:: Mā'an zahrah
:: aqua auranti florae
:: orange-bloom water
:: eau de fleur d'oranger
:: πορτοκάλου α̉νθόνερος
:: acqua di fior d'arancio
::
:: Mā'an zahrah
:: aqua auranti
florae
::
orange-bloom water
::
eau de fleur d'oranger
:: πορτοκάλου
α̉νθόνερος
::
acqua di fior d'arancio
::
Dec 32nd, 2999
::
master list
of all works
posted by mazaher, 1982<
Some of my fanfiction
was also cross-posted in the relevant communities; however, this
website is the only complete and updated archive for all original and derivative
literary works, as well as for all attempts at
artistic expression in forms other than literary, which are linked to in the
last section of this page.
Unless otherwise stated, the entries are listed in reverse chronological order
of publication (most recent on top in each section).
general note 1: languages
The languages
used here are for the most part English and Italian, with some French, Latin and
ancient Greek here and there.
Italian prevails in the original works, English in the fanfiction.
Titles and texts are not necessarily in the same language.
general note 2: ratings, warnings, spoilers
I
confess that, contrary to current trends, I remain
unconvinced of the necessity for ratings and warnings
(for contents or for
spoilers).
I have triggers of my own, I take good care of myself when I read, and I never
read warnings.
Reader, be warned once and for all: this site
may contain spoilers, and
it most definitely
contains
material fit
for adults only, on a number of different accounts.
If
you are not of legal age in your country, please find something else to read
until you turn that age, and are officially
able to take care of your own choices.
Hopefully, this stuff will still be here by then.
::
:: :: :: comments and discussion will be very welcome at: me@mazaher.org
::
original
::
collaboration: Jack & Patrick, 2011< --
a series co-written with
athens7, the author of
the characters and of all the drawings.
Also
posted on athens7's LJ at
http://athens7.livejournal.com
The pieces in the series are listed
here in the
correct chronological order in the series, which may not coincide with the order
in which they were written.
As a safety against continuity problems, I am compiling this
tentative timeline;
it will be updated in view of future stories in the series, and it may undergo
significant changes, as
nothing is set in stone.
foreword, 2011 -- to be read before the stories
ouverture,
2011
weaving,
2012
tidbits, 2012
courtship by quotes,
2012 by athens7
"how pure, how dear their dwelling
place", 2013 by athens7 and mazaher
slæmur
endir (bad
ending),
2011
the wait, 2011
diverging courses, 2011: 1.
Jack -- 2.
Patrick
colliding, 2011: 1.
Jack -- 2.
Patrick
ágætis
byrjun (good beginning)
by athens7
at
http://athens7.livejournal.com/7444.html
the trickster,
2012 by athens7 at
http://athens7.livejournal.com/15410.html
momentum,
2011:
master list
of bifurcations in the plotline --
single sequential file,
alternating povs
close encounter,
2011: 1.
devotion -- 2.
faith -- 3.
the
morning after
sleeping, 2011
bloodshed,
2011
catharsis,
2011: 1.
Patrick
-- 2. Jack
march, late evening, 2015
prints at an exhibition: Hokusaï,
2011
there, now
and in-between, 2013 -- drawings by athens7, story by mazaher
tempus transit gelidum, 2012
magic soaking my spine, 2011
and its companion piece by athens7:
carving your name in graphite,
2011 (see also Genesis, 28:10-19)
patterns, 2013
a correspondence,
2014
a matter of height, 2012
29,
2012
a matter of height, 2012, by mazaher and
athens7
mudita, 2012 and coda:
carpe diem, 2012 by mazaher --
ripples, 2012 by athens7
fairytales don't always
have happy endings, 2012 --
drawings by athens7, story by mazaher
there is a light
that never goes out, 2016, by athens7 and mazaher
an evening in,
2014, by mazaher and athens7
a meeting, 2014
blessed be,
2011: 1.
winter
-- 2.
summer
moonlight, 2014
frozen in time, 2011
:: comment poems/reflections/stories, 2010< -- with thanks to those who wrote.
