We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

I was only writing in these fandoms about a year before Numb3rs ate my brain; there isn't much, but I'm happy with it.

( Harry Potter )



( Superman/Batman )

All my N3 drabbles, by prompt. If you want to see them grouped by story, you can check out my masterlist. The table for #s 201-300 will be added as soon as it's out.

Merci beaucoup to numb3rs100 mods emmademarais and melissima for enabling my OCD their wonderful work!


( Prompts 1-100 )


( Prompts 101-200 )



( Prompts 201-227 )



( Bonus Prompt Table )


( 2008 Rewind Prompts )


( Rewind Prompts 2009 )

Title: At First Sight (Third Time Lucky)
Pairing/Characters: Charlie/Colby
Rating/Category: PG13
Word Count: 4x200
Spoilers: 3.24 The Janus List, 4.01 Trust Metric
Summary: Colby doesn't believe love at first sight ever ends well. And then he meets Charlie.
Notes/Warnings: Unrepentant schmoop.
Prompts: First, Date, Bachelor, Husband






( First )




( Kiss )

( Bachelor )




( Husband )




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Title: Two Plus Two
Author: Tamanna/swingandswirl
Pairing/characters: Colby Granger/Ian Edgerton
Words: 4x200
Prompts: #247 Fiance, #331 Mute, #289 Bed, #175 Soldier
Summary: Colby adds two and two and gets five.
Notes: Just a silly little bit of fluff for Damerel, who gave me the prompts that led to this fic. I hope you like this expanded version, hon!


( Two Plus Two )

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Title: Four Days
Author: Tamanna/swingandswirl
Pairing/characters: Amita Ramanujan/Ian Edgerton, ensemble (in passing), OCs
Words: 4x200
Prompts: #347 Grandparent #81 Turkey #82 Feast #262 Foreign
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Four holidays Amita celebrates.









( Diwali )


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( Christmas )


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( Thanksgiving )


*****


( Eid )


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I love my culture.

I do not love the aspect of my culture that tells me I am somehow lesser because I have dark skin.

I do not love the aspect of my culture that makes it so that the darkest shade of makeup sold by most Indian brands does not even come close to matching the vast majority of Indian, especially South Indian and/or non-upper-caste women. 

I do not love the aspect of my culture that allows a wonderful, sweet, charming, absolutely gorgeous young woman to be driven to the brink of suicide because of the constant taunting and put-downs people inflict on her because her skin is closer to Naomi Campbell's than Kate Moss.

I do not love the aspect of my culture that makes it so that the darkest tone that appears in magazines and billboards is something called 'wheatish' or 'dusky', which is code for 'dark enough to project a veneer of diversity, but not dark enough to actually suggest that anything but white skin should be aspired to.'

I do not love the aspect of my culture which has meant that I see far more White faces on advertisements, billboards, posters, hoardings, window displays, even if they're advertising Indian products for use by Indian people.

I do not love the aspect of my culture that makes it acceptable for matrimonial ads to ask for 'fair' brides and grooms, as if the colour of a person's skin has anything to do with the content of their character. 

I do not love the aspect of my culture that insists that Bipasha Basu and Sheetal Mallar need to be lit up and Photoshopped into pale imitations of themselves. 

I do not love the aspect of my culture that has internalised the racism and colonialism of the British Raj to the extent that is perfectly acceptable to run ads for fairness products that say 'Dark out, White in,' ads that would rightfully be banned in Britain today. 

And I most especially do not love the aspect of my culture that has made it acceptable for an ad to be run on the first page of The Hindu, India's newspaper of record, offering a sachet of Ponds White Beauty free with two bars of Dove soap, with the tagline, 'We're sending some more compliments your way.'

Fuck you.

Actually, more than that, how dare you. How dare you presume that a compliment is likelier the paler a woman's skin. How dare you, in a land where the Gods themselves have verses written on the magnificence of their dark skins, try and push this warped, racist, colonial hangover of a beauty standard on us? How dare you imply that a woman's worth, a person's worth, hinges on the amount of melanin their body produces? And in 2012, how dare you stand there and tell me and women like me that we are not good enough because we are not good enough, not White enough, to be beautiful?

Take your compliments and shove them where the sun don't shine, because they're sure as hell not wanted here.




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 Dear Universe,

STOP BEING MEAN TO MY FRIENDS. /brandishes cricket bat/

Absolutely no love, 
Tam


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Title: Rarely Make History
Author: Tamanna/swingandswirl
Pairing/characters: Amita Ramanujan
Words: 7x200
Prompts: Summer of Sin (2008) - The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Greed, Envy, Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth, Lust
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Well-behaved women rarely make history.
Notes: For Mel, who has listened to all of my rants about the canon portrayal of Amita with much patience.





( Greed )

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( Lust )


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( Gluttony )


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( Wrath )

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( Envy )

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( Sloth )


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( Pride )



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Title: The Ex Files
Author: swingandswirl
Pairing/characters: Colby Granger/Ian Edgerton, OC Taylor Donahue, team
Words: 6x100
Prompts: #246 Boyfriend, #283 Charm, #116 Smug, #323 Red, #240 Shock, #166 Defense
Rating: PG
Summary: Colby's evil ex tries to stir up trouble. Lucky for him his team's got his back.
Notes: For Mel, who helped corral this bunny into a workable story.




( #246 Boyfriend )
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( #283 Charm )
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( #116 Smug )
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( #323 Red )
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( #240 Shock )
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( #166 Defense )
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