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Links to all fanfiction I've written in various fandoms. That I'm admitting to.

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From astrogirl. Clearly, I must write stories to cover the J and X gaps.


Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.



A - Age of Iron (I Medici, Lorenzo "Il Magnifico" de' Medici/Francesco de' Pazzi)

B - Bad Reputation (16th Century CE RPF, Barbara Blomberg & Fernando Álverez Toledo III. Duque de Alba)

C - Cover her face ( The King's Touch - Jude Morgan, 17th Century RPF; Henriette Anne Stuart (Henriette d'Angleterre)

D - Discordance (Merlin (TV), Morgana & Gwen)

E - Eve of Destruction (To Walk Invisible (2016), 19th Century RPF, Branwell Bronte/ Joseph Bentley Leyland)

F - Five ways in which Frederick the Great and Maria Theresia did not meet (18th Century CE RPF, Frederick the Great & Maria Theresia)

G - Graham O'Brien's Survival Kit for Companions (Doctor Who, Graham O'Brien & Thirteenth Doctor)

H - Here lie we (Merlin (TV), Gwen & Morgana)

I - Invicta (3rd Century CE RPF, Helena (Mother of Constantine)


J -

K -Kin (Merlin (TV), Arthur & Morgana)

L - Learning Frederick (18th Century CE RPF, Frederick the Great/Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf)

M - Murder in Florence (16th Century RPF, Margaret of Parma, Alessandro "Il Moro" de'Medici/ Lorenzo "Lorenzino" di Pierfrancesco de' Medici)

N - Nusquam (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Ziyal & Dukat)

O - Opposites (Beatles RPF, Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono & Paul McCartney)

P - Prussian Doll (18th Century RPF, Frederick the Great & Prince Henry of Prussia, Frederick the Great/Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf)

Q - Queen's Gambit (Don Carlos - Friedrich Schiller, Elisabeth de Valois & Princess Eboli, Elisabeth de Valois & Philipp II of Spain)

R - Repercutio (Babylon 5, Londo Mollari & G'kar)

S - She blinded me with science (18th Century RPF', Émilie du Chatelet/Voltaire)

T - Till our shadows blend (Babylon 5, Delenn & Londo Mollari)

U - Unforgivable (Angel the Series, Holtz & Connor)

V - Vita Guineveris (Merlin (TV), Gwen (Guinevere)

W - We happy few (Beatles RPF, Brian Epstein & The Beatles)

X -

Y - You should see me in a crown (18th Century CE RPF, Catherine the Great & Prince Henry of Prussia)

Z - Zinc Man (The Americans (TV), Elizabeth Jennings/Philip Jennings)


That's 24 letters out of 275 stories. For easiness, I started with the most recent ones, but even so, clearly history is a dominating theme. Also, I would have bet Z to be the most difficult letter to find, but no, The Americans came through for me.

To no one's surprise, my story was the 18th Century. To my considerable surprise, my recipient wasn't a salon friend but completely new to me, so I was a bit nervous. My recipient had asked for Voltaire and given several good prompts, but the problem was that I had already written the story about Émilie du Chatelet, and the story about his love/hate relationship with Frederick the Great. However, fortunately Gummy_bean added that while Madame Denis, Voltaire's niece-slash-companion-slash-lover of decades, had not been among the offered characters, they would also love something centered on her if I were so inclined. I most definitely was - that was the one significant character and relationship I hadn't focused on fictionally before, and also one who usually gets a lot of condescension and dislike by biographers. Say no more, recipient, thought I, reading the prompt, and voila: the story:


The Other Woman (6893 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Marie Louise Mignot Denis/Voltaire (Writer), Émilie du Châtelet/Voltaire (Writer), Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great/Voltaire (Writer), Marie Louise Mignot Denis & Émilie du Châtelet, Émilie du Châtelet/Jean François de Saint-Lambert
Characters: Marie Louise Mignot Denis, Voltaire (Writer), Émilie du Châtelet, Catherine Arouet Mignot, Alexandre Jean Mignot, Elisabeth Mignot de Fontaine
Additional Tags: Character Study, Complicated Relationships, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Jealousy, Family Dynamics, Uncle-Niece Relationship, Uncle/Niece Incest, POV Female Character, Rival Relationship, Yuletide Family Affair, Yuletide 2024
Summary:

What was it like, being in a polycule with Voltaire, Émilie du Châtelet and Frederick the Great? Madame Denis tells all!

