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I don't know what it says about me that I apparently think it's reasonable to give smut as a birthday gift, but I guess I'm That Sort of Person now. A belated birthday present for amaliedageek, with the usual thanks to Cofax for beta.


Title: Quite Enough
Pairings: Holmes/Watson
Rating: adult
Wordcount: 2585 words

Summary: It's my version of the angry bantery hurt/comfort and makeup sex scene which was obviously cut from the latter part of the 2009 film; as you can probably guess from that description, moderate spoilers and mostly movieverse, with a couple of oblique references to book canon.

Warnings: They're patching each other up after a fight, so there's a little blood and grime.

"Quite Enough" at AO3

...why yes, I've been posting a lot of fic in the last few weeks. No, I don't know what's going on there, either.

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Both of these bits were written last year, and I thought at the time that they might turn into the starts of bigger stories. But, well, they didn't, and rummaging through the hard drive (as one does) while I was uploading to AO3 earlier today, I thought, you know, there's really no reason not to post these. If I get back to them, I get back to them, and if not, they're both perfectly respectable stand-alone shorts, even if they are heavy on the dialogue and light on the descriptions. And they've been sitting for two to six months, and on reread neither embarrasses me, so -- hey. Out into the world with you, little fics! Have fun! Make friends!

Three Card Monte is a Leverage gen fic with card tricks, Parker and Sophie being sly, and the kind of sublimated Parker/Hardison I hope you've come to expect from my shippy self.

Undoing is about a thousand words that I wrote at the end of the second series and thought might turn into a plotty Lewis fic in which Lewis and Hathaway would solve a mystery and maybe stumble angstily into bed, but then I watched the third series and, well, they didn't. Alas! As is, it's essentially an episode coda for the second season finale.

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This year for Yuletide, I wrote Yum Cha, a post-canon story for the very cute movie Saving Face. Yes, mostly this was an excuse to write a sex scene involving custard bao. My proclivities, let me own them (I also managed to work trains into this story! No mammoths, though. Alas.)

I didn't realize until yesterday that this was actually the second story I wrote last year in which people go for dim sum. Clearly, I should be brunching more often.

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I've been stuck in bed with a head cold for a couple of days, eating holiday chocolate and reading Yuletide, and so I return with further readables for all y'all. Also, it is nearly as much fun to see folks reccing the story I got as it is to see folks reccing the story I wrote. Hee. And the new DW thing that lets me see all the new public "yuletide"-tagged posts as they come in? That's brilliant, folks.

Two stories from McKillip's Riddle-Master of Hed trilogy which worked for me: Mountain Time and The scars on his hands. Of the two, the latter, which is about Har of Osterland, has probably stuck with me a bit more. I still want an epic Rood/Lyra romance, which I am noting here mostly so I will remember to either request or write it next year.

Sticking with book fandoms: I enjoyed this Swordspoint story, What's Past Is Prologue, and Sworn In Silence, a Vorkosiverse backstory for Aral, Piotr, and Prince Xav.

In comics: Five New Love Truths You Need To Know is a great Dykes To Watch Out For story about Janis learning to date. Recoil and Grace is a Sandman story which doesn't work for me completely, but does give me a very 1996 sort of feeling.

And finishing with the funny ones, this time: Robots Need Love Too is, er, baby Mythbusters in spaaaaace -- and yet, despite the basically cracked premise, it works and is adorable. I don't know the canon for [I succeeded in crawling into the breast of my big boss!] but it's one of the better stories about a cat I've read in a long time. I also don't know why The Big Bang Theory is a Yuletide-eligible fandom, but hey, The Cheap Trick Acceleration is a cute story. And chances are good you've already read In Pompeiium, a crossover between Dr. Who and the Cambridge Latin Course, but if not, you ought to.

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Well, the archive is down at the moment, so this seems like a fine time to post the results of my first day of reading.

First, of course, I got an absolutely darling Up story, told from Carl's POV, with Ellie being bright and fantastic and admirable and wise and, hey, getting actual dialogue. We'll Make It A Joint Venture is a lot of things I wanted to see in the movie and didn't, and I'm just so pleased to have it. I love the high school scene. Thank you, Yulewriter!

Funny stuff: Wait Wait Don't Eat Me is...pretty much Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and Zombies. I sat here at the breakfast table and read most of this one aloud, and I recommend that you do the same. Also quite funny (and very meta) is The Pigeon Wants A Story, in which Mo Willems' pigeon writes Yuletide. Hee. And, slightly more adult, For The Sake of a Motorized Scooter is an entertaining Flight of the Conchords story in which Brett and Jemaine once again fail at adulthood and engage in shenanigans (including huddling for warmth).

