Ruth Sadelle Alderson

I know I'm pretty much out of bandom, but Gabe/Victoria is my forever OTP. I was going to make a mini-picspam, and then I had twenty-two pictures, so this is a giant picspam.

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Summary: Victoria knows that tone. That's not the tone of a guy who had a threesome. That's the tone of a dom who was very pleased with his subs.

Notes: The idea behind this was to play with het kink where the woman is subbing, but I never finished it.

Warning/Enticement: Kink with a woman subbing for a man.

Story on AO3


( A Little Duller )

Bands/Characters: Cobra Starship, Leighton Meester, The Academy Is...
Pairing: Leighton/Victoria
Word Count: 59,000
Rating: Adult/Explicit

Warnings: Although the sex itself takes place off-screen, Victoria does engage in a romantic and sexual relationship with Saporta as part of her cover. Gabe and Alex's non-celebrity ex-girlfriends are characters in this story.

Summary: NYPD Vice Detectives Leighton Meester and Victoria Asher go undercover in Gabe Saporta's underground club with the aim of gathering enough evidence to put Saporta away for good. Leighton and Victoria are used to undercover work, but this is a longer operation than usual, and they aren't used to being apart. A "Good Girls Go Bad" video AU.

Notes: When Cobra first posted the video for "Good Girls Go Bad," I promptly tried to give away the plot bunny for the story the video had so clearly set up. Then there was bandgirlsbang, and I used that as a reason to start writing the story. It kept growing and growing well beyond the due date, and I'm so pleased to be able to post this as part of the same challenge this year. Thank you to the mods for running it both years and giving me a reason to both start and finish this story. Thanks are also due to a great number of other people. lakeeffectgirl, siryn99, icanbreakthesky, mayqueen517, and unrequitedangst let me add them to the Google doc. Even if they weren't reading regularly, knowing they were there helped me keep writing. lakeeffectgirl and schuyler were extra awesome and beta read for me. (Any remaining mistakes are, of course, my own.) siryn99 and schuyler helped me figure out a title. So many people that I have failed to keep track of them all answered questions and let me talk out things I was unsure of. You all have my thanks. I couldn't have done it without you. Huge thanks go to dwg for the art and delphinapterus and roadmarks for the mixes. They are all amazing, and there is more gushing about them in the respective posts. Title loosely taken from Stars' "The Night Starts Here."


On AO3 At LJ: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

Bonus Material

Art by dwg

Mix 1: Undercover and Still In Love/It's A Bumpy Road by delphinapterus

Mix 2: Oceans Won't Freeze by roadmarks

Master Post

Mix number one is by delphinapterus.

( Cover Art )

Undercover and Still In Love/It's A Bumpy Road

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1. My Love Follows You Where You Go - Alison Krauss & Union Station


2. The Night Starts Here - Stars


3. Air We Breathe - Alisha's Attic


4. Problem Queen - Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi


5. Constant Craving - k.d. lang


6. Moments in Love - The Art of Noise


7. Lies - Kaki King


8. The Price We Pay - A Day to Remember


9. Trouble Sleeping - Corinne Bailey Rae


10. Code Red - Tori Amos


11. Prelude to a Kiss - Alicia Keys


12. I'm All Right - Madeleine Peyroux


13. Home - David Byrne and Brian Eno

I knew one of the mixes had notes that the mixer had cut from following the plot to just making a pining mix. It's actually the other mix that has that note, but if you listen to this one, you can see why I thought it was this one on first listen. This mix has a lovely melancholy feel. If you are in a long distance relationship or unrequited love situation, you may not want to listen to this. I'm not in either of those situations, and it still almost made me cry on first listen.

A few specific notes: My dad is a big Alison Krauss fan, and I'm looking forward to telling him that I have one of her songs on a mix for something I wrote. I love that both mixers put Stars songs on their mixes. I did know this song, and I will have to go looking for more of their music. I was absolutely delighted to see Alisha's Attic on here. I haven't thought of them in years, but I remember loving one of their songs way back in the day. "Moments in Love" catches my ear every time I listen to this mix. "Home" is a lovely ending to this mix.

Master Post - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5


( Part 6 )

Master Post - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3


( Part 4 )

Master Post - Part 1


( Part 2 )

Happy Halloween! This is the third year I've done this, and it's always fun.



Knock or ring the bell by leaving me a comment, and I'll reply with a treat of some sort. It might be a fic snippet, a picture, a song, or something else I come up with in the moment.

(Not my actual door. Photo by Flickr user pmschlenker, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license.)

I've been wanting to write this story anyway, and then mourning_night prompted me with "Gabe/Bebe/Victoria - nothing is ever simple," which seemed to fit, so I used that as a nudge to write this.

This is a sequel to Going Steady, but you don't have to read that for this to make sense. There is one more story from this world in my head; I might get to it before this month is over.

Warning: Discussion of abortion.


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