somethingdarker

I'm still editing this and adding details. My intention is to be done before assignments go out.

( Likes and dislikes )

DNW: child harm of any sort; explicit underage sex; cancer; snuff; suicide; completely tragic/hopeless endings; embarrassment/humiliation; mutilation; infidelity; forcible physical transformation, incest; mentor/protege pairings; isms not native to the setting; bestiality (xeno with intelligent beings is fine); setting change AUs; mundane AUs; mpreg; A/B/O; soulbonds; RPF involving modern characters; PWP; fluff; disrespect for real world religions; death of requested characters

( Phineas and Ferb )

( The Pretender )

( Ranma 1/2 )

( Sky High )

( Star Wars Original Trilogy )

( Weiss Kreuz )

( Original Works )

Sorry. Time got away from me. If we matched on something that I haven't written any details for, it's not that I don't want it as much. It's just that I got distracted by writing things with deadlines and kept thinking I had more than enough time with this.

Oops. This had a deadline, too. I think that the only things I didn't comment on were original fic groupings. I will try to get to that after I finish the story I need to post today.

Thanks!

ETA: As of now, I think everything's there.

( General information )

DNW: child harm of any sort; cancer; snuff; suicide; completely tragic endings; embarrassment/humiliation; mutilation; forcible physical transformation, incest (except in Amber); isms not native to the setting (and they don't have to be for most original fic); bestiality (xeno with intelligent beings is fine); setting change AUs; mundane AUs; mpreg; A/B/O; soulbonds; RPF involving modern characters; disrespect for real world religions

( Weiss Kreuz )

( Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny )

( The Pretender )

( The Flash (TV 2014) )

( Princess Tutu )

( Original Fic )

I had this in my profile at AO3, but there's not enough space there for everything I want to say.

My transformative works policy:

For anybody interested-- I give permission for translating, remixing or podfic'ing any of my stories. I'm also fine with people writing sequels or prequels or whatever to my stories or making art or music based on my work.

This includes taking world building elements, backstory elements, situations, etc. Basically, taking bits of my fic in whatever way you'd take bits of something original is fine.

Just let me know you've done it so that I can link. If I don't give specific permission for whatever transformative work interests you, it's most likely because I didn't think of it rather than because I object to it. Feel free to do whatever occurs to you as long as it is transformative.

Please do not repost my fic elsewhere without my express permission.

Specifically for podfic:

If you ever need to change words, omit dialogue tags, add dialogue tags, or just generally adjust one of my fics for better podficcing purposes, please do so! As this is original work that deserves recognition, and an alteration of my own work, please mentioned it in your notes, wherever you would normally have notes: "this fic is by [author] with (additions/alterations/ease-of-podfic transformations/contributions/however you want to describe it) by [your name]," or "adapted for podfic by [you] from a work by [author]" or whatever—whether that's in your post or in the "headers" in the podfic.

If you would like me to make alterations specifically for you, or if you have any questions about what exactly I was going for when I decided to leave out half a sentence somewhere, please feel free to ask—I may not want to revise an older fic, but it's worth a try.

Canon: Luke traps Merlin in the blue crystal cave. Jasra comes to retrieve Merlin, and Merlin escapes.

Every single one of the stories below has-- at the very least-- references to rape.

Nothing False and Possible: Branches from canon. Luke comes back, and he and Merlin negotiate.

They Come Knocking Like Hearts Asking: Branches from canon. Jasra comes for Merlin and does not let him escape. Eventually they reach an understanding.

The Fruit of Your Intents: Branches from "They Come Knocking Like Hearts Asking." Luke comes home before Jasra and Merlin can reach their understanding, and things get much nastier for Merlin. Then things get nasty for Luke. Merlin POV. Explicit.

No Decisions to Master: In continuity with "The Fruit of Your Intents." Takes place midway between when Ghostwheel kidnapped Luke and when Martin came to visit. Totally not plot necessary. 1500 words of Merlin torturing Luke. Luke POV. Explicit.

Garden Our Shadows: Follows "The Fruit of Your Intents." Merlin's POV. WIP. Nothing posted. Possibly abandoned.

Less Than Dust: Follows "The Fruit of Your Intents." Overlaps "Garden Our Shadows." Luke's POV. Contains Martin/Luke.

We Are Where We Began: Follows "Less Than Dust." Heavy angst but a happier outcome than "Your Future Has a History" Luke gets. Luke's POV.

Your Future Has a History: Diverges after "Less Than Dust" and takes place about a year later. Incorporates elements of "Garden Our Shadows." Luke's POV. Probably the darkest outcome for Luke.

Trapped Between the Memory and the Moment: Direct sequel to "Your Future Has a History." Martin POV. Mostly him talking to Coral but a little bit of him interacting with Luke Reynard. Part of the underpinning for this branch is Martin interacting with Coral in the ways that Merlin did in canon, so warnings for the Pattern having made them do it (while she was unconscious) and for the resulting pregnancy.

At the Edge of Centuries: Diverges somewhere around "We Are Where We Began," incorporating some parts of that but not most of it. The branching point is that Ghostwheel says no to the idea of Merlin having more biological children. Set about ten years later. Luke and Merlin find a relative who is under a curse. Part Luke's POV, part Merlin's POV, and part Ghostwheel's POV.