We got a really great Love and Rockets story this year, El Búho de Engranajes, in which Our Heroes are growing older and more surreal and Ray learns what Maggie's superpower is. I am impressed.

Stories in which I was impressed by the use of a historical setting (look, we all have our own reasons for liking stuff, and I will totally cop to mine): Underground, a Kavalier and Clay story which uses subways as a metaphor in ways I appreciated. Reservoirs takes Bran and Will from Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising series and recontextualizes them into modern Welsh politics; there were some things about this story which weren't very clear to me, but I liked the writer's effort to take Cooper's characters out of the deliberately-timeless world of the series.

Saddle Up is my favorite of this year's Buckaroo Banzai stories. In Which Tazendra Catches a Thief is a story set in Brust's Dragaera, in which Tazendra picks a fight with the wrong Jhereg. And I have kind of mixed feelings about Baga, a story set in the future of McKinley's Damar, in that I don't know that I buy its take on Damarian gender relations, but I do like having a slightly different take on the Northerner problem.

And there's a quite a nice story for Chabon's Gentlemen of the Road (which I totally meant to request myself, this year, but failed to); sadly, it didn't get into my bookmarks and the archive is still clonking, so you'll either have to look for yourselves or wait and see if I get around to writing another links post.

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Two short and basically silly bits, from synecdochic's 101 Times JD Nielson Hitched a Ride commentficstravaganza: one for Torchwood, and, for the surrealism prize, Dinosaur Train.

Why yes, the special hell is too good for me.

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Title: Pasghetti Western
Author: Circadienne
Rating: Teen, if that.
Characters: Sheriff Bart, the Waco Kid
Summary: Riding off into the sunset ain't what it used to be. Except for how it kind of is. About 1,200 words and completely tasteless.

Pasghetti Western


We watched Blazing Saddles on TV, Sunday night, and afterward I kind of had to write this. And hey, look, unlike every other obscure fandom thing I've written in the last couple of years, this one actually matches up with an unfilled Yuletide request. So I've stuck it over there, because that's where people go to look for obscure stuff.

It's in completely poor taste, but given the source, what did you expect?

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Wendy, to Jane


Peter’s the mistake we make
when we’re too young to know any better.
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Title: Two Sides
Author: Circadienne
Rating: Teen, I suppose. People have sex, but not very explicitly.
Characters: Two Uhuras, two Spocks, a couple of Kirks, and a starship in a pear tree.
Summary: Across two universes, things change. And things don't change at all. About 4,000 words and the usual expressions of gratitude to cofax7.


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Title: Lights Off
Author: Circadienne
Rating: adult
Pairing: Parker/Hardison
Summary: It's a story about two people with limited social skills getting laid. Episode coda, of sorts, for The Stork Job; minimal spoilers for that ep. With thanks to amaliedageek and cofax7 for laughing at me and telling me to post the thing already. 1,600 words.



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Ah, Friday afternoon! I should be working, and instead I seem to have written short schmoopy Leverage fic. Oh well.

Title: Sometimes
Author: Circadienne
Rating: teen
Pairing: Parker/Hardison
Summary: She has to think about this for a minute. 600 words, basically happy, comes complete with climbing gym and things that go beep.

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*adjusts little-used hat* At the end of the first day, I have eight things that I think would reward your attention, in...seven fandoms.

( Wodehouse, Danielewski, RPF-Modern Political, Stoppard, Love and Rockets, How I Met Your Mother )

The laptop is going into the shop for repairs this morning, so please be aware that if you need to reach me, there may be a delay. Thanks!

As a Christmas present and thankyou for betaing both my Yuletide stories this year, I read Cofax's Supernatural story "Her Tracks Are On The Land" (gen, teen) to the computer. You can download an audiobook (.m4b) version via the link below. I'm reasonably happy with how it turned out, though there are still more microphone artifacts than there would be in my Platonic ideal podfic.

http://rapidshare.com/files/80910590/Her_Tracks_Are_On_The_Land.m4b.html

Directions: Follow the link above. Scroll down. There will be two columns of text, one that says "Premium" and one that says "Free." Click on "Free." Then it takes you to a thing where you wait for a minute, then type four letters into a box to make sure you're not a bot. You do that and click "ok." Then it downloads.

