FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/09/23 11:09 PM
Hooray! My muse woke up! Just in time to make me write this with a head cold.
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/09/23 11:24 PM
This was hilarious!! Red Kryptonite for the win!
I do feel sorry for Zara and Ching though. They might be stuck in a limbo relationship forever....
Anyway, hope your head cold goes away quickly.
I do feel sorry for Zara and Ching though. They might be stuck in a limbo relationship forever....
Anyway, hope your head cold goes away quickly.
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/09/23 11:24 PM
Brava! 
Most excellent! I kept wondering where/when you were going to drop us, and this was just perfect! 10/10, no notes.
Most excellent! I kept wondering where/when you were going to drop us, and this was just perfect! 10/10, no notes.
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/10/23 03:34 AM
Originally Posted by Blueowl
This was hilarious!! Red Kryptonite for the win!
I do feel sorry for Zara and Ching though. They might be stuck in a limbo relationship forever....
Anyway, hope your head cold goes away quickly.
I do feel sorry for Zara and Ching though. They might be stuck in a limbo relationship forever....
Anyway, hope your head cold goes away quickly.
Thank you! I wasn't happy that I couldn't neatly ensure that Zara and Ching would get their happy ending, but the opportunity to mess with them by having them find UltraWoman was too good to pass up! Haha! Thanks for reading!
(Head cold is slowly dissipating, I think. I can breathe through one whole nostril at the moment.)
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/10/23 03:35 AM
Originally Posted by Queen of the Capes
Brava! Most excellent! I kept wondering where/when you were going to drop us, and this was just perfect! 10/10, no notes.
Most excellent! I kept wondering where/when you were going to drop us, and this was just perfect! 10/10, no notes.Thanks, Queenie! Feels good to get a fic out finally!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/10/23 03:03 PM
Yay for the muse! This was just priceless. I love the scene where a Clark needs rescuing in Ultrawoman. I think Zara and Ching arrived just in the right moment, at least from Lois' and Clark's POV. Well done and welcome back. I missed your stories
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/10/23 08:01 PM
Oh wow that was brilliant!! What an idea! I’m so happy your muse woke up! I’ve been scrambling to finish my Christmas ficathon story (since it was due last Friday 
), and I was checking the boards for…some reason I’ve now forgotten when I saw this sitting here. And it’s just a one shot, so easy to just sneak in and read when I’m supposed to be writing! 
I loved having this from Ching’s POV! You actually get to feel fully sorry for him. We all have really strong feelings against him and Zara, but sometimes you can’t help but feel a little bad for them, right? Given that and the title, I was totally expecting them to find like a happily married with kids L&C and they’d decide that they should leave them be…
BUT omg!
THIS WAS SO MUCH BETTER!! I love it!!!
Hopefully your muse has more in store for us! I know many people, myself included, have missed your writing!
Sara
I’m so happy your muse woke up! I’ve been scrambling to finish my Christmas ficathon story (since it was due last Friday ), and I was checking the boards for…some reason I’ve now forgotten when I saw this sitting here. And it’s just a one shot, so easy to just sneak in and read when I’m supposed to be writing! I loved having this from Ching’s POV! You actually get to feel fully sorry for him. We all have really strong feelings against him and Zara, but sometimes you can’t help but feel a little bad for them, right? Given that and the title, I was totally expecting them to find like a happily married with kids L&C and they’d decide that they should leave them be…
BUT omg!
THIS WAS SO MUCH BETTER!! I love it!!! Hopefully your muse has more in store for us! I know many people, myself included, have missed your writing!
Sara
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/11/23 08:35 PM
Hi Vicki!
AKA the sweaty armpit of the galaxy.
He could have had Mercury blown up and told Zara that the third planet’s an inhabitable wasteland.
Unless he hides a psychotic streak or violent temper tantrums and jealous rage underneath his peasant (sic) countenance.
/Visualizes heart scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom/
It’s the word they use for the position after they have merged Chief of the Elder and First Lord of Earth.
