Seven Deadly Book Sins

Oct. 28th, 2025 05:54 pm
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Trying to get back into posting a bit more again, and was compelled to steal this excellent meme from [personal profile] osprey_archer.

1. Lust, books I want to read for their cover

I am a simple woman with simple tastes, show me a pretty book and I will have my card out quicker than you can blink. I don't know if there are any I'm particularly mooning over at the moment that I haven't read, but I bought this one recently purely on the strength of that cover *_* and I did buy Agatha Christie's Death in the Clouds because of this incredible 1970s paperback with a massive wasp on it.

2. Pride, challenging books I've finished

I have read precisely one (1) book by Alexandre Dumas, and that is The Count of Monte Cristo. I've also read Homer's Iliad (in English!)

I'm currently slogging very slowly through a biography of WW1 ace Charles Nungesser, which is challenging only because it's in French, but I am nowhere near finished that yet!

3. Gluttony, books I've read more than once

I am an endless re-reader and comfort reader, so there are lots! Among my most-read are The Liar by Stephen Fry, Ice Station Zebra by Alistair Maclean, Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, War Horse by Michael Morpurgo, The Charioteer by Mary Renault... and, of course, an assortment of Biggleses (probably Biggles & Co., Biggles Takes Charge and Biggles Fails to Return, if I had to pick specific ones). I try very hard to only keep (fiction) books if I plan to re-read them, otherwise my house would be (even more) overrun.

4. Sloth, books on my to-read list the longest

I am dreadful for picking up books in secondhand shops and charity shops, adding them to my TBR and then never thinking of them ever again. One of the longest standing residents of the TBR shelf is definitely Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford, I've had it for YEARS and haven't opened it once.

5. Greed, books I own multiple editions of

In my defence, I don't think I own two copies of the same edition of any of these, therefore they're basically different books, I will die on this hill. I've got multiples of The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, because I couldn't resist the 10th anniversary edition, and of Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and the one we won't talk about. Unsurprisingly, I've got more than one edition of several of the Biggles books by W.E. Johns - the ones that spring to mind immediately are Biggles of the Camel Squadron, Biggles Flies East, Biggles and the Black Peril, Biggles & Co., Biggles in the Baltic, Biggles Sees it Through, and Biggles in the South Seas. There will definitely be more than just those, though...

6. Wrath, books I despised

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, I can't stand it. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, because I hate everyone in it and cannot bring myself to care about any of them, sorry.

7. Envy, books I want to live in

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, although maybe not while the White Witch is in charge. Possibly J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country, it's got such a lovely setting. And obviously Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, because it's the best book in the series and who in their right mind doesn't want a daemon?

ABC fics!

Oct. 28th, 2025 11:43 am
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I've been seeing this meme around a lot, so let me revive my dw for five minutes just to do it. :D

How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'A' and 'T'.

I'm only doing one fandom (Guardian and Guardian RPF) because I can. :D I didn't look at any art until I did all the letters, and then I added art for the two letters that didn't have fics (J and V). (And whenever there were options to choose Zhubai, I chose Zhubai, ngl. :D Many letters had 5+ fics to choose from btw, asdfhdjkl;)

I have nothing for U (I have no idea how, it's such a useful letter, and now I want to name a fic un[something] asap ;D), X (even though I've possibly started actual fics with 'Xiao Bai' or 'Xiao Wei', but not titles) and Z (I have definitely started fics with 'Zhao Yunlan' and possibly 'Zhu Yilong' too). (I'm getting a kick out of the fact that these four names are 4 out of 4 of my blorbos. :D)

So 23/26! And now onto the actual list:

A - As My Fingers Tremble (Zhubai, E, ~2K words)
B - But I Know Where to Start (Zhubai, M, ~1K words)
C - Caught You (drama Weilan, E, ~200 words)
D - Do You Want Me to Mean It? (Zhubai, G, ~1K words)
E - Emphatic No (novel Weilan & Daqing, T, 300 words)
F - Five More Minutes (Zhubai, G, ~700 words)
G - Gods Gone Wild (novel Kunlun/Zhao Yunlan, E, ~700 words)
H - How Do You Want Me? (Zhubai, E, 300 words)
I - I Look Over at You and See Sunshine (Zhubai, T, ~900 words)
J - Just Come Home (no fic -> honorary art; novel Weilan, G)
K - Kissing It Better (Zhubai, E, ~2K words)
L - Late (Zhubai, G, 200 words)
M - Match Made in Science (Lin Jing/Ye Zun, G, ~300 words)
N - No Coming Back From That (Zhubai, T, ~400 words)
O - Only Ever You (drama Weilan, E, ~2K words)
P - Poems on Your Skin (drama Weilan, E, ~2K words)
Q - A Quiet Celebration (Zhubai, T, ~300 words)
R - Ruby Insides (novel/drama Weilan, M, 200 words)
S - So Much More Delicious (Zhubai, M, ~400 words)
T - Taking What's (Not) Mine (Weilanzun, E, ~1,5K words)
U
V - Very Lucky (no fic -> honorary art; Zhubai, G)
W - When Dreams Come True (Zhubai, T, 300 words)
X
Y - You Melt Like Sugar (Zhubai, M, ~400 words)
Z
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A couple of cold days. Not freezing cold, just chilly. In the low teens for us, which is a bit on the cold side. Upper teens and early 20s, sure. Low teens? *brr*

