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Cats Tamed & Old Flames (3059 words) by thesunsaid
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: EDS "Cat Herders" (Commercial)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Original Male Character/Original Male Character
Characters: Original Male Character(s), Worldbuilding (EDS "Cat Herders" Commercial)
Additional Tags: Fluff, Cats, Hurt/Comfort, Past Relationship(s), Worldbuilding
Summary: Two experienced cat herders meet again after a long absence.

"There was a time when they were younger that a soft look like that might’ve meant something. Some kind words and a sly smile still went a long way with Luther after having been gone from the ranch for a few years. He hadn’t shared much of this life with anyone there but here was Roger who not only knew the life, but lived next door and was kind enough to stay and help heal some minor bites and scratches on his arms."

Hey there. Thanks for writing for me.
I'm also thesunsaid on AO3

( Wants, DNWs & Fandoms: Dracula (TV 2013), The Exorcist (TV), Vicious Lips (1986), Evil (TV 2019), Ted Lasso (TV) & Marianne (TV) )

Hey there. Thanks for writing for me.
I'm also singedsun on AO3

( Wants, DNWs & The Fandoms: Dracula (TV 2013), 17776, As Above So Below & Assassin's Creed Odyssey )

This was another busy Yuletide for me, most especially because I signed up while I was still finishing up my NaNo story. I didn't officially start writing until into December, but I was keeping notes and ideas and small bits that I was coming up with in advance. All my fandoms were new to me this year, both the ones I requested and the ones I offered. I don't know that I'll do all new-new fandoms in 2020, but it was definitely a fun challenge.

I've linked my gifts in a previous post, but I want to give them the proper attention here. They're all in horror fandoms, because my requests definitely had a theme this year, but the stories themselves aren't really scary. I feel like I made out really well this year, an amazing gift for the French TV show, Marianne and two gifts: one for the book The Luminous Dead and the other for the book Wicked Saints.

What I Received
Marianne was probably the best horror anything I watched this year. The spooks are good without relying on jump scares, the story is interesting, the characters and acting are wonderful. If you're not a French speaker and don't mind reading sub-titles it's a huge recommend from me. This story by nary takes place after the end of season one, there is a spoiler in here so if you plan to watch the show, maybe wait until you've done that before reading. If you don't think you'll watch, but like stories about women holding each other up after something traumatic, check it out.

The hell we carry inside us (3216 words) by Nary
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marianne (TV 2019)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Camille/Emma Larsimon
Characters: Camille (Marianne), Emma Larsimon
Additional Tags: Dreams and Nightmares, Post-Season/Series 01, Sleeping Together, Mild Blood, Horror, Developing Relationship, Pregnancy, Creepy, Kissing, Sharing a Bed, Fingerfucking
Summary:

"I'll sleep on the couch, it's no problem," Emma said on the first night they were in her apartment together. Pierre had moved out, and it had made sense for Camille to move in, since they both needed time and a quiet place to recuperate.

"The floor is good enough for me," Camille protested weakly.

"Fine, you sleep on the floor and I'll sleep on the couch, and no one will use the bed," Emma replied with a flash of her former cheeky grin. It felt forced, though. "Why should we both suffer? The bed is big enough for two."

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This was a really good year for wild horror reads.
The Luminous Dead is about a planet cave diver locked in an environment safe suit alone inside a massive underground cave. Gyre Price is looking for answers for her employer, Em. Em is also the only contact she has with the outside world while underground and the relationship that forms between them is a real frustrating and wonderful growth. I wanted more of them, and misura delivered. You really don't need to know anything else about the canon to enjoy this.

ex machina (1702 words) by misura
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Em Arasgain/Gyre Price
Characters: Em Arasgain, Gyre Price
Additional Tags: Suit Sex
Summary:

"You won't be having sex with me, Gyre," Em said. "I'm only the one pushing the buttons."

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The Something Dark and Holy trilogy by Emily A. Duncan promises to be a pretty great ride if the first book, Wicked Saints, is any indicator. I loved this dark and bloody story. The wonderful dolorosa gave me a lovely post-canon encounter between Nadyia and Malachiasz. Knowing the canon here, definitely helps. If you like divine women and monster boys this story (and it's canon) are for you.

Your Hand on the Pages (1075 words) by Dolorosa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Something Dark and Holy Series - Emily A. Duncan
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Malachiasz Czechowicz/Nadezhda Lapteva
Characters: Nadezhda Lapteva, Malachiasz Czechowicz
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary:

In a ruined church, against an abandoned altar, Nadya finds herself drawn to the darkness.

