Yuletide 2024 (+Madness) reveals
Jan. 1st, 2025 08:01 pmAs usual this is probably tl;dr about my fics, if you're not interested in that kind of thing then Just Walk Out, Hit The Bricks, Etc.
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Yuletide 2023
Jan. 2nd, 2024 04:48 pmHappy New Year, and happy Yuletide reveals to those who celebrate! As always, if you don't like self-absorbed rambling, you are free to not read this post, that is an option ;)
( 'tis the season to be ficcing )
( 'tis the season to be ficcing )
Bragging rights here because I can and because LibreOffice records this stuff:
-started playing the game: February 2021, then my save file died, then I replaced my computer and didn't have it.
-picked up the game again, beat it: July 2021
-spent a lot of time having feelings about the characters and plotting fic in my head, especially during "fitness walks" at work that summer, when it was hot and I didn't want to go outside, so I associate some of the basement hallways with my headcanon plotting
-started writing fix-it fic part 1: July 11, 2021
-started writing fix-it fic part 2: March 15, 2022
-hit a wall with "how much language worldbuilding/deliberately odd syntax do I want this to have," put the question to dreamwidth: March 28, 2022
-finished draft of fix-it fic part 2, wasn't sure whether to post until I could post everything at once: May 12, 2022
-started writing fix-it fic part 3: May 31, 2022
-posting: October 2023
And! Like! I have begun and completed lots of other things in this timeframe, it's just that I'm normally a one-project-at-a-time person and between exchange deadlines and original fic submission deadlines, longfic for a teeny-tiny fandom tends to always take a back burner. Then it's like...okay, the first part worked out to be ~16k, so I want the later parts to be long enough to do that justice and feel like they're on the same order of magnitude even if they're not exactly the same. So here we are.
Anyway. The game is about a ship named the Odysseus on a long and frequently deadly quest to save the galaxy, after the robot "Shutdown" twenty years ago. So obviously I added some references to the mythological Odysseus and Tennyson's version. The gameplay (roguelike, moving from sector to sector), is very much based on FTL, and the lore is kind of a mashup of Dune and Foundation (and I've gotten back into Dune since I started, so I appreciate more of the allusions now). But I found the limited "choices" the game offers you to be unsatisfying, considering how often they railroad you onto the plot.
Here are the freeform tags, which I think give you a good sense of what the canon is about:
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Free Will versus Fate, Justice versus Mercy, and characters who have very different ideas about each, Dying is easy (old) man; living is harder, Kaos Odysseus is best Odysseus, Past Relationship(s), Post-Canon, Benevolent Dictatorship for Fun and Profit, Galaxy Building, Ballads, Cannibal Space Pirates, (canon-typical levels thereof), Fix-It of Sorts, Fish out of Temporal Water, Plots Within Plots, Chekhov's Acherus Fruit
And here's the link just in case, (but I don't think it makes a lot of sense canon-blind, this is just me bragging/rambling in my own space!)
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-started playing the game: February 2021, then my save file died, then I replaced my computer and didn't have it.
-picked up the game again, beat it: July 2021
-spent a lot of time having feelings about the characters and plotting fic in my head, especially during "fitness walks" at work that summer, when it was hot and I didn't want to go outside, so I associate some of the basement hallways with my headcanon plotting
-started writing fix-it fic part 1: July 11, 2021
-started writing fix-it fic part 2: March 15, 2022
-hit a wall with "how much language worldbuilding/deliberately odd syntax do I want this to have," put the question to dreamwidth: March 28, 2022
-finished draft of fix-it fic part 2, wasn't sure whether to post until I could post everything at once: May 12, 2022
-started writing fix-it fic part 3: May 31, 2022
-posting: October 2023
And! Like! I have begun and completed lots of other things in this timeframe, it's just that I'm normally a one-project-at-a-time person and between exchange deadlines and original fic submission deadlines, longfic for a teeny-tiny fandom tends to always take a back burner. Then it's like...okay, the first part worked out to be ~16k, so I want the later parts to be long enough to do that justice and feel like they're on the same order of magnitude even if they're not exactly the same. So here we are.
Anyway. The game is about a ship named the Odysseus on a long and frequently deadly quest to save the galaxy, after the robot "Shutdown" twenty years ago. So obviously I added some references to the mythological Odysseus and Tennyson's version. The gameplay (roguelike, moving from sector to sector), is very much based on FTL, and the lore is kind of a mashup of Dune and Foundation (and I've gotten back into Dune since I started, so I appreciate more of the allusions now). But I found the limited "choices" the game offers you to be unsatisfying, considering how often they railroad you onto the plot.
Here are the freeform tags, which I think give you a good sense of what the canon is about:
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Free Will versus Fate, Justice versus Mercy, and characters who have very different ideas about each, Dying is easy (old) man; living is harder, Kaos Odysseus is best Odysseus, Past Relationship(s), Post-Canon, Benevolent Dictatorship for Fun and Profit, Galaxy Building, Ballads, Cannibal Space Pirates, (canon-typical levels thereof), Fix-It of Sorts, Fish out of Temporal Water, Plots Within Plots, Chekhov's Acherus Fruit
And here's the link just in case, (but I don't think it makes a lot of sense canon-blind, this is just me bragging/rambling in my own space!)
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On a lighter note
Jan. 16th, 2023 10:37 pmIt's three sentence ficathon time! Leave a prompt, fill a prompt, stick to three sentences and don't feel like you have to do something epic, ignore the rules and do more than three sentences. It's already on post two but filling and responding to fills from post one is allowed and encouraged!
I have started a sock account for collecting my fills for this and previous installments, to avoid clogging up tags or subscriptions. Crossovers are posted independently, while everything else is collected by fandom.
I have started a sock account for collecting my fills for this and previous installments, to avoid clogging up tags or subscriptions. Crossovers are posted independently, while everything else is collected by fandom.
Yuletide 2022
Jan. 2nd, 2023 05:45 pmThis is my self-indulgent, digression-y, "how the sausage is made" reveals post for Yuletide 2022, featuring a bunch of links back to previous posts. If you're not into this kind of thing, you can just...ignore this post. It's cool.
So my recip and I matched on "Project Hail Mary." At one point, the protagonist remembers that his spaceship contains mini-spaceships that don't carry passengers, but can be launched back to Earth to send data. Because they look kind of like bugs, and there are four of them, they're obviously named "the Beatles." Later, he's talking to himself and complains "man, it's been a hard day. A hard day's night. I should be...hey, the Beatles can help me here!"
