Snowflake catch up: day 11

Jan. 24th, 2024 11:23 pm
obstinatecondolement: (from eden)

Challenge #11

In your own space, create a fanwork.

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I've just posted the fic I wanted to use to fill this challenge with! I don't imagine it's going to have much broad appeal, since the AO3 tag has all of 11 works, three of which I wrote and two of which were gifts for me, but here it is all the same.

Fandom: Porridge (more specifically the spin-off Going Straight)
Title: I'll Always Feel Just the Same
Relationship/characters: Norman Stanley Fletcher/Lennie Godber
Word count: 7739 words
Warning(s): Homophobia (internalised and systemic), biphobia, systemic inequality, implied past dubiously consensual sex, insecurity about being a financial provider, some ironic in-character disparaging remarks about social welfare, references to prejudice against people who've been in prison/a lack of opportunities to make a living within the bounds of the law after being released from prison.
Summary: Godber catches Fletch trying to sneak out to dig up the field in Essex where he buried ill-gotten gains from his past. Sex and emotional catharsis ensues.

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Snowflake day 5

Jan. 9th, 2024 08:36 pm
obstinatecondolement: (SamTory red purple)

Search in your current space, whether brick-and-mortar or digital. Post a picture (a link to a picture will be fine!) or description of something that is or represents:

1. Something your favorite character would like
2. Something that makes you laugh
3. A fandom place you would like to visit
4. A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet
5. Something you find comforting
6. Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood
7. A piece of clothing you love
8. A book or song with a color in the title
9. Something only someone in your fandom would understand

  1. Something your favorite character would like
    This one was tricky! For one, I have so many characters who I love it would be hard to single out out as my absolute number one favourite, and for another I am quite different from a lot of my favourite characters in the things I like, or at least am a bit short on stuff they'd like at the moment. So, in the spirit of a well-intentioned relative doing their very best:
    It's the thought that counts, Blorbo...

    A brown sock next to another partially knitted brown sock

    Who doesn't love nice, warm hand knitted socks? They're made from 100% alpaca fibre yarn! Well, almost 100%, there's a bit of polyamide in there to make them more hardwearing. But all the better, really, less darning! Really, Blorbo, you could be a little grateful.

  2. Something that makes you laugh
    This one was a lot easier, because I was in the middle of laughing at it when I first read today's challenge on the [community profile] snowflake_challenge community.
    You gotta make your own fun sometimes...

    Cover art for a podcast titled 'An Oral History of Trek Rarepair Swap with cosmic_llin and SweetPollyOliver, ft. misc. squeeing about the ships that started it all.' On the cover is an image of Worf and Data in front of a heart as well as one of Seven of Nine and Sarina Douglas.

    This is a once-off single episode podcast I recorded with my fellow [tumblr.com profile] trek-rarepair-swap co-mod [personal profile] cosmic_llin recently for [community profile] voiceteam's Mystery Box 2023 event. The challege was Temptation and [archiveofourown.org profile] bluedreaming tempted people to record a mini-podcast or oral not!fic about their favourite overlooked fandom/rare ship/etc., which I all but jumped at and immediately asked the mods if it would be okay to record something with a non-Mystery Box participant if I did the rest of the work of creating the audio work, i.e. organising, editing and cover art, etc., and fortunately they gave me the all clear.

    It was really lovely to record this with Llin and reminisce on the magical four years we spent modding [tumblr.com profile] trek-rarepair-swap together, the amazing community that built around it, the many wonderful fanworks that were created for it, and the Star Trek rarepairs of our own that inspired the creation of the swap.

    If you're interested, you can listen to the pod on AO3 via an embedded stream, or you can use the download link on the work to get a copy of the MP3. Or not, this is not intended as a hard sell, haha. But in my subjective opinion it is a pleasant 51 minutes of listening to two Star Trek nerds being silly.

  3. A fandom place you would like to visit
    Now, to be clear, I am not saying that this would be a good idea, but:
    All roads lead to...

    A photograph of a copy of the Discworld novel The Truth

    or rather away from, the Big Wahoonie itself: Ankh-Morpork! More specifically, the offices of The Ankh-Morpork Times to visit William de Worde, who in many ways is The pedantic, morally scrupulous, yet often a bit of a dick, OCD/autistic character of all time. Also, going to visit a newspaper office at a place that's vaguely analogous to a Gutenberg-era print shop is too good a chance to pass up.

  4. A fandom creator (pro or not) you'd like to meet
    I am going to cheat here and pick two...

    A photograph of two books: Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik and Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

    I went to World Con 2019 in no small part to see both of these creators. Sadly, Lindsay Ellis overslept, I think due to jet-lag, and missed the panel she was supposed to do on the day I had a ticket for, but I did get to go to two things where Naomi Novik spoke, which were both fabulous. In one, she read the first chapter of the then-upcoming A Deadly Education. She was a very engaging and funny speaker and had both sets of crowds in the palm of her hand.

    I've loved Novik's Temereaire series for years, and reading Spinning Silver was what finally got me to get my drop spindle out again after having it for a full year before then but not being able to figure out how to use it from videos, and I at long last managed to crack how to get the first bit of fluff to catch onto my leader thread, which has brought a great deal of fun and quality of life to me in the years since. From reading Novik's work, I really like her sense of humour and her ideas, and I think she'd be fun to chat to in a low stakes sort of setting.

