Fandom5K Reveals!
Jul. 12th, 2020 03:23 pmIt's that time of year! :D I had an absolutely fantastic F5K, and received a truly lovely gift:
For to Each is Given (7200 words) by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
jedibuttercup
Fandom: Constantine (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: John Constantine/Angela Dodson, Angela Dodson & Isabel Dodson
Characters: Angela Dodson, John Constantine, Isabel Dodson
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Pre-Relationship
Summary: The only things Angela felt sure of at the moment were that the stranger beside her had suddenly become the second-most important person in her world, and that he knew a lot more than he'd said so far.
Everything I could've asked for in a fix-it AU for Constantine, with wonderfully complicated Angela & Isabel, and John being incredibly John, and bonus Gabriel. It captured the feel of the canon for me so well, except nobody dies! Things might be okay! ♥ So satisfying, and I loved it.
And I was lucky enough to be assigned none other than![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
eglantiere, and to have the incredibly valuable aid of the incomparable aurilly to tackle the totally new-to-me fandom I'd picked up just in time for signups, in order to write:
Who to Himself Lives Not Alone (10806 words)
Fandom: Psmith - P. G. Wodehouse
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mike Jackson/Rupert Psmith
Characters: Mike Jackson, Rupert Psmith
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Threats of Violence, Protectiveness, Break Up, Mutual Pining, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Gunshot Wounds, Rescue, Reconciliation, Surprise Kissing
Summary: "Why, Comrade Jackson, this is the maddest, merriest day of all the glad New Year. Where did you come from?"
Mike looked up as Psmith stepped into the room, and with his good hand put down the paper he had been reading. "Hullo, Psmith. We came in this morning for a match," he said, and waited to see what Psmith would make of him.
(Or: on his return to New York for the Brooklyn cricket match, Mike is injured. He thinks it was an accident; Psmith doesn't. And Psmith will do whatever is necessary to make sure nothing else happens to Mike—even if Mike would rather he didn't. AU starting from Chapter XXIV of Psmith, Journalist.)
... Which is to say the best excuse in the world to write a Psmith, Journalist AU with ALL THE MIKE and also h/c and pining dropped right into my lap, and I seized it and joyfully ran with it. :D
I also managed to finish ( a second Psmith story, and also a treat for Dark Matter (TV). )
So, yeah. Had a fantastic time, received a fantastic gift, and am definitely looking forward to signing up again next year! And in the meantime I'll finally be able to throw myself at all the OTHER things I haven't been doing because F5K. \o/
For to Each is Given (7200 words) by
Fandom: Constantine (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: John Constantine/Angela Dodson, Angela Dodson & Isabel Dodson
Characters: Angela Dodson, John Constantine, Isabel Dodson
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Pre-Relationship
Summary: The only things Angela felt sure of at the moment were that the stranger beside her had suddenly become the second-most important person in her world, and that he knew a lot more than he'd said so far.
Everything I could've asked for in a fix-it AU for Constantine, with wonderfully complicated Angela & Isabel, and John being incredibly John, and bonus Gabriel. It captured the feel of the canon for me so well, except nobody dies! Things might be okay! ♥ So satisfying, and I loved it.
And I was lucky enough to be assigned none other than
eglantiere, and to have the incredibly valuable aid of the incomparable aurilly to tackle the totally new-to-me fandom I'd picked up just in time for signups, in order to write:Who to Himself Lives Not Alone (10806 words)
Fandom: Psmith - P. G. Wodehouse
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mike Jackson/Rupert Psmith
Characters: Mike Jackson, Rupert Psmith
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Threats of Violence, Protectiveness, Break Up, Mutual Pining, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort, Gunshot Wounds, Rescue, Reconciliation, Surprise Kissing
Summary: "Why, Comrade Jackson, this is the maddest, merriest day of all the glad New Year. Where did you come from?"
Mike looked up as Psmith stepped into the room, and with his good hand put down the paper he had been reading. "Hullo, Psmith. We came in this morning for a match," he said, and waited to see what Psmith would make of him.
(Or: on his return to New York for the Brooklyn cricket match, Mike is injured. He thinks it was an accident; Psmith doesn't. And Psmith will do whatever is necessary to make sure nothing else happens to Mike—even if Mike would rather he didn't. AU starting from Chapter XXIV of Psmith, Journalist.)
