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tattoo your love on my heart (3620 words)
Fandom: Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe (Music Video)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ché/Jane/Zen (Dirty Computer)
Additional Tags: On the Run, Polyamory, Amnesia, reclaiming yourself, idk Che looks like a they to me, Dancing, Internalised Oppression, POV First Person, Past Brainwashing
Summary:
I can feel sharp black holes in my mind, and there is nothing there.
I am Zen. It is my name. I thought I was someone else, someone clean with a proper designation. I forgot how much I loved these two people. They know who they are, and when I look at them I feel something that I know is far from clean. I try to remember how we met, what we did, and all I can find are those empty spots inside of me.
Other Recs from Yuletide and Yuletide Madness:
Aliens
Adios (1608 words)
Fandom: Alien Quadrilogy (Movies)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Jenette Vasquez, Mark Drake
Additional Tags: Time Loop
Summary:
On her 13th loop Vasquez is convinced she’s in hell. It’s the type of hell her abuela always warned her about. A hell of her own making: one filled with demons and blood and relentless suffering.
Attack the Block
moses (slow of speech and of a slow tongue) (3117 words)
Fandom: Attack the Block (2011), Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Moses (Attack the Block), Thirteenth Doctor, The Master (Dhawan)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Chameleon Circuit (Doctor Who)
Summary:
Moses has a visitor in prison and finds out something new about his neighbour Sam.
Addams Family
the pros and cons of being an Addams (2428 words)
Fandom: The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Pubert Addams & Wednesday Addams
Characters: Wednesday Addams, Pubert Addams
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Ghosts, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
“I’m not really equipped to handle ghosts, is the thing,” Pubert explains, conversational. The circle is easy enough to draw when you’ve got a head wound to supply blood for it. His fingers dip into the flow as it hits his neck - keeping things clean - and the sigils are easier than the alphabet, considering he started learning them in his nursery. “I went to Boy Scouts, and did camp in the summer instead of Aunt Didi’s seance lessons. So I'm calling for backup.”
So Nice (3252 words)
Fandom: The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Pubert Addams, Morticia Addams, Wednesday Addams, Pugsley Addams, Grandmama (Addams Family), Gomez Addams
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Alternate Universe, Character Study
Summary:
Pubert was a different kind of Addams. OR What happens when the golden-haired angelic baby never reverted back to his little moustachioed self.
home is where the fear is (1455 words)
Fandom: The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Wednesday Addams, Joel Glicker, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Post-Canon, Future Fic, Married Wednesday Addams/Joel Glicker, Haunted Houses, Yuletide 2023
Summary:
“I’m sure we can find you and Wednesday your perfect home!”
Jessica was sure of it.
Until, of course, she met Wednesday Addams.
Aubry-Maturin Series
Afterwards (1132 words)
Fandom: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin
Additional Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort
Summary:
Stephen has not lifted his nose from his notebook for two days now.
La Bannière de Partance (1990 words)
Fandom: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sophie Williams, Sarah Sweeting, Jack Aubrey, Sir Joseph Blaine, Brigid Maturin, Stephen Maturin
Summary:
“Small, clumsy kindnesses, earnestly given, are more healing than you would believe. More adults should be willing to show the tender caring that a little kid expresses when they say, ‘You looked sad, so I brought you a rock.’” –Tumblr user ramshacklefey
Blackadder
Major Opportunity (3093 words)
Fandom: Blackadder
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Edmund Blackadder, Kevin Darling, George Colthurst St. Barleigh, Baldrick (Blackadder), Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary:
After being presumed dead, Blackadder seizes his chance to escape the trenches, and hopefully avoid ending up actually dead.
Good-Bye To All That (83914 words)
Fandom: Blackadder
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Edmund Blackadder/Kevin Darling, Baldrick & Edmund Blackadder & George Colthurst St. Barleigh
Additional Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending, Humor, Pining, Character Turned Into a Ghost, Major Character Undeath, Bickering, Complicated Relationships, Denial of Feelings, Prisoner of War, Escape, Love Confessions, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, World War I, How To Kiss A Ghost, Lots Of Snow And Trains, Post-Canon, Yuletide 2023
Summary:
When Edmund Blackadder, bloodied from shrapnel and ears ringing from the shelling, stumbled over Captain Darling's body caught in a tangle of barbed wire, he did not, despite many assurances towards it over the years, laugh, clap, and dance.
Instead, Blackadder took in the dark-wet definitely-not-mud stain spread all over Darling's uniformed chest, the pistol lax in his grip, his unseeing eyes turned up towards the overcast sky, and said, "oh, bloody buggering hell."
