back to life

The time has come to take off the mask!

But first, let me rec the three (3!!!) gifts I received this year.

dulce et decorum est (1116 words) by tinuviel_tinuviel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Caspian & Peter Pevensie
Characters: Caspian (Narnia), Peter Pevensie
Additional Tags: Missing Scene
Summary:

One night on watch at Aslan's How, Caspian talks to the High King.

A missing scene from the Prince Caspian movie! Okay, words cannot express how delighted I was to see this fic. My first Yuletide I got a Prince Caspian fic, so this closed the circle. More importantly, it was such a good look at Peter from Caspian's POV, with some interesting questions raised, that couldn't really be answered. ♥♥♥


if it's okay with you, it's okay with me (4253 words) by SuburbanSun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: evermore - Taylor Swift (Album)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Original Character(s), Based on a Taylor Swift Song, Song: 'tis the damn season (Taylor Swift), Album: evermore (Taylor Swift), Yuletide 2023, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Aspiring actress Gwen is visiting her hometown for the first time after ten years in LA, and a run-in with her high school boyfriend at the coffee shop leads to something more.

The first of two evermore fics I received! So my request on this was "No character nominated here, so go wild with this one! Write me a story about any of the songs; write me a story about all of them!" This is a fic about one song, 'Tis The Damn Season, and it's amazing! SuburbanSun crafts some amazing characters from the lyrics, and puts them in a story with so much heart, so much history, and so much personality -- I loved it! ♥♥♥


to wander deeper (2867 words) by vialethe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: evermore - Taylor Swift (Album)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Dorothea (evermore - Taylor Swift)/Original Female Character(s), Original Female Character/Original Male Character
Characters: Dorothea (evermore - Taylor Swift), Dorothea's Narrator (evermore - Taylor Swift), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: POV Second Person, Based on a Taylor Swift Song, all of them on this album in fact, Fairy Tale Elements, Vignette
Summary:

Maybe you're a witch in the woods. Or an old high school sweetheart. A fairytale princess, or a loving grandmother.

It's a deep wood, with many stories. The truth is what you make of it.

And this one hits the second part of the request, a story about ALL of the songs. This weaves all the songs together into vignettes, tied together with magic. vialethe (I KNEW IT!) takes the reader into each song, a quick but deep dive that feels even more intimate with the use of second person POV. Gorgeous language and gorgeous imagery, some heartbreak and some hope. ♥♥♥


And the one I wrote:

Applaud Aurora Seen (3600 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Northern Exposure
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Joel Fleischman, Maggie O'Connell, Chris Stevens, Marilyn Whirlwind, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Magical Realism, everything is better with a robot dog
Summary:

Did you know that January is a bad time to see the Northern Lights in Alaska, even though it’s near total darkness? Because the weather is so bad, the aurora is often hidden in the sky.

A rock band gets stranded in Cicely while looking for the Northern Lights. They have a robot dog, but he's not even the weirdest part of their story. Welcome to Cicely, Even the Odds.

for feroxargentea, who wanted early season Northern Exposure, featuring Maggie and Joel, and some magical realism. They mentioned a celebrity visiting Cicely, so I decided on a rock band (with a robot dog) getting lost on their way to see the Northern Lights. Weirdness ensues, as it always did in Cicely, but funny (I hope!), gentle weirdness, the kind that seems to happen on the daily with NE. I had a lot of fun writing it, and I was glad my recip liked it!

I did not sign up for Yuletide this year as I am still in Yuletide jail (for the crime of defaulting after deadline some Yultides ago).

HOWEVER, I did write a treat, which I can now reveal to you!

There is a wedding. And you must attend. (1480 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Winternight Series - Katherine Arden
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Morozko/Vasilisa Petrovna
Characters: Morozko (Winternight Series), Vasilisa Petrovna
Additional Tags: Wedding Fluff, Family Reunions, Treat
Summary:

"What is it you want, Vasya?" He cannot imagine what it could be, what she cannot say to him, after all this time.