... Which is to say the best excuse in the world to write a Psmith, Journalist AU with ALL THE MIKE and also h/c and pining dropped right into my lap, and I seized it and joyfully ran with it. :D
I also managed to finish ( a second Psmith story, and also a treat for Dark Matter (TV). )
So, yeah. Had a fantastic time, received a fantastic gift, and am definitely looking forward to signing up again next year! And in the meantime I'll finally be able to throw myself at all the OTHER things I haven't been doing because F5K. \o/
HI 2020 :D
Jan. 1st, 2020 06:32 pmTrying to get back in the habit of posting something other than exchange letters here, and ... exchange round-up posts constitute a decent baby step, right? /o\ :D
SO. For Yuletide this year, I received the loveliest Nuala gift from none other thanalamorn:
The Touch of a Vanish'd Hand (1976 words)
Fandom: Hellboy (Movies 2004-2008)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nuada/Nuala (Hellboy)
Characters: Nuala (Hellboy), Nuada (Hellboy)
Additional Tags: Nuala-centric, Missing Scene
Summary: Nuala knew how it would end before it began.
Wonderful, wonderful Nuala POV, all the complicated difficult entanglement (plus bonus incestuous vibes) I could have hoped for in her relationship with Nuada, and the pitch-perfect bittersweet inevitability of it ending the only way it can. ♥ SO SO GOOD, and I'm so glad to have gotten it!
As for me, I was ASTOUNDINGLY lucky yet again, and matchedmelmillo on a fantastically inspiring request for A Yank at Oxford! And by "fantastically inspiring", I mean "I couldn't pick which prompt to write", so I couldn't help but write ( both a main gift and a treat for it, plus treats in Gunmen (1994), Jeremiah, and Streets of Fire (1984). )
I left my usual hasty flurry of comments before author reveals, on my "first pass" list of fics, but there's still plenty of things I haven't read yet! And there's no better way to spend the first couple weeks of a new year than going through the Yuletide collection properly. ♥
(Also, while I've obviously YET AGAIN flubbed my chance to actually ... update ... Imagine the Ocean at any point during the entire year /o\ I have both finished going through all my previous notes to get myself back up to speed, reworked some outlines in a desperately necessary fashion, drafted a bunch of the next chapter—!!!—AND had a brain-wave during editing that's going to make the conclusion of said chapter MUCH better. Which is why it's not finished, I now have to rewrite a fair chunk of it, but I'm freshly excited about it and that's such a good feeling, I can't even. ;-; \o/!)
SO YEAH. BRING IT ON, 2020. *rolls up sleeves*
SO. For Yuletide this year, I received the loveliest Nuala gift from none other than
The Touch of a Vanish'd Hand (1976 words)
Fandom: Hellboy (Movies 2004-2008)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nuada/Nuala (Hellboy)
Characters: Nuala (Hellboy), Nuada (Hellboy)
Additional Tags: Nuala-centric, Missing Scene
Summary: Nuala knew how it would end before it began.
Wonderful, wonderful Nuala POV, all the complicated difficult entanglement (plus bonus incestuous vibes) I could have hoped for in her relationship with Nuada, and the pitch-perfect bittersweet inevitability of it ending the only way it can. ♥ SO SO GOOD, and I'm so glad to have gotten it!
As for me, I was ASTOUNDINGLY lucky yet again, and matched
I left my usual hasty flurry of comments before author reveals, on my "first pass" list of fics, but there's still plenty of things I haven't read yet! And there's no better way to spend the first couple weeks of a new year than going through the Yuletide collection properly. ♥
(Also, while I've obviously YET AGAIN flubbed my chance to actually ... update ... Imagine the Ocean at any point during the entire year /o\ I have both finished going through all my previous notes to get myself back up to speed, reworked some outlines in a desperately necessary fashion, drafted a bunch of the next chapter—!!!—AND had a brain-wave during editing that's going to make the conclusion of said chapter MUCH better. Which is why it's not finished, I now have to rewrite a fair chunk of it, but I'm freshly excited about it and that's such a good feeling, I can't even. ;-; \o/!)
SO YEAH. BRING IT ON, 2020. *rolls up sleeves*
Yuletide Reveals!
