verushka70: Modified publicity still puts Fraser and RayK closer together in a slashy moment. (DS slash)
I snippet-ficced again. It seems to be all my brain can handle lately.

Title: Serge Surge
Fandom and Pairing: due South, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Teen
Length: 300 words
Prompt: Challenge 41
* red
* wax
* spoon
* floor
* “My mouth is full of secrets that I’m too afraid to tell”

Also fills the prompt "Ten," for International Fanworks Day 2024

Summary:
He takes chances, sure. Ray can admit adrenaline is a wave he surfs.

Serge Surge on AO3


No Archive Warnings Apply
verushka70: I took this photo of a waterfall at dusk in Olympic National Park in 2009. (PNW)
So 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).

I unofficially and officially started the Fannish Fifty )

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. long story short, more than 66,500 words across 10 fics in 5 fandoms in 2 years, which really, REALLY surprised me )

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.

My 2023 fic output )

* * *
My 2022 fanfic roundup )

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.
verushka70: I took this photo of a waterfall at dusk in Olympic National Park in 2009. (waterfall)
Well, I meant to post this like at least a week ago, but RL. Sucks. Still. Even more.the many, or rather main, reason why ) But hey, I got a dog and two cats, a FT job, and some pretty awesome friends. That's more than many people - and I am grateful for all of it. My friends are my chosen family. Seriously, I routinely enter "my friends" in my daily gratitude app entries.

But the suckitude of RL was why writing for Yuletide was so important for me. this crappy past year etc )

So here are my Yuletide recs. This merely scratches the surface (1700+ fics in Yuletide 2023, yikes!) - but these are really great.
22 recs in 19 fandoms - Heat (1995) (x2!), fairy tales/Boots of Buffalo Leather, Dracula - Bram Stoker (x3), The Fugitive, Fandom Exchange anthropomorphic (hysterical!!), Galaxyquest, The Good Place, The Huntsman, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum | Ecclesiastical History of the English People - Bede, It's A Wonderful Life, iZombie, Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte, The Lion in Winter (1968), Monty Python's Flying Circus: Archaeology Today, Much Ado About Nothing (2011) | Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare, True Detective S1, The Usual Suspects, The Waste Land - T. S. Eliot, and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) )

Here endeth the recs portion of this post! Following is standard update post stuff. As if I do that regularly... (I don't...)

~ ~ ~

Anyway. Due to my desperate need for escapism, I really enjoyed researching for, and writing, my two fic contributions to this holiday season - my first Yuletide fic evah(!), and a last-minute pinch-hit for due South Seekrit Santa:

The Sentimentalists
Fandoms: Casablanca (1942)
Words: 9,558
(it looks incomplete because it says "Chapter 1/2," but chapter 2 is a draft consisting ONLY of author's notes - the fic is complete!)
Teen And Up Audiences
No Archive Warnings Apply
Victor Laszlo/Ilsa Lund, Rick Blaine/Ilsa Lund, Rick Blaine/Victor Laszlo/Ilsa Lund, 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.

Or: Rick winds up in Lisbon after Brazzaville, and is shocked to find Victor and Ilsa still there (for totally legit historical reasons, my research found).

~ and ~

In Your Philosophy
Fandoms: due South
Words: 9,211
Teen And Up Audiences
No Archive Warnings Apply
Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Canon Compliant, Alternate Universe
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.

I haven't even gotten around to reading dSSS fics yet, despite my pinch-hit - there is so much I've bookmarked for Yuletide (and I signed up for it first, way before the dSSS pinch hit)! When I get to those, I'll deffo post dSSS recs too.

~ ~ ~

Here's hoping 2024 doesn't suck as bad as 2023. Although considering how it's started, that's probably putting the cart before the horse, as my Omi (grandmother) used to say.
verushka70: CKR's hands are just so damn sexy. (hand porn)
Meme snagged from [personal profile] ride_4ever, who got it from [personal profile] noxelementalist, who got it from [personal profile] bluedreaming.

Instructions: Go through your five most recent fics and, without providing the context, share the first and last lines.

What It Seems
First line:
Fear.
Last line:
Finally.

