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Fic Round-Up 2023

Compared to the last two years 2023 was a fucking success writing wise. I smashed the 75k [community profile] getyourwordsout goal with the final total of 78k. Not all of that is finished/published so, according to AO3, the total published word count is ~58k


Fics published  in 2023 by Fandom:

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Meme Questions

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Wow Kat, what's that sound? Well, glad you asked. It's the sound of me SMASHING through my 75k [community profile] getyourwordsout goal! BOOM! We're currently >78k and there's still a day to go.

*smug*

Much of the words came from a) co-writing done with [personal profile] dreamersdare and b) because I churned over 24k for Spooktober fics/ficlets, even if some of that churning happened after Christmas lol. Posting most of them back-to-back was a really interesting experience actually and I have some reflections.

(under the cut, it's all very self indulgent) )


I was always going to do a Spooktober Masterlist for my own amusement. I know I'm about to list all of these for the 2023 Fic Round Up soon (well... Sometime in Jan?) anyway but there everything will be by fandom so let me just induldge my love of lists *pets the list* so, here, Spooktober Fics in posting order (links will take you to AO3 but if you prefer DW for reading, everything is under the spooktober 2023 tag.

List under a cut due to length! )

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I have signed up [community profile] getyourwordsout again because I love their spreadsheets. I've gone for the 150k optimistically even though I've never achieved that. It's good to have goals or something?

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Finally, I wanted to flail about being podficced!!

The lovely [archiveofourown.org profile] pezzax_podfics podficced under his wing (TXT, Choi Soobin/Choi Yeonjun) and turned a tiny ficlet into a full-blown audio drama with music and sound effects and it is so, so extremely cool I absolutely lost mine when listening. Also, please appreciate the cover art! (akdkjsj wings!)

The most awesome [archiveofourown.org profile] pieces0fstars podficced Volcano (Stray Kids, Han Jisung/Lee Minho) and holy shit the emotional impact the recording packs... Look, I obviously had a lot of emotions about the concepts which I wrote immediately after the song dropped. But the thing is, I wrote the fic so I knew what was in the fucker and yet, YET, I was absolutely choked up, clutching my heart, because the performance got that exact frayed, desperate edge I tried to convey in words and... Yeah, please listen.

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Title: Reshaped
Author: [personal profile] kat_lair 
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Gen or Dean/Sam
Tags: Ficlet, Shippy Gen, Alternate Universe - Creatures & Monsters, Transformation, Codependency
Rating: T
Word count: 493
Disclaimer: Make-believe!

Summary: Dean doesn’t notice it at first.

Author Notes: Spooktober 2023, Day 2/31. Theme/prompt: transformation

Reshaped on AO3


Reshaped )

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Gnna do like an actual post soon but saw this and am powerless to resist AO3 stats...


Most hits

Technically it's is not the past all shadow but that's definitely because it got caught in some random bot and has over 23k of hits which is implausible for a Lewis gen fic.

A more realist result is where the street have no name with over 9k hits, a Grimm Nick/Monroe undercover as a prostitute romp


Most kudos

Reformation, the Good Omens Aziraphale/Crowley fic a I wrote well before the TV-adaptation was even a rumour but that received most of its 1.2k of kudos within weeks of season 1 airing when everyone was desperaterely looking for content


Most comments


Black Lotus Club with 102 comments (of which half are my replies obvs). This is a Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan 'undercover at a bdsm!club fic' that I wrote because it's mostly the dynamic I want to read in every fandom.


Most bookmarks

Fac Mihi Viam, my Harry Potter, Harry & Sirius gen dark horse of a fic that has 384 bookmarks (of which 268 are public, it is still top that way too) that wildly exceeded all expectations I had re reception of it


Most words

There are two fics co-authored with [personal profile] pushkin666 that are at the top here:

Spoonful of Sunday is an extremely self-indulgent Alan Davies/Stephen Fry QI RPF coffee shop AU that we wrote largely to amuse ourselves that comes at over 40k

Bite the Night is a terribly cliched and rather smutty Strictly Craig/Bruno werewolf fic of over 26k. I regret nothing.

The longest single-authored fic however is I'm Your Man which is also over 26k of d/s flavoured Will/Ethan Mission: Impossible shy shenanigans.


Least words

I have... *goes to count* over 70 drabbles of 100 words exactly so I'm not exactly going to list them all here. Instead I picked three horror/dark ones (all pairings mostly in my head rather than explictly on paper)

Postlude (Supernatural, Sam/Dean)

Teeth (Doctor Who, Tenth Doctor/The Master)

Crime (Stargate Atlants, Rodney/Radek)


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Righty ho, this trio is courtesy of [personal profile] pushkin666 again who sees a meme and descends on it like a vulture on a fresh carcass (it's me, I'm the carcass). Anyway, she gave me: Teyla Emmagan, John Winchester and Andy Hurley

Let's get it.