Every Land: Bibliographic Notes



Yeah, okay, okay, I am going to the Special Hell for naughty historians. At least I know the company will be good. Also, anyone who's laughing at me for writing a Yuletide letter that said, "Given a choice, I'll usually prefer a cheerful adventure story to something gloomy where everyone drinks a lot, contracts painful diseases, and perishes horribly," is...um, also in good company, because I am still laughing pretty hard at myself over this one. Longest story in Yuletide? Fuck, what was I thinking? (Mostly, "It's not quite done yet, is it? Hunh. I guess I better go write some more.") That said, I did write a cheerful little story for Yuletide this year, but only five people read it. Mostly people read "Every Land," in which the characters drink like fish, have unhealthy sexual relationships, pine for each other, get raped and enslaved, go mad, commit suicide, and die of puerpal fever, though at least I had the good taste to let her do that offstage. Um.

I could go on at ridiculous length about the thinking behind this story, because there was quite a lot of it. If you have questions, feel free to ask.

There was, as commenters have noted, considerable background reading, though not quite as much as you might think, given the other things I do with my time. *cough* Regarding historical accuracy, there is nothing in "Every Land" which is, insofar as I am aware, directly contradicted by the primary record (though, of course, interpretations will vary), and I believe that everyone was, physically, where I've put them on the dates in question. Which should provide something of an object lesson in historical "certainty" to the observant reader. I've thought for years that it would explain a few historical weirdnesses if Lewis were gay; this was a chance to play with that idea, and explore some other thoughts I've had about sex, gender, frontiers, and the opening of the West.

I had wonderful beta help from Amy, Cofax, and C., who listened to me wombling on about this for most of two months and were very patient! Also, you can thank them for telling me to leave the sex in ("I'm afraid I wrote 2,000 words of utterly gratuitous smut last night. I feel kind of weird about it. Do you think I should cut it?" "No, no, no, the sex is good! Leave the sex alone! This other bit over here, though....")

Thank yous also to everyone who read this and commented and recced it -- to send this out in the world and have people say such wonderful things about it, well, it really doesn't get more awesome than that. And Dizmo, my recipient, actually stayed up and read this on the night the archive opened (and I know how long this sucker takes to read!), and left wonderful feedback, which totally made my Christmas morning. Thank you!

I am constitutionally incapable of skipping the annotated bibliography, so here goes.

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Written for me,

In Different Words

Fandom: Doonesbury
Written for: Circadienne in the Yuletide 2007 Challenge
by MamaDeb
Rating: R

Thank you!



I'm responsible for

Early Morning, Again

Fandom: Roger Zelazny - Chronicles of Amber series
Written for: Serenade in the Yuletide 2007 Challenge
Rating: G

and, of course, the fic what ate my brain,

Every Land

Fandom: RPF - American Frontier
Written for: Dizmo in the Yuletide 2007 Challenge
Rating: NC-17, or as I'd prefer, adult in most senses of the word

for which I will be posting the bibliography shortly.

Hey there! Despite the fandom adventure that the run-up to Yuletide's been this year, I'm looking forward to this (esp. since I just got my nifty keen prompt, huzzah). I hope you are too.

This is my infrequently-fic-writing identity, which, yeah, there's not much there here (here there? Here here? Hear there? Hair? Hare? I'll stop now). For which I apologize; I know some folks really want to know about their subject, and that's...not happening so much with me, at least when I'm wearing this hat.

But the way I see it is, I requested three fairly oddball fandoms. You like at least one of them well enough to volunteer to write it. We already have a lot in common. I tried to write pretty nonrestrictive prompts, and truly, since I've never even seen fic in two of these fandoms? I'm going to be so cheerful about reading whatever you come up with.

I've been thinking about major squicks and things like that...about the only things I can come up with are (1) I find really gory stuff distasteful, especially when kids are involved; and (2) really egregious spelling and grammar problems tend to throw me out of a story. Neither of which I honestly think is very likely to come up, so I'm hesitant to even say anything.

Given a choice, I'll usually prefer a cheerful adventure story to something gloomy where everyone drinks a lot, contracts painful diseases, and perishes horribly, but really, if the latter is what you're feeling the urge to write, you can probably sell me on it.

Have fun, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

ETA: WEEEELL, crapsies. Goodbye, awesome prompt, but I live in hope that the dawn will appear bearing an even more awesome prompt. In the meantime, I'm going to bed.

ETA II: And HELLO, even more awesome new prompt(s). I may have to write two. Truly, the Yuletide fairy has been good to me. Hopefully you feel the same way, kind stranger.

Because I really had to get it out of my system. Very mild spoilers for SGA 4:03 "Reunion." Gen, team fic, about 500 words.





A Work of Art


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