Jan. 5th, 2019 01:31 pmSnuck up on me, as they so often do, but in my defense this holiday season was somehow extra discombobulating? Two weird half-weeks in a row is so disorienting, I've totally lost track of what day it is. /o\
BUT ANYWAY. The point is that I received a delightful gift fromredleather for my Pride & Prejudice & Zombies request, which is wonderfully in the spirit of the canon and somehow managed to hit on at least half a dozen of my prompts and likes in exactly 1350 words, and I enjoyed it very much:
Master Hua's One-foot Punch to the Chest (1350 words)
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy
Characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy
Additional Tags: when you love someone in spite of yourself, Canon-Typical Violence, Elizabeth-centric, That moment on Hingham Bridge
Summary: Miss Elizabeth Bennet, nearly one and twenty years of age, had suffered through many indignities, both physical and social, in her short time thus far on God’s green — if somewhat forsaken — earth.
BUT the amazing time I had this Yuletide definitely doesn't end there, because I was lucky enough to match none other thansandrine/Sandrine this year, after having finally watched The Firm (TV) in time to offer it! So I had an absolute blast writing her ( a gift, plus 5 treats in The Bone Key, Dark Matter (TV), Dark Matter (book), The Sting (1973), and Trapeze (1956). )
I left a spasm of hurried comments before author reveals, but I'm still hoping to keep working my way through a few more fandoms, since I never do manage to finish browsing the archive in a timely fashion. /o\ :D But I had a really wonderful time this year, and I'm feeling weirdly good about 2019. ♥
BUT ANYWAY. The point is that I received a delightful gift from
Master Hua's One-foot Punch to the Chest (1350 words)
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy
Characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy
Additional Tags: when you love someone in spite of yourself, Canon-Typical Violence, Elizabeth-centric, That moment on Hingham Bridge
Summary: Miss Elizabeth Bennet, nearly one and twenty years of age, had suffered through many indignities, both physical and social, in her short time thus far on God’s green — if somewhat forsaken — earth.
BUT the amazing time I had this Yuletide definitely doesn't end there, because I was lucky enough to match none other than
sandrine/I left a spasm of hurried comments before author reveals, but I'm still hoping to keep working my way through a few more fandoms, since I never do manage to finish browsing the archive in a timely fashion. /o\ :D But I had a really wonderful time this year, and I'm feeling weirdly good about 2019. ♥
(Belated) Reveals Post!
Jul. 2nd, 2018 12:51 pmBasically everything about Fandom5K snuck up on me this year, and I don't even know how, but that definitely includes reveals, which were a week ago. /o\
BUT ANYWAY. I had a fantastic time, just like last year, and received an absolutely lovely ST:DIS Michael/Tilly gift from the amazingTangerine!
The Slowing of Time (5278 words) by Tangerine
Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Michael Burnham/Sylvia Tilly
Characters: Michael Burnham, Sylvia Tilly, Saru (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Mission Fic, Pining, Getting Together, Love
Summary: Stranded with Tilly on a seemingly harmless planet, Michael sorts through a variety of feelings.
Totally delightful and low-key planet-of-the-week story, where Tilly and Michael take the closest thing to a vacation they can manage, and also feelings. :D Sweet, great character voices, and just super charming all around!
I was a little busier this year than last year, but still had an absolute blast writing a gift for the graciousjedibuttercup—which was extra awesome considering the excellent Push gift they wrote me for RW ... man, five years ago? TIME FLIES.
my love is made of truth (and i believe it) (12273 words)
Fandom: Battle Creek (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Russ Agnew/Milt Chamberlain
Characters: Russ Agnew, Milt Chamberlain, Fontanelle White
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Trust Issues, Complicated Relationships, Denial of Feelings
Summary: Russ doesn't realize what's going on right away. In his defense, manifestations vary. Everybody knows that. It all depends on who you are, who your soulmate is, and some manifestations are there from the start; others don't show up until you've already met, or even after. And of all the possibilities Russ might have been considering, nowhere among them was that he'd end up cosmically linked by inexorable destiny to some namby-pamby stick-up-his-ass government tool, and especially not with a truth curse.
