Hi! Thanks so much for writing for me, and congratulations on your evident good taste!

If you want to benignly internet-stalk me to get an idea of my interests, Tumblr and AO3 are probably a better idea than DW. Though I have been book blogging recently.

I have requested Band Sinister by K. J. Charles, the Roaring Twenties Magic series by Allie Therin, Tortall by Tamora Pierce, and Tam Lin by Pamela Dean. I am happy with any fic rating or length, and welcome extra treats.

A large and random list of things I like in general: worldbuilding, hurt/comfort, huddling for warmth, teamwork, competence, adventure, lesbians, ethical dilemmas, loyalty conflicts, people being clever, twisty plots, gender issues, sibling or sibling-like relationships, epistolary fic, backstory, pining, physical affection, queerness, philosophy, romance, UST, found families, mythological and literary allusions, polyamory, slash, het, femslash, passionate platonic friendships, hidden worlds, cities, wilderness travel, banter, complicated plans, beautiful landscapes, angst, puns, magical realism, history, social class issues, older women with major roles, case fic, period accuracy, gen, smut, pwp, diversity of opinion, secret identities, fairy tales, specific sense of place... Feel free to use any of these, don't try to use all of them.

DNW: Child- or pregnancy-focused fic, high school AUs, fic entirely centred around a wedding or wedding preparation or Valentine's Day, incest, or graphic depictions of rape or gore or torture.

Fandom specific thoughts and optional details:
( Band Sinister - K. J. Charles )

( Roaring Twenties Magic - Allie Therin )

( Tortall - Tamora Pierce )

( Tam Lin - Pamela Dean )

trickortreatex fics are revealed! I got three delightful little treats. Two of them are sweet fluffy Dimension 20 fic, and the other one is ... not. All are recommended.

Advisor's Advice, Dimension 20: A Court of Fey and Flowers, 572 words: Between running their respective Courts Andhera and Binx have been busy! When they plan to meet at the next Bloom starting soon, Andhera seeks advice from Advisor.

Cheerful Contentment, Dimension 20: A Court of Fey and Flowers, 300 words: Binx works on a project and then has tea with Andhera.

Ritual, The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, 300 words: Before the little creek was where Helen told her to stop.

ETA: Another one! Come to Me, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 200 words: The hour is late...

Hi! Thanks so much for writing for me, and congratulations on your evident good taste!

If you want to benignly internet-stalk me to get an idea of my interests, Tumblr and AO3 are probably a better idea than DW. Though I have been book blogging recently.

This year I requested Band Sinister by K. J. Charles, Dimension 20: A Court of Fey and Flowers, The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, the Roaring Twenties Magic series by Allie Therin, The Immortals Quartet by Tamora Pierce, and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. I am happy with any fic rating or length, and welcome extra treats.

A large and random list of things I like in general: worldbuilding, hurt/comfort, huddling for warmth, teamwork, competence, adventure, lesbians, ethical dilemmas, loyalty conflicts, people being clever, twisty plots, gender issues, sibling or sibling-like relationships, epistolary fic, backstory, pining, physical affection, queerness, philosophy, romance, UST, found families, mythological and literary allusions, polyamory, slash, het, femslash, passionate platonic friendships, hidden worlds, cities, banter, complicated plans, beautiful landscapes, angst, puns, magical realism, history, social class issues, older women with major roles, case fic, period accuracy, gen, smut, pwp, diversity of opinion, secret identities, fairy tales, specific sense of place... Feel free to use any of these, don't try to use all of them.

DNW: Child- or pregnancy-focused fic, high school AUs, fic entirely centred around a wedding or wedding preparation, incest, or graphic depictions of rape or gore or torture. See a couple of the specific fandom notes for exceptions.

Fandom specific thoughts and optional details:
( Band Sinister - K. J. Charles )

( Dimension 20 (Web Series) )

( Roaring Twenties Magic - Allie Therin )

( Tortall - Tamora Pierce )

Finally, my two vaguely femslashy horror fandoms (with the DNW exceptions):
( The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen )

( The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman )

So in multiple Yuletides past I have asked for someone to write me a queer consideration of Mercedes Lackey's Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms. I wouldn't recommend that series to anyone (I cannot even tell you how desperately it needs an editor) but it is excellent comfort reading for me ... except for things like One Good Knight, which I read around the same time as a couple other fantasy books that were also OBVIOUSLY setting up a lesbian relationship and then randomly threw in a het ending at the last minute and therefore have a probably disproportionate grudge against. Where was I?

