Fic in a Box
Dec. 23rd, 2023 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_whale_boneThe Fic in a Box reveals happened earlier this week! I wrote two things:
The Edge of the World
His Dark Materials | Gen | T-rating | 11k | Roger Parslow & Billy Costa & Tony Makarios
Set during Northern Lights, Roger, Billy and Tony are sent to the farthest North after being kidnapped by the mysterious General Oblation Board. After a slow start I had a lot of fun writing this. I've not tried to write from a child's POV for a long time, but I think it works. I like writing these kinds of characters, where there's enough canon details to extrapolate from but also a lot of leeway. I became very fond of Roger, Billy and Tony while I was writing this, and I wish canon didn't end so tragically for two of them!
Dhuheartach
Original Work | Gen | G-rating | 6.8k | Lighthouse Keeper & Crew of a Ghost Ship
James Airy, the new lighthouse keeper of Dhuheartach, considered himself of scientific mind. He was not a man given to believing in ghosts.
I spent 48-72 hours absolutely obsessed with this lighthouse off the Isle of Mull. Designed by Robert Louis Stevenson's father, it was built after a truly awful number of ships were wrecked in the treacherous waters. If any lighthouse is going to be haunted by a ghost ship, it's this one. I went for a more melancholy, gentle tone than a spooky one, though, which I think works pretty well. As usual I got myself all attached to my OCs.
And I got three gorgeous gifts, one for each of my Robot/Human original work tags! I love every single one of them and feel very lucky with this exchange.
Yes? by shamebucket
Original Work | F/F | G-rating | Android/Her Human Soulmate
This has some lovely solarpunk worldbuilding woven into it, with a great android POV that has some real specificity to the android v human experience. And there's an adorable stargazing meetcute with an older love interest.
What We Are by LadyBrooke
Original Work | M/M | T-rating | Mage Healer/Broken Android Healing Doesn't Work On
I love the blend of magic and technology in this, and a lingering tension between the two. There's some beautiful melancholy moments, with lingering trauma and slow healing that feels very Tolkien-y.
Breakers, relays, contactors by isevsianne
Original Work | M/M | E-rating | Human Pining for Robot Best Friend/Robot Pining Too
I love pining and this fic delivers it in spades. There are some exquisitely aching moments of yearning and the main character being so caught up in his blind spots that I want to shake him (lovingly). The space station setting is so remote and yet has all of that delicious forced proximity. And then a bonus chapter of wireplay, aka one of my favourite smutty things in robot ships.
The Edge of the World
His Dark Materials | Gen | T-rating | 11k | Roger Parslow & Billy Costa & Tony Makarios
Set during Northern Lights, Roger, Billy and Tony are sent to the farthest North after being kidnapped by the mysterious General Oblation Board. After a slow start I had a lot of fun writing this. I've not tried to write from a child's POV for a long time, but I think it works. I like writing these kinds of characters, where there's enough canon details to extrapolate from but also a lot of leeway. I became very fond of Roger, Billy and Tony while I was writing this, and I wish canon didn't end so tragically for two of them!
Dhuheartach
Original Work | Gen | G-rating | 6.8k | Lighthouse Keeper & Crew of a Ghost Ship
James Airy, the new lighthouse keeper of Dhuheartach, considered himself of scientific mind. He was not a man given to believing in ghosts.
I spent 48-72 hours absolutely obsessed with this lighthouse off the Isle of Mull. Designed by Robert Louis Stevenson's father, it was built after a truly awful number of ships were wrecked in the treacherous waters. If any lighthouse is going to be haunted by a ghost ship, it's this one. I went for a more melancholy, gentle tone than a spooky one, though, which I think works pretty well. As usual I got myself all attached to my OCs.
And I got three gorgeous gifts, one for each of my Robot/Human original work tags! I love every single one of them and feel very lucky with this exchange.
Yes? by shamebucket
Original Work | F/F | G-rating | Android/Her Human Soulmate
This has some lovely solarpunk worldbuilding woven into it, with a great android POV that has some real specificity to the android v human experience. And there's an adorable stargazing meetcute with an older love interest.
What We Are by LadyBrooke
Original Work | M/M | T-rating | Mage Healer/Broken Android Healing Doesn't Work On
I love the blend of magic and technology in this, and a lingering tension between the two. There's some beautiful melancholy moments, with lingering trauma and slow healing that feels very Tolkien-y.
Breakers, relays, contactors by isevsianne
Original Work | M/M | E-rating | Human Pining for Robot Best Friend/Robot Pining Too
I love pining and this fic delivers it in spades. There are some exquisitely aching moments of yearning and the main character being so caught up in his blind spots that I want to shake him (lovingly). The space station setting is so remote and yet has all of that delicious forced proximity. And then a bonus chapter of wireplay, aka one of my favourite smutty things in robot ships.