fifi, 2015 -- after the animated .gif compiled by une gif
dans ta gueule at:
http://un-gif-dans-ta-gueule.tumblr.com/ from the documentary Les sang des
bêtes by Georges Franju (1949), at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnZHDrXRrdc
dreaming
in the sunlight,
2013 -- after
Always the bridesmaid,
by irisbleufic, in the Crown of Thorns
series, at:
http://irisbleufic.livejournal.com/365009.html
my skin,
2011 -- after
Human for a while by
fengirl88, at
http://archiveofourown.org/works/225038
the surgeon,
2011 -- after
It Will Be Now
by
irisbleufic, posted on July 25th, 2011 at
http://irisbleufic.livejournal.com/304058.html. Eternal gratitude to
irisbleufic, whose Hamlet fiction convincingly (gloriously) makes the point that
both Hamlet and Horatio may be harder to kill than Shakespeare let on.
opening/shattering/dissolving, 2011 -- inspired
by part 4 and interlude of
Don't stop
believing by kianspo, at
http://kianspo.livejournal.com/11407.html
blessed are, 2011 -- inspired by the story
The Gift of the Magi
by anon-j-anon,
at
http://anon-j-anon.livejournal.com/149873.html
(forget) and
http://anon-j-anon.livejournal.com/150031
(remember)
Ish, or, The One Who
Stood Alone, 2011 -- inspired by
artwork
by elandrialore (http://elandrialore.livejournal.com), who graciously allowed me to post it within the .pdf
document; link to full-size image at
http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af91/efic12/ZQAngel.jpg
parentheses, 2010 --
inspired by
(( ))
by anon-j-anon,
at
http://anon-j-anon.livejournal.com/146755.html
writing part 2,
2010 -- inspired by
part 2
by anon-j-anon,
at
http://anon-j-anon.livejournal.com/146438.html
:: new stuff, 2010< -- will be posted as it comes.
while i wait,
2019-21
what if i heard,
2019
quando eravamo giovani, 2019
tempo, 2019
stella nera,
2019
sette spighe, 2018
sole di primavera, 2017
la grande pioggia, 2016
persephone, 2016
springtime again, 2016
raven, 2015
urbs, 2015
entrando lieve in quella buona notte, 2015
paradoxa, 2014
esercizi di stile:
stagioni, 2014
settembre, 2014
ci voleva la rivoluzione, 2014
ghostly conversation in a historical garden,
Derbyshire, early June, 2014
poesia fossile, 2014
e ora non so come le parole, 2013
rip and tie. the last
funeral, 2013
here i am,
2013
god's sitting-room,
2013
in grecia, in
qualche secolo, 2013
fantasmi, 2013 /
ghosts, 2013
a catalogue of roses, 2013
(...), 2013
bungee walking, 2012
il viaggio, 2012
carronade of rhu, 2012
idle, 2012
march 21st, 2012, 2012
the circumstances of
existing, 2012
il
giudizio -- the judgement, 2011
inreparabile
tempus,
English version, 2009-2011
for j.i.k., who will not read,
2011
inizi, 2011
trionfo della morte : 1
/ trionfo della morte :
2, 2011
di draghi e di uccelli, 2011
absent-minded, 2011
a season with the Bees, 2011
neve, 2011
dreaming of Kkunn by the new moon,
2011
fall(ing), 2010
next, 2010
writing part 2, 2010
Saturn Magic, 2010
:: later stuff, 2001-2010 -- never posted before.
poems and stories,
2001-2010
avventura bibliografica
(incompiuta), by mazaher & Cosimo Piovasco dei Rondò, 2001-2002
:: old stuff, 1982-2001 -- stuff written until 1996 formerly published at the now extinct Sabbie sensibili website; later stuff published here for the first time; early, less-than-presentable attempts are included because I don’t aim at disguising where I come from in my writing.
poems and stories,
2001
poems and stories, 2000
poems and stories, 1999
poems and stories, 1998
poems and stories, 1997
poems and stories, 1996
poems and stories, 1995
poems and stories, 1994
poems and stories, 1993
poems and stories, 1991
poems and stories, 1989
poems and stories, 1988
poems and stories, 1987
poems and stories, 1986
poems and stories, 1985
poems and stories, 1984
poems and stories, 1983
poems and stories, 1982
::
fanfiction -- mostly in prose; listed by fandom, in reverse chronological order.
fanfiction note 1
I have the
utmost respect for the moral rights of authorship, i.e. the right to be
recognized as the author of one’s work of art or literature or of one’s
research, and to the integrity of the work as such.
