This Life of Luxury

Dear Yuletide Letter 2022

2022-10-19T14:48:28Z

Dear Lovely Yuletide Person,

Happy Yuletide! This is all so very exciting!

You'll have seen from my sign up what my requests are, but just to recap:

Simon Feximal Series by KJ Charles
Characters: Jo Caldwell and Sam Caldwell

I do really ship these two, so I'd love something romantic, but if you don't want to go there then please, please reunite them! I just want them to be together again, I hate that by the time Spectred Isle comes around they're still apart.

I'd really like something that explores Jo's gender as much as possible too, so please feel free to go into that as deeply as you want since that's one of the things that draws me to them so much.

The Dreamer trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater
Characters: Adam Parrish and Ronan Lynch

Honestly, I'm completely and embarrassingly obsessed with Adam Parish, I just love him so much. And Ronan too of course but Adam! My brave little bi child!

I'd love a slice of life or an outside POV or what happens to them between the end of Greywaren and the epilogue just... anything. I'd really love anything that explores their friendships with Gansey and Blue and Henry too, or more about Adam's magic. Also Noah! Justice for Noah!

I've read everything so don't worry about spoilers!

Blood-Smoke series by Tanya Huff
Characters: Tony Foster and Lee Nicholas

I'd love post book 3 when they're an established couple. Lee coming out (either to the world or to his family or just to the Darkest Night guys) would be particularly great, as would Tony meeting Lee's family or Lee meeting Vicki and Mike.

Some Overall Do Not Wants. Please please don't write me any of the following because I won't be able to read it: rape, non-con, Daddy kink, contagious illness no matter how mild, unhappy or ambiguous endings.

I'd rather not have anything totally AU since these fandoms all have such little fic, but wibbling the canon slightly is fine. Also I'd prefer no cross-overs or fusions unless it makes total sense (like, Jo and Sam meeting other KJ Charles characters? Fine! Great! Unexpected idk Pacific Rim fusion? No thanks).

Now for wants! I just really love people being friends, and people bring in love with their friends. I love mutual support, found family, exes to lovers, friends to lovers, resolved pining, h/c and people protecting each other. I love, love things that explore all the nuances or sexuality and gender. I also love outside POVs.

I don't mind what rating you write, though I don't really want to read nothing but porn. I'm a big fan of exploring kink and D/s, if it fits the characters, but would be just as happy with PG rated.

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Yuletide Letter 2021

2021-10-15T21:21:44Z

( Dear Lovely Yuletide Person... )

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Yuletide Letter (2020)

2020-10-16T10:22:20Z

Hello Lovely Yuletide Friend!

Requests:

1) The Price of Meat by KJ Charles - Mark Ingestrie and Elias Jeffery.
2) Simon Feximal Series by KJ Charles - Jo Caldwell and Sam Caldwell
3) Justified - Tim Gutterson

Thank you so much for writing me a story! I am very easy to please, I promise.

In terms of general things I like: found family, romantic friendships, romance in general, tropes (love tropes!), D/s-overtones in bed, hurt/comfort as long as there's lots of comfort, coming out stories, action/adventure, slice of life...

There are a few things that I hard do not want, and those are: unhappy endings, ambiguous endings, character death, dub/non-con, and most especially contagious illnesses.

I'm happy with any rating at all, but I'd rather not have something that's all sex and nothing else. Oh and if possible, I'd rather not have random cross-over/fusions (unless it makes total sense in that fandom).

But whatever you write, I'm sure I'm going to love it! Thank you <333

Tora

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Fic Post: Les Miserables - Guided By A Beating Heart

2020-10-12T11:27:27Z

*taps mic* Is this thing on?

Just popping in to say that I’ve posted a (very long) fic!