At least that's how it worked out for me, in terms of my contributions this year. Both of my stories - for cahn> - are set in the Stuart era, one early, one later; the first one features what was arguable the biggest sex and crime scandal at the scandal-heavy court of King James VI and I, and features the perspective of the two women who are bound to be antagonists in the upcoming series Mary and George, seeing as one of them was married to the titular George's (Buckingham's) rival for the favour of King James and the other became forced to marry George's older brother very much against her will and wasn't taking it quietly. Both ladies were called Frances and I very much enjoyed giving their perspective; anything you need to know about the history is in the story itself.


The Devil's Law Case (5951 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 17th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Frances Howard (1591 - 1632) & Frances Coke (1602 - 1645), Frances Howard (1591 - 1632)/ Robert Carr 1st Earl of Somerset, Robert Carr 1st Earl of Somerset/James VI and I of Scotland and England, James VI and I of Scotland and England/George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham, Robert Carr 1st Earl of Somerset/Thomas Overbury, Frances Coke (1602 - 1645) & George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham, Frances Coke (1602 - 1645)/Robert Howard (1598 - 1653), Frances Howard (1691 - 1632)/ Robert Devereux 3rd Earl of Essex
Characters: Frances Howard (1591 - 1632), Frances Coke (1602 - 1645), Robert Carr 1st Earl of Somerset, George Villiers 1st Duke of Buckingham, James VI and I of Scotland and England, Thomas Overbury, Edward Coke (1552–1634), Robert Howard (1598 - 1653), Sir John Villiers Viscount Purbeck, Elizabeth Hatton, Robert Devereux 3rd Earl of Essex
Additional Tags: POV Female Character, Murder Mystery, Trials, Scandal, Whydonit, women being complicated, Canon Gay Relationship, Rivalry, Friendship
Summary:

They were the two most scandalous women of their scandalous time. Ditching their unwanted husbands, marrying the King's lover, committing murder or escaping by the skin of their teeth; Frances Howard and Frances Coke have done it all. This is their story.

The second story I wrote deals with the youngest daughter of Charles I, Charles II's favourite sister, Henriette Anne aka Minette. Viewers of the tv show Versailles might recall her from the first season, which features her less than happy marriage with her (very gay) cousin Philippe d'Orleans and her affair with his brother Louis XIV, though the show is, shall we say, taking its usual liberties. I've always had a soft spot for Minette, and using the 5 plus 1 format for her felt like a good way of writing a portrait. (In terms of previous fictionalisations of Minette, this adhers to the novel The King's Touch by Jude Morgan, though again, it stands on its own if you are not familiar with said novel.

Cover Her Face (5778 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The King's Touch - Jude Morgan, 17th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Charles II of England & Henrietta Anne Stuart | Henriette d'Angleterre, Henrietta Anne Stuart | Henriette d'Angleterre/Philippe I duc d'Orléans, Henrietta Anne Stuart | Henriette d'Angleterre & James Scott Duke of Monmouth, Henrietta Anne Stuart | Henriette d'Angleterre & Henriette Marie de France Queen of England, Louis XIV de France/Henrietta Anne Stuart | Henriette d'Angleterre, Philippe Chevalier de Lorraine/Philippe I duc d'Orléans
Characters: Henrietta Anne Stuart | Henriette d'Angleterre, Charles II of England, James Scott Duke of Monmouth, Philippe I duc d'Orléans, Louis XIV de France, Henriette Marie de France Queen of England
Additional Tags: Character Study, Siblings, Unconventional Families, Cousins, Exile, Declarations Of Love, Friendship/Love, POV Female Character
Summary:

Five times someone told the Princess Henrietta of England they loved her, and one time she said it to someone else.

And another reveal: my Star Trek Holidays story was a crossover with The Sandman. I hadn‘t been sure whether or not to do the ficathon this year simply for time reasons, but then I saw someone had nominated Uhura and Death of the Endless as two characters they wanted to meet, and how could I resist? So I signed up, and was very happy to get exactly this prompt as my assignment. The result:

A Breath Away (5420 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Death of the Endless & Nyota Uhura
Characters: Death of the Endless, Nyota Uhura, Erica Ortegas
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Healing, Between Seasons/Series, Crossover
Summary:

Uhura knew she'd have to face Death when enlisting in Starfleet - but she definitely wasn't prepared to drink hot chocolate with her...

