#queue are the damndest creature

[enbylestat]

Tidings of comfort & joy

Chapters: 12/12 Fandom: The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elphaba Thropp/Fiyero Tigelaar, Fiyero Tigelaar/Sarima Tigelaar, Elphaba Thropp/Sarima Tigelaar, elphaba thropp/sarima tigelaar/fiyero tigelaar Characters: Elphaba Thropp, Fiyero Tigelaar, Sarima Tigelaar, Galinda Upland, The Wizard (The Wicked Years), Liir (The Wicked Years), Nor "Ilianora" Tigelaar, Manek Tigelaar, Irji Tigelaar Additional Tags: Holidays, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Lurlinemas (The Wicked Years), Domestic Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Character Study, Anarchy, Fascism, Politics, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behavior, polyamorous Fiyero Tigelaar, bisexual Fiyero Tigelaar, Bisexual Elphaba Thropp, Bisexuality, Bisexual Female Character, Bisexual Male Character, Useless Lesbians, lesbian Glinda Upland, Revolution, Inspired by Roleplay/Roleplay Adaptation, Tumblr Roleplay, Inspired by A Christmas Carol, Bisexual Female Character of Color, POV Alternating, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, POV Third Person, POV Third Person Limited, References to Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, References to Wicked (The Wicked Years), Song: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Fix-It, Happy Ending, Polyamory, rairpair, Threesome - F/F/M, Canon - Book, Historical References, Allegory, Femslash, Smut, Intersex, Queer Themes, POV Elphaba Thropp, POV Fiyero Tigelaar, POV Sarima Tigelaar, Minor Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland, Character Death, Christmas, Christmas Fluff, Religion, Atheism Series: Part 5 of The Wicked Years (enbylestat's version). Summary: Post the violent (and justified) overthrow of Oscar Diggs - the ‘Wonderful’ Wizard of Oz, and the ascension of an extremely reluctant Glinda Upland-Chuffrey, Elphaba Thropp, who is already on the way to the Vinkus makes a life for herself in a way that is on solid ground and one she, Sarima and Fiyero Tigelaar all deserve.

(AU: no one dies / everyone lives, fluff with light smut.)

@creators-club

[enbylestat]

Makes absolute sense to me, I personally require a more solid footing, theorizing and speculation is fun and all, but it can only get you so far. I personally separate the books and every adaptation (including 1994 in my head), it is the nature of adaptations and not everyone will be of the same mind about it, and that’s not necessarily bad, permitted civility isn’t breached and real racism and biphobia isn’t actually being inacted. It is not real, but the issues are and that’s the wonderful thing about horrors, you can be uncomfortable in your usual sensibilities and still go to bed knowing you are safe, and monsters are real, but not as Anne Rice and AMC describe them.

Anatomy of a Love Seen: When The Pawn

For the Lestat Birthday Bingo event held by @vampirefest I posted the third chapter of my fic Anatomy of a Love Seen. This is for prompt The Performer/Actor/Rockstar. The first day of reshoots is not going well. Louis seeks refuge on a balcony, overhears a conversation, and has a sighting that makes him think of the good times with Lestat. Armand spirals into mania.

16.5K words in this chapter. Fiona take the wheel! Take it from my hands. I can't do this on my own. @dreamofme9 helped greatly.

[littlemulattokitten]

"Barista writes bad jokes/poetry on cute regular customer’s cup" sirius-hermione

Idk if I’m ever gonna expand this more or not, but uh...here I guess. It’s long so, you know, below the cut.

I.

Alright, so the whole barista gig was kind of an accident.

He never planned on keeping the job, let alone taking it to begin with, or enjoying it for that matter, but the added income was nice. Very nice. Rugged barista by day, suave bartender by night. And all the tips he could flirt out of his patrons. 

When Marlene had called him a few months prior, flustered and with the droning of a busy coffee shop in the background, he'd never planned on being her backup barista because he “already knew health and safety regulations, and could pick up new recipes like some sort of mixology savant". Still, a few hours later he'd been wearing an apron, a headset, and making drinks faster than Marlene’s most seasoned barista.

He begrudgingly admitted to enjoying the busy afternoon and once they worked out his schedule around his first job, she printed off his new hire paperwork. His roommates -Remus and James- got a nice chuckle out of his drink-industry dual-career. He practiced his rude sign language vocabulary in retaliation.

It wasn't until three months into the day job that Sirius got jarred out of the rhythmic monotony of making caffeinated drinks when he glanced at the morning queue and saw the single most adorable creature he'd ever seen. He was so stunned that he'd nearly burned himself on the steamer, and then he lost his rhythm, second guessing the recipe for the drink he'd been making on autopilot a moment before.

“Um...Hi. Sorry, I rarely come here,” he heard her say to Marlene at the counter. “Ah...I'll take a venti mocha with 3 pumps of peppermint syrup, an extra shot of espresso, and extra whip please.”

He'd been vibrating with impatience while Marlene took her sweet time entering the order into the computer before asking the beauty's name.

