... o.s. frv.

flist cleanup

2026-04-04T12:30:31Z

I have done a little tidy up - mostly I revoked access/unsubscribed where the other person did not grant me access and did not subscribe to me, and the rest was mostly people who hadn't posted in more than 26 weeks (though tbh I think the journal that had been most recently updated of those had a 48 weeks date on it...).

What I said earlier this week still stands: if anybody wants to take the opportunity to remove me from their flist, no questions asked and no hard feelings, feel free. I understand that while friending memes can be fun it can turn out that you just don't vibe with one or more of the people you friended at the time. I'll check in a week or so and if anybody has revoked my access/unsubscribed I'll do the same.

I do want to be absolutely clear on one point, however: anybody who willingly pays for Harry Potter merchandise/streams the new tv show/buys JKR's other books/in any other way has no qualms to continue to financially contribute to JKR's wealth, is not welcome here.

I don't give a shit if you read/write HP fanfiction, but continuing to put money into JKR's pockets as well as those who have of their own free will chosen to align with her or participate in projects she financially benefits from is really not acceptable to me. That does absolutely include the new HP tv show. every single adult involved with that show chose to do it when they could've turned it down. discovering that Hans Zimmer, who did some of the scoring for the show, is also a transphobe, has really hammered this point home for me. JKR, known transphobe, attracts other transphobes. Shocker. (Water is wet, fork found in kitchen, etc.) Don't be a transphobe.

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yuletide rec

2026-01-01T21:39:00Z

reveals are now up! I received this wonderful, lovely gift:

Autumn Leaves Lie Thick and Still (2581 words) by yeats
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shetland (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez
Characters: Duncan Hunter, Jimmy Perez
Additional Tags: Football, Slow Burn
Summary:

Scotland, at long last, qualifies for the World Cup. Jimmy and Duncan, at long last, figure some things out.

there are a lot of things to love about it. for me I can't stop marvelling at how the football game is written - the tension, and how it breaks - and how it works as both the metaphor (callback to the end of s5!) and vehicle for bringing them together. lovely stuff.

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ao3 alphabet meme

2025-11-10T21:11:30Z

this has been going around and I couldn't resist having a go. It seems to vary whether to include a fic link or not, but I decided to include my links.

Meme Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for [starting] a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'A’ and ’T’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

A - Anthony J Crowley Fell
B - Baklava
C - Come to Naples
D - darling tonight, i've got you in my sights
E - Esarina Anastasia of Volstov, first of her name
F - the five year plan or if it doesn't count if it's prefaced by 'the' then here's an alternative: Four Names
G - Grim Winter Was Howlin'
H - honeyed
J - Joy Ride
K - Kaffe
L - longing
M - Molasses
N - no gentlemen left
O - Of Gilded Wallpaper and Meddling Dragons
P - patron saint of whores
Q - Quickie
R - Rose Trees
S - somebody else's wallet
T - til solen står op
U - untitled I think this one might be considered cheating, so here's an alternative: Up all night to get Bucky
V - Vasketøj
W - We're Sure to Grow Old Together
X -
Y -
Z -

23/26, which I think is pretty good! I had multiple choices for several of the letters so I tried to prioritise by picking the most recent. Not having one that starts with Y seems odd as it's not that rare, for English, but I couldn't find one on my main account.

Total number of ao3 works: 123 (not all are fics and I can't be arsed to go through and subtract art and fanbindings from the total.)

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Friday open thread: paint me a picture

2025-10-31T22:00:51Z

It’s time for another (only my second, I believe) Friday open thread, inspired by dolorosa_12, who I've long admired for keeping these going weekly - mine are going to continue to be irregular! This one is inspired by those moments when you don’t have a camera at hand to take a photo - or maybe, like me, you decided to enjoy the moment as it was without thinking about camera angles or framing or later posting.

This is your invitation to describe a moment where you stopped to take it in without a camera.

