Nanni

I finished and published four stories this year! Mostly for exchanges, which I did several of! ...And whom I kept matching up with Guinevak for.

Title: Mme C- and the Strange Seas of Europa
Author: Tiamat’s Child
Fandom: The Comfortable Courtesan
Word Count:
Rating: General Audiences
Characters/Pairing: Madame C & The Marquess of B - Aubrey Bexbury (The Comfortable Courtesan)Madame C-/Mr F-/Mrs F-
Summary: In which they prepare to venture across the icy shell of the world, and every passage means much.
Warnings: None.
Notes: Written for guinevak, for the Chocolate Box Exchange Round 5

Mme C- and the Strange Seas of Europa on AO3

First Line: When Marcello had gone to bespeak the party a gas balloon with a traveller's carriage slung beneath it – for he did not trust any of the party except the Marquess to reliably perform this feat, being mere tourists all, and the Marquess he would not currently suffer to undertake any task even as tiring as negotiation with a semi-sapient AI juice bar – Aubrey turned to Clorinda and said, “I had no real expectation, when last I was here, at this port, of ever seeing dear old Europa again.”

Title: Keep Other Times
Author: Tiamat’s Child
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Word Count:
Rating: General Audiences
Characters/Pairing: Jyn Erso & Cassian Andor
Summary: Jyn takes a middle of the night nap in Cassian's bunk. She's always been able to sleep anywhere, but it's good to get a chance to rest somewhere where rest is easy.
Warnings: None.
Notes: For guinevak, for the Aromantic Characters Exchange.

Keep Other Times on Ao3

First Line: Jyn woke up over warm.

Title: With Feelings a Hundredfold
Author: Tiamat’s Child
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Word Count:
Rating: Mature
Characters/Pairing: Luò Bīnghé/Shěn Yuán | Shěn Qīngqiū
Summary: Luo Binghe said some things the other night, while doing a few other things, and Shen Qingqiu can't quite get them out of his head. So he's going to ask! Today! This very hour!

Shen Qingqiu is going to communicate if it kills him! (Which it won't. He is very aware of that. If squirming embarrassment were regularly fatal, he'd have died many more than three times to date.)
Warnings: Kink negotiation, discussion of rough oral sex.
Notes: Written for Remix Revival 2020. Inspired by Evonius's oral Exercise.

First Line: Shen Qingqiu asked over tea.

Title: In a Room Together
Author: Tiamat’s Child
Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Word Count:
Rating: Explicit
Characters/Pairing: Jyn Erso/Bodhi Rook
Summary: Jyn and Bodhi take some time to explore. Each other, and what they want.
Warnings: None.

In A Room Together

First Line: ( Under a cut because it's somewhat NSFW )

Maelstrom and Gyre, Transformers G1

Maelstrom and Gyre are a pair of twins who got the bad and creepy end of what should have been a fairly routine labor contract. They broke it the first chance they got and, through a complex series of misadventures the details of which I am still pretty hazy on (I have several ideas about what might have happened, but I haven't pinned down any solid thoughts or written anything) they ended up in a position to get fished out of the path of an oncoming storm, refuelled, and put up for the night by Cheerly. Maelstrom, who is their self appointed spokesperson and also the one who's more likely to break your fingers, took the night to think and talk it over with Gyre, and in the morning told Cheerly that they had no where to go, no prospect of anywhere to go, and no job or any prospect of one.

( Cut for length )

Moraine, Transformers G1

Okay, let's talk Moraine.

...I honestly didn't intend Moraine to turn up so often in my fic. She was initially just a walk on to move the plot (such as it was) along. She walked on. She walked off. She went backstage and metaphorically made cocoa and refused to leave.

( Weird little alien robot academics unite )

Agape of Chalcis, Doctor Who

Agape is that much maligned being, an original Companion. But she's not the Doctor's companion, she's Susan Foreman's! She and Susan wander around time and space, generally extremely lost, often with other people along as well, attempting to tend and nurture and heal an underage, undersized, and extremely traumatized former child soldier TARDIS, one of the few survivors of the Time War. There is a lot of tea drunk, a lot of places to stay begged (when the TARDIS panics it tends to kick them out and then shrink so small no one can get in), and a lot of weird mysteries to be investigated and days to be saved.

( More under cut )

Clarissant of Orkney and Lothian, Arthuriana

Technically Clarissant isn't an OC in the same sense as some of my others are. She does exist in Chretien, where she appears in one of his unfinished stories as a woman who was born to a dead mother in what may or may not be the land of the dead. (Probably there would have been some kind of reveal, but Chretien died when the story was maybe a third of the way on its way, so whatever was going on there remains mysterious.) But basically I did what so many an Arthurian storyteller has done, and while pretending I was merely embellishing on what was already there I uh.

Basically created a whole new character. *coughs *

( Lots more under cut )

Give me a character, pairing, or fandom, and I will give you three folklore archetypes or specific stories that would make a good fairytale au for it.

With the help of Folktexts:Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts!

Tumblr is fun for memes too, but I still really like them in posts with threadable comments best.

Haven't done one here in ages, so! Leave me a ship in a comment and I will rate it -

nope nope nopers / no thank you / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying / i will ship them in hell

With reasoning!

I thought I'd at least try this year.

Day 1

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

Deposition (Fullmetal Alchemist, Scar, Marcoh, background Yoki, numerous OCs, non-explicit violence) is a story that's utterly me and I'm proud of it. It has characters who mirror each other, multiple stories within a story told by multiple people, original characters galore, boatloads of sensory detail, people working very hard to be gentle with each other, shared (though differing) trauma, a young woman who's on a Quest that's likely to take up the rest of her life, powerful platonic relationships between men and women, and a queer love story acting as a given in the background. It's about grieving and loss, as so many of my stories are. (And it was pretty obviously written by someone who spends way too much time reading oral histories.)

Every Happy Family Is Happy In Its Own Way (Princess Tutu, Ahiru, Fakir, ensemble, incredibly spoilery) is a story that came straight from my id after I rewatched the series and, as usual, sobbed myself sore over kind of a lot of it. Despite being born from all the cathartic crying not being quite cathartic enough I think it's good. It lacks a plot, although it does have a discernible emotional arc and cause and effect is in force, because I partly wanted to explore how you write a story about a fairy tale/opera world that is all about the plot once there is no plot anymore. I didn't want it to have a plot. It shouldn't have a plot. There is no more plot! Things just happen. It's about telling stories, again, and grief, and learning not to hate yourself for everything, and dance as a shared language, and friendship, and distinctly unconventional love affairs, and being who you really are and that being just fine. Just fine.

Come Slowly (Dragon of the Lost Sea, Shimmer/Thorn) is, again, about stories and communication and grief and going ahead and loving people even when doing so is scary and hard. Thorn and Shimmer have one of my favorite relationships ever - it's loving and prickly and intense. This story is post-canon and a little spoilery, but mostly it's drenched in sensory imagery and is all about Thorn's idea of decadence, which mostly involves people caring about him, valuing him, and actually showing it. Like the other two it involves somewhat unconventional domesticity, hospitality, and intensely driven women.

It's international book week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your post.

They could have attempted to mold him into an obedient citizen, or to frighten him into lawful conduct or, at least, to prevent him, if for only a limited period, from injuring the community.