sophinisba: Gwen looking sexy from Merlin season 2 promo pics (Default)
Also it seems the last time I posted links to my fanworks from here was in July. I know most of my friends who still use this website don't read MCU or listen to podfics but it is nice to talk about things anyway, so.

I made or contributed to many small podfics that you can find on my AO3 page, but I posted one that was a bit more substantial for the Summer Podfic Swap last August:
-The Other Side of the Coin, Steve/Tony D/s AU, explicit, one hour and nine minutes.

And I wrote a fic, posted in January:
-Stardust, Tony-centric Potts-Stark family gen, 6000 words.

ETA: Wait and I also wrote another fic in October:
-live through this (and maybe prosper mix), Natasha-centric Endgame AU, rated teen, 1200 words.
/ETA

Still lots of Tony feels around here, can't say I've really moved on! I have two other Tony fics I've been trying to finish for ages, one currently at about 5K and the other at 8K. And another 3K that I mean to be Pepper/Natasha but I keep accidentally writing about Tony instead.

Another fannish New Year's Resolution I made but didn't post about here was that I'd write at least 100 words of fic at least once a week. I stuck to that until last week, and then I came back and did it again (just barely) last night. But I don't feel close to finishing anything, or confident that people will want to read them. For example, that 8K fic is for a request that a fannish aquaintance made at an exchange two years ago; that person continues to participate in exchanges but has stopped requesting these characters.

I was also doing okay at plugging away slowly at a large podfic project but have also fallen behind on that the last couple weeks, and again it's not like a lot of people are clamoring to hear it.

And as for myself I haven't much been consuming fanworks in recent months. I've left off my habit of reading fic before bed – for a while was reading published ebooks but the last couple weeks I've been trying to turn off all electronic devices a good hour before my bedtime. So I just read a paper book and it often sends me to sleep real quick. I haven't been finishing a lot of books either! (But I did finish one today! Maybe I will also make a books post this week!)

I'm doing fine though.

I haven't looked at the AO3 since seeing Spider-Man yesterday. To be honest I'm a bit afraid to, because if I know fandom there won't be a lot of engagement with how recent events have affected Ned and MJ, and that will make me sad. But also maybe I'll feel inspired to make something, and that can be a great feeling.
sophinisba: Gwen looking sexy from Merlin season 2 promo pics (Default)
I wrote another ficlet, this time in the form of five drabbles:
-See what's in front of you, MCU/Iron Man, Pepper/Tony/Rhodey, 500 words, general audiences (but kind of sad).

I also did another podfic:
-night shift, MCU/Captain America, Sam/Steve, 9 minutes, general audiences, fluffy AU written by my old friend [personal profile] glim.

I've been doing the old morning pages since July 1st and that's been fun. Actually writing in a notebook with a pen and without a goal. Since I haven't been working lately and I've had that as the first thing I do after brewing the coffee and feeding the cats, I've been feeling happier waking up than I had in months or possibly years.
sophinisba: Gwen looking sexy from Merlin season 2 promo pics (Default)
I posted a wee fic last week, my first once since Voiceteam Mystery Box around New Year's:
-What my friends call me, MCU/Spider-Man, warm and fuzzy MJ & Peter & Ned with MJ/Peter and gender stuff, 696 words, general audiences.

I am writing )

And I'm still making podfic! Yesterday I made this to celebrate Steve Rogers's birthday:
-steady to the shore, MCU/Captain America, Bucky/Steve/Sam, 25 minutes, explicit

