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Fic fic fic!
Aug. 30th, 2012 10:37 pmI'm putting the last few touches on the Eagle of the Ninth Marcus/Esca/Cottia fic! It will be posted...at some point soon.
This is the first time I've written fic not for an exchange in, um, a while, so I'm pretty excited about it.
Next up on the plate:
1. Another Eot9 fic, about Cottia's arrival in Calleva and Aunt Valaria's program of forced acculturation. Aunt Valaria is clearly the kind of person who can destroy your life while smiling sweetly and saying "Camilla dear."
2. Downton Abbey fic, on the theme of blackmail: Branson/Sybil (Sybil is Sir Not Appearing in this Fic, though she's very much on Branson's mind), and...Branson/Thomas. I saw a story with this pairing on AO3 and it stuck in my mind, in a "how the heck would you make that work?" way. (And by "work" I of course mean "How do you make it believable that this train wreck pairing would occur?")
In my defense! The sex is way less non-consensual than you would except given that it's a story about blackmail! Thomas is blackmailing Branson (with, naturally, a letter Branson wrote to Sybil) because he needs to be driven somewhere in furtherance of his evil schemes, not for...other reasons.
I'm thinking Thomas is going to buy porn to sell under the table to the convalescing soldiers, though I'm not quite sure why he'd need a car for that. Maybe he just didn't want to let this golden blackmailing opportunity go to waste?
I'm hoping to finish one or the other this weekend. Anyone want to beta either one?
This is the first time I've written fic not for an exchange in, um, a while, so I'm pretty excited about it.
Next up on the plate:
1. Another Eot9 fic, about Cottia's arrival in Calleva and Aunt Valaria's program of forced acculturation. Aunt Valaria is clearly the kind of person who can destroy your life while smiling sweetly and saying "Camilla dear."
2. Downton Abbey fic, on the theme of blackmail: Branson/Sybil (Sybil is Sir Not Appearing in this Fic, though she's very much on Branson's mind), and...Branson/Thomas. I saw a story with this pairing on AO3 and it stuck in my mind, in a "how the heck would you make that work?" way. (And by "work" I of course mean "How do you make it believable that this train wreck pairing would occur?")
In my defense! The sex is way less non-consensual than you would except given that it's a story about blackmail! Thomas is blackmailing Branson (with, naturally, a letter Branson wrote to Sybil) because he needs to be driven somewhere in furtherance of his evil schemes, not for...other reasons.
I'm thinking Thomas is going to buy porn to sell under the table to the convalescing soldiers, though I'm not quite sure why he'd need a car for that. Maybe he just didn't want to let this golden blackmailing opportunity go to waste?
I'm hoping to finish one or the other this weekend. Anyone want to beta either one?