I wouldn't necessarily call myself a big Beatles fan, but I appreciate that they've done a lot for rock music as we know it. So I figured that I could use Beatles songs as a frame device to add some missing scenes and do a "5 Things" or equivalent. And when I started brainstorming ideas...it turns out there are a lot of Beatles songs that could be relevant for this book. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" for a touch-starved character? "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64" for a precarious survival mission? "Here Comes the Sun" for a book about...saving the sun? Turns out all I need to better appreciate music is a pretext for viewing it as about space travel rather than romance even when it's space travel. Who knew?
Maybe it's a coincidence, but I choose to believe that after the success of "The Martian" (whose book featured a running joke about "I hate disco and it's the only music I'm stuck with out here," and got turned into a movie with a disco soundtrack), Andy Weir just doubled down on "if this book ever gets turned into a movie, it all needs to be Beatles puns." Anyway, that was the context of this post.
And then a few days later I realized that Ryland often translates an unfamiliar word as "Amaze!" even when it doesn't necessarily make perfect grammatical sense to do so. At first I chalked this up to "eh, language barriers, communication is hard." But no. If it's being directed in response to Ryland Grace's actions, that makes him...Amazing Grace. Groan.
So when I went to post it was like...I'm using 'Across the Universe' as a title because it's a Beatles song about travelling through the galaxy. That phrase also shows up in my recip's username. I'm guessing there must have been some subconscious influence but oh well, I'm not changing it now even if it is too on-point.
Across the Universe (4k, gen, no archive warnings apply)
A couple weeks later, I was visiting extended family and arguing about what movie to watch. We eventually compromised on "Knives Out." I'd sort of osmosed some of the plot, mostly in the context of "I didn't particularly care for Rian Johnson as a director in Star Wars, it's possible that switching genres and doing something original would be a better fit for him though." And it was fine, not my favorite thing ever, but amusing. So I idly checked to see if anyone had requested it...and sure enough, my recip liked happiness, fluff, and friendships. Sometimes the stars just align! And I got to use my fun facts about Go! And sometimes Wikipedia has the exact article you need for a throwaway joke?
Anyway, in keeping with the general tendency that you have no idea which of your fics will be successful, a fluffy fix-it for a murder mystery that avoids the whole murder mystery aspect, about a canon I wasn't necessarily the most passionate about, was surprisingly successful and crossed the centikudos mark earlier today. Yuletide!!
Where There's a Will (There's A Way) (1.7k, gen, no archive warnings apply)
I started canon reviewing "Elder Race" for treat purposes because it was short, I had enjoyed it, and the prompts were neat. A day later, it went out on the PH list. Again, sometimes the stars just align! This gave me an excuse to nerd out about linguistics, and also there is a terrible pun (that I can't take credit for but did think was very fitting in the context of language change and communication issues.)
Tree of Changes (1.6k, gen, no archive warnings apply)
And then "Steerswoman" came out on the PH list, so I was like, I definitely need an excuse for rereading "The Outskirter's Secret." (And fiddling around with how to send it to my e-reader, sigh, long story.) Anyway, I have a lot of feelings about all the Outskirters--the contrast between the Face People and Kammeryn's people and the raiders near the Inner Lands, how they can be extremely sophisticated and astute in some ways but not others. (Just like everyone else, tbh.) Having revisited it and Elder Race back-to-back, I saw some parallels between the Lyn/Esha and Rowan/Bel relationships. Maybe a stretch. (Does that mean Nyr==Fletcher? I kind of hope not.)
The Map and the Territory (2k, gen, no archive warnings apply)
Sometimes when I'm fighting headaches (which is often) I'm in the mood for self-indulgent darkfic. And FTL is a great fandom for "rocks fall, everyone dies, in many different ways." Roguelikes are hard. So I figured at some point in time I'd write a story about a woobie Rock person who just can't catch a break, even fire and/or boarders won't put them out of their misery. Except I kind of played myself here because, you know when I really have no energy to type? When I'm in bed with a migraine. And then once I started "canon review" I didn't want to write, I just wanted to play more of the game. So the fact that the treat came together was kind of a last-minute surprise, and it went in a slightly different direction than I'd planned on to be more about a specific character on a player ship, rather than a background NPC. I'll probably keep the alternate version as a "daydream for when I don't want to look at the screen." Also, the title was just too perfect.
Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies (3k, gen, major character death)
Watching the World Cup this past month or so, I, like zillions of other people around the world, got caught up in the narrative of "let's see Leo Messi win a championship! There's no doubt that he's a phenomenally, prodigiously gifted player who's tiny and kind of alien-like, but he's never won a World Cup with Argentina so critics say he can't really be the Greatest of All Time...and that's not fair, nationalism and countries are arbitrary and made-up anyway. Haters gonna hate. But let's see Messi shut them up." And somehow he actually did???
And then I remembered that Borges didn't like football and resented how popular it was in Argentina. And with the current situation of "inflation is out of control, the economy is in crisis, why are all these people losing it about football," it's like...what would Borges say. That, together with the surreal sports worldbuilding stuff I do on NationStates, provided the impetus for "Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius" fic!
Game of Worlds (650 words, gen, no archive warnings apply)
So my recip and I matched on "Project Hail Mary." At one point, the protagonist remembers that his spaceship contains mini-spaceships that don't carry passengers, but can be launched back to Earth to send data. Because they look kind of like bugs, and there are four of them, they're obviously named "the Beatles." Later, he's talking to himself and complains "man, it's been a hard day. A hard day's night. I should be...hey, the Beatles can help me here!"
I wouldn't necessarily call myself a big Beatles fan, but I appreciate that they've done a lot for rock music as we know it. So I figured that I could use Beatles songs as a frame device to add some missing scenes and do a "5 Things" or equivalent. And when I started brainstorming ideas...it turns out there are a lot of Beatles songs that could be relevant for this book. "I Want To Hold Your Hand" for a touch-starved character? "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64" for a precarious survival mission? "Here Comes the Sun" for a book about...saving the sun? Turns out all I need to better appreciate music is a pretext for viewing it as about space travel rather than romance even when it's space travel. Who knew?
Maybe it's a coincidence, but I choose to believe that after the success of "The Martian" (whose book featured a running joke about "I hate disco and it's the only music I'm stuck with out here," and got turned into a movie with a disco soundtrack), Andy Weir just doubled down on "if this book ever gets turned into a movie, it all needs to be Beatles puns." Anyway, that was the context of this post.
And then a few days later I realized that Ryland often translates an unfamiliar word as "Amaze!" even when it doesn't necessarily make perfect grammatical sense to do so. At first I chalked this up to "eh, language barriers, communication is hard." But no. If it's being directed in response to Ryland Grace's actions, that makes him...Amazing Grace. Groan.
So when I went to post it was like...I'm using 'Across the Universe' as a title because it's a Beatles song about travelling through the galaxy. That phrase also shows up in my recip's username. I'm guessing there must have been some subconscious influence but oh well, I'm not changing it now even if it is too on-point.