I also made the following podfics for Voiceteam in May (and trailing into June), all less than twenty minutes:
-feel something when I see you, MCU/Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Bucky/Sam, explicit
-Nonsense, MCU/Captain America, Bucky/Sam with Bucky/bad guys noncon flashbacks, explicit
-Who Taught You How to Fall, Saving Face, Wil/Vivian, explicit (an old fic of mine!)
-She, Brokeback Mountain, Alma Jr./OFC, mature (an old poem of mine!)
-The Roommate (A Gentlemen's Arrangement Remix), Merlin, Merlin/Elyan, mature, featuring many Voiceteam participants
-Wherever You'll Be Someone, MCU/Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Bucky/Sam, general audiences
-Rogue Two: A Star Wars Story, Rogue One, Jyn-centric, general audiences
-a glitch on the television screen, MCU/WandaVision, Wanda/Vision, teen, edited by my teammate
-Another Country, MCU/Avengers, Steve/Tony, teen, with cover art by a teammate
-yes your wings are beautiful. yes they shimmer. god., MCU/Iron Man, Tony/Rhodey, general audiences
-Capes, Star Wars sequels, Finn/Poe, teen, with three other Voiceteam participants

Voiceteam thoughts )

I also participated in a few other projects organized by other Voiceteam folks:
-for goodness' bake!, The Good Place ensemble, general audiences
-Furry Artists vs. Doctors, a dramatic reading of the (I guess classic?) Furry Artists vs. Doctors Tumblr post
-Until we rise with open eyes, Patrick O'Brian - Aubrey-Maturin Series, Aubrey and Maturin, general audiences
-A Seed of Song: Fives Hymns The Muses Sing of Hades and Persephone, Greek mythology/Vienna Teng's Aims, Hades/Persephone, teen

Oh hey I used all my journal's genre tags on this post: boyslash, femslash, gen, het, multi, other, and poetry!
sophinisba: Wee Gwen admires wee Merlin's magic! (gwen merlin by el_jamon)
I participated in [community profile] voiceteam Mystery Box, which started on Dec. 26thish and ended a couple hours ago. I rejoined Team Red Out Loud, and we won! This was pretty awesome, as in May, with lots of collaboration both on multivoice podfics and on all kinds of other things. As in May, I got stressed out at times but also loved being on a team with other people who were focused on winning. These last two weeks I realized I was especially stressed out by challenges that involved making things other than podfic, so, idk, it was good that other people were up for it. ngl I really liked winning, even though I didn't contribute to the tiebreaker challenge we did the last few days.

Here are the podfics I made for the challenge, many of them in collaboration with teammates. They are all rated General Audiences or Teen and are less than 20 minutes. As in May/June, I'm not up for explaining and coding everybody else's names but you can see them on the AO3.
-she's waiting for me (just across the bar), MCU: Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov
-The Fear of Not Trying, MCU: Peter & Tony, written by a teammate for this challenge, with cover art by a teammate
-Tolls Paid, Elementary: Joan/Sherlock
-your quiet afternoon crush , MCU: Peter/MJ, with voices by several teammates and cover art by a rival
-Is that a cat in your pocket?, MCU: Tony & Rhodey, with another voice and cover art by teammates
-the winding path, MCU: Sam/Steve
-The Prompt Machine: IronFalcon podfics b, MCU: Tony/Sam, a set of three podficlets with covers by a teammate and two rivals, and with audio editing on one of them by a rival!

Also for Voiceteam, I wrote a Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau ficlet, Follow Your Star, that a teammate recorded.

I also contributed voice parts to these other short podfics that my teammates organized!
-'My Drunk Kitchen' is Not a DIY Show, Texts from Last Night: original female characters
-Conversations with Carpenter, Alice (Syfy): Carpenter & various
-lightheaded, The Untamed: Yanli/Wen Qing (This one's super great!)
-An Invitation, Wonder Woman 1984: Diana/Barbara
-Where in the World is "Where in the World"?, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego/Sesame Street: Elmo-centric
-The Snowstorm Variations, Leverage: Eliot/Parker/Hardison

Meanwhile, the Informal Twitter Podfic Exchange was exchanged and revealed! I decided not to participate in the exchange this year but I did make an extra treat:
-Hair is Everything , MCU: Tony & Natasha, 31 minutes.

And I tried to put a 2020 podfic year in review post in here but it is too much! I will try again soon. <3
sophinisba: Gwen's lips and Morgana's lips with gauzy fabric (gwen morgana lips by ravenclawbest)
I posted back in January about a fic and four podfics I had made for year-end fests. Here is a post about another fic and four more podfics! All of them are Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom.