I’ll go first:

Earlier this week I was running late to work due to multiple train cancellations and delays, so I walked a more direct route from the train station to the office - right past the outer moat of the citadel. It was a rare sunny morning with little wind, biting cold, the leaves on the footpath already churned into brown mud. Out on the water, a short distance up ahead, visible through the still-green branches of a large willow tree, was a pair of swans. Suddenly, one swan took umbrage with the other and hared off, wings angrily fluttering, until it settled down somewhere in the distance.

I passed the tree, and there, the moat abruptly turned inwards back to the centre of the star, flanked on both sides by trees dressed in yellow and orange. I slowed down. On the water was the swan left behind, slowly floating towards its mate, the dark ripples in the water gently breaking up the fiery reflections of the trees. As I watched, now stock still while other people rushed past me on the footpath, a gust of wind shook the largest of the trees, and a rain of yellow beech leaves fluttered down and formed golden little boats in the water around the swan.

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Yuletide Letter

2025-10-19T13:16:38Z

( Dear Yuletide Writer )

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IT IS FINISHED

2025-04-20T20:25:20Z

til solen står op (141411 words) by nerakrose
Chapters: 40/40
Fandom: Afdeling Q | Department Q (Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Assad/Carl Mørck, Assad & Carl Mørck
Characters: Carl Mørck, Assad (Afdeling Q), Marcus Jacobsen, Rose Knudsen, Jesper (Afdeling Q), Hardy (Afdeling Q)
Additional Tags: Aftermath of Violence, Police Brutality, All Cops Are Bastards, Whump, Forced Outing, Eventual Happy Ending, Assad Whump, WIP Tags, POV Alternating, Original Character(s), Pining, Father-Son Relationship, Queer Themes, Situationship (temporary), Demisexual Character, Demisexual Carl Mørck, Jesper lever i et univers hvor han har TO papfædre. han kan ikke overbevises om andet, lidt for detaljerede beskrivelser af kaffe nu når jeg tænker over det, Carl og Assad skændes som et gammelt ægtepar ❤️, jeg mener den her fic endelig fortjener et slow burn tag helt ærligt, Slow Burn, Masturbation, Pining: i n t e n s i f i e s, Family Dynamics, conversations in cars, Carl prøver virkelig sit bedste, Love Confessions, First Kiss, svære samtaler, dvs Carl åbner lidt op. endelig, Relationship Negotiation, Carl går til psykolog, lange snakke, kys og ømhed, klamydia (ikke alvorligt), en meget urealistisk fremstilling af hvordan en dansk retssag foregår, UST: tiltagende, Romance, traumatised detectives in love, Oral Sex, Praise Kink, Carl "mors dreng" Mørck, landlig idyl, Kittens, dansk sommer, Family Drama, Happy Ending
Summary:
"Der er to tusind klagesager mod politiet hvert år. Vi vinder dem allesammen. Er det fordi vi aldrig begår fejl eller fordi vi beskytter hinanden?"
- Carl Mørck, Journal 64

Når Assad bliver anholdt uden gyldigt grundlag, og i processen bliver outet for hele Danmark, må han finde ud af, hvordan han skal forene begge sider af sit liv. Det gør det ikke nemmere, at den mand han er brændende forelsket i, også er hans chef: uopnåelige Carl Mørck.

Carl vil gøre alt for at redde Assads karriere - og for at få de skyldige ned med nakken. Det bliver startskuddet på en følelsesmæssig opdagelsesrejse for Carl, og endnu et led i det opgør han har med sig selv. For når der er så meget galt med ham, hvordan kan han i det hele taget gøre sig fortjent til Assad?

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longest thing I ever wrote, and it is, finally, finished!!! I have been working on this for OVER A YEAR. I got the idea back in October 2023 but I was working on a different fic at the time, and then there was Yuletide, so I didn't start writing until January 2024. I did start posting chapters on AO3 on April 20th 2024 and I was determined to finish this fic before or on that date - and well, today is April 20th 2025, and I put the final touches on the last two chapters and did several rounds of edits, and now the chapters are up and posted and I am DONE. FINISHED.

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new Astreiant novel!!

2025-03-21T16:37:17Z

this is not a drill!!!

Point of Hearts came out yesterday and somehow I MISSED the announcement so I only bought it today, but it is out!!!