Across the Universe (4k, gen, no archive warnings apply)
A couple weeks later, I was visiting extended family and arguing about what movie to watch. We eventually compromised on "Knives Out." I'd sort of osmosed some of the plot, mostly in the context of "I didn't particularly care for Rian Johnson as a director in Star Wars, it's possible that switching genres and doing something original would be a better fit for him though." And it was fine, not my favorite thing ever, but amusing. So I idly checked to see if anyone had requested it...and sure enough, my recip liked happiness, fluff, and friendships. Sometimes the stars just align! And I got to use my fun facts about Go! And sometimes Wikipedia has the exact article you need for a throwaway joke?
Anyway, in keeping with the general tendency that you have no idea which of your fics will be successful, a fluffy fix-it for a murder mystery that avoids the whole murder mystery aspect, about a canon I wasn't necessarily the most passionate about, was surprisingly successful and crossed the centikudos mark earlier today. Yuletide!!
Where There's a Will (There's A Way) (1.7k, gen, no archive warnings apply)
I started canon reviewing "Elder Race" for treat purposes because it was short, I had enjoyed it, and the prompts were neat. A day later, it went out on the PH list. Again, sometimes the stars just align! This gave me an excuse to nerd out about linguistics, and also there is a terrible pun (that I can't take credit for but did think was very fitting in the context of language change and communication issues.)
Tree of Changes (1.6k, gen, no archive warnings apply)
And then "Steerswoman" came out on the PH list, so I was like, I definitely need an excuse for rereading "The Outskirter's Secret." (And fiddling around with how to send it to my e-reader, sigh, long story.) Anyway, I have a lot of feelings about all the Outskirters--the contrast between the Face People and Kammeryn's people and the raiders near the Inner Lands, how they can be extremely sophisticated and astute in some ways but not others. (Just like everyone else, tbh.) Having revisited it and Elder Race back-to-back, I saw some parallels between the Lyn/Esha and Rowan/Bel relationships. Maybe a stretch. (Does that mean Nyr==Fletcher? I kind of hope not.)
The Map and the Territory (2k, gen, no archive warnings apply)
Sometimes when I'm fighting headaches (which is often) I'm in the mood for self-indulgent darkfic. And FTL is a great fandom for "rocks fall, everyone dies, in many different ways." Roguelikes are hard. So I figured at some point in time I'd write a story about a woobie Rock person who just can't catch a break, even fire and/or boarders won't put them out of their misery. Except I kind of played myself here because, you know when I really have no energy to type? When I'm in bed with a migraine. And then once I started "canon review" I didn't want to write, I just wanted to play more of the game. So the fact that the treat came together was kind of a last-minute surprise, and it went in a slightly different direction than I'd planned on to be more about a specific character on a player ship, rather than a background NPC. I'll probably keep the alternate version as a "daydream for when I don't want to look at the screen." Also, the title was just too perfect.
Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies (3k, gen, major character death)
Watching the World Cup this past month or so, I, like zillions of other people around the world, got caught up in the narrative of "let's see Leo Messi win a championship! There's no doubt that he's a phenomenally, prodigiously gifted player who's tiny and kind of alien-like, but he's never won a World Cup with Argentina so critics say he can't really be the Greatest of All Time...and that's not fair, nationalism and countries are arbitrary and made-up anyway. Haters gonna hate. But let's see Messi shut them up." And somehow he actually did???
And then I remembered that Borges didn't like football and resented how popular it was in Argentina. And with the current situation of "inflation is out of control, the economy is in crisis, why are all these people losing it about football," it's like...what would Borges say. That, together with the surreal sports worldbuilding stuff I do on NationStates, provided the impetus for "Tlön Uqbar Orbis Tertius" fic!
Game of Worlds (650 words, gen, no archive warnings apply)
Tags are a bit spoilery so under a cut, but I wrote a Wheel of Time post-canon AU for the big bang! Podfic by PostalNinja is here.
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The entire collection is here and features some more great fic and art, check it out!
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The entire collection is here and features some more great fic and art, check it out!
Freewomen of Arrakis (Dune Mini Bang 2022)
Sep. 9th, 2022 07:46 amHere is my fic for the Dune mini bang!
Freewomen of Arrakis (7811 words) by primeideal
Fandom: Dune Series - Frank Herbert, Dune (2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Paul Atreides/Chani Kynes
Characters: Chani Kynes, Reverend Mother Ramallo, Jessica (Dune), Paul Atreides
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Coming of Age, sandworms, Canon-Typical Sexism
Series: Part 2 of The Freewomen Chronicles
Summary: Chani learns what it means to be a Reverend Mother, and considers her relationship with Paul Muad'Dib. Not necessarily in that order.
And here is the wonderful art by fairyoutlander:
[ART] Blood, Bound by Water (6 words) by fairyoutlander
Fandom: Dune Series - Frank Herbert, Dune - All Media Types, Dune (2021)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Chani Kynes, Liet Kynes, Reverend Mother Ramallo
Summary: Art for Freewomen of Dune
(Tumblr link!)
Freewomen of Arrakis (7811 words) by primeideal
Fandom: Dune Series - Frank Herbert, Dune (2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Paul Atreides/Chani Kynes
Characters: Chani Kynes, Reverend Mother Ramallo, Jessica (Dune), Paul Atreides
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Coming of Age, sandworms, Canon-Typical Sexism
Series: Part 2 of The Freewomen Chronicles
Summary: Chani learns what it means to be a Reverend Mother, and considers her relationship with Paul Muad'Dib. Not necessarily in that order.
And here is the wonderful art by fairyoutlander:
[ART] Blood, Bound by Water (6 words) by fairyoutlander
Fandom: Dune Series - Frank Herbert, Dune - All Media Types, Dune (2021)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Chani Kynes, Liet Kynes, Reverend Mother Ramallo
Summary: Art for Freewomen of Dune
(Tumblr link!)
Yuletide reveals 2021
Jan. 1st, 2021 10:05 amPublish and/or Perish (5460 words)
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion Of Your Thesis Defense (McSweeney's Post) - Luke Burns
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Academia, Mathematics, Snake Portmanteaus or Snortmanteaus
Summary:
A couple of the author's notes pretty much speak for themselves:
-The snake people or sneople meme dates from Steven Universe and Tumblr on 2015. (The things you learn researching.)
-This is very loosely based on a true story, not only in the sense in which every artist puts a little of themselves in their work, but in the sense that some of the personalities and archetypes are drawn from RL with identifying details obscured. If any of my academic friends see themselves in this, I hope they are not too offended. No snakes were harmed in the making of this story nor my higher education.
My working title was "snek" (another meme) until I wrote a line about "publish or perish," blinked, and was like, "there's the title."