In fact I had already written this second fic when I made that other post, but it didn't go up until late February. It is called For Now (A Remix Before the War) and it was part of the Captain America/Iron Man Relay Remix, which seemed like an interesting but probably unwise idea even when I signed up for it and ended up being, well, difficult, as I was assigned to remix a fic based on comic books I'm not familiar with, and for some other reasons. Also for some reason the mods chose to use staggered posting with all the different remix chains going up in random order and not linked to each other and I haven't read most of the other ones and feel bad for being a bad community member. Anyway, it's a little Steve/Tony hurt/comfort (with hurt Steve and sad Tony), my first time writing Tony POV, and there are things about it that I like but I probably will not sign up for a similar challenge again.

Then in early March [community profile] purimgifts happened and I was pleased to be assigned to [personal profile] flipflop_diva, who'd requested fic or podfic about ladies, but then frustrated at how hard it was to find fics to podfic that are actually about ladies. Like, if you click on the Natasha Romanov tag at the AO3 most of the works you get are actually m/m (mainly Steve/Bucky and Steve/Tony). But anyway I eventually founds some fun ones and enjoyed making these three podfics:
-Like A Creepy, Hairless Cat, written by [archiveofourown.org profile] VYCanisMajoris, Natasha/Tony, 7 minutes
-hope you don't mind, written by isawet, Natasha/Steve, 5 minutes
-An Uncommon Doctor , written by [archiveofourown.org profile] perpetfic, Natasha/Maria Hill, 4 minutes

More recently our friend [twitter.com profile] lattice_frames had to cancel her birthday plans because of quarantine, so [twitter.com profile] bessyboo organized an impromptu fanworks fest for her, and I made the tiniest piece of it: magic, a two-minute podfic of a Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau double drabble that [archiveofourown.org profile] saiditallbefore had written for me last year.

I don't have anything in progress now but at some point I will make things again. :)
sophinisba: Wee Gwen admires wee Merlin's magic! (gwen merlin by el_jamon)
Okay, first of all, [personal profile] claudia603, I need you to watch the first three and a half minutes of the 2014 movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Here it is, I'll wait:



Isn't that delightful? Okay now you are set to understand most (though not all) fanworks for this ship, including the three I talk about in this post. Like there are a lot of movies and other stuff does happen to these guys but a lot of it is sad and a lot of Sam/Steve fans want them to be happy so there we are.

Yeah so I participated in [community profile] samstevesmallgifts, a lovely low-key fanworks exchange with just one pairing but a lot of my favorite MCU people.
-[personal profile] potofsoup wrote me Day after Thanksgiving, which is very much my jam, a good quiet fic about two people in a relationship talking about big personal stuff like being gay in the military at different times in history. There is also a bonus drawing of Sam/Steve smooching! :D
-I made the only podfic in the exchange (thanks, mods, for including podfic this year!), and then the bears came, a very cute fic about camping, written by my recipient [profile] oh_no_oh_dear. It is 13 minutes and rated G.
-And then I also wrote them a fic, just like an oven (I need some lovin'), a little over 2000 words, rated mature. This is my first m/m fic in four and a half years!!

This was also my fourth year participating in #itpe, the Informal Twitter Podfic Exchange! I got assigned to [twitter.com profile] Olive2Read, a new podficcer whom I'd started following a few weeks before, and at first I was a little worried because they'd requested Killing Eve and I'd signed up to offer that while watching the first season, NOT REALIZING THERE WAS A WHOLE SECOND SEASON that had inspired a lot of femslash fanworks but which I didn't have access to. Also [twitter.com profile] Olive2Read but didn't want graphic violence and in that fandom there is a lot of graphic violence because of the source. Anyway it all worked out because they'd also requested Schitt's Creek podfic, specifically anything other than the m/m pairing that dominates that fandom. And once I started reading I found some delightful such fics and had a blast recording them. In general I have a blast whenever I get to record in a sitcom fandom because the character voices are so fun, and I also always get a kick out of making femslash podfic at Christmas so yeah.

