Fandom: Wilby Wonderful
Pairing: Dan Jarvis/Duck McDonald (canon pairing)
Rating: teen & up
Genre: free-verse poetry
Length: 84 words
Content notes: mentions past suicidal tendencies
Author notes: Wilby Wonderful is one of the fandoms of the Canadian Six Degrees related fandoms.
Summary: Dan had been suicidal, but the self-destructive bent has been banished by acknowledging and accepting love.
( Sea Change, See Change )
Fandom: due South
Rating: General
Character: Benton Fraser
Genre & Relationship: Pre-slash Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Length: 37 words
Author notes: Etheree is a poetry form that consists of ten lines of unmetered and unrhymed verse, the first line having one syllable, each succeeding line adding a syllable, with the total syllable count being fifty-five.
Summary: Pining and UST.
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Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen & Up
Length: Eleven words
Content Notes: Consensual bondage
Author Notes: I've had a shibari!fic plotbunny for years -- this is not that fic, but it's leading to that subject and came to me just now a few minutes before 4:00 AM when I was about to go to sleep.
Summary: Fraser and Ray (my image is of RayK, but reader is free to envision the Ray of their own choosing) take the first step in consensual bondage.
"Wrists together, Ray...
thank you kindly," says Fraser,
world's most polite dom.
Fandom: due South
Vid: I first saw Chasing Cars by
Comic book: Dief and the Trickster, created by
Poetry: Come All Ye Fellow Wolves is a poem written in ballad style by
Prose: A Diefenbaker POV written for the 2011 Canadian Shack Challenge by
Artwork: Diefenbaker Drawings by montecarlogirl87 (
Fandom: due South
Rating: General readership
Length: 38 words
Content notes: May be read with or without slash goggles.
Author notes: Created within an hour's time, so counts towards Lightning Streak Badge.
Summary: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, and Diefenbaker at the time of the finding of the Franklin Expedition ship.
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Title: Do You Say "Zee" or Do You Say "Zed"?
Fandom: due South
Characters: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Rating: Gen
Tags: Humor ; Dialogue-Only
Word Count: Triple Drabble (300 words)
AN #1: This fic contains twenty-one occurrences of someone or something that starts with the letter Z (overachiever much?).
AN #2: TYK to old_grognard for beta...and for his hilarious spot-on impersonations of Fraser and both Rays.
Summary: Fraser lectures Ray about the letter "zed". Ray tries to sleep through the lecture.
Fic at AO3 : http://archiveofourown.org/works/1065411
( Fic Here )
Title : It's Dead Out Here, Warm Me Up
Fandom : due South
Pairing : Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Rating : Teen and Up
Tag : Poetry
Word Count : 187
AN #1 : Co-authored. Kowalski POV by
AN #2 : TYK to
Summary : A zombie/human love-story begins here. Ray Kowalski is a zombie capable of loving and being loved by a human -- one particular human : Benton Fraser...and Fraser is a human capable of loving and being loved by a zombie -- one particular zombie : Ray Kowalski.
Fic at AO3
( Fic Here )
Title : Cold Comfort
Fandom : due South
Pairing : Benton Fraser / Victoria Metcalf
Rating : General
Tag : Poetry
Word Count : 78
AN # 1 : Title inspired by the Paul Gross movie of the same name.Text inspired by
AN # 2 : Due to formatting difficulties, the first stanza may appear as offset when it SHOULD be quad left, and there may appear a thin blue line which SHOULD NOT be there separating the first and second stanzas.
Summary : Canon-compliant musings on Fraser and Metcalf during the deadly snowstorm in Fortitude Pass.
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( Cold Comfort )
Fandom : due South
Pairing : Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Rating : Teen and Up
Tag : Pre-slash Yearning
Word Count : 350
AN : a collaboration of
Summary : Kowalski and Fraser are both "poets on the inside," each in a different style but with the same desires.
( Poems )
- Mood:
accomplished - Location:dream-land
Fandom : due South
Rating : Mature
Characters : Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, Victoria Metcalf
Pairing : intimation of Fraser / Kowalski
Word Count : 539
Summary : Victoria kidnaps Kowalski and holds him captive in a Canadian shack.
"And now here she is, the beautiful princess of winds and snow, the one who makes men into ghosts."
AN # 1 : Written for the fan_flashworks prompt "ghosts and gore," cross-pollinated with a slashtheimage picture prompt and with Cesperanza's 10th Anniversary Canadian Shack Challenge.
AN # 2 : Warnings for noncon restraint and for physical molestation. Warning for picture prompt : if gore is triggery for you, don't look.
AN # 3 : Gorey (you've been warned twice now) picture prompt here.
( Fic )
- Mood:
determined - Location:near the lake they call Michigan
Fandom : due South
Pairing : Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Characters : Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Rating : Mature
Kink warning : Breathplay
Word Count : 500 (Quintuple Drabble)
AN # 1 : Inspired by "So Hard to Breathe" -- a Fraser/Kowalski fanvid by Orasha.
AN # 2 : Written for the fan_flashworks prompt "school," cross-pollinated with the slashthedrabble prompt "language" and my kink_bingo square for "breathplay".
AN # 3 : Also at AO3.
Summary : Fraser’s breathing stops and the Mountie Mask slips off to reveal a new and unschooled expression….
