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verushka70So FRTDNEATJ my output hasn't been great fic-wise the last year, and for the same 2023 reasons, I never did my 2022 fic roundup in 2023 (and I also didn't post any of it to the ds-noticeboard DW, sigh). I thought I'd better get that outta the way (& kill a Fannish Fifty while I'm at it, since it's about fanfic).
The other thing is, I officially joined The Fannish Fifty challenge... Butride_4ever and I'd already started our own unofficial FF (Fannish Fifty) in January... So this is my fourth FF post by our unofficial count, but my first official FF post. Good thing this math isn't complicated (actually, it's arithmetic), because I've hated math ever since 70s public school math fucked me up... I'll just subtract 4 from the unofficial FF post count to arrive at the official FF post count.
Looking back over these fics, I realize I didn't write a lot of fic, but I wrote a lot more words than I realized. (I love but also curse my longfic-/verbosity-loving fic muse... And all my damned plot bunnies.) And although I'm uncomfortably aware of my tendency towards long-winded-ness in fic (which leads to many unfinished WIPs), I surprised myself: 28,086 words (28,462 - 376 words of author notes in chapter 2 of my Casablanca fic ) words across 3 fics in 2023, and 38,442 words across 7 fics (4 of which were sub-300 word snippets) in 2022 was actually a lot more than I thought I wrote. (All figures derived from AO3 stats.) 66,500+ words in 10 fics across two years for real kinda stunned me - I feel like I never fic/I never fic enough/I never fic as much as I used to oh so many years ago... for many reasons. But maybe that's a totally incorrect self-perception (which would SO not be the first but merely the last of many).(AO3 is counting my Yuletide entry as a 2024 work because after author reveals Jan. 1st, I added a nerdy second chapter of author's notes on all the research I did for my Casablanca fic, lol! - but I'm not including that in the total words.)
7 of the 10 fics are dSc6d; 6 of those 7 are due South.đź’ś I have so many WIPs of different fandoms though, that I want to get into (or get back into). Sigh! So many fandoms, so little time.
I guess I'll list the fic roundup in reverse chronological order.
Title: The Sentimentalists for rib14
Words: 9,935
Fandom: Casablanca (1942)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category F/M, (implied past and future) M/M
Relationships: Victor Laszlo/Ilsa Lund, Rick Blaine/Ilsa Lund, (implied future) Rick Blaine/Victor Laszlo/Ilsa Lund
Additional tags: Yuletide 2023 exchange, Post-Canon
Summary:
Ilsa threw her arms around him. Rick tried awkwardly to simultaneously return the hug, and gently disengage from it – Laszlo was right there – as Laszlo beamed at him, apparently uncaring.
Beamed.
~ ~ ~
Title: In Your Philosophy
Words: 9,211
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category M/M
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Additional tags: Diefenbaker (due South), Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe, due South Seekrit Santa exchange, for seleneheart
Summary: “Drink up. We may need our strength.”
“For mutual auditory hallucinations?” Ray asked.
The rare jewel of a casually confident Kowalski verbal construction delighted Fraser.
“No, for whatever's on the other side of that door.”
Or: from the day they first meet, Ray and Fraser go from disaster to disaster in ways neither could have imagined.
~ ~ ~
Title: What It Seems
Words: 9,316
Fandom: Death in Buenos Aires | Muerte en Buenos Aires
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Heed the tags
Category: F/M, M/M
Relationships: Chavez/Gomez ("Ganso"), Chavez/Dolores
Additional tags: Period-Typical Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, Spoilers, Dubious Consent, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Cutting, Bondage, Angst, Slow Burn, Emotional Roller Coaster
Summary: En la noche, nada es lo que parece. ~ In the night, nothing is what it seems.
Written for the Be The First! Flash Round II exchange.
* * *
Title: Not Young, Anymore, But Foolish
Words: 1,758
Fandom: Longmire (TV), Walt Longmire Mysteries - Craig Johnson
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Relationships: Walt Longmire/Henry Standing Bear
Additional tags: no beta we die like poached elk, Jealousy
Summary: Henry leans in, examining Walt's slightly sour, serious expression more closely. Walt glances back over his shoulder at the girls, then turns back to Henry and his beer.
"Walter," Henry says, sotto voce, "you are… jealous." His tone is half questioning, half incredulous.
Notes:
My prompt fill forgalerian_ash 's The Cocktail Hour challenge was, obviously, Porchcrawler.
~ ~ ~
Title: Gutpunch
Words: 299
Fandom: Hard Core Logo (1996)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category: M/M
Relationships: Joe Dick/Billy Tallent
Additional tags: Alternate Universe, Canon-Typical Death, Community: ds_snippets | dsc6dsnippets
Summary: Billy comes back from LA different. It's… unsettling.
~ ~ ~
Title: Quite So
Words: 2,697
Fandom: due So
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category:
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Additional tags: Makeup, Forced Eye Contact
Summary: Fraser found himself trying very hard not to annoy an increasingly irritable Ray, who suffered Fraser's artful touches of eyeliner to the lashline of his eyelids... and his apologetic strategic removals and blending, with a pinkie here, an index finger there.