"Quite," agreed Darling, squinting down at his own corpse; and, despite the unfortunate circumstances, took great pleasure in hearing Blackadder scream like a little girl.
Casablanca
The Sentimentalists (9558 words)
Fandom: Casablanca (1942)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Victor Laszlo/Ilsa Lund, Rick Blaine/Ilsa Lund, Rick Blaine/Victor Laszlo/Ilsa Lund
Additional Tags: Post-Canon
Summary:
Ilsa threw her arms around him. Rick tried awkwardly to simultaneously return the hug, and gently disengage from it – Laszlo was right there – as Laszlo beamed at him, apparently uncaring.
Beamed.
but then the earth comes back to life (1635 words)
Fandom: Casablanca (1942)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Victor Laszlo/Ilsa Lund, (past) Rick Blaine/Ilsa Lund
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
When Ilsa Laszlo finally sets foot in the United States of America, she sheds a tear.
Chalionverse
unheard-of things (1256 words)
Fandom: Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creataor Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Ijada dy Castos/Ingrey kin Wolfcliff, Hallana of Suttleaf/Oswin of Suttleaf
Additional Tags: Discussion of Animal Death, reference to children, human-animal relationships across incarnations, Post-Canon, despite the tags this fic is really fluffy I promise
Summary:
Small moments, as Ingrey and Ijada build their menagerie of Great Beasts in the making.
Wisdom and mercy (1955 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lupe dy Cazaril, Betriz dy Ferrej
Additional Tags: Feudalism, The Daily Grind, Case Fic
Summary:
Cazaril and Betriz join forces to better their country after Curse of Chalion.
Planning a Peaceful Campaign (1425 words)
Fandom: Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Iselle dy Chalion, Bergon dy Ibra, Betriz dy Ferrej, Lupe dy Cazaril
Additional Tags: Picnics, Taxes, Politics
Summary:
It was a good thing, Iselle reflected as she watched her Chancellor and his wife lay out their luncheon, that all four of them were known as excellent riders with a love of speed and the skill to accomplish it safely. Days like this, when they'd managed to outride the rest of the court and find a place to picnic by themselves, were the only truly private speech they'd had for months.
Check, Please!
New Neighbors (1049 words)
Fandom: The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld), Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eric "Bitty" Bittle, Jack Zimmermann, Debbie Jellinsky, Lurch (Addams Family)
Additional Tags: Yuletide 2023, Addams Family AU where Debbie stays in the family, and is as horrible as ever
Summary:
Bitty is DETERMINED that the new neighbors will like him.
Chronicles of Narnia
dulce et decorum est (1116 words)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Caspian (Narnia), Peter Pevensie
Additional Tags: Missing Scene
Summary:
One night on watch at Aslan's How, Caspian talks to the High King.
Clue
Lavender & Green (1716 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Clue (1985)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mr. Green/Wadsworth
Additional Tags: Undercover, Humor, Dialogue Heavy, References to Period-Typical Homophobia, But with jokes, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Wadsworth recruits Green for his operation.
DC Comics
Elevator Going Up (5050 words)
Fandom: Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Dick Grayson, Alfred Pennyworth, Duke Thomas, Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain
Additional Tags: Elevators, Friendship, Family, Over the top schemes, Yuletide, Gen Work, Humor
Summary:
When Damian needs helps with school bullies, he turns to Jason. Meanwhile, the Wayne family uses elevators. Eventually these two topics intersect.
Safe and Sound (4725 words)
Fandom: Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Batfamily
Additional Tags: Mild Hurt/Comfort, Family Feels, Family Fluff, Family Bonding, post-episode 44
Summary:
Jason and Tim go home after their run-in with the hapless kidnappers in episode 44.
Devil Went Down to Georgia
The Devil Went Down to Georgia Station (1813 words)
Fandom: Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (Song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Devil & Johnny (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
Characters: Johnny (Devil Went Down to Georgia), The Devil (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Space, (with Western vibes), Genderswap
Summary:
Me, I was just about ready to play the fool myself when the Devil arrived. You see, the sector sheriff had died a little while back, and the spaceways were so infested with bandits that no law-abiding ship dared to fly. The bandits didn't come stop at Georgia Station for a drink and a fiddler either—nobody comes down here unless they've got a resupply contract, for there's only one safe route in. I was feeling my old wanderlust, what with being cooped up in one place for so long, and besides my free meals were getting smaller by the day. That's why, when the Devil came sauntering into the station's only saloon and slid into the booth across from me, bringing out her fiddle from Devil-knows-where, I listened when she made me a deal.
