The Middle Distance

New Original Fic for Femslash Kink!

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 05:06:31 GMT

I had a good time with this one! The request was for Faerie Queen/Mortal, gerontophilia, a contract made in youth comes due.

Bittersweet November

Pairing: Faerie Queen/OFC
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 1927
Tags: Gerontophilia, Body Worship, Cunnilingus, Contracts With the Fae, Aging, Body Positivity

Summary: Racinthe is old and she feels the autumn chill. A pact she made in her youth comes due - much later than she expected. But not too late. Not too late at all.

(lots more prompts in scads of different fandoms plus original work, if you want to write some f/f, hint hint: https://femslash-kink.dreamwidth.org/

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More Holmes, More Prompts, Holmestice!

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 02:05:02 GMT

So the beloved pan-fandom Sherlock Holmes exchange holmestice is on hiatus for Winter 2021 to give the mods a very well-deserved break.

BUT!

Reminder that they are hosting two smaller, lower-pressure events: free open posting in December, and going on RIGHT NOW....

Is a prompt fest! That's right! You can leave your prompts for fic, art, vids, podfic, you name it, in ANY version of Sherlock Holmes, in any universe.

Yes, all the big popular ones are welcome - as are every book, comic, show, movie, game, parody, short story, anime, radio drama, web series, anything. If it's Holmes at all it's welcome.

Dreamwidth posts tend to drop off in activity after a while and this one's been up a week, so it's gone a bit quiet and I wanted to top it up a little.

Here's the prompt fest post and how it works:

Winter 2021 Prompt Fest

Go forth and leave prompts, and pick up some if you like.

(Yes, I'm working on one. No, not telling which.)

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HOBBIT DAY FICLET

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 03:14:16 GMT

The Strands of the Web
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings
Rating: G
Pairing: Frodo/Sam
Word Count: 507
Tags/Warnings: Post-War of the Ring, Hurt/Comfort, Short One Shot, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Arachnophobia, Pacifist Frodo, Warrior Sam, Cuddling

Summary: The quality of mercy is not strained. A sunny spot in the garden on a map of terrible memories.

Read At AO3

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A Most Productive Birthday!

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 03:48:08 GMT

Yesterday, that is, July 6th

In the spirit of hobbit-style birthday giving (the birthday person gives gifts to others) I set the goal of getting two fics finished and posted. Mission Accomplished!

Urine For a Treat
Fandom: Sherlock (Bone-Fiddle-verse, Appalachian AU)
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
No Archive Warnings Apply
Tags: Watersports, Golden Showers, Piss Play, Established Relationship, Intimacy, Cuddling, Oral Sex, Shower Sex
Summary: In "I Like Smoke and Lightning", John learned that Sherlock had very few limits. He sat with that for a while and accepted it. And now it's coming home.

Part 1/2

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Mind the tags, this one's got a bit of a bite to it. :D

Vagina Bones
Fandom: Locked Tomb Trilogy - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Gideon Nav/Harrowhark Nonagesimus
No Archive Warnings Apply
Tags: Meme Fic, Inspired by Twitter, Cunnilingus, Vaginal Fingering, Vagina Dentata
Summary: Harrow springs a bitey surprise on Gideon in an intimate moment. To no one's surprise, Gideon kinda loves it.

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I was starting to worry I was losing my mojo for kinky porn since it's been a while...turns out, nah.

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Summer 2021 Holmestice Roundup

Sat, 26 Jun 2021 20:51:53 GMT

Belated, reveals were nearly a week ago, but I don't have my shit together, so here we go better late than never!

Master List

Astounding! Nearly 60 works created in nearly 20 different Holmes universes: fic, art, vids, podfics!

I received the spectacular The Adventure of the Three Gay Bowls by sanguinity!

In the verse of Larry Townsend's extremely raunchy The Sexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Redeems one of the worst (IMO) canon stories, fixes TSAfSH's near-total lack of women (understandable because Townsend wasn't into that but one does wonder what the ladies get up to) and leans into the style with absolute perfection. Sanguinity also says there's some Patrick Califia influence in the f/f segment and I can totally see that.

I think I threw at least a few people off the guessing track because I didn't write either ACD or BBC this round.

I wrote Rulers Make Bad Lovers for deelaundry, in the Watson and Holmes comic 'verse. Features Mrs Hudson's jazz lore, Holmes' violin, H/W romance, and a casefic based on "Beryl Coronet."