This being Yuletide, there are 14 other stories in the same fandom, and they are all great. (Turns out there are a whole lot of Yuletide people who are current or recovering academics, who knew?!) One of the things I noticed was how different subjects are treated slightly differently; one of the Madness stories pointed out that math students probably get tiny snakes because everyone assumes their thesis is correct but nobody out of their subfield can read it, and, too real. Whereas I think the old-school McSweeney's humor was more targeted at humanities students who often have longer PhD time and/or smaller stipends, so they need to play up the angst and woe.
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Momomme (5465 words)
Fandom: Quatrevingt-treize | Ninety-three - Victor Hugo
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Michelle Fléchard, Housarde, Tellmarch
Additional Tags: Ghosts
Summary:
Anyway, it's only at the end that the changes to canon have ripple effects for the other characters. I'm not sure what happens to Gauvain and Cimourdain in this timeline, hopefully good things. But it's Hugo so who knows.
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Dreamt Music (1909 words)
Fandom: Blade Runner (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: K | Joe (Blade Runner), Ana Stelline, Rick Deckard
Additional Tags: Character Death Fix, Hurt/Comfort, Headaches & Migraines
Summary:
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World Enough And Time (5836 words)
Fandom: 三体 - 刘慈欣 | Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy - Liú Cíxīn
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Chéng Xīn/Yún Tiānmíng
Characters: Yún Tiānmíng, Ài AA, Chéng Xīn
Additional Tags: Fix-It, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
I'm also not sure if the stuff about "Galactic humans" is meant to be taken as authoritative, there's a lot of commentary suggesting that "Death's End" in particular has some unreliable narrators/PoV in Cheng Xin. But either way, I wanted to push back against it.
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Twice Dawns the Day (5593 words)
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Nynaeve al'Meara, Rand al'Thor, Elayne Trakand
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, background canon relationships, Fate & Destiny, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion Of Your Thesis Defense (McSweeney's Post) - Luke Burns
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Academia, Mathematics, Snake Portmanteaus or Snortmanteaus
Summary:
In order to prevent “frivolous disputations unbefitting the history of our institution” (read: “some kid getting way in over their head, dying, and us getting sued,”) you couldn’t just walk in and demand to fight a snake.
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So I offered this McSweeney's post because it's the kind of thing that's quintessentially Yuletide. There were 8 requests and 27 (non-bucket) offers, so I didn't really expect to match on it, I figured I'd get picked for something rarer. And then I matched on it. And it was like..."deadpan humor about how grad school is an absurd and surreal experience (and also by the way there are snakes)"? I can do that, I do not need to do any "canon review" for that one.
A couple of the author's notes pretty much speak for themselves:
-The snake people or sneople meme dates from Steven Universe and Tumblr on 2015. (The things you learn researching.)
-This is very loosely based on a true story, not only in the sense in which every artist puts a little of themselves in their work, but in the sense that some of the personalities and archetypes are drawn from RL with identifying details obscured. If any of my academic friends see themselves in this, I hope they are not too offended. No snakes were harmed in the making of this story nor my higher education.
My working title was "snek" (another meme) until I wrote a line about "publish or perish," blinked, and was like, "there's the title."
This being Yuletide, there are 14 other stories in the same fandom, and they are all great. (Turns out there are a whole lot of Yuletide people who are current or recovering academics, who knew?!) One of the things I noticed was how different subjects are treated slightly differently; one of the Madness stories pointed out that math students probably get tiny snakes because everyone assumes their thesis is correct but nobody out of their subfield can read it, and, too real. Whereas I think the old-school McSweeney's humor was more targeted at humanities students who often have longer PhD time and/or smaller stipends, so they need to play up the angst and woe.
--
Momomme (5465 words)
Fandom: Quatrevingt-treize | Ninety-three - Victor Hugo
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Michelle Fléchard, Housarde, Tellmarch
Additional Tags: Ghosts
Summary:
The dead do have power to protect.
--
Okay, so what if Quatrevingt-treize, but with ghosts? Actually, if you're willing to accept "everyone talks in paragraphs because Victor Hugo" conceit, a lot of this stayed pretty close to canon. Like, these are lines from the original that fit almost perfectly, except I wanted to rewrite them to not completely plagiarize!
"In the language of Georgette a "momomme" was anything that looked like a man without really being one. Living beings are strangely confused with ghosts in the minds of children."
"I am angry with you for saving me; you did wrong. I would rather have died, for then I should surely see them and know where they are. They would not see me, but I should be near them. The dead must have power to protect." (Michelle to Tellmarch)
Anyway, it's only at the end that the changes to canon have ripple effects for the other characters. I'm not sure what happens to Gauvain and Cimourdain in this timeline, hopefully good things. But it's Hugo so who knows.
--
Dreamt Music (1909 words)
Fandom: Blade Runner (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: K | Joe (Blade Runner), Ana Stelline, Rick Deckard
Additional Tags: Character Death Fix, Hurt/Comfort, Headaches & Migraines
Summary:
Ana gives K a place to hide and recuperate. K returns the favor.
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So the prompts were for hurt/comfort and family feelings. Which is a little smaller-scale than the "hunt down and kill the treacherous robot" plotlines of canon. But, along the lines of the snake fight fic, it was like..."what if this very smart but isolated scientist lady also had migraines...haha...don't need to research that one either /o\" Title is of course from Deckard and Rachael's conversation in the original.
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World Enough And Time (5836 words)
Fandom: 三体 - 刘慈欣 | Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy - Liú Cíxīn
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Chéng Xīn/Yún Tiānmíng
Characters: Yún Tiānmíng, Ài AA, Chéng Xīn
Additional Tags: Fix-It, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
The universe is grand, but love is grander.
--
I'm also not sure if the stuff about "Galactic humans" is meant to be taken as authoritative, there's a lot of commentary suggesting that "Death's End" in particular has some unreliable narrators/PoV in Cheng Xin. But either way, I wanted to push back against it.
--
Twice Dawns the Day (5593 words)
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Nynaeve al'Meara, Rand al'Thor, Elayne Trakand
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, background canon relationships, Fate & Destiny, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Rand slays the Dark One, and the world is set free. With one exception.
--
I never did get around to writing up all my "Memory of Light" thoughts, did I? Well, one of the prompts here was "the whole 'evil is necessary for free will so really you can't live without it' was kind of a cop-out, let's have a better reason why Rand needed to seal up the Dark One instead of just killing it." And...I agree. The whole "a world without of nations, without weapons, without war, where Andor and the Aiel are peacemakers and happy about it...WOULD BE TERRIBLE!" scene didn't stick the landing for me. So this happened. (By which I mean, I was brainstorming ideas almost as soon as I saw the prompt, and wrote the vast majority of it very close to the deadline. As one does.)