One Night Stand: John Winchester







It's raining really heavily and for some reason this thunderstorm smells more like sulphur than ozone. It's weird but not the weirdest thing that I've seen on this roadtrip (Americans, wow), but it's late enough that stopping at the first vacancy sign seems like a good idea. There's only one bar in this place and in it there's only one other patron beside me. I know I'm going to sleep with him as soon as he turns to look at me and doesn't glance away immediately. His mouth tastes like whiskey and his skin smells like smoke. He wears his wedding ring like a wreath. In the morning, when I wake up, he's already gone, the sky a brilliant blue behind the window. I'm relieved.
 


Vanilla Fuckbuddy: Andy Hurley






This guy is literally everywhere. At a city planning meeting about a new industrial development, citing the environmental policy. In the supermarket, poking at the organic veggies. At the tattoo parlour, hogging the fucking booking list (I just want ONE tattoo, like you can afford to chill my dude, jeesh). In a club, with his band, playing the drums like he's possessed and having the absolute nerve to do it shirtless like fuck my life why? In the end I drag him back to mine out of sheer frustration, like GUESS I HAVE TO SLEEP WITH HIM SINCE I CAN'T ESCAPE HIM (my friends: '...you realise that you don't like, have to?' Me: NO, I'M GONNA) When I tell him to shut the fuck up and get on the bed his smile is blinding. The nerve of this fucking man.



Kinky Fuckbuddy: Teyla Emmagen





This was kind of a process of elimination based on the other two people, because honestly, wouldn't you get Teyla anyway you can? That's what I thought. Anyway, so, the Atlantis-Athosian Cultural Exchange Programme pairs us up and eventually the exchanging of recipes and fairy tales and discussion of how long is too long when it comes to eye contact turns to practical exploration of all different forms of interpersonal intimacy. And what more intimate than slowly tying each other up in intricate ways? Now, I don't sub for men but for a right woman I can sometimes switch and anyway, this is about the B, not the DSM, which is kind of refreshing in itself. Besides, Athosians have some really cool knots.

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Fic and Art Round-Up 2021


Somehow I did even worse with writing this year than I did in 2020. Didn't think it was possible but apparently yes. I did count up all the posted fics and wip scribblings from this year and they come up to just over 21k which is not nothing so...

Anyway, now that I have finally posted everything that was finished in 2021, even if I didn't quite get to posting all of it until this year, let's have a round-up


Fics written and finished in 2021 by Fandom:

Bandom
inadmissible (Patrick/Pete, T, 388 words) - on DW & on AO3

Buzzfeed Unsolved RPF
with fear, with fervent favor (Ryan/Shane, M, 300 words) – on DW  & on AO3

Craig and Bruno's Great British Road Trip
Carpe Diem (Craig/Bruno, G, 700 words) - on DW & on AO3

Friends RPF (i fucking know, okay)
The One Where They Finally Talk About It (Matt LeBlanc/Matthew Perry, M, 3663 words) - on DW & on AO3

Guardian
Confined (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, G, 715 words) - on DW & on AO3
gather your armour, raise your shield (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, T, 3457 words) - on DW & on AO3

Guardian RPF
kiss by kiss (i cover your tiny infinity) (Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong, G, 737 words) - on DW & on AO3

Harry Potter
pull my corners gently through (Sirius/Remus, G, 674 words) - on DW & on AO3

Original Fic
Ad Astra (Original Female Character & Original Alien Character, T, 632 words) - on DW & on AO3

Shetland
Skipping Stone (Chapter 1/?, WIP) (Duncan/Jimmy, M, 1348 words) - (on DW only when complete) on AO3

Star Trek: AOS
Kiss It Better (Kirk/Bones, T, 1534 words) - on DW & on AO3

Star Trek: Discovery
Averment (Michael & Sylvia, G, 406 words) - on DW & on AO3

Supernatural
Indelible (Sam/Dean, E, 4515 words) - on DW & on AO3


Non-fic things:
Halloween Icons - DW only
Wheel of Time Text Icons - DW only

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Meme Questions

Leitmotifs of the year:
Is 'not writing' a leitmotif? It should be. Anyway, apart for that it's probably... Ficlets. And gift fics. Most of the things I wrote were written for other people/from prompts.

Most popular story:
By metric of hits and kudos, it's Indelible. By metric of comments, it's weirdly Confined. Idk, Guardian fandom continues to be active AND interactive. This is supported by the fact that gather your armour, raise your shield hasn't been out more than a few days and is getting some gratifying pets.

My best story this year:
The one I only finished this year and therefore isn't listed here. Eh, okay, kiss by kiss (i cover your tiny infinity) captures the feeling. And, well, The One Where They Finally Talk About It  - yes, the fucking Friends RPF fic, idk how that happened either - actually does a solid job at the understated angsty feels.

Hardest story to write:
Nothing comes to mind here. Probably because I struggled with writing so much generally so when I did managed to produce something it felt easy by comparison!

Easiest story to write:
Uhh....? The One Where They Finally Talk About It poured out in a couple of days. Kiss It Better, Confined and kiss by kiss (i cover your tiny infinity) were all written in one day for a kissathon challenge (that was a good writing day), and Skipping Stone (will be continued, I swear I have half of ch2 in my wip folder) also was like one evening of angry typing.

Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
Idk, everything feels appreciated. Like if you look at AO3 metrics Ad Astra is low but it's original gen ficlet so that's as expected. Same for Averment that is also a gen ficlet.