The three podfics I made were
-bring the cowgirl out and cock them guns, written by [archiveofourown.org profile] olive2read, Stevie/Twyla, 13 minutes, explicit
-in the hack, written by [archiveofourown.org profile] thingswithwings, Alexis/Twyla, 19 minutes, general audiences
-warmest regards., written by [archiveofourown.org profile] helvetica_upstart, Stevie/David, 19 minutes, explicit.

Meanwhile [twitter.com profile] lattice_frames got assigned to me and made me two podfics for maybe my favorite MCU femslash pairing, Carol/Maria from Captain Marvel. (Claudia you'd be into this ship too.) They are "Enough" written by fabrega and "you are my sweetest downfall (i loved you first)" written by QueenWithABeeThrone. I got them in a DM and got to listen to them while walking around the elevators in my parents building on Christmas evening because it was too cold to go outside. Now you can download them along with I think a couple hundred other new podfics at the #ITPE: Informal Twitter Podfic Exchange 2019 (Main Gifts) post over on [community profile] amplificathon!

Also the irrepressible [profile] reenajenkins made me a podfic of probably my favorite StarWars ship, Jyn/Cassian from Rogue One, as an extra treat. It is "Drive Me Crazy" written by tielan and you can find it along with many many other new podfics (25 of them, I believe, also made by [profile] reenajenkins!) at the #ITPE: Informal Twitter Podfic Exchange 2019 (Treats) post.

So all in all this was a nice chill way to end what was an exciting fannish 2019 for me and start off 2020 on a good foot as well. Much love to the mods and to all the other folks who participated. Fandom is great, you know?
sophinisba: Gwen looking sexy from Merlin season 2 promo pics (Default)
I had another lovely experience with a fanworks exchange!

I received five different stories, four different MCU pairings and one for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse:

*wipes brow* Wow, I am out of practice making Dreamwidth posts and coding is hard work. Or maybe the air conditioning isn't working in this part of the house.

Okay and I wrote four stories omg! I'm now MCU-remixable. This was also one Spider-Verse and the rest MCU:

Yay writing! This was super fun and makes me want to sign up for something else, but Marvel fandom is mysterious to me and I missed signups for a holiday exchange that coulda been cool (they did not post in [community profile] fandomcalendar?), and I haven't seen any others that are a good fit for me.

But I am signed up for #itpe again! Signups closed last night and assignments should go out soon, hurrah!
sophinisba: Wee Gwen admires wee Merlin's magic! (gwen merlin by el_jamon)
I had such a nice experience with [community profile] justmarriedexchange! I made a fic and a podfic and received a fic and a podfic! The timing worked out great for me, my assigned recipient's requests were fun to work with, and I've gotten some really sweet comments.

My friend [archiveofourown.org profile] Shmaylor made me this Tahani-centric Good Place podfic!
[Podfic] You Could Be the King, but Watch the Queen Conquer (34 words) by Shmaylor
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Good Place (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tahani Al-Jamil/Eleanor Shellstrop, Tahani Al-Jamil & Michael (The Good Place), Tahani Al-Jamil/Chidi Anagonye/Eleanor Shellstrop, Chidi Anagonye/Eleanor Shellstrop
Characters: Tahani Al-Jamil, Eleanor Shellstrop, Michael (The Good Place), Chidi Anagonye, Kamilah Al-Jamil, Janet (The Good Place), Jianyu Li | Jason Mendoza
Additional Tags: Marriage of Convenience, Polyamory, Weddings, Event Planning, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Asexual Michael (The Good Place), Alternate Universe - Not the Afterlife, Podfic, Podfic Length: 1-1.5 Hours, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: M4B, Audio Format: Streaming
Summary:

When Tahani hears that her little sister is getting married, from what seems like every news site on the planet, she knows what's coming. She knows the media's focus on her will start to shift to why she isn't married yet, and her reputation can't afford another hit after Cleveland.