Doctor Who
come back to me (2130 words)
Fandom: Doctor Who (TV Movie 1996), Doctor Who, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Grace Holloway (Doctor Who), Eighth Doctor (Doctor Who)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Reunions, Light Angst
Summary:
The Doctor takes Grace up on her offer to stay.
Dirty Computer
Enjoyable (249 words)
Fandom: Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe (Music Video)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Zen (Dirty Computer)
Additional Tags: Dystopia, Brainwashing, Memories, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Maryapple 53 shook her head to clear it and took a deep breath before stepping away from the closed door.
Dirty Dancing
Save Me a Dance (4273 words)
Fandom: Dirty Dancing (1987)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Johnny Castle/Frances "Baby" Houseman
Additional Tags: Friendship, Romance, Post-Canon, Optimism
Summary:
"You're going to college. I'm going -" Johnny took a breath. "Somewhere. Wherever."
"I thought you were going back home."
"So did I. But that's a hell of a long way back right now."
Eleanor Rigby
The Face (2816 words)
Fandom: Eleanor Rigby (Beatles song)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Father Mackenzie, Eleanor Rigby
Additional Tags: Yuletide 2023, ghost story
The Words to a Sermon (1022 words)
Fandom: Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles (Song)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Father McKenzie (Eleanor Rigby), Eleanor Rigby (Eleanor Rigby)
Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Angst, Ghosts, Don't Have to Know Canon
Summary:
Every week since her death, Father McKenzie has seen Eleanor Rigby in church.
Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Home Sweet Home (6565 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Morwen/Telemain (Enchanted Forest)
Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, set between books three and four
Summary:
Between one wizard spell gone awry, one magical door in need of disenchanting, one stubborn magician, and nine cats Morwen, finds herself more than a little busy.
Farscape
Spiraling Skies (1689 words)
Fandom: Farscape
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Aeryn Sun, John Crichton, Chiana (Farscape), D'Argo Sun-Crichton
Additional Tags: Post-Peacekeeper Wars, Parenting, Wormholes, POV Aeryn Sun
Summary:
D’Argo Sun-Crichton inherited Pilot DNA from his mother and knowledge of wormholes from his father. He was never going to be a normal child.
Just An Ignorant Warrior (2265 words)
Fandom: Farscape
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Aeryn Sun, Bialar Crais
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Talyn is there but more as a setting than a character, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Aeryn and Crais make a reluctant bargain.
FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns
Subject: Doctoral Defense Protocols (1075 words)
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Casual Disregard For The Mental Health of Doctoral Candidates, Dismissal of Large Learning Models, Adoption of Large Learning Models, Reviewer Two, Casual Disregard For The Physical Health of Doctoral Candidates
Summary:
A letter from the Department Chair, with reminders and updates about what will be expected, permitted, and forbidden for this doctoral defense period.
Fiddler on the Roof
Pulling Out Thread (4132 words)
Fandom: Fiddler on the Roof - Bock/Harnick/Stein
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Golde/Tevye (Fiddler on the Roof)
Additional Tags: immigrant experience, early 20th century, Jewish Identity, Family, All-of-a-Kind Family Secondary Character, Chaya M. Burstein Secondary Characters, Post-Canon
Summary:
In a place far from Anatevka, Golde will do what she must to keep the family afloat, no matter what her husband and neighbors have to say about it.
Gilda
Perfume Suite (1705 words)
Fandom: Gilda (1946)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Johnny Farrell (Gilda), Ballin Mundson
Additional Tags: Missing Scenes, Loyalty, Homoerotic Cane-Handling, Oral Sex
Summary:
- I may have misjudged your Johnny. He can be sweet. So protective.
- He takes care of everything that belongs to me.
Johnny takes care of his man.
Goblin Emperor
the weight of the air in your hands (12774 words)
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Maia Drazhar, Csevet Aisava, Idra Drazhar
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Secret Identity, On the Run, Fantastic Racism, Minor Character Death, Loyalty, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Religion
Summary:
Nalis had not felt the weight of his own omissions so keenly since he had heard secondhand, weeks after his recovery, that the Archduke Maia’s entire household had been lost to plague, and that he was presumed as dead as they were– that he was missing, and that perhaps there would be a reward if he were found, and that there were men venturing into the Edonara to trawl for his corpse.