Fic: Wheel of time/flash exchange
Mar. 22nd, 2020 10:46 amThe Sorority of the Winespring Sisters (6763 words)
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Egwene al'Vere/Aviendha
Characters: Egwene al'Vere, Aviendha (Wheel of Time), Moiraine Damodred, Rand al'Thor
Additional Tags: Screw Destiny, Seanchan, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Book 05: The Fires of Heaven
Summary: Aviendha wants Egwene. Egwene wants to be truthful. Moiraine wants to face her destiny. Rand just wants some privacy.
This one ran a lot longer than the others, mostly because I wanted to see "The Far Snows" play out with Egwene/Aviendha and then one thing led to another. Also, this xkcd applies to trying to format stories about using saidar to stop the sul'dam and damane.
Brute-Force Methods (492 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cyber Hacker/Android
Characters: Original Human Character(s), Original Robot Character(s)
Summary:
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Egwene al'Vere/Aviendha
Characters: Egwene al'Vere, Aviendha (Wheel of Time), Moiraine Damodred, Rand al'Thor
Additional Tags: Screw Destiny, Seanchan, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Book 05: The Fires of Heaven
Summary: Aviendha wants Egwene. Egwene wants to be truthful. Moiraine wants to face her destiny. Rand just wants some privacy.
This one ran a lot longer than the others, mostly because I wanted to see "The Far Snows" play out with Egwene/Aviendha and then one thing led to another. Also, this xkcd applies to trying to format stories about using saidar to stop the sul'dam and damane.
Brute-Force Methods (492 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cyber Hacker/Android
Characters: Original Human Character(s), Original Robot Character(s)
Summary:
The enemy of one's lover is definitely one's enemy.
Just some robot/human cuteness :)Fic: Entanglements
Mar. 9th, 2020 07:49 pmI'm trying to do at least one fic per book so hopefully some cute shippiness soon-ish. But I also want to be more deliberate about original fiction (not the Ao3 kind) this year too, so who knows.
-me two months ago
Although tonight I was walking back from groceries and daydreamed up a title for a potential silly SF story while I should be working on this historical fantasy, so there's that!
Anyway,
Entanglements (1168 words)
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Egwene al'Vere/Aviendha
Characters: Egwene al'Vere, Aviendha (Wheel of Time)
Additional Tags: Secrets, Book 4: The Shadow Rising
Summary: A lot can happen in twelve days.
-me two months ago
Although tonight I was walking back from groceries and daydreamed up a title for a potential silly SF story while I should be working on this historical fantasy, so there's that!
Anyway,
Entanglements (1168 words)
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Egwene al'Vere/Aviendha
Characters: Egwene al'Vere, Aviendha (Wheel of Time)
Additional Tags: Secrets, Book 4: The Shadow Rising
Summary: A lot can happen in twelve days.
Past Imperfect (and more flashiness)
Feb. 14th, 2020 06:15 pmThe age to come would say "this poet lies" (1443 words)
Fandom: Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Colin Templer, William Shakespeare
Additional Tags: Time Travel for Historical Research, One-Sided Attraction
Summary: Colin has an admirer. A not-very-secret one.
--
Shakespeare crushes on Colin. That's it.
Stranger Times (1396 words)
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eleven | Jane Hopper, Jonathan Byers, Undisclosed Character(s)
Additional Tags: Refugees from Multiple Doomed Dimensions Flee to the Same Sheltered Timeline
Summary:
Yellow, or, Your Skin and (Undead) Bones (430 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Luke Skywalker, Poe Dameron, Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Resurrection, Sort Of, Crack Treated Seriously
Summary:
Don't think I ever crossposted this one, it's some post-TLJ crack.
Fandom: Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Colin Templer, William Shakespeare
Additional Tags: Time Travel for Historical Research, One-Sided Attraction
Summary: Colin has an admirer. A not-very-secret one.
--
Shakespeare crushes on Colin. That's it.
Stranger Times (1396 words)
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eleven | Jane Hopper, Jonathan Byers, Undisclosed Character(s)
Additional Tags: Refugees from Multiple Doomed Dimensions Flee to the Same Sheltered Timeline
Summary:
El made it almost two weeks through the third timeline before the demodogs showed up.
--
This isn't strictly time travel so much as "parallel universes gone wrong," but close enough. My recip had a lot of cool prompts for who El might run into so I tried to combine some of those.
Yellow, or, Your Skin and (Undead) Bones (430 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Luke Skywalker, Poe Dameron, Leia Organa
Additional Tags: Resurrection, Sort Of, Crack Treated Seriously
Summary:
Luke Skywalker has reappeared.
Almost everyone is happy about this.
--Don't think I ever crossposted this one, it's some post-TLJ crack.
Yuletide reveals 2020
Jan. 1st, 2020 07:26 pmI like the double 0's in this year name, the 01/01/2020 displays are visually amusing. Good start.
Anyway.
The Apple Falls (Far From The Tree) (2048 words)
Fandom: A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Beatrice Baudelaire II, Lemony Snicket, Isadora Quagmire
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Vaguely Fearful Dialogue
Summary: Please avoid this document unless you wish to encounter such mental images as felines clawing out the organs of communication, underfunded public spaces serving as impromptu safety nets, and the economic potential of cormorant guano.
--
This is actually my first time writing ASoUE fic for either the book or the TV-verse? (I did do fic for a story-within-a-story, but that involves less Lemony-isms. I'm sure I've parodied his voice elsewhere, though.)
There's good meta about what the schism represents and how before they were "firefighters" and "firestarters," they might have been "the faction with shallow popular taste in literature" and "the elites who love True Art which is angsty and cliffhangery." In which case I would have probably sided with Olaf in the schism. :/ So Beatrice II is kind of working through those fears. (That and Olaf may or may not be her biological father but that's another problem.)
Fortuitously, shortly after finishing this, I read "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean which is about the Los Angeles Central Library, its history, including a major fire. (There are also two subplots about The Importance of Libraries Today, and the life of someone who was charged with arson in the case but then had the charges dropped--both are less interesting than the main storyline.) Lots of library/fire/VFD feelings. (I've been to the restored building, it's great, there's lots of cool artwork outside in tribute to the Spirit of Knowledge and stuff. Including pi!)
Anchor Ring (1489 words)
Fandom: Chess (Board Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Pawn (Chess)
Additional Tags: Temporary character "death", Chess Variants, Topology Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Also the wranglers in their "wisdom" have moved Chess (Board Game) to Chess Pieces (Anthropomorphic), which ???? It's not to filter out RL Chess Grandmasters RPF (yes, that exists, and under the same tag). And there are lots of other board game canonical tags too. I ain't even mad, the fics are still there and easy to find, but sometimes wranglers' priorities baffle me.