Smashwords link: Point of Hearts (not an affiliate link or anything)

I love this series so much and I've been so excited about getting a new book. There is another one coming as well afaik, Point of Graves - which was supposed to come before this one, but then Stuff Happened I guess, and now we get this novella instead, ahead of Ppint of Graves. I'm not complaining. Also now that I'm like, safely landed in Denmark and all, with an INCOME, I can re-start my patreon subscriptions, including Melissa Scott. She's been sharing snippets from the Astreiant verse for a while so if there are any other fans here then there is a veritable treasure trove over at patreon waiting for you.

I literally just started reading another book that I think I'll need to commit to finishing before I can jump onto this. I might even re-read all of Astreiant...

The elevator pitch, for those who want one: this series is a police procedural set in a secondary world where astrology is real and magic. the setting is vaguely renaissance Italy, the main characters are queer, and their relationship progresses so lovely, in my opinion. they are adults, trying to make things work. These could also be described to have elements of mannerpunk as there is a strong thread of exploration of class, gender, and politics - the setting is matriarchal and somewhat queernormative, and really explores what that actually means.

these books are NOT m/m romance and if somebody tries to pitch them to you that way they are misleading you; these are fantasy novels far more than they are romance novels, and each book is a standalone mystery rooted in the fantastical and magical world it's set in. there is no on-screen smut, at most you'll get some flirting and kissing on screen. the get-together also happens off-page.

these books are major comfort reads for me and I really want them to do well so we can get more books, so if this sounds interesting do give them a try and leave a review somewhere.

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snowflake challenge #6

2025-01-11T13:46:50Z

every year I think, oh this year I will do snowflake_challenge, and then every year something about the prompts fails to grab me or some other reason, and I don't. if I manage 1 challenge at all, I call it a win.

Anyway, today I will gleefully pounce on challenge #6 so I can share my favourite moments from the Afdeling Q films. XD and I do call that a win. XD

Challenge #6 - Share your favourite piece of original canon.

I do have many favourite pieces but the other day I put together a post of screenshots from Journal 64 of Carl waiting for Assad to wake up from his coma, and posted it on tumblr here, so I will go with this one. I don't know how to make gifs (or rather, I used to, like 15 years ago, with cracked versions of adobe CS2 programmes, but things have changed and I haven't kept up) so screenshots it is.

The reasons why this is one of my favourite bits of canon:

( Read more... )

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yuletide recs

2024-12-26T19:22:24Z

I had a lovely Christmas Eve with my family, and then yesterday and today I've spent my time reading Yuletide fic, re-watching all Ocean's movies, and writing fic. I'd hoped I'd be able to post a new chapter of my ongoing Afdeling Q wip before Christmas, but what with the move and my Yuletide commitments that wasn't possible. I'm now aiming to post a new chapter by the 28th, as last time I updated was 28th november and I was a bit surprised to discover it's almost been a month.

anyway, Yuletide recs! starting with my gift, a lovely selection of moments of Danny/Rusty (with background poly), including Tess and Rusty getting along, and an appearance from Debbie - and the reason why I decided to rewatch the Ocean's movies:

ain't that a kick in the head (2010 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan, Danny Ocean/Tess Ocean
Characters: Danny Ocean, Rusty Ryan, Tess Ocean
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Background Poly
Summary: danny ocean, 11 moments

before I go into the rest of the Yuletide recs I also want to give a shout to this gift fic:

The Laws of Thermodynamics (5163 words) by berlincorpography
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan, Danny Ocean/Tess Ocean, Tess Ocean & Rusty Ryan
Characters: Rusty Ryan, Danny Ocean, Tess Ocean
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Polyamory, a story mostly about how tess and rusty should unionise
Summary: The three laws of thermodynamics, as described in American Scientist, March 1964:

First law: You can’t win, you can only break even.
Second law: You can only break even at absolute zero.
Third law: You can’t reach absolute zero.