    And, regarding my cheat-y second pick, it would be nice to see Lindsay Ellis speak in person at some point, even if I didn't get to "meet" her, since I didn't get the chance to see her panel in 2019.

  5. Something you find comforting
    This one was a doozy...

    A photograph of a Hobonichi 5-year-journal, with the top lefthand box for Jan 1 2024 written in. On the page opposite, a small photograph has been printed out and stuck down of a laptop playing an episode of Porridge on set up on a tray, which also has an in-progress brown sock on four double-pointed knitting needles sitting in front of it.

    I've blurred most of the handwriting here to protect the innocent, or myself at any rate, but this is a kind of three, or perhaps even four-for-one thing that I find comforting. Firstly, I find planners and journals very helpful in terms of using pen and paper as a better memory than my fallible meaty brain and in helping me unplug a bit and do something tactile to stop my eyes from getting too square from looking at a screen. Secondly, I also like printing out digital photos on either of my two Polaroid printers, because I so often lose my photographs when I change phones, or I never back them up, and it's nice to just have them somewhere printed out and maybe stuck down. Even, and maybe especially, silly fandom-y ones. Thirdly and fourthly, in the photo-in-the-photo here, you can see my current knitting project, which is another non-digital hobby I am trying to give more time to, and the show that's paused on my laptop in the photo is Porridge, which I've been finding to be very comforting to revisit recently.

    More specifically about journaling though, I have found that with my five-year Hobonichi journal, I've been trying to talk about the things, which so far this year have mostly been silly little fandom things, I'm doing that I want to remember five years from now, and that I want to remember how I felt about them at the time.

    It has been kind of interesting having a five-year journal for the first time, because I've been finding myself very hestitant to be too optimistic about looking ahead, knowing that I will be looking back on what I'm writing, because historically with journaling it has been a bit dispiriting reading about things I wanted/intended/thought I would do that never happened or didn't work out.

    But I suppose that's all part of life, really, and I do want to be able to capture how I really feel in part because I know it will change and I don't want to fall prey to thinking that I don't change my mind and that I've always thought X, Y or Z. The only constant is change, but I like to keep in touch with my past self and write my future self letters about how I'm getting on, you know? So I have, at the very least, been writing down that I'm worried about being optimistic and that it feels foolish, because I don't want to forget that's how I felt. I don't want to put on a brave face to my future self and hope the shame of having over-promised how well I'd do will keep me on the straight and narrow, but I also don't want to self-censor out of some kind of misguided PR-motivated impulse to not look foolish to myself.

  6. Something from a favorite TV series or movie from your childhood
    I actually had another plan for this one, until I saw this during the IRL portion of my scavenger hunt...

    A photograph of Vol 2 of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers trade paperback published by Boom! Comics.

    It wasn't actually the Boom! comics that got me into my brief, but intense, summer of writing Bulk/Skull fic and talking about Power Rangers on Tumblr in 2016, but it was this intense revisitation of my childhood favourite that led me to read the first few volumes of the MMPR and Go Go Power Rangers comics. I sort of fell off around Shattered Grid, and did intend on catching up again at one point, but there has been a lot of lamentation and rending of garments about writing choices that the comics have made from the people I follow on Tumblr who have kept up, so I may or may not at this point.

    Regardless though, it's nice to be reminded of my summer of Power Rangers, because that felt like a very pure and unabashed expression of fannish joy and I want to do that more often for whatever niche corners of fandom I find myself in. It was also around that time that I was revisiting a lot of stuff from my childhood again and allowing myself to just be self-indulgent and juvenile about liking what I liked, up to and including campy '90s shows with questionable monster costumes, which is another thing I want to remember to do more often.

  7. A piece of clothing you love
    In the context of #3, this one is kind of funny...

    A photograph of a blue Ray Spooner Aloha shirt with a repeating pattern of simplified illustrations based on the cover art of albums by The Beach Boys

    I coveted this Beach Boys-print Aloha shirt a lot before I bought it, because I was, at the time, trying very hard to be better about not buying things on the other side of the world impulsively and wanted to a) buy less new clothes in general and b) buy fewer clothes that weren't 100% natural fibres (this is 50/50 cotton and polyester IIRC). However, after about 5 weeks of sitting on my hands and Thinking Seriously about if I Really Needed it, I bought it. Just in time, really, because my size was very nearly sold out and it's a limited edition print that wasn't going to be brought back in stock. But I absolutely love it and I feel that it is very representative of me as a person, so I think that counts as mindful consumption, haha.

    I have been trying to be more comfortable with the fact that I am not ever going to be able to pull off the willowy androgyne, or tall lumberjack, take on masculinity just because of my basic body type, which even with HRT can only change so much. I will always be short and round with small hands and feet, but that's okay because there are lots of short, round-faced men (and otherwise masculine-of-centre people) and they are great, so if I'm more of the Justin McElroy school of masculine gender presentation then I want to do that very hard and on purpose instead of living in bland unisex clothes that I try to hide in. I've fallen off a bit on this fashion-effort lately, so this is a good reminder to keep persisting in trying to get better at this.