~ ~ ~
Title: An Education
Words: 298
Fandom: due South
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Additional tags: Pre-Slash, Community: ds_snippets | dsc6dsnippets, Past Relationship(s)
Summary: The unflinching way Ray accepts women's rejections and keeps trying is admirable. That he isn't more bothered by it is… interesting.
~ ~ ~
Title: chaleur brûlant
Words: 32,795
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category: F/M,M/M, Multi
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser/Margaret Thatcher, Benton Fraser/Victoria Metcalf, Benton Fraser/Francesca Vecchio, Diefenbaker & Benton Fraser, Benton Fraser/Original Male Character(s), Ray Kowalski/Other(s), Ray Kowalski/Stella Kowalski
Additional tags: Psychic Wolves, Anal Sex, Rimming, Dubious Consent, Vaginal Sex, Angst with a Happy Ending
Summary: Fraser was not by nature inconstant. Nor was Diefenbaker by nature fickle: he didn't lack commitment or passion, he had both... if not permanently, certainly intensely. But he was a lone wolf with no pack taking what he could get, pulling Fraser through his brûlant via their psychic bond. Fraser tried to make the best of it. Whenever possible, he discreetly perused the sexuality sections of local libraries and bookstores. Proper preparation prevents poor performance, after all.
For Lupercalia 2022
~ ~ ~
Title: Where He Lives, Alone
Words: 299
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Additional tags: Community: ds_snippets | dsc6dsnippets, amnesty prompt
Summary: He and Fraser zip their sleeping bags together and Fraser suddenly whispers, "I'm sorry I... looked at that female officer yesterday."
Ray's lips, against Fraser's jaw, frown in puzzlement, then smile.
~ ~ ~
Title: Why Her, Why This
Words: 296
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Category: F/M
Relationships: Ray Kowalski/Stella Kowalski
Additional tags: Post-Break Up, Heteroflexual,Community: ds_snippets | dsc6dsnippets, Break up sex
Summary: She sees the "boys and bears" cover, muscled asses peeking out of low slung jeans. Ray's cheeks burn; shame churns his gut.
Stella strokes his cheek. "Did you think I didn't know?" she breathes.
I'm hoping this year to just maintain some level of fic output. My word count the last two years is small potatoes (which is also the title of one of my favorite X-Files episodes!) - it's really NOTHING compared to really prolific writers (or even to my more prolific past ficcing). But it was a lot more than I realized - and a lot more than in the preceding few years (including 2019, when being an exhausted pandemic RN was not yet a thing)... So, for me, especially under the shitty circumstances of this past year? I'm calling it a win.
The other thing is, I officially joined The Fannish Fifty challenge... But
ride_4ever and I'd already started our own unofficial FF (Fannish Fifty) in January... So this is my fourth FF post by our unofficial count, but my first official FF post. Good thing this math isn't complicated (actually, it's arithmetic), because I've hated math ever since 70s public school math fucked me up... I'll just subtract 4 from the unofficial FF post count to arrive at the official FF post count. Looking back over these fics, I realize I didn't write a lot of fic, but I wrote a lot more words than I realized. (I love but also curse my longfic-/verbosity-loving fic muse... And all my damned plot bunnies.) And although I'm uncomfortably aware of my tendency towards long-winded-ness in fic (which leads to many unfinished WIPs), I surprised myself: 28,086 words (28,462 - 376 words of author notes in chapter 2 of my Casablanca fic ) words across 3 fics in 2023, and 38,442 words across 7 fics (4 of which were sub-300 word snippets) in 2022 was actually a lot more than I thought I wrote. (All figures derived from AO3 stats.) 66,500+ words in 10 fics across two years for real kinda stunned me - I feel like I never fic/I never fic enough/I never fic as much as I used to oh so many years ago... for many reasons. But maybe that's a totally incorrect self-perception (which would SO not be the first but merely the last of many).(AO3 is counting my Yuletide entry as a 2024 work because after author reveals Jan. 1st, I added a nerdy second chapter of author's notes on all the research I did for my Casablanca fic, lol! - but I'm not including that in the total words.)
7 of the 10 fics are dSc6d; 6 of those 7 are due South.đź’ś I have so many WIPs of different fandoms though, that I want to get into (or get back into). Sigh! So many fandoms, so little time.
I guess I'll list the fic roundup in reverse chronological order.
Title: The Sentimentalists for rib14
Words: 9,935
Fandom: Casablanca (1942)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category F/M, (implied past and future) M/M
Relationships: Victor Laszlo/Ilsa Lund, Rick Blaine/Ilsa Lund, (implied future) Rick Blaine/Victor Laszlo/Ilsa Lund
Additional tags: Yuletide 2023 exchange, Post-Canon
Summary:
Ilsa threw her arms around him. Rick tried awkwardly to simultaneously return the hug, and gently disengage from it – Laszlo was right there – as Laszlo beamed at him, apparently uncaring.
Beamed.
