I should put these on AO3 so they have a home.

Me: Y’know, I should track down all of my old fics and put them on AO3.

Me: Didn’t I have a fanfiction.net account at one point? I wonder if I have others there that I should grab and rehome.

Me: *searches for all of her old handles on ff.net until she finds the one she used on there*

Me: Oh, hey, I’d forgotten some of these until I saw them again! And oooh, comments, let’s take a look.

Me:...So, people have spent the last 15-odd years since I stopped using ff.net leaving comments asking me to write sequels. Uh....

Me: Maybe I should watch these shows again and write more fic for them.