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bleodsweandannye_chaseAs the riders loped on by him
He heard one call his name
‘If you wanna save your soul
From hell a-riding on our range
Then, cowboy, change your ways today
Or with us you will ride
Trying to catch the devil’s herd
Across these endless skies
A mighty hunter and a pack of dogs, horses, or other beasts racing across the horizon, making a terrible noise as they rush above you! What could it mean? Well, that depends on who you are.
Let’s say you might be an average citizen in a time of political upheaval and great anxiety about the future (seems rather timely). For you, the appearance of the Wild Hunt may not be so helpful. In some traditions, the Wild Hunt is a bad omen— not just for those who see it, but for the entire society they represent. That’s right, those huntsmen chasing howling wolves across the sky means you’re going to have a war! Except! If the guy leading the hunt happens to be King Arthur or some other long-dead hero. Then you may be relieved, as the day is about to be saved, supernatural-superhero-style.
King Arthur returns. This is some Angels of Mons type stuff, where visions in the heavens presage victory for one side or the other. But what if your character finds they recognize Wild Hunt Arthur as somebody they know? A grandparent, neighbor, or lover? Maybe someone could get abducted into the Wild Hunt only to realize they themselves are the supernatural hero.
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justmarried exchange is currently in the nomination phase, and I have been having trouble because they allow you to sign up with ten fandoms but you only can nominate seven. And my favorite marriage trope is the sedoretu, which is a specific type of poly marriage invented by Ursula K. LeGuin, and requires four people. Which means that I need to have foursomes nominated! (Although I can just go with a pairing and say "I love sedoretus, if you want to write this pairing as a sedoretu you can choose who to have be the other pair in the sedoretu.")tielan has nominated! (Thank you!) Because the BSG foursome I was going to nominate (Lee/Kara/Sam/Dee) has been nominated, and so has the Steve/Maria/Bucky/Natasha foursome in MCU fandom, and both are foursomes I have written as sedoretus for tielan before. Which means that not only is there someone interested in the same characters, there's someone who's probably going to sign up who is interested in sedoretus, specifically. That is really exciting to me! And it does free up some nomination slots.TGE: Maia/Csethiro/Csevet/Vedero (there are a bunch of TGE ships already nominated but they are all suuuuuuuper rare)
DS9: Sisko ships, Worf/Jadzia, Miles/Keiko/Kira/Bashir
TOS: Spock/Uhura and some foursomes (although someone on the Yuletide discord may be nominating sedoretus in this fandom, which would mean I don't have to nominate them and could free up a slot)
B5: John/Delenn, John/Delenn/Lennier, Delenn/Neroon, John/Delenn/Lennier/? (I don't know who I'd put with those three to complete the sedoretu--Anna, maybe? a Minbari OC?)
Peter Wimsey, sedoretu with Parker and Mary? Or Bunter? (Although I can't think of who would be the fourth in a sedoretu with Bunter, so I may just leave that as a poly threesome.
Rivers of London--I think just Peter/Beverly here, because I can't think of any sedoretus and ever since we learned that Nightingale was ace (in the novella Masquerades of Spring) that has completely killed any desire to ship him, for me. RoL is the only one on the list that's iffy, because much as I love it I'm not sure how much I'm into RoL + marriage tropes.
That's six, and with BSG taken care of I can look at some of my other fandoms for the seventh slot. Here are some options:
SW Legends, Han/Leia/Luke/Mara, Han/Leia/Lando, Lando/Luke/Mara. Han/Leia/Lando most properly belongs in SW OT, but that would mean using a second Star Wars nomination slot.
TNG: nobody's nominated this yet, and I can't think of any sedoretus, but I would probably do something like Picard/Guinan (my TNG rare pair OTP), Picard/Ro, Riker/Ro, Troi/Worf, and Data/Geordi
Random Harvest. Look, this movie is just so tropey and melodramatic it would be amazing to pile even more tropes into it.
