I'm alive, and it is time for my fall fic exchange extravaganza, which is, of course, the time of year when I participate in fic exchanges. Trick or Treat and Yuletide definitely, they've been my tradition for several years now, and I had so much fun with Shipoween that I'm considering it this year, too, though I did find it a little stressful to have two exchanges on the same timeline.

What are you doing the rest of this year, y'all? Fic exchanges, but, you know, whatever else, too! I'm curious.

Trick or Treat

Nominations are done, sign-ups haven't started yet over at trickortreatex. I'm thinking about requesting the following:

Dog Soldiers: Werewolves. I'd like some Megan backstory and possibly canon divergence or full on AUs.

Wild Country: ...also werewolves. I want more Kelly Ann in the future and possibly a look at the world building.

Tremors: RHONDA FOREVER. I want her to have more adventures with monsters, and I'm down for an OT3 for them. Maybe also Mindy and how she grows up knowing that monsters are real. (See, also, Lex Murphy from Jurassic Park.)

Silver Bullet: WEREWOLVES. Possibly something bloody and horrific, maybe Jane growing up to fight more monsters.

The Howling: Yes more werewolves.

Down in the Library Basement - Rona Vaselaar: Weird pseud-spider monsters, I KNOW, but I love this warm-hearted story, and I love Cassie, and I've had such good luck with fic for it before.

Shipoween

Basically same schedule here, nominations closed, sign-ups not open over at shipoween. I'm considering:

Bones: A couple different OT3s I've wanted for a long time (Booth/Brennan/Hannah and Wendell/Jack/Angela)

Criminal Minds: I can never have enough Garcia/Alvez, especially now that the show has ended.

Crossovers: Ellie Myers from Cursed with pretty much all the other werewolves.

Cursed: Werewolf pack found family.

Jurassic Park Original Trilogy: LEX/KELLY FOREVER, maybe also Sarah/Malcolm/Nick

The Meg: Jaxx! Suyin! Meiying! I have all sorts of different combinations I'm debating.

Trick 'r Treat: MOAR WAREWOLVES

I may, you know, have some themes in the Halloween-era exchanges.

Yuletide

(Here's my Yuletide story retrospective through last year: 2005 - 2019.)

Nominations start later this month and the schedule is available over at yuletide_admin. I have no real idea what I'm going to nominate yet, but I'm considering:

This Renault 30 Years in the Making ad with queer girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrNCVAqbCD0

This Porsche Heist ad: https://youtu.be/92sXWVxRr0g

Willow: SORSHA FOREVER

Tremors: again, more OT3 monster hunting

Mortel: OT3 monster hunting of a different sort!

The Ghost and the Darkness: maneaters!

The Half of It: a different sort of OT3, really.

I'm sure there are other potential nominations floating out there in my notes, but this is off the top of my head. What about y'all?

Two things.

One: I'm tempted to request this for Yuletide. Heists for everyone!



Two: I watched the first trailer for the new Fast and the Furious movie the day it dropped and promptly texted a bunch of people to shout. Under the cut is a recap of my reaction because it was A LOT. I cannot wait for this goddamn movie. I have loved this franchise since I saw Fast and the Furious in the theater back in 2001, and I cannot believe how far we've come.

( Fast and the Furious 9 trailer reaction )

Yes, I am still answering questions from and taking questions at that Ask Me Anything from December 2018.

First, an update. Back in August, I wrote about my love for whatever vehicle I'm currently driving because the open road means freedom and adventure and etc. At the time, I mentioned the car I've loved most out of all my non-bike vehicles, the Charger. The Charger is now gone, replaced with the Charger. Silver Charger was more than 10 years old at this point and starting to need some work, and I made the terrible decision to test drive a much newer one and, well, now I have a black Charger. That I love even more than the silver one. I'm ridiculous.

karanguni asked: Favourite ritual that you do for yourself!

Whenever I get home from work, no matter what time it is (and that time is almost always a lot earlier now than when I worked at Wolfram & Hart, thank god), I do the following: stand in the entranceway petting the dog who is leaping for joy. Leave my rings in the ring dish and my keys in the key cup that I have by the door. Leave shoes and other outerwear in the corner of the entranceway (where our coat rack has been joined by several additional hooks due to my many many many many coats and scarves, along with a scarf organizer because many scarves, and dog's leashes and harness). Let dog into the backyard while I take down the gate that keeps her out of the kitchen and living room. Get fresh ice water. Take dog and ice water back to the bedroom where I will change out of my work clothes and then cuddle with the dog on the bed for a good ten to twenty minutes. Sometimes I read while I pet her. Sometimes I finish the podcast episode I listened to on the way home. Sometimes I just bask in dark and silence. It's a wonderful time.

The other daily ritual is my writing. I sit down and write every day, almost always between 8 and 10 p.m. Music, movie, ASMR videos of typing and no talking, nothing at all, that can change, but I always have my laptop, ice water, and the dog asleep somewhere between the other end of the couch and pressed right up against my thigh.

A third favorite ritual (I don't follow instructions well, clearly) is the Friday night drive home from work. I don't do it as often in the winter, because it's always dark when I leave and the right time of day for a lot of deer activity, but during the rest of the year, I almost always take the backroads home from work, twisty narrow two-lane roads that have sharp curves and lots of shadows and fields for miles and miles. Usually this involves the windows down and the music up. Hard, angry, loud music. I love it.

I'm making art cards again this year. If you'd like a card, leave your address in a comment or email me at escritoireazul@gmail.com. (If you normally get a card from me, no need to do so unless it's changed since last year.) All comments screened.

