regshoe | Entries tagged with my fic

I have a new obsession! And it's a bit of a surprise, because new American (/half-American) comedy in a modern setting is really not my usual kind of thing, but here we are. Étoile first caught my attention via a link to this gifset [er, big spoiler], then after clicking around a bit, finding some stuff about Cheyenne and deciding I had to know more about who she was, I decided to give the show a try. There is definitely some stuff about it that doesn't work for me, but the bits that do work really work, and on the whole it's loads of fun. Tobias and Cheyenne are, as I thought, among the highlights of the bits that work for me, but less expectedly, Geneviève has become my fave, and after watching the excellent finale I was inspired to write a little thing about her. I don't exactly know what I'm doing—live-action fandoms are not easy for me, especially one as fast-paced as this—and I'm not sure how far the ideas in this fic are really sound, but for now:

Not through words, but the first ray of dawn (1022 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Étoile (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Geneviève Lavigne (Étoile)
Additional Tags: Episode: s01e08 The Offer (Étoile), Post-Canon, Vignette
Summary:

Geneviève, the morning after.

I am beginning a slow re-watch of the show and would like to write some more stuff for it in future, so we'll see how that goes, I suppose. In the meantime reading all the Tobias/Gabin fic (there's huge amounts of it, by my standards) is being fun too!

I received and wrote fic in the same new-to-me fandom, and very good fun it's been :D

My lovely 'Christabel' gift was by

avaloncat555—thank you!

And I wrote the other Christabel fic in the collection, for

flo_nelja:

The Twice-Stolen Child (2882 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Christabel - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Christabel's Mother/Sir Leoline, Christabel/Geraldine (Christabel)
Characters: Christabel's Mother, Sir Leoline, Christabel (Christabel), Geraldine (Christabel)
Additional Tags: Fairies, Changelings, Backstory
Summary:

The curious story of Geraldine’s true origin—and Christabel’s.

:)

(You Know Me) Better than That (9850 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kidnapped - McArthur & McCarthy & Stevenson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: David Balfour/Alan Breck Stewart
Characters: Alan Breck Stewart, David Balfour, Mungo Campbell
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Presumed Dead, Rescue, Fake Betrayal
Summary:

Alan is captured and imprisoned as the supposed murderer of Colin the Fox. When Davie learns what’s happened, he decides to do something about it.

As with the last time I did

threesentenceficathon, I was inspired to write a few things and then quickly ran out of steam, but I had a lot of fun coming up with ideas for the prompts and managed six fics this time, which I'm pleased with. Then I procrastinated on posting them for a while because that was too many fics to come up with titles for, but then I thought hey, I can just adapt the prompt for a title, right?

One of them is very nearly an accidental drabble at 101 words, but I thought it would be cheating to deliberately edit a word out at this stage; maybe one day I'll write a proper drabble.

( Six fics for Kidnapped (book and play), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Warm Hands of Ghosts and The Owl Service )

(I like Gilbert, and may write more about him in future if I can find an opportunity.)

I learnt 'The Silver Tassie' many years ago via Emily Smith's lovely musical rendition, and it's been a good one for Alan/Davie feelings since they became my OTP—the sad, inevitable parting of lovers as the narrator goes off to fight in foreign lands, the places mentioned are pretty much the right ones for Alan leaving Davie in Cramond and sailing for France... so I thought I would write a ficlet about it :D

It’s not the roar o sea or shore (886 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: David Balfour/Alan Breck Stewart
Characters: David Balfour, Alan Breck Stewart
Additional Tags: Future Fic, Angst with a Hopeful Ending
Summary:

Another parting.

I felt like my writing did not go brilliantly this year, so it's gratifying to go to my AO3 stats page and see that that's not entirely the case. I published twelve fics in 2024, and my total posted wordcount is 43,882—lower than the last few years, but really not that bad, especially considering the ~25k draft also finished but not posted.

And my total posted works count has passed 100. In fact it's currently 103 and was never (or at least never showed as) exactly 100, because number 100 was my Yuletide assignment and I then posted another two Yuletide fics which were all revealed as mine at the same time, but never mind, it's something to be pleased with! Here are the last few fics running up to that total, which I didn't share here at the time:

( A few fics )

At the end of the year I also wrote a ficlet for one of my occasional Raffles Christmas cards, which I've just posted on AO3 now:

A Ham Common Christmas (420 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Raffles - E. W. Hornung
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bunny Manders/A. J. Raffles
Characters: Bunny Manders, A. J. Raffles
Additional Tags: Christmas, Fluff
Summary:

Raffles and Bunny receive an unexpected present.