    And, regarding what I said about the relationship to #3, I wore this shirt when I was going to visit some friends in North Wales, one of whom happened to be wearing a Rincewind shirt when I got off the train. The friend wearing the Rincewind shirt took my luggage for me and my other friend remarked, shortly after I got done taking a photograph of the sign for Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch,* "Um, so I've noticed something here..." and we all had a good laugh about me doing touristy things while I was doing an unintentional closet cosplay of Twoflower and my friend was channeling Rincewind at the same time. I, fortunately, did not leave my luggage in Wales, however.

    *Which, incidentally, is a request only stop, so I had to tell the conductor that it was where I was disembarking ahead of time, a task for which I prepared by relentlessly drilling myself with Welsh language tutorials on YouTube and getting Welsh friends at [community profile] vidukon_cardiff, where I was travelling from, to tutor me on the pronunciation before I left the hotel. All told, I spent almost a full day on this preparation (remember what I said about finding William de Worde relatable?), only, after all that, for the conductor to tell me he was getting off at Chester and I would have to tell the next fella.

    Should you ever be in this situation though, I have been reliably informed that you don't have to say the whole name, and would seem like a bit of a try-hard if you attempted to, and all that you need to do is say "Llanfair-PG" or, if you really want to seem like you're in the know, "Llanfairpwllgwyngyll." I tried the latter the first time pretty successfully with conductor #1, but stumbled at the fence by not taking a long enough run up to it with conductor #2, and had to resort to shamefacedly saying that I'd meant Llanfair-PG.

    The rather unfortuante thing is that even with an abbreviated version of the name in question, I'm really bad at the ll sound in Welsh (to say nothing of other sounds in Welsh that weren't there to trip me up on this occasion, like the trilled r), so I run into issues straight away. But, as an Irish person who gets very irate about tourists on the train who do not even attempt to learn how to say Irish language place-names and just blithely and confidently mangle them by assuming they should be pronounced like English, I wanted to do my best and make a genuine attempt. Which, unfortunately, was not amazing. Better luck next time, I guess, lol. At least I knew that written Welsh has it's own phonetic conventions that are not identical to written English, I suppose?
    [return to where you left off.]

  8. A book or song with a color in the title
    This is very cheeky, but...

    Cover art for a filk titled 'Under a Blanket of Green' and subtitled 'an ode to blanket permission'

    I also recorded this filk for [community profile] voiceteam's Mystery Box event. It's based on Under a Blanket of Blue, as performed by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. I was taking part in a Filk Broken Telephone and the work before mine was 'Meet me in the blanket fort' (based on Meet Me in the Battlefield) by [archiveofourown.org profile] irrationalpie, so this seemed like a good lead on from that and I liked the opportunity for green as a reference to [archiveofourown.org profile] BrickGrass's browser extension that highlights the usernames of users on [archiveofourown.org profile] Rindle's directory of creators with blanket permission statements for transformative works of their fanworks in green, because an audio fanwork event seemed like the right venue for a work about blanket permission statements.

    I do a fair bit of amateur singing and other kinds of music in a non-fannish context, but this is the first time I've made an attempt at a musical fanwork, so I hope it turned out okay. If I was doing it again I'd use my other mic, because this sounded a bit tinny, but I think it's listenable.

    If you're curious, you can click on the image itself to follow the link to the AO3 work, or for convenience, here's another link here. But absolutely no pressure, and I am linking purely in case people wanted to hear it to save them from hunting it down or asking for a link. My 2024 fandom mission statement is doing whatever I want whether people are interested or not, so if you're not interested then that's genuinely fine.

  9. Something only someone in your fandom would understand
    Some more cheekiness...

    A screenshot of a Porridge fic by SweetPollyOliver titled Cockatoo in Malibu

    Once again, the image is a link and here is another one, haha. But also, once again, I genuinely do not expect anyone to make use of either of these links and am just putting them there on the off-chance someone does want a link and, honestly, to scratch the itch caused by the HTML-fuelled goblin that lives in my brain.

    I'm mostly including this at all to show that I am walking the walk re: doing whatever niche bullshit I want as I resolved to as part of my day #2 resolutions, because I've already written another fic for one of the micro fandoms I nominated, requested, and offered for Yuletide,* in addition to the one I wrote for my assignment.

    I am 10,000% delighted with how well I did out of Yuletide this year—so much in fact that I still wanted to write more because I was all fired up. So I did. Even though it will be completely impenetratible to, I'm gonna say, 100% of the people who are subscribed to my AO3 profile. And I may still write more! I have an idea for a vid too.

    *And, happily, which I was gifted two wonderful fics for as well, Long Drawn Sunday Night by [personal profile] twoam and A Bit of Bottle by [personal profile] nomadicwriter, as having the opportunity to write one of my own, What Good Are Cupid's Arrows to a Fletcher Without a Beau?, for my recip [archiveofourown.org profile] Emma_Oz.
    [return to where you left off.]

I got very link happy in this, so if any are broken, give me a shout in the comments and I'll fix them.

