Alyse: last of her breed

Late, as usual, but then when am I not :D My excuse is that I spent Christmas away, staying with family, and most of December dealing with sga_santa.

But I did get a chance to read both of my stories on Christmas Day, and they were awesome.

My main gift was Blade: Trinity, a lovely gen story of Abby and King comforting each other through various trials and tribulations, with some Abby/King hints that were just the icing on the cake:

Comfort Where We Overlap by fadedink [Blade Movie Series]

Everyone needs a little comfort. Even the strongest people.

I also got a lovely Yuletide Madness ficlet written by my very own hiddencait for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. I had no idea who had written this, but I knew it had to be someone who knew me because it was perfectly designed to make me giggle like a 12 year old :D

Distasteful Traditions by hiddencait [Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters]

What were these parents thinking?!

Go read them. And give both authors some love - they deserve it!

Dear Yuletide Author

First of all, thank you so much for volunteering to write in one of the tiny fandoms of my heart. Just having fic in one of these fandoms is enough to make me happy so I am sure that I will love whatever you write.

I'm going to give you some of my likes and dislikes right up front, because I know some people would rather know that. If you're the kind of person who likes to read what your recipient writes to get a flavour for what they love (and I really don't expect you to wade through my stories - it's just in case you are one of those people :)), then please feel free to check out my 'fic fandom: tags' on my DW/LJ/IJ. I've written Blade: Trinity (under 'fic fandom: blade trinity') and Alice (2009) (under 'fic fandom: alice').

Likes

In the main, I'm all about the female characters. I like women in all of their flavours – from the warriors to the homemakers, from the CEOs to those just muddling through – but I like women who are not afraid to speak their mind or take charge or be good at what they do, whatever that is. I have a massive competence kink, and that's only doubled when the competent person in question is female :)

I also like relationships, not necessarily romantic but the way in which people interact with one another, the undercurrents that flow between them, the affection or otherwise, the friendships built on firm foundations. Gen is absolutely fine with me, because I love character driven stories, but if you want to write pairing fic then some of the things I like are subtlety and understated feelings - I'm more for quiet or awkward exchanges than outright declarations of love unless outright declarations are in character, but again feel free to write what you want to write in that line. If you're going for romance, I don't mind whether you write plot or PWP, because I'm all about the connections between the characters. I like snark and banter if that's in character, but I also love the quiet moments, gentle touches (whether platonic or shippy). As far as subject matter goes, at the end of the day it's the words and the rhythms of them that make me happy so whether you want to go slice of life, deeply plotted, or simply write a thousand words of porn, it's all good with me.

Dislikes

My pet hates are minimising the contributions of female characters or erasing them from the narrative. Other things include characters acting out of character to further the plot rather than the plot arising out of the characters (I love character driven plots - they're my favourite kind). I don't mind hurt/comfort as long as there is some comfort, but I'm not fond of non-con (although I can deal with it when it's canon).

I also have a massive embarrassment/public humiliation squick, meaning that I can't read about people who are being (deliberately or otherwise) made a fool of, embarrassed in public or making a fool of themselves (and I get even more embarrassed on their behalf if it's them making a fool of themselves and they don't even realise it /o\). It's a visceral, face burning, flailing for the backbutton thing for me, I'm afraid, but it is limited to the kind of thing where I'd be utterly mortified if I was in the character's position (and if they're not, then where I'd be mortified on their behalf as an observer).

I'm afraid that agendafic or extreme kink doesn't do a great deal for me, although I do like sexy things (so don't worry if you want to go explicit, although it's certainly not necessary), and I quite like some mild kinky things like pegging, women on top etc. I'm also quite fond of threesomes where the characters have chemistry although again I prefer mixed threesomes, with f/m/m being my catnip. Also, because Yuletide is my happy place, please no character death or resolutely unhappy endings (angsty or bittersweet are fine, as long as there's some hope).

Hopefully that hasn't scared you off :-) so onto the actual requests, organised alphabetically! The bits in italics are what I actually put into my sign up :)

( Alice (2009) )

( Blade (Movie Series) )

( Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) )

( Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries )

( Sleepy Hollow )

Title: Living is Easy
Author: alyse
Fandom: Blade: Trinity
Pairing: Abigail Whistler/Hannibal King
Word Count: 50,000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none

Summary: Summer rolls in, hot and humid, and the trail of the vampires they hunt turns cold. When King suggests that they follow the rich to their playgrounds, where vampires like to play at being rich, Abby realises that a summer on the road doesn't just bring sunny days; it brings a stripped down King and nothing to distract her. One way or another, she's going to get burned.

