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Star Bringing Purple (729 words) 
Fandom: Galavant (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Isabella/Madalena (Galavant)
Characters: Sidney (Galavant)
Additional Tags: Advice Columns, Character Writes Advice Column Despite Being Ludicrously Unqualified To Dispense Advice, Extra Treat
Summary:

Sir Sidney the Superb solves all your problems.

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And if you need more silly advice columnists: John Prine as Dear Abby.

Flash exchanges are great. Silly great, but great.

The One Who Paid (533 words)
Fandom: Hamilton - Miranda
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton
Summary:

Sometimes before it gets better
The darkness gets bigger
The person that you'd take a bullet for
Is behind the trigger

Wasn't previously familiar with this song but it's a great fit, heh! (This is the one where I felt a little hemmed in by the "no canon divergence" request, otherwise I would probably have written Aaron getting a clue.)

Stay With Me (299 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassie/Rachel (Animorphs)
Characters: Cassie (Animorphs), Rachel (Animorphs)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Drabble Sequence, Extra Treat
Summary: Rachel wants to be crazy. Cassie stays anyway.
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This was 300 words (plus line breaks) in LibreOffice, silly Ao3.

When the Working Day Is Done (391 words)
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler
Characters: Nancy Wheeler, Robin Buckley
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Season/Series 03
Summary:

Nancy's shift is over, and Robin's is well underway.

Just silly fluff. With ice cream.

Another flash exchange (Writing Rainbow--the theme was all the fics have to have "blue" in the title), and since I'd just finished Stranger Things S3 I wrote several fics for that!

Blue Square (1001 words)
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley
Additional Tags: Skiing, Pre-Canon, Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Share A Ski Lift
Summary: In North America, a blue square denotes an intermediate difficulty ski slope.

Or, Steve and Robin weren't always friends.
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Hey, look at me, actually looking up a relevant phrase with blue in it. For the amazing tag "Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Share A Ski Lift." And also another tag which won't be a surprise if you know me but is also a twiiiist.

Red White and Blue (But Mostly Green) (527 words)
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Erica Sinclair
Additional Tags: New Minion Is Surprisingly Uncooperative Despite Being Brainwashed/Mindcontrolled, Patriotism, Extra Treat
Summary: Erica has the entire situation under control.
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Tag prompt was "New Minion Is Surprisingly Uncooperative Despite Being Brainwashed/Mindcontrolled," I think that says it all.

Into the Blue Again (675 words)
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Will Byers, Shadow Monster | Mind Flayer
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 03, Twisted and Fluffy Feelings, Consensual But Not Safe Or Sane, Dungeons & Dragons References, Extra Treat
Summary: Will’s pretty sure there aren’t any skill checks for letting the Mind Flayer reach out a cold limb and surround him, bear him up to see the hollow shadows of a silent Naperville.

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Prompts: "Twisted and Fluffy Feelings," "Consensual But Not Safe Or Sane" (the latter of which is just a great tag in general).

The Best One (45 words)
Fandom: Blade Runner (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Luv (Blade Runner)
Additional Tags: Interactive Fiction
Summary: Even replicants have free will...to a point.

Downloadable Twine game. (It was surprisingly hard to figure out how to upload this; I needed it to be anonymous and Twitter isn't a fan of me making lots of throwaway accounts for philomela. But all's well that ends well.)


To Defend (944 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO
Characters: Cassian Andor, K-2SO (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Marriage of Convenience, Weddings
Summary: The Empire may have rolled back many legal protections, but even they appreciate the value of civil marriage.

Cassian/K-2 marriage fic heavily inspired by the "just married" fest.

The silly, but kind of earnest, "We Die Like Fen" exchange ran over the weekend. Lots of breaking Ao3. People described it as a joke, but kind of an inside joke, you sort of have to be part of the exchange community to appreciate why it's funny. But I appreciated it very much. :)

As Web, As Worm (1081 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Sea Monsters, Horror, Human Sacrifice
Summary: Though Kyn had not at first been enamored with the notion of being sacrificed to the daughter of the abyss, he had to admit the idea had grown on him.

The Fenghuang (1340 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Hurt/Comfort, Technobabble
Summary: Never meet your heroes.

Ready for a Brand New Day (522 words)
Fandom: Pitch (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mike Lawson
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Baseball, Chicago Cubs, Extra Treat
Summary: Ten things Mike Lawson didn't realize before coming to Chicago.

Hello World (788 words)
Fandom: Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Touch-Starved, Sort Of, Extra Treat
Summary:

Were not all hypotheses tested in great desperation?

Be the First went live--people writing the first fic in new fandoms! I wrote for "Children of the Star:" Noren's death and funeral, post-canon. (And the afterlife, because of course.)

No Door Save One (2771 words) 
Fandom: Children of the Star - Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Lianne/Noren (Children of the Star)
Characters: Noren (Children of the Star), Lianne (Children of the Star)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Wakes & Funerals, Afterlife
Summary:

The death and legacy of the Archpriest.

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I'm not familiar with any of the other fandoms, but some of them are short (song, Wikipedia article), and many of the stories stand alone well. Collection!

Optimistic and Encouraging Times (1766 words)
Fandom: Chess - Rice/Ulvaeus/Andersson
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Walter de Courcey/Alexander Molokov
Characters: Alexander Molokov, Walter de Courcey
Additional Tags: IN SPACE!, Canon-typical language, Extra Treat
Summary:

Half of the worlds are watching.

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Chess IN SPACE! It's the future, and the chess players aren't human...but there's still a cold war of sorts, and spies are still doing spy things.

Another fun year of Yuletide with small fandoms new and old!

