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Hello! This is, believe it or not, the first year that I have ever done Chocolate Box, but I was experienceing Yuletide envy and went looking at the tag set and, well, here we are. it is also ages since I've written an exchange letter but I feel like I have a lot of things to say here. The first of which, obviously, is to thank you so much for writing for me! I am actually really easy to please and I'm sure I'll like whatever you write for me. I've set out some very basic thoughts and prompts below, but feel free to go your own way, provided you stay clear of my DNWs.

In general, I like the following things: enemies being forced to work together; competent characters doing what they're good at OR being forced outside their comfort zone; relationships between equal partners; happy or hopeful endings; canon-divergence AUs; character-driven stories and plots; adventures, quests and other hijinks. I am perfectly happy to have what seems like a fragment of a larger story, if writing out a whole caper seems like too much work for an exchange with a 300 word minimum!

In terms of my smut likes, I am pretty vanilla. I'm really here for character interaction rather than specific sex acts, so if you want to fade to black that's fine with me. More specifically, hands and mouths are sexy; I love switching and simultaneous orgasms; I kind of like awkward or bad sex, too.

I DNW: A/B/O, D/s and related dynamics; harm to children within the story (references to canonical child death are fine, though); non-canon-setting AUs. In smut, I DNW: humiliation and dirty talk; scat or watersports; anal sex. I also have some request-specific DNWs, which are noted below and on my AO3 signup.

On to the specific requests:

( Ivanhoe )

( Alias )

( Formula 1 RPF )

( Crossover Fandom )

( The Expanse )

( Warrior (2019) )

I wrote five drabbles (or drabble-adjacent things) for this challenge.

First of all, my assignment:

it's never the same river twice (200 words). Rivers of London, Peter Grant/Original Beverly Brook. I strongly believe that Peter and Bev would be 100% behind this experiment.

After that, four treats, three of them crossovers:

Desert Air (200 words). Star Wars, an AU where Shmi survives.

Game of Cards (100 words). Star Wars/Firely, Mal Reynolds and Han Solo, playing sabaac.

Just Another Zombie Apocalypse (202 words). BTVS/GoT, Buffy Summers and Daenerys Targaryen. It occurred to me as I wrote this that both of them really like setting things on fire.

Escape from the Dinner (100 words). Crazy Rich Asians/Black Panther, Nakia and Astrid, because obviously their worlds are going to overlap someday.

Hi! So it's been a while and I have a lot to catch up on.

I have written a few things since last I posted.

For Alternate Songs, the ASOIAF/GOT AU exchange:
The Battle of Storm's End: Arya, Sansa and Aegon Targaryen IN SPACE! With sentient direwolf spaceships! Having spent a long time being snobbish about only liking canon-divergent AUs it turns out that I was totally wrong and everything is better IN SPACE!

For the multifandom drabble exchange I wrote a pinch hit & two treats:
Wolf in Hiding (ASOIAF; Sansa Stark) a drabble sequence about Sansa and the wolves which are and aren't with her.
Re-cognition (Westworld; Dolores Abernathy & Bernard Lowe) where Bernard and Dolores talk about tragedy.
The Second-Years are Probably Expendable (Oxford Time Travel Universe; James Dunworthy, Badri Chaudhuri). No living second-years were harmed in writing this drabble.

I thought a while about signing up for the AU exchange but in the end wasn't really excited enough about it despite my newfound love for putting everything IN SPACE, and I am so glad that I didn't because

crossovering is back! This year I am absolutely going to nominate to make sure that all the fandoms I want are there!

And finally, I am namesquatting over at pillowfort here but have no idea how it works and haven't filled out my profile or posted anything, and it seems like the whole site is about to self-destruct in some kind of tumblresque purity wank anyway.

SO here I am, posting new fic for the first time in years. I had an excellent

crossovering exchange. I wrote TWO stories, and I received something really amazing in return. First, my gift:

a wolf age ere the world falls (10031 words) by wnnbdarklord
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Thor (Marvel), Bran Stark, Ned Stark, Lyanna Stark, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Background & Cameo Characters
Additional Tags: Crossover, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Infinity Gems, Memory Alteration, Memory Loss, Time Skips, Background Character Death, Canonical Character Death, references to canon typical violence and sexual assault
Summary:
The boy in the weirwood dreams of another world, where heroes exist that can help save them all. He reaches through and pulls. Blue light fills him as the universe tears apart. The world changes.

---

An MCU/ASoIaF crossover where the Avengers are pulled into Westeros to help with their White Walker problem. Except they get overshot and get sent farther back than intended. What else is Tony Stark going to do but build his way out?

I have wanted some version of this crossover for years, and this was wonderful beyond my wildest dreams. Everyone in it is perfect, especially Tony, but really, everyone. It is perfect!