“Hermione, but...um...just ‘Mione is probably faster to write? M-I-O-N-E.”

“Helen's daughter,” he said aloud, unthinkingly. She turned towards him and he tried his damndest not to trip over his words. “Are your parents history buffs or Shakespeare fans?”

Everything from her wild curls to her whiskey-brown eyes brightened when she gave him a perfect, albeit small, smile. “Both.”

He grinned and got to work on her drink, taking care to craft it with more than his usual attention to detail. She blessed him with another smile when he called her name - her full name.

“Thank you,” she said. 

“Anytime, love,” he replied.

Marlene threw him odd looks until the rush died down, long after the lovely Hermione had left the shop. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you look at a girl like that before, Sirius,” she said as she helped him wipe down the drink station. 

“Do you know her?” he asked.

Marlene shrugged. “I know of her. That is, assuming there’s only one Hermione at HU.”

Sirius nearly dropped one of the milk cartons he was restocking his under-counter mini fridge with, and he did fumble with the fresh whipped cream canister that fell over as a result. “She goes to Hogwarts?” he hissed, only just remembering that he couldn’t shout when customers were around. “What does she major in?”

Marlene frowned in thought while trying to scrub a dried pool of hazelnut syrup from the counter. “Creative Writing, I think? Something in Arts & Humanities. She might a double major actually. Lils told me that people call her mad, but that she’s a really sweet girl so long as you aren’t in her way. That said, I’m pretty sure Malfoy’s been chasing her tail this term. He was in here talking about a ‘feisty little bint’ that would ‘come around eventually’ the other day.”

“Which Malfoy?” he asked. “Draco, Lucius, or Abraxas?” 

“Draco mostly,” she said. “Abraxas didn’t sound disinterested, and Lucius was dreadfully bored by the whole discussion.”

“As he should be,” Sirius grumbled under his breath. “He’s engaged to my cousin.”

“He made a comment about being engaged and they teased him about it,” said Marlene. 

Sirius gave a noncommittal grunt. “Well, I hope that she doesn’t ‘come around’ to either still-single Malfoy triplet. She deserves better.”

“You don’t know her,” Marlene said in a sing-song voice.

No, he thought. I don’t. But I want to.

Tags: @weestarmeggie17, @ibuzoo, @meowmerson, @shayalonnie, @kyoki777, @disillusionist9, @aconitumluparia, @stefartemis, @accio-echo, @moonnott, @ariel-riddle, @ozzymandius, @serpentinred, @nerysdax, @ninjafairy86, @laisvega, and anyone else. I’m sure I’m forgetting people or not remembering mutuals who are Sirimione fans. <3

[enbylestat]

Wicked - Gregory Maguire novel characters as they are in my head (Tidings of comfort & joy - dramatis personae)

Elphaba Thropp (and Liir Thropp) - Jackie Burns or Cynthia Erivo 

Sarima Tigelaar  (and her three children) - Zendaya Coleman 

Fiyero Tigelaar - Avan Jogia or Ryan Reid

Lady/her Ozness Majesty Glinda Upland-Chuffrey of the Arduennas Upper Uplands (does not feature prominently in this fic, she is a POV for Elphaba’s time at Shiz as she is in the book, she is a past relationship of Elphaba’s a tragic figure, a mean albeit nuanced lesbian… she survives this world and this fic, but she is still complicit with the Wizard in this universe despite very much also loving Elphaba and being married to Lord Chuffrey for money) - Renée Rapp, Amanda Jane Cooper, Ariana Grande-Butera in the WICKED: part one movie, even a young Billy Burke will suffice for imagining. 

[enbylestat]

Love, a crowning evil

Handsome enough is this grim reaper - Lestat/Nicolas/Audrey(oc).

Opposite of Goodness - Lestat/Nicolas/Audrey(oc).

obsessions and fascinations - Audrey(oc)/almost everyone.

Precious Guilt - Louis/Lestat.

My Joy - Louis/Lestat/Audrey(oc).

My darling one, my Gabrielle - Gabrielle/Audrey (oc).

Full here.

[chirrups]

Im so not a writer but i will do my very damndest to make at all coherent. The general premise is Doc, a human-made android on-board the Hermitcraft Space Ship™, is assigned by Xisuma to write the “yearly” (loosely, because time in space gets tricky to say the least) personal report that is kept in the ship’s digital archive as proof of purpose which forces him to confront his feelings about his own purpose and what it means to be sentient (and to be loved). Quick warning that below is A LOT of rambling from me.

Some silly little worldbuilding notes:

Hermitcraft Space Ship™ (HCSS) is a voyager-class starship especially designed as a Seed-Ship (better name pending) which works with various civilizations to make barren planets habitable for trade, outpost, and port use. This work varies from simply making the atmosphere breathable to actually terraforming and creating new life from scratch. Needless to say this job is VERY important that requires a highly skilled set of crew and also a shit ton of permits reviewed by most collaborative space society which is where the reports come in to make sure the Hermits aren’t like being grossly unethical or something.