Not Young, Anymore, But Foolish
First line:
Henry Standing Bear pierces a lemon slice and a maraschino cherry with a plastic toothpick and, with a flourish, adds it to the drink he's mixed, with a friendly wink at the blonde UW coed and her brunette friend, up from Laramie for some R&R in the Bighorns.
Last line:
He tightens his arm around Walt too.

Gutpunch
First line:
Billy comes back from LA different.
Last line:
"You motherfucker," Joe says.

Quite So
First line:
"God! I suck at this!"
Last line:
"Yes, it is," he agreed, tightening his arms around Ray.

An Education
First line:
Nothing has prepared Fraser for the emotions he unwillingly develops for his new partner, such is the force that is Ray Kowalski.
Last line:
Nothing's changed, but…
...everything's changed.
verushka70: CKR's hands are just so damn sexy. (CKR's hands)
I'm a first time participant in Lupercalia (a wonderful "cross the psychic wolves of A Companion to Wolves with any fandom for all kinds of psychic-bond-compelled dubcon-y/noncon-y smexin'" challenge) and trying to finish a fic that I began for last year's Lupercalia but didn't finish then.

In this due South Lupercalia fic I'm working on, the compulsory canid-bonded-humans' sex is as it is in the source, A Companion to Wolves -- except in my crossover world, any human, man or woman, can bond to any gender canid, male or female (and wolf or dog). I describe the canids' primal urges,as passed through the psychic bond, in pseudo-French. (Hey, if they can make up pseudo-Germanic/Scandinavian terms in that book series, I can make up pseudo-French.)

I call the meat-puppet-y hijacking of the bonded-human's sex/sexuality during the canids' mating chaleur brûlant: burning heat. Also, for a change of pace, the term 'bitch' for a female dog or wolf is replaced with 'queen,' as in cat breeding -- instead of queen and toms, it's queens and dogs/wolves.

It's a psychic canids AU history of Fraser's love/sex life as bonded to Diefenbaker -- an incorrigible flirt with many matings across years and borders.

Fraser comes to his psychic bond with Dief as a late bloomer. It didn't happen during his adolescence/coming of age -- he bonded with Dief when they met in Prince Rupert sound.

Dief's amorousness pulls (puts?) Fraser through sexual encounters with a bunch of canonical characters with whom he may or may not have had canon intimate relationships. There is explict Fraser/m and Fraser/f sex. There is Fraser/Thatcher. Fraser/Victoria, of course. Fraser/Francesca. Fraser/"Steve". If I have time, there will also be Fraser/Mark Smithbauer and Fraser/Eric.

Endgame is happy Fraser/Kowalski.

Fraser also comes to realize that Diefenbaker's physical deafness = psychic deafness. He responds to the other canids hormonally, but he can't communicate with them psychically as the wolves and their bonded-humans could in the source.

So he and Dief are off in a psychically bonded world of their own. They have no pack and no pack feels and This Is Sad. There is a twist planned. Don't want to give it away, but, as I said, endgame is happy Fraser/Kowalski.

So... if anyone would like to beta or cheerlead such a fic, I would be incredibly grateful. I have an alpha/beta reader (shout out to Ride_Forever!) but now she is focused on her own Lupercalia fic (and I think a Flower Crown contribution!).

verushka70ATgmailDOTcom is the best way to reach me.

Thank you kindly in advance for reading this far.
verushka70: Modified publicity still puts Fraser and RayK closer together in a slashy moment. (DS slash)
I posted a dS photo-collage fanart to create a work using a brand new dS AO3 tag (Francesca Vecchio & Diefenbaker):

Wait...What? Now? Hmmm... by verushka70
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Francesca Vecchio & Diefenbaker, Francesca Vecchio & Other
Additional Tags: Fanart
Summary: Francesca is on the case. Or on the spot... Dief's going to help!


Also posted a Ray Vecchio fic for Ray Vecchio Day(/Week; it was thankfully extended!):

Not Happening (Again) (9225 words) by verushka70
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ray Kowalski/Ray Vecchio
Additional Tags: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Undercover - Past
Summary: Vecchio shook his head, stifling a groan, squeezing his eyes shut. Stopped at a red light in his latest Riviera, he swiped a hand over his face and gritted his teeth. It was not happening – not happening again. He took the long way home.
Halfway there, he turned around and headed for Kowalski’s place.


\o/

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