Yuletide Bounty! for 2025

[kormantic]

Hello new yearlings,

I got some truly gorgeous stuff this year - for Fandom Trumps Hate, I got a PRETEND BOYFRIENDS INCEPTION fic. Yesssssssss. So far, there are two chapters up of five, but it's enthralling and atmospheric and funny and in character and I adore it.

labyrinthine (9678 words) by missing_fawkes
Chapters: 2/5
Fandom: Inception (2010)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception)
Characters: Arthur (Inception), Eames (Inception)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, art heist, Crimes & Criminals, Getting Together, Pining, Partners in Crime, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Theft, POV Arthur (Inception)
Summary: "It’s not that big of a deal, I mean it, darling. It’s not dangerous and nothing dramatic is going to happen."
Eames calls in a favour. Fake dating, chaos and a spontaneous heist ensue.


Then we have Polyhimnia's exquisite take on some OCs (we based their faces on Ayo Edibiri and Rhianne Barreto): Sorry about the mess, but Gothicka Vampyr was obliged to fight off a Nordstrom vamp who was in the middle of interviewing Robyn for a counter clerk gig. Gothicka has an NIH grant and she needs someone to help her in the lab. Robyn is naturally wary, but lab work is actually in her wheelhouse...





For Yuletide, I got a fantastic little duet on a tightrope as Cassie/Lexie and Frank show off their skills while UNDERCOVER AS A COUPLE!!! As nimble and airy as can be...

never learned the knack (4079 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dublin Murder Squad Series - Tana French
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Cassie Maddox, Frank Mackey (Dublin Murder Squad)
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Undercover as a Couple
Summary: “Lexie, who was that guy you were with at the supermarket? You know. The older one?”
I laughed, Lexie’s first instinctual response to anything I needed a second to think about. Shit. Me and Frank had moved our debriefs off of park benches after we nearly got caught by a classmate; turns out pretending to be strangers who happened to be contemplating the same row of crisps at Tesco wasn’t a good choice either. What the fuck had Anna been doing there? Most of Lexie’s friends lived off takeaway and speed, and barely ever set foot in a supermarket if they could help it.
“Well, what do you think?” I asked, nose in the air, my own smile creeping in at the edges, like I was the one with a secret, and actually, I was pleased enough to share. Delighted, even. “He’s my fella, duh.”


And now the authors are live, here are my Yuletide works:

The Employment of a Silver Tongue (1113 words) by kormantic
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Lively St. Lemeston, True Pretenses - Rose Lerner
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lydia Reeve/Ash Cohen
Characters: Lydia Reeve, Ash Cohen/Ashford Cahill
Additional Tags: Oral Sex, Scheming, Partners in Crime, honeymooning in a seaside town
Summary:

You see the ways the fisherman doth take
To catch the fish; what engines doth he make?
Behold how he engageth all his wits;
Also his snares, lines, angles, hooks, and nets;
Yet fish there be, that neither hook, nor line,
Nor snare, nor net, nor engine can make thine:
They must be groped for, and be tickled too,
Or they will not be catch'd, whate'er you do.

John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come

an extraordinarily versatile hammer (1365 words) by kormantic
Fandom: Murderbot (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dr. Mensah & Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries)
Characters: Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries), Amena (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Letters, uncomfortable information, Platonic Relationships
Summary:

— excerpt of personal correspondence from the desk of Dr. Ayda Mensah, President, Freehold Polity

Wayward Souls Put to Rest (2033 words) by kormantic
Fandom: Blossom Culp Series - Richard Peck
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alexander Armsworth/Blossom Culp
Characters: Blossom Culp, Alexander Armsworth
Additional Tags: Friendship, Childhood, The Future, spectral baking, Cookies
Summary: If you're following this account, then you have probably learned too that both Alexander and I are somewhat famous in these parts; me more than him, since my fame has been so far-flung and international that as a direct result, I met the Queen of England. Also there is a wax figure of me at Madame Tussaud's in London, so that's just plain fact and not a whit of vanity.


Does the Dog Die? (5617 words) by kormantic
Fandom: Only Murders in the Building (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mabel Mora & Oliver Putnam & Charles-Haden Savage
Characters: Mabel Mora, Oliver Putnam, Charles-Haden Savage
Additional Tags: Does the dog die?, she does not, does mrs. gambolini die?, she will live forever, No Murders in the Building, at this time, Christmas, Holiday, Found Family, silly cameos, sleuthing, Yuletide, Yuletide 2025, Yuletide Cheer, Fluff, winnie the bulldog, Psychics, Clairaudience, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, but literally, alas poor Rupert, in the sense a pigeon does shuffle off this mortal coil, Kittens, they land on their feet I assure you
Summary: “Shouldn’t we at least tell you what we want to know?” Charles asked.
Avis lifted one finger to quell him, frown deepening.
“You will witness a death. And you will find a family.”
“I don’t suppose you could tell us which order those might occur. Or give us a time frame, maybe?” Oliver asked hopefully.

Comments

[scintilla10]

Yay Yuletide!! And omg, you wrote so much this year, yay! :D