I got the gift notification for this in November and instantly thought 'aw hell, somebody messed up their Yuletide posting didn't they? I will pretend I didn't see it. but lemme click through real fast and read it before they realise their mistake...' and it turned out it wasn't a Yuletide mess up, but it was in fact Yuletide related: berlincorpography wrote my Danny/Rusty Yuletide gift last year. this was the fic they initially wrote, realised it was maybe veering too close to my DNWs and pivoted to write something else, but then finished this up anyway and gifted me anyway, and I am delighted!! It does not in fact veer too close to any of my DNWs and I love it very much.

More Yuletide recs under these cuts!
( Ocean's 8&11 )

( Temeraire )

the following three fics are 2 x Temeraire and 1x Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - I'm grouping them together instead of under their own fandoms, because they are academic takes on canon and I'm both amused an delighted that there are three whole fics in this genre in fandoms I enjoy.

( academia (2x Temeraire, 1x JSAMN) )

I'm still reading, so I hope to be back with more recs later.

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Year-End Writing Marathon 2024

2024-11-05T13:39:03Z

There is a Year-End Marathon 2024 over at getyourwordsout, which is open to non-members. So if anybody here is not already a member of GYWO *and* would like an alternative to NaNoWriMo, sign ups for the Year-End Marathon are open until November 7th.

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Monday Open Thread: good TV/film adaptations

2024-10-28T17:37:11Z

dolorosa_12 does Friday Open Threads, which I always enjoy reading even if I don't always have anything to say myself, and that is where the inspiration for this post comes from. I don't usually do any open discussion posts (I am not a community builder, alas), but I want to open this one up widely, so do feel free to link to it elsewhere.

I've recently watched two different miniseries based on books, one was a re-watch and the other was new to me. One of these miniseries is in my opinion superior to the book while the other was definitely good, but I preferred the book.

My question is: What story do you feel was served better by a TV or film adaptation than by its original form? What made it better, and why?

I'll go first: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

This was the kind of book that on the surface looked tailor made to my tastes - I love rock music and have spent a considerable amount of my time being super into specific bands, going to concerts and collecting merch and setlists and getting tickets signed, and obsessing over band members. So when I heard of this novel, I thought: here is a book for me!

Unfortunately, I didn't really like the book. The interview format was fine but I wasn't keen on the twist, and in written form Daisy Jones especially came across like the only thing that was going on for her was the substance abuse and being mad that she didn't get what she wanted. my biggest issue by far was that I couldn't listen to any of the music. On paper the songs sounded great, and being familiar with a lot of (but not all) rock music of the time period, I could sort of imagine what the songs were meant to sound like, or vibe like, but ultimately, they were just words on paper. This book was a bit of a let down for me.

Then the TV series (on Amazon Prime in the UK) came along and I gained a whole new appreciation for the story. There was a constant running soundtrack of music from real bands alongside the fictional one, with new music written for the TV series in the appropriates style. And each song is a banger! The interview format worked so much better with the series presented as a hybrid of video interviews, like a documentary, interspersed with flashback bits. it also made it less jarring when the interview bits suddenly stopped being a documentary and started being present-time scenes outside the filmed interview. (does that make sense?) The twist also felt a lot less annoying as the actors brought a lot of body language, expressions, and tone to the interview format that wasn't there in writing, that enriched their relationship with the past and the interviewer. And of course: the music. I re-watched this series recently and loved it just as much the second time.

Of course this specific series wouldn't have existed without the book, so it's not fair to say that it should've been made as a TV series from the start and that we don't need the book, but personally I would recommend the TV series over the book in this case.

What about you?

Please note this is not the place for absolutist the-book-is-always-better-no-matter-what opinions. Be kind and respectful to one another in the comments.

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Yuletide Letter

2024-10-11T18:55:07Z

( Dear Yuletide Writer )

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climate change fiction

2024-09-01T19:28:45Z

Today has been a hot, sunny day, possibly the last of the season, so I took the opportunity to wash my summer duvet, hang it outside to dry, and then put it away to swap it for the winter duvet, which I washed in spring before putting away. (it's a bit soon to swap it out, but I don't mind.) I also washed the mattress protector and the pillowcase (my pillow has a protective case that can be washed) and put on fresh sheets, so my bed is now all fresh.