 

She clears her throat, and leans in close as she whispers, "A proper wedding. With my family."

 

You are cordially invited to the wedding of Vasilisa Petrovna and Morozko, the Winter King.

I read this trilogy this past year, and I'm kind of obsessed? Historical Russian fantasy, SIGN ME UP! Luckily my friend vialethe ALSO is kind of obsessed by these books, and made them one of her Yuletide requests, naming Vasya and Morozko! Among the things she asked for:

-A wedding between the two of them would be incredible - where would they hold it? In Midnight? At Morozko's house that is and isn't really there? At Baba Yaga's? Who would attend? Vasya's human family? All the horses? Medved?? The possibilities are endless and amazing. I can see anything from a rather human ceremony (if Olga got wind of it) to a quiet moment on the lake between just the two of them.

I figured I could pull that off! And I think I did? I wanted to get all the characters she loved into it, so I thought a wedding would be the best way for them all to show up. It's short, though, and it's mainly cameo appearances lol, but I loved thinking of all the ways they could attend the wedding.

I had a really crazy month of December and I wasn't sure I could actually finish and post it, but I did! Early in the morning of December 25th, because I am nothing if not last minute about things. :D So I wish it was a bit longer, but I had not time. And I think it worked quite well for a bit of wedding fluff. I did try to get the feel of the Winternight Trilogy in there -- they had to get married in the snow, of course, and the wedding felt like a dream, since so much of canon felt dreamlike to me.

Also, Medved wrote the wedding invites. :D

Anyway, vialethe was happy! And other people liked it as well, so it was a success by my measure of Yuletide.

AND now I am out of Yuletide jail! I think! We'll see if I can sign up next year, lol.

A million years ago I was writing a Narnia/ASOIAF crossover where Susan Pevensie ended up at The Wall with Jon Snow. I had some plotting issues so I put it away, but now I have come up with ideas to solve them! So I started writing and rewriting!

At one point while discussing my dilemmas with this fic, True Frand honey_wheeler suggested Jon and Susan have a threesome with Val. Because threesomes make things better, and shake up the plot! Also yay porn!

So this is... not that, but a set-up for that. ( Porn AND feels, what more can anyone ask for? )

This was a great exchange! Hurt/Comfort = HURT ME SO GOOD.

I received this fantastic gift:

Securis (8608 words) by lirin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Edmund Pevensie & Peter Pevensie
Characters: Peter Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Time Travel, Ettinsmoor
Summary:

Peter awoke in a grassy valley with several cracked ribs, still clutching Edmund's bacon and egg sandwich in his hand.

It combines two of my favorite things: Narnia and time travel, and ties them up in a nice little H/C package! It's a fun story, and a very clever way to have one of the Pevensies travel back to Narnia.


And I wrote:

strings of tension, waiting to be struck (9676 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Edmund Pevensie/Sansa Stark
Characters: Edmund Pevensie, Sansa Stark, Robb Stark, Jon Snow, Susan Pevensie, Original Characters (Narnia)
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Arranged Marriage, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Intimacy, Worldbuilding
Summary:

Queen Susan of Narnia has journeyed to Westeros to broker an alliance, and hopefully a betrothal. She's successful, but the betrothal is between Edmund Pevensie and Sansa Stark, and both are wary of this match. But as battle looms, and they get to know each other, it's possible this may work out after all.

Yes, a Narnia/ASOIAF crossover, which is right up my alley. I had so much fun writing this story, taking the Narnian characters and putting them into Westeros. Alas that I am such a slow writer, because I feel like I could have written 10000 more words in this crossover.


The archive is here, and there's some really good stuff, so go! read! now! :D

I posted two stories to AO3 last night! I am now attempting to keep track of such things here!

They were cross-postings from tumblr, based on submitted prompts. If you like minor ASOIAF characters and crack pairings, you might like these!