Meanwhile, I wrote a SPN/SW story as my assignment, which was a lot of fun, but also challenging because I've never written SW (barring some 30-year old Mary Sue drawerfic) and it's been a long time since I've written SPN, and I really didn't want this to be like the last time I wrote Winchesters in Space. Also, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that in this universe Sam and Dean would name their spaceship Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell.

Paved with Bad Intentions (The Road out of Hell) (7815 words) by Vaznetti
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Supernatural
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sam Winchester, Han Solo, Dean Winchester, Chewbacca (Star Wars)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Action/Adventure, Pre-Star Wars: A New Hope, SPN S3
Summary: Sam finds a way to save Dean from Hell; it involves sending them both to a galaxy far far away. Set in SPN Season 3, and some time before ANH.

I also wrote a very last-minute treat crossing over Game of Thrones and the Vorkosigan books, which in the way of last-minute treats was very well received, and now I might have to write more of it.

Winterfell Tales (2615 words) by Vaznetti
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Game of Thrones (TV), Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ekaterin Vorsoisson Vorkosigan/Miles Vorkosigan
Characters: Miles Vorkosigan, Ekaterin Vorsoisson Vorkosigan, Sansa Stark, Armsman Roic, Tyrion Lannister
Additional Tags: Crossover, crossovering treat, Game of Thrones spoilers
Summary: It's like something out of an old story, Miles thinks: a Betan's idea of what Barrayar was like.

Spartacus had chicken pox last week, and has his half-term break this week, so I have been enjoying an unexpected couple of weeks on a very light work schedule. Luckily these are the two lightest weeks of a light term for me! Last week was also unusually warm so I spent a lot of time in the garden digging up weeds and planting seeds and generally clearing some things up. Now it no longer looks quite so much like a disaster zone, although the lawn could already use more cutting (which will have to wait until the weather clears a bit, and until the garden waste bin is emptied so that I have somewhere to put the grass cuttings.)

Now the weather has turned cooler and wetter, and so I am finally uploading some very, very old X-Files fic to AO3; some of it is so old I have no idea when I first posted it. 2001? 2002? some time between 2002 and 2005? Why didn't I put dates on things when I uploaded them to my old personal webpage? And then there are the other questions, like: how did I expect this story to end? What was I even thinking? Why did I write a story about Alex Krycek and a piece of marble? Surely I haven't written the only Monica Reyes/Marita Covarrubias story on AO3? (I mean, I'm sure the answer to that last one is "not", but I typed in the pairing differently somehow.) Anyway, I feel a bit bad about flooding the fandom tag with old fic, but rationally I know that there aren't that many to post.

Tomorrow's project: cheesecake, because Shavuot is the holiday where some people pull an all-nighter and everybody gets cheesecake.

It's kind of shame that the days of the drabble community are done, because there could be one for The 100, and it could be called The 100 100s! I would have laughed, anyway.

Here are two drabbles, both set post season 2. I would really appreciate some comments before I release them into the wilderness of tumblr, especially as I am only now starting to catch up on Season 1.

Both gen, both suitable for all.

( Kane pov )

( Lexa pov )

Crossposts: http://vaznetti.livejournal.com/563337.html

I wrote two stories this year -- one in the main collection, and a Madness ficlet.

The Crown of Hed (6397 words) by Vaznetti
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Riddle-Master Trilogy - Patricia A. McKillip
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Tristan of Hed, Morgon of Hed, Astrin Ymris, Rood of An, Lyraluthuin, Bere of Isig
Summary: When Tristan left Hed, she took her warmest cloak and her second-best dress, and the pieces of jewelry that Bere of Isig had sent to her, one each year since the end of the war.

I love this universe so much! I reread the books pretty much every year, so this story was both delightful and challenging to write. ( I ramble more under the cut )

The Unveiling of Form (509 words) by Vaznetti
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Exiles Saga and Galactic Milieu - Julian May
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Marc Remillard | Atoning Unifex
Additional Tags: canonical genocide
Summary: Unifex stands on Molakar, and waits.

I wasn't planning to write anything beyond my main story, but this prompt grabbed me at the last minute and wouldn't let go. ( more commentary below )

Crossposts: http://vaznetti.livejournal.com/559418.html

I saw this meme at

snacky's journal, and I want to do it too!

WIP buttkick: these are titles/brief descriptions of my active WIPs. Pick one and I'll write you 100 or more new words for it. (I offer no guarantees, but I'll do my best!)

1. ASOIAF, post series. Daenerys is Queen, Tyrion is her Hand, nobody is happy. This started out as a Myrcella story but I think will end up as a Tyrion story.

2. ASOIAF, post ADWD. Davos goes on his mission to Skagos, and succeeds. But on the way back he's blown across the Narrow Sea to Braavos. Hijinks and reunions ensue.

