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.

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.

*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.

GUYS

I skim through my kudos emails every day just to see what people are into and if something exciting is going on (sudden influx of kudos? one person going through half my catalogue?), and a few weeks ago I got this:


cue my reaction best described as several memes originating from America's Next Top Model that I absolutely am not going to bother googling right now, because this person podficced some of my fave SPN fics that I still occasionally listen to - I don't listen to stuff in general but about ten ish years ago I wanted to get into more audio based media, so I was listening to Cabin Pressure and Welcome to Night Vale and a lot of podfic, until I burnt out about it because it wasn't sustainable for me (it takes SO much energy for me to listen to things) and I dropped it all again. save for a tiny handful of podfics that are just soothingly familiar, read by this person. (related: I very much wanted to join the Magnus archives bandwagon but again, I just can't expend the energy, so I have a half-formed plan of binding the transcripts eventually and just reading the whole thing.)

and then...! tonight! I got another email from ao3! notifying me of this:

[Podfic of] no gentlemen left (27 words) by exmanhater
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A League of Their Own (TV 2022)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Beverly (A League of Their Own TV 2022)
Additional Tags: Podfic, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Queer History, Queer Themes, Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology XIII
Summary: Beverly looks after her girls.

!

of all the things I've written I didn't think this fic of all fics I've written would wind up with a podfic, but I'm absurdly pleased and happy that it now exists in podfic format. :D

I finished my wip - I finished writing it some days ago already, but kept up the paced posting and the last chapter went up today. it's been an interesting experience actually, since it's been so long since last I did that kind of chaptered posting (and even longer since I was posting a fic that wasn't finished before posting). it's not even a long fic, 9 chapters and just under 7k, and like everything else I've written for this fandom completely unbetaed because tbh I don't care about writing Good Fanfic for this fandom, I just want the serotonin that comes with writing it and then getting comments. (that's not to say that these are intentionally shitty, just that they might come across differently from my usual stuff because there hasn't been a second or third pair of eyes on them to make them better.)

so anyway! I wrote my first stripper!au ever! a decade plus in fandom and only now have I accomplished this feat! (not counting the one or two aborted stripper!aus for other fandoms that never amounted to more than a handful of lines and another handful of notes.) apparently, there's only one other stripper!au fic in this fandom and that one isn't complete, so I had some Fandom Support for this, lol.

the fine art of stripping (6789 words) by nerakrose
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Cobra Kai (Web Series)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence
Additional Tags: Humor, Alternate Universe - Stripper/Exotic Dancer, Stripper Johnny Lawrence, Bisexual Daniel LaRusso, Bisexual Johnny Lawrence, Amanda LaRusso/Daniel LaRusso - Freeform, there will be no cheating in this fic, the rating may change with future updates, Horniness, Sexual Frustration, Open Marriage, Blow Jobs, Dirty Talk (cringey)
Summary: Everything is exactly the same, except in S3E3 Johnny gets a job as a "dancer".

ain't pasta a kick in the head (2014 words) by nerakrose
Fandom: Cobra Kai (Web Series)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Amanda LaRusso/Daniel LaRusso, Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence
Characters: Amanda LaRusso, Daniel LaRusso, Johnny Lawrence
Additional Tags: Food, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Comfort Food, Daniel LaRusso is ItalianTM, Malewife Daniel LaRusso, I don't know how the American healthcare system works and at this point I'm too afraid to ask, Hurt/Comfort (I guess), Polyamory, OT3, polyamorous Daniel LaRusso, Bisexual Daniel LaRusso, Bisexual Johnny Lawrence, Amanda is the true star of Cobra Kai, Amanda is also the true star of this fic, Getting Together
Summary: They say that the best way to a man's heart is through the stomach. Daniel wishes this applies to sex, too.

guys! i just realised i haven't even talked about good omens on here???? if you follow me on tumblr you know that these days i reblog/post almost nothing but good omens. i'm not sorry at all.

i watched it on monday last week (i stayed up until 1am to finish it because i started and then didn't want to stop) and then i rewatched it again this weekend. I LOVE IT. i read the book back five years ago or so, and i really enjoyed it, but the tv series has taken that enjoyment and amplified it by six thousand. i am more than willing and ready to rewatch this series five more times in the next week and i absolutely would if i could. (i'm not going to. i have other things to do, sadly.)

