sailing the fingers of the dragon

a wand and a rabbit (6108 words) by kathryne
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Agatha All Along (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Agatha Harkness/Rio Vidal
Characters: Agatha Harkness, Rio Vidal, Señor Scratchy (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Agnes of Westview (Agatha All Along), Memory Alteration, Ex Sex, (sort of), Vibrators, it's about the yearning, Agatha Harkness as Agnes O'Connor in Agnes of Westview
Summary: If Billy hadn't interrupted Agnes' dinner with Agent Vidal, who knows what might have happened?

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And I wrote a yuletide treat! It's been several years since I did that, for sure. Also for a friend and I was absolutely not anonymous to them; this was a concept I'd been toying with and I just decided, I'm gonna get it done for Yuletide. I had such fun digging around in Agatha-as-Agnes' head and I want to do more of it, frankly. I wrote this fairly quickly and I think I would like to spend a little more time in the psychology of it all. That said, I enjoyed the heck out of it, and somehow I am now the rabbit girl in AAA fandom? idk what to tell you.

(I don't even like Chappell Roan.)

Also beta'd, with incredible speed, by gabolange.

to let the next life off the hook (2793 words) by kathryne
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Barbie (Movie 2023)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margot Robbie's Barbie/Gloria (Barbie 2023)
Characters: Margot Robbie's Barbie (Barbie 2023), Gloria (Barbie 2023)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Canonical Birkenstocks, Canonical Indigo Girls, Everyone In Barbieland Has To Be A Little Bit Queer Right?, Internalized Homophobia, Bisexual Gloria (Barbie 2023)
Summary: Barbie’s not the only one who has a past life. When Gloria faces hers, everything changes - for both of them.

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So for yuletide this year I got a completely empty letter with only two characters chosen, for a completely empty AO3 profile, who didn't even bother to comment (I guess they could've kudos'd, as I don't look terribly closely at those), for a fandom I offered because I was really hoping to get a wild prompt I could run with. So that was a little bit less fun than usual. I ended up cribbing from other letters in the fandom but the story just never ended up as enjoyable as I wanted it to (though it's certainly not bad - thanks, gabolange, for a very helpful beta). Alas.

Thankfully, I got a fab gift: captured by the game (Wheel of Time, Moiraine/Lanfear, Moiraine/Siuan, Teen), which you should check out if you're in the fandom and which made my Yuletide very merry.

I have been offering Atomic Blonde in Yuletide for aaaages and I was so delighted to get assigned it this year! I had a very good time writing this.

this dust that was a city (1386 words) by kathryne
Fandom: Atomic Blonde (2017)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lorraine Broughton/Delphine Lasalle
Characters: Lorraine Broughton, Delphine Lasalle
Additional Tags: Semi-Public Sex, Missing Scene, Misses Clause Challenge, Yuleporn, Make the Yuletide Gay
Summary: Lorraine spends some time on surveillance in East Berlin. Delphine comes along for the ride.

Thanks to jae for being my East German informant! a number of comments called out how good the sense of place was in this, and that was all her :D And thanks to soupytwist for beta!

It was a bit touch-and-go there, but in the end, I pulled off a fic for what turned out to be my favourite film of the year:

ombre chère (1228 words) by kathryne
Fandom: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Héloïse/Marianne
Characters: Héloïse, Marianne
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Women's art, On looking and being seen
Summary: Notes from the underworld.

I actually matched on a different canon, but immediately had this idea when I saw the other prompt. I wasn't sure I could make it work without re-watching the film, which I'd seen at TIFF and which hadn't yet had an English release, but when a possibility presented itself to me, I took it. And four people commented on it - three more than the recip, and three more than I'd been hoping for. :P

If you have a chance to see the film, I hugely recommend it!

you will continue to need (28182 words) by kathryne
Fandom: Grace and Frankie (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Frankie Bergstein/Grace Hanson
Additional Tags: Sharing a Bed, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Friends to Lovers, Platonic Cuddling, not-so-platonic cuddling, Older Characters, Alternate Universe
Summary: After bragging about how well she sleeps alone, Frankie finds herself unable to cope with nighttime solitude. And though they're not that close – yet – Grace wants to help Frankie overcome her difficulties, despite the... unorthodox... methods involved. It's what friends do, right? // A s1 bedsharing AU.

Why yes, for Yuletide, I wrote nearly thirty thousand words of Grace and Frankie cuddling. Which means that last year I wrote over fifty thousand words all told, all since August.

I'm so, so pleased.

slow and steady (2427 words) by kathryne
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Scott & Bailey
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Julie Dodson/Gill Murray
Characters: Julie Dodson, Gill Murray
Additional Tags: Post-4x08, Friends to Lovers
Summary: After Gill's retirement, she and Julie must negotiate the balance between Julie's continuing career and their relationship.

That brings this year's word count up to a paltry 4927. Ouch. Here's to more words in 2016, or at least no fewer.

