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It's about time I did one of these, yeah?

So! These are sorted alphabetically by fandom, and within each fandom by when I wrote them. For multi-chapter stories, the link will go to the first chapter; you can navigate to the other chapters from within the stories.

Those stories which are either finished or which I anticipate finishing (that is to say, everything except A Bad Year for Slytherins) are also on AO3, and everything with a PG-13 rating or under is also on ff.net, if for whatever reason you prefer to read them in those places.

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Service

Fandom: The Vorkosigan Saga

Characters: Original characters. And one canon character, but I won't spoil you.

Rating: PG

Word count: 2,100

Summary: When they played Vordarian's Pretendership, Yegor said he'd be Lady Vorkosigan. Georgos snickered and called him Lady Delacroix, but Yegor didn't mind. He got to chop off the Pretender's head.

Yegor Delacroix, growing up in the Imperial Service Orphanage, dreams of serving the Imperium like his father.

Thanks to: avanti_90 for a quick and incisive beta, and also possibly for providing the seed of the story in the first place. (Neither of us quite remembers.)

Warning: References to canonical rape

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And here's my contribution to the rarewomen exchange, posted here for your convenience. (Your convenience, my attention-seeking; six of one, half-a-dozen of the other . . .)

Five Strays Elizabeth Naismith took in (and One That Got Away)

Fandom: The Vorkosigan Saga

Characters and Relationships: Elizabeth Naismith, Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, Elli Quinn, Ethan Urquhart, Kareen Koudelka, Ekaterin Vorsoisson Vorkosigan, Elizabeth Naismith & Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan

Rating: G

Word count: 2,600

Summary: Dear Cordelia,

I'm sure I don't need to tell you that Miles is a charming and intelligent young man; I've been enjoying his company immensely. He's made plenty of friends, and taken to the social opportunities at school with a great deal of verve. (For more details, please see the attached disciplinary reports from Principal Hatter.)

This one's for: joking

Warning: Canonical character death

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The rarewomen stories have been revealed, and I got a follow-up to "The Hundredth Dream of Carol Oneir"!

You can read it here:

Dream On by Qem

It's got some really chewy ideas about how Carol's growth as an artist affected the events of the original story, as well as fun ideas about what happened to the Cast of Thousands afterwards. I'm really quite happy with it.

afterandalasia, who is phenomenal, has been podficcing. Among other things, she's recorded the Slave Aladdin series, started by imaginary_golux on disney_kink and continued by myself and mercuriazs.

You can listen to them here:

Jafar's Boy
Anima
It's Lonely at the Top

As you may have gathered by the title of the series, the first two of these feature explicit depictions of rape. (The last one only contains references to rape.) You've been warned.

No lie, I kind of had to psych myself up before listening. It's weird how awkward I found the idea of listening to my story read aloud. But it was totally worth it, afterandalasia did a splendid job.

Last week was secret-soup's birthday. You may know Soup as the person who drew Henrietta; she definitely gets a seat on the lifeboat. Also, I drew her a comic in which Mordecai tells off Christopher at the end of Conrad's Fate:

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Because Chrestomanci fandom is just too darn active nowadays, I've decided to have a go at a different completely-dead-except-for-Yuletide fandom.

No, actually, I recently read Meredith Ann Pierce's Darkangel Trilogy and really enjoyed it. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but if it is your kind of thing you will like it. That's an even less helpful statement than you might think, because it is unlike just about everything out there--for instance, despite what the packaging on the edition I read would have you believe, it is definitely not medievally vampire romance.

Anyway! In a series where women and the relationships between women are very prominent, I seem to have written slash between two dudes who never interact in canon. I feel like one of those misogynistic slash fangirls everyone always complains about. I am a bit embarrassed, but I'm not sorry.

Pilgrim's Road to Crystalglass

Fandom: Meredith Ann Pierce, Darkangel Trilogy

Pairing: Roshka/Irrylath

Rating: PG-13

Word count: 3,800

Summary: Some said the pilgrim's call had first gone out when the Aeriel arrived in Crystalglass. In truth, the call had come upon the world so gradually that no one could say for certain how it had started, only that they heard it now. Not a compulsion, but a constant reminder: Help is here. Everything that moved in the world felt the call, and knew where to find Crystalglass at need.

Irrylath goes to Crystalglass. Roshka goes with him.

Warning: Allusions to rape and sexual abuse of minors, both canonical and extrapolated.

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I have been remiss in not posting this earlier, but check it out, everyone:



That there is Henrietta Gelek, enchantress, former street criminal, reluctant Tibetan priest, and the heroine of my story Endless Knot.

secret-soup drew her, because secret-soup is awesome like that.

The Hunt of the Unicorn

Chapter 3: The Unicorn Leaps the Stream

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2

Fandom: The Chronicles of Chrestomanci

Characters: Gabriel de Witt, Jed Farleigh, Elijah Pinhoe, Benjamin Allworthy, Molly the Unicorn, original characters

Rating: PG-13

Word count: 1,400

Summary: "Your mum's an abomination, Jacky Callow," said Elijah, struggling to his knees.

"Elijah? What's happened to you?"

"Not you, clearly." Elijah's lip curled. "Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn."

Seventy years before the events of The Pinhoe Egg, a group of wizards goes shooting on the grounds of Chrestomanci Castle, and there's things abroad in the woods.

Note: The title of this story, as well as the chapter titles, comes from a series of tapestries made in the Netherlands around 1500. I'll be including the relevant tapestry with each chapter, because.

Oh and also: what I know about game shooting I learned in a mad scramble to research this story. Please feel free to correct my ignorance.

This one's for: coeurgryffondor.

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From now on, all Vorkosigan fic will be written in sonnet form: so moved.

The Olivia/Dono romance in A Civil Campaign has always seemed somewhat rushed. Of course, neither of them are viewpoint characters, so we don't know what was going on with them behind the scenes. What if Olivia and Donna had been lovers before Donna ever went to Beta Colony?

I asked for Olivia/Donna for Winterfair, and gramina wrote me the following poem:

Changes

Go read it; it's lovely.