We did get some rain last night. It was kind of exciting! Haven't had rain since I've been back home...

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Work is ALL THE THINGS NEED TO BE DONE. And I am taking on more stuff because my team lead is injured and taking time off next week. And because I need to be more across the stuff that my team is doing and not so focused on what I personally do and know how to do. Expansion. Development.

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I'm trying to get the courage up to have a "birthday of completeness picnic". I just feel like it's a little bit late to organise (last Saturday of November), and that nobody will come.

I just need to bite the bullet and send out the invites.

Picnic. Potluck. Party. It's as simple as that.

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We have been eating very vegetarian around here lately. I've beem making things like mujadhara (caramelised onion lentils and rice), and cheesy bean bake, and musabaha (cream tahini chickpeas). And often eating it with an egg. Although in the case of the cheesy bean bake (some of which I froze) when it comes time to eat it, I think I might cook some lasagne sheets and make a vego lasagne of sorts.

Being in Georgia in particular really reminded me of how easy it is to eat vego when you have good spices, but also there's a number of foodie/healthy eating influencers that I follow who've done a few vegetarian recipes (lots of beans and pulses) and they look good. I'm not about to give up meat - no way, no how. But it's good to have vego every now and then, and not just rely on the meat all the time.

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I just realised I didn't really do a travelogue on Georgia. I'm thinking about doing a fairly thorough one, because it's not something that most of you are ever going to see much about, and it might be worth it.

Is anyone interested in a detailed travellogue through Georgia? (It'll be a lot of what I already posted over on instagram, with maybe some details dredged from my memory.)

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I'm also looking at a trip for next year, except I don't think I can afford it right now. By the time it comes around? Sure! But right now? No.

*sigh*

Okay, we'll hold off, and who knows, things might materially change by the time things come around.

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Also, I need a new travel icon...

AO3 Alphabet Meme

Oct. 27th, 2025 04:10 pm
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All the cool kids are doing it, so I guess I will too:

How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A. Anatomy of a Secret--Jadzia Dax in the Reboot universe.
B. the bells are going to chime--My Fair Lady, Eliza/Colonel Pickering post-movie
C. Currency--Star Wars/Babylon 5, Han and Chewie take a job carrying cargo to a place so far out in Wild Space they've never even heard of the Empire. Or the Jedi.
D. The Desert Between--Reboot, Spock/Uhura, and vulcan worldbuilding
E. Essential To Your Own--TNG, Data/Geordi
F. Family Matters (The Things Inside Remix)--BSG, Dee is on Pegasus, finding her place. A Six is on New Caprica, learning what she doesn't know. Lee Adama is a Cylon prisoner, but this is not his story. A New Caprica AU.
G. The Genetics Factory--Criminal Minds/Stargate, In Detroit, homeless addicts are turning up dead. But there's more to the case than meets the eye, and the BAU finds themselves looking for something they don't understand. For Derek, it gets personal.
H. The Heart's Desire--Rivers of London, Abigail has earned her right to become a practitioner of magic. Now, the training begins.
I. Interview with the Robot--Fandom for Robots
J. Just Like Old Times--Stargate SG-1, Teal'c and Daniel, on an adventure.
K. Kitty and Georgy (The Healing Old Hurts Remix)--Pride and Prejudice, Kitty is often ill, but she is determined to live her best life anyway.
L. Little Ship Lost--TNG, On a routine mission, a wormhole opens up near Enterprise, and a ship pops out. It's challenging to rescue people who don't trust you.
M. Matters of Perspective--TNG, Picard and Guinan post Time's Arrow
N. Not Place, But People--Enterprise, The older Enterprise wasn't destroyed after all. When it limps back to Earth, Trip finds Lorian and invites him home to meet the family.
O. The Offer--Vorkosiverse, An AU where Aral didn't survive Mad Yuri's Massacre, but his sister did.
P. Pale Battalions--SG-1, Teal'c goes home after a glorious battle in Apophis' name.
Q. 
R. Revenge of the Zillo Beast--Star Wars, Mace and Anakin have killed the Zillo Beast every way they can think of in different time loops. Maybe killing the Beast won't solve the problem?
S. Schoolwork--DS9, Jake misses his dad, now he's with the Prophets, but he still has his friends, his family, and his career.
T. Third Chance--Star Trek, AU, This isn't the first time Ro has had to start her life over, nor the first time she's had to deal with people who don't like or trust her.
U. Undiscovered Stars--Star Wars/Star Trek, Just how far out in the Unknown Regions was he, Lando wondered, that they didn't use hyperdrives?
V. Vast Beyond Knowing (The Details Remix)--Star Wars. Anakin, Luke, Rey. The desert taught them much. But not everything.
W. Wachet Auf--Rivers of London, In 1940, Nightingale has to catch a Nazi spy armed with a magical device. In 2016, Nightingale and others fall into a magical coma, and Peter Grant must figure out why it happened and how to end it.
X. X is for Xenophobia--SG-1, Little Jake Carter knew all about people who Weren't Like Us.
Y.
Z.