I've had a very fun discussion about Star Trek TOS and mid-century pulp sci-fi vs modern sci-fi over in scanfic (in Danish/Swedish), which led me to revisit a binding I did last year for a bookbinding competition with climate change as theme. I didn't win anything in the competition, but I had a lot of fun putting the book together. As part of it, I also read a lot of different texts to curate a selection for the book (I believe most traditional binders just choose one existing text and bind it), and wrote forewords. So the binding is unique in many ways. Anyway, the point is to say, I wrote the forewords in a kind of frenzy as I was working to a deadline, but revisiting the binding and the texts I'd curated and the forewords themselves, I thought, hey actually this is pretty good? So under the cut is the foreword for the fiction half plus the links to the (publicly accessible) texts if anybody wants to read along. (the foreword for the non-fic half is very 'I have no brain left and I just need to fill this page', ha.)

( Earth is Missing! and other stories [foreword] )

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friending meme

2024-08-30T22:57:07Z

It's been a while since I've seen one of these around! sharing this for anyone who's interested, though I'll probably pop by myself tomorrow once I've had some sleep.

Picture by Jess Bailey on Unsplash

Do you get that end-of-summer, back-to-school feeling as an adult? Looking forward to a fresh start, perhaps with some more DW friends? silviarambles is hosting a friending meme!

Back to School Friendzy - 2024

Please remember that friending frenzies work only if you spread the word, so, even if you're not looking for more friends, do pimp the meme in your own journal please!

Thanks!

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SF meme

2024-07-21T21:16:25Z

sleepyquail shared this meme - esquire has a list of 75 "essential reading" SF books.

bold the ones you've read, italicise the ones where you've read something else by the author. sleepyquail also added ** for books that are on the TBR, which I'm also going to do.

75. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey ** I have 3 other books on my TBR
74. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
73. Redshirts by John Scalzi (DNF'd something else by him)
72. Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
71. The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
70. Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
69. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (once had a copy of Quicksilver I never got around to reading)
68. Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
67. Contact by Carl Sagan
66. Under the Skin by Michel Faber
65. Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
64. Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
63. What Mad Universe by Fredric Brown
62. The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
61. Semiosis by Sue Burke
60. Excession by Iain M. Banks
59. The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe
58. Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
57. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (I strongly disliked it)
56. The Resisters by Gish Jen
55. Rosewater by Tade Thompson **
54. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
53. Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
52. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
51. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
50. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
49. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
48. The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel
47. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon **
46. The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
45. Neuromancer by William Gibson
44. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
43. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
42. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
41. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
40. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir **
39. Zone One by Colson Whitehead **got two other books by him on my TBR
38. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
37. Engine Summer by John Crowley
36. The Children of Men by P.D. James
35. Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente (I DFN'd two other books by her)
34. The City & The City by China Miéville
33. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine ** (I've read some other stuff by her but this book is on my TBR)
32. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie **
31. The Stand by Stephen King (I've read many of his books)
30. In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
29. Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
28. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
27. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (DNF'd a different Murakami book)
26. Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
25. Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
24. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
23. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
22. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
21. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
20. Shikasta by Doris Lessing
19. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (read one, and DNF'd two others)
18. Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
17. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
16. The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov
15. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
13. The Employees by Olga Ravn
12. 1984 by George Orwell
11. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu ** (but lbr I'll never get around to it)
10. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick **
9. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
8. Exhalation by Ted Chiang **
7. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
6. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin **
5. Kindred by Octavia Butler **
4. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (I've read something else by her)
3. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (I know I've read this but have no memory of it)
2. Dune by Frank Herbert (DNF'd it)
1. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

9 books on this list read, multiple DNF's and even more TBR. there are some books/authors on this list I've never heard of, and some I wouldn't have included myself, but this list gets some kudos for not being populated solely by straight white guys.

