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Fic and playlist (with commentary)
Nov. 20th, 2023 10:21 pmI've recently finished watching the CBS adaptation of Ghosts recently and I am now, to put it mildly, completely consumed with it, and with a particular ship in it (featuring the ghost of a standoffish and repressed aristocratic Gilded Age woman in her early fifties and the ghost of a douchey fratboy Y2K finance bro in with a heart of gold in his early thirties), and I want to do little more than make fanworks for it.
Over the past three(?) days I've written a fic and made a playlist and wrote commentary about it and uploaded both.Details and links below, for those curious! (mildly nsfw and there are spoilers for season two of CBS Ghosts)
Fandom: Ghosts (2021)
Title: [playlist and commentary] H-Money Can't Buy Me Love
Relationship/characters: Trevor Lefkowitz/Hetty Woodstone
Time: 01:07:00
Word count: 3284
Rating: Teen and up (for language and non-graphic sexual refrences).
Warning(s): N/A, I think? I'm a bit jokingly mean about Hetty's emotional repression, if that's something you might be sensitive to, but it is not meant with sincere malice.
Summary: This follows closely along with how the characters got together in canon, with them initially hooking up to help each other out when they were both very sexually frustrated, which transitioned into a secret affair that Trevor was under the impression Hetty only wanted to be secret to make it more thrilling, but was devastated when he realised that she would really be embarrassed by people finding out when someone does find out and tries to blackmail them. They break it off, briefly, and then get back together when Hetty realises that she let go of a good thing and they tell everyone that they are together. They do also, subsequently, pretend to break up in a later episode and go back to being together secretly, but I think that's mostly so they don't have to go on double dates they find boring rather than out of a reluctance to have an emotionally committed relationship instead of a spicy affair.
Fandom: Ghosts (2021)
Title: La Petite Naissance
Relationship/characters: Trevor Lefkowitz/Hetty Woodstone
Word count: 3058
Rating: Explicit
Warning(s): (mild) unnegotiated kink, insecurity and anxiety about (consensual) sex due to sexual inexperience
Summary: In canon Hetty originally thinks that it is not possible for people of her anatomy to orgasm (or, seemingly, feel sexual arousal at all) until another ghost suggests she sit on an old, clattery washing mashine and she finds it somewhat revelatory. The inspiration for this fic came from an idea I had during a conversation with another author in the fandom, wytchwoods, in the comments of their excellent fic Human Contact where Hetty has her first orgasm with Trevor. They mentioned being disappointed that canon had later contradicted that, because Flower said that Hetty's first orgasm was on the washing machine, but I thought that didn't really count as being categorically jossed, because maybe Hetty had mistakenly thought she'd had an orgasm on the washing machine, but had just been very turned on and didn't know how to tell the difference, because it had never happened before. And once she did know better, that she just allowed Flower to spread that particular piece of misinformation without correcting it, so she didn't have to deal with the fact that it had been Trevor who'd got her there the first time and that, maybe, she wasn't entirely unmoved by his role in that. Or, indeed, think about the fact that he might mean more to her than being a convenient means of getting off. And then I immediately wrote a fic about that, lol.