22/26, not bad. Interesting that I have X but not Y; from looking at other peoples' lists, it's usually the other way around. (If I'd done more Stargate Alphabet Soups, I might have filled in the missing letters.) I have, by the way, written 264 fics in approximately 110 fandoms over the course of almost 20 years. (Some fandoms are squishy, and it depends how you count them.)

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Never Want Once (1332 words) by anr
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chrissy Cunningham/Eddie Munson
Characters: Chrissy Cunningham, Eddie Munson
Additional Tags: Kissing, Sex, Drug Use, Sex Pollen, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Chrissy Cunningham Lives, Episode: s04e01 Chapter One: The Hellfire Club
Summary: "It's the weed," she thinks he says, tasting the words more than hearing them, "a bad crop, maybe, maybe, I don't --"

"I don't care." She nips at the curve of his jaw, his stubble rough against her lips. "I won't." If they stop now she'll die, she thinks. "I want."



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Been yet another rough work week, but I finally have the energy to get hyped up about my November writing project! I'm aiming to work on (and maybe even finish!) the first draft of The Crawling Dark of Your Lover and hopefully finish it this time around. Might even commission more art for the project once I see how it's going - either to reward or comfort myself ๐Ÿ˜†

In fandom news, campaign 4 of Critical Role keeps being a blast! I don't have the energy to get into all the things I loved about episode 4 right now, but let's just say that Bolaire, Occtis & Julien remain my favorites thus far and that I long to see where this is going (both re: character development and the plot). Especially how Bolaire's and Hal's friendships evolves/changes after The Revelation ๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ’–

War in the Air - more books

Oct. 26th, 2025 09:54 am
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Two DW posts in 3 days, including an actual exchange letter?! I have clearly taken leave of my senses.

It's now been more than a year (oops) since I actually did a round up of my war-in-the-air-and-adjacent-topics reading, so I thought it was about time I put another one together...

books and breakdowns under the cut )

Be warned, my next book roundup post is likely to be about either the fact I've suddenly in my mid (to late ;___;) 30s discovered I love a good ghost story, thanks to the malign influences of [personal profile] rosanicus and [personal profile] gattycat, or my current historical rabbit hole featuring the largely forgotten 1884-1885 Nile Expedition. Or maybe I'll vanish for months and come back with something completely different again, who can say.

Star Trek Holidays 2025

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:46 pm
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My general preferences are here.

 

DNW: unrequested mundane AU | female characters in fridges | non-con | violent dub-con | graphic violence | gore | graphic sexual violence | cruelty/death to animals | cruelty/death to children | requested character death | unrelieved grimdark | bigotry by the good guys | first or second POV | reader fic | ABO | soulbonds | wildly OOC in a non-cracky way

SMUT DNW: creampies | the word “cunt” | anal | hate each other out of bed | underage | incest

I love treats!  Beam them over, the shields are down.

I really love this challenge.  Please know that you can NEVER go wrong with a crossover or mutli-verse crossover (Infinite Spocks in Infinite Timelines?  JUST SMASH EVERYONE TOGETHER AND WAVE YOUR HANDS) and a little cracky is juuuuust right.  I like serious too, but sometimes I am down for "And then, somehow, Palpatine returned" so we can get to the characters doing their thing.  A big “save the multiverse mission” followed by the loudest party ever would be ACES.