Fantasy Rules (1875 words)
Fandom: Galavant (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sidney (Galavant), Isabella (Galavant), Galavant (Galavant)
Additional Tags: Baseball, Song Lyrics, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
The Citadel (2541 words)
Fandom: Megillat Ester | Book of Esther
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ester | Esther, Hathach, Vashti (Abrahamic Religions)
Additional Tags: IN SPACE!, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Anyway, I was a little nervous about this one--I'm not Jewish, so I didn't want to appropriate or twist too much in the AU setting, but the prompts encouraged me to go wild. But I'm gratified that people seemed to enjoy the worldbuilding. Also![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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raspberryhunter wrote an amazing epic story based on the same prompt, only with femslash! And giant insects! Read that one too!
Hathach (the eunuch who waits on Esther in chapter 4) was already an existing tag and this is why I love Ao3.
The Mercenary Menace (1224 words)
Fandom: Star Realms (Card Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary: A day in the life of the Stealth Needle.
--
I love the Stealth Needle.
Star Realms is a game I only recently got into, first in physical form and then online, but it came in 9th in my recent ranking of board games. Let me know if you want to play on the app sometime! I'm being vigilant about not being tempted to buy "credits" or freemium expansions.
Kings and Rivers (1022 words)
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Janduin/Tigraine Mantear
Characters: Janduin (Wheel of Time), Tigraine Mantear
Additional Tags: Mostly Pre-Canon, A bit post-canon, Timeskips are fun, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
As I continue with my reread, something for the prompt "visions and prophecies." Sometimes canon feels a little too "well, we must, because the prophecy said so," but I get the sense these two didn't need any supernatural meddling to fall for each other.
Anyway.
The Apple Falls (Far From The Tree) (2048 words)
Fandom: A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Beatrice Baudelaire II, Lemony Snicket, Isadora Quagmire
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Vaguely Fearful Dialogue
Summary: Please avoid this document unless you wish to encounter such mental images as felines clawing out the organs of communication, underfunded public spaces serving as impromptu safety nets, and the economic potential of cormorant guano.
--
This is actually my first time writing ASoUE fic for either the book or the TV-verse? (I did do fic for a story-within-a-story, but that involves less Lemony-isms. I'm sure I've parodied his voice elsewhere, though.)
There's good meta about what the schism represents and how before they were "firefighters" and "firestarters," they might have been "the faction with shallow popular taste in literature" and "the elites who love True Art which is angsty and cliffhangery." In which case I would have probably sided with Olaf in the schism. :/ So Beatrice II is kind of working through those fears. (That and Olaf may or may not be her biological father but that's another problem.)
Fortuitously, shortly after finishing this, I read "The Library Book" by Susan Orlean which is about the Los Angeles Central Library, its history, including a major fire. (There are also two subplots about The Importance of Libraries Today, and the life of someone who was charged with arson in the case but then had the charges dropped--both are less interesting than the main storyline.) Lots of library/fire/VFD feelings. (I've been to the restored building, it's great, there's lots of cool artwork outside in tribute to the Spirit of Knowledge and stuff. Including pi!)
Anchor Ring (1489 words)
Fandom: Chess (Board Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Pawn (Chess)
Additional Tags: Temporary character "death", Chess Variants, Topology Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
The center pawn is loyal to her deities, win or lose. She wishes they'd stick to the normal rules, though.
--
Look, if you mention topology in your general likes, I'm gonna take it and run with it.
Also the wranglers in their "wisdom" have moved Chess (Board Game) to Chess Pieces (Anthropomorphic), which ???? It's not to filter out RL Chess Grandmasters RPF (yes, that exists, and under the same tag). And there are lots of other board game canonical tags too. I ain't even mad, the fics are still there and easy to find, but sometimes wranglers' priorities baffle me.
Fantasy Rules (1875 words)
Fandom: Galavant (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sidney (Galavant), Isabella (Galavant), Galavant (Galavant)
Additional Tags: Baseball, Song Lyrics, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Never accept a quest from a strange man in a large dragon costume.
--
If you mention baseball in your general likes, I'm gonna be like "in this fictional twelfth century? ...actually yes, that makes as much sense as anything else in Galavant." I worked hard on the rhyme for the unicorn part.
The Citadel (2541 words)
Fandom: Megillat Ester | Book of Esther
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ester | Esther, Hathach, Vashti (Abrahamic Religions)
Additional Tags: IN SPACE!, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
There had been talk that Ahasereus had tried to clamp down on the rights of human women in the wake of Vashti’s dramatic abdication. Of course, not even a king could singlehandedly dictate policy for all of the 7-Bits, but it was no surprise that cyborgs were even more paranoid than normal.
--
Anyway, I was a little nervous about this one--I'm not Jewish, so I didn't want to appropriate or twist too much in the AU setting, but the prompts encouraged me to go wild. But I'm gratified that people seemed to enjoy the worldbuilding. Also
cahn / Hathach (the eunuch who waits on Esther in chapter 4) was already an existing tag and this is why I love Ao3.
The Mercenary Menace (1224 words)
Fandom: Star Realms (Card Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary: A day in the life of the Stealth Needle.
--
I love the Stealth Needle.
Star Realms is a game I only recently got into, first in physical form and then online, but it came in 9th in my recent ranking of board games. Let me know if you want to play on the app sometime! I'm being vigilant about not being tempted to buy "credits" or freemium expansions.
Kings and Rivers (1022 words)
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Janduin/Tigraine Mantear
Characters: Janduin (Wheel of Time), Tigraine Mantear
Additional Tags: Mostly Pre-Canon, A bit post-canon, Timeskips are fun, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Janduin and Shaiel share a quiet moment in the middle of the war.
--As I continue with my reread, something for the prompt "visions and prophecies." Sometimes canon feels a little too "well, we must, because the prophecy said so," but I get the sense these two didn't need any supernatural meddling to fall for each other.
Fic: Medias Res
Dec. 31st, 2019 07:29 pmMedias Res (1270 words)
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Faile Bashere, Loial (Wheel of Time)
Additional Tags: Crack Treated Seriously, Book 03: The Dragon Reborn
Summary:
Poor Faile, the Horn just gets a backhanded mention when she and zillions of others are all on an epic quest for it!
Also, in wiki wanderings news, Ireland had a Y1K problem.
Happy New Year, and try not to sack Dublin.
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Faile Bashere, Loial (Wheel of Time)
Additional Tags: Crack Treated Seriously, Book 03: The Dragon Reborn
Summary:
Faile has some questions for Loial. Questions about the Horn of Valere.
--Poor Faile, the Horn just gets a backhanded mention when she and zillions of others are all on an epic quest for it!