Miracle on Ice (3598 words)
Fandom: The Divine Cities Series - Robert Jackson Bennett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Turyin Mulaghesh, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Canon-typical language, Yuletide 2018
Summary: Part of Mulaghesh wonders how much Ghaladesh counts as the world. The world, in its vastness, calls to mind the small-minded squabbles of highland Voortyashtan, the areas of Bulikov cordoned off after the Blink, the humid isolation of Javrat.
Yet Ghaladesh is changing every day.
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Post-canon "casefic" of sorts for Divine Cities, featuring Mulaghesh learning about Dreyling hockey and trying not to swear on the job.

Zersetzung (3982 words)
Fandom: Die perfekte Diktatur - Farin Urlaub Racing Team (Song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Narrator's Friend (Die perfekte Diktatur), Narrator (Die perfekte Diktatur)
Additional Tags: Dystopia, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2018
Summary: There is only one way out.

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I discovered this song via a Yuletide promo (lyrics in translation, on Youtube)--less than five minutes but features a cool plot twist and raises all kinds of worldbuilding questions. This is a retelling from another POV.
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Escort Quest (6633 words)
Fandom: Chess (Board Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Knight (Chess), Pawn (Chess)
Additional Tags: Chess Problems, Fairy Tale Elements, Embedded Images, Crueltide, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2018
Summary: A loyal knight has one goal: to guide the kingdom's heir to promotion. But nothing will prepare them for the friends and threats they meet on the way to enemy territory...
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Chess puzzles! Featuring "retroanalysis" (what was the last move? etc) shenanigans, and en passant-related angst.

The Bishop's Gambit (1589 words)
Fandom: Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote - Jorge Luis Borges
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Pierre Menard, Ruy López de Segura
Additional Tags: Chess, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2018
Summary: Pierre Menard meets one of his heroes.
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More chess, this in the context of a Borges short story which is kind of the essence of "crack treated seriously." This was a fairly "iddy" fic for me in the non-porny sense; not just chess nerdiness but also allusions to other Borges stuff, calculus nonsense, and a weird philosophical trilemma in which I tend to reach a difference conclusion than Menard (and Borges' narrator), but think about on weird occasions.

The Journeys of Sarah Sioban Grey (19 words, about 5000 across all playthroughs)
Fandom: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Sarah Sioban Grey
Additional Tags: Interactive Fiction, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2018
Summary: Life, death, rebirth, memory.
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I'm into time travel and the conceits of this book (a few people are reborn after they die in the same time and place they were born the first times, with all their memories; they form a secret society where one generation can slowly pass messages on to another) held my attention more than the main characters. I thought IF would be a fitting format for this minor character exploration, since all of the possible "lives" could still take place in some order or another.

And not for Yuletide, but also just revealed, a holiday fluff treat:

Different Dreams (1021 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad/Mertil-Iscar-Elmand
Characters: Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad, Mertil-Iscar-Elmand
Additional Tags: Soulmates, Dream Sharing, Extra Treat
Summary:

It is said that Andalites have two eyes to see their own world, and two more to see their beloved's.

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Gafinilan/Mertil soulmates worldbuilding!


Hope you have a happy and healthy new year. :D

Posting here to get back into the groove, and because it's easier to post links :p

The Noble Tale of the Force Tree (4866 words)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassian Andor/Enfys Nest
Characters: Cassian Andor, K-2SO (Star Wars), Enfys Nest
Additional Tags: Fusion, Alternate Universe - Arthurian Setting
Summary:

When the soldiers of the Rebel Alliance embark on a quest, Cassian called Andor grapples with moral dilemmas and daring marauders alike.

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Cassian/Enfys was the ship I came out of Rogue One wanting--child soldiers! Sad parallels!--and I'm glad I got a chance to write for it here! My recip suggested Arthurian settings as a general like so I riffed (very indirectly) on the tale of the Grail quest (Vagon, the name of one of the moons, is a castle in the Malory source). K-2 almost wound up taking over the fic, I had to work to get to the shippy part.

Where We Want To Care (2404 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cassian Andor/Enfys Nest, K-2SO/L3-37
Characters: K-2SO (Star Wars), L3-37 (Star Wars), Enfys Nest, Cassian Andor
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Matchmaking
Summary: When Cassian is too busy with the Rebellion to admit his feelings, K-2SO takes matters into his own hands. Or tries to.
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Epistolary shenanigans with droids!

Maelstroms (3110 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lando Calrissian/Bodhi Rook
Characters: Bodhi Rook, Lando Calrissian
Additional Tags: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Autistic Bodhi Rook
Summary: Surviving the Death Star (or two) is one challenge. Figuring out how to live in the galaxy is another.
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Bodhi character study and eventual Bodhi/Lando. I'm autistic so it was an interesting challenge to try to imagine some of Bodhi's canon traits in that light, while (hopefully) not being too issue-ficcy. I think I struck a balance?

Fortunate Harvest (3779 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rey (Star Wars)/Original Character(s)
Characters: Rey (Star Wars), Caretaker(s) (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Lanai - Freeform, Ahch-To, Alien Culture, Extra Treat
Summary:

Luke wasn't the only one Rey met on Ahch-To.

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Rey/OC Caretaker. Even though Luke isn't really "on-screen" in this fic it sort of turned into an outsider POV on him, and how the Lanai might see him, which also pushes back a little at some of the TLJ parts that didn't really appeal to me.

I didn't think it would be a good idea to go into it but I now headcanon the Lanai as speaking an "ergative-absolutative language" (like Basque) so their ideas about agency and taking action are a little off-kilter. ;)