#askjayvee

I'd love a smutty multi chap fic where either Jane or Maura have never had sex with a woman, and they're curious and the other decides to teach them everything. (Or even neither has experience and they do research and experiment together) Through porn, toys, masturbation... Etc

No pressure though. I'm sure I could give you hundreds of requests and you'd nail each one.

Hi, thank you!

I don't take requests; if I did I would be working on the hundreds I already want from myself. Instead I am stuck in a quagmire of whatever comes out.

I also have a total of ~5% explicit fics so I am probably not the right person to be asking for smut.

If you have a set idea it's probably just worth writing it yourself; the community has been very kind.

That's a good garden centre!

I am in the unfortunate position of not having a garden yet having several cockatoo garden ornaments.

Thank you for the whimsy - sorely needed. I think the sulfer-cresteds are the most anatomically accurate but I do love a nice pink cockatoo. Even the lorries and song birds are charming.

Just because of the work I'm doing, I think it has to be Thugs by The Tragically Hip. I adjust it a little to the below:

I keep it rolling

You do the details

Except now I'm doing the details too.

But for something more palatable by them, it'd have to be Bobcaygeon

Yeah the sky was dull

And hypothetical

And falling, one star at a time

But if you want localish vibes (for me) then Missy Higgins Scar, the Whitlams Thank You (For Loving Me At My Worst), or Katie Miller-Heidke's Space They Cannot Touch.

Or, since it's coming up to Christmas, either Katie Miller-Heidke's or the original Tim Minchin's White Wine In The Sun. I'd recommend watching Tim's first as he wrote it, but Kate is a classically trained opera singer that sings pop music with an operative bent and watching her sing this in a little terrace house immaculately lit is adorable. This girl I had a crush on at uni had her demo tape with Career Advice (Australian Idol) and I've been a fan for too long.

I don't really have family, I'm not into Christmas and I don't drink and I still really like it.

I'm hardly religious

I'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu, to be honest

And I get freaked out by churches

Some of the hymns have nice chords but the lyrics are dodgy

It has some Maura vibes. I was going to include it in something.

I have two really good answers for dialogue that I can't talk about so it would be this little exchange:

"I liked Barenaked Ladies and Counting Crows back in the academy."

Maura's eyebrow lifted. "I asked about your musical tastes, not your hobbies," Maura said, but there was a cheeky smile on her face that let Jane know that Maura knew they were bands.

I like it because it's flirty without being obvious, and there's an assumption there that Jane would enjoy Barenaked Ladies (the band or just women) that Jane doesn't bother to deny. But there's also the mental image of Jane perp-eyeing crows in the courtyard and making little detective notes in a pocketbook that I enjoy as a bird fancier myself.

As for 5+1, I seem to do a lot of those. The thing is that the show often bookends the episodes, or has things happen a few times (Maura being attracted to tall Italians, Jane rejecting men, Jane protecting Maura).

I think it's the symmetry and repetition that I find soothing. They're relaxing to write usually, and there's enough characters that if I get stuck I can go 'oh Susie would be hilarious to witness this intimate moment between them' or whoever would be funniest for that moment. For the most part they're low-effort - lower, I would say, than most one-shots because it's formulaic (anyone in my life knows I go so far off script that it's baffling that I would find a formula interesting). My absolute favourite thing is the +1 where one of them has a revelation or is finally brave enough to make the jump.

It's also the complete lack of privacy they seem to have that makes them so fun because they can always be interrupted by someone right as they're about to make headway. So they get close again, and someone walks into the morgue or the Division One cafe or the squadroom or Maura's kitchen or even Jane's apartment when Tommy brings up dog poop.

11: What do you like best about this fic?

12: What do you like least about this fic?

(and if you got a double ask, my apologies. Faulty internet tonight apparently)

11: What do you like best about this fic?

Medicine: the vibe, to be honest. Just the gradual figuring out who each other is, the way Maura changes from Doctor Isles to Maura, the way she cracks as soon as Jane is affectionate with her. I feel like it's in keeping with the show, and it was a pleasure to write - they did all the hard work in that one. Favourite moment would probably be Jane holding Maura's hand under the table at a Rizzoli dinner.

And Then Some: Maura seeing a prostitute, probably. So she had space between her former wife and her next wife. Or maybe the first few chapters where there were flashbacks up at the cabin, the way they were always leaning into each other. I also really liked leaning into disabled characters and the whole spectrum of figuring out who they were after all the trauma happened.

12: What do you like least about this fic?

Medicine: not sure. There were things I had planned and didn't include and that was more detail on the kids. Looking back it was a pretty horrific case. It could have used more Frost and Korsak. I used Angela POV once and it still haunts me.

A: They think they're a bunch of vultures.

🥁

Fun fact! Vultures in flight are called a kettle and when feasting are called a wake.

A group of journalists can be called a press corps.

Thank you! I've only been in the Rizzles fandom for three years but the show grabbed me hard and wouldn't let go. There was so much potential that lay fallow that can be made arable with just a little tending (I am reading a book about bees and sustainability).

I'm also on AO3 and cross post there - they're a little tidier over there since I draft in Tumblr (by which I mean I write directly into Tumblr and then post).

All throughout I’ve been thinking of you and I can’t even imagine how miserable of an experience that must be. I wish that there was more that healthcare could do for you. It’s so unfair.

I wish I could give you a hug. ♥️♥️♥️

Thanks for this (although I will decline the hug because my thoracic spine is trying to fuse).

I know I generally say 'it's a rough time' but it genuinely almost always is. The lower back injury is still healing wrong and I'm seeing someone on Friday about that, and then I need to get results for other autoimmune tests picked up and I straight up don't have the energy.

I took a week off to try to catch up on sleep.

I'm not as badly off as others as I do have some diagnosis - but it affects primarily afab people so there's no research or treatment. But at least 15% of doctors believe me when I say that's the problem, so there's that.

I currently don't have access to painkillers (well, I do, but I would need to retire and surrender my license since testing doesn't differentiate between 'impaired' and 'took medication as directed six days ago') and the burning in my spine is unpleasant at best and obstructive at worst.

90% of the time it's like "I'm fine, this is a normal amount of pain to be in, it's my fault for breathing harder than I needed to" and 10% of the time it's just staring at the ceiling because I can't move.