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P.S. I've screened comments on this because of a minor brain weasels concern about [REDACTED], but I've unscreened every comment I've gotten so far and if yours is screened for a while I'm probably just asleep or haven't checked DW for a bit.

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Fic and playlist (with commentary)

Nov. 20th, 2023 10:21 pm
obstinatecondolement: A meter similar to a speedometer colour coded from green up to red in various gradations of colour, each with an image of a chili pepper on them. The needle is pointing to the extreme red end of the scale. The caption reads, "Mild auism? Nah, my autism is spicy." Flames appear behind the text (spicy autism)

I'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)

A screencap of Hetty gripping Trevor by the chin while they both sit on a bed which has been edited to resemble a damaged old photograph and captioned 'H-Money Can't Buy Me Love'

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.

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*taps mic* Is this thing on?

Sep. 1st, 2023 03:16 pm
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)
So! I have been incommunicado on here for Some Time now, but I thought I'd swing by and write a quick update.
RL stuff involving workplace bullying and mental illnessI've been having kind of A Time of it with my mental health and various RL things—I was bullied very badly at work by a supervisor and eventually let go at the end of the probationary period*, which has been a blow. I will be starting a 1–2 year accountancy technician course soon though, so onwards and upwards.

In more fandom-y news however, I participated in [community profile] pod_together for the second year, and had a great time. I was in two teams: one as a writer and one as a podficcer. I also contributed some line readings to the team I wrote for, because it was a Discworld fic and I thought that having a second reader for the footnotes would help mitigate potential confusion.

I wrote Radio Killed the Semaphore Star which [personal profile] semperfiona adapted to audio in the podfic version of the story. It's a post-canon imagining of the invention of radio on Discworld (full credit for this premise to [personal profile] semperfiona! I thought it was such a great idea for this event) in the form of various connected vignettes featuring different sets of characters interacting with and reacting to the new medium. The podfic is very creative and [personal profile] semperfiona did a great job with it.

The podfic I made for the event was [Podfic] Death with Dignity, based on a fic by [archiveofourown.org profile] Thebiwife's fic Death with Dignity. The story is s an examination of the social model of disability through the lens of Deanna Troi's backstory and the extent to which she experiences extra sensory abilities having been aritrarily pathologised both on Betazed and Earth depending on what's considered the "default" where she happens to be at the time. In the final part of the fic, she interacts with everyone's favourite ex-Maquis Betazoid murderer, Lon Suder from Star Trek: Voyager, whose lack of empathic abilities have also been pathologised and problematised throughout his life. The fic is very poignant and I think it hit it out of the park.

There is a fully soundscaped version of the audio version I made featuring some intro and outro music, in addition to many bells and whistles as I could jam in artfully integrate from a combination of sound effects available on TrekCore and Free Sound. This was my first time experimenting with audio effects beyond just trying to get the raw audio of my own recording cleaner with noise reduction and the Audacity de-esser plugin etc., and I had a lot of fun with it.

For people who prefer less busy audio in their podfics, there is also an effects light version that is mostly vanilla audio with the exception of a little echo and reverb added to telepathic lines of dialogue—there are time stamps for the above lines in the work itself as well as information and time stamps for specific sound effects I thought could trigger misophonia in the soundscaped version. I will try and add a completely vanilla version in the near future!

*Possibly these are somewhat related, but it was also just... a mess there for various reasons that I don't think were my fault and I frankly think that it was a terrible management decision to let me go and they didn't know what a good thing they had with me, but you'll have to take my word for it. I also got fired almost immediately after disclosing my disability, so. Lol. [click to return]
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Fic: howling outside your door (Gerri/Roman)

Feb. 15th, 2023 11:16 pm
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)
I wrote a Succession fic for Psychic Wolves for Lupercalia!

Title: howling outside your door
Fandom: Succession
Rating: Explicit
Category: F/M
Ship: Gerri Kellman/Roman Roy
Word Count: 3476
Additional Tags: POV Gerri Kellman, Something Made Them Do It, Psychic Wolves, Psychic Bond, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Dubious Consent, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, inspired by A Companion to Wolves, Gerri Kellman Has an Orgasm

Content warnings: The dubious consent tag relates to the people bonded to psychic wolves getting caught up in their mating instincts and being compelled to have sex with the person bonded to the wolf who their wolfsibling is mating with. Gerri sees this coming a mile away months before it happens and her general feelings about it is "I will never recover from this professionally" but she also does not avoid it by taking another job and when they do have sex she's very into it. Additional content warning for a reference to animal cruelty and emotional abuse (Logan gonna Logan).

Summary: Gerri had never expected, when she lost Baird, that his wolfbrother would bond with her, but it was manageable... until Roman fucking Roy came back from L.A. at the heels of an alpha female wolf whose strut was almost as cocksure and arrogant as his, turning every lupine head in the building.