One, they really should think about their radiation shielding. Otherwise this could be the last generation. And two, I suddenly have the image of a wildly bobbing about bridge crew, like a bunch of half -filled helium balloons floating in the airconditioned breeze.
Hey, maybe it’s Season One and Lex is still available. He would surely be amiable to marry/control a Kryptonian princess.
Maybe they should simply move in?
DS9 has something to say here:
Smoking
and
Poisoning
Gah, when is that?
Maybe Zara should not tell the superpowered brown-belt that she has designs on her boyfriend.
Is that from the show? Will Lois now break up with him for his own good?
Through a mirror, darkly.
They never bothered to check the Phantom Zone?
Will they find Alt-Clark?
Couldn’t Ching dress up as Superman and claim the Lady Zara?
That was a cute untwist. And they were off by just a few months, too. I guess the only worse time would be if they had arrived when Clark was stuck in the time bubble and Alt-Clark not yet here
Michael
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“Earth,” he said, by way of a reply. “Earth,” Zara repeated
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Ching forced himself to say, swallowing back his own regret at finding this accursed hunk of space rock.
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At least then Zara might find some small measure of happiness in her arranged marriage.
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Better to get this over with as quickly as possible, for his own heart’s sake.
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[he calls himself ‘Superman’]
A humble one, he thought with disgust.
A humble one, he thought with disgust.
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He cleared his throat and gestured to the others floating around them on the bridge. “The same powers we have gained since entering this solar system.”
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Better him than Nor, he reminded himself. Anyone would be better than Nor.
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Remote probes scanned the planet’s surface, giving them glimpses of blue skies, green trees, clear streams, and strange wildlife.
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These Earthlings are killing their planet, he mused disdainfully. Do they not realize it?
Smoking
and
Poisoning
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His arms were bound behind his back and he was breathing hard, clearly winded.
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Before she could finish her thought, the microphone on the probe picked up the sound of a whoosh! and a woman in a skintight jumpsuit with a cape appeared in the frame from seemingly nowhere. Kal-El’s face lit up.
Maybe Zara should not tell the superpowered brown-belt that she has designs on her boyfriend.
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They watched as the woman became agitated and smashed a work bench. A piece of metal – a bolt, Ching thought – flew into the air and struck Kal-El, making him bleed.
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We know there are places where it is possible to slip into a parallel plane of existence.
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“That’s true enough. It might explain why we’ve never succeeded in finding Kal-El’s cousin, Kara, either, despite knowing her parents’ intentions to send her to safety as well.”
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Try them,” Trey commanded. “We must find the right Kal-El before Nor can claim Lady Zara’s hand.
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. He would let the look-alike Earthling have his happiness with UltraWoman, even if he, Ching, would never share that fate.
That was a cute untwist. And they were off by just a few months, too. I guess the only worse time would be if they had arrived when Clark was stuck in the time bubble and Alt-Clark not yet here
Michael
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/13/23 04:28 AM
Originally Posted by bakasi
Yay for the muse! This was just priceless. I love the scene where a Clark needs rescuing in Ultrawoman. I think Zara and Ching arrived just in the right moment, at least from Lois' and Clark's POV. Well done and welcome back. I missed your stories
That part is one of my favorite parts of the episode too.
Lois and Clark totally dodged a bullet here, huh?
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/13/23 04:31 AM
Originally Posted by KSaraSara
Oh wow that was brilliant!! What an idea! I’m so happy your muse woke up! I’ve been scrambling to finish my Christmas ficathon story (since it was due last Friday ), and I was checking the boards for…some reason I’ve now forgotten when I saw this sitting here. And it’s just a one shot, so easy to just sneak in and read when I’m supposed to be writing!
I loved having this from Ching’s POV! You actually get to feel fully sorry for him. We all have really strong feelings against him and Zara, but sometimes you can’t help but feel a little bad for them, right? Given that and the title, I was totally expecting them to find like a happily married with kids L&C and they’d decide that they should leave them be…
BUT omg! THIS WAS SO MUCH BETTER!! I love it!!!
Hopefully your muse has more in store for us! I know many people, myself included, have missed your writing!
