Rivers of London fics
I wrote two Rivers of London fics for Trick or Treat, both for the lovely linndechir who wrote a letter full of excellent plot bunnies. They are:
Title: Longhouse
Content: Peter/Nightingale, casefic, h/c, haunted houses
Length: 17,000 words
Summary: On a case outside of London, Peter and Nightingale face danger, death and architecture.
Title: Target Practice
Content: fluff
Length: 1000 words
Summary: Peter's having trouble sleeping.
I'm pretty pleased with myself for managing to get Longhouse finished in the time allocated. I've been wanting to bring Peter and Nightingale into my neck of the woods for a while now, and then I was reading a book of local mythology and supernatural stories and it mentioned people getting lost and going into mysterious houses for shelter and then when they come back the next day the house isn't there. (There were some fantastic ghost stories too, at least one of which I'm going to be using elsewhere because it was genuinely bone-chilling.) So anyhow, I stuck that together with linndechir's perfect-for-me prompt of Peter and Nightingale getting soaked and snuggling together to warm up, and then I got them lost in bad weather on Dartmoor. The house kind of developed organically out of that, and the fact that I was up on Hound Tor on the weekend that I was brainstorming this and there's the mediaeval village of longhouses there and I ended up sitting inside one with Philomythulus for about half an hour because he was trying to hide from the crowd of schoolkids who were up there looking at them. So that's when the house came together. But lost-in-bad-weather-in-vanishing-house wasn't interesting enough for my taste, so I figured the house could be trying to kill them and that was how I figured out the murders that brought Peter and Nightingale to Dartmoor in the first place. I'm really enjoying writing casefic lately and it was fun figuring out what could happen and working out how they were going to escape the house. The unofficial motto of this story was, when in doubt drop something on their heads.
Anyhow, those were the fics I wrote. There were two other Rivers of London fics for the exchange, and I really loved them both. One was my wonderful gift by originally, Nae doubt but ye may get a sight, a lovely funny story about a magical mishap at the Folly which really gets the humorous canon voice perfectly. The other was a spooky atmospheric story of Peter and Nightingale in a graveyard at Hallowe'en, A noise of falling weights that never fell by linndechir. I highly recommend them both.
And as well as Rivers of London, I received another fic for Trick or Treat, The Human Spirit by brutti_ma_buoni, for The West Wing featuring a ghost haunting the Chief of Staff's office, and it's funny and absolutely adorable.
Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/131051.html. There are
comments there.
Title: Longhouse
Content: Peter/Nightingale, casefic, h/c, haunted houses
Length: 17,000 words
Summary: On a case outside of London, Peter and Nightingale face danger, death and architecture.
Title: Target Practice
Content: fluff
Length: 1000 words
Summary: Peter's having trouble sleeping.
I'm pretty pleased with myself for managing to get Longhouse finished in the time allocated. I've been wanting to bring Peter and Nightingale into my neck of the woods for a while now, and then I was reading a book of local mythology and supernatural stories and it mentioned people getting lost and going into mysterious houses for shelter and then when they come back the next day the house isn't there. (There were some fantastic ghost stories too, at least one of which I'm going to be using elsewhere because it was genuinely bone-chilling.) So anyhow, I stuck that together with linndechir's perfect-for-me prompt of Peter and Nightingale getting soaked and snuggling together to warm up, and then I got them lost in bad weather on Dartmoor. The house kind of developed organically out of that, and the fact that I was up on Hound Tor on the weekend that I was brainstorming this and there's the mediaeval village of longhouses there and I ended up sitting inside one with Philomythulus for about half an hour because he was trying to hide from the crowd of schoolkids who were up there looking at them. So that's when the house came together. But lost-in-bad-weather-in-vanishing-house wasn't interesting enough for my taste, so I figured the house could be trying to kill them and that was how I figured out the murders that brought Peter and Nightingale to Dartmoor in the first place. I'm really enjoying writing casefic lately and it was fun figuring out what could happen and working out how they were going to escape the house. The unofficial motto of this story was, when in doubt drop something on their heads.
Anyhow, those were the fics I wrote. There were two other Rivers of London fics for the exchange, and I really loved them both. One was my wonderful gift by originally, Nae doubt but ye may get a sight, a lovely funny story about a magical mishap at the Folly which really gets the humorous canon voice perfectly. The other was a spooky atmospheric story of Peter and Nightingale in a graveyard at Hallowe'en, A noise of falling weights that never fell by linndechir. I highly recommend them both.
And as well as Rivers of London, I received another fic for Trick or Treat, The Human Spirit by brutti_ma_buoni, for The West Wing featuring a ghost haunting the Chief of Staff's office, and it's funny and absolutely adorable.
Crossposted at http://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/131051.html. There are
comments there.