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For jukebox fest, I wrote Look Beyond for merfilly. It's based on Hazard by Richard Marx (the link is to the music video on youtube).

And now, what I wrote for rarewomen:

All Hands and Doors for opalmatrix. It's a missing scene from book three of the Chronicles of the Kencyrath, and I'm afraid not terribly accessible if you're not familiar with canon--which hardly anyone is. But I'm reasonably happy with how it turned out, and opalmatrix seemed to like it, which is the important thing.

I (in addition to three other people) also wrote a last-minute pinch-hit for talibusorabat: Asami Sato's Special Occasion. It's post-series Asami (mostly) gen, with appearances by Tahno and Hiroshi, and it's a sequel of sorts to Asami Sato's New Digs, although you don't have to read the latter to enjoy the former.

I don't think I'm going to win rarewomen this year (I totally won rarewomen last year) but on the whole I'm not displeased.

“Let me just turn the camera off,” said Lizzie.

“Very well,” said Darcy.

END

For those of you who don't know, purimgifts is an exchange of short fic (300-1000 words, although if you post installments of the same story over the three days of posting you can get up to 3000 words) and graphics. It's focused on female characters, Jewish characters, and characters persecuted by evil viziers; it's fast-paced, often silly, and slightly manic; and now it's over and reveals have happened. So I can tell you that opalmatrix made me the following gifts:

A Heart at My Command: Amy/Quentin from Cyteen. Solidly physical and atmospheric and lovely.

She's Not There: Flower-in-the-Night/Abdullah from Castle in the Air. Magic spells! Married love! Problem-solving-skills! Flowery dialogue! (Some people apparently find Abdullah's speech patterns annoying but I love them okay.)

To the Top: Anthea Tesdinic from Conrad's Fate. OMG she actually drew me Anthea's fashion designs (with accompanying fashion-reporter commentary); I requested that but never expected it! (I want the blue one.)

I will post about my stories and some other stuff I liked later.

So, yuletide reveals happened . . . almost a week ago . . . so it can now be told that I wrote Constant for el_staplador. The fandom is The Count of Monte Cristo, and the story itself is a character study of Fernand Mondego, thus continuing my yuletide tradition of justifying the ways of assholes to fans. (Last year I wrote Rounded With a Sleep, about Jordan Warrick. It's not my fault, I just keep getting these assignments! They're fun, though, maybe next year to keep up my streak I should only offer characters who are jerks.)

Also, it was imaginary_golux's birthday. Golux is a fellow fan of twisted fairy tales, so I wrote her The Queen's Favorite, which retells the story of the princess and her servant on the road from Grimm's "The Goose Girl," with more rape. (I didn't put that subtext in there, I swear.) Warning: there is rape.

So, in other news, I'm giving up on posting fic to lj, at least for the moment. Linking to stories on AO3 is just as good for most people, I think, and less work. So! Here are some stories I've written recently (or not-so-recently) and never got around to posting on lj:

Bonebreaker

Legend of Korra, Bolin, 450 words, PG-13
AU where Bolin is more involved in the triads than he was in canon.
Warning: violence

Let it Snow

Legend of Korra, Bolin/Iroh, 600 words, PG
Pure fluff. I am ashamed of the title, but it's too late to change it.

The Element of Freedom

Legend of Korra, Air Family, 3,400 words, G
The one where the air family goes to the Northern Air Temple to investigate claims of airbending there.

Sifu's Pet

Legend of Korra, Asami/Korra, 25,000 words, NC-17
Porn! Lots and lots of filthy porn. Read the tags on AO3 for warnings.

Heart and Home

Legend of Korra, Bolin/Iroh, 2,200 words, PG
More fluff. Also features Pabu.

What He Hath Made Crooked

Bible, Joash son of Ahaziah, 1,200 words, PG-13
Aren't you glad I didn't say Legend of Korra? The one where Joash is the author of the book of Ecclesiastes, and also a woman.

Broh Week Drabbles

Fandom: Avatar: Legend of Korra

Relationship: Bolin/Iroh

Rating: PG

Word count: 700

Summary: A series of drabbles I wrote for Broh Week over on tumblr. There was a different prompt for each day: Comfort, Protection, Devotion, Rumors, Charming, Oblivious, and Bolin and Iroh tell everyone the truth about their relationship, respectively. I tried to take the prompts in a slightly different direction than the obvious one?

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I wrote this (in a tearing hurry) for a contest on tumblr, I might as well post it here too. I must say, it's weird being in a big, active fandom, even if I'm basically on the fringes of it.

Shy

Fandom: Avatar: Legend of Korra

Pairing: Bolin/Iroh

Rating: PG

Word count: 1,200

Summary: It wasn't that Bolin was shy. It wasn't that Iroh was intimidating—although, all right, he commanded all those ships and could practically fly using firebending and they said he once punched a bomb—but Bolin had been shot down by the Avatar. After that, the commander of the United Forces and possible heir to the Fire Throne was small potatoes. Like those ones they served at Foggy Swamp Tribe restaurants, with the crisp jackets and the buttery texture underneath when you peeled them off.

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Because Chrestomanci fandom is just too darn active nowadays, I've decided to have a go at a different completely-dead-except-for-Yuletide fandom.

No, actually, I recently read Meredith Ann Pierce's Darkangel Trilogy and really enjoyed it. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but if it is your kind of thing you will like it. That's an even less helpful statement than you might think, because it is unlike just about everything out there--for instance, despite what the packaging on the edition I read would have you believe, it is definitely not medievally vampire romance.

Anyway! In a series where women and the relationships between women are very prominent, I seem to have written slash between two dudes who never interact in canon. I feel like one of those misogynistic slash fangirls everyone always complains about. I am a bit embarrassed, but I'm not sorry.

Pilgrim's Road to Crystalglass

Fandom: Meredith Ann Pierce, Darkangel Trilogy

Pairing: Roshka/Irrylath

Rating: PG-13

Word count: 3,800

Summary: Some said the pilgrim's call had first gone out when the Aeriel arrived in Crystalglass. In truth, the call had come upon the world so gradually that no one could say for certain how it had started, only that they heard it now. Not a compulsion, but a constant reminder: Help is here. Everything that moved in the world felt the call, and knew where to find Crystalglass at need.

Irrylath goes to Crystalglass. Roshka goes with him.

Warning: Allusions to rape and sexual abuse of minors, both canonical and extrapolated.

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Cordelia's Reply to Ezar

Fandom: The Vorkosigan Saga

Characters: Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan, Ezar Vorbarra

Rating: G

Word count: 130

Summary: My Bible says the meek are blessed
Your planet kills and eats the flawed—
But he who laughs the last laughs best

Cordelia replies to Ezar's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd.

Note: I thought since Cordelia isn't Barrayaran, she should use a different poetic form.

This one's for: bracketyjack

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