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Regina Keim created and posted a new due South word search over in the private Fraser/Kowalski Facebook group.

You can access it here, if you can't see the group's posts because you're not a member.

The mod of FWF revealed results of the vote on the most recent FWF, Shocktober 2025... And I'm delighted to report ride_4ever won "Best Use Of Prompt" - again!

I was also surprised (and pleased) to learn that my420 fic for this most recent FWF was voted Most Coherent - go figure. It's only got about a zillion egregious typos plus my eyes were falling shut as I wrote the last one-half to one-third of it (in my defense, and in strict adherence with FWF guidelines and requirements, I was very high). Yay for us both!

Go check out all ten wonderful works of inebriated creativity for FWF 2025 Shocktober, including a wonderfully creepy fanart and a fancomic!

It's that time of year again - due South Seekrit Santa Sign-up Time! Signal boosting this - and I already signed up. Yays!

I ficced for Ray Vecchio Day today!

Title: Lay Hands
Fandom and Pairing: due South, Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio
Rating: Teen
Length: 4,316 words
Author’s Notes: Please heed the tags; no beta we die like caribou that 'drank too much'

Lay Hands on AO3

So thedarkcanuck posted this gif of CKR as Asher (the vampire) in Blade Trinity on Tumblr... with the caption "Oh, Fraser, you in danger honey".

And I just finished a fic for Bring Back The Porn 2025 which is another installment in my dS vampire AU... the writing of which was also Giving Me Ideas.

So, of course, those plot bunnies in the metaphorical hutch in the back of my fanbrain? They just, like tripled in population. I'm gonna need another hutch. Maybe two...

Dammit, I'm on a deadline and cannot commit to any of them, lol! 😆 But I really, really want to drop the other fic I'm on deadline for, in favor of dS vampire AU plot bunnies. Self-discipline vs ADHD/VAST. My fan brain is so conflicted!

I had this weird feeling there was something in my LJ I forgot to do for like the last few weeks but I couldn't put my finger on what it was. Well, I realized I forgot to put here some snippets I originally wrote for ds_snippets. (I like to keep my own copies in my own LJS of stuff submitted on other comms.) It's all slash. ETA: When I first posted this, I myself forgot the last two were DC/HCL, not DC/DS. *headdesk* Not firing on all cylinders. And this is BEFORE any Xanax today. *sigh* OTOH, maybe it's just my subconscious telling me to write DC/DS Mike Sweeney/RayK. Like I didn't have enough going on with ficfinishing!

Snippet 1:
Title: Necessary Velocity
Fandom and Pairing: HCL, Joe/Billy
Rating: NC-17
Length: 283 words
Prompt: One hundred-eight – momentum, velocity, gravity, inertia, torsion

( . . .when he's exhausted like this, Joe rolls with just about anything. )

Snippet 2:
Title: Zero to Sixty in Half a Sec
Fandom and Pairing: HCL/Durham County, Billy Tallent/Mike Sweeney
Rating: R
Length: 294 words
Prompt: along the brittle treacherous bright streets
of memory comes my heart, singing like
an idiot,whispering like a drunken man
(e.e. cummings)

( Jenifur, collectively, prefer individual rooms. This suits Billy just fine. )
Snippet 3:
Title: All Bite
Fandom and Pairing: HCL/Durham County, Billy Tallent/Mike Sweeney
Rating: NC-17
Length: 300 words
Prompt: along the brittle treacherous bright streets
of memory comes my heart, singing like
an idiot,whispering like a drunken man
(e.e. cummings)

( He just nods, dazed, feeling drugged, though he's years clean and sober. )

Even though I missed signing up for Team Angst (which, if there were ever a team I was made for, it would be an angst team...), I wrote a drabble for their drabble tree anyway. But I didn't post it there. I think you're only supposed to post there if you're on the team, which I am not, sadly.

In response to where lights only burn in the rooms of the dying, which was spawned by nos4a2no9's "The Nightrunner" beginning riff I wrote what's below. Of course, it's not beta-ed, and there are grammatical problems. But, then, I guess that's the point of the drabble as writing exercise. So I exercised.

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That overwhelming sense of failure had only increased upon finding himself flat on his back in a hospital bed, the antiseptic smell not only surrounding him, but becoming part of him and frightening him. Fraser's voyeuristic witnessing of Dr. Carter's romantic betrayal had sounded to its depths the deep well of his own sense of betrayal -- not Victoria's betrayal, but even more wrenchingly, his betrayal of himself.

Somehow, helping prevent a more murderous ending that would otherwise doubtless have occurred after witnessing Dr. Carter's unraveling did not ease his conscience. The first major obstacle to that was Ray's injury. But even witnessing Dr. Carter breaking down did not help Fraser forgive himself for his wretched ambivalence, his failure to draw a line within himself over which he would not step, no matter how badly he wanted to, because it was wrong. Even as he'd seen it in Dr. Carter, pointing a revolver at her young blackmailing lover, he had wanted to believe that he was somehow different from her, that that sort of reckless abandon, that sort of tidal emotionalism, wasn't also in himself.

At first, he'd imagined her rage like Victoria's: revenge, pure and simple, on the lover who betrayed her. But then Ray had reminded him: Benny, not every woman with long, dark hair tries to kill her lover. And then when he heard Dr. Carter speaking bitterly to her lover, describing the piecemeal tearing down of her heart -- it was as if that ache within himself, that down-to-the-bone pain, connected through the ethers to Dr. Carter's.

It was then that Fraser had understood Dr. Carter to be not like Victoria, but like himself. It was then that he had realized his furious pursuit of Victoria through the train station had not been motivated by the dictum "maintain the right" or any other sense of justice, ethics or morals. It was then that he realized he'd never thought far enough ahead as to what exactly he would do with Victoria when he caught her.
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