So she hatches a plan. Platonically marrying a man over twice your age is a good plan, right?

(Funnily enough, it works out perfectly.)

[Podfic Version]



As an extra treat, I made her an MCU podfic!
[Podfic] Old Souls in a New World (14 words) by sophinisba
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov
Characters: Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Getting Together, Undercover as Married, Fake/Pretend Relationship, SHIELD, Post-Avengers (2012)
Summary:

Natasha is Steve's first friend at SHIELD (and okay, maybe he wants a little more than friendship). They're both old souls in different ways.



Also talented and generous stranger named [archiveofourown.org profile] The_Wavesinger wrote me this fic about Natasha and Maria Hill as young SHIELD agents going undercover as married!
With One Glance (4444 words) by The_Wavesinger
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill/Natasha Romanov
Characters: Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Maria Hill
Additional Tags: Undercover as Married, Getting Together, Spies & Secret Agents
Summary:

Natasha's first mission after she's recruited to SHIELD is a simple intel-gathering task. That's easy. The trickier part is pretending to be married to Maria Hill.



And, for my main assignment, I wrote a long (for me!) Captain Marvel fic!
The One with the Lesbian Wedding(s) (13704 words) by sophinisba
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Captain Marvel (2019), Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau
Characters: Maria Rambeau, Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau, Talos (Marvel), Soren (Marvel), Phil Coulson, Original Characters, Other Marvel Characters
Additional Tags: Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, 1990s, Getting married repeatedly, Symbolic marriage/marriage ceremony because legal marriage is not permitted, Alien Marriage Traditions, Weddings, Wedding Planning, Alien Rituals, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Family, Family Feels, Friendship, Long-Term Relationship(s), Schmoop, Kindness, Parent-Child Relationship, Television Watching, Queer Themes, POV Character of Color, POV Female Character, Banter, Dialogue Heavy
Summary:

"Why don't you two get married?" Monica asked at the commercial break. "You're cuter together than TV-Carol and Susan. And I'm way cuter than Ben."

sophinisba: Troy and Abed from Community sitting on a couch with a computer in front of them (troy abed by carly-icons)
I posted last week that I hadn't made any fanworks in 2016, completely forgetting how much I'd struggled to eke out a fic for [profile] camelot_remix:

Title: tell me the story you'd like to hear (the picture's worth a thousand words remix)
Author: [archiveofourown.org profile] sophinisba
Fandom: Merlin
Starring: Elena/Mithian, secondary Gwen/Morgana and Vivian
Rating: PG
Summary: Mithian's watched other couples come together through fandom.
Content notes: N/A
Author's notes: A remix of tell me the story you'd like to hear by the fabulous [archiveofourown.org profile] growlery. I loved this original when it was first posted and I feel that my remix had potential that it didn't live up to, and in some ways regret the negative attitudes about fannish experiences that it contains. On the other hand, omg I finished a fic in 2016!

hesitations and podfic talk )

So whatever, fannish resolutions 2017:
  • post on Dreamwidth every month

  • make a fanwork

  • archive and post my old podfics at the AO3, five works every week until it's done

Currently feeling very optimistic that if I make it a regular thing most of them won't take nearly as long as last night's. If I stick to five per week I should get them all finished by halfway through the year and I could well finish much sooner.
sophinisba: Gwen's lips and Morgana's lips with gauzy fabric (gwen morgana lips by ravenclawbest)
The latest round of [livejournal.com profile] summerpornathon wrapped up yesterday. It was shorter this year and I didn't make anything much for the bonus challenge, so I just have these five fics, all Merlin fandom and approximately 750 words each. Title links go to the fics on the AO3.

Title: Travel My Way, Take the Highway
Ships: Gwen/Morgana
Rating: R
Contains: references to racism and homophobia
Summary: Gwen and Morgana on the run in 1950s Texas and New Mexico.

Title: Early Results of Clinical Trials
Ships: Arthur/Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Contains: potentially disturbing metaphors and no happy ending
Summary: Pendragon Pharmaceuticals manufactures the drugs that allow carriers of magic to participate fully in society.

