Monthly Members' Fics — June 2026
The acoustics of financial arrangment by Sangue_di_drago **Heated Rivalry crossover**
(Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Canada, Russia)
The door opens onto the hotel corridor's small ancillary washroom lobby - the little carpeted antechamber with the decorative sconces and the second set of sinks, the one that connects back to the main hallway.
It is, at this hour of the post-gala evening, almost entirely deserted.
Almost.
Shane steps out first.
He sees Canada.
Frühling by lwona
(Canada/Prussia)
It is already springtime, and Canada still has not found someone to love.
Santa Allegria (One prayer, two prayes I'll pray in the darkness of the night) by Sangue_di_drago
(England/France)
He knows the story. [...] XIII century. Francis, one of Romulus's grandchildren. A guardian of the Underworld by training, by appointment, by the inheritance of those with enough of the old blood in them. One day - and the sources differ on the reason, the motive, the degree of forethought involved - Francis came to the surface and took Arthur with him. Arthur, the son of the goddess Angharad, him too a half-mortal. Francis brought him here, to the Underworld, which was either an abduction or a complicated invitation depending on which version of events one could trust.
War followed, a century of it: [...] Romulus intervened eventually, as gods do when the destruction reaches a sufficient scale. He punished Francis the way the gods punish people who are their own blood and whom they love even in anger: a pomegranate, the fruit that came from the underworld and that will bind one's soul to it if eaten under specific rituals. He ate the whole thing before Romulus and Angharad and the Underworld claimed him as a guardian that will not be allowed to the surface anymore.
Surprisingly, Arthur ate half of a pomegranate too.
- From Flower of my soul, Act XX -
Чаму жанчына — Chapter 12: One Fuck, Two Fucks by AalesundBren
(Belarus & Åland, Lithuania/Poland, Belarus & Lithuania, Finland/Sweden, Estonia/Finland, Finland & Åland, Belarus & Ukraine, Belarus & Georgia, Lithuania & Russia, Georgia & Russia, Georgia & Lithuania, Russia & Ukraine)
After losing the Finnish War, in September 1809, Sweden signs Finland and Åland away to the Russian Empire in the Treaty of Fredrikshamn. In October, shortly after arriving in Saint Petersburg, Tino Väinämöinen disappears, leaving his young daughter on her own in Ivan Braginsky's house, accompanied only by the disjointed unit of Baltic and Eastern European states who couldn't care less about their new housemate.
Their indifference and pre-existing complexes quickly come crashing down on them, and the longer the Finn is missing, the worse their condition becomes, as questions of what defines their very existence in such an uneasy time bring everyone to their breaking point.
Inhumane — Chapter 1: c. 50 CE, Chapter 2: Conflict (Present Day), Chapter 3: October, 1066 by lwona
(England/France)
Francis, despite his immortality, is ultimately human, and pain, love, hatred — it is all strikingly familiar to him.
One night, he dreams of a France who is inhumane.
Flower of my soul (Dormi sui miei dolori) — Act XXII, Act XXIII & Act XXIV by Sangue_di_drago
(Germany/North Italy)
In a world where the Gods never let humanity forget that they live because they wish so, Ludwig is a promising STEM student with a brilliant mind and bright future ahead of him.
His hopes and dreams are crushed, though, when he's promised in marriage to the grandchild of a Mediterranean god. Unable to refuse the deal, all Ludwig can do is prepare for his new life with a spouse that refuses to show their face.
Elusive by lwona
(China/Russia)
December, 1991: Russia bids China farewell, and gives him two items to remember him by.