First, a ficlet:

things you said after you kissed me (451 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur Dayne/Lyanna Stark
Characters: Arthur Dayne, Lyanna Stark
Additional Tags: Tumblr Prompt, Prompt Fic, Alternate Universe, Ficlet
Summary:

Lyanna and Arthur may regret their impulsive act, but they wouldn't change it.

And then a short fic:

Adventures to Come (1342 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur Dayne & Ashara Dayne
Characters: Arthur Dayne, Ashara Dayne
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Sibling Bonding, Family Fluff, Prompt Fic, Originally Posted on Tumblr
Summary:

Ashara and Arthur Dayne before they ever left home.

You know, having not used my journal for so long, I kind of forgot about crossposting fic and photosets here. :D

But here's something I did in December for gameofshipschallenges' Until Hell Freezes Over:

Waiting on a Sunny Day (1028 words) by Snacky
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jon Snow/Val
Characters: Jon Snow, Val (ASoIaF)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Road Trips, Modern Westeros, Originally Posted on Tumblr, Art, Photoset
Series: Part 4 of Leave This Town and Run Forever (Roadtrip AU)
Summary:

Val and Jon head to the beach.

Created for @gameofshipschallenges‘ Until Hell Freezes Over, 2016

Unfortunately I had to drop out of Yuletide this year, but. BUT! I STILL GOT THE GREATEST STORY IN THE WORLD!

No, your story isn't greater. Yes, I will fight you on this -- which is appropriate, because my story features a fight:

This Fic Has Everything (2140 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live RPF, Pundit & Broadcast Journalist RPF (US)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Seth Meyers/Stefon
Characters: Seth Meyers, Stefon (Saturday Night Live), Anderson Cooper
Additional Tags: Boxing & Fisticuffs, Clubbing, Drinking, Yuletide
Summary:

The fic that answers the question: why aren't there more fics where Seth Meyers fights Anderson Cooper for Stefon's love? Featuring Viola Gayvis, the broken bottle firewalk down the block from the Port Authority, the promoter duo of Don King and Don Lemon, and MTV's Dan Cortese.

Holy smokes! This fic truly lives up to its title. If you, like me, love Stefon and Seth Meyers, DO NOT HESITATE! Read this immediately because you will laugh your ass off, guaranteed! And then give the anonymous writer all the praise and kudos they deserve because this is the most fabulous Yuletide fic EVER.

give me the thing i understand
Narnia/Silmarillion, Susan/Maglor, crack, crossover

Prompt fic, for this prompt: a sexy touch in a not necessarily sexy place. Another Susan/Maglor ficlet for vialethe!

( She loves to watch his hands move on the keys... )

On AO3

The Narnia Fic Exchange stories went live today. It's a week before the authors are revealed, and if you want to try to guess what story I wrote, I will write you a ficlet of your choice (fandom/pairing I am familiar with) if you guess correctly! Find the stories here! :D

And if you feel like trying your hand at some Narnia fic, you can participate in NFE Madness! Pick from the prompts here, and post your story to this collection. You have a week to write a story (or stories!) and post them, and there is no length requirement! They will be revealed next Sunday.

Shall we have a meme?

Pick a line, and a pairing, for a microfic!

“Well that could have gone better.”
“I hope you know what you’re doing.”
“Does that hurt? It looks like it hurts.”
“He put you up to this, didn’t he?” (Alt, she/they)
“Are you kidding me? We are not ‘fine’!”
“Come out. Please.”
“Get it off, GET IT OFF!”
“I just wanted to see you.”
“Can I help?”
“I might reconsider, if…”
“This doesn’t feel right.”
“Do you want to like, go get a coffee?”
“So, come here often?”
“Maybe it would be better if we just stopped.”
“This is hard enough without you doing that.”
“I don’t want to have a baby.”
“Well no one asked me.”
“I’m not being paranoid!”
“Put me down for ‘no.”
“What do you remember?”
“Well, what did they say about me?”
“I told you this was a bad idea.”
“Oh relax, we’ll be fine.”
“Why didn’t you?”
“Are… are you cooking?”