Bio

Hello! On Fanfiction.net, my name is Holly! She/her pronouns, please.

I love travel, reading, and writing. My first language is English, but I have also studied French, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese. I'm an undergraduate student with a love for sweet, fluffy animals.

I always will be a Superwholockian with a fondness for cop shows, especially White Collar, Bones, and Criminal Minds. I'm very passionate about Chuck Bartowski and his cute smile, the MCU and their excellent world-building, and Firefly's romanticized dystopia.

I have accounts with other fanfiction platforms. Please see "other online activity" for more information.

Announcements

NOVEMBER 2021 UPDATE "Wanderlust" is written in entirety. Clocking in at 70 pages and 42,000 words, this story will be published after proofreading.

Other Online Activity

Quotev Account - Username: Writings of Stardust (@25787489)

My Quotev account is a good place to go for most general activity updates. Quotev is my oldest platform, so I have a few abandoned stories there that are not cross-posted. Additionally, due to the lacking discretion in their content rating system, all content I post on Quotev is scrubbed suitable for a T rating on FFN.

AO3 - Username: WritingsOfStardust

AO3 contains collections of requests I filled on my main Tumblr blog and "Special Someone," a set of soulmate AUs set within various fandoms.

Tumblr - Username: Writings of Stardust (writingsofstardust . tumblr . com)

This is my main tumblr blog. Unless you want to chat about something specific, this may be the best way to contact me short of a PM. I don't post a lot as I'm not on Tumblr as much as I used to be, although I do have a couple of requests to clear out before I close my writing here.

Tumblr - Username: Lie a Little Better (liealittlebetter - mckenna . tumblr . com)

This is a side blog dedicated to my Lie a Little Better series.

Published

Series

"It's My Life" - Bones

Holly Kirkland, seventeen, keeps her head down and does her (somewhat illegal) job to pay the rent after refusing to let the foster care system drag her back in. As her life becomes a matter of going through the motions and struggling to see a purpose, Holly is saddled with the burden of an FBI supervisor charged with keeping her safe after she becomes a key witness to a felony. Agent Booth isn't a huge fan of minors who act above the law and Holly is a misanthrope who doesn't trust anyone, not even the people who wear badges. Holly gets more than she ever expected when she meets an array of characters whom Booth works with in the Medico-Legal lab, putting her analytical mind and headstrong personality to good use.

This series includes three published items: "It's My Life," "Until the Day I Die," and "Snapshots". SERIES ON HIATUS - BEING REWRITTEN.

"Lie a Little Better" - White Collar, Soulmate AU.

Peter Burke is stationed in Boston, but the best place for Neal Caffrey is the Sing Sing super-max. When he needs a handler out of New York to strike a get-out-of-jail-somewhat-free deal, Neal proposes a case-law precedent to Special Agent McKenna Anderson in the hopes that he might be able to bring his sister home and meet his soulmate like they do in the movies.

McKenna Anderson was recently demoted from her division and is struggling with the aftermath of personal and professional trauma. She doesn't want to get attached to anyone new, and she's totally cool with not knowing who her soulmate is. In fact, she almost doesn't want to know.

Neither of them get exactly what they want.

This series includes three published items: "Lie a Little Better," "Sketches," and "Loyalty".

"Special Someone" - Miscellaneous

Disconnected stories linked by one thread: they are all soulmate AUs, because I am hopeless romantic trash for this trope.

This series includes two published items: "American Sweetheart" and "Wanderlust".

Stories Completed

"Claws" - Criminal Minds. Cats have claws. Cat has fingernails. Close enough. Tag to S11E11, "Entropy."

"Porcupine" - Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Grant Ward is a porcupine and everyone knows it (especially Commander Hill). So why is it that whenever Skye starts coming close, she never gets stuck with any quills? Introspective one-shot on Ward and Skye from S1E01 to S1E07. Pre-Skyeward.

"Far From Home: The Blind Banker" - Sherlock. Orphaned and adopted teenager Emili Holmes teams up with her brother, Sherlock, and his flatmate, John, to solve a break-in at an investment banking firm. When their lead is found murdered, their case becomes an investigation into the high-stakes world of international smuggling.

"American Sweetheart" - Captain America. Kiara had learned when she was fourteen that her soulmate had died during WWII, so she was understandably shocked when he turned up during the Battle of New York. First in the Special Someone series.

"Wanderlust" - Doctor Who. Kathleen's life on Aickman Road is about to change forever. It begins with a new flatmate. Second in the Special Someone series.

Stories In Progress

"Chuck Versus the Soulmate AU" - Chuck. Soulmate AU. Daniela is building her reputation as an investigative journalist. An invitation to a national security conference in Los Angeles takes her to Burbank just in time to meet Chuck Bartowski and discover that some secrets are best kept hidden... inside the brain of a living person as a series of images encoded with classified data that many people are willing to kill for.

"Supernatural" - Supernatural. Holly and Serenity Kasakabe, accomplished twin sisters, were never afraid of the dark. What do they do when two brothers show them there's more to be afraid of than they've ever dreamed? Everyone knows that what goes up must come down. How high can the sisters fly before they crash and the Winchesters have to pick up the pieces? STORY ON HIATUS - BEING REWRITTEN.

"Infinity on High" - Chuck. A multi-chapter, roughly 10,000-word story examining the perspectives and relationships of Chuck, Sarah, Bryce, and Casey. Each chapter is inspired by the songs on Fall Out Boy's "Infinity on High" album.

Future Projects

Lie A Little Better Sequel - White Collar. LALB series. The 34-36 chapter follow-up to "Lie A Little Better". Neal knows who his soulmate is, but with someone willing to kill over the music box, there's no fairytale ending in sight.

"Front Woman" - White Collar. LALB series. What would've happened if Wilkes had kidnapped McKenna instead?

"Provenance" - Supernatural / NCIS. A haunting painting offing its owners brings the Winchesters together with NCIS's Major Case Response Unit.

"The Intern" - Criminal Minds. Kayla goes through the personal and professional journey of a lifetime after her long-shot dream internship application is approved.

"Nonlinear" - Doctor Who. Violet is a regular foreign exchange student, as clueless about aliens as everybody else. So how is it that this strange alien man knows her so well? A nonlinear friendship has to start somewhere, but the Doctor needs to slow down as much as Violet needs to catch up.

"Post-Traumatic Growth" - Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man. Serena Rosenthawe was stagnating, and to avoid facing it, she ran all the way to another continent. Little did she know that her trip would force some massive character development. Ironically, murderers brought her back to life in a big, big way.

"Zimniy" - Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pre-Captain America and the Winter Soldier. Taylor's vacation in Germany is ruined when she witnesses the Winter Soldier in action. Once captured by HYDRA, Taylor reels from the discovery that the assassin is her soulmate and knows one thing for certain: she has to escape, with or without him.

"Body and Soul" - Firefly. She wakes up in a laboratory with no memory of how she got there and carves her way through a foreign, futuristic world. She crafts a new identity to hide in and Violet joins the crew of Serenity while looking for her own answers.