Right. So. This year I requested it again but then also got assigned Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, and there was nothing in my recipient's requests against it, so I decided I'd write it myself, and at least get some enjoyment out of it. ...And then I received exactly the kind of queer reimagining that I wanted! And my recipient liked my fic! So clearly I won Yuletide both ways.

Because they are basically just about queer fairy tales I would not say that you need to know anything about the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms to understand these fics. My gift has more canon characters than my assignment does, but all you really need to know is that The Tradition is a magical force that makes fairy tales and folktales and songs play out in the real world (whether the people involved want to be in a fairy tale or not), and Godmothers are overworked magicians who try and mitigate the damage, usually by creating happy endings.

My gift was Writing Our Own Happily-Ever-Afters by StableState, which has poly and a GREAT take on the woman-disguised-as-a-man story and also an excellent pun.

I wrote

Title: Blossoms in Ashes
Wordcount: 6155 words
Fandom: Cinderella (Perrault), Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms (Lackey)
Rating: G
Relationships: Various
Characters: Cinderella, Prince Charming, Fairy Godmother, Stepsisters, Stepmother, Godmother Elena (Five Hundred Kingdoms)
Warnings/Enticements: Abuse, Queer themes, Regendering
Summary: “All over the Five Hundred Kingdoms, down through time, there have been countless girls like you for whom the circumstances were not right. Their destined princes were greybeards, infants, married or terrible rakes, or not even Princes at all, but Princesses! … And there are dozens and dozens of other tales that The Tradition is trying to recreate, all the time, and perhaps one in a hundred actually becomes a tale.”
A variety of events documented in the chronicles of the Godmothers of the Five Hundred Kingdoms.

And I managed to fit in a Madness treat before getting covid right before Christmas (booooo).

Title: Nevertheless
Wordcount: 350 words
Fandom: The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot)
Rating: G
Relationships: None
Characters: Madame Sosostris
Warnings/Enticements: Poetry, Clairvoyance, Telepathy, Common Cold, London, Post-World War I
Summary: She brings the horoscope herself.

Okay, so last year when I was taking a break from writing I got an idea for a novel set in Toronto in 1920, and that’s been brewing ever since. Here’s my various posts about it on tumblr. (That link works on desktop but may not work if it tries to open in the app, because Tumblr Is A Functioning Website.) And then this October icannotreadcursive made a list of original character prompts, so I did a few of those, and generally it was a fun thing to think about at work even for the ones that didn’t get written down. Although they are also all in the tag above, here’s the links separately:

Day 3: In a cherished memory (Josie)

Day 4: Waking up from a nightmare (Fred and Tom)

Day 10: In a different time period (Modern AU, everyone)

Day 16: Expressing or exploring their spirituality (Verry, definitely not doing that)

Day 24: Being cared for by someone they love (Verry, Tom, and Fred)

And earlier this month I also posted a ficlet for Band Sinister by K. J. Charles.

I am also in trickortreatex, but I haven't opened my gifts yet so I will post about that after the anon period.

It is October, which means it is my favourite time of year: Nominations Queries Post time!

For those of you who don't pay much attention to fanworks exchanges, a nominations queries post is a post made during the tagset approvals portion of an AO3 exchange, where the mod(s) of the exchange ask the nominators exactly who they meant by "Vampire Chick (Twilight)" and whether there's a better fandom name than "Two Books From This Series But Not the Third One Which I Hate - Author Name".

Usually it starts a bit earlier, but neither Trick or Treat Ex nor FemslashEx (signups still open!) had much in the way of noms queries this year. Which is good for the mods, of course, but means I had to wait until Yuletide noms closed to get my fix. Reading nominations guidelines and the evidence post work too, although not quite as well.

I'm not sure why I love these posts so much. It has very little to do with whether I've heard of the fandom or not. There's the putting-things-into-little-boxes impulse, and the watching-people-being-really-interested-in-really-specific-things enjoyment. And also there's sentences like

Nominator of Elder Gods, we don’t accept group nominations if the group contains distinct characters. Could you pick an Elder God, please?

and

Nominator, for 'The Snake', which snake did you want? The snake who enters the crypt first, or the second snake, who brings the first snake back to life?

which really remind me exactly what I love about fandom in specific and human creativity in general. It's like getting a peek into dozens of different tiny little worlds.

I have had a good time reading the evidence post and having strong irrelevant opinions over whether [fandom X] should qualify for Yuletide, and I expect to have another good week enjoying the results of modly tag approvals.

So the-poly-armory did a very small Clint/Natasha/Bucky exchange, and I wanted to write more and looked at the huge patch of free time I had at the end of April and signed up for it.