Title: Guided By a Beating Heart
Pairing: Enjolras/Grantaire, background Courfeyrac/Jehan, Marius/Cosette, Valjean/Javert
Rating: NC-17 (cw: mental health issues, past addiction, some violence)
Words: 83,238

Summary:

Grantaire's voice curls as though he’s laughing at a private joke. “You seem… alive?”

“Why wouldn’t I be?” Enjolras asks. When Grantaire doesn’t answer, just shrugs, Enjolras finds himself pressing, “Why wouldn’t I be alive?”

Grantaire looks at him directly for the first time. There’s no warmth in his expression, no amusement or affection, nothing Enjolras is used to seeing there. “Why would you be? It’s been four years, dude.”

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22365322

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Yuletide Letter (2019)

2019-10-27T21:17:44Z

Dear Yuletide Author,

So I thought I'd give you some general likes and dislikes and then tell you some things I particularly like about the fandoms I've requested. But if those don't tie in with what you want to write, then just ignore me. I'd rather have something you want to write than something you wrote to please me.

( Click for more! )

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Dear Yuletide Author (2018)

2018-10-18T10:29:04Z

Dear Yuletide Author

2017-10-07T17:32:34Z

Dear Yuletide Author,

Hi! Hello! This is exciting!

So I thought I'd give you some general likes and dislikes and then tell you some things I particularly like about the fandoms I've requested. But if those don't tie in with what you want to write, then just ignore me. I'd rather have something you want to write than something you wrote to please me.

Likes:
So I lovvvvve pining and friendship and found families. I just really like stories where people like each other. I love established relationship but also I adore first times. I'm a massive fan of D/s and virginity fic. I like it when people cry and are comforted; I like it when people are closeted and scared... and are comforted. Do you see the theme?

In fact, I keep a list in gdocs of things I like. It goes like this:

1) Friendship
2) Affection
3) People knowing secrets
4) Pining
5) Sad and closeted
6) Exes getting back together

Dislikes:
So non/dub-con and illnesses are a hard no for me. I also don't like unhappy or ambiguous endings. In fact I think I dislike ambiguous endings even more than unhappy ones. Please don't break anyone up or make anyone think that their friends don't like them, because then I'll cry. You don't want me to cry on Christmas morning, right?

Fandoms:

At Swim, Two Boys - so I saw the musical of this (Rebel Song) the other month and completely re-fell in love with this whole story. The reason I requested Jim and Anthony is that I find their relationship fascinating and I'd love to know what happens to them post-canon.

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - well, I'm easy here. I'd LOVE to know what Monty and Percy get up to next, but if you wanted to write me something pre-canon when their pining idiots at play, that would also be super cool.

Know Not Why - love this book! What happens next for Howie and Arthur and the shop?

Prosperity - ahhh, Byron Kae my forever favourite darling. I'd love to know more about their life with Piccadilly. They consider themselves married but what does that mean for them? Tell me about their romance!

Society of Gentlemen - I adore every single one of the heroes of these books, but Ash and Francis are my absolute favourite. Tell me about their cosy domestic life, tell me how Ash gets on after... what happens at the end of book 3. Also, does his friend Freddy EVER twig about their relationship?

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It's 2016!

2016-01-03T17:08:22Z

Hi, dreamwidth / livejournal! How are you? Did you have a good Christmas / New Year?

I was terrible at updating here with... anything last year, but especially terrible about announcing new fics. So here, at least, is a list of the fics I posted in 2015, if anyone is still around / interested:

If Home Is Where You Are - Enjolras/Grantaire and Courfeyrac/Jehan - Les Misérables (2892 words)

Never Be Satisfied - lady!Enjolras/lady!Grantaire - Les Misérables (15156 words)

A Kiss For Luck and We're On Our Way - Enjolras/lady!Grantaire - Les Misérables (2487 words)

Let's Do Something That's All The Way - Enjolras/Grantaire - Les Misérables (4580 words)

See It Burn When You Bring Me Sunlight - Enjolras/Grantaire - Les Misérables (3319 words)

