The Middle Distance

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

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

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.

Or, "The Case of the Penetrated Pumpkins"

Johnlock, Rated M, No Archive Warnings Apply


Harvest Moon

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!

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

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.

Originally posted to AO3 on 3/15/2018.

Title: The Art of the Blood
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, past Sherlock Holmes/Historical Male Character (classical music RPF)
Recipient okapi, in the fandomlovespuertorico auction
Rating: NC-17/Explicit
Tags/Warnings/Content Notes/Advertisements: Blood, Blood Drinking, Bloodplay, Vampirism, Bloodletting, Cutting, Hand Jobs, Frottage, First Time, vampire kink, Timeline What Timeline

Summary: Watson finds a disturbing, barbaric, medically out-of-fashion item among Holmes’s possessions, and simply cannot let it go. How does Holmes happen to own not just any bloodletting kit, but one that once belonged to a great violin master who died before Holmes was born? The answers revealed will change both their lives - forever.

Warning for cutting, but not in a mental illness context.

A Fandom Loves Puerto Rico bid for Okapi, who supplied me with this wonderful prompt! Nicolo Paganini’s bloodletting kit.

Halloween Self-Rec!

Please indulge me, I don’t do this very often. But I’m still very proud of this creepy little tale I wrote three years ago. It doesn’t get much traffic since it’s gen and OC-centric, but I do love literary pastiche, I love the Shire and the creepy feel of the early LOTR chapters, and I had so much fun writing a J.R.R. Tolkien/Washington Irving mashup.

The Terror of Rushy Hollow at AO3.

Happy Halloween and Blessed Samhain!

I'm doing this! Fandom charity auction to benefit Puerto Rico! https://fandomlovespuertorico.dreamwidth.org/

Money is going to a group that will be there for the long haul, not just short-term emergency relief (though of course that's also crucial right now).

here's my signup info:

I am offering: Fic, 5k to 10k
Quantity: 2
Minimum bid: $25 each
What fandoms I create for: Sherlock BBC, major works of Tolkien (LOTR, the Hobbit, the Silmarillion). Other fandoms I’ve written for in the past negotiable.
Would love to do: For Sherlock, my favorite ships are Johnlock, Johnlockary, Marene (and other femslash ships), Johnlockolly. I’m willing to try other rare pairs and threesomes - Sherlock is my ‘little black dress’ character. I love kinkfic and AUs. Feel free to ask about a new story in the universe of any story or series I’ve written before, or a crossover with any other fandom I’ve written. For Tolkien, any ship I’ve written in the past is available. My specialties seem to be rarepairs, xeno, villains, Ainur, and sexually adventurous hobbits - try me!
Will not do: Major character death (unless in reference to a canon death), scat, sex involving children. Very picky about non-con; ask first
Additional Info: Good Omens also a possibility but might have to wait until I’m done with the Holiday Exchange (I’m a mod and a participant).
How I can be contacted: absentia.vulgarweed [at] gmail [dot] com or Tumblr (email preferred; Tumblr eats messages)

Signups run until October 15. Bidding runs Oct 17-23. I'll post again when bidding starts.