Welcome and Unwelcome Both: In the same continuity with "We Are Where We Began" but set about thirty years later on. Luke talking to his and Merlin's second child. Gen and very short. Probably the fluffiest story in the arc so far. Which doesn't make it fluffy. Luke's POV.

Love Sold, Hope Dead, and Honour Broken: In Merlin's timeline, this is about eight years after the end of "The Fruit of Your Intents." From Dalt's point of view, Rinaldo and Jasra have only been missing a few months. This may end up chaptered, but chapter 1 stands more or less on its own and might fit with either "We Are Where We Began" or "At the Edge of Centuries." Ariyus exists in both continuities and has a similar origin in both. Dalt's POV.

Hold Nothing to Desire: Long PWP from Martin's POV. Martin/Merlin, explicit with lots of kink. Set in the "We Are Where We Began" branch but definitely not plot necessary for that. I'm pretty sure that reading the other stories in that branch isn't necessary for understanding it. Explicit. Possibly complete. Possibly not.

The Pedigree of Honey: M rated. Luke POV relatively early in the branch that leads to "At the Edge of Centuries." Martin/Luke with Martin giving Luke a little comfort and Luke desperate enough to take it. Approximately 6100 words. Stands alone but makes zero sense without the backstory from "The Fruit of Your Intents."

Surprised by the Hard Glass : M rated. Merlin's POV starting a decade or so after "Welcome and Unwelcome Both." Really, really won't make sense without that and the preceding stories in that branch.

I am pretty much always looking for first readers and/or beta readers. The difficulty is that I may take months or even years to finish something and actually need more help the longer something takes rather than less. I'm also looking for help with inconsistencies in characterization, with failures to fire Chekov's gun, with things that are perfectly clear to me but need elaboration, possibly major elaboration (adding two or three thousand words to fix one of those is not out of the question), with structural stuff like needing to start in a different place or to end in a different place or to actually show something I had off screen. SPaG isn't as much of a concern for me. It's definitely helpful, but if I don't get it, the story will likely be mostly all right anyway.

I write in a lot of different fandoms. I'm still writing a lot of Weiss Kreuz and Chronicles of Narnia. I've started writing several Chronicles of Amber stories. Most other fandoms, I write once and never go back, and I only tend to do really big fandoms for Remix.

I write gen, het, and m/m. I expect I'll get to f/f eventually. I just haven't at this point.

I write all ratings.

I write a fair amount of non-con in Weiss Kreuz and have started writing that in Amber, too. Other fandoms are much, much less likely to have that, but when I go for explicit sex, even if it's consensual, it's likely to be kind of messed up in terms of the participants not being able to relate in a healthy way because I'm more interested in psychological complications than in sex.

I have about eight novel length WIP, but I only tend to work on each of them sporadically. I'm more likely to work on something if I know that I have a first reader who wants to see what I come up with. Most of them are Weiss Kreuz, but there's a Harry Potter one and a Rurouni Kenshin story and a mish-mash DC universe one.

A fragment from "Transitions" requested by

gemais.

( DVD commentary )

This is in answer to a request by

rthstewart a few years ago. I kind of flaked and didn't get around to dealing with it until now.

( DVD commentary )

( DVD commentary part 4 )

This is as far as I got with the DVD commentary on chapter 1. I think I got about halfway through the chapter. I may try to go back to it some day, but it's been so very long since I wrote this chapter that I no longer remember a lot of the things I might have pointed out or elaborated on.

( DVD commentary part 3 )

( DVD commentary part 2 )

( DVD commentary part 1 )

My general exchange letter is here.

If you're here for the poetry snippets to use as story titles, these are the links for the indexes:

The indexes for snippets by author.

The indexes for the snippets by word (some words not yet indexed due to not having 5 snippets).

A few sets of snippets by broad category (like 'birds' or 'flowers').

All snippets are as is, and I can't guarantee no errors in attribution, indexing, spelling, etc. Not all come from poems or poets I liked/enjoyed reading or whose beliefs I endorse (or, sometimes, understand). They're all out of context and may mean something quite different in context.

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I also use this account to store story fragments and drafts that I don't have backed up anywhere else outside of my house. Some of this stuff is more than twenty years old and pretty terrible. Most of it will never be finished. There's original fic and fanfic both here. I'm keeping almost all of those access locked, because I don't see that any of it is of much interest to not-me people.

Most new public things will be exchange letters.

I don't object to giving people access if they have some reason to want to see this stuff, even if it's just curiosity, and I know who they are. I just can't think why anyone would care, apart from a few people I've already given access to because they're beta reading and/or cheerleading on specific projects.

I post story fragments occasionally and in largish batches, so following this account may clog your feed. As a rule, I backdate poetry snippet documents and check the box for not putting them in people's feeds; once in a while, I'll slip up, but it shouldn't happen often.

If I set this up correctly, the entire journal is open to anonymous comments, and all comments on all entries are screened. I will unscreen if the commenter gives me permission but will otherwise assume things should remain screened.

I'm trying to tag very thoroughly, but I forget sometimes. This is mainly an issue if the tags are meant to serve as warning of disturbing and/or NSFW content. Let me know if you think I left a tag that ought to be there off of a post.