not today or tomorrow

Title: Sobriquet
AO3: Link
Rating: G
Series: Widdershins (Ben Thackery, Nyree, Jack O'Malley)
Wordcount: 1,102
Summary: Two witches, a wizard, and some light cultural exchange.
Remarks: Shook a crusty WIP by the neck until something approximating the final lines fell out. Hooray! One fic for the year. Would that I was smart enough to really fill in all the worldbuilding gaps myself, but we'll just have to settle for alluding. 

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Title: Stonesong
Rating: G
Genre: Modern fantasy
Wordcount: 100
Remarks: 100words prompt - music.

( he'd thought himself welcome )

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Title: The Place Between
Rating: G
Genre: Fantasy
Wordcount: 100
Remarks: 100words prompt - repress.

( for us it was only the war )

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Title: Lineage
Rating: G
Series: Sunless Sea
Wordcount: 100
Remarks: 100words prompt - snub. I have so much weird guilt about my adopted scion.

( day three he is a nuisance )

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Title: The Fox-Tail Queen
Rating: G
Genre: Fantasy
Wordcount: 100
Remarks: 100words prompt - in the dark.

( they are six and faceless )

Title: Two in a Canoe
AO3: Link
Rating: G
Series: Widdershins (Jack O'Malley, Widdershins Itself)
Wordcount: 2,261
Summary: Mal's stuck with the city, and the city's stuck with him. Takes a little while to work all that out.
Remarks: Look, you can't hand me a human low-key soulbonded to an urban genius loci and expect me to not go all dilated eyes like a cat on 'nip. The dialogue in the first section was actually taken from material culled from Stand Upon the Threshold. All writing is compost!

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( mal in the city )

Title: Noblesse Oblige
Rating: PG
Series: Destiny (Rezyl Azzir, Jaren Ward)
Wordcount: 2,198
Summary: The first time Dredgen Yor killed Jaren Ward, it was honestly just a misunderstanding.
Tags: Canon-Typical Violence 
Remarks: This fic is a triumph in terms of finishing old drafts (I think it's been sitting around since 2015) and choosing completion over perfection. It's otherwise a bit of a messy fic - the ending is much too abrupt, but I had to admit I'd lost interest in delving into the conversation it needed to close it out properly, and was not likely to become interested again. Some fun turns of phrase, though, and worth writing the part I still wanted to capture.

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Title: Linear Regression
Rating: G
Series: Infinity Train (Amelia Hughes, Hazel)
Wordcount: 1,157
Summary: Amelia told the anomaly to hold its breath for as long as it could, and it did. She ordered it to breathe deeply in and out while she monitored the beat of the pulse at its wrist, and it obeyed. She asked it to stick out its tongue, and Hazel rocked back on the tree stump, poked a fat pink tongue out at her, and blew a messy raspberry.
Tags: Season 3 Spoilers, Amelia Is Bad At Children But She's Trying
Remarks: Speculative voice-testing as much as anything. I think about these two a lot.

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Title: The Gold Man Problem
AO3: Link
Rating: PG
Series: Moon Knight (MCU) (Steven Grant, Marc Spector, Bertrand Crawley)
Wordcount: 1,845
Summary: Steven realises he and Marc have a mutual friend. He's not best pleased about it.
Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Post-Canon
Remarks: If I was a hardcore Moon Knight comics fan I'd probably be grumbly about the sidelining of pretty much the entire canon cast, but since I'm not I just get to use my vague knowledge as fanfic fuel instead!

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Title: A Millstone Hung
Link: AO3
Rating: G
Series: Pillars of Eternity (Sagani, The Watcher, Vela)
Wordcount: 2,556
Summary: Sagani helps the Watcher grapple with the fallout from her decision in Sacrificial Bloodlines.
Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Referenced Past Child Death, Soul Ancestor Problems, Late Game Spoilers
Remarks: A certain cameo in Deadfire kickstarted this fic, and half a year later I've managed to tie it off. It's been long enough since I played PoE that my memories of the actual quest are pretty rough, but hopefully I haven't skewed too far from any facts! It was fun trying to capture Neus' inherent eerieness in combination with her more sweet-natured personality (itself under siege by this point in the game).

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Title: Crossroads
AO3: Link
Rating: G
Series: The Riders Series (Tara Chang)
Wordcount: 1,060
Summary: There's a choice to be made, but Tara's not sure she's ready to make it.
Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Post-Canon, Grief
Remarks: I had a devil of a time settling on the conclusion to this one, and in a way that struggle became the conclusion. Call it the wordy version of a sketch - rough in places but holding enough character on its own to get the ol' one-two-yeet.

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( she'd come to tarmin lean and wary )

Title: Celestial Objects
AO3: Link
Rating: G
Series: The Riders Series (Danny Fisher, Carlo Goss)
Wordcount: 915
Summary: A warm spring evening, a lonely road, and Danny and Carlo, star-gazing.
Remarks: Three times makes a tradition, right? Something about the end of year break seems to get me in the nighthorse mood, and this time I did manage something short and sweet! Plus everyone has to have at least one fic with this title, surely.

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( drowsy horses painted spring about them )

Title: The Rabbit and the Pointed Gun
AO3: Link
Rating: PG
Series: Destiny (Shin Malphur, Jaren's Ghost)
Wordcount: 3,932
Summary: The City falls. Shin does some teetering of his own.
Remarks: A very belated cross-posting! Honestly, I like this one better in pieces than as a whole - canon changed on me in the middle of writing it, and I don't think I quite rose to the challenge of guiding it to a different ending than the one I'd planned. There is still satisfaction to be had in completing it, and in covering some scenes long-imagined. And in learning. Always learning.

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Title: Turn by Turn
AO3: Link
Rating: G
Series: Books of the Raksura
Wordcount: 1,326
Summary: 3(ish) sentence fics about the court of Indigo Cloud.
Remarks: The 3 Sentence Ficathon came and went throughout February, and for once I managed to have a crack at a few prompts! Then the Raksura bug bit and I wrote a few more again. Ended up with seven fills for this little fandom, which isn't too shabby at all.

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