Verse: Watson and Holmes (comic)
Characters/Pairings: Sherlock Holmes/Jon Watson, Mrs Hudson, others
Rating: T
Word Count: 5644
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Canon-Typical Racism
Tags: Casefic, romance, music
Summary: S. Holmes and Jon Watson haven’t been living together in their Harlem share for very long, but there is definitely something building between them. Mrs. Hudson knows it before they do. They’ve had high-stakes life and death cases before - but it’s a low-stakes case that allows them the time to open up. It only involves averting a nasty international incident.

And as a treat for graycardinal, the first and so far only fic on AO3 based on Esther M. Friesner's 1980s fantasy novel Druid's Blood:

Albion's Seed
Verse: Druid’s Blood - Esther M. Friesner
Characters/Pairings: John H. Weston/Queen Victoria, Brihtric Donne/Ada Lovelace, John H. Weston & Brihtric Donne ride-or-die friendship and maybe more in the future, someday
Rating: T
Warnings: Reference to Canon Infidelity
Summary: A British ruler who moonlights as a doctor and a writer pens a letter to a muse who supported him when he was no one, to tell him that he’s welcome and needed at home.

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This has quickly become my favorite fest and by all means, go read/watch/look at/listen to and otherwise enjoy all the great works

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My Holmestice Roundup!

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 04:32:57 GMT

HOLMESTICE REVEALS ARE UP!! My first year participating (though I've been reading for years) and I was all over it! Thread of the story I received and the stories I wrote. Here's the masterlist of ALL the amazing works produced: MASTERLIST

I received the WONDERFUL "A Study in Scheming" by Starfishstar. BBC 'verse, Irene/Mary. More of this ship and it is twisty, clever, touching, delightful! A Study in Scheming by Starfishstar on AO3

The set-up is a little bit similar to my own "Leaves Tremblin' On the Tree" - Irene helps Mary evade Sherlock and John in T6T - but goes in a very different direction, and there's still a lot of life left in that premise!

The main gift that I wrote is "Pearls Beyond Price" for happyeverafter72. ACD canon, Holmes/Watson/Mary. I've written a lot of BBC Johnlockary but this was my first long one in ACD. Pearls Beyond Price on AO3

I do so love writing awkward polyamory negotiations between Victorians in love, all at very different levels of repression, and getting them to that Happily Ever After.

I also wrote 2 treats! For Strampunch, who wanted genderfluid!Holmes presenting femme and Watson being "a bisexual disaster," I wrote "Charlotte Sometimes" (ACD, H/W) Charlotte Sometimes on AO3

Strampunch's art is SO AMAZING, and when I saw they had a prompt request that really really inspired me, I pounced. Wanting to give something back.

For iwantthatcoat I wrote a verse I've never done before: Alexis Hall's fantastic The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, crossed over with BBC: "The Stress of Her Regard" The Stress of Her Regard on AO3

That book was on my TBR list already because of the long essay I'm writing about Magic & The Occult in Sherlockian Fiction, and Coat's request bumped it up to the top. I devoured it in three days.
If you like queer as fuck cosmic horror adventure comedy (you probably do) I can't recommend it highly enough. Since the premise has interdimensional travel in there already, why not send Shaharazad Haas and John Wyndham to early 21st century London and see what happens?

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NEW Short Bone-Fiddle-verse Fic: "Hunter's Moon" (S/J, Explicit)

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 05:18:07 GMT

So you've probably noticed that this year, I've posted a Bone-Fiddle-verse drabble or drabble series on and for every full moon.

This, the next to the last, is a special occasion: a Blue Moon on Halloween/Samhain. So I decided to write, not a drabble but a full little flash fic around 1000 words.

I went for both smutty AND spooky, with an homage to one of my favorite classic weird tales writers, Manly Wade Wellman.

Hunter's Moon

Some hunters hunt by staying very still.

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NEW Sherlock/Good Omens Crossover Fic: "The Veil Dodger" (Mrs. Hudson/Madame Tracy)

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 05:35:34 GMT

The Veil Dodger

Rating: Mature
Pairing: Mrs Hudson/Madame Tracy
Characters: Mrs Hudson, Madame Tracy, Jim Moriarty
Tags: Canon Fake Major Character Death, Canon Real Major Character Death, Discussion of Suicide, Grief, Seances, Spiritualism, Ghost Possession, Femslash, Dark Comedy

Summary: In the aftermath of what certainly appears to be the suicide of Sherlock Holmes, a grieving Mrs. Hudson has a lot of questions, and she will stop at nothing to get answers. Including answering a very dodgy ad for a psychic medium. The answers she receives don’t match the questions she asked.

