thuvia ptarth

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On content notes: I warn for all AO3 required warnings and physical triggers for vids (or explicitly choose not to warn), but don't always provide notes or tags for other potentially triggering content.

On vid subtitles: All the vids have subtitles available in streaming and download (unless there are no lyrics or dialogue).

On transformative works: Feel free to remix any of my work in any noncommercial way, including, but not limited to, remix challenges, commentaries, podfic, or parody, as long as you keep my pseudonym attached and link back to the original. I'd love it if you let me know about the remix, but that's not a requirement.

Showing my vids at cons/vid parties/other public spaces: Please do! Just let me know about it. All my vid posts have download links to the highest definition version I have available. For streaming, please use the host for the embed in the AO3 post (I post to YouTube for distribution, but sometimes embed the Vimeo version when YT has syncing issues I didn't discover before posting).

Title: Empty (The Mirror Neuron Remix)
Fandom: Yami no Matsuei/Descendants of Darkness
Recipient: ranalore for Remix Redux 10: X Marks the Spot
Length: 1600 words
Rating: Mature
Content notes: Violence, sexual assault, child abuse, miscarriage
Spoilers: This probably won't make much sense if you haven't read the GenSouKai arc in Volumes 10-11.

Summary: Babies have to learn to distinguish inside from outside, and it takes Hisoka longer than most.

Notes: I pinch hit a remix and now I feel a little less guilty about defaulting the last time I signed up. Of course, I kept rewriting it after go-live, because my time management hasn't actually gotten that much better. Sorry!

At AO3.

( When they leave the child in the cell, it does not cry. )

juniperphoenix very kindly recorded my very first posted piece of fanfiction, Subaqueous, for xf_is_love. Here it is.

Wow. Eleven years.

Title: Floriography
Fandom: The Story of Saiunkoku
Recipient: ladyofthethread for the saiunkoku_fic Secret Santa exchange
Length: 1400 words
Content notes: Child abuse. The kind of Victorian AU where people with Japanese names wander around 19th century England for no apparent reason. Non-Victorian syntax. Not Brit-picked. Summary and header notes from John Henry Ingram's The Language of Flowers (1887), thank you, archive.org. This should have included striking mill workers, but I ran out of time and also kept getting distracted by the thoughts of the Rans as the Rosettis (Ryuuren becomes an Impressionist while travelling in France and comes back to England to talk utopian socialism with William Morris, what, he totally would have).

Summary: It is said that the language of flowers is as old as the days of Adam, and that the antiquity of floral emblems dates from the first throbbing of love in the human breast.

( The first world Ryuuki knows is cold stuffy rooms and bleak rocky hills. )

I was vidding at midnight, which I hope will be an omen for the coming year, and I woke up this morning with pink-eye, which I hope will not.

Yuletide
My wonderful writers were the mysterious white hart for The Forest (The Decemberists' Hazards of Love) and the hard-working yhlee for Thousand Voices, One Fight (Janelle Monae's Metropolis: The Chase Suite). Yoon also made me a music video!!!! I am so overwhelmed.

I wrote The Certainties (The Decemberists' Hazards of Love; some Childe ballads also sneaked in, but you can't really tell them from the rest of the album unless you're looking). Unbeta'd, sadly, because my three potential betas fell through, but that is always a risk with pinch hits, as is ambition too grand for the time to write it in. The recipient was very gracious, though, and I was happy to see she had a bunch of full-size stories from people who'd been inspired by her prompts on the pinch hit list.

Festivids
If you need a Festivids beta, I'm available through the deadline. Email me at thuviaptarth at gmail dot com.

So my awesome Yuletide stories, all about the undisguised metaphors for sex, were by Jenn Abiding (Brilliance of a Heart, Vampire Knight) and Olivia Circe (Allegory, Revengers Tragedy).

I only wrote my assigned story this year:

Title: Cigarettes in Five Hands
Fandom: Maggie Helwig's Between Mountains
Recipient: therealjae
Summary: Two years and all he can make out in Cyrillic is curses and Beware, sniper.

Notes:
Much thanks to loligo for research help and general encouragement. Any errors are, of course, my own. The conceit is stolen from Marguerite Yourcenar's A Coin in Nine Hands.

This story is set in Sarajevo, December 24-25, 1994. Sources included:

• a lot of newspaper articles
  
• Peter Andreas, Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo
  
• Tom Gjelten, Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege
  
• Tim Judah, Kosovo
  
• Antony Loyd, My War Gone By, I Miss It So: So completely NOT RECOMMENDED I had to write letters to loligo and springgreen about how much I hated it and wanted to stab its author with MANY KNIVES. DO NOT READ.
  

These "Three things about Character X in Y universe that I never told you" things are fascinating! It makes me so sad that my stories are too plotless to be suitable for them, and/or that mostly I don't know things until I write them. I mean, this is what I came up with for the Crossroads Demon in "Spider Bites On All Your Lovers":

1. Once she bargains Dean down to a year, she knows she could get him down to a day. An hour, even; ten minutes after seeing Sam's eyes open and alive. She doesn't bother because there's no challenge in it. And because, to be honest, a year seems like a fine amount of time to enjoy the gradiations of Dean Winchester suffering.
   
   She'll be able to drop in on him anytime after the year, too, of course, but once they're a sure thing, they're just not as much fun.
   
   
2. ...
   

Rating: R
Fandom: Supernatural
Warnings: Child abuse, sexual violence, incest in the eye of the beholder.
Title, Author and URL of original story: I scratched a heart around your name by wanttobeatree

Summary: We're all the same underneath the skin. Missing scene for "Skin."

( Wakey-wakey, sleepyhead. )

Title: The Fortunate Fall
Characters/Pairing: Sam/Ruby
Rating: R for sex and language
Length: 1200 words
Notes: I'm posting this before seeing 3x09, which may render it irrelevant or noncanonical. Thank you to vaznetti and rivkat for the encouragement and vee_fic and cofax7 for the beta; any heresies are my own.

( Summary: Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. )