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What I Wrote
I wrote three stories this year and I'm honestly stupidly proud of what I did with all three. I introduced the "And There Was Only One Bed" trope to a very small fandom for the movie, The Spy Who Dumped Me. I got to rewatch and really examine the priest's speech from the second season of Fleabag. And I got to think a little more about what happens after the events of Wilder Girls by Rory Power.

I don't think there's much you need to know about The Spy Who Dumped Me movie to enjoy this story. It's a little spy mission followed by a small vacation for the two main characters.

Gonna Have a Good Time (1839 words) by singedsun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Morgan Freeman/Audrey Stockton
Characters: Morgan Freeman (The Spy Who Dumped Me), Audrey Stockton
Additional Tags: There Is Only One Bed, Field work, Actually in Love, We Like to Have Fun Here, Post-Canon
Summary:

After a mission, Audrey and Morgan get a little downtime.

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If you've watched Fleabag then you'll know I wrote about the same thing a lot of people in this fandom are wondering about. What happens after the events of season two. If you haven't watched Fleabag, then maybe a lot of this won't necessarily make sense. But I had a really fun time rewatching the Priest's speech in the final episode and hiding lots of hints in the story back to that speech.

A Familiar Ache (1377 words) by singedsun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fleabag (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fleabag/Priest (Fleabag)
Characters: Fleabag (Fleabag), Claire (Fleabag), Priest (Fleabag)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Spoilers for Episode: s02e06 Episode 6, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Religion
Summary:

The Priest sees Fleabag before she sees him.

"Could he count the sacraments he'd given, the homilies he'd delivered, the prayers he'd made, the confessions he'd heard and find them more worthy than what he could've had? And wasn't that just the test he'd imagined for himself all those months ago? Wasn’t that what he trusted to be true -- not trusted, wasn't that what he had faith in? That the work he had to do somehow meant that being with her wasn't the best choice, that it wasn't right."

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Wilder Girls by Rory Power is about an island full of girls with a biological disease they call, the Tox, which has mutated each of them in small and different ways. They're at an all girls school on this island and are learning that not everything is what it seems. This story focuses on what happens after the end, with the three main characters: Hetty, Byatt and Reese. Canon knowledge is good, but not necessarily required for this.

Patternless and Colorful (2983 words) by singedsun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Wilder Girls - Rory Power
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hetty Chapin & Byatt Winsor, Hetty Chapin & Reese Harker, Hetty Chapin & Byatt Winsor & Reese Harker
Characters: Hetty Chapin, Reese Harker, Byatt Winsor
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Body Horror, Canon-Typical Violence, suggestion of Reese/Hetty's previous relationship, Spoilers for Wilder Girls, Self-Harm, Mild Blood
Summary:

Byatt, Hetty and Reese together, on land, figuring things out post-Raxter.

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YULETIDE RECS
( The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Knives Out, Fleabag, The Perfection, Gideon the Ninth, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Wayfarer's series, The Luminous Dead )

I still have about twenty tabs open with fics to read from Yuletide, so I don't have a rec list or anything (yet). But I do want to drop off links to what I wrote and the gifts I received. I both wrote and received three fics for Yuletide this year, I typically write two but I got super inspired to venture out of my comfort zone with a side of fandom I don't usually write for, so fic number three mostly wrote itself.

Here's the gifts I received!

I cannot recommend this enough. I have only requested We Have Always Lived in the Castle twice and mostly on a whim because I don't really expect to get anything from it, but also because if I were to get something I know I'd be over the moon. This year as I was building my fandom list I went back and forth on both Shirley Jackson fandoms I requested but boy, I sure am glad I landed this one on my list this year. This fic by suitablyskippy is pitch perfect in it's voice in ways that make me feel like the ghost of Shirley Jackson rose for Yuletide this year and gifted me this 17k story of prequel perfection. I can't get over it.

where our boundaries were thinnest (17052 words) by suitablyskippy
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Constance Blackwood/Merricat Blackwood
Characters: Merricat Blackwood, Constance Blackwood
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Codependency, Unhealthy Relationships, Obsessive Behavior
Summary:

“There can’t be anyone else,” I said. “There isn’t anyone else. No one else exists except you and me and Uncle Julian and Jonas; all the rest of them are dead and only pretending to be alive. If you married a husband he would be dead and you would bring a dead man into our home, so you can’t.”