Most fun story to write:
gather your armour, raise your shield because the Venn diagram of [personal profile] trobadora's likes and mine is an almost total circle so I just got to shove in there all the characterisation and relationship dynamics I also enjoy. Carpe Diem probably because I really loved the series and it was self-indulgent.

Fluffiest story:

kiss by kiss (i cover your tiny infinity) is perhaps more... delicate than fluffy. pull my corners gently through has domestic fluff

Most angsty story:

inadmissible has 'fuck my bff that i also love turned into a vampire' thing going for it so...? The One Where They Finally Talk About It is sort of retrospective angst and addiction being dragged up. In Skipping Stone has some canon-compliant angst.

Sexiest story:
Indelible is actually the only explicit story I posted last year! Bruises and incest ftw? Someone did describe gather your armour, raise your shield as the 'kinkiest T rated story they've read' so I'll take that.

"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
The Friends RPF. Okay. I admit it. That was wrong, even for me. Otherwise there's nothing particularly unusual there. For me. Oh wait, there's fear kink in with fear, with fervent favor. Does that count?

Biggest Disappointment:
That the ambition of 'extra day off = extra day for writing' fell apart spectacularly on all accounts. Work honestly was shitty in the spring too and so was my health. Both things got better toward the summer and autumn/winter has been almost like normal and so too has my writing mojo. So, right direction?

Biggest Surprise:
That the total written (= more than the finished and posted listed here) was over 21k. The One Where They Finally Talk About It came out of left field and slapped me in the face.

Most Unintentionally Telling Story:

Nothing I've written this year is in the 'dredged this from the pit of my soul' category. Maybe that's the problem?

Story I haven't yet written, but intend/hope to:
There's a little Good Omens fic I just tidied yesterday that will be posted shortly. Other than that there are various wips I'm poking at... Ch2 of Skipping Stone is probably closest to being posted. Auction fics are actually making little progress. That Hustlers fic is like 500 words from the finish line...

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Okay folks, here are my offerings for today's Carpe Diem prompt!
 
Create: The sixth drabble of the Craig/Bruno silliness, with focus on some blacksmithing skills 
 
Squee: Kukas kissan hännän nostaisi, jossei kissa itse? (Who would lift the cat's tail, if not the cat itself?) 
 
Three things to be proud of
 
1) Aced that god damn promotion process. Apparently, most people don't get that specific promotion on first try but guess who has two thumbs and did, like a boss? *points at self*
 
2) Made the decision to go on four day week at work and Saved My Life. Okay, the real test of that is still to come with the academic year kicking in now, but the pilot study findings suggest a positive effect on both mental and physical health. 
 
3) Improvised food! By that I mean, I'm good at looking at a combination of random ingredients and improvising lunches and dinners out of them without specific recipes, and achieving mostly delicious or at least perfectly pleasant results. H often brings various leftovers fruits and veggies in particular and then I cook something out of them for us. 
 
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And now some self-recs. I've got over 300 words in over 70 fandoms and they are all my precious children obviously. But have just three recs, one from each of my biggest fandoms. They're not necessarily the best or the most popular, but the ones I have particular fondness for.
 
Bandom: put another dime in the jukebox, baby - Patrick/Pete, E, 4.3K - Early van days, age reversal. Pete is just shy of eighteen, a cocksure little shit of smudged eyeliner and ill-advised tattoos, fucking everything that moves, utterly bright and shameless and burning, burning, burning like a fire cracker, like a torched orphanage. And Patrick… Patrick is old enough to know better.
 
Stargate Atlantis: Season For All Things - gen team fic, T, 2.5K - To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1
 
Supernatural: Give Me Back The Berlin Wall - Sam/Dean, E, 1.3K - evil!Sam. Love is not insanity. It is survival.


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Firstly, surprise: I'm not dead. Just... Work has been absolute bugger and we shall not discuss the number of overtime hours. So, not dead, but just Knackered = haven't had energy to even sign on to DW for weeks and weeks and Weeks. And I miss people and fandom and I miss who I am among my people and fandom here, but it's just been work, eat, sleep with maybe some mindless media consumption in form of tv or fic in between. For the last couple of years I've given up reading fanfic for Lent but this is not the year to do so not even doing that.

Anyway. Making no promised but it may be that I've broken the back of some work things and may be that I will have some energy for actual updates and other posts before summer. Mayyyy  be.

However, in the meanwhile, whilst it's still at least the first quarter of the year...

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Fic and Art Round-Up 2020

Well, despite it being A YEAR and the fact that I failed both my [community profile] getyourwordsout goal (wrote 86k/150k) and my auction commitments, I did produce some things.

