Yuletide!!
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neveralarchHappy New Year! I started writing fic in 2010 and also started doing Yuletide in 2010, so it's now been a decade :) Always one of my favorite things about December.
For Yuletide this year I was gifted this amazing fic:
How I Spent My Vacation Between Survey Missions (3727 words) by Satchelfoot
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Asshole Research Transport (Murderbot Diaries)
Summary:What happens when ART reunites with Murderbot during another break between research survey missions? Media gets viewed, of course, but there might also be some bad news for more shady corporations.
It's a fun little adventure about two characters who were made by humans but don't entirely understand how humans think, trying to figure out how firendship works. I loved it!! It also looks like Satchelfoot maybe picked me up as a pinch hit, which I so so so appreciate. What a good Yuletide.
I wrote 11 fics, as usual - though I'm reconsidering this tradition a little, haha. Christmas Eve turned into a pretty late night for me. My main fic is:
Worthy of Attention (2563 words) for Xochiquetzl
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Gem of Sphene & Zeiat (Imperial Radch)
Characters: Gem of Sphene (Imperial Radch), Zeiat (Imperial Radch), Queter (Imperial Radch)
Summary: Sphene has a new captain. Ambassador Zeiat isn't sure what to think about that.
I struggled with this quite a bit and actually ended up writing half of a different plot before starting over, but I'm happy with what I ended up with :) This is, coincidentally, also a fic of two not-really human people trying to figure out how friendship works. This might be, uh, symptomatic of the whole Transformers thing that's been happening over here all year.
Good Morning (1132 words) for Griddlebone
Fandom: Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Gideon Nav & Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Additional Tags: getting swole
Summary: Gideon's Guide to Doing Some Push-Ups, At Least, Have You Never Used Your Arms, Nonagesimus?
Allow me to evangelize for a minute: Gideon the Ninth is a really, really, fun book, and also, very sad. I tried to lean into the fun part more for this, but it maybe got a little melancholy in places, haha.
Nero Wolfe's Caffeine Agency (1386 words) for Nestra
Fandom: Nero Wolfe - Rex Stout
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Archie Goodwin/Saul Panzer
Characters: Archie Goodwin, Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin, Nero Wolfe, Fritz Brenner
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés
Summary: At five fifty-three AM exactly, I was cleaning the heads of the espresso machine and arguing with Fred Durkin. Normally five fifty-three AM is a time of night that I don't see except to roll over in bed, but that morning I had maneuvered my way into opening the coffee shop for a very particular reason which Fred was obstructing.
I think I've spent my entire life preparing to write this fic - or at least all the many hours I spent either reading Nero Wolfe novels or working with an espresso machine.
A Narrative History of the Home Run (1031 words) for mayhap
Fandom: An Oral History Of The 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (ClickHole Article)
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Willie Mays, Barry Bonds
Summary: Willie Mays invented the home run.
Please read that ClickHole article, it's SO fun.
The Way You Make Me Feel (1379 words) for angelheadedhipster
Fandom: Hustlers (2019)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Destiny (Hustlers)/Ramona Vega
Additional Tags: Mommy Kink, Lapdance, Vaginal Fingering
Summary: Destiny and Ramona have a sleepover.
I've been wanting to write Ramona/Destiny sex ever since I watched this brilliant movie. It was still very weird to write explicit fic with real human body parts, I'm so out of practice.
Century Egg (1030 words) for james
Fandom: Inspector Chen - Liz William
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Chen Wei/Inari/Zhu Irzh, Chen Wei/Inari
Additional Tags: Getting Together
Summary: Chen Wei is a model detective. He has the favor of a goddess and the blessings of his superiors. He brings packed lunches to work. He loves a demon wife.
Zhu Irzh wants that.
This prompt pushed me to finish a fic I started forever ago! Or, really, it was a few scribbled lines in a notepad document. But it felt really good to get this out there.
Tincture (1069 words) for notkingyet
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: John Childermass, Gilbert Norrell
Additional Tags: Illnesses, Hurt/Comfort, (but only barely)
Summary: Childermass was ill. His nose was clogged, his head felt like it was full of cotton, and his throat was full of sandpaper. If he was a wealthy man, he might have rolled over in bed and written the day off as a loss.
Unfortunately, there were no days off from being Mr. Gilbert Norrell's right hand.
I just. Love writing mild illnesses and people being bad at comforting.
Hewn Through the Rock (495 words) for 20thcenturyvole
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Beverley Brook/Peter Grant
Characters: Beverley Brook
Additional Tags: Post-Book: Lies Sleeping
Summary: Beverley runs an errand.
I wrote a lot of my old book fandoms this year, because, I consumed almost no new media :p But Rivers of London is always so fun and comfortable to write.
Butterflies (415 words) for Seiya234
Fandom: Matthew Swift Series - Kate Griffin
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Rhys Ellis/Sharon Li
Additional Tags: Post-Book: The Glass God
Summary: One of the odd things about saving the Midnight Mayor, or London, or, possibly, the world, is that life just keeps happening when you're done.
See above note, haha. I miss the Matthew Swift books so much!! I want a new Sharon Li adventure...
In All Its Guises (487 words) for tangentti
Fandom: The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: The Myriad (The Raven Tower)
Summary: Here is a story. Some part of it is probably true.
Oh, this one is a new fandom! I really liked the Raven Tower, highly recommended if you like (surprise) non-human characters trying to understand friendship.
Rest in the Grass (562 words) for malachibi
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: AU Post All Systems Red
Summary: It was a hard decision, going home with Dr. Mensah after she bought my contract.
Murderbot figures out what comes next.
I also wrote Murderbot fic! A good bookend to my Yuletide :)
I hope you also had fun, if you did Yuletide! And if you didn't, please feel free to ask me more about the exchange - it's my favorite fic event of the year, and I'm always happy to talk about it.