~ ~ ~
Title: In Your Philosophy
Words: 9,211
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category M/M
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Additional tags: Diefenbaker (due South), Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe, due South Seekrit Santa exchange, for seleneheart
Summary: “Drink up. We may need our strength.”
“For mutual auditory hallucinations?” Ray asked.
The rare jewel of a casually confident Kowalski verbal construction delighted Fraser.
“No, for whatever's on the other side of that door.”
Or: from the day they first meet, Ray and Fraser go from disaster to disaster in ways neither could have imagined.
~ ~ ~
Title: What It Seems
Words: 9,316
Fandom: Death in Buenos Aires | Muerte en Buenos Aires
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Heed the tags
Category: F/M, M/M
Relationships: Chavez/Gomez ("Ganso"), Chavez/Dolores
Additional tags: Period-Typical Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, Spoilers, Dubious Consent, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Cutting, Bondage, Angst, Slow Burn, Emotional Roller Coaster
Summary: En la noche, nada es lo que parece. ~ In the night, nothing is what it seems.
Written for the Be The First! Flash Round II exchange.
* * *
Title: Not Young, Anymore, But Foolish
Words: 1,758
Fandom: Longmire (TV), Walt Longmire Mysteries - Craig Johnson
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Relationships: Walt Longmire/Henry Standing Bear
Additional tags: no beta we die like poached elk, Jealousy
Summary: Henry leans in, examining Walt's slightly sour, serious expression more closely. Walt glances back over his shoulder at the girls, then turns back to Henry and his beer.
"Walter," Henry says, sotto voce, "you are… jealous." His tone is half questioning, half incredulous.
Notes:
My prompt fill for
galerian_ash 's The Cocktail Hour challenge was, obviously, Porchcrawler.~ ~ ~
Title: Gutpunch
Words: 299
Fandom: Hard Core Logo (1996)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category: M/M
Relationships: Joe Dick/Billy Tallent
Additional tags: Alternate Universe, Canon-Typical Death, Community: ds_snippets | dsc6dsnippets
Summary: Billy comes back from LA different. It's… unsettling.
~ ~ ~
Title: Quite So
Words: 2,697
Fandom: due So
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category:
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Additional tags: Makeup, Forced Eye Contact
Summary: Fraser found himself trying very hard not to annoy an increasingly irritable Ray, who suffered Fraser's artful touches of eyeliner to the lashline of his eyelids... and his apologetic strategic removals and blending, with a pinkie here, an index finger there.
~ ~ ~
Title: An Education
Words: 298
Fandom: due South
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Additional tags: Pre-Slash, Community: ds_snippets | dsc6dsnippets, Past Relationship(s)
Summary: The unflinching way Ray accepts women's rejections and keeps trying is admirable. That he isn't more bothered by it is… interesting.
~ ~ ~
Title: chaleur brûlant
Words: 32,795
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category: F/M,M/M, Multi
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser/Margaret Thatcher, Benton Fraser/Victoria Metcalf, Benton Fraser/Francesca Vecchio, Diefenbaker & Benton Fraser, Benton Fraser/Original Male Character(s), Ray Kowalski/Other(s), Ray Kowalski/Stella Kowalski
Additional tags: Psychic Wolves, Anal Sex, Rimming, Dubious Consent, Vaginal Sex, Angst with a Happy Ending
Summary: Fraser was not by nature inconstant. Nor was Diefenbaker by nature fickle: he didn't lack commitment or passion, he had both... if not permanently, certainly intensely. But he was a lone wolf with no pack taking what he could get, pulling Fraser through his brûlant via their psychic bond. Fraser tried to make the best of it. Whenever possible, he discreetly perused the sexuality sections of local libraries and bookstores. Proper preparation prevents poor performance, after all.
For Lupercalia 2022
~ ~ ~
Title: Where He Lives, Alone
Words: 299
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Additional tags: Community: ds_snippets | dsc6dsnippets, amnesty prompt
Summary: He and Fraser zip their sleeping bags together and Fraser suddenly whispers, "I'm sorry I... looked at that female officer yesterday."
Ray's lips, against Fraser's jaw, frown in puzzlement, then smile.
~ ~ ~
Title: Why Her, Why This
Words: 296
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Warnings Apply
Category: F/M
Relationships: Ray Kowalski/Stella Kowalski
Additional tags: Post-Break Up, Heteroflexual,Community: ds_snippets | dsc6dsnippets, Break up sex
Summary: She sees the "boys and bears" cover, muscled asses peeking out of low slung jeans. Ray's cheeks burn; shame churns his gut.
Stella strokes his cheek. "Did you think I didn't know?" she breathes.
I'm hoping this year to just maintain some level of fic output. My word count the last two years is small potatoes (which is also the title of one of my favorite X-Files episodes!) - it's really NOTHING compared to really prolific writers (or even to my more prolific past ficcing). But it was a lot more than I realized - and a lot more than in the preceding few years (including 2019, when being an exhausted pandemic RN was not yet a thing)... So, for me, especially under the shitty circumstances of this past year? I'm calling it a win.