** Marks co-authored round-robin fics


Fics posted in 2020 by Fandom:


Bandom
dancing's not a crime (unless you do it with me)** (Brendon/Spender, T, 830 words) – on DW  & on AO3
now i lay me down to sleep (MCR gen, T, 520 words) – on DW & on AO3
scratch your excuse (stitch your noose)** (Patrick/Pete, T, 685 words) – on DW & on AO3
shine a light (burn it bright) (Frank/Mikey, G, 506 words) – on DW & on AO3 
Tithe (Ryan/Brendon/Jon/Spencer, T, 618 words) – on DW & on AO3
was blind (but now i see) (Frank/Mikey, T, 1665 words) – on DW & on AO3
we can live forever (if you've got the time)** (Gerard/Mikey, T, 954 words) – on DW & on AO3

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Smudge (Tara/Willow, G, 150 words) – on DW & on AO3
The Sun Crown (Tara/Willow, G, 239 words) – on DW & on AO3

Buzzfeed Unsolved RPF
i have my reasons (call it my defense) (Ryan/Shane, T, 666 words) – on DW & on AO3

Deadpool
Retrogression (Logan & Wade, T, 576 words) – on DW & on AO3

Doctor Who
Fix-It (Ten/Jack, G, 303 words) – on DW & on AO3
Open Wide (Ten/Jack, T, 364 words) – on DW & on AO3

Firefly
talk's cheap and so’s your mouth (Mal/Jayne, T, 1336 words) – on DW & on AO3

Good Omens
bright my hopes, and soft** (Aziraphale/Crowley, G, 828 words) – on DW & on AO3

Guardian
restraint (release) (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, E, 6364 words) – on DW & on AO3
Second Act (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, G, 100 words) – on DW & on AO3

Guardian RPF
let me hear your body talk (Bai Yu/Zhu Yilong, E, 115995 words) – on DW & on AO3

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
the sweetest fruit (Gretel/Hansel, M, 227 words) – on DW & on AO3

Harry Potter
Fac Mihi Viam (Harry & Sirius gen, T, 7900 words) – on DW & on AO3
Liminal (Remus/Sirius, T, 554 words) – on DW & on AO3

Hawaii Five-0
Cut to the quick** (Danny/Steve, T, 532 words) – on DW & on AO3
play to win, love to lose** (Danny/Steve, T, 933 words) – on DW & on AO3
(un)said (Danny/Steve, T, 664 words) – on DW & on AO3

Life on Mars
Provocation (Gene/Sam, T, 620 words) – on DW & on AO3
Scattershot**  (Gene/Sam, T, 1202 words) – on DW & on AO3

Marvel Cinematic Universe
your scent on me (for many days) (Bruce/Tony, T, 2446 words) – on DW & on AO3

Mission Impossible (Movies)
realignment (Will/Ethan, T, 2436 words) – on DW & on AO3

NCIS
gotta have faith (Tim/Tony, G, 150 words) – on DW & on AO3
Shelter (Tim/Tony, G, 366 words) – on DW & on AO3

Sense8
revolución del corazón (Hernando/Lito, T 512 words) – on DW & on AO3

Shetland
the reason comes on the common tongue (of your loving me) (Duncan/Jimmy, T, 12158 words) – on DW & on AO3

Supernatural
Priority Claim** (Sam/Dean, T, 1181 words) – on DW & on AO3

Supernatural RPF
push comes to shove comes to pull** (Jeff/Jensen, T, 409 words) – on DW & on AO3

Strictly Come Dancing RPF
misstep (miss you)** (Bruno/Craig, G 973 words) – on DW & on AO3

The Witcher
Toss A Bone To Your Witcher (Geralt/Jaskier, E, 2340 words) – on DW & on AO3


Non-fic things:
I Wade Through Full Lands - Book Cover on DW & on AO3
Lavender for Luck (Art) & the only remedy for love (is to love more) (Mix) on DW & on AO3
The Body Beneath The Blossom - Book Cover on DW & on AO3
Three GeeWay Wallpapers on DW & on AO3


Meme Questions

Total: 24 fics + 4 art + 1 mix
Total Word Count Posted: ~92k (includes all the co-authored round robin fics)


Leitmotifs of the year:
  • Round Robins fuck yeah! [personal profile] pushkin666, [personal profile] dreamersdare and I had many fangirl vid nights to make up for the loss of originally planned in person ones (though we did manage it in July) and started writing Round Robins to get the creative juices going and it was So Much Fun! Otherwise... New fandoms, old fandoms, all the fandoms?
  • And also Big Fat Nothing in the latter quarter of the year because work got shitty

Most popular story:
By metric of hits and kudos, it's Toss A Bone To Your Witcher. By metric of comments, Fac Mihi Viam, which also comes close second with hits and kudos. First I kind of understand because Witcher fandom is still indiscriminately thirsty. The second was the unexpected runaway success of the year. It's older fandom, it's gen... Would not have bet on this story to get the attention it did.

My best story this year:

But I love all my children? Okay, okay, Fac Mihi Viam I am actually pleased with because of the it manages to handle the subject matter with some subtlety. i have my reasons (call it my defense) delivers the atmosphere and impact. now i lay me down to sleep delivers... something. Ugh. Weirdness?

Hardest story to write:
let me hear your body talk but only because of the research element. I spent a lot of time watching muya Thai videos on youtube and googling yoga poses.

Easiest story to write:
Idk... Maybe the round robins because they were just fun things done in short bits and no one cared about plot that much. I also remember being kinda inspired for shine a light (burn it bright) because [personal profile] dreamersdare's story demanded more.

Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:

now i lay me down to sleep? To be fair, I wouldn't click on it either, being as it is 500 words of weird gen dreamscape psychological horror.