I clearly have some favorites.

Just have fun!

 

Infinite Fanfic in Infinite Prompts )

 

Dear Yuletide Author...

Oct. 24th, 2025 06:44 pm
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[personal profile] black_bentley
... first of all, thank you very much for writing for me <3 I'm [archiveofourown.org profile] blackbentley on AO3, I have treats enabled and I'm sure I'll love whatever you come up with!

General Likes/DNWs )

Biggles Series - W.E. Johns )

The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth )

Aces High (1976) )

Ice Station Zebra )


Please don't feel limited to writing any of the specific prompts in this letter, if something else that fits my requests grabs you then by all means go for it :DDD

Thank you again for writing for me, I'm very much looking forward to reading my gift! <333

Dear Yuletide Author

Oct. 24th, 2025 08:45 am
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Dear Yuletide Writer,


You are amazing. I want to tell you that up front, because you are.


Please don’t stress about this assignment. Just the fact that you are writing for any of these fandoms in the first place will make me ridiculously happy. Also, I love gifts in general, so I’ll be chuffed to get a prize of any of my requested fandoms and characters! I know this letter is ridiculously long as it’s the most fandoms I think I’ve ever signed up for for Yuletide – I think my reading muse’s ADHD is hitting HARD y’all LOLSOB. But again I love these fandoms and tend to babble about prompts and such, but don’t let that scare you off. And yes, some have more prompts than others, but that really does not mean anything preference wise – I would NOT have requested these fandoms if I didn’t want them. But honestly, I just wanted to give you as much detail as possible to hopefully help get your inspiration flowing! Seriously: A. Maze. Ing.


The only thing I do ask is that my DNW list be avoided.


DNW: Infertility/miscarriage, prostitution, noncon, dubcon, requested character/pairing death, infidelity, love triangles/jealousy focus (I am far more fond of OT3ing it up), Hanahaki, characters de-aged/aged back up during the story, A/B/O, gangster/mob, noir settings, Modern AUs that remove canon SFF or historical elements, amnesia, loss of limb/amputations, mpreg, underage/adult, gender swap, teacher/student, drug abuse/alcoholism, or incest. Please no 2nd person or 1st person POVs unless in epistolary/letters format.  


For M-rated fics, please no knife/blood/gun play in a sexual context (canon level plot/action violence is fine), humiliation in a D/S dynamic, age or pet play, scat, watersports, rape-as-fantasy-scenes, anal for M/F pairings, and any kind of direct blow in a sexual situation, including spanking/flogging.


Yes Please: Post-apocalypse, slice of life/domestic/curtainfic, epistolary stories, found family, crossovers with characters ending up at the Gertrude Hunt of Ilona Andrews’ Innkeeper Chronicles series, AUs (particularly zombie apocalypse, Black Jewels verse, Sentinel/Guide, Old West, and Pacific Rim fusion), outsider POVs, soul mark verses, supernatural elements like hauntings/werewolves/fae/etc., competency kink, fixit fics, stranded together/huddling together for warmth, X Reader fics esp in fandoms with few femme love interests and/or solo requested characters, and 5 and 1 style fics.


For M-rating fics, I particularly love dirty talk, Dom/Sub dynamic (service Dom and/or service Sub a plus), that Dom ordering their Sub around, restraint i.e.: shibari/handcuffs/holding partner down, wall sex, shower sex, cramped vehicular sex, biting/marking (without major blood being drawn), mate bonds and/or soul bonds needing consummation, “OMG we didn’t die” sex, and “sharing body heat” leading to sex.


Also I do have gifts enabled and welcome treats if someone who isn’t assigned me gets inspired by my requests!


Optional Re Yuletide Challenges: I am always a fan of the Yuletide mini challenges, and would definitely be thrilled in particular to get gifts that fit the following ones: Two for One, Yuleporn, Femslash Festivus, and Queering the Tide! Specific requests/details for any of those 4 challenges can be found on those journal entries!


Optional Re Crossovers: I also wanted to specifically mention that crossovers between any of my requested fandoms would be awesome if that’s your thing just so long as the fic is still focused on my requested characters/pairings. I know some of these are VERY different, but others I think could definitely lend themselves to some interesting combinations if that inspires you! If not, I’m also a fan of book verses getting crossed over with other series/stories by the same author!