The suggestion of a soulmate AU in jedibuttercup's prompts was just irresistible, and the moment it occurred to me that a "soulmates can't lie to each other" story would be just about the worst thing that could happen to Russ and Milt, I was stoked. :D
And then I also wrote a treat forThe_Wavesinger, whose original work prompts are always fantastic, and this time was no exception:
Roads and Rivers (Wars and Songs) (15233 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Female Soldier/Princess of Enemy Country
Additional Tags: Cultural Differences, Miscommunication, Misunderstandings, Loyalty, Politics, Extra Treat
Summary: There will be peace between the great horde commanded by the khatun and the empire of Dao—if all goes according to plan. The westerners have brought gifts and tribute, and even a princess; and it's just Taban's luck, that she should be assigned to serve that princess as a bodyguard until the terms are all agreed and she may be delivered safely to the khatun. Taban's given her oath, and it's inconceivable that she would break it—it doesn't matter whether she likes this princess or not. Westerners are soft and useless, everyone knows it, and the princess will marry the khatun and stop being Taban's problem. (Except that isn't exactly what happens.)
Which, I felt obvious as hell from about five miles off, but it was such a great request! I wasn't sure I'd have time to finish it, and then story reveals were delayed for a couple days, which was CLEARLY a sign. :D
In conclusion: loved my gift, enjoyed the writing process a lot, A++ will sign up again. \o/
BUT ANYWAY. I had a fantastic time, just like last year, and received an absolutely lovely ST:DIS Michael/Tilly gift from the amazing
The Slowing of Time (5278 words) by Tangerine
Fandom: Star Trek: Discovery
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Michael Burnham/Sylvia Tilly
Characters: Michael Burnham, Sylvia Tilly, Saru (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Mission Fic, Pining, Getting Together, Love
Summary: Stranded with Tilly on a seemingly harmless planet, Michael sorts through a variety of feelings.
Totally delightful and low-key planet-of-the-week story, where Tilly and Michael take the closest thing to a vacation they can manage, and also feelings. :D Sweet, great character voices, and just super charming all around!
I was a little busier this year than last year, but still had an absolute blast writing a gift for the gracious
my love is made of truth (and i believe it) (12273 words)
Fandom: Battle Creek (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Russ Agnew/Milt Chamberlain
Characters: Russ Agnew, Milt Chamberlain, Fontanelle White
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, Trust Issues, Complicated Relationships, Denial of Feelings
Summary: Russ doesn't realize what's going on right away. In his defense, manifestations vary. Everybody knows that. It all depends on who you are, who your soulmate is, and some manifestations are there from the start; others don't show up until you've already met, or even after. And of all the possibilities Russ might have been considering, nowhere among them was that he'd end up cosmically linked by inexorable destiny to some namby-pamby stick-up-his-ass government tool, and especially not with a truth curse.
The suggestion of a soulmate AU in jedibuttercup's prompts was just irresistible, and the moment it occurred to me that a "soulmates can't lie to each other" story would be just about the worst thing that could happen to Russ and Milt, I was stoked. :D
And then I also wrote a treat for
Roads and Rivers (Wars and Songs) (15233 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Female Soldier/Princess of Enemy Country
Additional Tags: Cultural Differences, Miscommunication, Misunderstandings, Loyalty, Politics, Extra Treat
Summary: There will be peace between the great horde commanded by the khatun and the empire of Dao—if all goes according to plan. The westerners have brought gifts and tribute, and even a princess; and it's just Taban's luck, that she should be assigned to serve that princess as a bodyguard until the terms are all agreed and she may be delivered safely to the khatun. Taban's given her oath, and it's inconceivable that she would break it—it doesn't matter whether she likes this princess or not. Westerners are soft and useless, everyone knows it, and the princess will marry the khatun and stop being Taban's problem. (Except that isn't exactly what happens.)
Which, I felt obvious as hell from about five miles off, but it was such a great request! I wasn't sure I'd have time to finish it, and then story reveals were delayed for a couple days, which was CLEARLY a sign. :D
In conclusion: loved my gift, enjoyed the writing process a lot, A++ will sign up again. \o/
2018! Reveals! What!
Jan. 9th, 2018 10:19 amMAN, the first week of 2018 got away from me. /o\ I don't even know what happened, it feels like I just woke up and was like WAIT IT'S THE NINTH, I HAVEN'T EVEN DONE MY REVEALS POST, AAAAA.