For Yuletide this year I was gifted this amazing fic:
How I Spent My Vacation Between Survey Missions (3727 words) by Satchelfoot
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Asshole Research Transport (Murderbot Diaries)
Summary:What happens when ART reunites with Murderbot during another break between research survey missions? Media gets viewed, of course, but there might also be some bad news for more shady corporations.
It's a fun little adventure about two characters who were made by humans but don't entirely understand how humans think, trying to figure out how firendship works. I loved it!! It also looks like Satchelfoot maybe picked me up as a pinch hit, which I so so so appreciate. What a good Yuletide.
I wrote 11 fics, as usual - though I'm reconsidering this tradition a little, haha. Christmas Eve turned into a pretty late night for me. My main fic is:
Worthy of Attention (2563 words) for Xochiquetzl
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Gem of Sphene & Zeiat (Imperial Radch)
Characters: Gem of Sphene (Imperial Radch), Zeiat (Imperial Radch), Queter (Imperial Radch)
Summary: Sphene has a new captain. Ambassador Zeiat isn't sure what to think about that.
I struggled with this quite a bit and actually ended up writing half of a different plot before starting over, but I'm happy with what I ended up with :) This is, coincidentally, also a fic of two not-really human people trying to figure out how friendship works. This might be, uh, symptomatic of the whole Transformers thing that's been happening over here all year.
Good Morning (1132 words) for Griddlebone
Fandom: Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Gideon Nav & Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Additional Tags: getting swole
Summary: Gideon's Guide to Doing Some Push-Ups, At Least, Have You Never Used Your Arms, Nonagesimus?
Allow me to evangelize for a minute: Gideon the Ninth is a really, really, fun book, and also, very sad. I tried to lean into the fun part more for this, but it maybe got a little melancholy in places, haha.
Nero Wolfe's Caffeine Agency (1386 words) for Nestra
Fandom: Nero Wolfe - Rex Stout
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Archie Goodwin/Saul Panzer
Characters: Archie Goodwin, Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin, Nero Wolfe, Fritz Brenner
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés
Summary: At five fifty-three AM exactly, I was cleaning the heads of the espresso machine and arguing with Fred Durkin. Normally five fifty-three AM is a time of night that I don't see except to roll over in bed, but that morning I had maneuvered my way into opening the coffee shop for a very particular reason which Fred was obstructing.
I think I've spent my entire life preparing to write this fic - or at least all the many hours I spent either reading Nero Wolfe novels or working with an espresso machine.
A Narrative History of the Home Run (1031 words) for mayhap
Fandom: An Oral History Of The 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (ClickHole Article)
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Willie Mays, Barry Bonds
Summary: Willie Mays invented the home run.
Please read that ClickHole article, it's SO fun.
The Way You Make Me Feel (1379 words) for angelheadedhipster
Fandom: Hustlers (2019)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Destiny (Hustlers)/Ramona Vega
Additional Tags: Mommy Kink, Lapdance, Vaginal Fingering
Summary: Destiny and Ramona have a sleepover.
I've been wanting to write Ramona/Destiny sex ever since I watched this brilliant movie. It was still very weird to write explicit fic with real human body parts, I'm so out of practice.
Century Egg (1030 words) for james
Fandom: Inspector Chen - Liz William
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Chen Wei/Inari/Zhu Irzh, Chen Wei/Inari
Additional Tags: Getting Together
Summary: Chen Wei is a model detective. He has the favor of a goddess and the blessings of his superiors. He brings packed lunches to work. He loves a demon wife.
Zhu Irzh wants that.
This prompt pushed me to finish a fic I started forever ago! Or, really, it was a few scribbled lines in a notepad document. But it felt really good to get this out there.
Tincture (1069 words) for notkingyet
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: John Childermass, Gilbert Norrell
Additional Tags: Illnesses, Hurt/Comfort, (but only barely)
Summary: Childermass was ill. His nose was clogged, his head felt like it was full of cotton, and his throat was full of sandpaper. If he was a wealthy man, he might have rolled over in bed and written the day off as a loss.
Unfortunately, there were no days off from being Mr. Gilbert Norrell's right hand.
I just. Love writing mild illnesses and people being bad at comforting.
Hewn Through the Rock (495 words) for 20thcenturyvole
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Beverley Brook/Peter Grant
Characters: Beverley Brook
Additional Tags: Post-Book: Lies Sleeping
Summary: Beverley runs an errand.
I wrote a lot of my old book fandoms this year, because, I consumed almost no new media :p But Rivers of London is always so fun and comfortable to write.
Butterflies (415 words) for Seiya234
Fandom: Matthew Swift Series - Kate Griffin
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Rhys Ellis/Sharon Li
Additional Tags: Post-Book: The Glass God
Summary: One of the odd things about saving the Midnight Mayor, or London, or, possibly, the world, is that life just keeps happening when you're done.
See above note, haha. I miss the Matthew Swift books so much!! I want a new Sharon Li adventure...
In All Its Guises (487 words) for tangentti
Fandom: The Raven Tower - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: The Myriad (The Raven Tower)
Summary: Here is a story. Some part of it is probably true.
Oh, this one is a new fandom! I really liked the Raven Tower, highly recommended if you like (surprise) non-human characters trying to understand friendship.
Rest in the Grass (562 words) for malachibi
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: AU Post All Systems Red
Summary: It was a hard decision, going home with Dr. Mensah after she bought my contract.
Murderbot figures out what comes next.
I also wrote Murderbot fic! A good bookend to my Yuletide :)
I hope you also had fun, if you did Yuletide! And if you didn't, please feel free to ask me more about the exchange - it's my favorite fic event of the year, and I'm always happy to talk about it.
