Sophinisba Solis

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 camelot_remix:

Title: tell me the story you'd like to hear (the picture's worth a thousand words remix)
Author: 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 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.

Well, 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 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 merlin_holidays begin Sept 22 at 10 am Eastern

I'm having a really good time with 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, 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. :)

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.

So, last July I had this idea that I could make series of poems and ficlets of Freya backstory for my 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 flammablehat said when I was first chatting with her about the series, "freya is a really intense little girl".

I am very grateful to 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

The current mini-challenge at 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 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 )

Title: I Like a Boy in Uniform
Author: sophinisba
Fandom: Merlin
Starring: Elyan and bros (almost gen)
Rating: PG
Contains: n/a
Wordcount: 1042
Notes: Takes place during 4x13, no spoilers for season 5. Written for the "dressup" square on my kink_bingo card! Thanks to flammablehat for looking it over for me. Title from the Pipettes song, which I know from this adorable season 1 Merlin vid. Yay I finished another fic before the end of the year!
Summary: Elyan and the other knights get ready for Arthur and Gwen's wedding.
Links: Read it at the AO3

( I Like a Boy in Uniform )

Title: Delight
Fandom: Merlin (/Chronicles of Narnia)
Ship: Morgana/Morgause
Rating: R
Contains: A bit of a dubcon/underage vibe, although Morgana's an adult
Wordcount: 749
Notes: Written for the "Crossovers/Fusions" challenge at summerpornathon and for the "food" square on my kink_bingo card. This would not have been written without themadlurker - I had a vague idea of doing a Narnia fusion but with Morgana in Susan's role, and she was the one who pointed out the fit between Morgana and Edmund. She also betaed! Thanks a lot, mad!
Summary: Morgause invites Morgana to sit with her in her sledge.
Links: alone at the AO3 | with 65 others at the AO3

( She'd only meant to follow Merlin for a bit, since she didn't like him skulking around in her wardrobe and every other nook and cranny in the castle. )

Title: No, Seriously, How Many Times?
Fandom: Merlin
Ships: Arthur/Gwen, Arthur/Gwen/knights, Arthur/Gwen/Merlin
Wordcount: 1219
Rating: R/NC-17
Contains: married Pendragons, silliness
Notes: Written for the "Texts from Last Night" bonus challenge at summerpornathon and for the "double penetration" square on my kink_bingo card. Inspired by the following text: (709): How many times a week can a couple have a threesome with the same guy before it becomes some sort of 3-way relationship?
Summary: The first orgy on the Round Table was the first time she ever had sex with more than one person at once, and when she decided that two at a time was her favourite way to get off.
Links: at the AO3 | in LJ comments at the 'thon

( There had been orgies before the wedding )

Title: Reset
Fandom: Merlin
Starring: Morgana/robot!Lancelot (other relationships mentioned)
Wordcount: 749
Rating: R
Contains: substance abuse, situation resembling dubcon
Notes: Written for the "Non-human Characters" challenge at summerpornathon. Thanks to fitz_y for the beta and to the lovely folks who commented over at the original post and the reveal. OMG I continue to be inspired by 4x09, probably the most painful episode for me to watch in the whole series! Of the five pieces I've now written for this year's pornathon this is the only one where I'm really interested in writing more in the universe; but I think I'd rather do a separate prequel/remix than expand this one, so I'm reposting it as is. There was so much delicious robot sex in last week's challenge! Alas, there is no mechanical/technological square on my kink_bingo card to give me an excuse to podfic it.
Summary: Destiny's rejects make things work for each other, more or less.
Links: with 69 other ficlets at the AO3 | alone at the AO3

( The reset button's at the nape of the neck. )