Well, here we are!

My lovely 'Sir Patrick Spens' gift was by

zdenka—thank you :D

As for my own writing... The Warm Hands of Ghosts was one of my 'maybe' offers going into sign-ups, but I absolutely loved

tullycat's Laura/Pim prompts and was delighted to end up matching on it! However, the first idea I had was one I could tell was going to get a bit plotty and ambitious, and facing a busy few months IRL I decided to set it aside and write something shorter:

Better in the dark (2001 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Laura Iven/Penelope "Pim" Shaw
Characters: Penelope "Pim" Shaw, Laura Iven
Additional Tags: Sharing a Bed, Implied Fix-It
Summary:

Sharing their bed at Couthove, Pim and Laura realise a few things.

But I kept going with the longer idea too, and happily did manage to finish it in time:

That Would Make a Sick Heart Heal (9054 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Laura Iven/Penelope "Pim" Shaw
Characters: Penelope "Pim" Shaw, Laura Iven, Faland (The Warm Hands of Ghosts), Wilfred "Freddie" Iven, Hans Winter
Additional Tags: Background Freddie/Winter, Post-Canon Fix-It, Rescue
Summary:

Or, Laura Iven Does It Again.

Aww, I really enjoyed finding a happier way to work things out for Laura and Pim in both these stories. Whether I'll write anything more for the fandom, I don't know; I have some vague ideas floating around, but no more definite fic concepts yet.

My next priority—just barely accomplished in time—was to write a Kidnapped! treat for

muccamukk. This story was actually an idea I'd had floating around since soon after I first saw the play, but hadn't been able to work out—Mucca prompting for something about Frances alongside talking about how much she liked the Alan/Davie presumed-dead bit in the play gave me the key to how it should go:

Tusitala (1431 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kidnapped! - McArthur & McCarthy & Stevenson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Frances Stevenson/Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour/Alan Breck Stewart
Characters: Frances Stevenson
Additional Tags: Layered Storytelling, Grief/Mourning, Happy Ending (kind of)
Summary:

Frances makes one last ‘adjustment’.

(Or, a speculative interpretation of the play’s ending.)

And, er, apologies to the rest of you who won't have seen this yet because I thought it would be funny and appropriate to tag with the exclamation mark, and new fandom tags are always wrangled really quickly in Yuletide, right?... Oh dear—never mind :) I'll go and add the canonical tag now, since goodness knows whether this one ever will be wrangled.

It's been a good Yuletide on the whole, I think.

All right, here it is.

I've wanted to write this crossover for ages, ever since first thinking, hmm, Helena is a Sister at a hospital, Ella is a Sister at a hospital, surely they know each other!... and I think these four characters turned out all to suit each other pretty well.

I don't think you need to know both books to understand this fic, but be advised that it does spoil the endings of both.

The Spirit of Enterprise (3227 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jill - E. A. Dillwyn, Peccavi - E. W. Hornung
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gilbertina Trecastle/Sister Helena, Nurse Ella/Gwynneth Gleed
Characters: Gilbertina Trecastle | Caroline Jill, Sister Helena, Nurse Ella (Peccavi), Gwynneth Gleed
Additional Tags: Future Fic
Summary:

Four ladies meet for tea at a London flat.

A while ago I saw this post and started thinking, hmmm... So, many thanks to

verecunda for inspiring this story :D

A Vow Like This (7351 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kidnapped - McArthur & McCarthy & Stevenson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: David Balfour/Alan Breck Stewart
Characters: David Balfour, Alan Breck Stewart, Mr Campbell, Ensemble
Additional Tags: Weddings, Humour, Canon-Typical Anachronism
Summary:

Alan and Davie are getting married! There's just one slight snag: the question of a minister for the wedding...