Sara
I’m so happy your muse woke up! I’ve been scrambling to finish my Christmas ficathon story (since it was due last Friday ), and I was checking the boards for…some reason I’ve now forgotten when I saw this sitting here. And it’s just a one shot, so easy to just sneak in and read when I’m supposed to be writing! I loved having this from Ching’s POV! You actually get to feel fully sorry for him. We all have really strong feelings against him and Zara, but sometimes you can’t help but feel a little bad for them, right? Given that and the title, I was totally expecting them to find like a happily married with kids L&C and they’d decide that they should leave them be…
BUT omg!
THIS WAS SO MUCH BETTER!! I love it!!! Hopefully your muse has more in store for us! I know many people, myself included, have missed your writing!
Sara
Thanks, Sara! It feels good to be writing again. Still toying with a different episode for Zara and Ching to wander into. Glad you liked this one! (I actually really love the NK arc - not because of the heartache of Clark leaving (boo!) but because I've always loved the idea of having other Kryptonians around (there's a reason I like Superman II better than the Superman movie, hahaha), and Zara and Ching only bug me in the first half of the arc.)
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/13/23 04:42 AM
Hi Michael!
Especially in the last decade or so.
Marvin the Martain humbly requests that if we're blowing up Mercury, that we can also do it to Earth, because it blocks his view of Venus.
Eternally optimistic.
Yesssssss!
Kinky.
Thanks, it was super fun to write! (pun intended) Also, I love the idea of a Clarkless Earth for them to arrive in. Or even when Lois and Clark are busy playing Quantum Leap instead of honeymoon Hijinx.
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AKA the sweaty armpit of the galaxy.
Especially in the last decade or so.
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He could have had Mercury blown up and told Zara that the third planet’s an inhabitable wasteland.
Marvin the Martain humbly requests that if we're blowing up Mercury, that we can also do it to Earth, because it blocks his view of Venus.
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Unless he hides a psychotic streak or violent temper tantrums and jealous rage underneath his peasant (sic) countenance.
Eternally optimistic.
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And two, I suddenly have the image of a wildly bobbing about bridge crew, like a bunch of half -filled helium balloons floating in the airconditioned breeze.
Yesssssss!
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Through a mirror, darkly.
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Couldn’t Ching dress up as Superman and claim the Lady Zara?
Kinky.
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That was a cute untwist. And they were off by just a few months, too. I guess the only worse time would be if they had arrived when Clark was stuck in the time bubble and Alt-Clark not yet here
Thanks, it was super fun to write! (pun intended) Also, I love the idea of a Clarkless Earth for them to arrive in. Or even when Lois and Clark are busy playing Quantum Leap instead of honeymoon Hijinx.
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/14/23 02:45 PM
Hi Vicki!
Stupid neighbors and their overgrown bushes, too high fences, and general out of control trees.
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Hmm…Didn’t they just leave for a moment or so?
Michael
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Marvin the Martain humbly requests that if we're blowing up Mercury, that we can also do it to Earth, because it blocks his view of Venus.
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Eternally optimistic.
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Kinky.
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Thanks, it was super fun to write! (pun intended) Also, I love the idea of a Clarkless Earth for them to arrive in.
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Or even when Lois and Clark are busy playing Quantum Leap instead of honeymoon Hijinx.
Michael
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/15/23 06:04 PM
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Stupid neighbors and their overgrown bushes, too high fences, and general out of control trees.
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Hmm…Didn’t they just leave for a moment or so?
Lois: "It was long enough!!!"
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/24/23 07:59 PM
Hee I really liked this one! Perfect timing, indeed!!
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 01/26/23 02:40 AM
Originally Posted by Anna B. the Greek
Hee I really liked this one! Perfect timing, indeed!!
Thanks, Anna! Glad you enjoyed it!
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 02/28/23 05:57 AM
What a neat twist on events! Glad your muse shared it with us.
Re: FDK: Timing Is Everything (1/1) - 03/05/23 12:17 AM
Originally Posted by Toomi8
What a neat twist on events! Glad your muse shared it with us.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for reading!