Also, in wiki wanderings news, Ireland had a Y1K problem.
Happy New Year, and try not to sack Dublin.
WoT and Flashness
Dec. 13th, 2019 06:54 pmToss the Feathers (1191 words)
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Egwene al'Vere, Perrin Aybara
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Book 01: The Eye of the World, Mercy Killing, (perceived)
Summary: They don't find the stedding.
Green Energy Jetpacks (1243 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Aftran 942/Cassie
Characters: Cassie (Animorphs), Aftran 942
Additional Tags: Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Book 29: The Sickness, Fate & Destiny
Summary: Many humans are born with their soulmates' last words to them written on their wrists.
Many aliens think this is very, very weird.
Green Petals (1012 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Leia Organa, Darth Vader
Additional Tags: Marriage of Convenience
Summary: Princess Organa signs her betrothal contract with Lord Vader. She's almost as excited about it as he is.
---
I'm not super proud of some of the iddy tropes/kinks that I'm into, but here we are. It's hard to find a good tag to relate the first two although I feel like they're thematically linked? "Killing someone you care about because the alternative is they imminently will die a much worse death via being eaten by birds/starving and going crazy" is RTMI; "killing someone you care about because they asked you to because they don't want to live without their loved one, don't like being physically disabled etc" is a big DNW. So!
Also, Vader would hate an arranged marriage every bit as much as Leia, it'd be hilarious.
On to book 2 in the reread, there will probably be Verin+Ingtar fic. We get the beginnings of Rand's women issues already:
Fandom: Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Egwene al'Vere, Perrin Aybara
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Book 01: The Eye of the World, Mercy Killing, (perceived)
Summary: They don't find the stedding.
Green Energy Jetpacks (1243 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Aftran 942/Cassie
Characters: Cassie (Animorphs), Aftran 942
Additional Tags: Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Book 29: The Sickness, Fate & Destiny
Summary: Many humans are born with their soulmates' last words to them written on their wrists.
Many aliens think this is very, very weird.
Green Petals (1012 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Leia Organa, Darth Vader
Additional Tags: Marriage of Convenience
Summary: Princess Organa signs her betrothal contract with Lord Vader. She's almost as excited about it as he is.
---
I'm not super proud of some of the iddy tropes/kinks that I'm into, but here we are. It's hard to find a good tag to relate the first two although I feel like they're thematically linked? "Killing someone you care about because the alternative is they imminently will die a much worse death via being eaten by birds/starving and going crazy" is RTMI; "killing someone you care about because they asked you to because they don't want to live without their loved one, don't like being physically disabled etc" is a big DNW. So!
Also, Vader would hate an arranged marriage every bit as much as Leia, it'd be hilarious.
On to book 2 in the reread, there will probably be Verin+Ingtar fic. We get the beginnings of Rand's women issues already:
"better to have one woman on your side than ten men" - Lan, paraphrasing a Borderlander saying
"a man who will not die to save a woman is no man" -Rand to Lanfear, attempting to quote a different Borderlander saying
I feel like...something got lost in translation between these.
I feel like...something got lost in translation between these.
Blade Runner month
Nov. 18th, 2019 06:26 pmMoments in Time (1894 words) by primeideal
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Blade Runner (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Rick Deckard/Rachael
Characters: J.F. Sebastian, Original Characters, Roy Batty, Rachael (Blade Runner), Rick Deckard
Additional Tags: Speculation about Deckard's Species, Spinners, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, (by chapter)
Summary:
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Blade Runner (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Rick Deckard/Rachael
Characters: J.F. Sebastian, Original Characters, Roy Batty, Rachael (Blade Runner), Rick Deckard
Additional Tags: Speculation about Deckard's Species, Spinners, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, (by chapter)
Summary:
Ficlets in honor of "Blade Runner Month" (November 2019).
Hey, something other than the chapters: 1/1 I pretty much auto-delete!Trick or Treat 2019
Nov. 8th, 2019 05:14 pmThe Distant Triumph Song (1750 words)
Fandom: Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: James Dunworthy, Badri Chaudhuri, Kivrin Engle
Additional Tags: Trick or Treat: Trick, Ghosts, All Saints' Day
Summary: “So you’re saying Montoya unearthed a medieval virus,” Kivrin summarized. “And my parents told me my degree would never be good for anything in the real world.”
-
My recip prompted ghost Badri and the "battleship" prompts included All Saints' Day. This was the result.
Lacunae (1473 words)
Fandom: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Severus Snape, Luna Lovegood, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Minerva McGonagall
Additional Tags: Trick or Treat: Treat, Canonical Alternate Universe, Never Have I Ever
Summary:
Fandom: Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: James Dunworthy, Badri Chaudhuri, Kivrin Engle
Additional Tags: Trick or Treat: Trick, Ghosts, All Saints' Day
Summary: “So you’re saying Montoya unearthed a medieval virus,” Kivrin summarized. “And my parents told me my degree would never be good for anything in the real world.”
-
My recip prompted ghost Badri and the "battleship" prompts included All Saints' Day. This was the result.
Lacunae (1473 words)
Fandom: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Severus Snape, Luna Lovegood, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Minerva McGonagall
Additional Tags: Trick or Treat: Treat, Canonical Alternate Universe, Never Have I Ever
Summary:
Severus is persuaded to play a Muggle game. Truths are disclosed.
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A few survivors in the dark timeline of "Cursed Child" play Never Have I Ever. That's basically it.
Unconventional Fanworks Exchange
Oct. 31st, 2019 08:15 pmMe: I'm moving and getting a full-time job, I should not sign up for any more exchanges before Yuletide
Also me: but these format prompts though
Private Bookmarks for User TonyGwynn19
Fandom: Pitch (TV 2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: In-Universe RPF, Documentation
Summary:
Blame It On My Juice(d Balls) (387 words)
Fandom: Pitch (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Twitter
Summary:
The Force of Others (856 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lor San Tekka
Additional Tags: reddit, Documentation, Extra Treat
Summary: My name is Lor San Tekka, ask me anything!
--
Lor does an AMA, pre-The Force Awakens.
In Praise of Poland (1878 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lando Calrissian/Poe Dameron
Characters: Lando Calrissian, Poe Dameron
Additional Tags: Ship Manifesto, Format: Meta, Extra Treat, Embedded Images
Summary:
Guardian of the Wills (702 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO
Characters: Mon Mothma, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Wills, Extra Treat
Summary: Cassian and K-2 left an intangible legacy behind. They also left a literal one.
--
One of those silly and usually morbid "lateral thinking puzzles" is like "A woman killed her husband, the authorities knew about it, but they never did anything. Why?" And the convoluted answer is "they both had children from previous relationships and both hated their stepkids. Then they were in a fatal car accident together. By making sure he died ever so slightly 'before' her, she inherited all his money, and then passed all of hers and his down to her own kids." Which might not actually happen IRL but that's how these puzzles are. And then I was like "...would anyone have even known what order Rogue One died in??"