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Fic: Carmilla Has Nothin' on Me (Sam/Tory, Cobra Kai)

Feb. 5th, 2023 09:32 pm
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)
Title: Carmilla Has Nothin' on Me
Fandom: Cobra Kai (TV)
Rating: Mature
Category: F/F
Ship: Samantha LaRusso/Tory Nichols
Word Count: 1975
Additional Tags: House Party, Menstruation, Bisexual Disaster Samantha LaRusso, Enemies to Friends to Lovers (Sam hopes), Sexual Fantasies, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Tension, Menstrual Sex (but only in Sam's imagination), described by my beta as being funny‚ horny and gross (complimentary), Femslash February

Summary: In which Tory pulls Sam aside to ask her for sanitary protection and Sam is only slightly disappointed that she isn't about to get fucked by her ex-karate rival at a house party.

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Snowflake day 14

Jan. 27th, 2023 07:13 pm
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)
Challenge #14

In your own space, do the Fandom Wrap Challenge. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
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Fic: Poly What Now? (LawRusso)

Jan. 25th, 2023 07:17 pm
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)
Title: Poly What Now?
Fandom: Cobra Kai, Karate Kid
Characters/Pairings: Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence, Miguel Diaz/Robby Keene/Samantha LaRusso/Tory Nichols (mentioned), Carmen Diaz/Johnny Lawrence (mentioned), Amanda LaRusso/Daniel LaRusso (mentioned), Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence/Ali Mills (mentioned), one-sided Daniel LaRusso/Terry Silver (mentioned)
Word Count: 1100
Rating: Teens and Up

Summary: Daniel and Johnny are discussing a newly formed polyamorous relationship between Sam, Robby, Miguel and Tory when Johnny, seemingly not realising that it's a big deal to suggest this, says that they should have given that a whirl in high school. Daniel spirals.

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Jan. 20th, 2023 08:58 pm
obstinatecondolement: Text against a black background which reads, "And we went into what historians called the stupid fucker period." The text is in all caps and the last three words are in white while the rest is in yellow. There is a line drawing of a lightbulb drawn in yellow in the bottom left corner (stupid fucker period)
Psst, if anyone's interested, I wrote a short sequel to that Gerri/Roman fic I linked to yesterday in which, a year after the first fic takes place, Roman accidentally mixes up his mother's Mother's Day card and the one he got for Gerri. Hilarity (and angst) ensues.
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Snowflake day 10

Jan. 19th, 2023 11:02 pm
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)
Challenge #10

In your own space, create a fanwork.


So this came at a fortuitous time, because I just had the idea for this fic yesterday. It was going to be for an exchange, but then it edged a bit too close to one of the DNWs, in spirit if nothing else, i.e. if someone DNWed daddy kink, I felt it would be a dick move to write them mommy kink. I guess I could have emailed the mods to double check, because there are certainly people who are squicked by the former but not the latter, and vice versa, but I had another idea so I thought I'd just go with that. I still really liked this idea though, so I planned to write it eventually. Which turned out to be sooner than I thought!

Title: A Quite Complex Complex
Rating: Explicit
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: F/M
Fandom: Succession (TV 2018)
Relationship: Gerri Kellman/Roman "Romulus" Roy
Characters: Gerri Kellman, Roman "Romulus" Roy
Additional Tags: POV Roman "Romulus" Roy, Roman "Romulus" Roy Has a Mommy Kink, Bad Decisions, Kink Negotiation, (not presented in a best practices light lol), Phone Sex, Gerri Kellman Does Not Have an Orgasm, set in a nebulous pre-texting incident canon divergent au, where they communicated boundaries to each other SLIGHTLY better.
Language: English
Published: 2023-01-19
Words: 1476
Chapters: 1/1

Summary: Roman sends Gerri a Mother's Day card As A Joke™ because this is how mature adults drop hints that they want to try certain kinks.

Read at AO3

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2022 in fic

Jan. 2nd, 2023 12:46 am
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)
Here is a list of all the fic that I wrote (or updated) in 2022.

( list under the cut )

I also posted some podfics and vids in 2022, which I might put together a (much shorter) list of.
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2021 year in review: fic

Dec. 28th, 2021 10:08 pm
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)
In 2021 I posted 100471 words to Ao3, up from 39624 in 2020.

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Fic post

Jun. 6th, 2019 01:25 pm
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)
This is a bit of a long shot, because I don't know if any of you watch The Tick, but I wrote something.

Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandom: The Tick (TV 2017)
Relationship: Arthur/The Tick (The Tick)
Characters: Arthur Everest, Miranda (The Tick 2017), The Tick (The Tick)
Additional Tags: First Dates, First Kiss, Fluff

Summary: Normal twenty (mumble) year olds went on dates and so, apparently, did Arthur now.

Read at Archive of our Own
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Couldn't help myself

Jan. 23rd, 2019 11:14 pm
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)
Here's my table for the first quarter [community profile] fluffbingo challenge

Paradise Summer Romance Reverent Closer Lips
Insatiable First Time Nerves J'adore Make Up
Dinner First Date ♥ Free Space ♥ First Sight Serendipity
Gift Wish Longing Dance Song
Love Jones Absence Heart Happy Perfume
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Because I don't have enough to be doing...

Jan. 21st, 2019 07:56 pm
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)

Here's my table for the [community profile] 100fandoms challenge. 23/100 squares complete as of September 16, 2023.

