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new fic: in the tumultous privacy of storm

07 Tuesday Feb 2012

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So a couple of Sundays ago, I sat down with my morning cup of coffee fulling intending to spend the day getting Tom and Miles laid. Instead, what came out was the end of a half-finished fic I’d started in November involving Maud Holland and Rose Buck (Upstairs Downstairs 2011), a snowed in cottage in Hastings, and Christmas holiday lovemaking. When I started the fic, it wouldn’t move beyond Maud having an interminable telephone conversation with Agnes about how she wasn’t going to be in London for the holiday season. So it sort of stalled out (who wants to read other peoples’ fraught family conversations about holiday celebrations? I mean, really).

Then I sat down to get Miles and Branson naked and, whoops, Maud and Rose wanted to play instead. So here you go. It’s part two of what will be, by popular demand, at least a three-part series I’ve titled “Having Considered the Eyes of the World.” The series title comes from this passage from Vita Sackville-West’s All Passion Spent (Hogarth Press, 1931):

“I have considered the eyes of the world for so long that I think it is time that I had a little holiday from them. If one is not to please oneself in old age, when is one to please oneself?” (67)

Because Maud Holland is basically my lesbian Lady Slade and I’d be stunned if that character weren’t a direct inspiration for the Upstairs Downstairs character herself — given their biographical similarities.

The fic:

Title: In the Tumultuous Privacy of Storm
Author: ElizaJane (erm, me)
Pairing: Maud Holland/Rose Buck
Rating: Explicit (AO3)
Length: 5,894 words
Tags: Hastings (South Essex), Long-distance, Phone Calls, Christmas, Snow Storms, Sex Toys, Family Drama, Idyllic English Cottages
Summary: Maud and Rose decide to spend the Christmas season of 1938 in a cottage in Hastings, South Essex.
Series: Having Considered the Eyes of the World

So there you have it. Just doing my part to bring F/F slash into the world.

new fic: snogging on the verge

19 Thursday Jan 2012

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Tom Branson (Downton Abbey)

I have a new Downton Abbey fic up at AO3 featuring Tom Branson and an original character I made up so Tom would have a boyfriend. Hanna said if I was going to steal Sybil away from Tom and give her to Gwen, I had to write him a sweet boyfriend to fill the gap. So I have. At least, I wrote him a boyfriend. The “sweet” part is more a matter of personal opinion.

So if Sybil/Tom is not your OTP and you’re looking for some Downton Abbey m/m that doesn’t involve the creepy Thomas Barrow (though, okay, I admit I’m kinda hoping Doctor Clarkson sorts him out), have fun!

Title: Snogging on the VergePairing: Tom Branson/Thaddeus Miles
Rating: Teen (AO3)/PG-13
Word Count: 7,494
Summary: When a young American on a walking tour of Yorkshire twists his knee on the grounds of Downton Abbey, Tom Branson finds himself experiencing certain desires he knows are dangerous for a young man in his position.

It’s part one of a three-part (thus far) story arc I’m calling “Just a Little Love Song.” And it more or less fits into the ‘verse I’ve created for Sybil and Gwen in How She Loved You.

new fic + nano recap

20 Tuesday Dec 2011

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I’ve put off writing a recap of National Novel-Writing Month because, sadly, a brutal migraine caught up with me over the Thanksgiving weekend and put the kibosh on meeting my (until then quite reasonable) personal goal of 25,000 words for the month. Still, I clocked in at just over 20K.

But meanwhile, thanks to participation in NaNo, I made writing erotica a top priority in November and completed a ~13,000 installment of my ongoing How She Loved You series featuring Sybil and Gwen from Downton Abbey. I finally had a chance to take Hanna’s beta suggestions into account and code the piece for AO3 this past weekend.

So if fic be your thing, head on over and check it out:

Like Sorrow Or a Tune
by ElizaJane
Fandom: Downton Abbey
Pairing: Sybil/Gwen
Summary: Six scenes that trace the contours of Sybil and Gwen’s relationship from the first morning after to the night of their reunion in London, in the flat where they will make their home. This is the inevitable “five times” fic. Five times Sybil and Gwen parted before dawn and one time they didn’t have to.

