Rare Male Slash Exchange: My Gifts
The Rare Male Slash Exchange is open; yours truly wrote two stories, one of which is blindingly obvious, and received a staggering amount of five. This never happened to me before, and I can't tell you how giddy I've felt today. This despite the fact Darth Real Life kept calling me away from the task of reading and commenting the lovely fic written for me. Or do anything else online. But really, the stories I received are terrific. Here they are:
Lost:
Where the water is blue and the people are new: in which the author takes season 6' canon High School AU for Ben and Locke and runs with it, and then some, because Dr. Linus and Mr. Locke have a lot of unresolved issues between them and deserve happines. And maybe it's time Ben and John take a shot at it, too.
Frederician 18th Century RPF:
I'm always fascinated by the in between stages, not just the beginnings (or endings). So, between Crown Prince Friedrich near the end of the worst year of his life (so far) meeting a clever and handsome flutist and King Friedrich (who hardly trusted anyone) ascending the throne with his very much trusted right hand man Fredersdorf, how did they get there? Now Frederick's sister Wilhelmine in her memoirs gave us some gory details about the winter holidays 32/33, the first Fredersdorf spent as Friedrich's valet at the annual winter gatherings of the royal family. Two writers tackle that scenario and provide us with these gems:
With you, there's a heaven: Which in addition to Fritz/Fredersdorf delivers a great Wilhelmine (who in a rare exception in Frederician fiction isn't written in a comforter and confidante role but with the damage the abuse she went under shown clearly) and a lovely mentor Suhm.
How I survived my first Christmas with the Hohenzollern: more lighthearted and amusing, but there's a superb tense encounter with King Friedrich Wilhelm in the middle of the hilarity that showcases Fredersdorf's quick thinking and growing people handling skills.
The supporting cast of the Frederician saga gets the spotlight here: Peter Keith, aka the other friend of Crown Prince Friedrich who participated in the 1730 escape attempt - the only one who succeeded, and Lehndorff, whose diaries are one of the great vivid sources of the era, and who had a life long passion for Frederick's younger brother Heinrich. Lehndorff canonically knew and admired Keith, and considering the two of them shared being in love with a royal who had feelings for them but loved other people more, I had hoped for a story using these parallels and the relationship. I got it, and more besides, here:
Lovers lying two and two
And finally: where's an intense fraternal hateship that comes with being too similar for comfort and being allies despite all the anger, there is also hatesex, as in this tale:
A family affair This entry was originally posted at https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1404059.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.
Lost:
Where the water is blue and the people are new: in which the author takes season 6' canon High School AU for Ben and Locke and runs with it, and then some, because Dr. Linus and Mr. Locke have a lot of unresolved issues between them and deserve happines. And maybe it's time Ben and John take a shot at it, too.
Frederician 18th Century RPF:
I'm always fascinated by the in between stages, not just the beginnings (or endings). So, between Crown Prince Friedrich near the end of the worst year of his life (so far) meeting a clever and handsome flutist and King Friedrich (who hardly trusted anyone) ascending the throne with his very much trusted right hand man Fredersdorf, how did they get there? Now Frederick's sister Wilhelmine in her memoirs gave us some gory details about the winter holidays 32/33, the first Fredersdorf spent as Friedrich's valet at the annual winter gatherings of the royal family. Two writers tackle that scenario and provide us with these gems:
With you, there's a heaven: Which in addition to Fritz/Fredersdorf delivers a great Wilhelmine (who in a rare exception in Frederician fiction isn't written in a comforter and confidante role but with the damage the abuse she went under shown clearly) and a lovely mentor Suhm.
How I survived my first Christmas with the Hohenzollern: more lighthearted and amusing, but there's a superb tense encounter with King Friedrich Wilhelm in the middle of the hilarity that showcases Fredersdorf's quick thinking and growing people handling skills.
The supporting cast of the Frederician saga gets the spotlight here: Peter Keith, aka the other friend of Crown Prince Friedrich who participated in the 1730 escape attempt - the only one who succeeded, and Lehndorff, whose diaries are one of the great vivid sources of the era, and who had a life long passion for Frederick's younger brother Heinrich. Lehndorff canonically knew and admired Keith, and considering the two of them shared being in love with a royal who had feelings for them but loved other people more, I had hoped for a story using these parallels and the relationship. I got it, and more besides, here:
Lovers lying two and two
And finally: where's an intense fraternal hateship that comes with being too similar for comfort and being allies despite all the anger, there is also hatesex, as in this tale:
A family affair This entry was originally posted at https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1404059.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.