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nerakrose @ 2024-04-20T14:54:00

2024-04-20T14:02:03Z

so, I've watched the entirety of 9-1-1 including what's been aired of s7. thank you tumblr for alerting me to the existence of this show? I had never heard of it, or the fandom, until the 'Buck is bi now??' shock wave so realising that there are 50k fics on ao3 is a bit like...idk, discovering a whale just swam over your head? that's a sizeable fandom to never have heard of before! anyway, i am enjoying it, and will happily take recs. I don't have a horse in this ship race though I absolutely get the appeal of Buck/Eddie.

in other fandom news, I have found my writing mojo again and so have decided to post the first chapter of my current wip:

til solen står op (2361 words) by nerakrose
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Afdeling Q | Department Q (Movies)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Assad/Carl Mørck, Assad & Carl Mørck
Characters: Carl Mørck, Assad (Afdeling Q), Marcus Jacobsen
Additional Tags: Aftermath of Violence, Police Brutality, All Cops Are Bastards, Whump, Forced Outing, Eventual Happy Ending, Assad Whump, WIP Tags
Summary:

"Der er to tusind klagesager mod politiet hvert år. Vi vinder dem allesammen. Er det fordi vi aldrig begår fejl eller fordi vi beskytter hinanden?"
- Carl Mørck, Journal 64

I currently have 6 chapters and 16k, and less than 24 hours have passed in-fic. I don't know how long this will wind up being because I have plot for *weeks*. as long as it needs to be, I suppose.

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Yuletide 2023

2024-01-01T13:42:00Z

as it happened, I did not have time to read anything else from the collection before reveals and I'm doubtful I'll have time today either, so, this is a repeat of the gifts I received + the two fics I wrote.

my gifts:

One Who Kneels (3027 words) by VirginiaPlain64
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shetland (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez, Duncan Hunter/Donna Killick, Duncan Hunter/Fran Hunter Perez, Fran Hunter Perez/Jimmy Perez
Characters: Duncan Hunter, Jimmy Perez, Cassie Perez (Shetland), Donna Killick, Fran Hunter Perez
Additional Tags: Pining, Masturbation, Whiskey & Scotch, Pre-Slash, Angst, Yuletide Treat, Fantasizing, Internalized Homophobia, Self-Pity, Introspection, Character Study, Sweaters
Summary: Duncan searches Jimmy's bedroom. What is he really looking for?

bet your bottom dollar (2447 words) by berlincorpography
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan
Characters: Danny Ocean, Rusty Ryan, Tess Ocean
Additional Tags: 5+1 Things, Hurt/Comfort, background Danny Ocean/Tess Ocean, Pre-Canon
Summary: In some ways, it would have been easier if he was still mad at Danny. It would have been easier if the time and distance had left them foreign to each other. It would, fundamentally, have been easier if he hadn’t gotten damningly hard under the table the second Danny started talking.

Better Than Milk and Honey (1881 words) by misura
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Afdeling Q | Department Q (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Assad/Carl Mørck
Additional Tags: Only One Bed
Summary: “We might have found another hotel,” Assad said.Carl scoffed. “At this time of night? No, thank you.”

the fics i wrote:

somebody else's wallet (1081 words) by nerakrose for berlincorpography
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan
Additional Tags: Non-Linear Narrative, First Meetings, Made For Each Other, Partners in Crime, Life Partners, Implied Sexual Content, how else do we categorise and/or define Danny and Rusty's relationship?, Rusty POV - Freeform
Summary: When you look at another man for too long, you risk giving several things away.

a dollop of honey (1221 words) by nerakrose for queermccoy
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Havemercy Series - Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alcibiades/Caius Greylace
Additional Tags: Queerplatonic Relationships, Cottagecore, Family Fluff
Summary: Al’s favourite time of day is evening, just after the last meal of the day. He goes out for a swim in the river, to rinse off the worst of the day’s sweat, and then comes inside to the warm bath that Caius prepared for him. It’s scented with lavender and rose, the water turned milky by oats - good for Al’s hardened hands, his weathered skin. Caius has already had his own bath, but he washes Al’s hair for him, untangles it gently and extricates hay and wildflowers. Forget-me-nots like to cling, and while Caius doesn’t understand how a weed that grows on the ground winds up so high that it filters into Al’s hair, he finds it charming all the same.

do I think it's very funny that berlincorpography and I wound up writing each other ocean's 11 fic? yes absolutely. yuletide is huge, but fandoms are small.