Blown Here By The Winds Of Chance - genderqueer!Jehan/Courfeyrac - Les Misérables (21049 words)

Don't It Always Seem To Go - Lee Nicholas/Tony Foster - Smoke Series - Tanya Huff (5004 words)

And Not So Long Ago - Aaron Livesy/Robert Sugden - Emmerdale (1403 words)

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Yuletide Letter 2015

2015-10-25T14:31:10Z

Dear Yuletide author:

( Some ramblings! )

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Fic: Even Halfway Seems So Far

2015-05-21T21:04:37Z

Wrote a little more fic. Slowly I am getting back into the swing of this.

Even Halfway Seems So Far (818 words)
Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Enjolras/Grantaire
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Lots of kissing
Series: Part 2 of If Home Is Where You Are

Summary:

“You’re so weird and I’ve missed you so much,” Grantaire says, leaning over his bag to press a kiss to the corner of Enjolras’s mouth.

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Fic: If Home Is Where You Are (Enjolras/Grantaire)

2015-05-15T21:06:12Z

Hiiiiii! I've been struggling to finish anything this year, but I finished a thing. Just a tiny thing, but words!

If Home Is Where You Are (887 words)
Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Enjolras/Grantaire
Additional Tags: Reunion kisses, very background Courfeyrac/Jehan, very brief mention of past alcoholism

Summary:

Enjolras has followed Grantaire's trip around the world via tweets and Facebook and texts, middle of the night Skype conversations, but none of that has been a substitute for touching, for how badly Enjolras has wanted to feel Grantaire's arms around him again.

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Yuletide!

2015-01-01T15:27:32Z

Happy New Year, gang!

Yuletide happened and for me it all happened within one fandom, which is particularly lovely.

My lovely Yule person wrote me Lee Nicholas and his plans to Feed Tony and Come Out, which was awesome:

Tomorrow (1376 words) by kikibug13
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blood-Smoke Series - Tanya Huff, Smoke Series - Tanya Huff
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tony Foster/Lee Nicholas
Characters: Lee Nicholas, Tony Foster
Additional Tags: Coming Out, Food
Summary:

Lee has decided to actually come out. In public. He has all the arguments for it, too. And Tony's not exactly in the best state to shoot the thought down... but maybe, he'd admit, it's not such a bad idea.

And I also wrote Lee/Tony this year (again):

Didn't Have You Where I Come From (14864 words) by torakowalski
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blood-Smoke Series - Tanya Huff, Smoke Series - Tanya Huff
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tony Foster/Lee Nicholas, background Amy/Jack Elson
Characters: Jack Elson, Amy (Smoke Series), Zev Sero, Leah Burnett, Henry Fitzroy, Mike Celluci, Lee Nicholas, Tony Foster, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Coming Out, Post-Canon, Lee's Family, Supernatural Creatures, Mild Child Endangerment
Summary:

Tony really didn't want to go home or deal with the rest of the world, not when he could stay in bed with Lee all day. Unfortunately, the rest of the world had other ideas.

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Fic: My Head Is A Weathervane (Enjolras/Grantaire)

2014-12-27T22:58:03Z

Posted a new fic! Last one of 2014, I think.

Title: My Head Is A Weathervane
Fandom: Les Miserables
Pairing: Grantaire/Enjolras
Rating: R
Words: 5,500
Warnings: Depression, anxiety, and the aftermath of a suicide attempt.

Summary: Grantaire really, really wants Enjolras's arms around him, which is why Enjolras isn't allowed to be here. Grantaire would climb inside him, if he could, and patch up the holes in himself with little bits and pieces of Enjolras, but that's not healthy. He needs to be a whole person first, before he's allowed Enjolras back.

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Fic: It's Time That We Mended

2014-12-22T14:12:07Z

Yay, my Feelstide fic went live!