Masterlist: AO3 :: dreamwidth :: livejournal :: insanejournal

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Title: Living is Easy
Author: alyse
Fandom: Blade: Trinity
Pairing: Abigail Whistler/Hannibal King
Word Count: 50,000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none

Summary: Summer rolls in, hot and humid, and the trail of the vampires they hunt turns cold. When King suggests that they follow the rich to their playgrounds, where vampires like to play at being rich, Abby realises that a summer on the road doesn't just bring sunny days; it brings a stripped down King and nothing to distract her. One way or another, she's going to get burned.

Masterlist: AO3 :: dreamwidth :: livejournal :: insanejournal

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Title: Living is Easy
Author: alyse
Fandom: Blade: Trinity
Pairing: Abigail Whistler/Hannibal King
Word Count: 50,000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none

Summary: Summer rolls in, hot and humid, and the trail of the vampires they hunt turns cold. When King suggests that they follow the rich to their playgrounds, where vampires like to play at being rich, Abby realises that a summer on the road doesn't just bring sunny days; it brings a stripped down King and nothing to distract her. One way or another, she's going to get burned.

Masterlist: AO3 :: dreamwidth :: livejournal :: insanejournal

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Next Part: dreamwidth :: livejournal :: insanejournal

Title: Living is Easy
Author: alyse
Fandom: Blade: Trinity
Pairing: Abigail Whistler/Hannibal King
Word Count: 50,000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none
Beta: Aithine
Challenges: Written for the 2013 het_bigbang challenge.
Author's notes: Many thanks to: my tireless cheerleader, hiddencait, and to my beta, aithine. Also, all the thanks to my artist, leyna, who made me some completely gorgeous artwork that can be found here.

Also, thanks to irony_rocks and peanutbutterer, who worked so hard on making sure that this whole Big Bang went smoothly and was immense amounts of fun.

Summary: Summer rolls in, hot and humid, and the trail of the vampires they hunt turns cold. When King suggests that they follow the rich to their playgrounds, where vampires like to play at being rich, Abby realises that a summer on the road doesn't just bring sunny days; it brings a stripped down King and nothing to distract her. One way or another, she's going to get burned.

Masterlist of Parts

The full story is on AO3 here

Full headers can be found on Part 01.

Part 01: dreamwidth :: livejournal :: insanejournal
Part 02: dreamwidth :: livejournal :: insanejournal
Part 03: dreamwidth :: livejournal :: insanejournal
Part 04: dreamwidth :: livejournal :: insanejournal
Part 05: dreamwidth :: livejournal :: insanejournal
Part 06: dreamwidth :: livejournal :: insanejournal

Title: Living is Easy
Author: alyse
Fandom: Blade: Trinity
Pairing: Abigail Whistler/Hannibal King
Word Count: 50,000
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: none
Beta: Aithine
Challenges: Written for the 2013 het_bigbang challenge.

Many thanks to: my tireless cheerleader, hiddencait, and to my beta, aithine. Also, all the thanks to my artist, leyna, who made me some completely gorgeous artwork that can be found here.

Also, thanks to irony_rocks and peanutbutterer, who worked so hard on making sure that this whole Big Bang went smoothly and was immense amounts of fun.

(I'm afraid that LJ is being sucky about crossposting at the moment, so I'm not able to post to LJ at the moment, but the story is up on AO3.)

Summary: Summer rolls in, hot and humid, and the trail of the vampires they hunt turns cold. When King suggests that they follow the rich to their playgrounds, where vampires like to play at being rich, Abby realises that a summer on the road doesn't just bring sunny days; it brings a stripped down King and nothing to distract her. One way or another, she's going to get burned.

Living is Easy

Sorry guys, I'm going to have to leave off posting tonight. Livejournal is being a complete and utter pain in the arse, pretty much as it has been all day. It's letting me cross post from Dreamwidth but it's sending wrong info back to Dreamwidth so I can't edit the posts to add links in etc. I'm having to edit the LJ posts individually because if I edit it on Dreamwidth and check the 'yes, crosspost to LJ' box (which was ticked the first time I posted) it posts the entire entry again to LJ.

It kind of makes the whole crossposting thing pointless.

And, yes, the issue is at LJ's end. It's been doing weird stuff all day like not showing comments if the comments page is in default view and not expanding comment threads when you click on 'expand' but opening it up as a new thread view. So there are obviously things going on there that they aren't acknowledging.

I'll try again tomorrow, but in the meantime, the whole fic is up on AO3.

I may possibly have pink hair now. Sort of this colour actually.



Never let it be said I don't know how to grow old gracefully :D

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