title: it's how we've always been
author:sockiah
summary:
Genetically engineered and on the run from the organization that created her, Project Manticore, Jondy begins a new chapter of her life aboard a space station orbiting near Jupiter. As luck would have it, her best friend Max has found work there as a bike messenger. It isn’t long, however, before another face from their childhood pops up, putting Max and Jondy on the run once again.

read at Ao3.

sorry about the delay, your space mods were in transit, and failed to get this out on time. /o\

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the works available for sign ups are:

1:
title: If You've Got Some Faith (Then You Are Faithful)
fandom(s): Generation Kill
pairings, if any: Gen
type of work: fic
summary:
Mercury Seven AU - "I'm a test pilot, Reporter. The only way people are supposed to learn our names is if we wind up dead."

2:
title: Work By The Plutonian Light
fandom(s): Taylor Swift RPF
pairings, if any: Selena Gomez/Taylor Swift
type of work: fic
summary:
Taylor is a smuggler with a taste for the glamorous. When she agrees to take on some illegally traveling passengers, she gets herself in a lot of trouble - especially with Selena, a passenger who doesn't trust Taylor at all.

3:
title: Treasure Hunt, by Flora
fandom(s): Avengers
pairings, if any: Phil Coulson/Clint Barton
type of work: podfic
summary:
Text is available HERE
Clint Barton is a medium-well-known treasure hunter. Phil Coulson has a ship. And Tony Stark, spacecruiser owner, wants an artifact from poorly-charted space. The creator of this work would particularly like a cover for their podfic.

4:
title: Why You'd Want to Live Here
fandom(s): my chemical romance rpf
pairings, if any: frank iero/gerard way
type of work: fic
summary:
Gerard is pulled out of the sea on Frank's third day aboard. His hair is very black and his skin is very white, when he speaks, his accent is thick and foreign. (But essentially it's about a vaguely Steampunk-esque space pirate Gerard and sick! Frank with a concerned mother on a cruise.)

5:
title: as yet untitled
fandom(s): the eagle
pairings, if any: marcus/esca
type of work: fic
summary:
The Eagle and her crew went missing when Marcus was a child, taking his father and the Aquila family reputation with it. When sightings of the ship begin to surface on the edge of Alliance space, Marcus has to investigate -- taking the prickly and unpredictable alien Esca with him.

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TROPES! IN! SPACE!

Starships! from bironic on Vimeo.

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