#spotlightsunday

Working Remotely by @idiot--wind​ @klaroline-event​

Rated: M (ff.net)- but its deliciously explicit.

Summary: Caroline did not expect that she would be working remotely when she started her first "real" job in the middle of a global pandemic. She also didn't expect remote meetings and chats with her co-worker, Klaus Mikaelson, to take such a steamy turn. Klaroline. One-Shot. M/F. Smut. Rated-M for a reason. AU/AH.

Why you should read: Okay, it is no surprise to ANYONE that I am recommending this fic. Why? Because I’ve gone on and on about it for the past two weeks since I learned the amazing and generous author is doing not just a part 2 but a part 3 WHERE THEY HAVE SEX IN A LOCATION OF MY CHOICE; but thats beside the point. 

The point is, this fic is not just porn but it has a good bit of plot to it as well. Caroline gets a job at a law firm in England but then the pandemic hits. Her new job is able to allow her to work from home until she is able to come across the ocean. She moves back home with her mom, begins work and make a connection with Klaus over zoom, a company we all should have bought stock in. 

Late night/early morning flirting and sexting occurs, until Caroline does the most mortifying thing that works for her advantage. I could tell you here but I’m not going to. Nope. Go read the fic, when you’re alone and need a bit of extra help just hitting that right spot. 

The writing, as always by @idiot--wind​, is on point and just real. The smut is fantastic and the world she created just feels so real. It makes me believe that in the shit show that was 2020, this had to have happened SOMEWHERE. Anyway, if you have not read this fic and my fangirling the past few weeks has not convinced you to read it, hopefully this review will.

For this week’s Spotlight Sunday @klaroline-event, I want to feature Chapter 13: He Keeps Her in the Dark by @eliliyah, in her Klaroline series, It Would Be Impossible Not to Notice You.

Hauntingly beautiful, this is one of those stories that clings to you long after it’s finished. It reaches for your darkest thoughts and perpetually lives there — but don’t worry; the author doesn’t judge. :)

Soul-crushing in its angst, the writer swiftly breaks your heart and makes you beg her to do it again.

Lines that I still think about even months after I read this one:

“He wasn't a man of mercy. However, he was a man of opportunity.”

“If anyone had told her Klaus cried that night, she wouldn't have believed it.”

“Friendship was a privilege, not a right.”

Prof. Emily Wilson completed her undergraduate degree (1994; Classics) and Master of Philosophy degree at Oxford (1996; English Literature 1500-1660). She then attended Yale, receiving a PhD in Classics and Comparative Literature in 2001. Over her career, Emily has received numerous honours and fellowships, including the Rome Prize NEH Fellowship for the Humanities in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (2006). In November 2017, she became the first woman to translate Homer’s Odyssey into English in a version that is rapidly gaining popularity among Classical literature scholars, students, and enthusiasts.

Research Interests:

Tragedy.

Epic.

Poetics and literary theory.

Literature and philosophy.

Reception of classical literature, especially in the Renaissance.

Gender.

Genre.

Selected Publications:

Odyssey. Verse translation and introduction. (November 2017, Norton).

The Greek Plays. Translations of four tragedies of Euripides: Bacchae, Helen, Electra, and Trojan Women (2016, Random House).

The Greatest Empire: A life of Seneca. (2014, Oxford UP).

Classics editor, third and subsequent editions of the Norton Anthology of World Literature and Western Lit. (2012 onwards).

Six Tragedies of Seneca. Translation, with introduction and notes (2010, Oxford UP).

The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007, Harvard UP).

Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004, John Hopkins UP).

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Mrs. Hudson Additional Tags: POV Sherlock Holmes, POV First Person, Established Relationship, Established Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Frottage, Blow Jobs, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Bottom Sherlock Holmes, Top John Watson, Dom/sub Undertones, Period-Typical Homophobia Summary:

For this week’s Spotlight Sunday @klaroline-event​, I recommend impossible, extraordinary things by seren23.

Glorious future Klaroline where Caroline eagerly explores the world and reports back to an amused Klaus. Nothing hurts in this fic other than leaving readers wanting more!

My favorite parts:

The childlike innocence of Caroline despite her power.

She finds yetis!

Acknowledgement that dick jokes are universal.

Bonding with Selkies!