If you want to find my fic, the best place to look is at my user page at AO3, where all my fic is archived. There is also a chronological index of the Vorkosigan fic, which is most of it. Or you can look through the tags here.

I am no longer updating this list, but I will keep it in case it's useful to anyone.
( Fic here )

I've had a birdfeeder in my garden for ages, and for ages it's been studiously ignored by all the birds in the city. All of a sudden, they've discovered it, and now there's a constant soap opera going on in my back garden. Every time I look out the window there are half a dozen birds flying around the feeder, perching on it eating, chasing other birds away, having fights, showing off and marking their territory. Right now as I type there are a female sparrow, a male sparrow, a bluetit and a female blackbird.

Among the regular visitors are pair of woodpigeons, which I have named Aral and Cordelia. The reason for this is that they figured out how to knock the birdfeeder onto the ground so that they, as groundfeeding birds, could get to it, and also because when they are not being ingenious around the garden they sit on the fence cooing and preening each other and generally being adorable. So I started putting extra birdseed on the ground to keep them happy, and they and the blackbirds and starlings fight over that now. Though the blackbirds are also attempting to teach themselves to hover so that they can get to the better stuff that's in the feeder. Since blackbirds are not naturally built for hovering, this is hilarious. There's also a magpie and a rook that come around now and then and try to figure out how to get at the birdfeeders; watching them divebomb it and fail to get anywhere is also amusing. The sparrows are immensely quarrelsome and generally will attack each other at the least provocation, then sit there looking pleased with themselves when their rival flies away. The tits are less so, they seem to be perfectly happy dangling upside-down on the feeders and getting some quality eating time in while the sparrows conduct their wars, though there was one the other day industriously chasing his reflection in the dining room window for several hours. Once or twice I've seen a chaffinch and some goldfinches; no robins yet, though I know there are some in the neighbourhood.

Hopefully all this avian activity in my garden will have a beneficial effect on the insect population. I've seen the sparrows perching on the stems of various plants picking--I hope--bugs off them, and the blackbirds could have a lifetime supply of slugs and snails. The Aral and Cordelia pigeons are less beneficial, having a distinct tendency to eat young plants, but I like them enough that I'll forgive them the odd bean plant. Of course, when the raspberries come out, it'll be all-out war, but fortunately Philomythulus is more than a match for any bird, and if the birds cut down the bug population, they can have some raspberries.

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/79467.html

A bit of fluff written for fic_promptly

Title: Comparisons
Length: 590 words
Prompt: Aral/Cordelia, They discuss the merits of Betan vs Barrayaran parties.
Content: PG

( Comparisons )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/79176.html

So I wrote two remixes for Remix Madness (which were very probably the most unanonymous remixes ever, but there you go). They were:

Balance Adjustments (The Afterparty Remix) for Tel's A Political Education and
The View from the Dais (The Trial by Fire Remix) for Avanti's Trials and Temptations.

I'd never done a remix before, but I thought it would be fun to try, and somehow wound up writing two. Selecting which fic to remix was a challenge in its own right. I started off flipping through Tel's fics and trying to think of what I had to say about them. Varying amounts, I found. I did give serious thought to writing the Alys/Gregor sex with dragons scene (with Illyan watching; in fact from Illyan's POV, because I am nothing if not predictable), as a remix of Queensright and Greenreach, but that didn't, um, get off the ground. Though I did write this:

( fic snippet and more remix meta )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/78974.html

So, it was lucky for me that the film came out right when my son was having a day at his school's Saturday Club, and Mr P and I went to see it. It's great.

( spoilers great and small )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/78788.html

Remix Madness is live, and two people have written remixes of The Art of Negotiation! Go and read, they're both delightful:

Hostage Policy (The Art of Negotiation Remix)

and

The Good Sex Song (or, the Art of Negotiation Nursery Rhyme Remix)

***

In other news, I've watched all of S1 of Lie To Me and I love it to itty bitty pieces. Cal! Gillian! Ria! Eli! I particularly adore Ria and Cal's dynamic, with Ria's brilliance and Cal mentoring her and being even more brilliant. And of course there's the Cal/Gillian - I love their trust and how they work together. I occasionally have my doubts about the plots, but the rest of it - the interactions, the relationships, Cal being a damned clever bastard ... it's great.