Northmen: A Viking Saga

Asbjorn, Inghean

Tom Hopper pulled me into this teeny tiny fandom after Black Sails moved him onto my fandom boyfriend list. I gotta admit, it’s such a terrible movie objectively, but it totally appeals to my love of questionable action movies. We get all the Tom Hopper biceps you might hope for in his character (and the lead) Asbjorn, though sadly he never takes the shirt completely off. As the leader of the exiled and shipwrecked Vikings, he’s awesomely competent and has mad chemistry with the female lead (the only one in the entire film sadly), Inghean. She is a Scottish princess the Vikings kidnap in hopes of ransom only to discover her father prefers to see her dead than pay for her safe return. She also is the source of the one fantasy element in the film: an earth sense that warns her when the group is in danger. All in all, I just desperately want a post-movie fic with these two. The movie ended so very abruptly, and there was so much more of the story hanging. How do they all survive the long boat? Do they ever find safety? Is it at the Viking encampment they hoped to find? Does Inghean’s earth sense end up more under control or cause people to see her as a witch? Will Inghean and Asbjorn EVER do more than stare at each other longingly?



่–ๅฅณใฎ้ญ”ๅŠ›ใฏไธ‡่ƒฝใงใ™ | Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu | The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (Anime) 

Albert Hawke, Takanashi Sei

This sweet little monster-filled anime was recommended in a blog from Ilona Andrews randomly enough – one featuring “comfort” animes to watch given The Everything. And this really was SUCH a comfort of a story. There are of course given it’s an isekai monsters to fight and chauvinistic elements to the world building (the prince is an ASS and arranged marriages are very much a thing and not always a great one) which is sort of a fantasy Regency vibe – but still all told - my jam LOL. Sei was a delight of a main character, and I loved that it got close to that typical “every handsome man in the vicinity falls desperately in love with her” shojo trope but JUST sidestepped it enough that it’s “every handsome man in the vicinity absolutely ships her and her love interest, Captain Hawke and does their best to get him to just MAKE A MOVE ALREADY.” I will say the slow pace of the anime got a bit overdone at times (2 seasons and a marriage proposal and they NEVER KISSED ON SCREEN), so I would not be opposed to romantic letters getting spicy between them on the road to marriage! Also, I loved all of Sei’s research and experimentation in everything from cooking to healing to monster-slaying, so books or articles from her featuring her academic mind would be a delight, as well. Really I just want these two sweetly shy, ridiculously brave kiddos to get to be romantic with each other.


The Borden Dispatches – Cherie Priest 

Lizzie Borden, Emma Borden, Nance O’Neill

This is one of those fandoms that I’m honestly SHOCKED doesn’t have any fics for. It’s based on an infamous historical murder AND the Innsmouth story ala Lovecraft. Oh and THEN, it’s written completely in epistolary/found document style with letters, diary entries, snippets of the doctor’s findings, reports of an investigation… It’s so PERFECT for fandom y’all. Oh yeah, and it features women fighting monsters and chronic illness and a chronically ill woman masquerading as a male academic on paper and a self-taught scientist with an ax and a sapphic sunshine grump couple between Lizzie and her actress girlfriend, and and and. I just loved this concept so so much, and the first book did not disappoint! I would like any gift to be set around the Ravenscroft timeline as opposed to the second book Chapelwood as sadly the massive decades long time skip lost so much of the characters and location I loved so much from the first book! Prompt-wise, you honestly can go wild as long as it’s featuring these ladies, especially if you can manage some of the style of the book! Between their complicated relationships and the crazy circumstances, there really is SO MUCH potential! (Plus, LBR, any opportunity to see more fics based off Lovecraft’s works that would REALLY piss that bigot off posthumously just makes me smile on principle lolol)



An Inquiry into Love and Death – Simone St. James

Jillian Leigh, Drew Merriken, Toby Leigh

A friend dragged me kicking and screaming (occasionally literally thanks to the creepy factor lol) into this author’s ghost story romances, but I have loved every one of them so far and am super sad that I’m literally the only person who has written for any of the books (and only a single one in a previous Yuletide no less LOL). INQUIRY is the book I’ve read most recently for the series (and the only one already with an archive listing), so I figured I’d go ahead and request it separately. For Drew and Jillian, I would love a glimpse into how their courtship goes after she returns to University. This is a fandom where I think epistolary stories/romance would be especially fun, though I also wouldn’t mind seeing a few ghostly letters show up from her Father/Uncle as if he was able to follow her home and finally manage to almost be family from the other side as he never was capable of in life. But regardless, Drew and Jillian are a delight on their own! As far as books or journals, glimpses of the book Toby might have written or even a coauthored book by Toby and Jillian for a posthumous release could be really cool to play with. As with several of my requests, I’m game for crossovers with the characters/pairings from the other books in this “series” from the author - especially something like a “Ladies Paranormalist Society” or something featuring all the ladies meeting up with Jillian and discussing their respective hauntings lol