Now I should head back to reading Gayle S. Rubin’s 1980s essays on the porn wars, which I have to say are an incentive like few other things to get into the business of writing and reading smut. Because really, people, really. Politics of disgust like crazy and that’s just not cool. Life is short. Write good porn.

nano update: week three

22 Tuesday Nov 2011

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I’m closing in on my own personal goal of 25,000 words for the month of November, folks! On this Tuesday before Thanksgiving, my official count is 18,444 and the only thing standing between me and completion is the complete sixth season of Doctor Who (I KNOW) and a Tofurky with orange-cranberry relish.

I had Hanna beta the impromptu Breakfast in Bed Challenge from last week and posted that to AO3 on Friday night, so you can go read All That the Garish Week Hath Scattered Wide if you want canoodling and nakedness and a pesky cat.

The five-times-plus-one fic is done but for the second half of the sixth part, which Hanna said on the walk to work yesterday was much to complicated a math problem for early in the morning. With the NaNo word-count whip behind me, it’s by far the lengthiest installment of my Sybil/Gwen series to-date. But I also happen to be rather fond of it, and the plottish bit finally, finally gets them to London which is definitely where I wanted the series to take them.

Hanna has requested that I create Branson a boyfriend, since I’ve taken Sybil away from him. So that will obviously have to be done at some point. My first foray into m/m erotica? We’ll find out the limits of my smut-writing abilities!

nano update: week two

15 Tuesday Nov 2011

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So they have the widgets up this week, but I’m not sure I’m all that thrilled with them. The color scheme is unimpressive. Still. Here ya go. As of this morning I have 13,880 words written toward the official goal of 50,000 and my personal goal of 25,000.

I like the screenshot a bit better. Perhaps I’m just vain?

This past weekend, I wrote a 3,300 word “plot? what plot?” bit of fan fiction at the request of a friend of mine, which accounts for a fairly large chunk of the total gain made. I’ll probably edit it tomorrow evening and post it to AO3 if anyone is feeling deprived of Sybil/Gwen smut and wants something to look forward to for mid-week. It’s about as plot-what-plot as I think I’ll ever be capable of writing. Let’s just say it involved doing some Google searching for the date upon which the zeppelin raids began on London (to ensure that leisurely morning sexytimes wasn’t historically inaccurate) and to verify the name an inception date for Sylvia Pankhurst’s East London Federation of Suffragists (yes, the acronym really was ELFS).

Happy writing everyone!

nano update: week one

09 Wednesday Nov 2011

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The NaNo site doesn’t have word count widgets this year, so I resorted to a screenshot this morning. I’m actually further along than I thought I’d be at this point — so yay?

I’ve been working on two new installments of my How She Loved You series (posted at AO3), which is Sybil Crawley/Gwen fan fiction series building loosely on the events from season one of Downton Abbey and, you know, inventing liberally thereafter. I’m currently about 5K and three sections into a 5+1 fic (“Five times Sybil and Gwen parted before dawn and the first time they didn’t have to”), a piece about Sybil painting Gwen’s portrait, and a longish plottish piece filling in Gwen’s back story (complete with Tragic First Love).

Hanna, as usual, has demanded there be orgasms at regular intervals for both main characters, so for those of you yearning after femslash rest assured that this is Porn With Plot and/or Plot With Porn on an installment-by-installment basis.

Any of you participating in National Novel Writing Month? How’d the first week go for y’all this year?

nanowrimo 2011 commencing in 3…2…1…

01 Tuesday Nov 2011

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Today is November 1st and thus the beginning of National Novel Writing Month 2011. As I wrote at The Pursuit of Harpyness last Thursday, I’ll be participating this year for the second time (my first year being 2009).