( Fic )
- Mood:
bouncy - Location:near the lake they call Michigan
- Music:"So Hard to Breathe" -- Nikki Flores
Fandom : due South
Wings of Desire by Nos4a2No9 : based on and named after the movie "Wings of Desire". Geman-language movie about an angel who falls in love with a mortal and gives up his immortality for a life of love with the beloved human. In Nos's fic the angel is RayK and the beloved human is Fraser.
With Six You Get Eggroll (text-only version) (illustrated version) by Speranza : based on and named after the movie "With Six You Get Eggroll". A movie that pairs a widow who has three sons with a widower who has a daughter. In Speranza's fic it's RayK and Fraser who have all those kids.
Getting Buried in Buffalo Jump by Ride_Forever : this F/K fic is a "double feature" in terms of borrowing. The fic's title is a play on the title of the Paul Gross movie "Getting Married in Buffalo Jump" while the fic's story-line is based on Callum Keith Rennie's apocalypse movie "Last Night".
- Mood:
determined - Location:near the lake they call Michigan
Title : Triangle Tangle
Fandom : due South
Characters : Ray Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, Benton Fraser, Diefenbaker
Pairings : Ray Kowalski / Stella Kowalski ; potential Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Word Count : 3637
Rating : Mature Audiences
AN : a collaboration of
Summary : Love triangles and duets involving Fraser and the Kowalskis. Quoting T.S. Eliot in Four Quartets : "...and to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
( story )
- Mood:
hyper
Fandom : due South
Rating : Teen and Up
Characters : Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Pairing : pre-slash Fraser/Kowalski
Word Count : 300 (deliberately constructed to be a triple drabble, in tandem with
AN # 1 : A
AN # 2 : The opening 5 lines, in italics, are quoted from Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot. They are quoted here under the aegis of the U.S. Fair Use Doctrine and the Canadian Fair Dealings Doctrine; no copyright infringement intended.
Summary : Ray Kowalski is the ray of light to brighten Fraser's dark story.
( Story )
- Location:near the lake they call Michigan
- Mood:
satisfied
Fandom : due South
Characters : Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser
Rating : Teen and Up
Word Count : 207
Author Notes : Written for the fan_flashworks "cliche challenge" ("undercover at a dance club" cliche) and towards the fan_flashworks "Lightning Streak Achievement Badge" for having been written in less than an hour (and with less than 45 minutes 'til the comm deadline, so unbeta'ed). Also, towards the "Cross-Pollinator Achievement Badge," written for the current dS_snippets challenge to write 300 words or less that incorporate some or all of the following prompts (and I did all) : "jazz, tap, hip-hop, modern, God wants you to shake your ass".
Summary : God must want Fraser to shake his ass...because seeing that happen is giving onlookers a religious experience.
( Story )
- Mood:
hyper - Location:near the lake they call Michigan
Fandom : due South
Characters : Diefenbaker, Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski
Pairing : Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Rating : Teen and Up
Word Count : 400 (quadruple drabble)
AN # 1 : Written for the "Old Friends" Challenge on fan_flashworks, cross-pollinated with the current slashthedrabble prompt "pack" and with the Tenth Anniversary Canadian Shack Challenge.
AN # 2 : The opening three lines are the first three lines of the poem "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats. No copyright infringement intended.
Summary : In his old age, Diefenbaker dreams about doughnuts and ponders about puppies.
( Story )
- Mood:
excited - Location:near the lake they call Michigan
- Music:"Hungry Like the Wolf"
Fandom : due South
Characters : Ray Vecchio, Victoria Metcalf
Rating : Teen and Up
Word Count : 474
Warning : Implications of violence and death
AN # 1 : This is a sequel to my first-ever fan_flashworks fic Train Ride to Do-Over, but can be read as a stand-alone.
AN # 2 : This is a cross-pollination with the current slashtheimage challenge (image here), and the current dS_snippets challenge (using all five current suggested prompts : banana, cashews, chocolate, potato chips, "Leave me empty on a diet of strange places").
Summary : Ray Vecchio made a promise to Victoria Metcalf. He took a shot -- literally -- at keeping it, but he missed...and it looks like Armando Langoustini who gets the do-over.
- Mood:
determined - Location:near the lake they call Michigan
Title : One More Kiss, Redux (a Companion Piece to
bghost 's One More Kiss)
Fandom: due South
Pairing : Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Genre : Pre-slash ; UST
Rating : Teen and Up
Word Count : 670
AN #1 : Written for challenge 17 of fan_flashworks, "Win or Lose".
AN #2 : Contemporary-style quatrains.
Summary : They were both ready to die for one more kiss.
( Story )
- Location:near the lake they call Michigan
- Mood:
indescribable
Title : Role Reversal Recs
Fandom : due South
Pairing :
Ratings : see headers at each fic’s website
Word Counts : see headers at each fic’s website
AN : My first-ever rec set. TYK to
hardboiledbaby for inspiration.
Summary : Recs for three different forms of role reversal fic.
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( Role Reversal Recs )
- Location:near the lake they call Michigan
- Mood:
pleased
Fandom : due South
Pairing : Benton Fraser / Ray Kowalski
Rating : Mature Audiences
Word Count : 176
AN # 1 : This poem is a collaboration between
AN # 2 : TYK to Tatau for inspiration from the German poem "Des Vetters Eckfenster".
Summary : A Fraser/Kowalski first-time in two languages, two POV's.
( Story )
- Mood:
happy - Location:USA, no England, no USA, oh both