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Yuletide gifts

2023-12-25T12:48:21Z

I received three Yuletide gifts! I am on the FLOOR about it.

First one up is this introspective Duncan POV BBC Shetland fic:

One Who Kneels (3027 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shetland (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Duncan Hunter/Jimmy Perez, Duncan Hunter/Donna Killick, Duncan Hunter/Fran Hunter Perez, Fran Hunter Perez/Jimmy Perez
Characters: Duncan Hunter, Jimmy Perez, Cassie Perez (Shetland), Donna Killick, Fran Hunter Perez
Additional Tags: Pining, Masturbation, Whiskey & Scotch, Pre-Slash, Angst, Yuletide Treat, Fantasizing, Internalized Homophobia, Self-Pity, Introspection, Character Study, Sweaters
Summary:

Duncan searches Jimmy's bedroom. What is he really looking for?

Next one up is this delightful Ocean’s 8 fic showing the development of Danny and Rusty’s relationship from their early teen years together and up, through humour and hurt/comfort situations, and I just love it a lot:

bet your bottom dollar (2447 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ocean's Eleven Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan
Characters: Danny Ocean, Rusty Ryan, Tess Ocean
Additional Tags: 5+1 Things, Hurt/Comfort, background Danny Ocean/Tess Ocean, Pre-Canon
Summary:

In some ways, it would have been easier if he was still mad at Danny. It would have been easier if the time and distance had left them foreign to each other. It would, fundamentally, have been easier if he hadn’t gotten damningly hard under the table the second Danny started talking.

And last but not least - somebody wrote me Afdeling Q fic! I absolutely should not be playing favourites but since I never once hoped I would receive a fic for this fandom I am absurdly delighted and also I really enjoyed this: grumpy!Carl grumping his whole way through bed sharing with the object of his desires until he grumpily confessed and things can get moving? Simply wonderful, I love it. So in character.

Better Than Milk and Honey (1881 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Afdeling Q | Department Q (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Assad/Carl Mørck
Additional Tags: Only One Bed
Summary:

“We might have found another hotel,” Assad said.

Carl scoffed. “At this time of night? No, thank you.”

I have had a quick glance at the collection and there will be more things to read, later, when I’m not hanging out with my family.

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et Afdeling Q Julemysterie

2023-12-06T22:19:03Z

better late than never - now also posted to my DW. links lead to individual chapters on AO3. I actually wanted to make the individual dates on the image clickable and while I know how to do that, I couldn't find an image host equipped to host that kind of specialised file, so, alas. second best option would have been to turn the image into a PDF with links as that's more widely compatible, but a PDF is hard to display nicely imo, so...third best option I suppose? this is also posted to tumblr, here.

et Afdeling Q Julemysterie

1. december	2. december	3. december	4. december
5. december	6. december	7. december	8. december
9. december	10. december	11. december	12. december
13. december	14. december	15. december	16. december
17. december	18. december	19. december	20. december
21. december	22. december	23. december	24. december

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fic

2023-10-22T14:00:07Z

latest fic is done and posted - I was tweaking the last chapter up until the day of, even though I technically finished writing it on Thursday. how did I wind up with nearly 19k of this when I intended it to be a short and silly 'only one bed' fic? OH WELL. it's still got silly elements - like the sleeping mask subplot - but I suppose it's a real case fic after all.

noget jeg ikk' tør sig' (18785 words) by nerakrose
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Afdeling Q | Department Q (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Assad/Carl Mørck, Assad & Carl Mørck
Characters: Carl Mørck, Assad (Afdeling Q), Rose Knudsen
Additional Tags: Case Fic, There Was Only One Bed, Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, Coming Out, POV Alternating
Summary:

Figuren på rygsækken havde langt sort hæklet hår i en fletning, nøjagtigt magen til fletningen på den unge kvinde der lå ved siden af i en pøl af sit eget blod.

