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The burners and the starvers (2066 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Tortall - Tamora Pierce
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Numair Salmalín/Ozorne Muhassin Tasikhe
Characters: Ozorne Muhassin Tasikhe, Numair Salmalín, Veralidaine Sarrasri, Varice Kingsford
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Five Times, Power Play, Power Imbalance, Extremely Dubious Consent, Bondage, Backhanding, Mind Control, Rape, Revenge, Magic Touching, Magic-Users, evil pov character, Bisexual Male Character
Summary:

Five times Ozorne Muhassin Tasikhe touched Arram Draper

Saffron and Tyrian purple (2072 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Tortall - Tamora Pierce
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Numair Salmalín/Veralidaine Sarrasri
Characters: Numair Salmalín, Veralidaine Sarrasri
Additional Tags: Travel, Food, Romance, Established Relationship, Homecoming, Cross-cultural
Summary:

Arram Draper had been a very small boy when he'd left Tyra for the first time. A decade in Carthak, a decade in Tortall, and he kept only a dark olive-brown complexion, a head of curling dark hair, and the recollected tastes of cakes flavored with saffron and sesame, and aromatic bread heavy with olive oil on his tongue.

Now, twenty-five years after that small boy had first left the city at the mouth of the river delta, Numair Salmalin approached Tyra again. He was to sail down the River Drell along the Tyran border, carried along on the inexorable human wave of King Jonathan IV of Conte's royal progress, in the eigheenth year of that king's reign.

Hey guise Kalakirya podficced me!

[Podfic] Finds but Riddling Shrift (26 words) by kalakirya
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Tortall - Tamora Pierce
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau/George Cooper
Characters: Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Olau, George Cooper, Numair Salmalín
Additional Tags: Magic, Winter, Street & Stage Magic, Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Summary:

podfic of lotesse's story

George finds Arram Draper juggling in the snow

It's super fun to hear my stuff read by someone who isn't me! And she did a really lovely, atmospheric reading.

Here's [a meme] where I'll post the working title of a story, and the first sentence, for (some of) my most current WIPs. No pairing or summary info.


A Study in Circles: The Amestrian military keeps doctors as well as dogs on its leashes; having completed my course of medical study at the Second Laboratory in Central, I was bound to service for several years.

my gold signal like a dragonfly: Teal'c tells people, when they ask him, that his inlaid golden serpent tattoo is a mark of his former slavery to false gods.

Neglect me, lose me, only give me leave: “No,” Taran said, pulling away from under Fflewddur's hand.

saffron and haze and Tyrian purple: Arram Draper had left Tyra as a very small boy, taking with him only a dark olive-brown complexion, a head of curling dark hair, and the recollected tastes of cakes flavored with saffron and sesame, and aromatic bread heavy with olive oil on his tongue.

Thank you for writing a story for me!

I'm a happy-ending kind of girl. I like stories about people in love, sexual or otherwise - stories where people care for and help one another. It satisfies my idealistic streak. I do love angst, oh do I ever, but I kind of need happy endings afterward. h/c is probably my biggest kink. I'm also really into family-of-choice tropes and stories about strong or passionate emotional intimacy.

I like female characters really a lot. Not all of my requests center directly on women, but it's important to me that narrative spaces reflect gender parity/equity, or specifically condemn the lack thereof in more realistically patriarchal 'verses. I like non-standard sexualities and imaginative modes of sexual engagement. Similarly, cultural diversity that opens up the imaginative space of the canon makes me seriously happy. There's no reason why kyriarchal western values, images, mores, or cultural practices need to rule speculative stories that are fairytales or take place in outer space!

( Battlestar Galactica (1978) )


( Limberlost books )


( Tamora Pierce, Tortall )


( Orlando )

(fairy tales will have to be for later - I need time to savor them. they're my favorite part of yuletide. and the mythology sections, and the arthurian matter.)

( Abhorsen, The Odyssey, Howl's Moving Castle, The Incredibles, Westmark, Anne of Green Gables, Lousia May Alcott, Mary Poppins, Strictly Ballroom, Comics RPF, His Dark Materials, Patrick O'Brian, Song of the Lioness, Stardust, L'Engle, Mulan, Wise Child, Ballet Shoes, Ender's Game, Pan's Labyrinth, Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Princess Bride, Sesame Street, The Dark is Rising, The Once and Future King, and The Silmarillion )