Title: when I'm not with you
Author: Phnx
Fandom: Grimm (NBC)
Ship: Sean Renard / Nick Burkhardt; Monroe / Rosalee Calvert
Prompt: Extremely late January sub for OTP 2025: first kiss, may I have this dance, sharing clothes, BDSM AU, Stockholm Syndrome, Strong - One Direction. Now I just need to write the rest of the year.
Summary: Nick runs into someone he hasn't seen for a long time. He doesn't anticipate where that takes him. {AU where Renard got promoted before Nick got Grimmed.}

( janvier )

Title: Love Story (and Other Tales of Suspense and Horror)
Fandom: Modaozushi | The Untamed
Characters/Ship: Lan Huan | Xichen / Jiang Cheng | Wanyin; background WangXian and XuanLi, Shi Qingxuan, background beefleaf
Additional Tags: Modern day AU, meet cute, wedding planners, crack
Word count: ~3k; Chapter 2 / 3
Summary: Jiang Cheng has read enough romance novels to know that he'll never be the star in one of them, not like his dramatically and happily married siblings. With this in mind, he tries to find completely tropeless employment for the summer.

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Title: Quiet Night Thought
Fandom: Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Pairing/Characters: Shen Jiu & Shen Yuan, Shen Jiu & everyone, Shen Yuan & Shang Qinghua, Shen Jiu & Yue Qingyuan
Rating: NR (probably T?)
Warnings:
Word Count: 2, 206, Ch. 5 / 5; See All Chapters
Summary: Shen Yuan unwittingly gives character-growth advice to the Qing Jing head disciple Shen Jiu in a weak plot device of a shared dream. Of course, advice that's good from a plot perspective isn't always advice that's good for the individual, especially when that individual is a real person with real emotions and real trauma.

( Chapter 5 )

Title: Quiet Night Thought
Fandom: Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
Pairing/Characters: Shen Jiu & Shen Yuan, Shen Jiu & everyone, Shen Yuan & Shang Qinghua, Shen Jiu & Yue Qingyuan
Rating: NR (probably T?)
Warnings:
Word Count: 2,541, Ch. 3 / 5; See All Chapters
Summary: Shen Yuan unwittingly gives character-growth advice to the Qing Jing head disciple Shen Jiu in a weak plot device of a shared dream. Of course, advice that's good from a plot perspective isn't always advice that's good for the individual, especially when that individual is a real person with real emotions and real trauma.

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Title: Good Spor(e)ts
Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Characters/Ship: Kirk/Spock
Word count: ~4k words
Summary: Dr. James T. Kirk begins his service on the crew of the Federation's flag ship with an argumentative brother (it's definitely Sam's fault), a disdainful science officer, and a secret.

Notes: As with the last two years, RML and I dealt out our AO3-trope playing cards and made a bingo board for our AO3 birthdays (my account is 12 years old today T_T). For my bingo, I chose pining, medical AU, and fantasy. I ran into some problems with the last one, because every low fantasy magic I could think of sliding in already had a Trek predecessor, and I was almost at the point of throwing fireballs (but wait, isn't there an episode where--) when I talked myself down and decided that if I call it magic, it's magic, and Star Trek is science fantasy anyway, so just having an AU is enough to meet that prompt trope.

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Title: Banding Together
Fandom: Temeraire
Characters/Ship: Laurence/Tharkay, OCs
Word count: ~2k words
Summary: Post-canon crack treated seriously. Laurence searches for meaning in his postwar life. He decides to start a band (he's really ahead of his time).

Notes: The prompts for November: life changes | de-aging | secret relationship (reveal) | "be careful what you wish for" | grow | music/band au. Most of those are only implied.

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Title: The Visitors
Fandom: Temeraire
Characters/Ship: Laurence/Tharkay, Laurence & Temeraire & Tharkay
Word count: ~1k words
Summary: Modern with dragons AU. In most cases, meeting the human family members is probably less terrifying than meeting the dragon ones. This is not most cases.

Notes: In retrospect, it's not that I fell off the bandwagon that's surprising, it's that it took me until September to crash and burn. But, hey, the year's not over yet! Here's September, and I have another short, silly offering for October drafted and nearly ready to post, so just two more fics to go, and four weeks left in the year! The prompts for September: high school/college sweethearts | hurt/comfort | meeting the family | "i wrote this for you" | flood | shifter AU.

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Title: Negotiations (More Feathers, Please)
Fandom: Temeraire
Characters/Ship: Laurence & Temeraire, Laurence & Temeraire & Harcourt, Laurence/Napoleon preslash
Word count: ~4k words
Summary: A cracky no-war AU. Despite the lack of war, Laurence and Temeraire still manage to be a diplomatic incident.

Notes: For the Temeraire summer gift exchange.

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Title: Life Is the Bubbles
Fandom: Temeraire
Characters/Ship: Laurence/Tharkay, Laurence & Temeraire & Tharkay & Jane Roland
Word count: ~800 words
Summary: Modern-day AU with dragons, very cracky. Laurence has a habit of making the impossible a reality, which is probably why he's the one who discovers that merfolk are apparently real.

Notes: It looks like I forgot to post this here, and in the wake of the long day of DDoS attacks, I thought I should make sure my Dreamwidth xposting is up-to-date. The prompts were: valentine’s day | pollen/fear gas/truth serum | established relationship | “if i kiss you, will you shut up?” | different | mermaid au. I totally used some of them.

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Title: With All My Worldly Goods
Fandom: Temeraire
Characters/Ship: Laurence/Tharkay, Laurence & Temeraire & Tharkay
Word count: ~5k words
Summary: Soulmarks are names scrawled on wrists, Britain is not at war with France, and Laurence still doesn't visit home often enough. Fortunately, it turns out that his soulmate is fully prepared to travel with him.

Notes: The prompts were: Wedding/proposal, "you aren't what i expected", downpour, soulmate AU, sick fic, (accidental) love confession. I'm arguing that I hit all but the last two.

Relative to canon, things and characters are cheerier in this canon-aligned soulmate AU, where (1) the religious significance of soulmarks means that same-sex marriage is legal, (2) Britain is not at war, and (3) Tharkay's parents are inexplicably both alive and well. For the sake of simplicity, I am pretending that "Tharkay" is our friend's patronym, or that for some unknown reason, his 18th-19th cen. British father took his mother's family name as his own rather than vice versa. However it's spun, I am calling the whole family the Tharkays, and I'm designating their home base in Scotland.

( June )