I pulled together this mix during some low points over the past year and originally posted it to my journal a couple weeks back. For a while it's been my go-to "bad day" playlist: it starts out being a little sad and a little angry about the things in the world that don't work out and the days when you feel like you've woken up for nothing, but it ( Read more... )

Looking through the comm and realizing I never posted links here to some of the more recent things I've written, so I'm putting those up now!

Title: Day One (Read on LJ / Read on AO3)
Author: readingredhead
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~1300 
Pairing: Tom/Carl
Summary: They are Advisories now, and life goes on. Or, the one where Carl tries to surprise Tom with homemade ( Read more... )

Hello all! Sorry to post this a bit belatedly, but wanted to give a heads-up that  sign-ups are open for dai_stiho's Friend/Ship Exchange. In the spirit of the Young Wizards books, this exchange isn’t just focused on romantic pairings - we want to celebrate the friendships and familial relationships that are so important in these books just as much as any ( Read more... )

Found out about this through another YA lit fandom and figured I'd share it here: there's a new comm called yalit100 that's putting together prompt tables with 100 one-word prompts to encourage more fanfiction in YA lit fandoms. I already nominated Young Wizards, but they're asking for specific prompt words that people would like to see, so if you have ( Read more... )

Terminus
Title:  Terminus
Author: ariafic
reader: kalakirya 
Fandom: Young Wizards
Pairing: Tom/Carl; Nita/Kit
Rating: PG
Length: 1 hour 7 minutes
Author's summary: The snake, eating its own tail; the wayside boundary stone: by what measureless markers should Life be understood?
text at AO3 on dreamwidth
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Title:  Three Encounters in a Cafe
Author: readingredhead
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Title: Deus ex Machina
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1200
Summary: On the tenth anniversary of her mother's death, Nita sits in the dark and quiet of her own apartment and thinks about all of the people who have stepped in for her, at the last moment, and saved her life.
Notes: For talonkarrde88 , who wanted something with Ed. Cross-posted to Archive of Our Own.

( In one of his moods, Kit spends half an hour regaling Nita with information about Elizabethan drama. )

Title: Tête-à-Tête
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1000
Pairing: Nelaid/Miril
Summary: tête-à-tête (n.): a face-to-face meeting, or private conversation between two people, usually in an intimate setting; a head-to-head. Also, a bench or sofa that allows two people to talk face-to-face.
Notes: This story relies on the Wellakh-related headcanon I ( Read more... )

Title: Ladies of the Lands of the Sun
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 14,500
Pairings: background Nelaid/Miril and Kit/Nita, semi-sort-of-implied Dairine/Roshaun
Summary: In the summer following Roshaun’s disappearance, Dairine spends more and more time on Wellakh, while Miril struggles to control the political unrest that’s forcing her to remember some ( Read more... )

Title: Three Encounters in a Café
Rating: G
Summary: The Lone Power walks into a café. Thrice.
Notes: Written for the Prompt Fest over at dai_stiho. Thanks to my lovely beta araine for tidying this up!

( He walked in the door with a gust of wind and rain. )

Also posted at Archive of Our Own.

Title: Valentine
Pairing: early vestiges of Dairine/Roshaun
Rating: G
Summary: Dairine owns a cafe in New York's Lower East Side. Roshaun is a picky customer. (In my brain, this started out as cafe!AU but has turned slightly into hipster!AU, which I find simultaneously more frightening and more amusing.)
Author's Note: I seriously don't know how ( Read more... )