The Middle Distance

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/

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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