North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell

Margaret Hale, John Thornton

Oh my HEART. In some ways, this book/mini series blows Jane Austen out of the water for me. Darcy who? John Thornton (as permanently played in my head by Richard Armitage after the BBC miniseries of course) is easily my favorite Regency hero of all times: brooding, honest, and desperately in love with Margaret. I did fall into this fandom through the mini-series first, but I’ve since read the book and love it just as much, so feel free to stick with just the book canon or weave in mini-series details as you wish (train station scene anyone?). Prompts: 1) This fandom in particular I’d LOVE epistolary fic for: letters between the two as they fall in love, awkward letters to family members to announce their relationship, even gossip articles about the relationship in the society pages – I’d love absolutely anything in that vein for these two! Heck get crossover-y with it and give me Lady Whistledown’s perspective on their romance! 2) Post-book/miniseries stories – give me their engagement or wedding or how the first year of their married life goes with or without the interference of their various family members and the cotton industry, etc. 3) Smut – these two have such glorious smoldering heat between them – feel free to bring it out on the page! Other than those options, run wild. I know it looks like I don’t have quite as much to say here as I do about some of the other requested fandoms, but honestly, it’s because my brain just dissolves into swooning when I think about John/Margaret and I lose any ability to articulate the things I love about them LOL. This is a fandom that I’d be especially game for crossovers or mentions of other characters from Jane Austen stories (Pride & Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Sanditon are my faves tho I’ve only seen S1. Bridgerton would also be a fun crossover!).


Rolling in the Deep Series – Mira Grant (including both Prequel novella ROLLING IN THE DEEP and sequel novel INTO THE DROWNING DEEP)

Victoria “Tori” Stewart, Olivia Sanderson

Y’all Seanan McGuire (and her horror pen name Mira Grant) has claimed my all-time fave author title, and these books are the perfect example of why. Queer main characters. Well researched science. Mixed media/interestingly formatted storytelling. And oh yeah. Deep. Sea. Murder. Mermaids. DEEP SEA MURDER MERMAIDS. Run amok here seriously, I’m game for anything including crossovers especially though I have NO IDEA how you’ll pull it off with some of the other fandoms I’ve requested LOL. I’m also a fan of worldbuilding/mixed media, too if that’s your thing. Prompt wise:  1) Pacific Rim AU with Tori/Olivia as pilots against the massive monstrous females of the species who’ve finally figured out how to survive out of the deepest depths long enough to reach shore to hunt? 2) Ray & Olivia’s bromance was one of my fave relationships here and I’d love to see him survive and TOTALLY ship Olivia/Tori– fixit fic for the win! 3) Anything playing with the mixed media format from the books: transcripts from the survivors of the Melucine, Tori & Louis’s scientific presentation of their findings, emails between Oliva and/or Ray and Imagine? 4) The other/previous “mockumentaries” Imagine did – were they all actually fake or did the people on site cover something up? Were Olivia and Ray (and possibly Anne?) involved in tracking down Bigfoot or a chupacabra? Is Tori dragged along in their wake for the next mockumentary after the Melucine?  Aside from that, I’m always a fan of stories that crossover various fandoms by the same author, so I’d totally be game with a related Seanan McGuire/Mira Grant verse character or setting colliding with this one (though note: I have NOT read the Newsflesh or Parisitology series yet).


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Happy Seventeenth Yuletide  to Me!  I am as excited as the first one, and I hope you have a delightful time writing and reading!

My general preferences are here.  You can also use the "dear writer" tag but TBH I copy/paste letters a lot, so for fandoms I frequently request, this letter has the most updated version.

DNW: unrequested mundane AU | female characters in fridges | non-con | violent dub-con | graphic violence | gore | graphic sexual violence | cruelty/death to animals | cruelty/death to children | requested character death | unrelieved grimdark | bigotry by the good guys | first or second POV | reader fic | ABO | soulbonds | wildly OOC in a non-cracky way

SMUT DNW: creampies | the word “cunt” | anal | hate each other out of bed | underage | incest

I AM OPEN TO TREATS, ALL THE TREATS YOU WANT TO WRITE.