3. ASOIAF AU, Catelyn and Lysa's marriages are switched: Lysa married Ned and Catelyn married Jon Arryn.

4. I am thinking seriously of writing more of the Roman history story I wrote for Yuletide.

5. Lymond Chronicles/Dr. Who crossover. Marthe runs off with River Song mid-PiF. (Tentative title "not in our stars but in ourselves")

6. Complete crack crossover, in which some set of characters from Spooks are magically transported to Westeros. This has mostly been abandoned while I try to figure out what a philologist would make of Westerosi and Valyrian.

7. While looking through my files I also discovered a story working off an old kinkmeme prompt, in which Arya is the daughter who stays in King's Landing, and she's married off to Lancel. I don't even know. I guess I could finish it?

I need to do some writing! Although I now have an exchange story due, an article to finish, and a talk to write. The more, the merrier, right?

Crossposts: http://vaznetti.livejournal.com/548745.html

Part I

( The ship rose and fell through the waves and the rigging creaked gently. There wasn't much wind yet, although the ship's master said that would change once they got past Gulltown and out into the Narrow Sea. )

Title: Enter Heaven in Muddy Shoes
Author/Artist:

vaznetti
For:

netgirl_y2k
Pairings/Characters: Brienne of Tarth, Arya Stark, Podrick Payne
Rating: PG
Words: c. 11,000
Warnings: Spoilers through ADWD; violence and language as in canon.
Prompt: Brienne & Arya - Sansa isn't the Stark daughter that Brienne eventually discovers. I'd love some protective Brienne, and Arya being reluctant to trust anyone.
Disclaimer: I am not GRRM, which has allowed me to play fast and loose with his chronology and timing (mostly fast). I have, however, borrowed or only slightly altered a line or two of his, particularly when presenting a moment he had already written from another point of view. Title from Theodore Roethke, The Return.
Thanks: to Maidenjedi for a very quick and very helpful beta-read (and a wonderful suggestion for the title!), and to Linndechir for organizing such a great exchange.

( Brienne went from ship to ship, each time with the same questions... )

To Part II

Yes, I wrote this story, and yes, I am burying it by posting it on a Saturday, but the exchange I wrote it for is over and I need to get it out and about.

Title: Enter Heaven in Muddy Shoes
Author/Artist:

vaznetti
For:

netgirl_y2k
Pairings/Characters: Brienne of Tarth, Arya Stark, Podrick Payne
Rating: PG
Words: c. 11,000
Warnings: Spoilers through ADWD; violence and language as in canon.
Prompt: Brienne & Arya - Sansa isn't the Stark daughter that Brienne eventually discovers. I'd love some protective Brienne, and Arya being reluctant to trust anyone.
Disclaimer: I am not GRRM, which has allowed me to play fast and loose with his chronology and timing (mostly fast). I have, however, borrowed or only slightly altered a line or two of his, particularly when presenting a moment he had already written from another point of view. Title from Theodore Roethke, The Return.
Thanks: to Maidenjedi for a very quick and very helpful beta-read (and a wonderful suggestion for the title!), and to Linndechir for organizing such a great exchange.

( The Titan's Daughter makes a stop in Maidenpool, and Brienne finds the other Stark girl. )

for the asoiafkinkmeme prompt, Joffrey survives the wedding, and the wedding night. Warnings for dub-con, violence, and Joffrey. R. AU. Major character death.

( She is the Queen, and she wants her mother. )

Crossposts: http://vaznetti.livejournal.com/542570.html

In the blank space between the trenches
Doctor Who
Gen, G, River Song, spoilers for 5x13

( In this life, River Song has an office. )

Guys! It's been more than two years since I wrote anything! And I should have sent this off to a beta, but I wasn't sure that I would ever get around to posting it if I took the time to do so.

Crossposts: http://vaznetti.livejournal.com/519663.html

I wrote this for

eid_fic, a community set up to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, which occurs this weekend, by writing stories about Muslim characters. I am 100% behind the notion that writing is often the best response to a sense of exclusion in fandom, and the challenge gave me the opportunity to write about a character I've wanted to play with for a while. I recommend the community highly; you can find out more about it here.

Title: House of Shadows
Author: Vanzetti (

vaznetti)
Fandom: Dorothy Dunnett, Lymond Chronicles
Ratings: PG, gen, c. 350 words.
Notes: The character Marthe is a European woman who converted to Islam. Spoilers for the end of Pawn in Frankincense. Many thanks to

cofax7 for beta-reading. All mistakes are my own.

( Lyons. 10th day of Ramadan, 962 A.H. )

Title: Lightning fast and all alone (HL/SPN, Duncan MacLeod, John Winchester)
Author: Vanzetti
Gen, R for violence and language, c. 6400 words
Summary: The past weighs heavy on Duncan MacLeod, and the future on John Winchester.
Post-ep for SPN 1x 16, "Shadow."
Author's notes: Many thanks to Rhi and Rez for beta-reading and hand-holding. The title comes from Townes van Zandt, "High, Low and In Between." Freakishly appropriate lyrics here.