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/78542.html

There's a bunch of wonderful Vorkosigan fanart up on Jetta-e's blog. For those who can't read Russian, the pictures in this set are:

1. young Nikki with a model jumpship
2. Alys and Ivan
3. young Alys
4. Vice-Reine Cordelia
5. Terrence Cee
6. the Glorious Bug
7. Cordelia
8. Princess-and-Countess Olivia Vorbarra Vorkosigan
9. Princess Olivia on horseback

and the second set:

1. Bel Thorne in Mirror Dance
2. Miles, Ekaterin and Nikki during 'Komarr'
3. Haut Rian and Miles in 'Cetaganda'
4. Miles and Ekaterin's wedding night
5. Donna on Beta Colony
6. Ekaterin during ACC
7. Gregor and Laisa in the garden during 'Memory'
8. Aral (scene from a Russian fic poem)
9. Mark with Miles on the tidal barrier in BiA
10. Ivan and Miles having lunch with cats in ACC

My personal favourite is 6 from the second set, Ekaterin during ACC, though I also like the portrait of Cordelia as an old woman, and the young Alys, and haut Rian and Miles.

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/78098.html

1. Cycling up a steep hill into a headwind and with about 10kg of grocery shopping on the bike is seriously hard work. On the bright side, once I got to the top I didn't have to pedal again until I was practically home. But my legs are rather sore now.

2. I have put my name forward for Remix Madness! I may even be writing something; in fact I wrote about a thousand words of something yesterday morning. But it needs more twisty politics to make it work.

3. I know I was moaning about my son the other day, but he has developed some wonderful new skills lately. In particular, he can sing! Not words, of course, but if you sing a melody to him he can repeat it, and his pitch is pretty flawless to my ear. He struggles with the rhythm, but the notes are generally right and he remembers the tunes well and sings them independently, without me singing them to him first. I am so impressed with this. His development is always like this: all my efforts appear utterly fruitless, and then out of the blue he shows some new skill. So now we have singing lessons on the way to school: I sing stuff to him, and he sings it back, and sometimes comes out with variations on it and we have a little musical dialogue. He seems to really enjoy this.

4. My long fics are struggling on. Well, the Alys/Simon fic is doing fairly well; I've managed to get the new drafts of the first two chapters sorted out and will hopefully get on with the third soon. And Lovers in Arms just needs a large dose of forward momentum, because I know most of the plot for that now. But The Nature of Kings is stucker than a stuck thing; I can't get the plot or the sex or anything else to happen at the moment, they're just sitting there staring at each other.

5. Have a drabble about Piotr and Escobar:

Ezar had sent Aral and Serg to Escobar, and Serg had returned a dead hero, and Aral a live one. That was all Piotr needed to know. The inner workings of plots were invariably dull and absurd, and you could tell all you needed to know from the outlines. Aral's support was strong, and Serg's was broken. Grishnov was down, and Negri was up, and Aral had Negri's second following him around as Negri had once trailed Ezar. So Piotr knew that soon, by Ezar's will, his hands would be between his son's. He had, after all, taught Ezar himself.

ETA: Oh, and a sixth thing. I have been listening to this song pretty much continuously for the past three days. Greensleeves has always been one of my absolute favourite pieces of music, and the King's Singers do it so absolutely perfectly that it almost hurts. And the flute! It's just joy to listen to. Greensleeves by the King's Singers

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/77855.html

A little fic_promptly fill. I don't know why this came out in the present tense, but it did. Consider it an experiment.

Title: The Unarmed Man
Prompt: Simon Illyan, learning to take notes
Content: suitable for all
Length: 500 words
Summary: Simon learning to use a new weapon.

( The Unarmed Man )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/76973.html

So I saw a meme a while ago where you say what particular characters would do if they were offered the One Ring. Here's my Barrayaran version:

Aral would refuse to touch it at all. He's learned his limits by now. But if it stayed around, he'd pick it up eventually and fall to it. If Ezar ordered him to take it to the Fire and destroy it, he'd succeed so long as Cordelia was with him. Without her, he'd claim it himself or drop it in a ditch and run away and get drunk partway through. But Ezar would never order it destroyed in the first place; he'd order it used.

Cordelia would take it to do good. She might not mean to use it, at first, but she can't resist the opportunity to sort people's lives out for them. But if Aral had it, she'd follow whatever he did, and as a team they'd be safe.

Duv would be driven mad very quickly by it. So would Miles. And Mark, but Mark's madness is self-defence and he might survive that and destroy the Ring anyway.