This fic is something I was originally thinking vaguely of writing for Yuletide, but there ended up not being time during the exchange, so here it is as a New Year's Resolution. :)

The idea came from combining

garonne's Yuletide letter, which mentioned ‘fic that shows little snapshots of characters' lives over a long period of time’ as a like, and her own fic ‘A-Roving No More’, which does just that so well, on the one hand; and on the other hand, the historical future of Allan Breck Stewart—who never returned permanently to Scotland, but lived out the rest of his days in France. What might our Alan and David’s long future look like in that world, thought I?...

And knowing what to keep (12134 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: David Balfour/Alan Breck Stewart
Characters: David Balfour, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, POV outsiders
Summary:

Over many years, the laird of Shaws makes a choice.

(The title is from Kenny Rogers’s ‘The Gambler’, via the play soundtrack, but this is otherwise entirely a book fic.)

I was turning over something

muccamukk and I were talking about a while ago about how none of the other adaptations of Kidnapped (besides the play) have inspired their own distinct fandoms. Well, thought I, I suppose you could write radio play fic where Alan and Davie invent a new Jacobite/Whig duet or something...

In Harmony
At Ye Jacobites By Name | On AO3
Fandoms: Kidnapped (BBC Radio 2016); I’ve also tagged the book on AO3, this being a sufficiently literally faithful adaptation that I think it works as book fic
Relationship: Alan & David
Characters: David Balfour, Alan Breck Stewart
Rating: G
Content warnings: None
Length: 896 words
Summary: Alan and David avoid a quarrel and make some new musical experiments.

(And maybe there's a little reference to the play too...)

(This is the first gen fic I’ve posted for Kidnapped, in which I seem to be more OTP-focussed than in other fandoms; and it hardly feels fair to count it, since I absolutely wrote with Alan/Davie in mind and there just doesn't happen to be anything explicitly romantic in the space of the story. Oh well; I'm sure I'll come up with a gen idea about one of the side characters one day...)

My amazing Kidnapped gift was, as I had suspected, by

verecunda! Aww, thank you so much, it really is the most lovely story <3

And my Flight of the Heron Madness treat was by

sanguinity, whose authorship I did not suspect (though it makes sense, thinking about it)! Thank you for such a beautiful birdy gift :)

I am also pleased to see that the other two guesses I made in my recs post were both correct.

As to what I wrote...

I was delighted to match to

thrillingdetectivetales, who was also requesting NTS Kidnapped and who had a lot of AU-related ideas, particularly some kind of magical AU... I had some fun thinking over what sort of fantasy AU might suit both my strengths as a writer and the canon and characters; in the end I went back to my favourite kind of magic, did a little more research on Highland folklore and wrote this:

False Gold and True Silver; or, An Leannan Sìth (10931 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kidnapped - McArthur & McCarthy & Stevenson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: David Balfour/Alan Breck Stewart
Characters: David Balfour, Alan Breck Stewart, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, Fairies, Getting Together
Summary:

Davie and Alan seek refuge from the pursuing redcoats in what proves to be a very strange place indeed.

I loved

edwardianspinsteraunt's request for Howards End femslash, and especially the prompt of Margaret meeting Ruth's ghost at Howards End; I've long thought this book is really a ghost story and I couldn't resist the chance to make that a bit more literal...

Fragments of Her Mind (3691 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Howards End - E. M. Forster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margaret Schlegel/Ruth Wilcox
Characters: Margaret Schlegel, Ruth Wilcox
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Ghosts, Minor Character Death, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Afterwards, at Howards End, Margaret and Ruth get another chance.

And finally,

luzula had mentioned a while ago her dislike for NTS!Alan's moustache; of course that immediately gave me the idea of writing a fic where he shaves it off, and it turned out there was a lot of story potential in thinking through what circumstances might lead him to do so.

luzula did not actually request the fandom for Yuletide, and my original plan was to post as a non-exchange gift, but the way the timing ended up working out I thought it would be fun to stick it in Madness as a little extra :)

A Happy Disguise (1987 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kidnapped - McArthur & McCarthy & Stevenson
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: David Balfour/Alan Breck Stewart
Characters: Alan Breck Stewart, David Balfour
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Facial Hair
Summary:

With his face on a Wanted poster, Alan—with Davie’s help—contrives a new means to avoid being recognised.