Most fun story to write:
talk's cheap and so's your mouth because I really enjoy Jayne's voice. Oh and Toss A Bone To Your Witcher (no, I do not accept any criticism on the title) because Jaskier's pov turned out to be fun too. Oh, Retrogression because Deadpool! And actually, all the round robin ficlets because they involved [personal profile] pushkin666  and [personal profile] dreamersdare 

Fluffiest story:
Hmmm...?? A lot of my ficlets tended toward fluff. Sun Crown and bright my hopes, and soft are both about flowers and feelings. Smudge, revolución del corazón, Shelter and gotta have faith all offer sweet relationship moments. Of the longer ones, the reason comes on the common tongue (of you loving me) brings the slowburn friends to lovers romance of maybe not fluff per se but feelings. Oh, oh your scent on me (for many days) has clothes sharing! That's the winner!

Most angsty story:
Idk... Liminal? Because Remus is kind of Like That. Realignment has some h/c but not really angst... Fac Mihi Viam deals with Harry's less that nurturing upbringing though not explicitly but assuming events proceed as canon it casts whole layer of angst to the thing so...

Sexiest story:
restraint (release), also affectionately known as Absolute Filth. It's 6k of edging, oral fixation and every fantasy scenario for the pairing I could shove in there and it is, well, Absolutely Filthy. You're welcome. let me hear your body talk brings the prolonged sexual tension though so if you like your edging more emotional, that's the one for you...

"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
I don't know why I keep this question in... I didn't really write anything particularly outrageous this year. Incest, explicit sex, demons, dystopian themes, nightmares, dark fey all featured. Eh.

Biggest Disappointment:
Not finishing my Get Your Words Out target and not finishing my auction fics. This academic year has been the Absolute Worst I've ever experienced in terms of of issues and workloads, to say nothing of the continued remote working which brings its own challenges. Sep-Dec was mostly a wash when it came to creativity because I was just too exhausted to string a sentence together, quite literally some days. So far this year hasn't been much better either... Sigh.

Biggest Surprise:
Fac Mihi Viam because of the reasons explained above. Did not expect it to make much of an impression but apparently it did. i have my reasons (call it my defense) has a stupid hit count for something is just a little ficlet but apparently BFU fandom are still horny for demon!Shane so...

Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
I mean... I'm not exactly subtle about my kinks... Beyond that, I don't think I wrote anything this year that was particularly, idk, revealing. Professional knowledge was used in some fics to a certain degree. Kinks were indulged.

Story I haven't yet written, but intend/hope to:
Just want to have the creative energy to write something, honestly. I have wips on the go and ideas but I just don't know when/how I'm going to claw back the time and mental fortitude.

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Title: Indelible
Author:  [personal profile] kat_lair / Mistress Kat
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Sam/Dan
Tags: bruises/marking, power dynamics
Rating: E/NC-17
Word count: 4,515
Disclaimer: Not mine, only playing.
 
Summary: Being bruised is part of the job.
 
Author notes: Written for [personal profile] pushkin666's prompt 'Sam/Dean, bruises/marking'. Thank you to [personal profile] dreamersdare for beta, all remaining mistakes are mine.

Indelible on AO3


Indelible )



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SPAG beta?

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Anyone feeling like doing a SPAG check on 4k of Wincest with a focus on bruises...? Explicit but the actual sex scene is pretty short, mostly just kinky feels.

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Title: Priority Claim
Authors: [personal profile] kat_lair / Mistress Kat, [personal profile] dreamersdare, [personal profile] pushkin666 
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters/Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1,181
Disclaimer: Not mine, only playing.

Summary:
Dean pulls his arm away and looks through the last few remaining trees. "We're not going to kill anyone." He looks down at the iron knife in his hand as though seeing it for the first time and then he drops it. "We're going to join them." With that he turns from Sam and runs towards the flames.

Author notes: Another round robin effort from [personal profile] dreamersdare, [personal profile] pushkin666 and me, on the general theme of Beltane.

Priority Claim on AO3

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Title: push comes to shove comes to pull
Authors: [personal profile] kat_lair  / Mistress Kat, [personal profile] dreamersdare, [personal profile] pushkin666 
Fandom: Supernatural RPF
Pairing: Jeffrey/Jensen
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 409
Disclaimer: Not real, only playing

Summary: "You want this, you do it."

Author notes: [personal profile] dreamersdare, [personal profile] pushkin666 and I wrote some Round Robin ficlets during the last fangirl video date. This is first of the results.

push comes to shove comes to pull on AO3


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Final answer to the Kinky Fuckbuddy, Vanilla Fuckbuddy, One Night Stand meme.[personal profile] dreamsofspike gave me Tenth Doctor, Crowley (Good Omens) and Crowley (Supernatural), a very clever linking indeed (especially as Mark Sheppard was also in Doctor Who... small circles!)

One Night Stand: Crowley (Supernatural)





Hot? Yes. Funny? Very. Would disembowel me without a second thought just because he felt like it? Absolutely. Out of all of these, he's the one most likely to murder you for funsies (I mean, Ten will do it if your death serves the greater good according to him and GO Crowley would only do it if you were stupid enough to threaten his angel) so all things considered, would prefer the äwham, bam, thank you m'am' night with him.