I've had zero chance to read any fic since my last rec post, but work should slow down next week, finally, and even though I'll be traveling some after that, I hope to at least get through the rest of the Trick or Treat and Shipoween collections. Not to mention the backlog of fic I have saved that my favorite authors have posted. I need a vacation that is all reading fic all the time.

For Trick or Treat and Shipoween, I wrote six stories in four new fandoms and one old fandom. It was also a werewolf-heavy writing period, which you know I loved.

The Howling

Deny the Nature, Deny the Beast (2400 words) by escritoireazul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Howling (1981)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Marsha Quist/Karen White, Bill Neill/Karen White
Characters: Karen White, Marsha Quist, Bill Neill
Additional Tags: Biting, Unreliable Narrator, Trick or Treat: Trick, Werewolf Sex, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Transformation, Oral Sex, Marking, Dreams and Nightmares
Summary:

We should never try to deny the beast, Dr. Waggner says. Marsha comes for Karen instead. Karen fights and sleeps, runs and dreams.

Skinwalkers

Dark of the Moon (1614 words) by escritoireazul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Skinwalkers (2006)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sonja/Varek | Caleb
Characters: Sonja (Skinwalkers), Varek | Caleb, Rachel Talbot, Timothy Talbot
Additional Tags: Forced Humanity, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Sonja Lives, Trick or Treat: Trick, Trick or Treat: Extra Treat
Summary:

Sonja digs into her skin, shoves claws through muscle, searches for the bullet. It burns inside, sickens her, and the pain rises like a flashfire burning dry wood. Blood gushes. She can taste it, bitter and sick with silver. That boy's blood is on her tongue, a bit of his skin between her teeth.

Just Like Animals (1548 words) by escritoireazul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Skinwalkers (2006)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sonja/Varek | Caleb
Characters: Sonja (Skinwalkers), Varek | Caleb
Additional Tags: Oral Sex, Hair-pulling, Biting, Blood and Violence, Canon-Typical Eating Habits, Scent Marking
Summary:

Sonja fucks Varek before she loves him, but it is a near thing.

Batman Forever

Eater of Hearts (4946 words) by escritoireazul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Batman (Movies 1989-1997), Batman Forever - Fandom
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chase Meridian/Bruce Wayne
Characters: Chase Meridian, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Dick Grayson
Additional Tags: Light Horror, Murder Mystery, Nighttime, Full Moon, Serial Killers, Murder, Happy Ending, Trick or Treat: Trick, Trick or Treat: Extra Treat, Party
Summary:

Breaking News: Gotham Held Hostage by the Eater of Hearts

Three more bodies were found this morning near Battery Park. A group of joggers found them just off the main running path. These latest victims have not been identified, nor have the previous three. As the body count grows, Gotham is on edge. Why hasn’t Batman stopped this horror?

Police commissioner Jim Gordon will speak at a press conference at noon.

Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

Drink Deep (1439 words) by escritoireazul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chloe/June Colburn
Characters: June Colburn, Chloe (Apartment 23)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Vampire, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Blood Drinking, Trick or Treat: Trick, Trick or Treat: Extra Treat
Summary:

Chloe’s thirsty, for money, for power, for life, for blood. And June will feed her every time.

Baby-Sitters Club

With the Storm (4589 words) by escritoireazul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Baby-Sitters Club - Ann M. Martin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mary Anne Spier, Kristy Thomas, Stacey McGill, Dawn Schafer, Claudia Kishi
Additional Tags: Haunted Houses, Post-Canon, Trapped in a Storm, Trick or Treat: Trick, Trick or Treat: Extra Treat
Summary:

Farmhouses were supposed to be cheerful things with white-washed fences, big windows to let in the sun, and a wide front porch overlooking the fields. What stood in front of them was a monstrosity.

Edited November 14, 2019: I always feel intimidated participating in something like the Wrapping Paper challenge for art treats because I don't have the right words to talk about art clearly, but I decided to give it a go this year. My comment is here.

Edited November 3, 2019, to add a Batwoman request now that I've started watching the show and fallen in love.

Dear Yuletide Author,

Yuletide is my favorite fannish time of the year, and I can’t wait to see what you create. It brings me great joy to write stories for people for Yuletide, and I hope that you have a lot of fun and a wonderful experience this Yuletide.

Below, I’ve provided some general likes and Do Not Wants, as well as a few thoughts about why I like specific fandoms and characters. If there is a discrepancy between the general likes and DNWs and the fandom-specific information, go with the fandom-specific information.

My absolute favorite things: werewolves, crossovers and alternate universes, and monsters and magic.

You can find me on DW, LJ, and AO3 as escritoireazul.

( Likes and DNWs )

Requests

There are spoilers below for each of my requests, which are:

Batwoman (TV 2019): Kate Kane | Batwoman
The Ghost and the Darkness: John Patterson, Helena Patterson
The Mummy series: Evy Carnahan O’Connell
Touchstone Series - Andrea K. Höst: any (Zan Namara, Zee Annan, Laura Devlin, Ys)
United States of Asgard - Tessa Gratton: any (Astrid Glyn, Glory | Fenris Wolf, Signy Valborn, Soren Bearskin)
Willow (1988): Sorsha

( Batwoman )

( The Ghost and the Darkness )

( The Mummy Series )

( Touchstone Series - Andrea K. Host )

( United States of Asgard - Tessa Gratton )

( Willow (1988) )