Journal of Mistress Kat

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Title: Vernal
Author:kat_lair
Fandom: Wheel of Time (both book and tv-show applicable I think)
Characters: Aviendha, Moiraine Damodred, Egwene al'Vere, Bair, Melaine
Tags: Canon Compliant, Rain, Ficlet, Rhuidean 
Rating: G
Word count: 737

Summary: The rain lasts until sunset.

Author notes: Picked some spring themed prompts to get me out of a writing slump. This was for the prompt 'vernal'. Unbetaed so if you spot a typo or mistake you should tell me.

Vernal on AO3

( Vernal )

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Title: Patience
Author:kat_lair 
Fandom: Wheel of Time (books/tv-show)
Characters: Bair, Egwene al'Vere
Tags: Ficlet, Character Study, Prompt Fill
Rating: G
Word count: 191

Summary: People will die for her as readily as they'll die for water.

Author notes: For goodbyebird's prompt of 'Bair & Egwene, patience' in in the 3.04 Episodic Prompt Meme over at tar_valon. The prompt grabbed me by the throat in the middle of 18h travel during an airport layover.

Patience on AO3

( Patience )

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Fic Round-Up 2024

Well, I did not manage my getyourwordsout goal but I did end up writing more than I did last year, just over 100k. Only 59k ended up being posted though.


Fics published  in 2024 by Fandom:
(I have only linked to the AO3 post but if you prefer reading on DW, you can find everything under the my fanfiction tag)

( Long list under the cut! )


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Meme Questions

( Even longer ramble under here with so many fic excerpts, sorry not sorry etc )
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Not the Friday Five questions, just... things to be cheerful about

1. I got podficced again!

Unintended (Stray Kids, Han Jisung/Lee Minho) - A gorgeously emotional recording by pieces0fstars who has a real knack for bringing out every choked up gut punching feeling in a story.

Ensnared (Wheel of Time, Moghedien/Lanfear) - A tiny masterpiece with sound effects by pezzax_podfics ! And the kind of underlying threat one would expect from a narration from Moghedien's pov.

2. Also fanart! vampireshmu did a perfectly creepy jagged sketch based on my Waycest ficlet Sharpest Lives, check it out here: Sharp

3. Writing has been happening, though I am still very behind on the getyourwordsout goal and probably will continue to be tbh. But still. I have finished a fic (Stray Kids, Chan/Felix) and it's out for beta, one is veeeery close to being finished (Stray Kids, Seungmin/Jeongin), I have also tossed a shared fic (Stray Kids, Chan/Minho) back to dreamersdare, while she is currectly working hard at finishing off another shared fic (Stray Kids, Chan/Changbin).

4. In RL news, my Bucharest conference trip in September is all booked! Now I, apparently, need to write the paper. Rude.

5. This weekend I have no plans beyond coffee and writing. Wish me luck!

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Title: Ensnared
Author:kat_lair 
Fandom: Wheel of Time (books and TV)
Pairing: Lanfear | Cyndane/Moghedien
Tags: Implied/Referenced Dubious Consent,Triple Drabble
Rating: T
Word count: 300

Summary: Thrice Moghedien catches Lanfear and thrice she lets her go. Or does she?

Author notes: Fifth of the fandomtrees fics, this one written for brushpen. I've tagged this for the books and TV as I think it works for both canons. There are some small (name, location) spoilers though if you've only seen the TV series.

Ensnared on AO3

( Ensnared )

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Title: (softly, softly) from the shadows
Author: kat_lair 
Fandom: Wheel of Time
Charactes: Moghedien
Tags: Ficlet, Episode Related
Rating: G
Word count: 155
Disclaimer: Not mine! 

Summary: She wakes and the world is new but the faces around her are the same old, same old.

Author notes: Spooktober 2023, Day 9/31. Prompt/theme: spider. This is a little missing scene from the season 2 finale, and the title of course comes directly from its final scene.