Der er en seriemorder på Samsø. Carl og Assad undersøger sagen - problemet: det er Samsø festival, højsæson for turisme, og alle hoteller er fuldt booket. På nær et.

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Yuletide Letter

2023-10-13T11:08:13Z

( Dear Yuletide Writer )

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flist cleanup

2023-09-19T17:05:32Z

Hi all - it's time for a flist cleanup. I will be revoking access from and removing from my reading page people who haven't updated their journals in a year or more. I will not be revoking access just because we haven't commented on each other's journals ever or in a while; I'm absolutely shit at that kind of maintanence and don't comment often, and likewise I don't expect comments on my posts. I do read all posts (with few exceptions: if I've been travelling or very busy and haven't had time to keep up) and as far as I'm concerned lurking is fine. What I'm not comfortable with is empty journals having access to mine - who are you??

the other thing is, I will also be revoking access from and removing from my reading page journals that exclusively or almost exclusively post about Harry Potter fandom. I'm sorry folks, but it's time. I don't want to see this stuff on my reading page anymore. I'm glad for your sakes that you are still able to find enjoyment in this fandom, but for me that train has left the station, the city, and the bloody country. HP fandom posts have become for me a constant reminder that an author I once looked up to has become so radicalised that she's turned into the most vile of people, somebody who is actively supporting hate groups and campaigns against people like me and my loved ones (queer, trans, disabled). I just cannot with any JKR-related and HP-related stuff anymore, so it goes. on the off chance that there are people here who don't know the full extent of JKRs bigotry, here's is write up at glamour.com (last updated april 2023), and a write up at vox.com (last updated march 2023). Add to that she's funded anti-independence campaigns as well (I'm very pro-Scottish independence.)

If anybody else wants to take this opportunity to also revoke my access and/or remove me from their reading page, please do feel free, and no hard feelings, no explanation required.

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a month of afdeling q fics

2023-09-13T21:06:19Z

final Afdeling Q fic done ! I have now completed every fic idea I had (for now) so this will be it for a while. I haven't decided what to do next (novel most likely) but I don't care. what I most want to do is rent all four movies again and watch them again and come up with more fic, and then write it, but alas I need to be Sensible™️ so...another time.

it's been a fun month writing these - I just realised I posted the first one on the 13th august so it's been exactly a month. 5 weeks. 7 fics. just under 20k.
ETA: longer post (in Danish) on scanfic, here.

bryllupsplaner (5793 words) by nerakrose
Fandom: Afdeling Q | Department Q (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Assad/Carl Mørck
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, accidentally secret relationship, Wedding Planning, Wedding Fluff, Fluff, Fluff and Humor, starter cirka efter Journal 64 men indforstået efter Assad er udskrevet fra sygehuset, Assad er en meget tålmodig mand
Summary: Det tog Assad tre måneder (plus fem år) at overbevise Carl om at flytte sammen. Det tog ham yderligere fire måneder at overbevise ham om at flytte ind i Assads lejlighed på Nørrebro.

( under this cut: a complete round up of all afdeling q fics I've written thus far )

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UK Fandom Weekend

2023-07-20T21:11:33Z

In the UK or willing to travel there? Interested in possibly attending (or even helping to organise) an in person Fandom Weekend in 2024?

If yes, we'd like to here from you!

Follow the banner to a community to learn more!

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nerakrose @ 2023-06-30T16:23:00

2023-06-30T15:25:08Z

*deeep sigh* here we go lads.

the cracks appear (1653 words) by nerakrose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Metal Lords (2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clay Moss/Hunter Sylvester
Characters: Hunter Sylvester, Alan Sylvester, Clay Moss
Additional Tags: Gay Awakening, Accidental Coming Out, Making Out, Hunter's dad is supportive, listen I'm pretty sure Clay is some kind of omnisexual he was making eyes at literally EVERYONE, those gold earrings tho. very ken-coded of him
Summary: Anybody else watch Metal Lords (2022) and walk away disappointed that the obviously gay kid with ten Judas Priest posters in his room didn’t get his gay awakening?
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Hunter is waiting to be discharged from hospital after breaking his leg when Clay turns up.

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