Also, I don’t see any reason why those rights should be treated any differently
when they pertain to literary or artistic rather than scientific works.
Therefore, just as I do when writing a scientific essay, my sources are
scrupolously quoted for each fandom heading as well as in each of my stories.
The ideas those sources gave me, as well as their treatment in writing, are
mine.
My hope that I would get said ideas is the reason why I paid money to purchase the books / movie DVDs /
music CDs.
I hope my writings (which can best be defined as critical reviews, taking the
form of stories or poems) will induce more people to do the same, and enjoy
first-hand the originals about which I write.
Credits are given according to entries in the following sources and catalogues:
BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4pgh
LOC: Online
Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) of the US Library Of Congress
COPAC: a Mimas OPAC service based at the University of Manchester
OPALE: OPAC of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Wikipedia: public online encyclopaedia, English section
IMDB: Internet Movie
Database
fanfiction note 2
Here be spoilers. Obviously.
fanfiction note 3
For the
reasons I already explained, I issue here once and for all this one warning:
while for the most part these writings are bland enough, there is occasional
mention or description of graphic violence, major or minor character death,
sexual acts between and among persons of different as well as of the same sex or
species, and with persons who would be considered underage today (although not
at the time the stories take place).
In some instances, I have kept the warnings and/or ratings I had given in former
posts on LJ, ksarchive and elsewhere. In some cases I have not.
Do not read if you are legally underage in your country; your self-restraint
will demonstrate your maturity, and so help support the eventual abolition of
censorship. Until that happens, just wait those few years out and come back
later.
Also, do not read (at any age) if you feel you could be squicked / angered /
shocked / triggered by any of the above contents. If you do go ahead, keep in
mind that I do not enjoy hate. I write about love.
:: Doctor Who, 2012< -- click here for credits
very complicated, 2013
the witness.
being a rather absent-minded and philosophically eclectic defence of the Tenth
Doctor, 2012 -- for athens7
adjectives,
2012 -- again for athens7
:: BBC Sherlock, 2011< -- click here for credits (BBC) -- some stories also posted at http://bbcsherlock.livejournal.com/
series: the five doors of
perception
1.
scent, 2011
2. touch, 2011
3. sight, 2011
4. hearing,
2011
5.
taste, 2012 (which is also, coincidentally, a
221B)
221B stories
--
short stories
of 221
words, the last one beginning with a "B".
crack-shot, 2013
lovemaking in the morning,
2012
a woman's touch,
2012
splicing,
knitting, and service packs: some meta, with a 221B for free, 2012
shanghai, straightaway, 2012 -- a pair of
221Bs, after the fall, for j.i.k.
-- sequel to intersections, co-written
with Jns
for it is death to souls to become water, 2012 -- about The Reichenbach Fall (be warned); companion to
39 seconds
39 seconds, 2012 -- about The Reichenbach Fall (be warned); companion to
for it is death to souls to become water
you ain't nothing, 2012 -- after rewatching The
Hounds of Baskerville
doubts, 2012 -- in the Two Two One Bravo
Baker universe by abundantlyqueer at
http://archiveofourown.org/works/180121 (now a fandom of its own)
blood, 2011
a gentleman's priorities on the battlefield,
2011 -- dedicated to E.
