HAPPY MONDAY! (somewhere...!)

Someone asked me to write gratuitous smut. Having been suffering from terrible writer's block, I figured I could manage that. And so happened this!

Title: A Quite Brilliant Idea

Rating: Very definitely M.
Summary: While celebrating Edith's wedding in fine style at Downton Abbey, Mary has a brilliant idea over champagne. ( Read more... )

I have been promising to write another ATiL one-shot as a balm to soothe the angst of With All The Time In The World for AGES.... and here it is!

Title: The Very Picture of an Earl
Characters/Pairings: Matthew/Mary and the whole ATiL brood!
Rating: K+
Summary: Set within the ATiL universe. Violet generously arranges for Matthew, Mary and their children ( Read more... )

Happy Monday! :D Getting this in under the wire. clunkhall dared me to write shameless fluff and...well...this is the result. ;p This is really difficult for me, believe it or not -- everything has to have meaning and symbolism, so to just write happy engagement fluff was haaaaard!!! So, it's happy but it's emotional so...well, I'm not really sure I ( Read more... )

Happy Monday! :D This is what happens when I get an idea in my head and can't let it go, combined with wanting to explore two time periods the show left off ( Read more... )

Happy Monday! (with 55 minutes to go! :)

So...this is what happens when I stare out the window of the Eurostar after it crosses the Channel, look up on the monitors at the Gare-du-Nord in Paris and see several trains departing daily to a very familiar city in DA S2 lore, start reading Birdsong (per clunkhall's suggestion!) and then remember one of my ( Read more... )

HAPPY MONDAAAAY!

So. A little while ago I received this tumblr ask:

“I keep thinking of the scene where Mary refers to herself as damaged goods. I wonder what Matthew would say if he ever (at any point post Pamuk reveal) heard her say that. How would you imagine his reaction to be and can we possibly see a glimpse of it? Many thanks.”

It’s taken me ( Read more... )

Happy Monday! :D This is the end of my story, such as it is. I'm incredibly grateful to all for your support and feedback -- I really couldn't have done it without you!!!

The title (to give credit where credit is due) is from Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 here.

Hope you enjoy!

Title: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Chapter 11)
Rating: M (This chapter ( Read more... )

Happy Monday! :D Not sure how I can follow all these AMAZING stories, but...well...I will do my best. :p

I thank everyone who continues to follow and support this fic!!! :)

Title: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Chapter 10)
Rating: M (T this chapter)
Summary: For the past year and a half, it had only been the three of them inside the house. And ( Read more... )

Happy Monday! :D I wanted to thank everyone for their support and comments (and feedback of all sorts!) to the previous chapter...it meant so much to me. :)

Subtext and history abound in this chapter (I have been looking to use this metaphor for a long time... ;)

Enjoy! :)

Title: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (Chapter 9)
Rating: M (strong T ( Read more... )

Happy Monday! :D I...did not think I was going to be posting today, since I was out of the country last week on vacation. But in the end, how could I pass up the opportunity to write a chapter in a story about English characters, while in England and France? :) This was written in Paris, on the chunnel, in the countryside and in London. Edited over ( Read more... )