Monday's Comic
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You worked for him, o Dreen. You should have taken advantage of the observation opportunities.
You worked for him, o Dreen. You should have taken advantage of the observation opportunities.
Fic roundup!
Nov. 23rd, 2025 10:32 ama_t_rainSo, reveals for Histories Ficathon were today, and I can now lay claim to the two stories I wrote:
This Vile Politician, Bolingbroke: Kate / Hotspur, modern-day US politics AU, longish. (To my shock, I think this is the only time I've set a story of any length in more or less the same time and place where I actually live -- although this is still kind of a handwavy version, set in a MAGA-free world* where everyone's biggest concern is microplastics, and in an imaginary state whose laws roughly parallel those of Mississippi but the political landscape is closer to Georgia or North Carolina. Anyway, this is the fic that was eating my brain for a couple of months, and I'm excited to finally share it.)
Mercury: Poins and Hal, gen, a lot shorter. Because one of the unclaimed prompts was for a story where Poins becomes the Chorus in Henry V, and I found the idea too weird and wonderful not to explore.
Also, new-ish installment in the Lord Chamberlain's / King's Men RPF verse: Fantastic Master Fox, in which fourteen-year-old Will tells a story to his siblings. (Because I'd already decided some stuff about his home life and what the little Shakespeares were like, and then I stumbled across this English version of the Bluebeard story that both Shakespeare and Spenser evidently knew, and it seemed like too much fun not to use. Plus I wanted to play a bit with an idea that had always been in the background, namely, that those Elizabethan grammar school boys were probably very much like first-generation college students today, with some of the same pressures and dilemmas.)
* Or possibly a near-future world where MAHA took a very weird turn and all of the characters are actually Republicans. Hey, you never know!
This Vile Politician, Bolingbroke: Kate / Hotspur, modern-day US politics AU, longish. (To my shock, I think this is the only time I've set a story of any length in more or less the same time and place where I actually live -- although this is still kind of a handwavy version, set in a MAGA-free world* where everyone's biggest concern is microplastics, and in an imaginary state whose laws roughly parallel those of Mississippi but the political landscape is closer to Georgia or North Carolina. Anyway, this is the fic that was eating my brain for a couple of months, and I'm excited to finally share it.)
Mercury: Poins and Hal, gen, a lot shorter. Because one of the unclaimed prompts was for a story where Poins becomes the Chorus in Henry V, and I found the idea too weird and wonderful not to explore.
Also, new-ish installment in the Lord Chamberlain's / King's Men RPF verse: Fantastic Master Fox, in which fourteen-year-old Will tells a story to his siblings. (Because I'd already decided some stuff about his home life and what the little Shakespeares were like, and then I stumbled across this English version of the Bluebeard story that both Shakespeare and Spenser evidently knew, and it seemed like too much fun not to use. Plus I wanted to play a bit with an idea that had always been in the background, namely, that those Elizabethan grammar school boys were probably very much like first-generation college students today, with some of the same pressures and dilemmas.)
* Or possibly a near-future world where MAHA took a very weird turn and all of the characters are actually Republicans. Hey, you never know!
Works are revealed
Nov. 23rd, 2025 11:55 amparanoidangel posting in tardis_festivitiesHappy Doctor Who Day! All the works have been revealed. There are 22 works in 7 fandoms.
You may want to change the date of your work to be today's date. That way it will be on the first page for the fandom - otherwise people looking at the fandom page might not see it if they've gone as far back as the date they last checked. To change the date, click on the Edit button. Halfway down the page will be an option to 'Set a different publication date'. Select the box and then change the date. It will let you change it to any date in the present or past, but not in the future.
Thank you to who created works, especially to the pinch hitters.
A feedback post will follow.
You may want to change the date of your work to be today's date. That way it will be on the first page for the fandom - otherwise people looking at the fandom page might not see it if they've gone as far back as the date they last checked. To change the date, click on the Edit button. Halfway down the page will be an option to 'Set a different publication date'. Select the box and then change the date. It will let you change it to any date in the present or past, but not in the future.
Thank you to who created works, especially to the pinch hitters.
A feedback post will follow.