001.
universe
The Glory of the Fuck
Blazing Saddles (1974)
 002.edge 003.cleave 004.distance 005.away
006.
home
Simple Comforts
Star Trek: Discovery
 007.key 008.star 009.dust 010.shadows
011.
old
Diplomatea
Imperial Radch
 012.
new
Radio Killed the Semaphore Star
Discworld
 013.
borrowed
I Now Pronounce You Royally Fucked
The Tick (TV 2017)
 014.blue 015.promise
016.dishonour 017.wreck 018.
fix
close knit strands of an unbroken thread
Good Omens (TV)
 019.crack 020.discover
021.
fiddle
Sunrise, Sunset
Star Trek: TNG
 022.fire 023.
water
Sublimation
The Magicians (TV)
 024.waves 025.salt
026.balm 027.
fear
Must Not Lose to Fear
Cobra Kai (TV)
 028.wear 029.
mask
Silly love songs
The Witcher (TV)
 030.truth
031.courage 032.
hope
The Care of Orchids After Blooming
Cagney and Lacey
 033.raised 034.fall 035.spring
036.
birth
Kissing Cousins
Succession (TV 2018)
 037.morning 038.welcome 039.
belong
Kodiak Island Drifting
A League of Their Own (TV 2022)
 040.share
041.count 042.mean 043.
teasing
Quiet as a Mouse (My Mother Can Hear Like a Bat)
Star Trek: DS9
 044.fantasy 045.game
046.work 047.
bed
My Husband's Wife
Leverage
 048.
turn
the greatest gift our parents ever gave us was each other
Father of the Bride (Movies)
 049.swing 050.kitchen
051.cull 052.quell 053.arrested 054.inside 055.chance
056.alive 057.sleeping 058.late 059.rain 060.
bottle
L'chain to Prohibition
Yentl (1983)
061.steal 062.brilliant 063.theory 064.
practice
Today This Valley Girl Becomes a Valley Woman
Clueless (1995)
 065.war
066.storm 067.voyage 068.swim 069.wallow 070.settle
071.ground 072.space 073.silence 074.screech 075.snap
076.scratch 077.bug 078.lighting 079.faded 080.ghost
081.history 082.
time
Acts of Service
Quantum Leap (TV 2022)
 083.mirror 084.
drawing
do I dare to eat a peach
Our Flag Means Death (TV)
 085.trailed
086.way 087.run 088.here 089.heart 090.perfection
091.right 092.sanction 093.
can
And Then I Go and Spoil It All
Star Trek: Voyager
 094.collection 095.
crowd
Three's a Crowd (Crowd Me, Baby)
Karate Kid (Movies)
096.
oversight
Back From Marbella
Ted Lasso (TV)
 097.graduate 098.laughing 099.unless 100.final