Optional details are optional, but I love a good chatty letter.  I want to give you something to latch on to but don't feel constrained.  I have more to say about some but some of that is just more time requesting them.

Remember, whatever you write, I will love!  I know 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 has been rough on a lot of people, so please don't stress out too much because Yuletide will be wonderful!  2025 has had some good moments and some not-so good moments, so let's celebrate/escape  with awesome fic!  These are a mix - 1 repeat request, 1 repeat fandom, and 3 new (for Yuletide) requests.

Crossovers are definitely welcome, as are AUs!  If you cross it over with Clue or an Agatha Christie fandom/detective (Poirot, Marple, Ariadne Oliver, And Then There Were None) I'm good with anything - otherwise, see my preferences - cracky or serious crossovers welcome.  I also welcome any and all crossovers involving Nancy Drew.

I do enjoy the trappings of the Christmas holiday (mistletoe, gifts, hot chocolate, oh no we're snowed in together and must stay warm somehow... or we're trapped with a killer, family togetherness, snowball fights, traveling over the river and through the terminal) but do not require them.  If they work though, by all means, take advantage of it.

And again, have fun!

 

 


Vampire Haven update

Oct. 23rd, 2025 02:03 pm
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Vampire Haven update

An in-progress 7-novella series of gay vampire erotic romance.

Book 1 is with its first beta reader!

โค๏ธ Vampire/Human meet-cute

๐Ÿงก Charming playboy/Shy nerd

๐Ÿ’› Soft dom/New sub on journey of discovery

๐Ÿ’š Accidentally landing the most eligible bachelor

๐Ÿ’™ Psychic connection

๐Ÿ’œ Happy eternally after

Finn and August. A gorgeous, charming vampire looking for his happily-eternally-after falls ridiculously hard for a shy, nerdy human who’s never had a date in his life.

Want to read sneak peaks? They’re in my free author newsletter. (NSFW)

Finn Sullivan is among the most eligible bachelors in Chicago, with movie-star good looks and a reputation as a talented gentle dom. Secretly, he’s also a vampire looking for the love of his life in the shape of a human who wants a very long-term relationship. Finn realizes almost immediately upon meeting introverted, inexperienced August Amesbury that August could be The One. But Finn’s been disappointed in love before—will sweet, shy August only break his heart once more?

August Amesbury can get his head around the idea of actual vampires congregating in a diner to have lots of sex. And while he has no idea what these (very) friendly strangers mean when they say August is a sub in need of a gentle dom, he’s down for figuring that out. What August can’t believe is that Finn Sullivan, the most beautiful person in the world, could actually be interested in awkward, geeky August. But that could be a problem, because August is pretty sure he’s already falling in love.

Plus! A plot! What will August’s awful cousin Logan do when he finds out August has snagged the trophy lover Logan’s been chasing?

Tropes: charming/shy (my fave), gentle dom/sub, virginity kink, strangers to lovers

DannyeChase.com ~ AO3 ~ Linktree ~ The Vampire Haven erotic romance series ~ Weird Wednesday writing prompts blog ~ Resources for Writers

Yuletide Letter 2025

Oct. 23rd, 2025 09:45 am
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Hello! I'm Rosencrantz on AO3 and this is my Yuletide letter! Thank you for reading it!

DNW: Dub/noncon, underage (-18/-18 sexual, -18/+18 anything)
WANT: Casefic, adventure, romance, epistolary, ghosts, heavy character interaction.

ALSO: Treats very welcome!

ALSO ALSO: I have opted in for the IF mini-challenge (all my fandoms, but especially Citizen Kane) and the unusual formats challenge (all my fandoms! Academia stuff especially for BPRD), and Yulebuilding (the worldbuilding challenge! Just Hellboy for that one)


Fandoms:

  • Hellboy (Comics)

  • X-Men: The Animated Series (1992)

  • Citizen Kane




The prompts! )
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On Saturday, I had a Frocktails event in town, and was trying to work out what I could wear. I briefly contemplated this dress which I made back in 2018 and wore for a 'Frocks and Croqs' event (croquet).

Finish along Q4 2018


However, seven years have passed since those days and I no longer fit into the dress:
Lacing a dress


and herein lies a tale )

I think I'm going to have to do this with other dresses that I don't fit into any more. At least one, if I still have it (I have a feeling I might have given it away).

Doodle4Doodle Letter

Oct. 22nd, 2025 03:43 pm
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[personal profile] 27twinsister
 Hi, I'm 27twinsister, and welcome to my letter for...Doodle4Doodle? I don't usually make art and never have for exchanges but I'm trying something new lol. It's exciting!