That Loyalty of Friendship. Being the Adventures of David Balfour, Ewen Cameron and other Notable Persons in and about the Year 1753: How Keith Windham saw a Quarrel made and mended; how Mr Balfour took a bold Step, and suffer’d a great Misfortune, in which there was yet a great Happiness; the History of Alan Breck Stewart and Dr Archibald Cameron, with divers other Jacobites; of Falsehood and Truth in Friendship and Politics; and treating also of Amity and Love between Jacobite and Whig.

At Ye Jacobites By Name | On AO3
Fandoms: Kidnapped (book), The Flight of the Heron
Relationships: Ewen/Keith, Alan/David
Characters: Ewen Cameron, Keith Windham, Alan Breck Stewart, David Balfour, Archibald Cameron, with various other canonical, historical and original characters in minor roles
Rating: T
Content warnings: Major character death (spoilery details are available in the beginning notes)
Length: 118,175 words*

*The AO3 work does not include the prologue, which I posted separately, but does include the endnotes, which I had to make into their own chapter because they're too long to go in the actual endnotes section. Hence the discrepancy in wordcounts.

This fic began in June last year in Glen Nevis, if I remember correctly, where

luzula and I were discussing FotH fic ideas; she floated the idea of a Kidnapped crossover, and this seeming promising, challenged me to write it. I thought this was all very intriguing and began turning the idea over in my mind; and in August, having finished the other things I was working on at the time, I started to write it. Throughout 2022 I'd been stretching my writing muscles, gradually writing longer and plottier fics, and by now I felt up to the challenge of something that would clearly be significantly longer and plottier yet. And so here, somewhat more than a year later, it is: not only my longest fic to date but more than five times longer than the next one before that, which is kind of mind-boggling.

(Right,

luzula, you have to write that Flemington crossover now :D )

Both

luzula and

sanguinity have been utterly amazing beta readers, and I cannot thank them enough. ♥ Also deserving a mention is NTS Kidnapped, which really has done a great deal for my general spirits this year as well as keeping up my fannish love for Kidnapped; you may spot a reference or two in the fic. :)

I think I will not write another longfic for a little while! Although I've really enjoyed writing this, it has been frustrating having other ideas popping up and not being able to fit in writing them around the longfic, as well as having to limit participation in exchanges. I have various shorter ideas percolating, and in any case intend to spend the next couple of months writing loads of fic for Yuletide.

Well, here we go! This is the prologue of my Flight of the Heron/Kidnapped crossover longfic, which is about 117,000 words long and which I hope to post shortly under the title

That Loyalty of Friendship. Being the Adventures of David Balfour, Ewen Cameron and other Notable Persons in and about the Year 1753: How Keith Windham saw a Quarrel made and mended; how Mr Balfour took a bold Step, and suffer’d a great Misfortune, in which there was yet a great Happiness; the History of Alan Breck Stewart and Dr Archibald Cameron, with divers other Jacobites; of Falsehood and Truth in Friendship and Politics; and treating also of Amity and Love between Jacobite and Whig.

(I had a great struggle trying to come up with a title, but realised I was taking the wrong approach: what it really needed was a mock-eighteenth-century overly-long title in the style of Kidnapped itself! I'm quite pleased with this one.)

I decided to post the prologue as a separate work on AO3, as motivation for myself, a preview for you, and to preserve the chapter numbering (I don't think AO3 will let me call the second 'chapter' Chapter 1). It's not posted on the website yet, as there'll be no need to separate out the prologue there and I still need to figure out the structure and HTML coding for the rest of it.

Prologue: A Meeting on the Road (1263 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson, The Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: David Balfour, Alan Breck Stewart, Ewen Cameron
Additional Tags: Crossover, Missing Scene, Post-Canon
Series: Part 1 of That Loyalty of Friendship
Summary:

On their way through Appin after fleeing from the scene of the Red Fox's murder, David and Alan meet a familiar friend.

I really wanted to write fic for NTS Kidnapped, but both in anticipation of and after actually rewatching it, all the ideas/scenarios my brain could come up with were just plotless, disconnected, very fluffy bits and pieces about Davie and Alan after their reunion at the end and what they might do. (Mainly 'lots of kissing'). But then I thought, well, 'scenes from the next day' isn't a bad concept for a fic, I'm sure I can do something with that...

‘Lang hae we parted been...’
At Ye Jacobites By Name | On AO3
Fandom: NTS Kidnapped
Relationship: Davie Balfour/Alan Breck Stewart
Characters: Davie Balfour, Alan Breck Stewart
Rating: G
Content warnings: None
Length: 2,141 words
Summary: Davie and Alan, the next day.