If this year's Yuletide stories written by yours truly had a theme, it was "comedy with dark undertones". I had originally planned something else as my main gift to write, but then firstly a lot of real life stuff happened, and secondly I wanted to cheer myself up while writing, so I continued my quest to throw the most unlikely outrageous tropes at Frederick the Great. This time, it was babysitting comedy. Not involving an actual baby, but his ten years old brother, whom no one tries to eata, but it was still an eerie feeling to watch this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special and see that RTD had gone for babysitting comedy tropes as well. With my thing for messy family relationships in general and siblings relationships in particular, I always enjoy writing Frederick and the brother who was way too much like him for them to get on, and Frederick with my favourite of his long term boyfriends, Fredersdorf.


The Sitter (5885 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF, 18th Century CE Frederician RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great & Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen (1726-1802), Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf/Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig von Preußen | Henry of Prussia (1726-1802), Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf
Additional Tags: Siblings, Dysfunctional Family, Slice of Life, Queering The Tide, Family, Humor, Established Relationship, Yuletide 2023, Yuletide
Summary:

Tragedy is behind him, glory ahead: Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia is about to enjoy the best years of his life. At least that's what he thinks when fate inflicts what might be his harshest trial: having to take care of his brat of a younger brother...

Otoh, this story is another example of my tendency to get drawn into a fandom and emerge being primarily interest in not the juggernaut pairing and/or the characters the friend who tried to get me interested in. Not that the Third Century Crisis followed by the Tetrarchy in the late Roman Empire is a megafandom, and thus does not have a juggernaut pairing. But if there was one, it surely would have been the Emperors Diocletian/Maximian, who are the guys [Bad username: Mildred_of_Midgard] wants to hear/read about. But while I do find them interesting, I am even more interested in the women around them - and one woman who started out really low on the social scale but ended up not just on top but surviving the various changes in power which had much of the remaining cast drop off like flies was Helena. Yes, the mother of Constatine (the Great). No, she wasn't a British princess. Why not more people fictionalizing her used her actual origins as a barmaid which are way more interesting at least from the 20th century onwards is a mystery to me, but hey: all the more fun to write about her for me, and to provide her perspective on the late Roman Game of Thrones:



Invicta (4566 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 3rd Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Helena (Mother of Constantine)/Constantius, Helena (Mother of Constantine) & Diocletian, Emperor Diocletian/Emperor Maximian, Diocletian & Maximian & Constantius
Characters: Helena (Mother of Constantine), Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus | Emperor Diocletian, Flavius Valerius Constantius "Chlorus" | Emperor Constantius I., Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus | Emperor Maximian, Constantine the Great (d. 337 CE), Aurelia Prisca (d. 315 CE)
Additional Tags: POV Female Character, Game of Thrones-esque, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide, Yuletide 2023, Origin Story
Summary:

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: three future Emperors walk into a bar. The one who’s going to end up with the Empire is the barmaid.

Or: Helena, history has its eyes on you....

This year's contribution from yours truly was pretty obvious. It's the first time since my big B5 writing rush decades earlier that I've created a Londo and G'Kar centric story, though, and I found to my delight that my Londo muse hasn't gone away but turned out to be as chatty as ever. The sole problem after reading the prompts which asked for slice of life/and/or Londo and G'Kar teaming up against some sort of ghost (or other suitably spooky menace) was this: B5 has already done a canonical ghost story in Day of the Dead. Briefly considered siccing sci fi version of vampires on Londo, but again: canon got there first, sorta. I mean: the Drakh already do all the body horror, life draining and scheming in the shadows one could wish. (Err, fear.) Then I had a brainwave, from which the following story, set in later s4, emerged. Behold:

Repercutio (5196 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: G'Kar/Londo Mollari, G'Kar & Londo Mollari, Londo Mollari & Antono Refa, Vir Cotto & Londo Mollari
Characters: Londo Mollari, G'Kar (Babylon 5), Antono Refa, Lyta Alexander, Timov (Babylon 5)
Additional Tags: Trick or Treat: Trick, Episode: s04e15 No Surrender No Retreat (Babylon 5), Enemies to Friends, Character Study, Episode: s03e20 And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place, Episode: s03e06 Dust to Dust, Centauri
Summary:

Of all the ghosts to haunt him, Londo didn't expect Refa's. Or having to enlist G'Kar to get rid of him (again)...