Title: Let's Be Rational About This
Ships: Arthur/Gwen
Rating: NC-17
Contains: Aliens Made Them Do It-style dubcon (but mostly consensual)
Summary: "You see, I've been doing a lot of research on their lifecycle so they... they've suggested a reciprocal arrangement – which is really only fair, in principle!"

Title: Better
Ships: Elena/Mithian
Rating: NC-17
Contains: mistress/slave relationship, orgasm denial, fic doesn't make clear how consensual it is
Summary: "I'm not angry at you, dear, it's only the way you were raised. But you admit it yourself, you have no self-control. Well, from now on you won't be able to disobey me. And won't that be better for both of us?"

Title: A Happy Arrangement for All
Ships: Merlin/Elyan, past Merlin/Gwen
Rating: R
Contains: n/a
Summary: Merlin returns to Camelot to find that Princess Guinevere has married another. Her brother, however, is still single.

thoughts )

Just like last year pornathon leaves me wanting to write more Merlin fic and [livejournal.com profile] merlin_holidays is nicely timed. I will sign up again and really hope that more multishippers decide to join this year!
sophinisba: Morgana and Gwen, text: Shh!  Nobody knows we're Lesbians (morgana gwen lesbians by hyel)
Well, [livejournal.com profile] summerpornathon ended a few weeks ago. Here are the fics I made for it this year.

Previously linked here on my journal )

Also written for this year's pthon and posted on the AO3

Title: Live by the Sword
Ships: Annis/Gwen (other pairings mentioned)
Rating: NC-17
Contains: Reference to canon character deaths, grief, object insertion
Wordcount: 750
Summary: If ever there was a time to take a young ruler under her wing, it is now.

Title: Trading Day
Ships: Gwen/Morgana, offscreen Arthur/Gwen
Rating: NC-17
Contains: nonmonogamy, can be read as infidelity
Wordcount: 750
Summary: He can't begrudge her a kidnapping or two, not with so little else to stand out from the flatness of life on the colony. (FEMSLASH IN SPACE.)

Title: Build a Better Bicycle
Ships: Gwen/Morgana
Rating: R
Contains: slight dubcon due to mistress/servant power dynamic
Wordcount: 746
Summary: Morgana can trust Gwen to make the necessary adjustments.

Title: This Is a Recording
Ships: Arthur/Gwen/Merlin and subsets
Rating: NC-17
Contains: spanking and a teensy bit of D/s
Wordcount: 750
Summary: This is new for her, Merlin thinks. She only half believed him when he whispered that they were lovers first.

Thoughts )

Ooh, I was just going to say I hope [livejournal.com profile] merlin_holidays runs again because I'd like to participate again, and it looks like signups open tomorrow! I need to think about what I want to request ack. Also gosh that deadline is going to come up quickly. But anyway yay Merlin!!!


Sign-ups for [community profile] merlin_holidays begin Sept 22 at 10 am Eastern
sophinisba: Gwen looking sexy from Merlin season 2 promo pics (gwen by infinitesunrise)
At one point there were only five Arthur/Gwen/Merlin stories on the AO3 and three of them were by me. When I went back to look tonight it turns out we're still only up to 57, and somehow I've only written five of them? Let's get on that, self and fandom.

Created using the Fanfiction Header Builder
Title: Centered
Fandom: Merlin
Ships: Arthur/Gwen, Arthur/Gwen/Merlin
Rating: R
Contains: n/a
Wordcount: 750
Notes: Written for [livejournal.com profile] summerpornathon challenge 3, Trades & Professions
Summary: Arthur and Gwen go to a pottery class with her old friend Merlin.

Read it at the AO3!
sophinisba: Wee Gwen admires wee Merlin's magic! (gwen merlin by el_jamon)
I'm having a really good time with [livejournal.com profile] summerpornathon so far!

