Sara, fandom old, she/her. Writer (chamel on ao3), scientist. Sometimes I draw things. Multifandom. Mostly TMFU (Napollya), RWRB, MCU (Lokius) & a smattering of others. Lots of complaining about writing.
Above the break are works and series currently in progress, as well as recently published standalones. Feel free to drop into my ask box if you have and questions or comments about them or any of my other fics! Full fic list under the break. Main links are to AO3.
Kiss Ficlets on Tumblr (Firstprince, Napollya, Lokius)
RWRB, Alex/Henry
High Ticket Attractions (Jurassic Park AU) cover art on tumblr
Cold Slope (alpine skiing olympics AU)
Fox in the Snow (neighbors AU, snowed in)
The End of the End (We Live Again) (palm springs AU, time loop)
It’s a Crime (to Fall in Love) (Hot Fuzz-inspired murder mystery AU)
TMFU, Napoleon/Illya
Hurt Like Mine (soulmate AU)
Future Starts Slow (10 years later, post-UNCLE reunion)
Everyone Hides (Some of the Time) (5+1 Illya in disguises)
Playing Cat and Mouse with the Light (non-linear partners-to-lovers-to-exes-to-lovers)
Loki Series, Loki/Mobius
Paint Me in a Corner (But My Color Comes Back) (parole officer AU)
Desperate Measures (h/c mission fic for the lokius rbb)
Ain't No Place for a Better Man (old west AU)
Enemies of the Ocean (stranded on a lifeboat AU)
Other Fandoms
Call Me Husband (In the Grey, Bronco/Sid, pre-canon getting together)
No Ordinary Friend (The Pairing, Blond Calum/Ginger Calum, missing scenes from the novel)
RWRB, Alex/Henry
Bluebonnets and Polo Mallets (pro rodeo/polo AU)
The Neighbourly Thing to Do (neighbors AU with a twist)
Special Tour (of My Heart) (white house tour guide AU)
All the Chances We Took (spy AU sequel fic)
The Roommate Problem (roommates AU... or is it?)
Since I Memorized Your Face (aged up second-chance soulmates AU)
Not the Hero (stuntman/director AU) cover art on tumblr
Infinitely Late at Night (vampire/waffle house AU)
Flowers Only Grow Where There Are Seeds (white house gardener AU)
Tonight, You’re Gold (Olympics AU)
Our Get Along Oodie (grad students AU)
Body and Soul(mate) (bodyswap soulmate spy AU) cover art on tumblr
The Impossible Soul (westworld/android AU)
The Hazards of Unsolicited Toy Advice (pet store meet cute AU)
So Close to Something Better Left Unknown (spy AU, fuck or die) cover art on tumblr
False Dichotomy (You’ve Got Mail AU) cover art on tumblr
Trying My Patience (Try Pink Carnations) (florist/cake artist wedding AU)
You're the Perfect Gift for Me (Alex is a Hallmark movie ‘bad guy’ AU)
This Hell of a Season (Nova-verse spies Christmas 3+1) cover art on tumblr
Taste the Way You Bleed (WWDITS AU)
In the Dog Days (supernatural/magic AU)
Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile (canon-divergent Kensington hookup AU)
Something To Be Proud Of (Edinburgh Pride AU)
Lessons in Foreign Diplomacy (1785 ambassadors AU)
Will You Brie Mine? (cheesemonger AU)
Step Into My Office, Baby (office AU)
Getting Clinical (STI clinic meet-cute AU)
Theory and Practice (rival grad students AU)
That's My Trouble (detective/ME AU)
Please Don’t Let Me Be So Understood (accidental couples therapy AU) cover art on tumblr
Always Where I Need To Be (roommates AU + David cuteness)
The Sky is Open (1970s Pan Am pilots AU)
All the Old Showstoppers (canon-divergent Celebrity Bake Off AU) cover art on tumblr
Nova, Baby (CIA/MI6 AU) cover art on tumblr
All for a Taste of the Honey (FBI agent AU feat. stripper!Henry)
May Your New Years Dreams Come True (office NYE party AU)
The Spirit of Giving (neighbors holiday party AU)
Class(room) Warfare (professors AU)
Sun in the Sky (You Know How I Feel) (post bonus-chapter canon)
(Forever) In My Way (5+1 of Henry getting in Alex’s way, AU)
Tiny Little Movies (drabble collection)
TMFU, Napoleon/Illya
Canon-Setting
Just a Shot Away from You (5+1 ordered to kill each other)
All Comes Crashing (last night to live, confessions)
Love is a Deserter (canon-set exes getting back together)
A Home for the Holidays (decorating a Christmas tree)
The Life You Had in Mind (Glass Onion crossover)
Eyes on the Horizon (early relationship, sequel to “I Trust No One”)
A Kiss Away From Being Dangerous (4+1, warnings about being dangerous)
Loving You is Cherry Pie (5+1 Napoleon wearing aprons)
That's What Other People Do (outside observer, together but they just don’t realize it yet)