Gregor wouldn't touch it if it were offered, but if he had it in a locked box in his palace, sooner or later he'd use it or it would drive him mad or both.

Illyan would take it to use it, and for quite a long time he'd think he was in control.

Alys would take it, stash in a jewellery box, and forget about it for quite a long time before falling to it. But if Ivan came along and picked it up, he'd carry it all the way to the Fire and would never be tempted to use it. Except maybe for invisibility, but once he escaped the unwanted guests he'd put it away again.

Any more?

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/76725.html

I've watched all the recent movies now, and taken a look around the fandom (mostly by poking around the AO3 tags, since it seems to be fairly centred there) and I have thoughts. ( minor spoilers for the movies )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/76440.html

I have a new bicycle! I haven't had a bike in years, because my old one clapped out around the time I was pregnant and walking seemed a better bet than cycling then, and then I had a baby to lug around everywhere and didn't trust him to stay in those child seats on bikes, and so there was no point getting a new one. But now I have one, and it is so much fun. I'd forgotten how liberating cycling is - it's beautifully quick, the bike carries all the luggage for you, you can go door to door even in our pedestrianised city centre and you don't have to worry about parking, just chain the bike to the nearest stand, and everything is easy. And it's so exhilarating. From my home to the city centre is basically two hills, a gentle one and a steep one. Going up takes your breath away, but then you get to go down and it's so fast the wind whips tears from your eyes. I love it.

And my bike is beautiful too: it's a step-through, and it has nice big baskets front and rear, and it doesn't have more gears than I know what to do with, and the position is nice, upright enough that I can see well but not so upright that it's hard to pedal, and maybe it's my imagination but it seems easier to ride than my old one, less effort for more speed. And it's blue and pretty and I am a very happy Philomytha.

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/76167.html

Some books:

The Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger
Steampunk paranormal romance adventures. These are basically over-the-top crazy romps through steampunk London with werewolves and vampires. The adventures are entertaining, the characters are fun, the worldbuilding is nice, and the romance is sweet. Plus, a pregnant heroine in several of the books, which I always like. The prose, sadly, kept making me wince: the jokes are trying way too hard, there are Americanisms and anachronisms everywhere, and in general I got the impression the author was aiming at Heyer and hit Dire instead. But despite that I enjoyed all the ones I've read so far.

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
This kept me happily entertained for hours. It's about the science and especially the biology of space travel, in all its messy human minutiae. The book is hilarious and full of fantastic nuggets of useless information that will mean you will never read any SF book set in space the same way again, because you will be wondering what kind of design Miles's spacesuit uses to make sure that if he throws up he doesn't aspirate his own vomit, and how exactly the quaddies' bladders are designed when normal human bladders use gravity to tell you when they're full, and how people cope with Newton's Third Law when having null-gee sex. And so on. Highly recommended (well, unless you find detailed discussions of bodily emissions and what happens to them in space off-putting; after my son, my squick receptors are pretty well burned out, and I kind of like seeing all the thought that goes into dealing with it all, it reminds me of my own life ;-).)
Oh, and apparently fish can get seasick.

And some film and TV:

Generation Kill
Pretty good. I probably should have watched this with the subtitles on, because what with the strong accents, the constant background noise and the military jargon, I understood maybe half of what was said, but I enjoyed it. Though I would point out that being grittily realistic does not excuse you from having a plot, and in some of the episodes the plot was very half-arsed. Still, they did a good job with the gritty realism, which was obviously the point of the exercise. Also, Lt Fick was cute.

Iron Man (1 and 2)
My main thought from these is that yes, RDJ could play Aral very nicely if someone could make him do it. The films were fun, though painfully heavy-handed at places (please, just kill the cute kids occasionally? Or don't show them at all) and I loved Pepper immensely. She was channelling CJ Cregg quite effectively throughout. Agent Coulson was also rather fun. Also, clearly, nothing says 'genius' like floating blue lines and silly robots. I shall maintain my view that nobody working in Hollywood has ever met a scientist in their lives. And after all the reading about space suit design, I kept going 'but, but--' at the armour in flight. Still, I enjoyed these, and they've finally got me to check out the fandom, which is full of entertainment; also full of good hurt/comfort fics, so I'm happy ;-). And this has tipped me towards wanting to go and see the Avengers film when it comes out.