Although my previous team was also awesome I am really psyched to be on Team Gluttony this year because I have a bunch of friends there. In the past Team Gluttony has almost always won the tournament but now that I've joined we're in fifth place. COINCIDENCE? No, but it's cool, none of our stories have won prizes yet but we keep finding out afterwards that we voted for each other without knowing it. It is exciting for me to be making fanworks and interacting with people regularly after more or less dropping out of fandom for a year and then writing some seriously unpopular fics earlier this year.

Of the three main entries I've done so far I only really like the second, and I'm feeling especially insecure about my porn writing abilities, but I also feel like I have the chance to keep improving as the fest goes on. Here are the first two reposted on the AO3 (the third is anonymous until next weekend, and there will be four more):

In Freya's Bed (748 words) by sophinisba
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Merlin (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Freya/Merlin (Merlin), Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Elena/Morgana (Merlin), Freya/Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Summary: (731): Look I know it's late and I hope this doesn't wake you up but I feel like you should know that I'm sleeping on my couch in my own apartment so that my friend can get laid in my bed, and I would do the same for you. (http://textsfromlastnight.com/Text-Replies-31267.html)

The Super Part I Can Handle (744 words) by sophinisba
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Merlin (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Freya/Gwen (Merlin)
Summary: Freya's secret identity is less mysterious to Gwen than she thinks.

In past years I've struggled a lot with the bonus challenges that happen between Tuesday and Thursday every week, but this year I'm really proud of myself for finishing the first three right away on Tuesday night:
1. a snippet of Will & Merlin friendship fic, canon AU
2. some Gwen meta inspired by the movie 20 Feet from Stardom
3. a ficlet about Vivian reading romance novels, late 20th century AU

And then also this week, unrelated to pthon, [personal profile] livrelibre let me know that they'd made a podfic of The Archer's Aim, a Hunger Games poem that I wrote two years ago. I listened to it tonight and it was awesome! I also hope to make a couple podfics soon, but then I often hope that. We shall see. :)
sophinisba: Merlin smiling with forest background (ep. 1.04) (merlin smiling by miakun)
Title: Virginia Heat (the climate control remix)
Fandom: Merlin
Starring: Arthur/Merlin, with Leon, Uther, Morgana, Lancelot
Rating: PG-13
Contains: a little religious homophobia at the beginning but it's mostly very cheerful, really
Wordcount: 4000
Notes: Remix of Virginia Heat by [livejournal.com profile] millionstar for [personal profile] camelotremix 2014. I had some difficulties with this (my first substantial fic since last year's remix) and am really grateful to the the wonderful mods [livejournal.com profile] venivincere and [livejournal.com profile] sapphirescribe for giving me some extra time, and to my dearest [livejournal.com profile] flammablehat for reading, encouraging, and helping me figure out what this fic was about.
Summary: Arthur the preacher's son has a plan to make it out of his hometown unscathed. Merlin shoots it all to hell.

Read it at the AO3!
sophinisba: Morgana smiling from ep 2.03 (morgana happy by gwy)
It's Only Life, After All (905 words) by sophinisba
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Merlin (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Morgana/Morgause (Merlin)
Characters: Morgana (Merlin), Morgause (Merlin)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Professors, Lazy Mornings, Femslash, Community: merlinblitz, Dialogue Heavy
Summary:

College professors on a Sunday morning.

sophinisba: Gwen's lips and Morgana's lips with gauzy fabric (gwen morgana lips by ravenclawbest)
[personal profile] roughandtumble and I have both written fics for the first two weeks at [community profile] merlinblitz! Here are mine:

Title: Clean
Starring: Nimueh/Ygraine with background Uther/Ygraine (modern DC politics AU)
Rating: R
Contains: n/a
Wordcount: 994
Prompt: rainwater

Title: No Higher Place
Starring: Lancelot (gen-ish, canon-era)
Rating: G
Contains: n/a
Wordcount: 534
Prompt: off the map

This week's prompt is
"competition", fanworks due next weekend.
sophinisba: Gwen looking sexy from Merlin season 2 promo pics (freya by cindergraphics)
So, last July I had this idea that I could make series of poems and ficlets of Freya backstory for my [community profile] kink_bingo card and get the Solo Kink Bingo for the first time. I wrote the first three parts and then got stalled on the fourth (which was not even part of the bingo but was necessary for the series), and I never posted them. And then last night I did! Maybe I'll finish the fourth part and write the other two someday.