ANYWAY I WROTE A FIC! it's the first fic i've shared (and finished!!) in SIX MONTHS so yay on that account, but also just, uh, here's some Crowley feels:

Anthony J Crowley Fell (1279 words) by nerakrose
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale & Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Crowley (Good Omens)
Summary: Falling isn't a one-time event. It's an ongoing process—Crowley Falls, every day, every hour, every second, and he has been Falling for six thousand years.

There's been some posts going around about how to properly use the relationship tags on tumblr (specifically how to tag for background ships so they don't clog up searches) which has led me to start editing the tags on my ao3 fics (not done). I get annoyed searching for ships and finding only 300 fics where they're a background couple, so fixing my own complicity in the problem is a start. but, I've also been thinking about tagging in general, and...tagging in specific:

How do you tag for things that aren't explicit in the fic? Do you tag for it? What is the expectation when you see (certain?) tags on fics?

In no longer easy on the eyes, I wrote Sirius as asexual but never tagged for it because it never came up in conversation within the fic. I'd say it's obvious though - or at least to me he reads as a very obviously asexual person, and even if I never used the word in-fic, the essence of it is understood (Remus says at one point that he didn't think Sirius was interested in relationships at all because he never dated). when that fic ended up on this pride themed reclist*, I was surprised that it was listed under bisexual and not asexual - I never tagged Remus as bisexual nor did I state that within the fic, although he is as obviously bisexual as Sirius is asexual.

So now I wonder, do I tag Sirius as asexual in order to make my intent explicit, or would that potentially be a cop-out? The whole Dumbledore Is Gay discourse all over again, essentially?

Another fic of mine, an old Albus/Scorpius fic (wherein Scorpius ascertains his sexuality) is tagged asexual spectrum, demisexuality, sexual identity, and sexual confusion (in addition to other things) and - spoiler - after cycling through a number of labels Scorpius ends up labelling himself as a late bloomer. I have gotten a LOT of negative comments on this one (not only on ao3) from people who felt cheated because "it gives the impression of featuring an asexual character when it doesn't".

And so I wonder, should I remove the asexual spectrum tag despite the fact Scorpius labels himself as asexual at one stage in the fic? Is the way I've tagged the fic signalling something other than I think it is? Do people expect asexual endgame when in reality it's more accurately demisexuality? (and also, this fic is old and doesn't handle the topic nearly as well as it could've - I'd do things differently today - but on the other hand it does reflect my personal experience with going through labels so it's not like it's unrealistic. I have been thinking about taking it down because I'm so tired of the negative comments, but I also don't want to do that because, you know what, fics don't and shouldn't adhere to an unwritten sjw approved checklist. Ever so rarely I do get a comment from somebody who saw themselves in it. Is that not worth the hassle?)

I'm currently writing an Emil/Michele (yoi) fic, in which Michele is asexual. I didn't plan it, it just happened that way, but like with no longer easy on the eyes, it never gets explicitly stated. Michele never says the words "I'm asexual", he just behaves in a way that very clearly (to me at least) signals lack of sexual attraction. (Emil is the opposite, he's very clearly attracted.)

Do I tag that? If I post that fic with the tag asexual Michele crispino, will readers expect the word within the fic? Will they get disappointed and accuse me of acebaiting if I do?
And the other side of the coin: if I don't tag it, will people miss it? Will no one notice that he's asexual? Does not tagging asexuality when it's on the page, even if not explicitly stated to be there, contribute to the lack of asexual visibility?