Double Dutch with a Hand Grenade (Illya wears short shorts, Napoleon loses his mind) illustration on tumblr
Cold Hands, Warm Heart (Illya comforts Napoleon)
I Trust No One (And Especially You) (Istanbul mission, the bath house)
Half Asleep (All Your Dreams Come Alive) (clothes/bed sharing + comfort after a nightmare)
Hard to be Soft, Tough to be Tender (Illya takes a bullet for Napoleon)
Another Sunny Day (ficlet; the boys have a picnic)
Good To Me (Illya does nice things for Napoleon, misunderstandings ensue)
Follow You Into The Dark (whumptober, presumed dead)
Where Doesn't It Hurt? (tropetember H/C, cleaning wounds)
All Your Little Words (5+1 Napoleon telling Illya “I love you”)
The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret (undercover as a couple)
Another First Kiss (6+1 stolen kisses)
Enough of a Natural Disaster for Me (apologies + kissing in the rain)
Impostors (sleeping with lookalikes, series)
What You Meant (5+1 Illya telling Napoleon he’s a terrible spy)
The Definition of Madness (time loop mission fic for whumptober)
And I Was The Boy Who Was Lucky (KY derby mission fic) cover art on tumblr
Light Will Keep Your Heart Beating in the Future (nonlinear sleep deprivation)
Love is a Chemical (Illya gets dosed with a love potion)
AUs
The Harrowed and the Haunted (paranormal investigator AU)
Black Moon (For All Mankind/space AU)
How’s About Cookin’ Something Up With Me? (teacher AU, baking)
Another Christmas Song (This Time I’ll Sing Along) (neighbors AU)
Consider the Price to an Elf (santaland AU)
A Hard Habit To Break (canon-verse AU, secret relationship)
White Knuckles (Olympic figure skating AU) cover art on tumblr
The Makings of a Perfect Christmastime (Christmas in Connecticut AU) cover art on tumblr
Love is a Losing Game (60s chess AU; series) cover art on tumblr
The Best Thing About NYC is You and Me (modern roommates art student/fashion designer AU; series) part 1 cover art on tumblr, part 2 cover art on tumblr
Love Is A Great Teacher (professors AU; series) cover art on tumblr
Loki Series, Loki/Mobius
Cold Light (Norway AU)
True Hollywood Romance (fake-dating actor AU)
Don We Now Our Gay Apparel (ugly holiday sweater office AU)
Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (stranded at a Christkindlmarkt)
It's Been a Bad Day Lately (post s01 time loop)
The Truth is Just a Rule That You Can Bend (canon-divergent AU, secret relationship, fallout of Roxxcart divorce)
The Hardest Cut (bodyguard AU)
My Name Stitched On Your Lips (exes getting back together AU)
You, or Your Memory (troptember amnesia, fix-it)
Once in a Lifetime (Bookshop/GO AU) cover art on tumblr
What Makes A Good Man (Art Thief/CIA Agent AU; series) part 1 cover art on tumblr, part 3 cover art on tumblr
Mandalorian, Cara/Din
You Left Me Under Your Spell (15 independent one shots or short multichaps)
Hanging On For Dear Life (8 stories inspired by songs from the album Dear Life by Brendan Benson)
Do You Want to Know a Secret? (epic story of Din, Cara, and the kid following season 1)
Crossovers
Maybe, This Time (Mandalorian/BSG, Cara/Din, Lee/Kara) cover art on tumblr
Familiar, But Not Too Familiar (Mandalorian/Witcher, Cara/Din, Geralt/Jaskier)
would you do a rwrb fic with the premise of In the Grey? 😍
This has reminded me (by bringing me back into my tumblr inbox lol) that I had another ask on these same lines, firstprince as Bronco/Sid. Apologies to the previous anon!
It does lend itself pretty well to the setup—the Brit and the American, the flirting, the banter. For the "Rachel" role, come along with me here: Zahra. I can just SEE her picking up these two guys out a prison where they've managed to get themselves locked up because they got into trouble. Plus, even if she's not canonically a lawyer, I can definitely see her as a kind of fixer. Nora could easily be on the team as a hacker. I can even see Pez working with them because he can talk his way into anything.
As far as a fic goes, there's probably no danger of that happen any time soon, sadly. I have a few other wips I would do first (orchestra, pool players, and adding to my existing spy series), but I'm actually taking a bit of a pause on fic to hopefully make some progress on pulling my original novel project together. But I appreciate you thinking of me, it would be very fun!