Vanilla Fuckbuddy: Tenth Doctor





Last time I did this meme, I had Ten as my Kinky Fuckbuddy. My thoughts on it being like playing wtih a very sharp knife are still valid so I wavered here, but I think this time (and with the below option) I would go with Vanilla Fuckbuddy, because (maybe because I'm older?) I actually find Ten quite deeply terrifying... And as such, I'd be reluctant to go poking around with anything that would open up his psyche too much... Let's just keep it nice and casual, fund and light with mutual orgasms and then go on our separate ways. Of course, I'm not at all convinced he's capable of that, and there is a high risk of opening your door and finding a rain-soaked version of him full of Dramatic Post-Apocalypse Feelings. He projects, he imprints, he burns planets for you... Do you really want to bring in additional excitement to that?

On that note, everyone has seen this vid right? The one that called Ten's unhinging before Waters of Mars even aired. The one that shows exactly why this version was fucking terrifying...

(Dowload here)




Kinky Fuckbuddy: Crowley (Good Omens)





Yes, I know I had him as Vanilla Fuckbuddy in a previous post of this meme BUT look at my options! By 'kinky' I totally mean taking everything I said there (praise, opportunities for service, sensory play) to the softest extreme. Have him kneel in front of you and see how long he could take hearing all the ways in which he is good and beautiful and helpful and perfect and deserving etc before he cried. I'm guessing no longer than an hour.

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As usual, this is stuff that was posted in 2018 although some was written earlier.


Fics posted in 2018 by Fandom:


Bandom
Character Sketch: Gerard Way (Gerard, PG-13, 125 words) – on DW & on AO3
Character Sketch: Brendon Urie (Brendon, PG-13, 130 words) – on DW & on AO3
Character Sketch: Gabe Saporta (Gabe, PG-13, 116 words) – on DW & on AO3
put another dime in the jukebox, baby (Patrick/Pete, NC-17, 4,378 words) – on DW & on AO3

Being Human (UK)
Character Sketch: John Mitchell (Mitchell with OT3 hinted at, PG-13, 130 words) – on DW & on AO3

Doctor Who
Practical Solution (Tenth Doctor/Simm!Master, PG, 455 words) – on DW & on AO3

due South
Tactile Language (Fraser/RayK, PG, 1,121 words) – on DW & on AO3

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Simple Things (Jacob/Newt, PG, 776 words) – on DW & on AO3

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
broke off a dark twig (Gretel/Hansel, NC-17, 18,731 words) – on DW & on AO3
keep you close (Gretel/Hansel, PG-13, 386 words) – on DW & on AO3

Harry Potter
the heat that drives the light (Luna, PG, 814 words) – on DW & on AO3

Lewis
Morning After (Hathaway/Lewis, PG, 425 words) – on DW & on AO3
Skinny-Dipping (Hathaway/Lewis, PG, 225 words) – on DW & on AO3
Summer Wine (Hathaway/Lewis, PG, 498 words) – on DW & on AO3

Life on Mars
The Year of the Scavenger (Gene/Sam & Chris/Sam, R, 1,100 words) – on DW & on AO3

MCU
Other Senses (Clint/Natasha, PG-13, 1,763 words) – on DW & on AO3

Mission Impossible movies
I’m Your Man (Will/Ethan, NC-17, 26,439 words) – on DW & on AO3
Unguarded (Will/Ethan, PG-13, 761 words) – on DW & on AO3

Person Interest
Character Sketch: Harold Finch (Harold, PG-13, 241 words) – on DW & on AO3

Primeval
Part of the Role Description (Nick/Stephen, PG, 931 words) – on DW & on AO3

Star Trek AOS
Not Only for Emergencies (Kirk/McCoy, PG, 1,462 words) – on DW & on AO3

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
i don't want to hear sad songs anymore (Finn/Poe/Rey, PG, 4,836 words) – on DW & on AO3 

Strictly Come Dancing RPF
Character Sketch: Bruno Tonioli (Bruno, PG, 209 words) – on DW & on AO3

Supernatural
Character Sketch: Dean Winchester (Dean, PG, 161 words) – on DW & on AO3

The Beautiful Fantastic
Make Your Own (Bella/Vernon/Billy, PG-13, 2,533 words) – on DW & on AO3

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
The Third Time (Illya/Napoleon, PG-13, 459 words) – on DW & on AO3

The Professionals
in bloom (Bodie/Doyle, PG, 771 words) – on DW & on AO3

Non-fic things:
Life Changes Small Fandom Big Bang Art (Common Law) – on DW & on AO3
Rarely Simple and Never Straightforward Small Fandom Big Bang Art (Atlantis) – on DW & on AO3
the hour of midnight wild Het Big Bang Art (Harry Potter) – on DW & on AO3
Two Pepper Potts Wallpapers  – on DW & on AO3


Meme Questions )


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So. I’ve been having a bit of a writing block for anything short at the moment. All ideas are for long ass epics but after having finished two long fics (the Hansel/Gretel one that is posted, and the Mission Impossible Ethan/Will one that is with beta) I am. burned. out. writing long fics no one reads.