(There was nothing a husband could do for Constance that I couldn’t, except take her name away from her and give her a baby.)

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This was a good year for Shirley Jackson based fandoms. I fell in love with The Haunting of Hill House show on Netflix and though it's nothing like the book, it's also very much like the book. One of the things that the show gave us was this very interesting sibling relationship between older sister Shirley and younger sister Theo that I really wanted more of. There's a dynamic there that played so well in the show and younglegends gave me something quite wonderful in this.

our fevers in the air (2418 words) by younglegends
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Haunting of Hill House (TV 2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Shirley Crain & Theodora "Theo" Crain, Theodora "Theo" Crain/Trish Park
Characters: Theodora "Theo" Crain, Shirley Crain, Trish Park
Additional Tags: Non-Linear Narrative
Summary:

Once, as a child, Theo had come down with a bad fever.

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Listen, don't judge me for requesting Nell/Theo from the show when I've been down the fandom rabbit hole that is Nell/Theo from the novel for years. Sometimes you just want smut for smut-sake and that's exactly what I got with this one and it's simultaneously messed up and wonderful at the same time.

Healthy Living (1969 words) by Snickfic
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Haunting of Hill House (TV 2018)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eleanor "Nell" Crain/Theodora "Theo" Crain
Characters: Theodora "Theo" Crain, Eleanor "Nell" Crain
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Sibling Incest, Nipple Play, Cunnilingus, Yuleporn
Summary:

Theo is a fuck-up in a family of fuck-ups, and she loves Nell more than anyone—yeah, even Shirley, even Luke. There’s no way to keep yourself from loving Nell. That’s probably why Theo does what she asks.

And, here's what I wrote:

Typically I don't offer and request all the same fandoms but I could not help myself when it came to The Haunting of Hill House. I just fell in love with Theo as a character and was willing to throw my hat in the ring to write more. I really enjoyed the background relationship building they did with Theo and Trish and tried to build on that from Theo's point of view in this piece.

Just Thought You Should Know (1660 words) by singedsun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Haunting of Hill House (TV 2018)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Theodora "Theo" Crain/Trish Park
Characters: Theodora "Theo" Crain, Trish Park
Additional Tags: Family Issues, Recovery, Drinking to Cope
Summary:

For a moment she tries to think of a way to soften the dismissal. Something about how it’s not really a first date kind of answer. Or something disarming about how the gloves had really come off. She’s had a lifetime to deal with glove puns, or other related jokes about hand-wear like mittens and muffs. Many of them were only fun when she was far younger, at a time all teenagers feed on ennui and innuendo.

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Ozark is a nearly non-existent fandom as far as fanfiction goes. I didn't even know it had one before I saw this request on the list this year. I have to be honest here and say that this fic is 100% built around Marty's character because I found it super easy to write Jason Bateman's mannerisms into the way he expressions his emotions.

What I've Done to You (1620 words) by singedsun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ozark (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Ruth/Marty
Characters: Ruth Langmore, Martin "Marty" Byrde
Additional Tags: Sleep, Hurt/Comfort
Summary:

Disarming looks: tiny waist, narrow shoulders, snow white skin. When he first met Ruth, he didn’t know yet that she was built to defy expectations. He didn’t know she was sharp as a tack. That she could take the whole county down with the things she knew. This slip of a woman with the golden-white curls with soft features and the mouth of a sailor.

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This is where I went completely out of my comfort zone. I adore Critical Role and its cast, but I don't typically write RPF. However, when an idea comes that writes itself, sometimes you just have to write it. That's what happened here. I barely even entertained the idea before I had the whole thing conceived and ready to write. I don't know that it means I'll do more RPF anytime soon, but it was a fun exercise for my own writing's sake.

Tell Me I'm the Fool (2146 words) by singedsun
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series) RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Taliesin Jaffe/Matthew Mercer/Liam O'Brien
Characters: Taliesin Jaffe, Matthew Mercer, Liam O'Brien, Marisha Ray
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Loss, Threesome - M/M/M, Blow Jobs
Summary:

“You want to talk about it?” Matt asks. “Or do you want a distraction?”

Taliesin sighs again and rolls his head to the side to look at Matt. “Distraction. I’ve got all week to process and figure out what to do next. I don’t have to do it tonight.”