This letter is basically just me putting my rambling thoughts about each fandom/character somewhere. If you want to go based on the general likes in my request that's fine, but if you want more canon-specific ideas you might find them here? Though first I'm repeating some info from my signup.

Blanket DNWs: Eyestrain, Strobe Lights, Smut, Pregnancy, Graphic Injuries/Gore, Major Character Death, Genderswaps

General Art Likes Stuff:

My favourite colour is purple but a lot of these characters are associated with other colours so like that’s good too! I like seeing close-ups of characters when possible.

Generally for this exchange I’d like something domestic, cute, fluffy, slice-of-life-y. I know the canons I've requested have violence but I’d prefer violence/injuries to be minor, offscreen/out of frame, or already patched up. And I'm good with getting any art style/medium!

Romantic Likes: Cuddling, Kissing (on the lips/cheek/hands), Holding Hands, basically I’m describing physical affection without sex

Kamen Rider Gotchard

Requesting: Hopper1, Tsuruhara Sabimaru, Ichou Renge/Tsuruhara Sabimaru

Fandom-Specific DNWs: Human AU of Hopper1 or other chemmies, Kamen Rider Dread

Hopper1 is very cute and I like seeing it do cute things. It’s so baby. Let it be cute and baby.

I like Sabimaru he’s very sweet and smart. Interactions with chemmies or doing alchemy could be really cool!

I DNW Kamen Rider Dread but making original forms of Sabimaru and/or Renge as Kamen Riders could be cool if you have ideas of what that would look like. Also feel free to draw them in casual clothes (besides their alchemy uniform).

For shipping Sabimaru/Renge, see the Romance Likes! I think Sabi has a crush on Renge and would be shy/easily nervous about it regardless of if she likes him back.

King-Ohger

Requesting: Gira Husty, Jeramie Brasieri/Gira Husty, Moffun & Rita

Fandom-Specific Exception: Smut allowed for Jeramie/Gira, but keep things consensual and genitals offscreen/out of frame. For Rita and the genderswaps DNW, I'd prefer they wear masculine clothes or their usual outfit and not wear makeup. Moffun can wear whatever.
 
I think Gira’s really cute and handsome just as a person. He can be cute and smiley and I’ll be happy.

Jeramie is also very handsome and I think Gira should sit on his lap and they could hold hands and make out and like you get the point. Smut okay for this pair but keep things consensual and genitals offscreen/out of frame.

Or for something completely different: Rita and Moffun! I’m mostly thinking of the giant Moffun plushie but the small ones are cute too. They could wear matching outfits and stuff. Rita talking with Moffun or having tea parties or that kind of stuff with Moffun would be cute.

Hundred Line - Last Defense Academy

Sumino Takumi, Shion | Undying Flames Boy

Fandom-Specific DNW: Eito

Takumi is so good and I like him in most routes. He deserves to sleep in his comfy bed for 99 days lol, especially after some more scary/intense routes. I also quite liked going exploring in-game and finding items (the cassette player and the red fabric- I like it best as a superhero cape- come to mind). Basically sometimes the game has these moments where I’m like oh yeah this is really nice and nothing hurts and I’d like to see moments like that visually.

For the Undying Flames Boy, I quite enjoy his avatar/ghostly appearance (yes, even with the flames) and like seeing him interacting with other characters and going to the festivals and stuff like that. I remember getting a dialogue with Shouma who said Gaku said there was a ghost in the school bathrooms. And while it could be made up/a prank and didn’t affect the story, like, there IS a ghost in the school, technically. It’s unlikely that was Shion, but it’s possible. (Don’t feel limited to just that interaction, him appearing in other places or around other people in general is cool)

Thanks if you read this, and I look forward to seeing what you make!

yuletide letter 2025

Oct. 22nd, 2025 01:50 pm
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Yuletide, baby!

Thank you for signing up, dear writer, and thank you for offering in one of these fandoms. I know I will love whatever you write, and I hope you have fun!

Some general likes: character pieces, thoughtful world-building, plot that explores alternate beginnings and endings. Angst with happy or at least resolved endings. Closed door sex but public flirting and maybe even some cheeky foreplay. Dialogue. Apocalypse is always fun. Crossovers!

Some general dislikes: alternate settings unless requested, explicit sex, real-world politics unless it's a real-world property to begin with. Non-requested character deaths. Gore.

Specifics under individual cuts.

North and South )

The Stand )

The Diplomat - request is spoilery through season three )

Daisy Jones and the Six )
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