There's something about how in the book, Alex and Henry both long so deeply for home. Alex ruminates and misses Texas, and Henry is stuck in a big palace that isn't quite him, always looking up at the stars because it reminds him of his dad (home) and it reminds him of how things were.
The fact that they both find a home in each other is peak romance and I get a little weak every time I think about that.
Is Henry having thick thighs canon? Most fics I've read Alex is obsessed with Henry's thighs and I find it hilarious that Nick indeed has thick eyes and Taylor indeed has long eyelashes (which is Alex canon) 🤣🤣
This is cracking me up, I am honored that you came into my ask box for input on this very important question. The short answer is: yes, Henry's thick thighs are book canon! Alex mentions "the power of his thighs" as a distinct turn on while watching Henry play polo in Connecticut, but the main clincher line is this one:
He feels Henry's thighs—those goddamn horseback-riding, polo-playing thighs—moving around him... (Red, White and Royal Blue, chapter 7)
The thing about horseback riding is that 90% of your control comes from your "seat", i.e., your legs and thighs, so they have to be very muscular and well developed. This is especially true in disciplines like polo, where you have to lean down with a mallet to hit the ball, where you only have one hand on the reins. Your ability to direct your horse and stay on comes pretty much entirely from your thighs. Polo players have thighs of STEEL.
So yes, there is textual evidence for Alex's obsession with Henry's thighs. God bless.
Alex snorts and shakes his head. “Bullshit. Ok, I can’t know for sure since this is the first time we’re actually witnessing Tyrannosaurus behaviour, but I can just tell, you know?” he says with an emphatic gesture. “What they’re doing has all the hallmarks of mating behaviour. I’m certain that if we gave them an egg, they’d raise it together.”
“So, what you’re telling me is that my family has unwittingly created a lesbian dinosaur utopia.”
“I mean… yeah, you could certainly put it that way,” Alex allows.
Henry laughs, practically giddy. “I think that may be the best thing I’ve heard all year.”
(After spending too many years writing internal memos, Henry's looking forward to his new assignment: writing educational materials for an unprecedented theme park that promises to change the world. He's also not complaining about the fact that he'll have to work in close proximity to the park's scorching hot chief paleontologist, Dr. Alex Claremont-Diaz. After a rocky start, they find common ground and a successful partnership in helping protect the park's residents—until an unexpected tropical storm and a security shutdown leaves them fighting for their lives.)
T, 40k, 7 chapters, posting weekly on Thursday
Chapter 1: Welcome to Jurassic Park | Chapter 2: Conversations (and the Lack Thereof) | Chapter 3: Courtship Behaviours | Chapter 4: The Gathering Storm | Chapter 5: Shutdown | Chapter 6: In Extremis
I almost forgot it was Wednesday and time for a sneak preview of the next chapter of High Ticket Attractions! What's this? A flashback in Alex POV? 👀
Gingerly, he helped Roger into a more upright position so he could wrap the makeshift bandages around his middle. How they were going to get out of here was another question. It turned out that Roger had another nasty puncture wound on his leg, hidden by his pants, and all Alex could do for that is use his belt as a tourniquet to try to slow the bleeding.
“You gotta get out of here,” Roger said grimly as Alex worked on trying to stabilize him. “There’s no way I’m gonna make it. But you still can.”
“I’m not leaving you here to die,” Alex gritted out.
“It’s not so bad. First human ever to be baby rex food,” Roger tried to joke.
Alex glared at him, but that didn’t mean Roger wasn’t right. Alex was strong, but Roger was a burly man, and there was no way Alex could carry him out alone. Be that as it may, Alex was also extremely stubborn, and he wasn’t going to leave without trying. Not even when the thud of approaching footsteps hailed the return of the rexes.
Thank you for the tags today (and Sunday!) @loki-is-my-kink-awakening and @thosegayoldmen! Throwing out a wide tag net again this week even though for a chunk of you it's definitely no longer Wednesday lol.
I used to use Google docs, but the white mode only was really annoying me (tires my eyes), so I swapped to Ellipsus (which I genuinely love and recommend), but it was bothering me a bit that I need wifi in order to use it, so now I switched to LibreOffice Writer, which I do like.
It very much has a Microsoft Word feel, but is open source and you need no accounts to use it. It's local on your device, so no AI can scan it, and no wifi is needed.
I still wish it had the Google Docs cards, because, bitch, that thing is so good for easy organizing.
Four years. That’s how long Henry and Alex have revolved around each other in friend groups, attended parties and concerts, endured holidays, celebrated birthdays and professional achievements. Henry knew very early on how special Alex is, brighter than the sun.
Others took note too, of course, Henry wasn't the only one. Alex attracts a lot of attention from women and men alike, and he gives it back. A natural flirt, charismatic, smart, handsome. Well, Alex is hot as hell, actually. Some days it’s all Henry can do to not stare and drool.