The fact that Prince Idra had made the order a request– that he’d clearly realized he had no real recourse against Nalis if he refused–
Csevet was visibly horrified, stifling himself from correcting the emperor’s phrasing. Nalis caught his eye, trying to seem loyal and reassuring, and said to Prince Idra, “Serenity, we are entirely at your service.”
An Unexpected Letter (1392 words)
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Velhiro Tomasaran, Thara Celehar
Additional Tags: Post-Book: The Grief of Stones, Friendship, Epistolary
Summary:
“Celehar? What's the matter?” Velhiro craned her neck, but could only see a seal with an unfamiliar animal on it – a cat? no, a fish? some kind of mermaid? “It's not from the Archprelate, is it?”
“No,” Celehar said, cradling the letter warily. “It is from the Emperor.”
The Lost of Winter (20448 words)
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Thara Celehar, Iäna Pel-Thenhior, Nebeno Pel-Thenhior, Velhiro Tomasaran, Amiru Chonhadrin, Azhanharad (The Goblin Emperor), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Operas, Canon-Typical Death/Descriptions of Dead Bodies, Winter, signet rings, Post-Grief of Stones, mongoose - Freeform, Running Away, Names, Thara Celehar is Bad at Self-Care, He's also bad at teaching, (or so he thinks), Iäna Pel-Thenhior and Velhiro Tomasaran Disagree, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, The Torivontaram, Workers rights, Mongooses used as scent-hounds?, trams, Thara's Canon Habit of Feeding Stray Cats, Annoyingly Inaccurate Portrayal of Witnesses for the Dead in Operas
Summary:
Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak to the dead. Awaiting instructions from the Archprelate, he is left feeling adrift and inadequate as an instructor to his student, Velhiro Tomasaran. When Iäna Pel-Thenhior comes to him with a problem that is not within his remit, he still jumps at a task he feels capable of. But when that task leads back to the story of a missing girl and a body found with her ring, it's clear he still has responsibilities to the dead of Amalo, even if he can no longer hear them.
Interregnum (5438 words)
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Csevet Aisava, Deret Beshelar, Cala Athmaza, Echelo Esaran, Aina Shulivar
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Worldbuilding
Summary:
interregnum /ĭn″tər-rĕg′nəm/ n. The interval of time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor.
In the days between the death of Varenechibel IV and the coronation of Edrehasivar VII, more lives than Maia Drazhar's changed.
Through Thine Eyes (3000 words)
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Csethiro Ceredin, Maia Drazhar, Deret Beshelar, Cala Athmaza, Kiru Athmaza
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Bodyswap, Yuletide 2023, Yuletide
Summary:
“Beshelar, please come here.”
Csethiro hesitates. And then stops hesitating, because she has long prided herself on being a woman of action. Cowardice is for other people.
“I am Csethiro Drazharan Zhasan,” she states in Maia’s lovely voice, and is gratified when the lieutenant startles and his eyes go wide. “And you must find my husband.”
Or: Bodyswap, with soft feels. That's it, that's the fic.
Greek mythology
Your Kindness Would Be My Release (1789 words)
Fandom: The Oresteia - Aeschylus, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Cassandra/Clytemnestra (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Additional Tags: Slavery, Captivity, Prophesy, neurodivergent character, Canon-Typical Violence, Present Tense, Every Time is Present Tense, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Troy should be its own warning, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary:
Last night, or maybe tonight, Agamemnon tells me we should arrive in Argos the next day. His kingdom. The place of my final visions, where I finally meet her. Clytemnestra.
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
historia naturalis gentis anglorum (1015 words)
Fandom: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum | Ecclesiastical History of the English People - Bede
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Sparrow (Bede), The Staffordshire Hoard
Additional Tags: Blood, POV Animal, Nature, Battle, Ecohistory, the passage of time, unnecessary Latin
Summary:
A sparrow's life may be short, but her memory is long.
History RPF
Invicta (4566 words)
Fandom: 3rd Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Helena (Mother of Constantine), Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus | Emperor Diocletian, Flavius Valerius Constantius "Chlorus" | Emperor Constantius I., Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus | Emperor Maximian, Constantine the Great (d. 337 CE), Aurelia Prisca (d. 315 CE)
Additional Tags: POV Female Character, Game of Thrones-esque, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide, Yuletide 2023, Origin Story
Summary:
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: three future Emperors walk into a bar. The one who’s going to end up with the Empire is the barmaid.
Or: Helena, history has its eyes on you....
