My Story-Book

So I did the Hurt Comfort Exchange again and as always it was awesome.

I didn't get Riptide this year (can't have everything) but I *did* get the most awesome Famous Five epic (I do not use the word lightly). Futurefic, and um Kirrincest (as adults) :D

Knight of Cups, Page of Wands

Dick/Julian, 43k words, NC17. Beautifully written. I treasure it. Go and read it now.

I wrote:

A Sleight of Hand, Sherlock Holmes, Gen (ish, you've met me before), Sherlock & Watson, 3600 words

Title: Murray Knows
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/M
Wordcount:250
Notes: For mmom and catyah
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody, Murray
Summary: I think we all know Murray knows :)

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Title: Night Moves
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/R
Wordcount: 200
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes: Written for mmom
Summary: Sometimes Nick goes to bed first...

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Title: Learning To Dance
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/R
Wordcount: 370
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes: Written for mmom
Summary: In the beginning, on the boat, they pretended to sleep in separate rooms

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Title: Like The Mona Lisa's Heart
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/R
Wordcount: 3950
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Notes: A little dabble in how the show might have been, if it was made now. The year is 2019 (ie pre pandemic). Boys are canon-age.
Summary: Nick, Cody and Murray help out Mama Jo with one of her proteges, and find a whole lot more trouble than they bargained for.

Cody Allen's nose was broken. Again. And Cody was anything but happy about it.

I am writing again yay!

So I have even set myself a wee 2021 goal like so:

10985 / 30000 words. 37% done!

Which is quite fun.

2020: I wrote under 5k (of posted fic) which is possibly my lowest ever. And there wasn't much unposted... maybe another 2k if that. So let's see if this keeps me motivated :)

Title: One With Everything
Author: tinx_r
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: PG New Relationship
Wordcount: 1100
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Summary: It's new, and they're still finding their way.

On the archive

Almost a year ago, quoshara prompted me "brewing storms"... sorry for the long wait...

Title: Lightning Rod
Author:
Fandom: Riptide
Genre/Rating: Slash/First time/M
Wordcount: 6400
Pairing/Characters: Nick/Cody
Summary: Nick and Cody are still getting used to living together on the boat. A week of stormy weather provides some challenges... and a whole new outlook.


Lightning Rod on AO3

I read the latest Alex Delaware (Kellerman) at the start of lockdown, and enjoyed it more than I have for a while. It inspired me to mainline them, so I read about 25-33 or so (the ones I have on kindle).

I’ve never mainlined them before due to getting the early ones from the library, so having to take what I could get, and then hanging out, these days, 12 months between releases.

Anyway, I’ve gone back to the beginning, I’m up to 4, (luckily mum gave me birthday money for books), and I’m really enjoying them (not really news, I know). Helpful that I’ve forgotten most of the plots so it’s like a brand new series, only with the joy of familiar characters and the comfort of knowing I’ll like them.

I’d also either missed or forgotten the continuity of the minor characters and the back story were given; the beginning of Alex and Milo’s friendship, the beginning of their relationships. 

The 80s attitudes to sexuality are instructive, also - not so much the overt stuff, but the inbuilt stuff, because, of course, the books I’m reading now were written in the early eighties. I read them first in the late nineties and what’s also interesting is that at the time, I didn’t notice.

It feels like society changed very fast, but of course we’re talking 25 years so now I just feel old.