Chapter 1/6: Solitude

This is a fairly lighthearted story really, but CW for grief and discussion of suicide. We know Sherlock isn't really dead, but Mrs. Hudson doesn't.

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Riders on the Storm....crash

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 05:26:17 GMT

The remnants of Zeta did a little bit of a number on us. Everyone is fine and we're dry and we have power back today. The detached garage is definitely not fine. You wouldn't be fine either if a hickory tree had dropped a 100-lb. limb on you from about 60 feet up.

The internet here is not fine either. Spectrum is showing huge outages all over the region, and they're saying they can't even get people out there to fix the main line until they know it's safe - which it won't be until the power company fixes what they need. We are very lucky to have power - lots of our neighbors don't.

I'm posting due to the miracle of personal hotspots on phones. WORTH IT.

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New Bone-Fiddle-verse 221B drabble: "Harvest Moon"

Sat, 03 Oct 2020 05:09:51 GMT

Or, "The Case of the Penetrated Pumpkins"

Johnlock, Rated M, No Archive Warnings Apply

Harvest Moon

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Gideon the Ninth/Harrow the Ninth

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:27:30 GMT

I am so ridiculously in love with these books - and the writing style is like, 80% of it. The first read-through of Gideon the Ninth, I had only a superficial understanding of what was happening, but I just kept going way too fast because the language was so beautiful and compelling and musical and MORBIDLY FUNNY.

(Seriously, this style is absolute catnip to me)

(Anyway, spoilers, won't spoil how absolutely wonderfully the shock reveals landed in my mind on my first read.)

Reading Harrow The Ninth? Off-putting for the first two-thirds but when the penny of the payoff dropped, it was SO SO SO worth it, and I'm glad I leech-blocked Twitter for two days to avoid spoilers. You can only ever read a great book for the first time ONCE.

Now on my second re-read of both, and I'm even more delighted than I was before.

I feel like these are books I will want to keep re-reading far into the future, because this world is just so fascinating.

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New ACD Sherlock Holmes Fic: "Taking a Shine to Him" (H/W, rated E)

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 02:23:20 GMT

Taking a Shine to Him

Verse: ACD Canon
Rating: E/Explicit
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Word Count: ~5000
Tags: Acts of Service, Bootblacking, Boot Worship, Boot Polish, Oral Sex, Masturbation, Light Comeplay, Slight Angst

Summary: A battered old pair of riding boots, lovingly restored to their former glory by Holmes' hard dedicated labour and knowledge of chemistry. A somewhat battered, not terribly old army doctor brought to glory by such focused, intimate attention.

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New Good Omens Fic: "A Sybaris of Snakes" (A/C, rated E)

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 01:59:45 GMT

A Sybaris of Snakes
Fandom: Good Omens
Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley
Rating: Explicit
CW: Fantasy Shapeshifter Bestiality

Summary: Sequel to A Susurration of Serpents. Aziraphale accepts the invitation to the one-demon snake orgy!

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New Bone-Fiddle-verse 221B drabble: "Corn Moon"

Thu, 03 Sep 2020 21:31:11 GMT

Once two strangers climbed ol' Rocky Top
Looking for a moonshine still
Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top
Reckon they never will

A tense moment in Sherlock and Sheriff Lestrade's long friendship. Gen, rated T for references to murder and alcohol.

Corn Moon

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Currently fascinated with...

Sat, 22 Aug 2020 01:56:39 GMT

The Locked Tomb trilogy by Tamsyn Muir (Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth so far, next book out next year).

Lovecraft Country on HBO

The Mycroft Holmes books by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

Currently spending lots of time at 4thewords, a quest game where you advance by battling monsters with timed wordcounts: https://4thewords.com

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Original erotica publications!

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 06:04:11 GMT

So I'm very excited to announce that my (Evadare's) flash fic "Synchron" has been accepted for New Smut Project's upcoming Erato anthology of erotic short shorts!

The book is scheduled to come out in October - more info soon. "Synchron" features a nonbinary character, a narrator whose gender is never specified, and a machine for sonic sex magick.

