regshoe

raremaleslashex creators have revealed!

My lovely Armadale gift was by isevsianne, whose writing I am very happy to have been introduced to here—thank you :)

The excellent Kidnapped fic was by verecunda, which I correctly guessed! And the also excellent FotH fic was by garonne, which I did not guess at first, but decided was more likely thinking it over afterwards.

I was very happy to see The Longest Journey, an obscure fave of mine for years and years that I'd never worked up the courage to write fic for, in the tagset, and so I finally got to write it when I matched to phantomtomato. :D And I loved re-reading the book and writing this happy fix-it for Rickie and Stewart.

The Circle at the Centre (2550 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Longest Journey - E.M. Forster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Stewart Ansell/Rickie Elliot
Characters: Stewart Ansell, Rickie Elliot
Additional Tags: Getting Together, Implied Fix-It
Summary:

An evening in the Ansell home after Rickie’s return there; or, Stewart develops his philosophy.

As for the book itself, my re-read has generated thoughts which I will write about here at some point—for now, here's an out-of-context excerpt which some of you may find amusing:



[er, this book was published in 1907; that's not Forester's Hornblower, to be clear!]

raremaleslashex includes art and podfic as well as fic, and it suddenly occurred to me when I was signing up that hey, I record podfic, I could offer podfic! So I did; obviously I ended up matching on fic, but I thought it would be fun to do one or two short podfic treats, and thinking over the two Flight of the Heron requests and the stories I had in mind as possibilities for podficcing, I hit upon the elegant idea of recording one of garonne's and one of sanguinity's stories, each as a gift for the other. :D

[Podfic] Comfort Me With Apples (9 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Codes & Ciphers, Established Relationship, Long-Distance Relationship, Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes
Summary:

'Then it must be a cipher that none will suspect as a cipher,' Ewen answered stubbornly. 'Surely we can manage that.'

On the eve of war, Keith and Ewen devise a code to keep their letters private.

[Podfic] Ostend (9 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Character Death Fix, Podfic, Podfic Length: 10-20 Minutes
Summary:

Keith and Ewen meet on neutral ground, in an inn on the Flemish coast.

Exchange podfic is kind of a strange thing, because obviously it's not at all anonymous if one is creating for people who've heard one's podfic before (podficcing for a stranger in a new fandom might be different!). I like the mystery and speculation of the anon period with writing (even when it's not that much of a mystery), and I think I would feel unsatisfied with podfic as my only work in a multi-medium exchange, so doing these as treats worked very well.

Then I had to scramble at the last minute of posting them to find a way of uploading the files anonymously—box.com, my usual site, shows your username on shared files and I couldn't figure out a way to get it not to. Happily I recalled that Fastmail provides file sharing as well as email, and it doesn't show your email address, so that worked; and in fact I think I like the interface and aesthetic better than box.com, so I may just use Fastmail anyway in future.

Dear RMSE Creator,

Thank you for writing me a fic for one of these lovely m/m ships! I'm regshoe on AO3. I've said a little bit below about why I love these fandoms and ships, and given some prompts, but if you have a different idea you'd love to write then go ahead—I'll look forward to seeing whatever you come up with!

( Fandoms are Armadale - Wilkie Collins, The Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster and Kidnapped - McArthur & McCarthy & Stevenson )

I requested all obscure Victorian novel ships for RMSE, and have received this very nice story for Armadale. I've quietly shipped this since I first read the novel some years ago, and it's lovely to see some fic for it!

Not Yet (1525 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Armadale - Wilkie Collins
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Allan Armadale/Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale
Characters: Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale, Allan Armadale
Additional Tags: 19th Century, Pining, Friendship/Love, Shipwrecks, Boats and Ships, Late at Night, Attraction, Ambiguous/Open Ending
Summary:

I did not care for what others might have thought of me, and I could not spare the presence of mind to reflect on it myself: all of me was ever focussed on the moment, and now, the moment was this: La Grâce de Dieu, the limpid, honeyed glow of the moon, the two of us on a strange ship, her timber trade secrets long laid to rest and hardly more exciting than the fact that he had just been clutching fast at my shoulder with his steady hand.

Unbeknownst to Ozias Midwinter, Allan Armadale, too, has a lot of complicated feelings about their relationship.