Ancient Ones (1759 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ancient Egyptian RPF, New Kingdom of Egypt RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Ramses II of Egypt, Original Male Character(s), Khaemweset of Egypt
Additional Tags: Epistolary, almost a pastiche kinda of the amarna letters, although this takes places after all of those, Ancient History, Nerdiness, Competency, Diplomacy, Archaeology, Lists, Ancient Egyptian Literature & Mythology, redacted bits because ancient letters often have illegible portions lol, 5 Times, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Prepare the following offerings to replenish our King Userkaf’s tomb as we have noted it has long since been depleted by tomb robbers.
Beloved of Aten (3982 words)
Fandom: Ancient Egyptian RPF, Ancient Egypt New Kingdom
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Underage, Major Character Death
Relationships: Amenhotep IV | Akhenaten/Nefertiti of Egypt, Meritaten of Egypt/Smenkhkare of Egypt
Additional Tags: Historical Underage, Historical Incest, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide Treat 2023, Canonical Character Death
Summary:
Meriaten is beloved. By her parents. By the Aten. All is secure and is as it should be. Her father has revealed the truth of the world. The sun disk that can clearly be seen in the sky is no secret.
She is beloved.
She speaks the truth of Aten.
Iconophilia (3505 words)
Fandom: Byzantine Empresses RPF, 8th Century CE RPF, Unspecified Fandom
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Irene of Athens | Irene Sarantapechaena, Leo IV, Constantine VI, Staurokios (Eunuch of Irene of Athens)
Additional Tags: 5 Times, politics that are both lower case b byzantine and upper case b Byzantine, Arranged Marriage, Religious Conflict, Religious Discussion, Bad Parenting, absolute power corrupts absolutely etc etc, but also free my girl she was so stylish while doing all of that, Missing Scene, mentions of canonical torture/maiming but it's not on screen as it were, Epistolary, (in one scene)
Dates and Bitter Almonds (3810 words)
Fandom: Byzantine Empresses RPF, Secret History - Procopius, 6th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Male Character(s), Theodora I Augusta of Byzantium
Additional Tags: Period-Typical Homophobia, Nika riots, period-typical complacency in the face of injustice
Summary:
Besides work and the marketplace and the races, there were the poets. They were a revelation: clever, funny, wise in the ways of the court, and astonishingly well read...
The Remembrance of Honey (1481 words)
Fandom: 12th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Moses Maimonides | Rambam, Abraham ben Moses
Summary:
On a rare lazy afternoon in Cairo, Maimonides remembers his childhood and speaks to his son.
Ordinary Time (10441 words)
Fandom: 13th Century CE Plantagenet Dynasty RPF, 14th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Edward II of England/Piers Gaveston
Additional Tags: Falling In Love, Unresolved Romantic Tension, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Power Dynamics, Flirting, Snark, Biblical Allusions (Abrahamic Religions), medieval holidays!
Summary:
There were many meaningless and polite things Piers could say. It wouldn’t be hard at all. They clattered about his head. Speaking any of them aloud would be an act of self-preservation. There was danger in desiring the good opinion of the king’s heir. But here Edward was, offering kindness as generously as he gifted money to people. And it truly was so, so hard to resist.
A Trip Down Memory Lane (6914 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: 三国历史 | Three Kingdoms History RPF, 三国演义 - 罗贯中 | Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Xun Yu | Xun Wenruo, Xun You | Xun Gongda, Cao Cao | Cao Mengde, Chen Gong | Chen Gongtai, Cao Pi | Cao Zihuan
Additional Tags: Character Study, Sort Of, Warning for suicide at the end?
Summary:
A day of Xun Yu's life, from different points in his life. From his childhood, to the revering and subsequent dread of Cao Cao, to his death.
Written for Yuletide Exchange 2023.
Hockey RPF
Follow Me Back Into the Sun (6074 words)
Fandom: Men's Hockey RPF
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carey Price/P. K. Subban
Additional Tags: Wingfic, Getting Together, Friends to Lovers, is this goalie nesting?, maybe a little bit
Summary:
“So,” PK says. “These are new.”
“They won’t go back in,” Carey says miserably.
Imperial Radch
A Short Stay at Kitalo Station (3920 words)
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq, Seivarden Vendaai
Summary:
Breq and Seivarden make a brief stop at a way-station, where Seivarden's past indiscretions come back to haunt them.
A Promised Meeting (3289 words)
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gem of Sphene & Minask Nenkur
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Matchmaking, Podfic Welcome, Don't copy to another site
Summary:
Parvenus and upstarts tried to arrange introductions to ships at mixer parties. Families with real connections arranged for more substantial—and more private—introductions in the ordinary course of business.
