minigame reveals!
As I mentioned a few days ago, I participated in the Minigame: Round 1 flash exchange for video game fandoms. My gift was this delightful Neko Atsume story, which you don't have to actually know the game to enjoy:
First Contact (1948 words) by fayharley
Fandom: ねこあつめ | Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Odd-san | Pepper, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Fluff, Aliens, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Space
Summary: Zigba Zarxon is hired by the Human Conservation Experimental Environmental Recreation Committee to study the mysterious Earth animal known as 'cats.'
I wrote a Witcher Western AU for
Cruria:
Little Trouble in Big Sky (1664 words) by Isis
Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon & Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia
Characters: Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Western, Weird West, Song: Toss a Coin to Your Witcher (The Witcher), Witcher Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Witcher Contracts, Together They Kill Monsters!, Period-Typical Sexism
Summary: Killing the monster was the easy part. Getting the sheriff to pay the bounty - that wasn't so easy.
Someone (not me!) put this up on ffa's 3T1L thread, and it got a little pushback for a few things. First, the character only referred to as 'the whore', which, yeah, I kind of felt weird doing that - I don't like 'whore' as a word, even - but it felt like an important piece of set dressing, and I deliberately didn't name any of the characters, since it was such a short story and I didn't want to do too much extraneous worldbuilding I wasn't going to use - though maybe that makes it less interesting, I guess. Second, someone commented that it seemed odd to set a fantasy-west-with-monsters story in a place in (actual) Montana. The funny thing (to me) is that this was a kind of last-minute choice: I started out calling the saloon the Silver Salamander (which is an actual Witcher game inn), but when the story climax started coming together I realized I had to give the place a name with 'Sky' in it, so I could make the obvious pun/reference (that nobody seemed to notice, or at least, nobody pointed out, so I guess not so obvious!) and that brought to mind Big Sky, which is an epithet for Montana (and the name of a ski resort) so I used it for my town as well as my tavern. Oh, well!
I also wrote a pinch-hit, a teeny bit of femslash for
CorinaLannister:
Practice Makes Perfect (462 words) by Isis
Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Triss Merigold/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg
Characters: Triss Merigold, Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg
Additional Tags: Sparring as foreplay, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Summary: Yennefer and Triss blow off some steam and get in some practice. And other things. Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
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First Contact (1948 words) by fayharley
Fandom: ねこあつめ | Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Odd-san | Pepper, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Fluff, Aliens, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Space
Summary: Zigba Zarxon is hired by the Human Conservation Experimental Environmental Recreation Committee to study the mysterious Earth animal known as 'cats.'
I wrote a Witcher Western AU for
Cruria:
Little Trouble in Big Sky (1664 words) by Isis
Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon & Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia
Characters: Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Geralt z Rivii | Geralt of Rivia, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Western, Weird West, Song: Toss a Coin to Your Witcher (The Witcher), Witcher Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon, Witcher Contracts, Together They Kill Monsters!, Period-Typical Sexism
Summary: Killing the monster was the easy part. Getting the sheriff to pay the bounty - that wasn't so easy.
Someone (not me!) put this up on ffa's 3T1L thread, and it got a little pushback for a few things. First, the character only referred to as 'the whore', which, yeah, I kind of felt weird doing that - I don't like 'whore' as a word, even - but it felt like an important piece of set dressing, and I deliberately didn't name any of the characters, since it was such a short story and I didn't want to do too much extraneous worldbuilding I wasn't going to use - though maybe that makes it less interesting, I guess. Second, someone commented that it seemed odd to set a fantasy-west-with-monsters story in a place in (actual) Montana. The funny thing (to me) is that this was a kind of last-minute choice: I started out calling the saloon the Silver Salamander (which is an actual Witcher game inn), but when the story climax started coming together I realized I had to give the place a name with 'Sky' in it, so I could make the obvious pun/reference (that nobody seemed to notice, or at least, nobody pointed out, so I guess not so obvious!) and that brought to mind Big Sky, which is an epithet for Montana (and the name of a ski resort) so I used it for my town as well as my tavern. Oh, well!
I also wrote a pinch-hit, a teeny bit of femslash for
CorinaLannister:
Practice Makes Perfect (462 words) by Isis
Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Triss Merigold/Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg
Characters: Triss Merigold, Yennefer z Vengerbergu | Yennefer of Vengerberg
Additional Tags: Sparring as foreplay, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Summary: Yennefer and Triss blow off some steam and get in some practice. And other things. Crossposted from isis at Dreamwidth where there are
comments. | Comment at Dreamwidth