Fills: 001–010
  1. universe: The Glory of the Fuck (Blazing Saddles, rated M, Sheriff Bart/Jim "the Waco Kid")
    how it fits the prompt: The basic conceit of this fic is the characters realising that they are no longer in the universe of canon, but a fanwork instead, where things that can't happen in the movie are now possible.
  2. edge:
  3. cleave:
  4. distance:
  5. away:
  6. home: Simple Comforts (Star Trek: Discovery, rated E, Keyla Detmer/Joann Owosekun)
    how it fits the prompt: This fic is about the ways growing up in a Luddite colony have stayed with Owo and the ways that where "home" is can be different at different times in your life.
  7. key:
  8. star:
  9. dust:
  10. shadows:
Fills: 011–020
  1. old: Diplomatea (Imperial Radch, rated T, Breq/Seivarden)
    how it fits the prompt: This fic is about a tea flask belonging to Seivarden (a character who was frozen in stasis for a thousand years) turning up in a museum in the Radch, which Breq then works for years to have repatriated to her.
  2. new: Radio Killed the Semaphore Star (Discworld, rated T, ensemble cast)
    how it fits the prompt: This is a story about the invention of a new technology (radio) on the Disc.
  3. borrowed: I Now Pronounce You Royally Fucked (The Tick (2017), rated T, Dot/Overkill)
    how it fits the prompt: This is an undercover-as-a-couple fic where the POV character is acutely pining after his "borrowed" wife (before they get together at the end, obviously, because I'm not a monster)
  4. blue:
  5. promise:
  6. dishonour:
  7. wreck:
  8. fix: close knit strands of an unbroken thread (Good Omens (TV), rated T (will probably go up in the last chapter though), Aziraphale/Crowley and Beelzebub/Gabriel)
    how it fits the prompt: This is a post-season 2 fix-it fic of the "you have to really smash it to bits before you can fix it" variety.
  9. crack:
  10. discover:
Fills: 021–030
  1. fiddle: Sunrise, Sunset (Star Trek: TNG, rated G, Worf & Alexander Rozhenko)
    how it fits the prompt: The title is obviously a reference to Fiddler on the Roof, but there is also a bit in the fic about Worf translating Fiddler when he was in high school to try and convince his music teacher to stage a Klingon language production, and, more abstractly, the story is about the ways that Worf feels both connected to and alienated from his son by their respective connections to Klingon music and culture.
  2. fire:
  3. water: Sublimation (The Magicians (TV), rated T, Quentin/Eliot)
    how it fits the prompt: Eliot makes observations about the fluidity of sexuality and describes his own as "vapour just beginning to condense" and Quentin's as "ice just beginning to sweat" and that "you couldn't take a bath in either" as a rationalisation for turning Quentin down when he asks to be in a relationship with him. The title "Sublimation" is a play on that as it can refer to something being converted from a solid to gas without becoming liquid, or to the sublimation of emotions, as Eliot is sublimating his romantic feelings for Quentin into platonic friendship.
  4. waves:
  5. salt:
  6. balm:
  7. fear: Must Not Lose to Fear (Cobra Kai, rated E, Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence)
    how it fits the prompt: This is about Johnny being afraid to explore relationships with men out of a fear that he won't be able to perform sexually with them due to his inexperience, which becomes reinforcing as he thinks that the older he gets the less understandable being bad at sex to becomes.
  8. wear:
  9. mask: Silly Love Songs (The Witcher (TV), rated G, Geralt/Jaskier)
    how it fits the prompt: The framing for this fic is that Jaskier has been writing love songs about being in love with Geralt, which he performs in public and in front of Geralt, while attempting to maintain that he is just writing From The Perspective Of a person in love with Geralt and that it doesn't mean anything about his own feelings at all.
    10. truth:
Fills: 031–040
  1. courage:
  2. hope: The Care of Orchids After Blooming (Cagney and Lacey, rated T, Ginger Cohen/Victor Isbecki)
    how it fits the prompt: This is a short fic that follows Ginger's perspective in the episode where she has been told by her doctor that she needs to have a hysterectomy. It's about her grief about not having children with Victor and then ends somewhat unresolved with the bittersweetness of hope that maybe she will when she sees Lacey's doctor and gets a second opinion.
  3. raised:
  4. fall:
  5. spring:
  6. birth: Kissing Cousins (Succession; rated E; Greg/Shiv, Shiv/Tom, Tom/Greg, Greg/Shiv/Tom)
    how it fits the prompt: This one is pretty straightforward: Shiv gives birth in this fic.
  7. morning:
  8. welcome:
  9. belong: Kodiak Island Drifting (A League of Their Own (TV); rated G, a lot of relationships, but mainly Max Chapman & Esti González)
    how it fits the prompt: This is a fusion fic with the ALoTO characters in the Pacific Rim universe. As in canon, Max and Esti struggle to belong, although the context now is that they are training to be Rangers as opposed to playing professional baseball, or aspiring to.
  10. share:
Fills: 041–050
  1. count:
  2. mean:
  3. teasing: Quiet as a Mouse (My Mother Can Hear Like a Bat) (Star Trek: DS9, rated M, Quark/Odo)
    how it fits the prompt: Odo teases Quark (in both senses of the word) in this fic as they try to have sex very quietly during a visit to Quark's family home.
  4. fantasy:
  5. game:
  6. work:
  7. bed: My Husband's Wife (Leverage, rated T, Maggie Collins/Sophie Devereaux)
    how it fits the prompt: Maggie and Sophie have to go undercover as a couple and when they share a hotel room There Is Only One Bed.
  8. turn: the greatest gift our parents ever gave us was each other (Father of the Bride (Movies), rated G, Banks (and Banks-MacKenzie) family feels mostly focused on Matty's relationships with his sisters and his nephew)
    how it fits the prompt: The genesis of this fic was from thinking about how Matty went from being the baby brother to the de facto eldest sibling very quickly, when Megan was born and his older sister, who was now married with her own kid, moved away to Boston soon after. So, in that sense, it's his "turn" to be the one looking after his younger sibling.
  9. swing:
  10. kitchen:
Fills: 051–060
  1. cull:
  2. quell:
  3. arrested:
  4. inside:
  5. chance:
  6. alive:
  7. sleeping:
  8. late:
  9. rain:
  10. bottle: L'chaim to Prohibition (Yentl (1983), rated T, Avigdor/Yentl Mendel | Anshel Mendel/Hadass Vishkower)
    how it fits the prompt: This is a post-canon fic set in 1920s New York City during Prohibition. Anshel | Yentel (both names and both he/him and she/her pronouns are used in the fic and the character presents as both a woman and a man at different point in it—it's left up to the reader's interpretation whether they are a cisgender woman posing as a man for pragmatic reasons, a genderfluid person, a bigender person, a transmasculine person, etc.) is a bootlegger and meets Avigdor and Hadass' son Mendel by chance when they both think they're supposed to sell some bottles of wine to the same guy, hearing that he asked to see "Mendel."
Fills: 061–070
  1. steal:
  2. brilliant:
  3. theory:
  4. practice: Today This Valley Girl Becomes a Valley Woman (Clueless (1995), rated G, pre-Cher/Josh)
    how it fits the prompts: Josh is Cher's Hebrew tutor in this and he's helping her to prepare/practice various things for her Bat Mitzvah.
  5. war:
  6. storm:
  7. voyage:
  8. swim:
  9. wallow:
  10. settle:
Fills: 071–080
  1. ground:
  2. space:
  3. silence:
  4. screech:
  5. snap:
  6. scratch:
  7. bug:
  8. lightning:
  9. faded:
  10. ghost:
Fills: 081–090
  1. history:
  2. time: Acts of Service (Quantum Leap (2022), rated G, ensemble cast)
    how it first the prompt: Cheeky answer: the show is about time travel. Serious answer ... the show is about time travel? But also, it takes place over different periods of time in the characters' lives and is abou their respective relationships to time travel and the Quantum Leap project.
  3. mirror:
  4. drawing: do I dare to eat a peach (Our Flag Means Death, rated E, Jim Jimenez/Lucius Spriggs)
    how it fits the prompt: The inciting incident in this fic is Jim asking Lucius to draw them nude.
  5. trailed:
  6. way:
  7. run:
  8. here:
  9. heart:
  10. perfection:
Fills: 091–100
  1. right:
  2. sanction:
  3. can: And Then I Go and Spoil It All (Star Trek: Voyager, rated G, pre-poly vee with B'Elanna Torres/Tom Paris and Harry Kim/Tom Paris)
    how it fits the prompt: This is a soulmate AU where humans are born with with the name of their soul mate on their skin. B'Elanna, who is half-Klingon, does not have a mark and believes that she can never be with Tom (whose soulmate is Harry) and, after she confesses her feelings when she thinks they are about to die (and then don't die), is slowly convinced that maybe she can and that relationships don't have to fit certain conventional human to be worthwhile and important.
  4. collection:
  5. crowd: Three's a Crowd (Crowd Me, Baby) (Karate Kid (Movies), rated E, Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence/Ali Mills)
    how it fits the prompt: The title is a play on the expression "three's a crowd" and is about Daniel having sex with Ali and Johnny after prom. So uh. Yeah.
  6. oversight: Back From Marbella (Ted Lasso, rated M, Keeley Jones/Roy Kent/Jamie Tartt with a focus on Roy/Jamie)
    how it fits the prompt: This fic starts with Keeley, Roy and Jamie having an unplanned threesome off the cuff without talking about it, and the implications of their relationships with each other going forward, first, which Roy almost immediately thinks was a bad move on their part and wishes they had talked about it so that he knew with greater certainty if he had had a one-night-stand with Jamie or if he was his boyfriend.
  7. graduate:
  8. laughing:
  9. unless:
  10. final:
Update (16/09/23): 23/100I got guilty about never updating this table, so I went back through my AO3 from the date I posted it to today and filled in as many squares as I could with one fic from all the fandoms I have written stuff for since then. I haven't included anything from before I signed up to [community profile] 100fandoms on January 21, 2019, even though that is allowed in their rules, because I felt that I wanted to challenge myself to write for 100 fandoms from that point rather than retroactively picking up gimmes for stuff I'd already done in the past.