I'm honestly not sure what to do. On one hand I can completely understand the need for visibility and representation and by extension the need to have things stated clearly - the whole Let Characters Say Bisexual On TV discourse (not to mention the appalling lack of ace rep) - but on the other hand I don't always feel like it needs to be said. I'm not bringing it up in the Emil/Michele fic because it would create this weird pause in the flow of the fic. It's not a relevant topic of conversation for them. It doesn't suit Michele's characterisation to a) bring it up b) to think of it in the first place. If I did, it would feel like I'm just crossing off a checklist.

asexuality mentioned in-text, woke points achieved ✓

And yet, if I don't tag for it, it seems it will go absolutely unnoticed? I'd like to trust people to have critical reading skills, but the truth is that even when they do, when it comes to asexuality in particular many people lack the knowledge necessary to decode a character as asexual. We have shorthands and codes for gay and lesbian readings (even if that's also not a given, even when it's explicit; see: Harold They Are Lesbians) but we don't have a backlog of literature and media with ace rep on which to base a pattern recognition programme to help recognise What's Obvious To The Rest Of Us.

So I'm back to square one. How do I best tag (or not tag) my fics? How do I decode what's the general expectation for a given tag, such as asexuality ? How do I avoid the worst pitfalls of ao3 tagging ?


* for clarity's sake, this is absolutely not a complaint about the reclist! I'm always stoked when my stuff gets recced.

first of all, i just wanted to link to the H/D writers friending meme. i don't think there's any H/D people on my flist who don't know of it, but well :P

then there's the rec party at 00q_bb...i need to get my arse in gear and go rec something. it's a little slow but i think that's the holidays speaking...

and then there's the snowflake challenge (snowflake_challenge), which i thought looked interesting. i haven't done anything for it (obv) and i've been a little busy, but it's saturday and i have the weekend off. i'm probably not gonna do ALL the challenges and i really cannot be arsed reporting back to the comm to say i did it, but hey - let's see how it goes.

day 1 - In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

1) Indiana Lupin and the Search for the Conqueror (NC-17, Remus/Sirius, 67k)
I think this will always be one of my favourite works. <3 it's adventure! and crack! and porn! seriously, what more do you want?

2) Here Now, Gone Yesterday (or Back To The Future) (R, Teddy/James, Remus/Sirius, 21k)
This is a more recent fic of mine, but i do love it very much. it's maybe one of the more 'representative' works of mine? or not? because i write different things, but what i like about this one is that it's very clearly about relationships and family and then i just went and threw a bucket of angst at it. And the one thing i *do* like to write about is family and relationships, so there's that.

3) He Eats Snow For Breakfast (PG-13, Avengers gen, 25k)
I'm really only linking to this one because i'm still in the phase of 'i just finished a long piece of work and i'm all giddy about it' :P but also because i tried something new with this one, but like i said before, i like to write about people and relationships.

day 2 - In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create. See if you can rec fanworks that are less likely to be praised: tiny fandoms, rare pairings, fanworks other than stories, lesser known kinks or tropes. Find fanworks that have few to no comments, or creators new to a particular fandom and maybe aren't well known or appreciated. Appreciate
them.

1) The perks of Constancy by superpol (Mature, Bond/Q, 6k)
Asexual!Q. That is all. (I liked it also for other reasons, but there's not enough ace!fic out there. and this one is lovely. <3)

2) Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and Mob Bosses by kleinefee92 (Teen and up, Hank/Alex (XMFC), 41k)
I think this is the only piece of work in which there's a likeable Scott Summers. he's a child, so that explains it. XD this is an adorable and lovely fic and i just can't with all the cute and i love Hank and Alex so much (he's a dance instructor!) and baby Scott and baby Logan and akdghjafkkakfssfksdfksjgksjgfkjsdsgadækljfsdfbhfvcjajclddjsjadlsfjkdsfdnkasjfhksjghskjhfldskjfkdffk*ded*

3) you, maybe not essentially you, somebody else by dorcas_gustine (Mature, Tony/Jensen (the losers/avengers crossover), 10k)
there is nothing about this fic which is not perfect.