This is pretty firmly play-specific fic; you could read it only knowing the book, but I think a lot of the details wouldn't make sense.

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:

Cropped photo of a book page reading: “Then he’s done for,” said Widdrington. “He’s dead.” “He’s trying to like Hornblower.” The others gave shrill agonised cries.

Cropped photo of a book page reading: “Then he’s done for,” said Widdrington. “He’s dead.” “He’s trying to like Hornblower.” The others gave shrill agonised cries.

[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.

I'm working my way slowly through correcting the text for my Flight of the Heron ebook, and the chapters set in Edinburgh presented me with a very nice opportunity for a fluffy Ewen/Keith future ficlet... This is set in the AU future of my Kidnapped crossover WIP, so consider it a sort of preview for that story!

A Valued Gift
Read at Ye Jacobites By Name | Read at Squidgeworld
Fandom: The Flight of the Heron
Relationship: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Keith Windham, Ewen Cameron
Rating: G
Content warnings: None
Word count: 1,066
Summary: Huddled in his enemy’s own cloak (for its real ownership, luckily for his peace of mind, he never discovered)... —In a happier future, Keith gets a chance to discover where the cloak Ewen gave him in Edinburgh really came from.

I have posted and linked to the story on my website and on Squidgeworld.

Thoughts on the AO3 Situation and posting there

I will post to AO3 as well in a few days or so. Given everything that's been going on I'm feeling increasingly unhappy about posting there, or certainly about treating it as The Place to Post Fic, especially with the much more serious wider problems coming on top of the existing issues for FotH and Kidnapped fandom. OTOH using and posting on AO3 isn't really materially supporting the site management the way it would be for a profit-making site owned by a corporation, so it's not a serious moral issue; and it is still pretty much a central place for fandom, and—I'm thinking especially of people in the Tumblr side of FotH fandom here—I don't want people who are in or on the edges of the fandom but who are not on Dreamwidth and not familiar with either the developments about AO3 or what alternative sites I and others might be posting on to miss things. (Whether new FotH fans, not connected to the existing fandom at all, will ever find fic archived on AO3 under a title they may well not even know is another question, of course, but I've made my feelings about that plain enough already.) So I'm experimenting with compromises, and this seems like a good one for now: keep posting to AO3, but prioritise other places first.

On the visit to Cramond Island that I made when I was in Edinburgh to see Kidnapped, I hoped to gather material for a fic that I could set there. It turned out to be an excellent setting for a fic, and so here is the result :D

As the Tide Was Flowing (4329 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: David Balfour/Alan Breck Stewart
Characters: David Balfour, Alan Breck Stewart
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, There Was Only One Coat
Summary:

At Shaws, David and Alan go for an outing—which doesn't quite go according to plan.

Another Armadale ficlet! These two are just so adorable, and by presenting the early part of their relationship largely from an outsider POV, canon gives a fic writer plenty of gaps to fill in...

A Violent Fancy (598 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Armadale - Wilkie Collins
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Main Allan Armadale/Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale
Characters: Main Allan Armadale, Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale
Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship
Summary:

‘That trifling particular had set Mr. Armadale’s face all of a flame; he had shouted and sworn; he had rushed into the stables; and forced the hostler to saddle him a horse, and had set off full gallop on the road that Ozias Midwinter had taken before him.’

Today I finished a re-read of Armadale by Wilkie Collins, an amazingly exciting, dramatic and slashy Victorian sensation novel which I have loved for some time and which it's been great to see getting some more fannish attention lately. The slashy possibilities of this book greatly deserve to be explored further! I will write up a longer review presently, but for now, have a silly ficlet that I wrote a while ago and cleaned up today:

The Brink of a New Life (773 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Armadale - Wilkie Collins
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Main Allan Armadale/Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale
Characters: Main Allan Armadale, Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Accidental Baby Acquisition
Summary:

There is a new arrival at Thorpe-Ambrose, and an important decision to be made.

I love the AO3 character tags for this fandom. I hope people write lots of fic about Original Allan Armadale, Allan Wrentmore | Allan Armadale and Fergus Ingleby | Allan Armadale, so it can get even more confusing.