AND...another anthology I'd thought long stalled-out is going forward after all, and it's going to include a story of mine that was accepted years ago. More details to come. This one is F/F, and it's an occult adventure in the Weird Tales pulp tradition.

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SHERLOCK FEMSLASH FIC! "Leaves Tremblin' On the Tree" (Irene/Mary, rated E)

Sun, 10 May 2020 04:55:40 GMT

No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Leather Kink, Boot Worship, Cunnilingus, Nipple Play, Tribadism, Frottage, Scissoring, Canon-Typical Drug Use, Chaotic Neutral Women Loving Women, Canon Divergence AU

Summary: Set during Mary’s run in The Six Thatchers. In one of her “safe houses” on the route, she is intercepted by an old flame who might truly have her best interests at heart. Whether Mary likes it or not.

Leaves Tremblin' On the Tree at AO3

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FIC WRITING! Recent Drabble Roundup!

Sun, 10 May 2020 04:18:56 GMT

So it looks like my sort of creative constipation is starting to break up.

In April, I co-ran the 221B Consolation Fest. This is a little fic and art fest on Tumblr and AO3 for people who aren't able to go to 221B Con and are sad about it. Because the con was cancelled, this year that's everyone!

I wrote 4 221B drabbles (two Sherlock, two Good Omens - yes I kept the 221B format for those too since it was a Sherlock-based fest)

Drawing the Wrong Conclusions (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, rated M). For qtheallpowerful, who wanted Book Omens, A/C, jealous Aziraphale, wingfic, Renaissance.

Intervention (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, rated T) (for bluebellofbakerstreet, who wanted Aziraphale/Crowley, medieval, blasphemy) CW for disease/plague/Black Death

Riding the Storm Out (Sherlock, Sherlock/John, Bone-Fiddle-verse, rated T) For discordantwords, who wanted TBF-verse Sherlock and John caught in a rainstorm.

Silence Louder Than Bombs (Sherlock, Sherlock/John, rated G) for write_out, who wanted Sherlock and John on the Tube. This one got a little angsty.

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I've also begun a Bone-Fiddle-verse drabble series based on the "traditional" (apocryphal really) names for the full moons. It's part of the larger Bone Fiddle drabbles collection, and it starts here with "Wolf Moon" in January. Five so far. All Johnlock, rated T through M. (Haven't earned an E yet in this series but I probably will eventually)

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The Curious Incident of the Doggerel in the Nighttime

Sat, 15 Feb 2020 19:20:26 GMT

So the #221BeMine hashtag on Twitter inspired me to generate some god-awful Sherlock Holmes-inspired verse. Since things get lost on Twitter I'm compiling them all here.

Fishes love water
Witches love pentacles
The Lion's Mane nearly
Got Holmes in its tentacles

( Read more... )

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Podfic roundup!

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 20:59:00 GMT

I should have done this a long time ago, but I'm working on getting a little more organized. Here is a list I'm building of all the podfics people have made out of my stories over the years. All of them have my profound gratitude - it's SUCH a joy to be honored this way, and to have my work available in a different form.

Lomendánar (Little Love for the Things of My Love) podficced by Culumacilinte. (Lord of the Rings, Original Ent Character/Old Man Willow, Teen and Up) Story written in 2007; podfic made in 2013.

Come True (The Starflower and Evermind Remix), podficced by Luzula. (Lord of the Rings, Éowyn of Rohan/Elanor Gardner, Teen) Story written in 2009, podfic made in 2010.

Be-Bop (Two Decades in Five Performances) podficced by kerravon. (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, songfic, General Audiences.) Story written in 2006; podfic made in 2015

Amid The Sacred Wreck, podficced by Luzula. (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, Explicit, historical (8th-century Scotland)). Story written in 2005; podfic made in 2010.

Breathless Mouths May Summon, podficced by kerravon. (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, Explicit, historical (12th-century Constantinople and Jerusalem)). Story written in 2005; podfic made in 2016.

The Phoenix And the Turtle (A Metaphysical Romance), podficced by Sex-in-spats. (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, Explicit, historical (Elizabethan/Renaissance)). Story written in 2006, podfic made in 2015.

Might As Well Jump, podficced by KeeperOfSeeds. (Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, Explicit, historical). Story written in 2008, podfic made in 2020.

New Skin for the Old Ceremony, podficced by tinypinkmouse. (Good Omens/Dresden Files crossover, Aziraphale/Crowley, Explicit). Story written in 2012, podfic made in 2015.

