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Title: Acceptable Expectations

Rating: Teen & Up, 1000 words Archive Warnings: None Apply Fandoms: Baldur's Gate 3 Category: F/F, Gen Relationships: Minthara Baenre/Tav (actually my PC Candi), Candi & Candi's mother Characters: Candi (Tav), Minthara Baenre, Candi's mother

Additional tags: Dinner with the fam, mother daughter dynamics, tfw your mom is less critical of your girlfriend than she is of you, even though your gf is a homicidal maniac, Minthara Baenre my problematic fave

Summary: "Perhaps, in that case, we should reconsider bringing weapons," Minthara had said, when Candi'd tried to warn her what dinner with her mother could be like.

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Thank youuuuuu @greywash for this prompt that literally only you could have given me, hahahaha, fantastic. Additional context for everyone else, which I also give in the story notes: Candi is the player character in my current BG3 run, which is subtitled "murder girlfriends." She started the game as an insufferably upright Oath of Devotion paladin who, after sparing Minthara's life at the Grove and saving/recruiting her at Moonrise, became gradually seduced by Minthara's rhetoric of vengeance and power-hunger. At the point this story takes place she has broken her Oath, and she and Minthara, Evil Paladin Power Couple, are planning to wield the stones themselves and dominate the nether brain together for personal gain. I'm sure being joint dictators will work out great for them and they will live happily ever after. 😈 ENJOYYYYYYY

Title: Caesura

Rating: Mature, 1200 words Archive Warnings: None Apply Fandoms: Star City Category: F/F Relationships: Tanya Mironova/Irina Morozova (one-sided) Characters: Irina Morozova, Tanya Mironova, glimpses of Sasha and Valya

Additional tags: Irina-centric, surveillance, masturbation, semi-public sex, misuse of office equipment, guess who's a piece of work?, it's Irina Morozova

Summary: Though unmoored, three a.m., you could stay in your bed.

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Thank you @purereflectionsworld (and also @tiltedsyllogism) for prompting me to write about this new incarnation of my FAM fave Irina Morozova and her youthful obsession Tanya Mironova. I hope this weird little piece will not be the last.

Title: Better Men

Rating: Teen & Up, 1400 words Archive Warnings: None Apply Fandoms: Jeeves & Wooster Category: Gen, F/F Relationships: Bertie Wooster & Honoria Glossop, Honoria Glossop/Madeline Bassett (aspirational) Characters: Bertie Wooster, Honoria Glossop, Madeline Bassett

Additional tags: Bertie & Honoria: BROTP 4ever, Edwardian poetry slams, cw: Lord Byron, Bad poetry, Honoria: I can fix her, Bertie: well my friend there's definitely plenty to fix

Summary: "But this is bloody appalling," said Honoria, as Madeline lisped on about a large-eyed child in a christening gown. "Something must be done."

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Thank you @oldshrewsburyian for this DELIGHTFUL prompt & to everyone else who has sent in ideas! I currently have fifteen prompts across seven fandoms, & am hoping to do one fandom a day this week so as to get the most variety. Though how I will ever choose amongst all the delicious TLT prompts I can't say...

Hello friends! Due to a conglomeration of life circumstances (mostly good, actually! Things are better than they have been in quite a long time! However:) I have been consumed by non-writing activities and have completely lost all momentum on any and all writing projects. *Sad trombone*

But! All is not lost. My workplace is shutting down for a week-long summer break, and I hope to use the time to stretch my atrophying writing muscles and get back in the game. My plan is to do a version of @greywash's old Spring Break Creative Calisthenics exercise: solicit prompts from y'all lovely people, on which I will attempt to write a ficlet a day and whip myself back into shape. Rules include: pre-planning is allowed, but no extending the composition window beyond a day.

This is where you come in: please help me in this endeavor by submitting prompts to my askbox! I will generally do better with prompts that are not super-specific: stick to a character or pairing—details on welcomed fandoms & characters below—and a broad scenario, kink, or just a word/concept. Examples: "Judith/Camilla/Coronabeth, trauma bonding, truth or dare," "Jaheira/Nine-Fingers, Plant Growth, erotic asphyxiation."

Active fandoms & the characters I feel capable of tackling in them (I want to steer clear of For All Mankind since the story I'm trying to return to is in that fandom & I'd like a palate cleanser):

The Locked Tomb books: any female characters, plus Palamedes. Particular soft spots for the Tridentarii twins, Camilla, Aiglamene, Gideon and Harrowhark. I am not as solid on the first-gen Lyctors or Edenites, but would be up for giving them a shot.

Star City: I am not caught up, LOL, but trying to get there by Monday! Soft spots for Irina, Tanya, & Roskova, and any sexual combination thereof, especially incorporating surveillance.

Baldur's Gate 3: Any of the female characters, with particular interest in Jaheira(/Nine-Fingers), Shadowheart/Lae'zel, and Minthara. Also love Karlach, although I have written quite a bit about her so might like to branch out.

Dragon Age 2: My DA OTP is Isabela/Aveline, and the character of my heart is Merrill. Would also be excited to spend some time with Cassandra and/or Varric. Doesn't 100% have to be in the timeframe of DA2, but my interest wanes the closer we get to Veilguard.

Georgette Heyer's Cotillion: Feel like I could pretty easily hop into a piece about the continued adventures of Freddy & Kitty, especially as they may involve Kitty falling enthusiastically in love with every beautiful girl who crosses her path, and sharing this information with Freddy.

Jeeves & Wooster: Big fan of buddies/frenemies Bertie & Honoria, and also of femslashing Honoria with any of the women who appear in this canon. (And I do mean "any." The weirder the better.)

Passchendaele universe: A long shot, but anyone who has read my original Passchendaele ficlets series and wants to prompt me on any of the pairings or characters therein, you would totally make my day!