Upstairs Downstairs, season 2
This is still going on, but it's being great fun. And it has Alex Kingston playing a lesbian archaeologist, so what's not to like? We're going through All the Serious Themes, but it's being done pretty well on the whole, not too heavy-handed for my tastes at least. And I discovered in myself a sudden desire to see all the Mr Amanjit/Mrs Fuller, because they were solid gold awesome in the most recent episode I watched. And Pamela! I love that this series has a character with Down's syndrome. She reminds me so much of one of the older girls at my son's school, and I just grin from ear to ear whenever she's on the screen.

Dharam-Veer
A fun Bollywood epic. I really enjoyed this one. There was a wonder falcon! And a twisted plot involving mistaken identities, long-lost brothers, swapping babies and people making unwise promises. And the Queen, who I fell completely in love with. And did I mention the falcon?

And some Shakespeare:

Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing
Every bit as good as you all said it was! Branagh and Thompson were fantastic, it was all adorable, and now I'm reading it, but honestly, reading it is nowhere near as much fun as watching it. I don't really have much to say about this other than that I loved it.

Love's Labour's Lost (1999)
This was light and fun and absolutely bonkers. I am still not at all sure about the randomly inserted songs. Branagh was fantastic, of course, and we both laughed at the scene in which the boys took turns discovering each other's hypocrisy, but ... 'There's No Business Like Show Business'? Really? The WW2 thing just about worked, better than the show tunes bit, anyway, though again, not sure about the newsreels. But I did love Geraldine McEwan, she did a beautiful job as Holofernes.

Branagh's Henry V
I've watched this about three times in the past, but this time I actually understood what was going on! Yay me! It was marvellous, and oh, so clever, how they handled the Chorus. I adored Jacobi in this. And the 'Upon the king' scene in particular was done brilliantly.

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/75916.html

My life is inventing new and interesting ways to suck at the moment. So you will not be surprised to learn that my response has been to finish this story off, because long plotless fluffy fic featuring Alys and Simon can fix anything, right? That's my theory, anyhow; let's see if it works.

Title: Beginner's Lessons
Length: 5800 words
Content: suitable for all
Summary: Alys and Simon learning new things on holiday at Vorkosigan Surleau.

( Beginner's Lessons )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/75643.html

I seem to be chatty this week. Have some more blether. ( food, WIPs and TV )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/75265.html

So I found the summary for Captain Vorpatril's Alliance on the Baen forum, and I reproduce it here for your entertainment. Oh dear, it's a long time till November... ( mildly spoilery summary )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/75233.html

Title: For Want of a Nail
Prompt: AU where Dr. Duv Galeni stayed a doctor of History instead of an ImpSec officer. For beatrice_otter.
Content: PG, major character deaths, dark
Length: 800 words
Summary: What if Duv had never joined the Imperial Service? A drabble sequence.

( For Want of a Nail )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/74763.html

So the heroic spatz decided to make a list of all my Vorkosigan fics in chronological order. And I did some editing of it and turned them all into links, and here you have it, the full index of all my fics! They are divided into two columns: the fics that are meant to intersect seamlessly with canon, and the fics that don't.

It made me think a bit about my approach to fic. I do feel, when I write a story, that it should be possible to slot it into canon without contradicting or undoing anything that happens in canon. Not that it's the only way it could have happened (I'm still holding out for someone to write the fic in which Alys and Simon have never so much as thought about each other except as vague colleagues until Memory) but that it could have happened that way and it's reasonably plausible and doesn't alter things particularly.

The other list of fics are the ones that deliberately break this canon-compatibility, either because of non-canonical pairings or complete AUs or crossovers or anything else that means you couldn't really slot the fic into canon and expect everyone to believe it happened that way. I'm kind of in two minds about the non-canon pairings and quite where they belong (especially Aral/Illyan, which I'm always so ambiguous about - I love it and I think it's plausible, but I love them in a simple gen-loyalty relationship too, and I never feel convinced that both are possible at once).

There are some minor internal inconsistencies, owing to me not having actually done this on purpose and not having Illyan's memory either, but the only notable canon inconsistency is 'Vorkosigan's Day', which I mistakenly stuck in the wrong period - by canon, it happened after the Regency, but in the fic, Aral is still Regent. That bugs me, but I don't think I can rewrite it to fix it, so you're stuck with it.

And, well, the list is kind of scarily long - I can't quite believe I've written that many fics, but then, most of them are fairly short fics. Also, I do really like writing these things! I expect this list will continue to grow :-).