proxemics,
2011 -- for irisbleufic, for luck
breathless,
2011
the proposal, 2011
fanpics/vids
hold-love-hold,
2020
hold me, 2012
désir,
2013
prayers, 2012
laundry snogging,
2011;
laundry snogging in late spring, 2012
shadowplay,
2011
the
state of the question, 2011
one-shots
repent, 2017
six ways sherlock and john didn't reunite and the one
fucked up way that they did,
2014-2016 -- co-written with jns and ames
the changing shape of clouds, 2013
home is where the heart is, but hearts change, 2013
G.A.B.O.S., 2013
a note of thanks, 2013
scripts, 2013 -- blitzfic
co-written with athens7
jukebox, 2013 -- a match of tennisfic,
co-written with athens7 whose idea it was in the first place
where she belongs,
2013 -- one of a pair with where we belong
(canon!SH), written in answer to tweedisgood's challenge to the Granada Rewatch
Club
weird, 2012
in silence, speaking, 2012
second wind, 2012
one night in London, 2012
nekyia,
2012 -- companion pieces:
nostos,
2012 and a technical matter, 2012
some things change, some things don't,
2012 -- part 1 --
part 2
injured,
2012 -- with prompted ending:
mycroft
l'ape millenaria (the millennial bee),
2012
--
co-written with Jns
intersections,
2012 --
co-written with Jns; prequel to the double-221B
shanghai, straightaway
(al)chemical,
2012 -- now rewritten with Jns
261 words to say goodbye,
2012
the
return of Hyakutake,
2012
the empty time,
2012
dream,
2012
hair,
2012
a spell against fear,
2012 -- a partial rewrite of 6'59" in The Hounds of Baskerville
bonsai,
2012
ears,
2012
his best,
2011
in the fog, or, of cabbages and kings, 2011
song of innocence and experience, 2011
come away with me, 2011
what people do, 2011
planting an orchard on
difficult soil, 2011
story-telling by night, 2011
deduction in F-sharp minor, 2011
to stop a bandersnatch, 2011
and attached fanpic: the
state of the question
the sixth Euclid’s theorem,
or, love from all angles, 2011
game over,
2011
xenia, or, of borage,
2011 -- for irisbleufic: she knows why =)
of bees, and needles, and scalpels, and ghosts, 2011
and coda: heap earth upon
it, 2011
aftershocks
and coda: the failure of
binary code, 2011
crossroads of fate in
North London, 2011
stable mates, 2011
on the demise of a perfectly
good pair of gloves, and other items of clothing, 2011
-- update, July 13, 2011: jiangivy has now provided a Chinese translation! you can read it
here
(registered users only)
--
additional update, July 26, 2011: I have translated the story for a friend into
Italian,
here
trust issues, 2011
meta
series 4:
T6T, or wy I don’t like how
John is developing as a character
series 3:
season three, or why Sherlock breaks my heart,
with observations on fennishjournal’s meta and five digressions, 2014
series 1&2:
The BBC Rewatch
series
meta: BBC Sherlock , series 1,
episode 1, A Study in Pink (ASiP),
2013
meta: BBC Sherlock, series 1, episode 2,
The Blind Banker (TBB), 2013
meta: BBC Sherlock, series 1, episode
3,
The Great Game (TGG), 2013
ten tentative points about BBC Sherlock
Holmes,
2013
ten tentative points about BBC
John Watson,
2013
:: Canon Sherlock, 2011< -- by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- some stories also posted at http://bbcsherlock.livejournal.com/
see also the crossover with the Jack&Patrick stories:
mudita, 2012 and coda:
carpe diem, 2012 by mazaher --
ripples, 2012 by athens7
one-shots
sherlock holmes proposes a toast,
2014
bitter honey, 2013
moving .gif of the detective as a young man, 2013
of hearts broken,
hearts mended and hearts forgiven. a springtime dawn chorus, 2013
where we belong, 2013 --
one of a pair with where she belongs
(BBC-SH), written in answer to tweedisgood's challenge to the Granada Rewatch
Club
meta
the untold cases: a list,
2012
221B stories
--
short stories
of 221
words, the last one beginning with a "B".