Which is to say: belated Yuletide catchup here! :D I received the wonderful Snow/Ravenna Huntsman story Set Alight fromAlona; the AMAZING mage-and-Catia-centric King Arthur fix-it (with delightful bonus Arthur) gave fins to fish and speckled wings to birds from melmillo; a SECOND King Arthur fic, perfect and bittersweetly insightful mage & Arthur gen, and coming events cast their shadows before, from none other than egelantier/eglantiere; the brilliant Big Country Jim/Steve longfic Wide as the Sky, Big as the Sea from Muccamukk/muccamukk; and the lovely Three/Six Dark Matter hallucination fic too good to be true from days4daisy. Five gifts, all of them delightful, and on a Christmas that sorely needed some delight. ♥
Thanks to all that generosity, I only barely managed to achieve my usual goal of writing more fics than I receive, with ( 5 main collection fics and 1 Madness treat, in Baahubali, Battle Creek, Dark Matter (TV), Dark Matter (book), Hellboy, and Silent Flute (1978). )
I also managed to leave almost as many comments as I received; I'm going to try to make sure it's more in the end, but we'll see how I do. In conclusion: YAY YULETIDE. ♥
Which is to say: belated Yuletide catchup here! :D I received the wonderful Snow/Ravenna Huntsman story Set Alight from
eglantiere; the brilliant Big Country Jim/Steve longfic Wide as the Sky, Big as the Sea from muccamukk; and the lovely Three/Six Dark Matter hallucination fic too good to be true from Thanks to all that generosity, I only barely managed to achieve my usual goal of writing more fics than I receive, with ( 5 main collection fics and 1 Madness treat, in Baahubali, Battle Creek, Dark Matter (TV), Dark Matter (book), Hellboy, and Silent Flute (1978). )
I also managed to leave almost as many comments as I received; I'm going to try to make sure it's more in the end, but we'll see how I do. In conclusion: YAY YULETIDE. ♥
YULETIIIIIIIDE \o/
Dec. 29th, 2017 10:00 amSo I thought I was going to have a totally spectacular Yuletide because FOUR GIFTS, WOO ... and then I got five. :D! For reasons that do not need exploring at this juncture, it means a lot to me this year in particular to have been the recipient of such amazing generosity, and I'm so grateful. ♥
Anyway: FICS. In alphabetical order by fandom, because seriously, embarrassment of riches:
Wide as the Sky, Big as the Sea (9019 words)
Fandom: The Big Country (1958)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Leech/James McKay
Characters: Steve Leech, James McKay, Patricia Terrill
Additional Tags: Non-Linear Narrative, Post-Canon, Flashbacks, Dreams, Hurt/Comfort, Internalized Homophobia, Repression, American Civil War, Yuletide Treat
Summary: After the shootout at Blanco Canyon, Jim takes Steve to Big Muddy to heal up. Yet as Steve's fever rises, he drifts back over his life, and recalls exactly why he doesn't like Jim McKay.
Aka: the tremendous and glorious Big Country treat I was not at all expecting! Wonderful, wonderful post-canon look at Steve's recovery, interwoven with flashbacks/dreams; lovely exploration of his character and how he might have come to be who he is, with bonus scorching hot dream sex. :D
too good to be true (3285 words)
Fandom: Dark Matter (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Six | Griffin Jones/Three | Marcus Boone
Characters: Three | Marcus Boone, Six | Griffin Jones
Additional Tags: Season/Series 03, Hallucinations, Extra Treat
Summary: Three grins. "I never regret anything, man." It's the first thing he's said today that sounds like him.
The show's UTTERLY TRAGIC cancellation made it all the more awesome to receive this delightful Three/Six story, where that set of simulations Six gets run through in S3 takes a bit of a turn on him. :D Great banter, great feelings, great kissing!
Set Alight (3114 words)
Fandom: The Huntsman (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Ravenna/Snow White (The Huntsman)
Characters: Ravenna (The Huntsman), Snow White (The Huntsman)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Resurrection
Summary: A beast is abroad in Snow White's kingdom, heralding worse to come.
Unsettling and creepy and antagonistic in all the right ways for a Huntsman fic from Ravenna's POV! Snow White's reign is troubled, thanks to a soulbond linking her to Ravenna—but she's not the only one affected by it. Striking fairytale imagery and wonderfully terrible Ravenna. :D
and coming events cast their shadows before (1635 words)
Fandom: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Arthur & The Mage
Characters: The Mage | Guinevere, Merlin (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword), Arthur (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)
Additional Tags: Angst, Inheritance, magic deals, Bittersweet Ending, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Merlin runs out of time, so Mage pays the price for more.
