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So, for some of us, this is looking like a good time to curl up in a blanket and read fic for a couple of weeks!
Who wants to share recs for fanfic or pairings or canons that are good for while anxious and stuck in the house?
I am enjoying rereading all the Garak/Bashir fic right now - if you don't know the pairing, it's from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, about a bright-eyed Starfleet doctor with a dark secret, and a cynical Cardassian exile with a dark past and a heart of gold, and their complicated relationship (which was queercoded on purpose in the show.) A lot of the fanfic is set post-canon, with both of them on Cardassia helping with recovery after devastation from a terrible war, and it's all very soft and hopeful but set in troubled times.
I've also had a very slow project of going through my entire AO3 history (I'm currently in the summer of 2012, the first Avengers movie just came out) and pulling out the fics that I never want to lose track of ever, and bookmarking them as permanent collection. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to get farther in that project in the next couple of weeks! Everything in that collection is works I'm happy to go back to when I need a comfort read.
And if you have any old favorite fics you've been trying to track down but can't, let's use this post to try to track them down! I have two pre-AO3 fics I've been wanting to add to that collection but can't remember enough to find:
--There was a Pirates of the Caribbean fic, probably on LJ, the summer after the first movie came out. It was set in modern day, though I think it was a reincarnation AU; there were capers at a marina, all the old gang got back together, and Jack Sparrow was an IRS agent. Does this ring any bells? There might have been two similar stories that I'm combining in memory.
--There was a very long post-canon Spike/Buffy fic where Spike had disappeared and Buffy found him living quietly in some backwater town, working as a professor at the local college and leading poetry workshops for demons in the evening. Buffy started going to the workshops for lack of a better idea, and at one point wrote a villanelle (I think?) with the refrain "I shape death with my hands".
Who wants to share recs for fanfic or pairings or canons that are good for while anxious and stuck in the house?
I am enjoying rereading all the Garak/Bashir fic right now - if you don't know the pairing, it's from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, about a bright-eyed Starfleet doctor with a dark secret, and a cynical Cardassian exile with a dark past and a heart of gold, and their complicated relationship (which was queercoded on purpose in the show.) A lot of the fanfic is set post-canon, with both of them on Cardassia helping with recovery after devastation from a terrible war, and it's all very soft and hopeful but set in troubled times.
I've also had a very slow project of going through my entire AO3 history (I'm currently in the summer of 2012, the first Avengers movie just came out) and pulling out the fics that I never want to lose track of ever, and bookmarking them as permanent collection. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to get farther in that project in the next couple of weeks! Everything in that collection is works I'm happy to go back to when I need a comfort read.
And if you have any old favorite fics you've been trying to track down but can't, let's use this post to try to track them down! I have two pre-AO3 fics I've been wanting to add to that collection but can't remember enough to find:
--There was a Pirates of the Caribbean fic, probably on LJ, the summer after the first movie came out. It was set in modern day, though I think it was a reincarnation AU; there were capers at a marina, all the old gang got back together, and Jack Sparrow was an IRS agent. Does this ring any bells? There might have been two similar stories that I'm combining in memory.
--There was a very long post-canon Spike/Buffy fic where Spike had disappeared and Buffy found him living quietly in some backwater town, working as a professor at the local college and leading poetry workshops for demons in the evening. Buffy started going to the workshops for lack of a better idea, and at one point wrote a villanelle (I think?) with the refrain "I shape death with my hands".
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Date: 2020-03-14 09:13 pm (UTC)The Winter Emperor (123290 words) by Island_of_Reil
Chapters: 18/18
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Csevet Aisava/Maia Drazhar
Characters: Maia Drazhar, Csevet Aisava, Other canon characters, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Slow Burn, Loyalty, Travel, Worldbuilding, Cold Weather, Wilderness, Secret Identity, Hurt/Comfort, Stabbing, Knives, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Beating, Fantastic Racism, Canon-Typical Homophobia, Canon-Typical Sexism, Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Prostitution, Canonical Character Death, Original Character Death(s), Minor Character Death, Menial Labor, Bathing/Washing, Bath Houses, Hot Springs & Onsen, Bath Sex, Hair Washing, hair cutting, Fever, Huddling For Warmth, Wet Dream, Masturbation, Body Worship, Wall Sex, Awkward Boners, Battle, Horror Elements, Dark Magic, Ogres, Homoerotic Egg Sucking, Yes Folks There Are Jizzmoppers in the Ethuveraz
Summary:
The Princess Sheveän does not heed Maia’s demand to bring Idra to him, but instead has Maia rendered unconscious and taken to the monastery in the north. He has no way of knowing that Csevet is coming to break him out of it. Neither of them have any way of knowing the rigors and dangers and griefs — and joys and pleasures — that lie ahead of them as they, and the allies they find and those they re-encounter, struggle to restore him to the throne of the Ethuveraz.