And I had this college AU and it was half done and fully outlined and going to be about 5000 words ... but then local case rates skyrocketed and personal things happened and I got scheduled for two full weeks of work and then the new semester started.

Luckily I had planned for this, sort of, and I had decided that if I didn't have a rough draft by the first day of class I would write smut instead because after all my recipient had specifically asked for smut. Which is what I did. I wish I'd been able to think of a summary but people do seem to think it's hot.

Title: Tools of the Trade
Rating: E
Universe: Marvel
Characters: Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Bucky Barnes
Warnings/Enticements: Porn Without Plot, Threesome - F/M/M, Hand Kink, Pegging
Word Count: 1320

On AO3

And here is my gift, which is just so lovely, OMG.

An Unsealed Fate (6308 words) by Beckala
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Alternate Universe - Fae, Angst, Class Issues, physical affection, Cities, Magic, Just a touch of steampunk, Wings
Summary:

They’ve made their preparations and the dawn will bring a chance at a new life — but first, they have tonight and they’re going to make the most of it.

“We don’t say goodbye before we part,” Clint continues as his fingers finish the last button and he starts to tug Bucky’s trousers and pants over his hips, “we don’t seal a fate until all other paths are closed to us.”

“He’s right,” Nat says and when Bucky turns his head again she’s so close he can make out the gold stars around her irises, the only outward sign of the immense power hiding under her skin, “don’t tempt fate. What will come will come but we have now and we’re going to celebrate it with you.”

So for MFDE I wrote genderswap Clint/Nat mission fic.

And here is the thing I have been working on for forever:

Title: Growing Seasons
Rating: E
Universe: Marvel
Characters: Clint Barton, Bucky Barnes, Natasha Romanov
Warnings/Enticements: Historical AU, Post-American Civil War, Farming, Domestic Chores, Blizzards, Slow Burn, Sharing a Bed, Angst, PTSD, Polyamory, Past MCD, Past Steve/Bucky, Background Dark Themes, Period Typical Attitudes, Future Explicit Sexual Content
Summary: “I’m sorry for imposing on you like this,” the stranger said, pulling his scarf down to reveal dark stubble and a surprisingly pretty mouth. “But the storm came up sudden, and I got no idea where the nearest town is. Could you point me in the right direction?”
“You won’t make it in this storm,” said Clint. “Stay until it blows over, it’s no trouble.”
Word Count: 2787 this chapter; 20k total

On AO3

Hi! Thanks so much for writing for me, and congratulations on your evident good taste!

I am requesting fic for Agent Carter and Original Works, and fic or art for Alternate Universe Works and The Old Guard (2020). You may ignore my fic/art and trick/treat preferences for extra gifts.

A large and random list of things I like in general: worldbuilding, hurt/comfort, huddling for warmth, teamwork, adventure, ethical dilemmas, loyalty conflicts, people being clever, twisty plots, gender, sibling or sibling-like relationships, backstory, pining, physical affection, queerness, philosophy, romance, feminism, UST, found families, mythological allusions, polyamory, slash, het, femslash, hidden worlds, cities, banter, complicated plans, beautiful landscapes, angst, puns, magical realism, history, social class issues, passionate platonic friendships, older women with major roles, case fic, period accuracy, gen, smut, pwp, diversity, secret identities, historical clothes, fairy tales, specific sense of place... Feel free to use any of these.

I am happy with absolutely any fic rating or length. I don't mind seasonal works, I like fall, but it's not a requirement. For Tricks, I prefer angst and the supernatural rather than actively-trying-to-freak/gross-you-out horror.

Dislikes: I do not want child- or pregnancy-focused fic, or fic focused on high school. I have a major embarrassment squick, I don't like incest, and I'm not interested in graphic depictions of rape or gore or torture (note a couple specific fandom exceptions to this last below).

Agent Carter
( Agent Carter )

Alternate Universe Works
Characters:
( Kate Bishop replaces Clint Barton (AU-MCU) )
( Winter Soldier Peggy Carter (AU-MCU) )

The Old Guard
( The Old Guard )

Original Works
( Original Works )

( Battle of the Bands )

So there's still technically time to change my mind, but I'm pretty sure I'm not going to sign up for Yuletide this year. I'm pretty sure it's a good decision and I seem to be in a mental state where I'm not castigating myself for it, but I'm still not sure how I feel about it.

I just ... have a lot of things to do this fall and I want signing up for a challenge to seem fun rather than another obligation.

Instead I am going to finish at least four of these lingering WiPs and work and apply for college. And do math. With Jean Claude's help.



Anyway, I wrote lots of (mostly) Clint/Natasha snippets here.