Flutterings

I'd planned to stay completely on the sidelines this year, but I looked at pinch-hitters' prompts on Christmas Eve and an EPH Christmas morning, so these happened:

belly and breath and growl and beating heart (100 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Welsh Mountains, Unspecified Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tryfan, Rhinog Fach, Yr Wyddfa, Y Carneddau
Additional Tags: unapologetically carnivorous peaks, Drabble
Summary:

Some mountains sassing one another while time passes / passing time.

Unpolished but not unfinished (100 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Boston Public Library Statues
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The Lions
Additional Tags: Drabble


Such Dark Enjoyment (717 words) by ribbons
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lilywhite Boys Series - K. J. Charles
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jerry Crozier/Alec Pyne-ffoulkes
Characters: Jerry Crozier, Alec Pyne-ffoulkes
Additional Tags: Somnophilia, Established Relationship, Character Study, Consensual Somnophilia
Summary:

Jerry hadn't previously seen anything appealing in the notion of fucking an unconscious body. But.

Also! Thanks to a separate event (Informal Twitter Podfic Exchange), the story I wrote for Yuletide 2022 is now a beautifully recorded podfic!

[podfic] Paper Beats Duke (6 words) by AirgiPodSLV
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 掷裴武公诗 | A Poem Thrown at Martial Duke Pei - 介胄鬼 | An Armored Ghost, Unspecified Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), Blacksmithing, Ghosts, Poetry, War, Brush Writing
Summary:

A podfic of 'Paper Beats Duke' by ribbons.

Author's Summary: Where the poem thrown at Martial Duke Pei came from.

Relief: Finished a challenging assignment earlier tonight. Getting a less hard but time-consuming chore out the door tomorrow. (Then I get to whale through things I didn't get to while these things were being massive, but tonight I sleep the sleep of This Round Is Bloody Done.)

Squee: jennirach recorded another one of my fics!

And She Dwelt [podfic] (33 words) by jennirach
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Band Sinister - K. J. Charles
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Amanda Frisby/David Martelo
Characters: Amanda Frisby, David Martelo
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Canon Jewish Character, Judaism, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Summary:

"Will I have to study a lot?"

"You'll have to take instruction." David looked stunned. Amanda could have that effect when she'd made up her mind about things. "If you're sure you want to, once we've talked properly about what it means for you. Which we are going to do first," he added, with decision. Guy wished him luck.

-- Band Sinister, chapter 12

The one she posted earlier features the same characters:

Enfolding by ribbons [podfic] (28 words) by jennirach
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Band Sinister - K. J. Charles
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lord Corvin/Amanda Frisby/David Martelo
Characters: Lord Corvin, Amanda Frisby, David Martelo
Additional Tags: Threesome - F/M/M, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes, Podfic, also appearing: Amanda/research, took me three tries to say Olivenca and I bet it's still wrong
Summary:

“It's been years since we fucked,” David stated. “With reason.”

“How closed is that door?” Corvin asked.

“You’ll have to ask Amanda.” David’s fingers began moving in Corvin’s hair again. “She may well fling it open.”

So, yeah, the rest of spring was A Lot. But it did have glorious day lilies and tiny tomatoes, and I do enjoy where I live. A conversation on one of my Discords yesterday:

Ribbons: There is a mobile snake and reptile petting zoo parked in my neighborhood at the moment, between the fish fry and the lesbian karaoke bar.

WW: Day planned.

PE: That sure is a sentence, ribbons.

In addition to a clutch of drabbles (mostly KJC fandoms, with a Rupert Darling cameo), here's what I've written or recorded since April:

( England World crossovers with Lilywhites and Unfit to Print )

"Cinio" (Will, Bran, and the Giant Squid) and "Camlann after Camlann" (Padma Patil and Will Stanton), a couple of TDiR/HP crossover drabbles as part of the Merry Month fest.

( audio )

I've been self-medicating with a fair amount of Dark Is Rising lately -- reading fics and meta that I'd missed or forgotten, borrowing Alex Jennings's audio renditions from the library, getting my own archive in order (or at least less uncollected), and scribbling a couple of new drabbles in the process.

It belatedly dawned on me two Sundays ago that my subconscious miiiiiight be seeking memory fix-its right now because we're dealing with dementia in the family (I spent part of today helping ma belle-mère with paperwork) and among friends as well. *grimaces* The November-December holidays (hello, early Hanukkah!) also have a way of dredging up buried feelings about lapsed friendships, which this year will be amplified by the dance around those faltering from pandemic fatigue, my change of employer, and the usual erosion of connections by time and distance. Which all feels ridiculous with all the active relationships to tend to, and a handsome Hanukkah bundle from friends in Charlotte (chocolate gelt, dreidls, and embroidered towels -- I do feel loved), but I am a greedy soul, and you all know that, so. ;)

Anyway, in the course of picking my way through assorted/broken links from past lists (RIP Skyehawke), the urge to bring some still-around favorites to this year's celebration made itself known. So, to start things off:

For a Season, by significantowl (2003)
Jane/Will, R

Excerpt:

I begin exploring his body with my mouth, taking my time, enjoying the feel of his chest and stomach against my lips. When it’s clear where I’m going, he shivers - then he stops me. He puts a hand to my face and stops me. I think: Will Stanton, you are an idiot. And possibly not human.

This is one of the first TDiR fics I read, and I revisit it every Christmas. It has mistletoe.

I also recorded it (with owl's permission) back in 2006: Part 1 and Part 2

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Because I do figuratively live under a rock for unseemly stretches of time, I did not know about "Good King Wenceslas" being performed by Michael Stipe, Mandy Patinkin, and Stephen Colbert until two weeks ago, and now I cannot stop listening to it. Especially Mandy. Oh my God. It's not the mostest or the bestest Wenceslas rendition ever (although it did win an advent carol madness bracket in 2016, which is how I finally found an extant clip), but the sheer beauty of Mandy's voice when he comes in makes me wriggle my shoulders and toes and want to go make trunkfuls of hats.

As I have indicated here before, C. H. Sisson's "Letter to John Donne" is a poem that is not in sync with my personal theology, and yet it grabs me by the collar whenever I revisit it. I happened to peer into my copy of Foster and Guthrie last night for something else, and ended up reading the Sisson aloud to myself.

And so, here is what a youngish Southern U.S. woman sounds like communing with the words of a Tory Anglican from a couple of generations ago:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0_yyKHZ5VqBdGQwUHFsQk9Ecm8/view?usp=sharing

And this link will take you to a recording by Sisson himself:

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/c-h-sisson

(Both the reading and writing keep hopscotching up the to-do queue. Ars longa, verse the twenty-first...)

I'm squeeing (which autocorrect wants to change to "squeezing"...)about Nic Sebastian's lovely reading of "Playing Duets with Heisenberg's Ghost," which is now up at The Poetry Storehouse.

There are also four other poems of mine at the Storehouse. The invitation: remix or adapt them or use them as springboards! (Or play with some of the other poets' pieces there...)

At LJ, katieandrew presents a lovely recording of my drabble "Mistletoe." (With festive cover art by jkivela, too!) *squee*

Rhea34 over at LJ has recorded my little futurefic (700 words) about Bikky, "Forward." *bounce bounce bounce* If you enjoy it, please let her know. The link to download it is at
http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1143462.html

...and, if you click on the amplificathon tag for FAKE, you'll see two other podfics she's recorded. "Shrapnel" was a Yuletide gift written for me by paperuni three years ago, so I'm extra-excited to find it now exists in audio as well. :-)