( a really long list )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/74418.html

This is another fic from the department of Sleep Deprivation Makes Me Write. I started this fic when Cryoburn was published, but I couldn't figure out what it was all about, so I abandoned it and it has been sitting in my stalled WIP pile until I reread it the other day and suddenly worked out how to solve the puzzle. So here you go.

Title: Trading Rescues
Content: major character death, PG
Length: 2000 words
Summary: Alys is managing to hold everyone together, except for herself and Simon.
Notes: Many thanks to Avantika for her usual excellent beta-reading.

( Lady Alys, to whom everyone owed their sanity )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/73956.html

So I saw a '30 days of fanfic' meme around the place which looked interesting, and today I appear to have no writing brain whatsoever, so I thought I'd do this instead. And since I don't like dragging things out, I've done all thirty questions at once.

( 30 questions and answers )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/73415.html

First off, a PSA: if you get an unexpected phone call from someone who claims to be from 'Windows Technical Support' and who wants to tell you all about viruses on your computer, this is a scam. Don't give them any money, and don't install any software they tell you to install. I did not learn this the hard way because I am a naturally suspicious person, but in an unwarier mood I might have done.

And now a meme that is very obviously made for me, gacked from dira: Post a random sentence (or three whole paragraphs) from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIP. With any luck, you'll get talking about writing, and the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!

This is not, of course, my complete WIP list, but these are my three main long fics-in-progress, so you're getting longer snippets. Ask me questions about them! Nag me to write more! Make me talk about them!

( The Nature of Kings, the Aral/Duv one where they have an adventure and argue politics a lot and hopefully sleep together at some point )

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( Lovers in Arms, the epic Shards AU, Aral and Cordelia arguing )

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( Alys/Simon through Memory epic, a rather dark bit )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/72961.html

For trobadora, the Galeni fic I promised you :-).

Title: In a Name
Length 2200 words
Content: PG, some violence
Prompt: Galeni making the decision to go back to the Academy or dealing with the immediate consequences of having done so.
Summary: The entrance interviews for the Imperial Service are a bit harder if you're Komarran.

( In a Name )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/72942.html

Everyone should run, not walk, to read minutia_r's amazing poem-fic, featuring Aral declaiming revolution in iambic pentameter. I never thought anyone would write that prompt, much less as a sonnet!

Declaiming Revolution

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/72469.html

I think there are probably a number of people on my flist who can help me with this one. My knowledge of Shakespeare is shamefully lacking. We studied Othello at school, and I've watched various other plays, but there are great gaping holes in my education. Macbeth, say, or Richard III, or King Lear, or The Tempest. I would like to remedy this as best I can. So, a couple of questions:

- given that the theatre is a once-a-year kind of treat for us, there not being many theatres around here and babysitting equally hard to come by, what film adaptations (of any play) would you particularly commend to my attention? I'm more in the market for the actual play rather than retellings like West Side Story. What are your favourites?

- what annotated editions and study guides and so forth would you recommend? Any older classic editions that might be around free online? Otherwise I will take myself off to the local library and see what can be found there, but if anyone knows who's worth reading and who's not, that would be good to know. I'm not looking for serious academic stuff, but something for the educated laywoman

To start things off, I have just watched Branagh's film of Hamlet, which was amazing. My only complaint was that I found Jacobi as Claudius spoke a bit too quickly and indistinctly, so that I couldn't quite follow all his speeches. And I did spend the whole time staring at the palace going 'I know I've been there, I know I've been there' - it's Blenheim Palace. I wanted to watch it first and then read it, to make it easier to follow the story, but now I shall read it and catch all the subtleties that went by too fast to follow in a film.

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/72284.html

A Winterfair fic at last! But not the one I've been wrestling with for weeks; this popped into my head when I saw the prompt the other day.

Title: Invisible
Length: 1500 words
Content: suitable for all
Prompt: Simon Illyan and Alys Vorpatril - the Vor/prole divide
Summary: Illyan combines security and sociopolitical investigation, much to Alys's discomfiture.

( Invisible )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/72110.html

Last year I wrote a little fic last year about Alys, Simon and memorising poetry. And now the very talented lferion has written the poetry!

The Jumpship to the Wormhole in Eros Nexus

Go, read and enjoy!