I have allowed myself to count different Star Trek shows as different fandoms, because I think that's pretty standard, and I have (for now) counted a Karate Kid fic and a Cobra Kai fic as separate fandoms, which I may or may not leave depending on how I feel further down the line. I picked a Karate Kid fic that was only Karate Kid and had no references at all to Cobra Kai canon, but since it's the same characters it is still arguably a little borderline.

But anyway, that's where I'm at nearly five years on. I've definitely written for more fandoms than I thought I had, even without making an active effort to, although if I kept on at this rate it would take me another 15—20 years to finish the whole table. I think I am going to make more of an effort to keep dipping into various fandoms for one-fic-stands, either through exchange fics or just Because and keep chipping away at this more deliberately. Not just because I want to finish the table though, but because I also just like writing stuff for Yuletide-sized fandoms, and I feel like it's often my best work even if it doesn't get a lot of attention, so I might as well just write all the ideas I've had for various things that I haven't gotten around to because "no one will read them." More and more I don't really care if what I'm doing isn't of interest to anyone else as long as I think it's good. It's nice when people take an interest, but it's not a prerequisite. I also like just dipping into mid-size and larger fandoms briefly if I have an idea, without necessarily creating more prolifically in them or over a long period of time. I think that I had this idea for a while that I was "disappointing" people if I wrote one thing for their fandom/ship/whatever and then never did it again, but also like? I can do whatever I want and random strangers aren't even entitled to one thing they really like from me, so if anyone's disappointed then Oh Well.

I also added some more information about my fills at the end of the post and played around with the formatting of the table a little to keep the cell dimensions fixed and, finally, added some background colours to filled squares and number squares from the Aquatic Emergency colour palette on colourlovers.com for fun, because why not?

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Some Trek ficlets

Jan. 20th, 2019 06:01 pm
obstinatecondolement: Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation shown from the shoulders up, standing in front of a painting of a planet (Default)
Here's a couple of little things I wrote over the past few days.

Title: Meet Cute
Rating: General Audiences
Category: Gen
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Characters: Leeta (Star Trek), Guinan (Star Trek)
Word count: 311

Summary: Leeta meets Guinan at Ten-Forward

Title: Sunrise, Sunset
Rating: General Audiences
Category: Gen
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Relationship: Alexander Rozhenko & Worf
Characters: Worf, Alexander Rozhenko
Word count: 373

Summary: It had never quite occurred to Worf that Alexander might develop a connection to his culture that was utterly alien to him.
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