Émilie du Chatelet was one of the most fascinating women (and scientists) of the Enlightenment. Now when I wrote my Voltaire and Frederick the Great story a couple of years ago, I could only give her a supporting part there, because of the different focus, but I always wanted to put her center stage in a story as well, and this Exchange afforded me the opportunity to:


She blinded me with science (1848 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Émilie du Châtelet/Voltaire (Writer), Émilie du du Châtelet/ Florent-Claude du Chastellet-Lomont, Émilie du Châtelet/Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Émilie du Châtelet/Science
Characters: Émilie du Châtelet, Voltaire (Writer), Florent-Claude du Chastellet-Lomont, Jean François de Saint-Lambert
Additional Tags: Romance, POV Female Character, Falling In Love, Established Relationship, Developing Relationship, Break Up, Reconciliation
Summary:

The first time she kisses him, it’s partly to shut Voltaire up. How two people of genius fell in love and tried to live with each other for two decades.

If Émilie/Voltaire is such a well documented relationship that it was tricky to distill its essence into a short story, the relationship between Sheridan and Elizabeth Lochley has to be one of the most underwritten on Babylon 5, and not just because Lochley only shows up in the last season. However, we did get fragments of backstory, and it's been my pleasure trying to flesh them out into a coherent whole:

Someone like you (1953 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms, Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Lochley/John Sheridan, Elizabeth Lochley & John Sheridan
Characters: Elizabeth Lochley, John Sheridan
Additional Tags: Exes, Relationship Study, Character Study, Trust, Friendship, Missing Scene
Summary:

John Sheridan and Elizabeth Lochley have history. More importantly, they know they can trust each other.

This is a little frivolity I wrote to amuse [Bad username: mildred_of_midgard], who'd wished for someone to write her Diocletian & or / Maximian for several Yuletides in a row. Last year, I actually caught up with the late Roman Empire somewhat, and when I discovered the insane family soap that went with Mildred's Competant Autocrat/Loyal if disgruntled Sidekick saga, well:

Something's Gotta Give (3514 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 3rd Century CE RPF, Roman Emperors 3rd Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Emperor Diocletian/Emperor Maximian, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus | Diocletian/Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus | Galerius
Characters: Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus | Emperor Diocletian, Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus| Emperor Maximinian, Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus | Emperor Galerius, Constantine the Great (d. 337 CE), Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius | Emperor Maxentius, Flavia Maximiana Theodora, Flavia Maxima Fausta Augusta, Galeria Valeria, Flavius Valerius Severus | Emperor Severus II.
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Corporate, Alternate Universe - Crack, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2022, Yuletide
Summary:

Subject: Re: 20th Anniversary – and more
From: Herculius@tetrarchy.com
To: Jovius@tetrarchy.com:
Diocletian,
You want me to do what?????

When Senior CEO Diocletian decides to retire, he imagines his succession has been arranged. He couldn't be more wrong...

In this year, I participated for the first time in trickortreatex, and as I got assigned to cahn, it only made sense to write her a trick and a treat both. Which is how I ended up with a horror story and a cozy friendship hurt/comfort. The horror story also could be summarized as "how the villain of my fandom gets his comeuppance (kinda)", though I think it can be read without any canon knowledge, as I attempted to include all the necessary info in the story itself:

Fool's Fate (5346 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF, 18th Century CE Frederician RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich Wilhelm I. von Preußen & Jacob Paul von Gundling, Friedrich Wilhelm I. von Preußen & Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Friedrich Wilhelm I. von Preußen & Hans Herrmann von Katte
Characters: Friedrich Wilhelm I von Preußen | Frederick William I of Prussia, Jacob Paul von Gundling, Johann Heinrich Schubert, Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Hans Hermann von Katte, Sophie Dorothea von Hannover | Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, August Wilhelm von Preußen | Augustus William of Prussia (1722-1758)
Additional Tags: Character Study, Haunting, Dysfunctional Relationships, Dysfunctional Family, FW is his own warning, Endgame, Royalty, Abusive Relationships, Ghost Drifting, Non-Linear Narrative, Trick or Treat: Trick
Summary:

As he's facing his death, there are lot of ghosts waiting to catch up with King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, and a reckoning to be made...

Whereas you definitely have to be familiar with Babylon 5 in general and Vir and Lennier in particular for my writerly return to the B5verse with this tale of a Centauri & Minbari friendship:


Soul Food (3649 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Vir Cotto & Lennier
Characters: Vir Cotto, Lennier (Babylon 5)
Additional Tags: Friendship, Developing Friendships, Hurt/Comfort, Trick or Treat: Treat, Missing Scene
Summary:

Five times in five years during which Vir and Lennier share drinks, food and friendship.