Jeeves & Wooster
Supporting Partner's Suit (6312 words)
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Honoria Glossop/Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Bodyswap, poor contract bridge etiquette, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Never let it be said that Bertie Wooster will abandon a pal in need, even if that pal is a woman who is temporarily in possession of his body and he doesn’t fully understand what’s going on.
Reg and the Sick Day Subterfuge (1866 words)
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Richard P. "Bingo" Little
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Sick Character, Comfort, Competent Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Sharing a Bed, Caretaking
Summary:
Reg is down with a fever. Which means Bertie is on his own for the day to handle caretaking, sartorial choices, and the fending-off of lovelorn friends.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
A Winter Wood Warming (9272 words)
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Arabella Strange, Emma Pole, John Segundus, John Childermass, Stephen Black
Additional Tags: Epistolary, You Could Read It As Platonic But Why Would You, Footnotes, (please don't be broken footnotes), fairy nonsense, magical gifts, references to real events, References To Events That Are Real To Me, Domestic Fluff
Summary:
All Lady Pole and Arabella Strange want to do is forget their time in Faerie, but a message comes from a certain king... and he has gifts to offer.
Jurassic Park
After The Island (10065 words)
Fandom: Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ian Malcolm & Lex Murphy
Additional Tags: Post-Jurassic Park (1993), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Injury Recovery, Drug Use
Summary:
Things aren't the same after Lex returns from Isla Nublar. Mom and Dad are divorced now, and Lex, Tim, and their mom are living in a new house that doesn't seem like home. Tyrannosauruses and velociraptors haunt her dreams. People got hurt - and killed - because of her. There's nothing she can do to make up for that. But she can apologize to the people who got hurt and thank the people who saved her. She already apologized to Tim and thanked Alan and Dr. Malcolm. She thanked Dr. Malcolm, too, but he was kind of out of it. She didn't know if he understood. Lex decides to write to him.
Meanwhile, Ian Malcolm is lying in a hospital bed, waiting for the next dose of morphine, for his leg to heal, for something besides nightmares to distract him from the pain and the discomfort of lying still for so long. Yet he knows that’s not likely to happen. He’s in a hospital in San Jose, Costa Rica. Alan, Ellie, and John visited him a few times at first, but they’ve long since returned home. His kids are at home in Texas. They can’t visit him here. But some day he’ll get released, and he can see them again. For now, he waits.
And then he receives a letter – from one of the kids on the island. Lex Murphy.
Ian writes back.
Kate & Cecelia
The Golden Gown (4332 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kate and Cecelia - Caroline Stevermer & Patricia Wrede
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kate Schofield/Thomas Schofield, Cecelia Tarleton/James Tarleton
Additional Tags: Magic, Magical Accidents, Epistolary, Letters, Alternate Timelines
Summary:
An alternate timeline to the events of The Grand Tour. Cecy can't seem to make a spell work, but at least she has a beautiful new dress.
Mansfield Park
Anything So Very Fine (3200 words)
Fandom: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Henry Crawford, James Rushworth
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Background Relationships
Summary:
Here was a tangle that promised all the challenge Henry could wish for.
Marvel
Deep Secrets and Ear Skritches (1454 words)
Fandom: Moon Knight (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Greer Grant Nelson, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley, Marc Spector
Additional Tags: Moon Knight 2021 (MacKay/Cappuccio), Fluff, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Multiplicity/Plurality, Greer Grant Nelson Doing Cat Things
Summary:
Steven and Jake finally made their big reappearance in Marc's life. Next question is, how should they fit into Tigra's?
Or: three conversations where Greer had to ask who she was talking to. (And the headmates were happy to answer.)
The Matrix
dissolved girl (1886 words)
Fandom: The Matrix (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Neo/Trinity (The Matrix)
Additional Tags: Body Horror, Cyborgs, Bittersweet
Summary:
What if Trinity came back wrong? A post-Matrix Resurrections fic about what happens if the body was rebuilt again, and again, and again, and in the remaking, became something new.
Written as a Yuletide 2023 treat for Thene
if you'll believe in me (7797 words)
Fandom: The Matrix (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Trinity (The Matrix), Bugs (The Matrix)
Additional Tags: Post-Movie: The Matrix Resurrections (2021), Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Body Horror, Choices, Anger, Queer Themes, Plans For The Future
Summary:
Trinity thinks about anger. Bugs thinks about choices. Both of them think about the future.