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kantayrahurtcomfortex, pickmeupexchange, idproquo, caseficexchange, seasonsofdrabbles, diegetic_exchange, fandom5k + mystery pinch-hits and treats): As mentioned last week, I finally have time to pick up Pinch Hits and treats, which I have been doing. I had a nice little spurt of productivity Thursday/Friday and got a good amount of stuff written. Right now, I've completed 9/11 fics, and the 2 remaining are the 2 long fics that I've been plugging away on. I did make progress on both of these, too! I've completed 1.5 scenes in each, and both of them will at least be 5 scenes total when done. There are 2 new (short) fics I'd like to pick up and finish this week (due to exchange deadlines) to get to 11/13, and then I'd like to make more progress on the 2 WIPs. The goal for those is to be through Scene 4 in the first (which is as far as I have a clear outline - I have a line that says '??? Profit!' in the middle of my outline right now, and then the final scene 🤣) and then through Scene 3 of the other one (which does have a complete outline, and so I don't feel as much need to press on it). I also have a couple things that will probably (unless there are reveals delays) need editing this week, so I need to get that done too.narumitsuday this week. Also, I've already put in my nominations for justmarriedexchange and nonconex, at least the first of which I'm hoping to sign up for. I will keep an eye on rarepairexchange, although I'm not sure I'll be able to swing that one.narumitsuday. 5) Finish Guardian.nicnicmiss_grimwood
May. 31st, 2025 10:29 ambeatrice_otterkantayrahurtcomfortex, pickmeupexchange, idproquo, caseficexchange, seasonsofdrabbles, diegetic_exchange, fandom5k + mystery pinch-hits and treats): I'm now at 6/9 (I've picked some things up!) and I got through everything with the most pressing deadlines, woo-hoo! I have at least a start on the remaining 3, and I want to get at least one of those done before next week (so, like, tonight lol) and make some continued progress on the other two, which will both be longer fics. And also I have some spare time to grab pinch hits and write treats? What's up with that? :P (It does make me sad, though, that seasonsofdrabbles is over because if that were in creation period right now, I'd write a million treats for it. Oh well, I'm sure at some point it will align with my schedule!)seasonsofdrabbles. Here's what I wrote:unsent_letters_exchange, Robin Blyth/Edwin Courcey for The Last Binding Series by Freya Marske: This was my main assignment and SO MUCH FUN! I started off with the "I can't wait to be home" innuendo and then built the whole thing backwards around that. I knew pretty early on that I wanted super srs academic commentary on Edwin's blatant bottoming joke, and spent a whole bunch of time cribbing formatting from various books of published historical letters (all ancient Egyptian since that is every non-fiction book I own, lol) and got the format for 'academic preface' + 'letter content' pretty quickly. I started introducing the footnotes incidentally at first, since that matched the academic style, but I had zero clue what I was doing or even whether I would keep them until I thought up the 'One Pill Makes You Small' insult, and then I knew I HAD to keep them! And I had a fun time building up all the petty academic rivalries in the citations, too. (100% based on real-life academic pettiness. SO MUCH PETTINESS! 🤣) I also figured out early on that the footnotes helped break up the exposition, plus let me fill in the fates of other characters: I got to make Maudie a professor! ❤️ Anyway, I loved these books when I first read them (especially the first book and especially Robin/Edwin) but I'd never had any direction on fic-writing for them, so I was so excited when I got this assignment! I loved revisiting them!unsent_letters_exchange, Nell/Theo(-ish) for 'The Haunting of Hill House' by Shirley Jackson. I'd read this book back in February off of a recommendation for 'cool haunted-house stuff' and knew I wanted to do something for it, so I offered it for this exchange and then snatched it right up when I saw this come up for pinch hit! I knew I wanted to try my hand at creepy psychological horror, and I loved the letters+journal format for revealing that. This is one of those fics that pretty much wrote themselves (as spookily appropriate as that is in this case :P), and I really liked the way it turned out.unsent_letters_exchange, Hannibal/Will. This was the second pinch hit I picked up and one I was afraid I wasn't going to have time to get to, but I did! I think there were several weeks where I was hoping every day that no one would pick this up before I knew whether I could commit to it. I really loved the prompt of Hannibal leaving Will guiding letters at crime scenes, but it is super intimidating trying to write letters in Hannibal's, er...unique voice. Once I solidified the frame story around the letters, though, it all started to flow together, and I really enjoyed getting to write Will with a very dark POV (and yet also strangely murderously sappy). They are both such horrible people, and I love them together so much!seasonsofdrabbles, Columbo & Dog. My assignment and the one drabble I wrote for this round! I'd written Columbo previously in my Columbo & Garak fic a while back and I do love writing Columbo, but I would have a hard time coming up with a whole case fic, so I was delighted to offer this for a short-minimum exchange. And, in a way, I sort of did come up with a whole case fic, although Dog - alas - is not the cleverest of villains! (He is, however, the only one Columbo would let off the hook. :P)narumitsuday aggressively since it is physically impossible for that one not to have any recipients I could write for. :P I'm also keeping a hopeful eye on justmarriedexchange and a tentative one on nonconex: for the latter I don't think I could swing a whole sign-up, but I'll be checking for interesting PHs/requests to treat. I also don't think I have enough rare pairs for rarepairexchange (I have eclectic fandom tastes, but my pairings within those fandoms tend to be bog-standard) but that's another possibly for PHs/treats. Honestly though, I suspect most of the rest of my May/June docket will be taken up grabbing PHs from exchanges currently running. I went through the list the other day, and there were, like, 20 that appealed to me, so...yeah.yuletide/ ficinabox/ candyheartsex where I went "huh, never thought of writing for THAT before!" and then I really enjoyed it. So that got me thinking that it might be fun to rewatch my old faves with a specific eye toward trying to get a fic/ficlet/drabble out it. Of course, this would be something I'd have to make time for on my own, which I'm not quite ready for yet, but I'm noodling on it. I think it would make a nifty community/prompt challenge but, alas, I have zero readers so I'm not the best person to run it. 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