Title: It's Time That We Mended (4631 words)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson

Summary: Clint has been walking the streets aimlessly for a couple of hours, when he spots a hand-painted sign outside of a church proclaiming Soup Kitchen and decides to get in line.

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Fic: On The Other Side of a Downward Spiral

2014-11-19T09:41:00Z

Posted my fourth and final big bang of the year!

Title: On The Other Side of a Downward Spiral
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Steve/Bucky (background Clint/Phil, Tony/Pepper, Thor/Jane)
Warnings: Canon-typical violence, PTSD. Multiple incidents of (potential) child endangerment, but no actual harm.

Summary: Bucky Barnes is barely functioning, let alone living, but when the Avengers find an abandoned baby girl, Bucky has to learn to look after himself, and keep the baby out of Hydra's hands. All while trying to work out exactly what kind of relationship he and Steve want from each other.

And look at the aaaaaart!

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Fic: And If You Should Fal

2014-11-01T18:15:42Z

Posted my second Marvel bang! Part Two of the Homeless!Clint 'verse.

Title: And If You Should Fall
Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 45,400
Warnings: Some violence including a hostage situation, grieving for a character who is presumed dead (but no actual character death).
Summary: Clint Barton has a home, a boyfriend, a dog, and a place at SHIELD Training Academy, so for the first time ever, everything seems to be working out for him.

Then he gets recruited to a secret organisation within SHIELD and it turns out that everyone there might not be working toward the same goal. Now he has to protect the people he loves from Hydra, without letting Hydra know he's onto them.

With amazing art by eiirene

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Fic: Keep The World At Bay For Me

2014-10-24T19:49:24Z

Second big bang of the month!

Title: Keep The World At Bay For Me
Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson (pre-slash Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers)
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 25,200
Warnings: Some violence, Clint's post-Loki PTSD, and discussions of grieving.
Summary: Finding out that Phil's alive and working with a new team isn't easy for Clint, and neither is helping Captain America track down the brainwashed Hydra assassin that used to be Bucky Barnes.

With amazing art by wintermute_lj

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Dear Yuletide Letter

2014-10-19T14:11:48Z

Dear Yuletide Person,

Thank you so much for writing me a story! Please don't feel stressed, as long as you enjoy writing whatever you write then I'm sure I'll love reading it.

Things I like in fic: first times, happy endings, angst with happy endings, schmoop with happy endings (are you sensing a pattern?), obliviousness, pining, slow reveals and friendship.

Things I don't like in fic: unhappy endings, death and non-con. I also don't like humiliation or and I have an embarrassment squick a mile wide.

I'm fine with porn or no porn, whatever you're more comfortable with. I'd like slash but I'd be happy with gen.

( Cut for Fandom Specific Thoughts )

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Fic: If My Heart Were A Compass (Les Mis)

2014-10-18T20:46:16Z

Gosh, LJ/DW hi! I've been neglecting you so much. But I'm here and I bring fic! In a brand new fandom and everything:

Title: If My Heart Were A Compass
Pairings: Enjolras/Grantaire (background Marius/Cosette and Joly/Bossuet/Musichetta, implied Valjean/Javert)
Genre: Romance, modern AU
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: implied alcoholism, anxiety, child endangerment, Thenardiers
Word Count: 28,600

Summary: Grantaire spent high school desperately in love with his best friend, so when the time came for university, he made sure to move as far away as possible.

Now, he's home and Enjolras is asking him on dates, and it's just too much for Grantaire to cope with, especially while he's also trying to help his new friend Éponine hold her family together.

With beautiful art by Ceylons

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Fic: The Wind Blows The Night Time My Way (C/C)

2014-02-13T21:57:23Z

I posted my Sex Is Not The Enemy fic - it's a prequel to my Female!Phil Big Bang. Well, 'prequel' is a generous term: mostly it's just the story of their first porny interlude together.