Polar Vortex, podficced by CompassRose. (Dresden Files, Harry Dresden/Thomas Raith, Explicit). Story written in 2014, podfic made in 2019.

The Art of the Blood, podficced by missmuffin221 and VioletWylde. (ACD-canon Sherlock Holmes, Holmes/Watson, Explicit). Story written 2017, podfic made in 2018.

Because I'm terribly disorganized and forgetful, I'm not sure if this list is complete. If you've made any podfics of my stories that aren't on this list PLEASE let me know, and thank you thank thank you all

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Need some Long-Time-No-Posting Amnesty here!

Sun, 12 Jan 2020 02:23:17 GMT

But!

The Good Omens Holiday Exchange has wrapped up its 15th year!

The story written for me:

What Happens To the Heart by irisbleufic
Aziraphale/Crowley
Mature
Author's Summary: “[My father] was hell-bent—or heaven-bent—on completing it, and we just were unable to get a musical accompaniment that he was satisfied with. I think it’s one in a long line of songs that have his essential thesis in life, which is the broken hallelujah. Everything cracks, and this is what happens to the heart.” —Adam Cohen, regarding Leonard Cohen's posthumous album release, "Thanks for the Dance"

Absolutely beautiful slow-burn story in several vignettes, each based around a different Leonard Cohen song. (I had requested something A/C inspired by his lyrics). I strongly recommend listening to those songs while reading it, or just before or just after. Over decades, these songs help Aziraphale and Crowley really see other, and really come to terms with what they are too each other - the cracked, the holy and unholy - and eventually the light gets in.

I wrote:

The Year Without a Summer
Aziraphale/Crowley
For Ineffablemercury
Explicit
Author's Summary: Once upon a time in 1815, a mountain exploded and covered the world in cloud, cold, and darkness for so long that 1816 had no summer in the West, and crops failed, causing panic and famine. That same year, a demon decided to steal away an angel to an Underworld hideaway. Coincidence?

I mashed-up two of my recipient's requests: they wanted something inspired by Hades/Persephone, with Crowley abducting Aziraphale to Hell, OR something historical from a list of periods including Regency. What they got was Regency A/C, and Aziraphale gets taken to the old Hellfire Club caves to hide from Heaven. There is a pomegranate and there's ravishing.

It's been a TERRIBLE year for me for writing, and I'm so glad I was able to shake off the cobwebs.

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The Good Omens Holiday Exchange 2019!

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 06:10:29 GMT

Signups are open! We'll keep them up until the 28th or the first 100 people, whichever comes first.

(I can say we've had them open 2 hours and already have 15, so...don't snooze)

https://go-exchange.dreamwidth.org/236877.html

Mark me down as scared and horny

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for patrick

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:46:17 GMT

Oh all the money that e'er I spent
I spent it in good company
And all the harm that e'er I've done
Alas, it was to none but me
And all I've done for want of wit
To memory now I can't recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all

Oh all the comrades that e'er I've had
Are sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e'er I've had
Would wish me one more day to stay
But since it falls unto my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call
Good night and joy be with you all
Good night and joy be with you all

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FERAL HOGS! Bone-Fiddle-verse Sherlock drabble

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 05:00:59 GMT

That 30-50 feral hogs meme on Twitter proved inspirational!

Pig-Eat-Pig World
221B drabble (221 words, last word starts with B)
Sherlock/John, also featuring Lestrade
Rated Teen

Why has the local white supremacist cell disappeared into thin air? WHO CARES AS LONG AS THEY'RE GONE? But Sherlock always finds the answer.

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"He sits like a man but he smiles like a reptile"

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 19:07:46 GMT

OKaaayyyyyy, this is the state of things.

I was in a severe state of writer's block. I posted only two fics between June of 2018 and June of 2019. (one Sherlock, one GO, both were for prompt fest or exchanges with deadlines.)

In the past two months I have posted EIGHT Good Omens fics.

Now, three of them are old. They're first AO3 postings of collaborations that Quantum Witch and I did back in the mid-late 00s for our locked adults-only community. (There are still a few left to go). And the five that are new are very short - they're also for a prompt challenge fest, the 666 Fics Fics Fics collection.

But still! Five new fics in two months.

And that magic isn't fandom-restricted; I now have an outline and part of the first chapter of my alternate-history/true-crime/cosmic-horror/romance Holmes/Watson novel for Carnation.

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