For those of you unfamiliar with National Novel Writing Month, basically it’s an opportunity to join thousands of other amateur fiction writers in solidarity as you try to write 50,000 words of fiction between midnight on November 1st and 11:59pm November 30th. A lot of people attempt a full-length novel, but me I’ve got some fan fiction planned and maybe some non-fanfic erotic short stories I’ve had kicking around for a while in the back of my brain. We’ll see. I’m not particularly gunning for the full 50k, but I’d like to contribute as many words as possible to the overall pool of creativity the event sparks. So … the upshot is that y’all may not be seeing so much of me between now and the end of the month. My goal is to keep writing at least one post a week here at the feminist librarian — either a book review or a “thirty at thirty” post. I’ve already got a virtual book tour event later in the month that I’m committed to (Rachel Kramer Bussel’s new anthology Women in Lust!) as well as a couple of advance review items I want y’all to know about (Gayle S. Rubin’s collection of essays, Deviations, and Jeanne Cordova’s memoir When We Were Outlaws). So look for those reviews in upcoming weeks. I’ll also continue posting links at the feminist librarian reads and writing at least one post a week over at The Pursuit of Harpyness. Hanna and I also continue to post three fan fiction recommendations per week at everything is gay and nothing hurts. Plus, obviously, harassment by email is always an option for those of you who miss me!
In the meantime, I hope all of you have a cozy and creative November — and we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming sometime around December 1st.

ficnotes: in the beginning there was the word [massive fic round-up]

07 Friday Oct 2011

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I started this post a few weeks ago, when Hanna found a Mycroft/Lestrade fic written entirely in fictional texts. One word: Adorable. This got me thinking about a number of other fics (“Mystrade” and otherwise) that have used love letters, texts, electronic communications, poetry, and the old-fashioned love-letter as means for their characters to finally, finally connect the dots.

So as my gift to you for this three-day weekend, here’s my round-up of fic that uses text-based communication as the wooing-method-of-choice. I threw in a few biblio-centric fics because, well, how could I not?

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Title: Told In Texts
Author: et_cetera55
Pairing: Mycroft/Lestrade
Rating: PG-13
Why should you bother?: This is the fic Hanna found — the rare story told entirely in dialog (er, text messages).

Title: TBA
Author: blooms84
Pairing: Mycroft/Lestrade
Rating: Gen
Why should you bother?: Notebook!porn is all I’m sayin’.

Title: In which Anthea is helpful and Sherlock discovers the truth
Author: blooms84
Pairing: Mycroft/Lestrade
Rating: Gen
Why should you bother?: Part of the “Anthea Takes Control” series, which is enjoyable in its own right. I’m growing to enjoy the subgenre of “Sherlock reaction” fics that belong to the Mycroft/Lestrade fandom. Plus Anthea-is-a-ninja is always a joy to behold.

Title: Please Confirm You Are a Human Below
Author: mesmiranda
Pairing: Mycroft/Lestrade
Rating: PG
Why should you bother?: Mycroft courts Lestrade by taking control of various technological interfaces and also competes for attention from the DI with Lestrade’s cat.

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Title: and stand there at the edge of my affection
Author: coloredink
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Rating: Gen
Why should you bother?: Sherlock thinks asking John to help him write a love letter is the logical solution.

Title: Pieces of Eight
Author: sheffiesharpe
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Rating: Explicit
Why should you bother?: Sherlock doesn’t understand why John enjoys re-reading Treasure Island and tries to get John to explain. Things take a turn for the decidedly-less-literary. It’s still bibliophile porn, though.

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Title: Doing Things the Old Fashioned Way
Author: Sarren
Pairing: Lewis/Hathaway
Rating: Mature
Why should you bother?: Hathaway helps Lewis set up an online dating profile which leads to questions of sexual orientation and, well, other things. “Well, I guess they could fill out two profiles,” Hathaway said, his voice oddly neutral. “Is that what they want me to do for them?”

Title: Punctuation Series
Author: dogpoet
Pairing: Lewis/Hathaway
Rating: Gen, Explicit (six parts)
Why should you bother?: The summary for the first fic reads, “He’d never even noticed apostrophes before he met Hathaway.”

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Title: Texts From Last Night: A Ridiculous SPN Text Comedy
Author: Xela
Pairing: Dean/Cas
Rating: Mature
Why should you bother?: A series of drunk texts from Dean leads Sam on a morning-after hunt for his brother and Castiel …

Title: Comment Fics: “Untitled Dean/Cas” and “Wrong Number”
Author: twfftw
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: PG-13
Why should you bother?: twfftw’s fics are hilarious, usually Dean/Castiel relationship fics from the point of view of a long-suffering Sam. In “Untitled Dean/Cas” Sam and Gabriel text back and forth about how clueless Dean and Cas are about their desire for one another. In “Wrong Number,” Dean sends a text to Sam that seems meant for someone else …

Title: Things Dean Winchester Loves
Author: everysecondtuesday
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: R
What should you bother?: Because of Castiel’s indecision re: whether Dean loves the Impala or pie more, and how Dean answers the question when he finally finds the list and adds his own commentary.