The Wind Blows The Night Time My Way
Relationships: Clint Barton/always-a-woman!Phil Coulson
Length: 4857 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None

Summary: This is a mistake, Phil should say. You’re my subordinate. You’re too young. You look too much like my fantasy of Steve Rogers.

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Fic: It's The Season Where Time Begins To Fade (C/C)

2014-01-04T17:39:51Z

This is my second, slightly late, Feelstide fic.

Title: It’s The Season Where Time Begins to Fade
Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson (background Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes, Jane Foster/Thor, Darcy Lewis/Ian The Intern, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts)
Length: 18,611 words
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None

Summary: Six Christmases Past and One Christmas Present. Or the strangest ways the Avengers have spent the holidays.

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Trope Bingo Card

2014-01-02T19:54:09Z

Two posts in one day. This is not the norm! Just dropping my trope_bingo card here for posterity:

( Trope Bingo 2014 )

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Fannish Year-in-Review Meme

2014-01-02T19:15:33Z

I know I'm a little bit late, but I wanted to wait for Yuletide reveals.

Words written this year: 229,767 of posted fic (plus about 23k of unposted original fic)

Number of fics: 22

( Cut to Spare Your Flists: Links to all my 2013 Fics )

My most popular story this year:

In terms of hits and kudos, it's The Mending That You Need because Teen Wolf fandom is massive and terrifying.

My favorite story this year:

Probably Without A Net Upon The Wire, which is the homeless!Clint fic. I got to throw a million tropes in and wrote it all in about two weeks.

Most fun story to write:

All I've Got Left To Believe In because it's a high school AU featuring PETER PARKER. What could be more fun?

Story with the single sexiest moment:

I really like the part in Break The Sound And Change The Season (the virgin!Clint fic) where Clint and Phil have early morning makeouts and Clint ALMOST but doesn't blow him.

Story that got the most unexpected reaction from readers:

Back To The Place That You Are is a uniform kink fic written for kink_bingo. I'd forgotten it existed but SUDDENLY everyone started telling me how much they liked it. I don't actually have a uniform kink, so that was very nice to know.

Most "Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:

Well, in Same Old Tricks In A Brand New Town I wrote Phil getting a blowjob under his desk while chatting to Melinda May. Sort of.

Hardest story to write:

Hitch A Ride On The Back Of The Butterfly, the female!Phil one took me forever. Writing something canon adjacent was way more of a struggle than I was expecting.

Most unintentionally telling story:

My Yuletide fic, Like A Sail's Force Into The Night, proved to me that Jemma Simmons is essentially ME but with a few more degrees.

What's next:

Ooh so many things! My to write list currently looks like this: 3 fandom aid fics; a C/C con artist AU; a sequel to the HS AU fic with accidental kink-discovery; amnesia fic where Clint forgets they've broken up... And probably quite a lot besides.

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Fic: Never Get Tired of the Boy (Lee/Tony)

2013-12-31T18:13:04Z

One more fic before the end of the year!

Never Get Tired of the Boy (4889 words)
Fandom: Smoke Series - Tanya Huff, Blood-Smoke Series - Tanya Huff
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tony Foster/Lee Nicholas
Characters: Lee Nicholas, Tony Foster
Additional Tags: First Time, Nipple Piercings, Cock Piercing, All the piercings, awkward boys in love
Summary:

“Let’s stop being awkward,” Lee decides. “Let’s kiss instead.”

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Fic: The New Year Is Right In Front of Us

2013-12-26T17:08:41Z

Hi, everyone! Merry Boxing Day <3

My Feelstide fic went live yesterday, which I couldn't announce then because we have a No Computer policy on Christmas Day.

The New Year Is Right In Front Of Us
Length: 18,484 words
Rating: NC-17
Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson (background Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts)
Summary: Written for Feelstide 2013 for the prompt "High School AU: Clint is kind of a Scrooge when it comes to Christmas, Phil does his best to try and make it something special and magical for him any way that he can."

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