(softly, softly) from the shadows on AO3


( (softly, softly) from the shadows )

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Here we are, at an end of the journey (yes, more WoT activities coming up as promised over at tar_valon). I started doing the 'Kat's Extreme Readers' Digest, The Irreverent Edition' summaries to help with the Book Club posts and to help myself to keep track of what happened and by the time I realised what task I'd set up for myself it was too late; I'd started so now I HAD TO finish.

The total word count for the Reader's Digests of all fourteen books is ~107k. Haha. Ha. In comparison though, the total word count of the actual books is, according to the internet, 4,012,859 so in that sense I did a Very Good Job at condensing the text to its salient (according to me) points :D

I did get increasing wordy though. For comparison, the Irreverent Summary for Book 1 was 2,3k but for Book 14 it was over 17k. In my defense, a the events got more complex and cast larger as the series progressed.

Despite the whining (which also got louder over time) I enjoyed doing this and will, for the sake of completeness probably offer the same for the prequel and short story analysis...

But for now, for your reading pleasure, I present 'Kat's Extreme Readers' Digest, The Irreverent Editions' of the final two books.

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Previously:

Book 1: The Eye of The World

Book 2: The Great Hunt

Book 3. The Dragon Reborn

Book 4. The Shadow Rising

Book 5. The Fires of Heaven

Book 6. Lord of Chaos

Book 7. A Crown of Swords

Book 8. The Path of Daggers

Book 9. Winter's Heart

Book 10. Crossroads of Twilight

Book 11. Knife of Dreams

Book 12. The Gathering Storm

Now:
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( Book 13. Towers of Midnight )
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( Book 14. A Memory of Light )

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As the Re/Read Book Club over at tar_valon progresses, I've been doing summaries of questionable taste and accuracy. I'm just cross-posting them here for posterity, 2 books worth at a time.

Previously:

Book 1: The Eye of The World

Book 2: The Great Hunt

Book 3. The Dragon Reborn

Book 4. The Shadow Rising

Book 5. The Fires of Heaven

Book 6. Lord of Chaos

Book 7. A Crown of Swords

Book 8. The Path of Daggers

Now:
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( Book 9. Winter's Heart, Kat's Extreme Readers' Digest, The Irreverent Edition )


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( Book 10. Crossroads of Twilight, Kat's Extreme Readers' Digest, The Irreverent Edition )

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Things done:

• Packed for the weekend
• Booked train tickets for this weekend
• Booked train tickets for my and god child for when they're visiting and I need to both pick up and take them to the airport
• Ordered meds
• Tried to book Covid booster but the next slot is like in three weeks so pretty sure I'll be going to the walk-in
• Paid rent, credit card and ISA
• Ordered gifts and sent cards to two colleagues
• Put laundry to dry and loaded a second lot ready for Sunday night
• Changed sheets
• Wrote the Irreverent Summary of the second half of Wheel of Time Book 8
• Made the end of book discussion post on tar_valon 
• Washed dishes
• Changed cat litter
• Had a shower
• Took a train to H's for the weekend
• Ate some delicious Mexican take-away

Please notice the complete absence of work related things in there.

Tomorrow is the start of Halloween Month which makes this... the Halloween Month Eve, right?

Anyway, here's a little something to get us on the Femdom Halloween mood.



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As the Re/Read Book Club over at tar_valon progresses, I've been doing summaries of questionable taste and accuracy. I'm just cross-posting them here for posterity, 2 books worth at a time.

Previously:

Book 1: The Eye of The World, Extreme Readers' Digest, The Irreverent Edition

Book 2: The Great Hunt, Kat's Extreme Readers' Digest, The Irreverent Edition

Now:
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( Book 3: The Dragon Reborn, Extreme Readers' Digest, The Irreverent Edition )


( Book 4: The Shadow Rising, Extreme Readers' Digest, The Irreverent Edition  )

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