It’s Thursday night, which means trivia and half priced beer at their local queer bar, and the gang is assembled. Henry, Alex, June and Nora, Pez. At this point Pez is not a fifth wheel, something Henry begs Pez not to tell him too much about.
Their team is on a winning streak, dominating three weeks in a row now. No one loves winning more than Alex. He’s animated, sitting next to Henry, their thighs pressed together, making sure everyone’s glass stays filled while they cycle through rounds of questions.
Henry’s relishing in the warmth emanating from Alex, thinking what it would feel like to have more of him. Yes, they hug. As friends. Sometimes long enough for Henry to quickly bury his nose against Alex’s neck and smell him, a private thrill.
The pitcher is empty and Alex volunteers to get a refill. Henry watches him lean against the bar, a group of girls initiate a conversation and one touches Alex’s arm while laughing. Henry feels sick. Excuses himself to go to the bathroom, sees Alex glance at him out of the corner of his eye as he heads down the long back hallway.
Alex will never be his, Henry needs to get a grip. Gives himself a stern reprimand as he washes his hands, looking long and hard at himself in the mirror. He needs to get over Alex, maybe download that app again. Ugh.
Pushing the door to exit, Henry comes face to face with Alex.
“Are you okay Hen, thought I should check on you,” Alex asks, concern on his face.
“Of course, all fine. I’m fine. Let’s go finish the round, shall we?” Henry deflects, hoping Alex buys it.
He doesn’t. In fact, Alex steps closer to Henry, backing him up against the wall. Alex moves closer still, until their toes are touching, Alex’s breath ghosting Henry’s face. Henry takes it in, smelling beer and Alex’s cologne. Inhales his own shaky breath.
“You sure? Cause you looked upset. Was wondering if I might be able to do something about that,” Alex says, voice low. His hand grazes Henry’s, hooking their pinkies together.
Henry’s thoughts are racing, this can’t be happening, can it? If he’s going to get just one chance he’s going to take it. Calling his bluff, Henry replies,”What did you have in mind?”
“Can I kiss you? I’d really like to kiss you, if that’s all right. If it won’t ruin our friendship.” Henry nods and Alex leans in, his mouth pressing softly to Henry’s, then pulls back, eyes locked together.
“Fuck me. I mean, I knew kissing you would be amazing cause just look at your lips but oh my god, Henry. I’ve been wanting to do that for so long, never imagined it would be in a dingy bar by the men’s bathroom,” Alex’s words tumble out in a rush.
Henry has so many questions, but kissing Alex again is pushing them to the side. “Can we do that again, I rather liked it,” teases Henry, and Alex’s smile morphs into something big, dimples on display.
Pinkies still entwined, Alex leans all the way in, hand on Henry’s waist, and Henry reaches up to wrap his fingers around Alex’s neck, pulling him into another kiss. This one more heated, nothing soft about it.
“Hey, here’s an idea,” suggests Alex, their foreheads pressed together. “Let’s go to yours, we can just leave out the exit here. I’ll text Nora that you weren’t feeling well and I’m taking you home. I looked at the rest of the trivia categories, they’ll be fine without us. Sound good?”
“I’m willing to endure the wrath of your sister and our friends to get you alone right now so yes, let’s do that, love,” Henry agrees.
Pulling out his phone, Alex starts typing, leaving Henry to gaze at his friend. Now also more than a friend, apparently, funny how that can happen when you least expect it.
“Done, let’s go,” announces Alex, shoving his phone back in his pocket and fully grasping Henry’s hand in his, opening the door. Off they go, out into the night. To the start of their forever.
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Earning nods for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for “The Beast in Me” and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for “Widow’s Bay” this makes Rhys the first male actor to pick up leading nominations in two of the Emmys big three categories this century 💕
The crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology, Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales, launched yesterday, and we’re already almost 50% funded and a Kickstarter “Project We Love”!
With Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales, our authors and artists bring our perspective as queer adults in the 21st century to the stories, some ancient, some modern, that meant the most to us when we were young. Each creator selected a folktale, fairy tale, myth, or legend that had personal significance for them, then reimagined these personal touch-stones as we wish they could be: stories that uphold our cultures, stories that impart the lessons and morals we wish to impart, stories that drive home the cautions we wish we’d received, stories in which people like us are the heroes held forth for emulation. We’ve transformed these stories to be more inclusive, more personal, more understanding of others, and—of course!—much more queer.
The book contains 23 stories, each up to 5,000 words long; 21 full-page artworks; a 4-page comic by Max Jason Peterson; and a 10-page comic by Jupiter V—a total of 46 queer fanworks inspired by stories from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
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