Such a clever premise, and really well-executed! Great characterization for both Arthur and the mage, and "bittersweet" is absolutely the correct word for the ending, made my heart pang but was so right.
gave fins to fish, and speckled wings to birds (11600 words)
Fandom: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Mage | Guinevere, Arthur (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword), Princess Catia
Additional Tags: Fix-It, Post-Canon, gratuitous making stuff up
Summary: Camelot stifled the mage like smoke.
The mage-brings-Catia-back-from-the-dead story that EVERYONE needs, in my humble opinion! Perfectly paced, A+ characterization of everyone, and a fix-it on so many different levels with a conclusion that both delighted me and made SO MUCH SENSE. Seriously excellent!
I'm hoping to at least try to take a stab at the rest of the archive this weekend, so we'll see how far I get. :D In the meantime, happy Yuletide to everybody, and happy almost-not-2017 anymore more generally! ♥
Anyway: FICS. In alphabetical order by fandom, because seriously, embarrassment of riches:
Wide as the Sky, Big as the Sea (9019 words)
Fandom: The Big Country (1958)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Leech/James McKay
Characters: Steve Leech, James McKay, Patricia Terrill
Additional Tags: Non-Linear Narrative, Post-Canon, Flashbacks, Dreams, Hurt/Comfort, Internalized Homophobia, Repression, American Civil War, Yuletide Treat
Summary: After the shootout at Blanco Canyon, Jim takes Steve to Big Muddy to heal up. Yet as Steve's fever rises, he drifts back over his life, and recalls exactly why he doesn't like Jim McKay.
Aka: the tremendous and glorious Big Country treat I was not at all expecting! Wonderful, wonderful post-canon look at Steve's recovery, interwoven with flashbacks/dreams; lovely exploration of his character and how he might have come to be who he is, with bonus scorching hot dream sex. :D
too good to be true (3285 words)
Fandom: Dark Matter (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Six | Griffin Jones/Three | Marcus Boone
Characters: Three | Marcus Boone, Six | Griffin Jones
Additional Tags: Season/Series 03, Hallucinations, Extra Treat
Summary: Three grins. "I never regret anything, man." It's the first thing he's said today that sounds like him.
The show's UTTERLY TRAGIC cancellation made it all the more awesome to receive this delightful Three/Six story, where that set of simulations Six gets run through in S3 takes a bit of a turn on him. :D Great banter, great feelings, great kissing!
Set Alight (3114 words)
Fandom: The Huntsman (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Ravenna/Snow White (The Huntsman)
Characters: Ravenna (The Huntsman), Snow White (The Huntsman)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Resurrection
Summary: A beast is abroad in Snow White's kingdom, heralding worse to come.
Unsettling and creepy and antagonistic in all the right ways for a Huntsman fic from Ravenna's POV! Snow White's reign is troubled, thanks to a soulbond linking her to Ravenna—but she's not the only one affected by it. Striking fairytale imagery and wonderfully terrible Ravenna. :D
and coming events cast their shadows before (1635 words)
Fandom: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Arthur & The Mage
Characters: The Mage | Guinevere, Merlin (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword), Arthur (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)
Additional Tags: Angst, Inheritance, magic deals, Bittersweet Ending, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Merlin runs out of time, so Mage pays the price for more.
Such a clever premise, and really well-executed! Great characterization for both Arthur and the mage, and "bittersweet" is absolutely the correct word for the ending, made my heart pang but was so right.
gave fins to fish, and speckled wings to birds (11600 words)
Fandom: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Mage | Guinevere, Arthur (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword), Princess Catia
Additional Tags: Fix-It, Post-Canon, gratuitous making stuff up
Summary: Camelot stifled the mage like smoke.
The mage-brings-Catia-back-from-the-dead story that EVERYONE needs, in my humble opinion! Perfectly paced, A+ characterization of everyone, and a fix-it on so many different levels with a conclusion that both delighted me and made SO MUCH SENSE. Seriously excellent!
