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Part of my "Queering the Castle and Trans-ing the Narrative" series

Originally created for Sapphic September 2022 day 23: ballroom. It was meant to have an accompanying fic as a birthday gift for @solar-settings, but alas, the fic was never finished.

Pairing: Ginmione (Ginny/Hermione)

Also available on Wattpad (where it was originally posted).

Sapphic September 2020 – Day 13: Sweaters

Fandom: Hannibal (TV)

Pairing: Kabloom (Beverly/Alana)

Thoughts: This moodboard was meant to include a full fic with it, but I'm no longer inspired to write it. However, I figured that it's never too late to share the moodboard that I created for the fic idea. And who knows, maybe someday someone will be inspired to write the fic so I don't have to!

Basically, the fic idea goes like this:

Some coworkers at the FBI Academy go out for drinks after work on a chilly Friday evening, and eventually they all trickle out of the bar except for Alana and Beverly, who continue drinking and talking together. When they finally decide it's time to go home because it's getting late and they've been there much longer than they'd planned, Alana embarrassedly realizes that she's had too much drink and can't drive herself home. Beverly offers for Alana to stay the night at her place instead of trying to find a way home. Alana protests at first but eventually caves since it's a weekend and they don't have to go to work the next day (and she secretly likes Bev a lot, though whether or not Alana already knows this herself or if it's a surprise to her too is up to the writer).

Beverly gives Alana a ride on her motorcycle to her apartment, where Alana gets to meet her cats. As they get ready for bed, Beverly lends Alana one of her sweaters. All the proximity of the night, the intimacy of the sweater (it smells faintly like Bev and laundry detergent), and the alcohol consumption results in Alana asking Beverly if she can kiss her. Beverly gently tells her no, not until the morning when she's sobered up and can decide for real if she wants this. Alana sleepily protests but Beverly tucks her into bed and Alana immediately falls asleep.

When Alana wakes up in the morning, she's initially confused that she is in a bed that isn't hers, but then it all comes back to her, including the "rejection," and she's extremely mortified. She tries to sneak out, but Beverly is making breakfast in the kitchen for both of them, so Alana begrudgingly (but also gratefully and relievedly) stays. When (or after) eating (it's up to the writer when this happens), Beverly asks Alana if she still wants to kiss her. Alana flushes and says she's not really the kind of person who dates (this was meant to be a callback to her conversation in canon with Will in s01e08 — but where this fic falls in relation to canon is up to the writer. It can be entirely an AU, I just like to make callbacks to canon with dialogue!) Beverly says that that's not what she asked. Alana eventually admits that yes, it was a truthful confession, but that she hadn't meant to say it out loud and doesn't want to make their relationship awkward. Beverly asks her if she remembers what she'd said last night: that they could kiss once she's sober if she still wants it. Beverly gets up, comes over to Alana, leans in close, and asks her if she still wants the kiss. Alana answers by kissing her. Where the fic goes after this is up to the writer!

But tbh, all that being said, you can create anything inspired by this idea and/or the moodboard if you want to; it doesn’t have to follow what I was thinking. Also, anyone is free to create for this idea if they want to, regardless if someone else has already done so or not. (It's free real estate, babeyyy.) All I ask is 1) don’t repost my moodboard anywhere, and 2) please include a link to my moodboard with your creation!

Also available on AO3.

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Part of my "Queering the Castle and Trans-ing the Narrative" series

Originally created for Sapphic September 2022 day 15: wilderness and Sapphic September 2021 day 9: freezing.

Pairing: Delachang (Fleur/Cho).

Sapphic September 2020 – Day 29: Coffee

Fandom: Hannibal (TV)

Pairing: Kabloom (Beverly/Alana)

Thoughts: This moodboard was meant to include a full fic with it, but I'm no longer inspired to write it. However, I figured that it's never too late to share the moodboard that I created for the fic idea. And who knows, maybe someday someone will be inspired to write the fic so I don't have to!

This fic idea is mostly composed of a single scene in my head right now, but basically, it's a canon divergent season 1 AU. Beverly brings coffee to Will's lecture hall, not knowing that he has been hospitalized for encephalitis, and encounters Alana preparing to cover his class for him, instead. Alana is the only one who's been informed of Will's state, so she has to be the one to break the news to Beverly. They end up having a conversation about Will, which turns sour when Beverly picks up on Alana's "professional curiosity" and her (unintentionally) patronizing attitude towards him in general, which rubs Beverly the wrong way. Their tense conversation is broken up by students coming in for class. Beverly ends their conversation in a less warm way than she started it and leaves, which leaves Alana confused, upset, and disgruntled and throws her off her game at the start of her lecture.

(I have some snippets of the first scene written, which you can find below the cut ↓ and on AO3!)

Alana ends up thinking about her interaction with Beverly all day. While she's always known that her attitude towards Will isn't exactly the healthiest, until she is faced with Beverly's bluntness and distaste towards how she views/treats him, she never fully understood or realized what aspects of it are an issue. After a lot of thought, Alana visits Beverly in the lab some days later near the end of the workday and apologizes for the way that their previous conversation went and asks if Beverly wants to go for drinks after work sometime. It's the first step towards Alana changing how she views Will, and also the first step to Beverly and Alana's relationship warming back up. Where the fic goes from here and just how canon divergent it ends up becoming is up to the writer.

But tbh, you can create anything inspired by this idea and/or the moodboard; it doesn’t have to follow what I was thinking. Also, anyone is free to create for this idea if they want to, regardless if someone else has already done so or not. (It's free real estate, babeyyy.) All I ask is 1) don’t repost my moodboard anywhere, and 2) please include a link to my moodboard with your creation!

Also available on AO3.