with the season's greetings, 2012
a most precious gift, 2012
the house is not empty anymore, 2012
the quiet and the whirlwind, 2011
fanpics
conversation in the fog,
2019
of chairs and bees,
2016
he used to sit with me,
2016
winter stakeout,
2015
what the bees know,
page one & page
two, 2014, a companion
picture-fic to tweedisgood's fic
Expert witness
posted on her LJ; both sprang from a line Holmes speaks about his bees in Bert
Coules' adaptation of The Lion's Mane: "Sometimes I am convinced that they are
learning far more about me than I am about them" and by a Listenalong comment
thread on it.
the mystery of the
mummy, 2011
:: Heroes, 2011< -- click here for credits (Wikipedia)
bad mother, 2011
fanmail,
2011 -- I'm not sure
where to list this, as it is RPF, but it's about ZQ so I guess it can stay here.
lessons for Gabriel Gray,
2011
:: CSI Las Vegas, 2010< -- click here for Wikipedia entry
the bees know, 2011
i saved myself,
2010
:: Star Trek XI, 2009< -- click here for credits (LOC)
fanpic: the cadet, 2011
the
why series
-- also posted at
http://ksarchive.com
and
http://community.livejournal.com/kirkspock/:
you don't get angry at strangers,
2011
a good reason to break regulations,
2011
alternative uses for apples,
2011
the
cuddling series
-- also posted at
http://ksarchive.com:
but, Jim...,
2011 -- in
which Spock cuddles Kirk
how hard is forgiveness, 2011 -- in which Kirk
cuddles Spock
the cure for headache, 2011 -- in which Kirk and Spock cuddle Bones
series:
senses, 2010,
by athens7 as Capt. J.T. Kirk
and mazaher as Cdr. Spock
also
posted on athens7's LJ at
http://athens7.livejournal.com and archived at:
--
http://ksarchive.com --
http://community.livejournal.com/kirkspock/ --
http://community.livejournal.com/newtrekslash/
watch the
vid
Kirk/Spock || Pieces by Darlapr0duction! -- download link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X33CD6FP
(sorry, it's now broken: mail me and I'll send the file)
series: three equal sides, 2010 -- also posted at http://ksarchive.com
one-shots
now that his world is lost,
<2020
one winter, three months,
2011
-- also
posted at
http://ksarchive.com
and
http://community.livejournal.com/kirkspock/
the other
one-shots,
2009-2010
:: Star Trek TOS (and movies), 2009< -- click here for TOS credits (COPAC), here for movies I-VI credits (LOC), and here for ST:Generations credits (LOC)
series:
two lives, two
deaths,
2009-2010
-- also posted at http://ksarchive.com
watch the
vid of the jujube tree surrounded by the
buzzing of bees, mentioned in "Waiting", page 9
one-shots
day
of the dead, 2016
-- also posted at http://ksarchive.com
"you
are the Sock to my Kick",
2010
-- a bout of momentary insanity
Vulcan-Terran answers
to zen questions,
2009
-- short philosophical meta about raku's "Take it like a
man"
:: Brokeback Mountain, 2006< -- click here for credits (LOC) -- also posted at http://brokebackslash.livejournal.com/
one-shots
what's he thinking?,
2014 -- prompted by morrobay1990
too busted up, 2011
the other one-shots, 2006-2010
series: Potnia Theron, English, 2006 -- Potnia Theron, Italian, 2006
:: others, 1982-2010 -- stuff written until 1996 formerly published at the now extinct Sabbie sensibili website; plus some later stuff, published here for the first time.
Reader, you will notice that in the beginning (1982-1994) I showed a tendency to write what was basically the same h/c story over and over again. Clearly, I had issues (not that now I haven’t...). But those early attempts, however embarrassing they appear from a distance in time, are still at the root of what came later. For this reason I re-post them here.
The Price,
by Neil Gaiman, 2021 -- click
here for
credits (BL)
Third star, 2012 -- click
here for
Internet Movie Database
entry
The Bible, 2005-2010 -- public domain. Additional warning: I do not agree with the Bible. You have been warned.
Don’t say you haven’t.