Anyway. About a month ago when I got very, very drunk I wanted to write something. So I asked [personal profile] pushkin666  to give me some characters and then I rambled about them. I think ‘character word sketches’ are best way to describe the results. Or ‘Kat’s regurgitated head-canon’.

[personal profile] pushkin666  said I should post them, so here you go. I’ve only tidied them enough to insert capitals and punctuation and fix drunken typos.

I may get drunk enough inspired to do more of these so I'm saying 'requests open' but with no promises on delivery...

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Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance, Bandom) )

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Brendon Urie (Panic! At The Disco, Bandom) )
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Gabe Saporta (Cobra Starship, Bandom) )
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Bruno Tonioli (Strictly Come Dancing) )
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Harold Finch (Person of Interest) )


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Dean Winchester (Supernatural) )
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John Mitchell (Being Human (UK)) )

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So here's a question to those of you who read fic with a d/s slant. Whether it's full on BDSM world AUs (like candy to me), formalised d/s relationships, or just characters being a bit toppy/subby in the bedroom (or out of it):

Do you have a really firm preference for a given pairing who is dominant, who submissive? Because boy howdy, I really do. There are certain pairings where I can. not. read. d/s flavoured fic if the dynamic written is opposite to my head canon. Like, I can see that the writing is great and the plot brilliant, whatever, but I just. can. not. And then. Some other pairings I don't mind at all which way the power pendulum swings.

To give you some examples, here's pairings where I cannot read (or have no interest in writing) fic with d/s dynamic unless it's in the specific direction as indicated below. Pairings listed in the dominant/submissive order

Hawaii Five-0: Danny/Steve
Person of Interest: Finch/Reese
Marvel: Bruce/Tony, Pepper/Tony, Steve/Bucky, Coulson/Clint
Bandom: Patrick/Pete, Gerard/Frank, Bob/Frank, Gerard/Mikey, Patrick/Gerard (look, Patrick tops everyone, okay?
Being Human: George/Mitchell
Stargate Atlantis: Rodney/John, Carson/Rodney, Radek/Rodney
Good Omens: Aziraphale/Crowley
Supernatural: Sam/Dean
Star Trek: McCoy/Kirk
Sherlock: John/Sherlock
Harry Potter: Remus/Sirius, Harry/Draco
NCIS: Tim/Tony
Grimm: Monroe/Nick
X-Men: Charles/Erik
Daredevil: Foggy/Matt

Common thread: it's the quiet, unassuming ones who bring it... I have a lot of head canon and feelings about this re the above pairings, ask me if you want to know more! Or get my thoughts on pairings not listed!

Furthermore, in the rare occasion I read het fic, I cannot stomach anything but femdom if power dynamics are introduced. Any hint of female submission in a het fic makes me extremely uncomfortable and I'll be hitting the back key no matter how good the writing, how healty/ssc the relationship portrayal etc.

Then again, there are tons of pairings where I don't mind switching it up (pun entirely intended). Mainly e.g. Panic boys from bandom (although I read Spencer as a top most of the time, I can be convinced otherwise), Hobbit/LOTR and, well probably some others.   


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Last day of the year. Last night I was out dancing and drinking with mum and T, one of my oldest friends. Today there is my aunt's birthday, visiting dad, and then seeing the NY in with T, mum and mum's partner. There may be more drinking. There may be writing the hit song of 2018 (T and I have written songs before and she's bringing her guitar).

In the meanwhile, I wish you all awesome 2018. Here's my Fic & Art Round-Up for this year, in case you get bored and fancy something to read.

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As usual, this is stuff that was posted in 2017 although some was written earlier and some things written in 2017 won't be posted until 2018.

Fics posted in 2017 by Fandom:

Bandom
Operation ‘Take Care of Brendon’ (Jon/Tom and pre Jon/Tom/Brendon, PG, 863 words) – on DW & on AO3

Being Human (UK)
that which remains (Gen or OT3, PG-13, 326 words) – on DW & on AO3

Doctor Who
The TARDIS Prison Experiment (Doctor/Master ish, PG, 244 words) – on DW & on AO3

Grimm
the bones you’re made of (they sing a hard song) (Nick/Monroe, NC-17, 8,133 words) – on DW & on AO3

Harry Potter
take you on a skyride (Hermione, Hermione/Ron, PG, 445 words) – on DW & on AO3

Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Gift of the Gab (Danny/Steve, PG, 337 words) – on DW & on AO3

(The) Hobbit
Reunion (Bilbo/Thorin, PG-13, 1,778 words) co-authored with [personal profile] pushkin666  – on DW & on AO3

Lewis
Summer Peeves (Lewis/Hathaway, PG-13, 2 x 100 + 628 words) – on DW & on AO3

Marvel 'verse / X-Men

Magical Healing Dangly Bits (Deadpool & Wolverine, PG-13, 431 words) – on DW & on AO3

QI RPF
Spoonful of Sunday (Alan/Stephen + background pairings, R, 40,730 words) co-authored with [personal profile] pushkin666  – on DW & on AO3

Stargate Atlantis
Daedal (Radek/Rodney, PG, 175 words) – DW & on AO3
The Green-Eyed Experimental Variable (Radek/Rodney, PG, 741 words) – on DW & on AO3

