you won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules

I got untitled Marinette/Kagami fluff by prosodiical and "A Sword By Any Other Name" (for the original works prompt Self-Aware Magic Sword & Its Various Wielders Through Fantasy History) by king_arthurs_muse and they are both delightful

the latter is now on AO3:

A Sword By Any Other Name (736 words) by sasha_b
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work, Arthurian Mythology
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Excalibur (sword)
Additional Tags: Fic Exchange, Original Fiction, Arthurian
Summary:

Excalibur, through the years.


meanwhile I made chanter1944 some icons of Émilie and Duusu and I wrote a double drabble:

returning maiden (200 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sokka/Suki (Avatar), Sokka/Yue (Avatar), La/Tui (Avatar)
Characters: Suki (Avatar), Sokka (Avatar), Yue (Avatar)
Additional Tags: Past Character Death, Polytheism, Established Relationship, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Double Drabble
Summary:

Some nights Sokka leaves her: goes outside, watches the sky, listens to the moonlight.


also reccing:

untitled Frozen Elsa/OFC fluff by schlitzie_ramone, featuring an Inuit princess

"Chance Meeting", Disney's Cinderella/Tiana, by bring_me_sugar

"Astride", Disney's Mulan/Belle, by bring_me_sugar

Leave No Trace (708 words) by Piinutbutter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dryad/Hiker
Characters: Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Injury, Comfort, Nymphs & Dryads
Summary:

"Injured, sick, and alone in the woods" is not a situation any hiker wants to find themselves in. Luckily for Sara, someone - or something - wants to protect her.

alatefeline, I thought of you

"Miss Dominguez's Christmas Kiss" by Lydia San Andres. f/f historical romance. Friends-to-lovers sort of thing. Very sweet. In particular Lourdes's remark about never getting her tone of voice to sound as intended strikes a sympathetic note.

Not erotica per se but I'd be hesitant to read it at work.

Hekatombaion 29

Okay, so "Full of Briars" by Seanan McGuire, the October Daye novelette just came out in ebook (US-only, apparently, sorry) a day or two ago? Has the SWEETEST ending. :)

libations-of-honey-and-milk's post:

In fairy tales and fantasy, two types of people go in towers: princesses and wizards.

Princesses are placed there against their will or with the intention of ‘keeping them safe.’

This is very different from wizards, who seek out towers to hone their sorcery in solitude.

I would like a story where a princess is placed in an abandoned tower that used to belong to a wizard, and so she spends long years learning the craft of wizardry from the scraps left behind and becomes the most powerful magic wielder the world has seen in centuries, busts out of the tower and wreaks glorious, bloody vengeance on the fools that imprisoned her.

That would be my kind of story.

feynites responds with a glorious feminist fairy tale. (With lesbians!)

"I Never Caught Her Name" by T. Thorn Coyle. Haunting. Magical.

The Myth of Rain by Seanan McGuire in Lightspeed Magazine is cry-making. Very good, of course, it's Seanan McGuire after all, but seriously cry-making. It's set several years in our future, after climate change becomes irreversible (as it may already have done), in the Pacific Northwest, as a group of environmentalists try to save an ecosystem from corporations that just don't give a fuck. Seriously cry-making.

Makeisha In Time by Rachael K. Jones is a fantastic piece about a queer black woman with time-travel ability and determination to see herself reflected in history—in the histories she lived. There are so many stories here, and I'd love to see any of them written out in more detail (including the story just starting as Jones's story ends), but the story Jones chooses to tell is compelling in itself.

The story needs a trigger warning for suicide and suicidal ideation.

Alex Dally MacFarlane's "Women in Sandstone" is a thing of beauty.