General content notes: So, the second part starts when Freya is very young and the series involves sexuality and self-harm and death of family members. The parts that I haven't written yet also involve sexual assault and murder! As [livejournal.com profile] flammablehat said when I was first chatting with her about the series, "freya is a really intense little girl".

I am very grateful to [livejournal.com profile] flammablehat for her help and support!

Title: Surface
Rating: PG?
Contains: death, grief
Wordcount: 324
Notes: For my "mirrors/doubles" square. My first sestina!

Title: Sharper
Rating: PG-13?
Contains: solo kink and masturbation by a young girl
Wordcount: 1330
Notes: For my "shaving/depilation" square. I think this is a fairly wholesome story about growing up and figuring oneself out, so I invite you to give it a try on its own even if it the next part doesn't look like your cup of tea.

Title: Deeper
Rating: R?
Contains: death, grief, menstruation, blood, cutting
Wordcount: 1185
Notes: For my "pain" square. Makes more sense if read after "Sharper".

Series link: Some things Freya did before she met Merlin
sophinisba: Gwen looking sexy from Merlin season 2 promo pics (arthur shirtless by redscharlach)
Title: Red (The Gift That Keeps On Giving Remix)
Fandom: Merlin
Ship: Arthur/Percival, Arthur/Leon
Rating: NC-17
Contains: BDSM, kink negotiation, a little bit of impact play
Wordcount: 5176
Notes: Remix of Red Jacket by [livejournal.com profile] riventhorn, written for [personal profile] camelotremix with wonderful help and support by [personal profile] roughandtumble. (Also thinking about using it for the whipping/flogging square on my second kink_bingo card but I think that would be stretching the erotic focus rule pretty far.)
Summary: "I don't hit people I'm having sex with, or people I care about," says Percival. "Or at least, I haven't, up till now."

Read it at the AO3!

Or read it here! )
sophinisba: Morgana and Gwen, text: Shh!  Nobody knows we're Lesbians (morgana gwen lesbians by hyel)
The current mini-challenge at [community profile] kink_bingo is Tiny Bingos, and I decided to write a femslash drabble with a different ship for every square on my second card! Featured characters are Gwen, Morgana, Freya, Mithian, Morgause, Vivian, Nimueh, Ygraine, Hunith, Elena, Isolde, Annis, Kara, Enmyria, Sefa, Catrina, Alice, Finna, Lamia, and Sophia. (I'm sorry, Helen and Mary, you are still awesome!) Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] flammablehat and the folks on Twitter who cheered me on and prompted me with ideas.

You can Read them on the AO3 with "chapter" headings for the pairing, kink, and content notes (some noncon and dubcon, especially in the first set of 12). Or, if you prefer, you can read them all here without the notes!

1-12, canon-era, spoilers through 5x13 )
13-25, modern AU, no specific spoilers )
sophinisba: Gwen looking sexy from Merlin season 2 promo pics (gwen knows by angelqueen004)
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Title: Havoc on the Throne
Author: [personal profile] sophinisba
Fandom: Merlin
Starring: (Merlin/)Mithian, also featuring Vivian
Rating: PG-13
Contains: spoilers for season 5
Wordcount: 2739
Notes: I'm sure those of you following [livejournal.com profile] merlin_holidays will be SHOCKED to learn that I wrote this one. :D Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] flammablehat for support and betaing. My recipient had to drop out of the fest, but I'm grateful to them for requesting this pairing.
Summary: Why shouldn't Mithian have this? (A canon-compliant fic about crushing on Merlin.)
Link: Read it on the AO3

All in all, Mithian considered, this arrangement might not be so bad. )

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