( Two men go hunting a demon; neither is quite what the other expects. )

Comments very welcome; part of me thinks I'm crazy for posting this on a Thursday, but it's done, so here it is.

Current Mood: good

Paper Weight
by Vanzetti
Rated: PG
Category: Gen
Characters: Kathleen Hudak, Victor Henriksen, Cassie Robinson, others
Summary: Kathleen Hudak is a survivor, even when she isn't sure of anything else.
( author's notes )

( The evidence is scattered all over the table, file after file of crime-scene photographs, evidence lists, a familiar face staring back from a booking photo. The other photographs are grimmer: wrecked houses, dead and mutilated bodies, charred skeletons. )

Current Mood: giddy

I could not make this a proper drabble, but at 155 words, it might be an old XF drabble. Consider this a reassertion of the appropriate historical order; there are spoilers for Rome 2x08, although it is set some time after that episode.

Title: Whip Hand
Author:

vaznetti
Warning: Adult themes.
Summary: Octavian has only known success.

( Octavian sits on their bed... )

I wrote this for

rez_lo, who is having upheaval in her life, and who wanted to see a bit more of one of those female characters SPN has lurking around in the corners.

Title: Dust and Air
Author: Vanzetti
Category: Gen, Missouri Mosely, pre-series
Rated: PG
Word count: c. 600
Summary: I went to Missouri, and I learned the truth.
For

rez_lo; thanks to

hossgal for beta-reading. Mistakes are mine; the characters and universe aren't.

( I went to Missouri, and I learned the truth )

Current Mood: calm

And finally, another part of Blessings against the Thunder. No, really. At least it's substantial.

Blessings against the Thunder: Whitefall
by

vaznetti
SPN/FF (John/Zoe and ensembles)
R for language and violence, spoilers for Serenity, c. 4,000 words

Notes: Many thanks to

rez_lo and

musesfool for beta reading and to

the_grynne for going far beyond what might be expected in helping me with Chinese language questions. This one's for

hossgal; I hope she likes it.

Summary: In which some things are broken and some things are mended, plans are made and discarded, Kaylee and Zoe gossip and Sam and Inara have tea. There are also explosions, of various kinds.

Previously:
Eurydice Settlement
Caieta Port
Xú Landing, 1, 2
Xinwuwei Docks, 1, 2
Blackout Zone, 1, 2, 3
Blackout Zone: Epilogue

( They eat out under the stars, though Mal can't help thinking that they were enough to make Serenity's galley feel crowded and noisy, and how that might make a change. In the morning he hears Inara and Zoe laughing as he climbs his ladder, and smiles all the way down the corridor. And there's John Winchester taking up space at the table, drinking his morning tea and grinning like he belongs there, like he's got nothing better to do than hang around on Serenity making women laugh. )

Current Mood: satisfied

The Yuletide names are up, and it's time for the reveal. Here's mine.

Title: My hands remember hers
Author: Vanzetti
Recipient:

random_flores, for Yuletide 2006
Fandom: Deadwood
Pairing: Joanie Stubbs/Calamity Jane
R for language, set post S3, but with no real spoilers
Many thanks to

rez_lo for beta-reading in the face of my many insecurities. The errors of course are all mine.
Summary: Snow in Deadwood, December 23rd: a house turns inside-out, Joanie decorates and Jane goes for a walk.

( There's some kind of crud in Jane's eyes, sticking them closed... )

On a final yuletide-related note, I want everyone to know how much I love

elishavah, because she is awesome beyond the telling of it.

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Entries tagged with fanfic

Chocolate Box Letter

Multifandom Drabbles: What I Wrote

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New Fic!

an unexpected holiday

two drabbles for The 100

Yuletide! All is revealed!

a meme for the weekend

ASOIAF fic: Enter Heaven in Muddy Shoes (2/2)

ASOIAF fic: Enter Heaven in Muddy Shoes (1/2)

ASOIAF fic: Enter Heaven in Muddy Shoes

ASOIAF fic: Twixt Cup and Lip

Fic: In the blank space between the trenches (DW, River Song)

Fic: House of Shadows (Lymond Chronicles, Marthe)

FIC: Lightning fast and all alone (HL/SPN, John Winchester, Duncan MacLeod)

FIC: Paper Weight (Kathleen Hudak, SPN, 1/1)

Fic: Whip Hand (Rome, Octavian/Livia)

FIC: Dust and Air (SPN, gen, Missouri)

FF/SPN: Whitefall

Yuletide Fic: My hands remember hers (Deadwood, Joanie Stubbs/Calamity Jane)