Miss Marple
And One Cried Murder (13421 words)
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple, Lucy Eyelesbarrow
Summary:
While Miss Marple is recuperating after an illness, the extraordinarily competent Lucy Eyelesbarrow comes to help around the house. But what really makes Miss Marple feel better is the prospect of a murder to investigate - and Lucy is only too happy to help with that, too.
Moana
Family Ties (1077 words)
Fandom: Moana (2016)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sina Waialiki, Tui Waialiki, Tui Waialiki's Best Friend
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Foreshadowing, One Shot, Polyamory, Slice of Life, Yuletide, Yuletide 2023, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Tui and Ihaka still hadn’t come to bed.
One Ledge, Ocean Views (1742 words)
Fandom: Moana (2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maui & Moana Waialiki
Additional Tags: Asexuality, Asexual Character, Character Study
Summary:
Maui and Moana both need some time away from the expectations of her people.
M.T.A.
'Neath the Streets Of Boston (1901 words)
Fandom: M.T.A. - Kingston Trio (Song), Unspecified Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Charlie (M.T.A. Song), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Boston, Subways, Supernatural Elements
Summary:
Just a regular subway ride.
My Fair Lady
The New Galatea (4271 words)
Fandom: My Fair Lady (1964)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Henry Higgins (My Fair Lady | Pygmalion), Eliza Doolittle, Hugh Pickering, Mrs. Higgins (My Fair Lady), Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Mrs. Pearce (My Fair Lady | Pygmalion)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Friendship, misogyny level: Henry Higgins, but we're all trying to deal with it
Summary:
Eliza Doolittle departs. Henry Higgins tries to move on. Freddy Eynsford-Hill succeeds.
Now, Voyager
Cascades (1792 words)
Fandom: Now Voyager (1942)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Charlotte Vale/Dr. Jacquith
Additional Tags: Work to Friendship to Love
Summary:
Through her continuing support for Cascades, Charlotte Vale and Dr. Jacquith reach an understanding.
Peter Pan
Growing Pains (2934 words)
Fandom: Peter Pan (2003), Peter Pan & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Underage
Relationships: Wendy Darling/James Hook
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hook is a former Lost Boy, Seduction, Manipulation, Attraction
Summary:
Wendy knew Hook wasn't propositioning her to join his crew out of the non-existent goodness of his heart. Enchanting his eyes might be, but the coldness in them seeped right into her bones.
Peter Wimsey
A Thank-You Present (1723 words)
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sylvia Marriott/Eiluned Price
Additional Tags: Love, Crossdressing, Friendship, Jewish Character, LGBTQ Jewish Character(s), Music, Art
Summary:
Peter sends Eiluned and Sylvia on a city trip. With unexpected benefits.
Lord of Misrule (5748 words)
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peter Wimsey, Mervyn Bunter
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Wimsey found Bunter in a kitchen at the back, sitting on a stool, having a bandage expertly applied to a wound on his head by a tidy little man with his sleeves rolled up. Bunter’s knuckles were red, his collar was ripped, and there were bloodstains all over his shirt.
Poirot
The Case of the Distracted Detective (2617 words)
Fandom: Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur Hastings/Hercule Poirot
Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, First Kiss, First Time
Summary:
Hastings makes a discovery. Or does he?
The Death of Sven Hjerson (17195 words)
Fandom: Poirot - Agatha Christie
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ariadne Oliver, Hercule Poirot
Summary:
When Ariadne Oliver reluctantly attends a crime fiction convention in her honor, her greatest concern is how her publisher will react when she reveals her future plans for Sven Hjerson, the fictional detective. But as the evening progresses, Hjerson is not the one who ends up dead. Soon, Mrs. Oliver begins to suspect she is about to make a terrible mistake...
Remains of the Day
All Clear Now (15711 words)
Fandom: Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Miss Kenton/Mr Stevens (Remains of the Day)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Second Chances, Reunions, Fix-It, Slow Burn, Pining, Angst, Hopeful Ending, Social Change, Unreliable Narrator, mentions of divorce, Period Typical Attitudes
Summary:
Miss Kenton sighed. “I’m afraid it’s a long story, Mr Stevens, and I can’t go into all of it now, but I ought first to tell you that I am currently staying at a boarding house in Oxford with my daughter.”
“I’ve been looking for work for the past few days without any luck; then I saw in the paper this morning that you were advertising for a new housekeeper. I imagine you’ve found someone already, but if you haven’t”—she drew a deep breath, and when she resumed speaking, her voice had a taut, strained quality it had not possessed before—“I don’t suppose you’d be willing to take me on again.”