At last, the moment of truth. ;) I wrote two stories this year and thoroughly enjoyed both of them, which was very nice. I did have some... fun... writing a) one character in two different accents and b) one character in her first and second language when we don't actually get to speak her first language. :P

My assignment:

got a lot to not do (let me kill it with you) (3395 words) by kathryne
Fandom: Elementary (TV)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/Jamie Moriarty | Irene Adler, Irene Adler/Sherlock Holmes
Characters: Jamie Moriarty | Irene Adler, Sherlock Holmes
Summary: I dearly hope you'll write soon.

I had kind of hoped to get a Joan/Moriarty prompt, because I would love to write them but didn't particularly have any useful ideas, but instead my recip asked for anything about Moriarty. I wrote a series of Holmes/Moriarty scenes interspersed with letters from prison; finding Moriarty's voice for the letters was great fun. (However: every single time I went to write 'Jamie,' as in 'Jamie Moriarty,' it came out 'Jaime,' as in 'Jaime Murray.' I do hope I caught those. *facepalm*) And now I want to write more Elementary fic and I do kind of have a Joan/Moriarty idea, so yay!

I still feel a bit silly about stealing a title from my latest favourite singer, but I do think it's perfect, so. I also wish I had had more time to do more research on London's East End, but that bit didn't come together until after the upload, so it's largely personal experience and google, which I feel meant it suffered a bit.

I am a bit sad that this didn't get more hits, when last year's Joan-fic got quite a few, but I think I should have given it a better summary. Oh well, I enjoyed it.

And a treat:

Light Gets In (1564 words) by kathryne
Fandom: Defiance (TV)
Rating: Mature
Relationships: Kenya Rosewater/Stahma Tarr
Characters: Kenya Rosewater, Stahma Tarr, Datak Tarr, Alak Tarr
Additional Tags: Misses Clause Challenge
Summary: Stahma does a colour study.

The recip (ellabell) is on my tumblr dash, so when I saw her go out on the pinch hit list in a fandom I'd been meaning to try writing in I stuck it aside for later, just in case. If I'd expected anyone to guess one of my fics, this would be the one; I thought it was incredibly in my voice and style, and there is a lot of overlap between the Defiance and the Warehouse 13 fandoms.

This one desperately needs a last edit, but I wrote it on the 24th and uploaded it about half an hour before the archive went live (I was actually still awake when the archive opened, though I chose to wait to read till the morning), so I'm okay with a couple of typos. I also really like how it turned out in terms of a character study. The summary is perhaps the worst (again! note to self: write summaries first next time), but I do really like the title: there is a crack in everything, and Kenya might be the one in Stahma's composure.

Overall I really enjoyed writing for Yuletide this year! Next year I will possibly not offer Elementary (three years in a row might be a bit much) and will, as always, try to get a requests/offer list done early and my writing done early. I expect to be just as successful on those as I always am. :P

I figured I'd wait a day till your flists were clear - I mean, I was too busy being emotionally wrecked by Les Miserables to post this yesterday, but. Yuletide reveal! Aside from receiving two lovely M-centric Bond fics this year, I also wrote two stories:

Practice (1333 words) by kathryne
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Elementary (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Joan Watson (Elementary), Sherlock Holmes
Summary: Working with Sherlock isn't changing Joan as much as he might think.

The request for this was "LITERALLY ANYTHING ABOUT JOAN," but sadly my immediate idea got jossed by canon like a week after assignments, ugh. In rewatching, though, I started thinking about how the show portrays the other doctors and medical professionals we see and what that might possibly say about former surgeon Joan and what she was like or still holds from that life.

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No Such Roses (1571 words) by kathryne
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Maddie Brodatt/Julie Beaufort-Stuart
Characters: Julie Beaufort-Stuart, Maddie Brodatt
Summary: (redacted for people on my flist whom I am trying to make read this book omg read it read it)

SPOILERS FOR THE BOOK BTW.

The request for this was "OMG PLEASE HAVE THEM MAKE OUT" and, well, I was okay with that. This was written almost entirely on Christmas Day, but I really like my Maddie voice.

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In general, I was quite pleased by this yuletide: both fics hit triple-digit hit counts ("Practice" over 300, "No Such Roses" over 150"), double-digit kudos (over 40 and over 20), and 9 or 10 comments. Which is pretty okay for yuletide, I think.

I wanted to write moar treats, but I had such a shitty last two months of 2012 that frankly I'm impressed I didn't default. Here's to more writing next time! :D

Title: Floodplain
Author: tellitslant
Fandom: Batwoman
Pairing: Kate Kane/Maggie Sawyer (Kate Kane/Renee Montoya)
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1200
Disclaimer: Characters are property of DC Comics. This is a transformative work; no infringement is intended.
Warnings: None.
Notes: Written for twtd in yuletide 2011. Originally posted at the AO3.
Summary: The morning after, Kate thinks some hard thoughts about the reality of her relationship with Maggie. ( Missing scene from Batwoman #4. )

Title: Bang and Burn
Author: tellitslant
Fandom: RED
Pairing: Victoria Winslow/Ivan Simanov
Rating: R
Word count: 2300
Notes: Written for morganize for Yuletide 2010. Originally posted at the AO3.
Summary: Bang and Burn (n): espionage agency slang for demolition and sabotage operations. (  A tale of Victoria and Ivan's first meeting. )