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/71916.html

A couple of books I've read lately:

Rivers of London and Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch ( not really spoilery )

David Weber, A Rising Thunder (the e-arc) ( spoilers within )

Lord of Danger by Anne Stuart. ( not spoilery )

A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear ( not spoilery )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/71557.html

The Vorkosigan kinkmeme seems to be showing signs of life; someone wrote a fic for it, for one of my prompts :-). And it completely cheered me up this morning after being woken up at 4.30am, so go and read it and enjoy!

Alys/Simon, they were having a secret affair for years before 'Memory'.

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/71375.html

Another batch of short film reviews. ( ten or so films from the past months )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/71108.html

Apparently today is More Joy Day, and nothing says More Joy to me better than crack crossover fic featuring Lwaxana Troi attempting to give Lady Alys fashion advice. So here you are:

Title: Imperial Purple
Length: 1700 words
Content: PG. Star Trek crossover
Summary: Lady Alys Vorpatril and Lwaxana Troi meet.
ETA: Notes: This fic was inspired by this Lwaxana Troi picspam and ensuing conversations.

( Imperial Purple )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/70688.html

fandom_stocking is live, and I have some gorgeous fics, and recs, and kind people saying hello. The fics are Dawn, a beautiful little Dresden Files fic about Charity, and Foreign Influence about Gregor and Laisa outwitting the Counts. ♥

I also wrote four ficlets:
Vorjurassic Park for carmarthen
Because everything is better with dinosaurs. Also, once I saw the request the title popped into my head and then I had to write the fic to go with it.

Indecently Happy for salable_mystic
Aral/Cordelia fluffiness. It tried to be smut, but it stayed just about at fluffiness.

The Emperor's Man for sahiya
Miles solves a problem for Gregor. A silly childhood adventure with a touch of h/c on top.

Steel for firefly124
Alys, Simon and a knife. Because I haven't written a random Alys/Simon ficlet for ooh, quite a few weeks now.

I do love Fandom Stocking :-).

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/70451.html

So, Yuletide reveals are out, and and I can tell you all that I wrote The Young Wolf for emma_in_oz for Rosemary Sutcliff's Frontier Wolf, a book which I have loved since I was about eleven years old (it's about loyalty, second chances, rebuilding trust, and heroism, what's not to like?). And at the last minute I also wrote the obviously-by-me Keeping the Peace, a Shards AU treat for tel.

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/70361.html

A few more Yuletide recs that will make you laugh, and then I'll be AFK for a bit. Happy New Year, everyone!

( Discworld, James Bond, Jeeves & Wooster, Biggles )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/70042.html

First off, if you haven't left a prompt for the Vorkosigan Winterfair Fic Fest, do go on over and leave one! You can leave prompts here on LJ or here on DW, and it doesn't commit you to anything at all.

And now, the Year In Fic meme again, because it was fun last year. ( My Year In Fic )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/69687.html

Some Yuletide recs:
( Vorkosigan, Wimsey, Oxford Time Travel, Rivers of London, Asimov, Heyer, Rutshire Chronicles )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/69477.html

Happy Christmas, everyone! I have had a lovely day involving much cooking, opening presents, and a few stolen moments to read my Yuletide fics (two of them! I've never had two before). And they are both delightful. Here they are, for your entertainment, an Oxford Time Travel fic with a lovely look into Sir Godfrey's head after Polly returns to her own time, and a Rutshire Chronicles fic, a sweet story about a young Rupert at Christmas. Many thanks to the anonymous authors!

Time Enough, but None to Spare (1157 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Polly Churchill, Merope Ward, Godfrey Kingsman
Summary:

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. Friedrich Schiller.

Sir Godfrey, after Viola's exit.

Christmas at Penscombe (1315 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rupert Campbell-Black
Summary:

Rupert's first love.

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/69128.html

Another fic from fic_promptly - can you tell my life is getting stressful again? This one is a bit on the self-indulgent side. The prompt was 'Vorkosigan, Aral, 'Closed Path' by Rabindranath Tagore'.

Title: New Country
Length: 700 words
Content: PG, angst
Summary: I thought that my voyage had come to its end. ('Closed Path' by Rabindranath Tagore, and do go and read the poem, because it's lovely.)

( old words die out on the tongue )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/68783.html

Written for the prompt Vorkosigan Saga, Piotr Vorkosigan, leaving Barrayar.

Title: Dirtsucker
Content: PG
Length: 2100 words
Summary: Piotr in space.

( Dirtsucker )

Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/68500.html