1946. Miss Kenton leaves her husband and returns to Darlington Hall, but it isn't always easy to make up for lost time.
Rivers of London
A Case Report Regarding the Brick Lane Murders (5866 words)
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Thomas Nightingale, Peter Grant (Rivers of London), Miriam Stephanopoulos
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Period-Typical Racism, Period Typical Attitudes, Series level violence, There's a Murder, Yuletide 2023
Summary:
A case NIghtingale worked in 1919 gives insight into a new murder investigation.
Robots--Isaac Asimov
A gift from the universe (5429 words)
Fandom: Robot Series - Isaac Asimov
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elijah Baley/R. Daneel Olivaw
Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, (but not very mysterious), Slash, Romance, Robot/Human Relationships, Agoraphobia
Summary:
After returning to Earth with Elijah Baley after the events in Robots of Dawn, Daneel and Baley are immediately called upon to solve another case. But not all is at it seems.
Sense and Sensibility
The Art of Marriage (3095 words)
Fandom: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood
Summary:
On hearing of her son's unfortunate engagement, Mrs Ferrars does not disinherit her son, and Edward Ferrars marries Lucy Steele. Elinor lives on.
Temeraire
L'envoyé céleste triomphant de la Maladie. Antoine-Jean Gros (1813) (3092 words)
Fandom: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: William Laurence, Napoléon I de France | Napoléon Bonaparte, John Granby, Tenzing Tharkay
Additional Tags: Book 9: League of Dragons
Summary:
"Given what he has done with the barest civility on my part, I cannot think what he would do with the least encouragement."
“Oh, no?” said Granby innocently, a sentiment that provoked a raised eyebrow from Tharkay over his glass, and in Laurence, a strangeness in the pit of his stomach.
Or:
Napoleon is an enthusiastic patron of the arts. Laurence's best friends lovingly suss out his willingness to bone Napoleon for political gain and strategic expediency.
Twenty feral dragons, or something very like (4224 words)
Fandom: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tenzing Tharkay, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, American Politics, Young Tenzing Tharkay, Pre-Canon, It took all I had in me not to make this a Hamilton crossover, American dragon breeds, Protests, Tharkay supporting dragon rights (as he should), Worldbuilding, Half of this fic is worldbuilding, The other half is Tharkay not enjoying his stay in the United States at all
Summary:
“Are there a great many of you, supporting the dragons’ right to vote?” Tharkay asked, low. An idea was creeping into his mind—but no, surely Maden would not appreciate… except perhaps he would.
“Every dragon I know, for sure,” Abigail said, “and all of our people, too.” She raised her head from her drink: drops of rum had flown all the way to her nostrils, and she licked them clean with a swift twirl of her forked tongue. “Dragons voting would serve every tribe’s interests: that’s why the colonists won’t allow us.”
Or: the year is 1800, and American dragons want to vote.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
and in the daylight, you're crossing all your wires (10230 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: John Connor (Terminator), Cameron Phillips, Derek Reese, Kyle Reese (Terminator), Allison Young (Terminator)
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 02, Post-Canonical Apocalypse, Timeline Shenanigans, Resistance, Man vs. Machine, Robot/Human Relationships, Implied/Referenced Character Death
Summary:
No one’s ever died for him, here.
Young Wizards
What Is To Give Light Must Endure Burning (2252 words)
Fandom: Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Nita Callahan, Kit Rodriguez, Other Characters Mentioned, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Future Fic
Summary:
No one told Nita that adult life would be a series of "fake it til you make it" moments. She's learning to cope anyway.
it's all dark blue (2006 words)
Fandom: Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nita Callahan/Kit Rodriguez
Additional Tags: Future Fic, Contemplation, Water (as a metaphor and also as a wizardly practice), thinking about the Gibraltar Passthrough wizardry
Summary:
Kit remembered Mars, then. How Nita had looked holding the Gibraltar Passthrough wizardry over her head, trembling with the strain of it. How she had looked magnificent. How she had looked tired.
Watchmen
Across Vistas (20177 words)
Fandom: Watchmen (Comic)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dan Dreiberg/Laurie Juspeczyk/Rorschach
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Karnak (Watchmen), Mentions of Suicide, Roadtrips, Getting Together, Sharing a Bed, Threesome - F/M/M, First Time, Religious Imagery & Symbolism
Summary:
Laurie and the boys take a roadtrip across the country to see her mom.
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