Star Trek (AOS)
Shelter from the Storm (Kirk/McCoy, PG, 315 words) – on DW & on AO3

Supernatural
it’s in the water baby (it’s between you and me) (Dean/Sam, R, 775 words) – on DW & on AO3

Timeless
Incremental (Lucy/Wyatt, background Jiya/Rufus, PG-13, 8,043 words) – on DW & on AO3

(The) X-Files
The Suit Makes the Woman (Mulder/Scully, PG, 404 words) – on DW & on AO3

Non-fic things
The Raven Path - Supernatural Reverse Bang Art – on DW & on AO3
Temple of Twain - Supernatural Reverse Bang Art – on DW & on AO3
more of us - Small Fandom Big Bang Art (Hit The Floor) – on DW & on AO3


Meme questions: )

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Title: it’s in the water baby (it’s between you and me)
Author: [personal profile] kat_lair / Mistress Kat
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Dean/Sam
Rating: R
Word count: 775
Disclaimer: Not mine, only playing

Summary: The lake didn’t so much smell of death as it did of dying.

Author notes: Written for a prompt from [personal profile] pushkin666 : SPN & water. Title from ‘Post Blue’ by Placebo.



it’s in the water baby (it’s between you and me) )

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Posting early so my author can get the link. I will add the fic details and links as soon and they are available!

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FIC

Title: Born of Mortal Flesh
Author: [livejournal.com profile] anactoria
Fandom/Genre: Supernatural
Pairing(s)/Characters: Benny/Dean
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 27,745
Warnings: None
Summary: Canon-divergent AU, (very) loosely inspired by the Ballad of Tam Lin. While on a hunt with John, Dean discovers a mysterious mirror in a witch's attic, and finds himself transported to the world of Faerie. On the other side, he meets somebody who's been stuck there much longer than him. Somebody who makes him reconsider everything he's been taught about trusting monsters, and a few things about himself that he’s been denying. But Benny's a favourite pet of the King of Fairyland, and their budding relationship seems doomed. Years later, Dean finds himself back on the other side of the mirror—and a second chance to save Benny may just be a chance to save the world.

Fic Link(s): Fic on AO3


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ART

Title: The Raven Path
Artist: [personal profile] kat_lair / MistressKat
Fandom/Genre: Supernatural
Pairing(s)/Characters: Benny and Dean
Rating: PG
Warnings: none for the art, unless you count bloody Dean with a weapon
Description (one used for the claiming): On the foreground are Benny and Dean. Benny looks grim and determined, and there's a crow sitting on his shoulder. Dean is faded out and battled bloodied, holding a self-made weapon. Behind them a portal of fire reveals a forest path. The background is grey and dirtied, offering a hint of a run-down building with its empty windows.

Artist notes: This was my first time taking part in [community profile] spn_reversebang . My reasons were twofold: 1) work is so busy that I have little energy for writing, but art is a different kind of activity and actually quite relaxing, 2) I haven't done anything in SPN fandom for a while. I was delighted to have both of my art pieces claimed pretty quickly AND so very delighted with what my authors came up with. Especially as they both went for the fairy theme... [personal profile] anactoria  has weaved a wonderful story of fairy tale and canon, I'm so excited that my little art inspired it! For the digital art, please see here for texture and photo attributions.

Art under the cut )
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Posting early so my author can get the link. I will add the fic details and links as soon and they are available!

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FIC

Title: Key, Soul and Prisoner
Author: [livejournal.com profile] septembers_coda
Fandom/Genre: Supernatural
Pairing(s)/Characters: Gen with Sam, Dean and Gadreel
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 5,100
Warnings: Some language
Summary: Slipping through a portal into another world, using a drug some random guy handed him in the back of a dance club, with only a bone knife between him and death, wasn’t the craziest thing Sam had done lately. Hell, it hardly even cracked the top ten…

Fic Link(s): Fic on LJ & Fic on AO3


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ART

Title: Temple of Twain
Artist: [livejournal.com profile] kat_lair / MistressKat
Fandom/Genre: Supernatural,
Pairing(s)/Characters: Sam and Dean
Rating: G
Warnings: none for the art, unless you cound Sammy angst and my dubious acrylics skills
Description (one used for the claiming): Sam sits on the foreground, looking like he has reached the end of his rope. Behind him are mysterious ruins of an old temple, and in the distant doorway we can see Dean. There are also two circular symbols, white one surrounding Sam and dark one surrounding Dean, indicating balance and symmetry.

Artist notes: This was my first time taking part in [livejournal.com profile] spn_reversebang. My reasons were twofold: 1) work is so busy that I have little energy for writing, but art is a different kind of activity and actually quite relaxing, 2) I haven't done anything in SPN fandom for a while. I was delighted to have both of my art pieces claimed pretty quickly AND so very delighted with what my authors came up with. It's been a real pleasure working with [livejournal.com profile] septembers_coda who has produced an awesome story with magic and brotherly love and most satisfying solution to the Gadreel storyline as well. And a very inspirational monster that made me dig out my water colours! For the digital art, please see here for texture and photo attributions.

Art under the cut )

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