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Sapphic September 2020 – Day 28: Pumpkin

Fandom: Hannibal (TV)

Pairing: McFoster (Reba/Molly)

Thoughts: This moodboard was meant to include a full fic with it, but I'm no longer inspired to write it. However, I figured that it's never too late to share the moodboard that I created for the fic idea. And who knows, maybe someday someone will be inspired to write the fic so I don't have to!

My favorite Hannibal rarepair is Molly and Reba (known as McFoster), and my favorite headcanon for them is that they meet for the first time after Will’s and Hannibal’s disappearance post-s03. They bond over having fallen in love with murderous men without their knowledge (Will and Francis Dolarhyde), and also being some of the only people in the world who understand what the other experienced. They fall in love slowly over time, helping each other heal and to learn how to live semi-normally again. They take their relationship very slow, and Reba doesn’t push Wally in any way to accept her as a parental figure or important person in his life. This ironically helps Wally accept her presence in his mom’s life faster, and he ends up liking her a lot more than he did Will and also really appreciating how much she’s helped his mom heal. Molly and Reba also take care of the dogs together. Whether Molly keeps and continues to take care of all of Will’s dogs; keeps only some of them; or rehomes all or most of them because they remind her of Will and the trauma she experienced during her relationship with him (and because of him) is up to the writer. Any of these combinations work, but I imagine Molly having some dogs regardless of how many of Will’s dogs specifically she keeps. (You can see some examples of how I’ve written Molly and Reba’s dynamic and relationship together in Sweet Ophelia, Snapshot, and Abstract Angels.)

This specific fic idea is super simple: it's a huge helping of domestic fluff. Molly and Reba assist Wally with pumpkin carving and then toast pumpkin seeds and bake pumpkin muffins with the leftover pumpkin together. In the late afternoon, they get into Halloween costumes (bonus points if they're wearing family and/or couple's costumes — I picture Reba in a vampire costume as a nod to her actor Rutina Wesley's role in True Blood, and Molly as a werewolf, because who doesn't love a good "forbidden romance" between a vampire and a werewolf?) and go trick-or-treating (bonus points if the dogs also have their own Halloween costumes!) That's all there is to it: just some tooth-rotting fluff!

But tbh, you can create anything inspired by this idea and/or the moodboard; it doesn’t have to follow what I was thinking. Also, anyone is free to create for this idea if they want to, regardless if someone else has already done so or not. (It's free real estate, babeyyy.) All I ask is 1) don’t repost my moodboard anywhere, and 2) please include a link to my moodboard with your creation!

Also available on AO3.

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Sapphic September 2020 – Day 17: Apple Picking (+ Day 16: Fog)

Fandom: Hannibal (TV)

Pairing: Marlana (Margot/Alana)

Thoughts: This was meant to be a full fic, but I'm no longer inspired to write it anymore. However, I still like the moodboard, so I figured it's not too late to share it. And who knows, maybe someday someone will be inspired to write a fic inspired by this so I don't have to!

The general premise of my idea is that Margot and Alana take their toddler/preschool-age son apple picking in an attempt to give him as normal of a childhood as possible despite their situation (i.e., being on the run from Hannibal and Will), and they have a nice little family outing (though I was definitely planning on having a little bit of angst, too!) But tbh, you can create anything inspired by this idea and/or the moodboard; it doesn't have to follow what I was thinking. Also, anyone is free to create for this idea if they want to, regardless if someone else has already done so or not. All I ask is that you don't repost my moodboard without permission!

Also available on AO3 and Wattpad.

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Sapphic September 2020 – Day 20: Witches

Fandom: Hannibal (TV)

Pairing: Marigail (Marissa/Abigail)

Thoughts: This moodboard was meant to include a full fic with it, but I'm no longer inspired to write it. However, I figured that it's never too late to share the moodboard that I created for the fic idea. And who knows, maybe someday someone will be inspired to write the fic so I don't have to!

The only scene I really had in my head for this fic was the opening one, where Abigail is being followed home by a group of bully boys (3-5 of them) who are jeering at her and threatening to get physical with her, and this is when her powers manifest in order to protect herself from them. Afterwards, the boys are terrified of her, and Abigail is terrified that she could get in big trouble for hurting them. The nearest witching school (perhaps the official witching school of the state of Minnesota?) sends a representative to her parents' front door almost immediately and offers to make the problem go away if Abigail will join their boarding school to learn how to control and harness her magic. Her dad tries to stop them by killing Abigail so she can never leave him, but the person from the school shows off their powers and stops him, warning him that if he ever tries to hurt her or anyone else again, they will make sure he is taken care of. This stops him in his tracks.

Abigail reluctantly agrees to go to boarding school, feeling like she has no other choice after hurting the boys who were bullying her and her dad almost killing her at the thought of her leaving but being stopped by the witching school representative. Though initially Abigail is lonely and sad, after she joins the boarding school, she meets and slowly falls in love with Marissa, one of the other witches on her dormitory floor (or her roommate?) who is everything Abigail wishes she could be and who seems to think Abigail is pretty cool, too (inexplicably, in Abigail's opinion).

That's about where my idea ends. But tbh, you can create anything inspired by this idea and/or the moodboard; it doesn’t have to follow what I was thinking. Also, anyone is free to create for this idea if they want to, regardless if someone else has already done so or not. (It's free real estate, babeyyy.) All I ask is 1) don’t repost my moodboard anywhere, and 2) please include a link to my moodboard with your creation!

Also available on AO3.

All posts: {Day 1} {Days 2 & 12} {Day 3} {Days 4 & 8} {Day 5} {Day 10} {Day 13} {Days 16 & 17} {Day 18} {Day 20} {Days 21, 22, 23, & 24}