The Middle Distance

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.

cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr.

Lately I’ve had two requests to include stories of mine in Bottom!Character collections on AO3 - two different pairings, two different fandoms! One fic is Johnlock and the other Aziraphale/Crowley. I’m sitting on them and mulling.

Because sure, the character they like bottoming does in both those stories (Sherlock and Aziraphale) and I don’t mind those readers with a strong preference enjoying those stories, at all!

But for both those pairings I am VERY STAUNCHLY a switch/vers writer (in fact, in the case of A/C I think it’s symbolically and theologically important that they switch). And there are a lot of jackasses out there who can’t cope with this.

The kind of people who harass writers for writing it “wrong” (and have driven several wonderful writers out of fandoms over it). So I’m hesitant to expose my fics to their attention (because if they check out my other work they will certainly find things they don’t like, fuck yeah) or to give even the SLIGHTEST hint that I might ever endorse or respect that mentality. I want my position on positions to be clear - it’s all fine, except flaming people for writing it the other way; that is NOT fine, ever. And I like to write it all the ways.

I’ve got some excellent feedback on the Twitter and Tumblr threads, and I’m strongly leaning towards saying no. Yet I don’t mind people who have a preference reading the fics of mine that match that and passing on the others - not every story is for everyone, that’s no problem. Of course it’s flattering to be asked. But I don’t want my vanity to lead anyone to getting the wrong impression.

What do y’all think?



Anyway, here are two of my most explicitly switch fics:

Race to the Bottom (Aziraphale/Crowley). This one is all about why it’s actually ineffably important that they get to take turns.

Splat! (Sherlock/John, Appalachian AU) This is the one where they compete for topping “privilege” by hunting each other with paintball guns. There’s a scene where Sherlock wins and a scene where John does.