I was on the fence about making an entire fic out of this idea but then I came up with the title and I figured I had to do it.
Wikipedia: Guidelines for Covering Extraterrestrial Topics (1501 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: wikipedia - Freeform, Documentation, Post-Canon, Extra Treat
Summary:
Also me: but these format prompts though
Private Bookmarks for User TonyGwynn19
Fandom: Pitch (TV 2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: In-Universe RPF, Documentation
Summary:
San Diego Padres RPF is the next big thing in the fanfiction world.
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My recip prompted "what would be the most popular ship? ...it's Mike/Livan, isn't it." And I was like "yep, it sure would be."
Blame It On My Juice(d Balls) (387 words)
Fandom: Pitch (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Twitter
Summary:
#InspectTheBall2K19, and other hashtags
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If Ginny was still pitching in 2019 she'd absolutely be angry about the home run totals and sense a conspiracy theory.
The Force of Others (856 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lor San Tekka
Additional Tags: reddit, Documentation, Extra Treat
Summary: My name is Lor San Tekka, ask me anything!
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Lor does an AMA, pre-The Force Awakens.
In Praise of Poland (1878 words)
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lando Calrissian/Poe Dameron
Characters: Lando Calrissian, Poe Dameron
Additional Tags: Ship Manifesto, Format: Meta, Extra Treat, Embedded Images
Summary:
An exploration of the Star Wars ship Lando Calrissian/Poe Dameron.
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Guardian of the Wills (702 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Cassian Andor/K-2SO
Characters: Mon Mothma, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Wills, Extra Treat
Summary: Cassian and K-2 left an intangible legacy behind. They also left a literal one.
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One of those silly and usually morbid "lateral thinking puzzles" is like "A woman killed her husband, the authorities knew about it, but they never did anything. Why?" And the convoluted answer is "they both had children from previous relationships and both hated their stepkids. Then they were in a fatal car accident together. By making sure he died ever so slightly 'before' her, she inherited all his money, and then passed all of hers and his down to her own kids." Which might not actually happen IRL but that's how these puzzles are. And then I was like "...would anyone have even known what order Rogue One died in??"
I was on the fence about making an entire fic out of this idea but then I came up with the title and I figured I had to do it.
Wikipedia: Guidelines for Covering Extraterrestrial Topics (1501 words)
Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: wikipedia - Freeform, Documentation, Post-Canon, Extra Treat
Summary:
From Wikipedia, the free intergalactic encyclopedia.
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Wikipedia editors arguing over notability guidelines and capitalization standards after the Animorphs' history gets revealed.
Flash fic - Star Wars
Oct. 14th, 2019 08:06 amOrange Dunes, Blue Waves (1679 words)
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker
Additional Tags: Force Ghost(s), Force Visions, That's Not How The Force Works, That's Not How Time Travel Works Either, Grumpy Old Men
Summary: The Force transports Obi-Wan to a remote world called Ahch-To. He's not the only hermit there.
Tags are fun.
The Orange Crystal (1680 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Galen Erso/Bodhi Rook
Characters: Bodhi Rook, Galen Erso
Additional Tags: Soul Stone, Self-Sacrifice Scheme, Crossover by Osmosis, Extra Treat
Summary: Galen is an engineer, meticulously plotting every stroke of his plan. Bodhi is caught in his gravity.
I've never actually seen MCU (actually I've seen one installment, but not a relevant one). I am, however, a sucker for a good convenient plot-induced sacrifice.
I was also amused that these inadvertently came out so close in word count. (I might even have a bonus fic in the same vicinity.)
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker
Additional Tags: Force Ghost(s), Force Visions, That's Not How The Force Works, That's Not How Time Travel Works Either, Grumpy Old Men
Summary: The Force transports Obi-Wan to a remote world called Ahch-To. He's not the only hermit there.
Tags are fun.
The Orange Crystal (1680 words)
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Galen Erso/Bodhi Rook
Characters: Bodhi Rook, Galen Erso
Additional Tags: Soul Stone, Self-Sacrifice Scheme, Crossover by Osmosis, Extra Treat
Summary: Galen is an engineer, meticulously plotting every stroke of his plan. Bodhi is caught in his gravity.
I've never actually seen MCU (actually I've seen one installment, but not a relevant one). I am, however, a sucker for a good convenient plot-induced sacrifice.
I was also amused that these inadvertently came out so close in word count. (I might even have a bonus fic in the same vicinity.)
Flash fic - Original
Oct. 8th, 2019 05:32 pmLook, I have a type.
Gift of the Moon (1706 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Young Couple Lost in the Woods, Eldritch Forest Beings That Demand a Sacrifice
Additional Tags: Human Sacrifice, Nature Which Wants to Eat You
Summary: Two humans cross a river and venture where they do not belong.
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I was stuck on this one for a while and then went "but what if it was from the eldritch forest beings' POV" and that made things happen.
Gift of the Moon (1706 words)
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Young Couple Lost in the Woods, Eldritch Forest Beings That Demand a Sacrifice
Additional Tags: Human Sacrifice, Nature Which Wants to Eat You
Summary: Two humans cross a river and venture where they do not belong.
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I was stuck on this one for a while and then went "but what if it was from the eldritch forest beings' POV" and that made things happen.
The Prince (5740 words)
Fandom: Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types, Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Undisclosed Character(s)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Book 4: The Message
Summary:
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Gift to the AU Exchange collection: I saw some Star Wars characters nominated along with "Animorphs AU" as a freeform, and even though no one requested it couldn't help but brainstorm. This picks up in medias res with the events of book 4 (plus some from another, undisclosed, book)! The characters don't exactly match between the canons 1-1 but there are some parallels and other characterizations that have been altered to fit the setting, and vice versa.
I have lots of ideas for where I might take this but little concrete so don't expect an epic chronicle anytime soon. There might be some Lando/L3 sooner rather than later, though...
Fandom: Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types, Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, Undisclosed Character(s)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Book 4: The Message
Summary:
Leia hears a voice deep beneath the water.
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Gift to the AU Exchange collection: I saw some Star Wars characters nominated along with "Animorphs AU" as a freeform, and even though no one requested it couldn't help but brainstorm. This picks up in medias res with the events of book 4 (plus some from another, undisclosed, book)! The characters don't exactly match between the canons 1-1 but there are some parallels and other characterizations that have been altered to fit the setting, and vice versa.
I have lots of ideas for where I might take this but little concrete so don't expect an epic chronicle anytime soon. There might be some Lando/L3 sooner rather than later, though...