I'm hoping to at least try to take a stab at the rest of the archive this weekend, so we'll see how far I get. :D In the meantime, happy Yuletide to everybody, and happy almost-not-2017 anymore more generally! ♥
So lots and lots of things have happened, and as per usual I'm no good at posting about them (Justice League! Thor! Lucifer! Major Crimes! Seriously, I am so behind on SO MUCH TV, aaaaaa). But three things make a post, and specifically three smaller, less substantial things that'll take way less brainpower to talk about. And I happen to have three such things to say:
- Finished my Yuletide assignment! \o/ It was a lot of fun to write and I enjoyed brainstorming for it SO MUCH, and also I'm glad to have completed it early enough to set it aside for a few days and then edit. :D
- Finally succeeded in picking up an official pinch hit! \o/ Finished canon review this weekend, and I think I've managed to come up with an idea this recipient is going to like. *knocks on wood*
- And the other reason I'm glad I picked up a pinch hit is that I have FOUR GIFTS (!!!! FOUR, holy shit!), and I better pull my weight in return. :D I love shaking gifts so, so much, and whether I'm right or wrong about what might be for me, I CAN'T WAIT TO READ THEM AND I'M SO HAPPY. ♥
- Finished my Yuletide assignment! \o/ It was a lot of fun to write and I enjoyed brainstorming for it SO MUCH, and also I'm glad to have completed it early enough to set it aside for a few days and then edit. :D
- Finally succeeded in picking up an official pinch hit! \o/ Finished canon review this weekend, and I think I've managed to come up with an idea this recipient is going to like. *knocks on wood*
- And the other reason I'm glad I picked up a pinch hit is that I have FOUR GIFTS (!!!! FOUR, holy shit!), and I better pull my weight in return. :D I love shaking gifts so, so much, and whether I'm right or wrong about what might be for me, I CAN'T WAIT TO READ THEM AND I'M SO HAPPY. ♥
Fandom5K reveals!
May. 24th, 2017 11:38 amAs it turns out, the lovely and super-speedy pinch hitter who wrote my delightful Jyn/Leia gift Everything Comes Back to You was FreshBrains! My joy on seeing it appear and present-shaking was indescribable, and I'm so lucky they were able to pick me up. :D
As for me, I offered Original Works on a whim and may have panicked a tiny bit upon realizing I'd matched on it ... but panic turned out to be a productive feeling, and I ended up writing:
i have named you queen (listen) (19713 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Princess/Princess
Additional Tags: Political Alliances, Marriage of Convenience, Cultural Differences, Miscommunication
Summary: Grandmother ruled Gir Niajra, and always had. Jummai felt certain this was so, mostly because it was impossible to imagine otherwise: anyone, anyone at all, seated so comfortably on that great golden throne except Grandmother? Anyone who could look or speak with such authority, to whom so many great and worthy people bowed down? No—only Grandmother. It had always been Grandmother, and it always would be.
Then Grandmother died; and there was a war.
chasing_givenchy asked for non-Western princesses and mentioned a) approaching arranged/political marriage with pragmatism, b) characters in situations they aren't entirely prepared for, and c) worldbuilding, machinations, and scheming. And while the practical side of my brain was going OH GOD WHAT DO WE DOOOOOO, my id was all *________*!
( And then I ended up writing two treats, because of course I did, in Sinbad (TV) and Babylon 5: Legend of the Rangers. )
I totally did not manage to read all the things, but I read a bunch of them and enjoyed them hugely, and am looking forward to this exchange running again! Which the mods say it will. :D
As for me, I offered Original Works on a whim and may have panicked a tiny bit upon realizing I'd matched on it ... but panic turned out to be a productive feeling, and I ended up writing:
i have named you queen (listen) (19713 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Princess/Princess
Additional Tags: Political Alliances, Marriage of Convenience, Cultural Differences, Miscommunication
Summary: Grandmother ruled Gir Niajra, and always had. Jummai felt certain this was so, mostly because it was impossible to imagine otherwise: anyone, anyone at all, seated so comfortably on that great golden throne except Grandmother? Anyone who could look or speak with such authority, to whom so many great and worthy people bowed down? No—only Grandmother. It had always been Grandmother, and it always would be.
Then Grandmother died; and there was a war.
( And then I ended up writing two treats, because of course I did, in Sinbad (TV) and Babylon 5: Legend of the Rangers. )
I totally did not manage to read all the things, but I read a bunch of them and enjoyed them hugely, and am looking forward to this exchange running again! Which the mods say it will. :D