Title: Four Things Not to Do With a Cell Phone
Author: the_trepverter
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: PG
Why should you bother?: “Technology is so very frustrating to Cas.”

Title: Bible Study
Author: Misachan
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: Explicit
Why should you bother?: Um … it’s Castiel seducing Dean over the phone using the Song of Songs. What’s not to like?

Title: The (Mostly) Accidental Courtship of Dean Winchester
Author: everysecondtuesday
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: R
Why should you bother?: Okay, so I cheated a little with this one in that it’s not exactly text-based communication. But Cas tries to communicate with Dean via translating angel texts for him. It’s not his fault that Dean doesn’t get the hint, is it?

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Title: Paper Monsters [work-in-progress]
Author: Clocks
Pairing: Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr
Rating: Explicit
Why should you bother?: Because Charles gets fucked in the library up against the selected works of H.P. Lovecraft.

Title: Perfection
Author: orange-crushed
Pairing: Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr
Rating: PG
Why should you bother?: When Erik struggles with nightmares, Charles reads him Origin of Species to soothe the night terrors away.

there is no femslash on this list (argh!)
but I promise to write some about these two soon!

And if fic is your thing, a reminder that Hanna and I — along with our other fic-loving friends — have our fanfic tumblr everything is gay and nothing hurts up and running. This week’s theme was kittens! So if you want regular fanfic recommendations, please stroll on over and join the party.

announcement: fan fiction tumblr launched

13 Tuesday Sep 2011

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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

I look at this as the (nearly) inevitable result when you take two librarians + a galloping fan fiction addiction + the internets and stir: Hanna and I, in search of a way to share our favorite fan fiction with friends who have a similar taste in leisure reading (and occasionally writing), have established a Tumblr blog for collecting and sharing fan-created fiction.

everything-gay-nothing-hurts.tumblr.com

It’s multi-fandom — though our current obsession is with Supernatural‘s Dean/Castiel — and we’ve enlisted the assistance of two pals (MH and R) to help us broaden our fandom scope. Our plan is to post a fic recommendation Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. So if fic is your thing, please wander on over and subscribe!

~Anna & Hanna

ficnotes: the consequences of falling

17 Wednesday Aug 2011

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I should have had another http://annajcook.blogspot.com/search/label/thirty%20at%20thirty post for y’all today, I know, but it’s been kinda a rough week on- and offline and weirdly enough a lot of evening commitments so I’ve not had a lot of energy and/or time for post writing. Might have it for you tomorrow, might not. In the meantime, I thought I’d share this gem of a fic (because when one is stressed, angsty love stories with happy endings are just what the doctor ordered):

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Title: The Consequences of Falling
Author: FayJay
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Fandom: Supernatural (TV))
Author Rating: Explicit
Author Summary: “A story in fifteen parts, in which the angel Castiel finds himself put in an untenable position, and consequentially loses his grace. In which he goes on a roadtrip with a demon, discovers the delights of tequila and french fries and pie, plays a starring role in a virgin sacrifice, is deflowered by his favourite Winchester, and then gets some very unpleasant news indeed.”
Length: 15 parts; 37,144 words
Available At: AO3.

I actually have yet to meet Castiel as a character in the show itself, since Hanna and I are only about 3/4 of the way through the third season of Supernatural, but I’m already ‘shipping Dean/Castiel in a major way — and this fic is one of the major reasons. It’s pretty straight up hurt/comfort slash with Castiel showing Dean he’s someone important and worth loving, and Dean showing Castiel the plus side of being human and experiencing human emotions. Written by the brilliant FayJay (see my ficnote on The Student Prince) who, sadly, seems not to be posting any longer. I’m so glad she’s left her fics up at Archive of Our Own to be read by those of us who have only just discovered her!