Angel, 2006 -- click
here for Wikipedia
entry
The file I never wrote,
1998-2006 -- click here
for Wikipedia entry and here
for movie credits (LOC)
--
i.e. the
infamous file which will remain incognito, but whose acronym is one letter short
of UBR, and means “speculative writing about *those* who must not be named”. *Those* being ancient bloodsucking creatures.
Anabasis, 1996 -- public domain
Iliad,
2014 -- public domain
Odissea, 1996 -- public domain
Dead man, 1996 -- click
here for credits (LOC)
Silent Tongue, 1996 -- click
here for credits (LOC)
Il nome della rosa,
1996 -- click here for credits (OPALE)
Light sleeper, 1996 -- click
here for credits (LOC)
The usual suspects, 1996 -- click
here for credits (LOC)
My own private Idaho, 1995 -- click
here for credits (LOC)
Waterworld, 1995 -- click
here for credits (LOC)
Hunt for Red October, 1995. -- click
here for credits (LOC)
A perfect world, 1994 -- click
here for movie credits (LOC) and
here for novelization (COPAC)
Furyo, 1983 -- click here
for movie credits (COPAC) and here for
the original story (COPAC)
The man who fell to
Earth, 1982 -- click here for
credits (LOC)
::
wisdom
...and not
quotes,
manips
and other stuff,
either funny, or thought-provoking, or both
(more probably
coming)
dizionario, <2021
heroic scene from the Bayeux tapestry,
2021
mother, 2,
2021
mother, 1,
2021
cattle thoughts,
2021
i dieci grandi fatti della vita, 2014
giustiziano: biografia, 2014
wisdom, not own
(trial version), 2012
wisdom, own
(trial version), 2012
comunità religiosa di
santa tegerrima del quasi-soccorso, 2011
le parole anfotere, 2000-2007
wisdom, not own, 2012-19 -- 2020/a -- 2020/b -- 2020/c -- 2021/a -- 2021/b -- 2022/a -- 2022/b -- 2023/a -- 2023/b -- 2023/c
::
essays
about
literature, art, movies, copyright...
intuition,
logic, Popper, and BBC Sherlock, 2011
fanfiction, slash, and I. An
attempt at self-meta, 2011
a plea for footnotes in fanfiction,
2011
the origins of slash,
2011. Being nothing less than a
concise discussion of Schiller's Don Carlos, K/S, J&P, vertebrate biology
and xenobiology, and shifting perceptions of sex in Western culture.
very old stuff:
terapia sciamanica
edipo, amleto e altri
james hillman (and various
bugs)
oracoli e segni
peter greenaway and the ethics of perception
vademecum minimo di astrologia
art-critique-copyrights
the infamous VCS essays
::
bibliographies
books I read
and appreciate, books I would like to read, books I own, books imagined, books
lost...
Arcana & Curiosa: my personal library, <2012
Equestrian books: my
personal library, <2012
Classics of
horsemanship: a medieval and modern bibliography, <2012
Inventario di una biblioteca immaginata,
<2012 -- tomo I --
tomo II
::
webliographies
my library of fanfiction:
VCS specs (speculative
writings) -- updated August 2, 2010
ST fics --
updated April 30, 2015
MBK (no, sorry!) BBM fics --
updated April 30, 2015
my bookmarks: bookmarks_2015-04-20 -- updated at irregular intervals
::
photographs,
vids
and art
When I can't write,
I shut myself up with salvaged wood, paint and a drill, and this sort of stuff
tends to happen:
forecast for the year, 2016
stopping by the woods on a snowy evening, 2016
eyes, 2014
old
stuff from the lower cretacean, 2014
the one who wasn't there, 2014
i remember, 2014
peaceful, 2014
sanata vulnerat, 2014
the ages of her, 2014
light&shade, 2014
i caught a rainbow, vid /
still, 2013
i am the one, 2013
it never rains, Stardate
2013:07:05:2127
swarming, 2013
evillive, 2009
update, June 2014 -- I am now posting photos and vids of my place, of the plants growing, and of the bees I used to host, at this tumblr page: mazaherstuff.tumblr.com
::
copyright: mazaher, 2010-2020