Humans in this au are EXTREMELY rare due to a large-scale extinction event right when they went interplanetary (which was their own damn fault let’s be really honest). At this point in time, there are more human-made machines like Doc than there are living, breathing humans in space as humanity sent their AI out to interact with the new-found aliens in order to prevent “human losses”. This results in Doc basically being made in the image of beings he has never really met or interacted with but is programmed to intrinsically understand better than his Hermitcraft companions. (Note: I do know about Doc creacher lore btw, but subverting it and making him the only human connection is so much fun ngl)

Universal translators DO exist in this au and are neurologically based. They are pre-programmed to translate both spoken word and body language (as body language and cultural queues are not something that is universal) directly into the host’s equivalent of a brain. However, the translators don’t do well with contradiction and plenty of more complicated emotions and gestures (especially culture-specific ones) get lost or confused as it’s like blasting heavy metal into someone’s ear while talking to them and expecting them to understand what’s being said. Most aliens do overcome this using the finer skills of social species interaction but Doc has some difficulty as a machine-based intelligence makes what are essentially guesses at what the fuck the point is of some of his crew’s behaviors.

At the moment, the au is missing a lot of the middle and bridging scenes but it opens up with Xisuma (captain) first assigning Doc (head of R&D, both life-science and engineering sub departments) to create the annual report for the archives as responsibility for this is traded around the various Head of Departments on a semi-regular basis.

At first Doc just keeps well-organized reports of the ship’s daily going and his coworkers' various little shenanigans but HCSS gets raided by bandits as they are on their way to their newest project (season 10). It’s kind of a regular thing being this far out in distant space but the chaos, Doc gets beaten pretty badly and it forces/disrupts a circuit in his electronics which enables him to actually FEEL emotions as inaccuracies in his operation beyond just passively understanding that this is a thing biological creatures do.

Prior to this, Doc understood and reacted to emotions from his crew and is rather protective of the hermits to begin with but this error is actually generating sensation and illogical responses from him which is a novel (and a little frightening) experience. From there his report becomes less of a data report and more of a personal journal (something Xisuma seems more amused about than anything else).

Again, LOTS of middle scenes are not finished but here is an outline for a few that stick out as done enough to be shared

Doc, who is non-biological, has the longest awake shifts of anyone and frequently pulls long hours to work on his project (a planet cracker blue-print he is calling World Eater to mine barren worlds of their resources for the hermit’s various projects). Doc finishes his World Eater and presents it to the Hermits and gets his first strong taste of feeling which is god-like hubris that messes with his plan so much that he bursts into villainous laughter instead of moving to point C much to his crew’s amusement.

Ren is a frequent of Doc’s creative sessions as Ren took some shifts in management and has some time to kill in the hours where less of the crew is active. They hang out a lot talking about who knows what and Ren really seems to spend a lot of it leaning on Doc or laying belly-up around on the ground which Doc’s translator tells him is Ren’s form of affection and trust. Doc has feelings about this. Doc does not know what to do with these feelings.

The buttercups are a frequent pest in his workshop as Grian and Scar are both tropical species with ingrained cultural and biological drives to be curious (and Mumbo is just dragged along). This leads to frustration and amusement in equal parts for Doc and in leaning on the god-like hubris Doc from earlier realizes that chasing out the pests is actually kind of fun which creates a feedback loop to where Doc is actually distracted from focusing leading to more space for shenanigans (an also extremely irritating when his carefully planned cell cultures get contaminated making him start them all over again)

Mumbo, who is under Doc’s department and is a cuckoo-bird like arthropod alien race is undergoing a molt from his protective mimic form into his true form in preparation to take on another species in appearance. This would be easy but Mumbo’s old form was that of a human and the loss of that familiar appearance makes Doc a little mournful for things that never were and it disrupts his progress back a whole day. 

Doc is a shepherd to much of the R&D department who hold plenty of irregular habits even in respect to their races. He spends a lot of time really awkwardly setting reminders for the department to assume “normal biological activities for efficiency’s sake” but recently has found out that the task is actively unpleasant to him but it's one he's just gotta do. In one notable moment, the R&D department bands together to help him fix three of his four arms when they malfunction simultaneously as a side effect of the damaged electronics as human technology at this point is not widely understood and Doc's complexity means he was the best person around to fix himself but obviously can't now. During the process there is some kind of warmth building under Doc’s chest plate. Maybe his coolant isn’t working, who really knows right?

A larger scene where everyone gets ready to make it to season 10, complete with the hustle and bustle to get everything ready for terraforming and the sheer joy every Hermit takes in making something new. This takes lots of careful management from the Heads of Department and plenty of synchronization of circadian cycles, projects and so much more. It ends up being a moment for Doc where he “stands in the sun” and takes in just what a wonder he and the rest of the Hermits really are for it all. It completes with some sort of flashback to season 9 where the Hermits leave their marks as “signatures” of their work which is a set of hand-prints from them all in a cave that will stand the tests of time.

I am not getting into ALL of the lore because it is literally just me going on and on about cohabitation in space but essentially the crew all have different atmosphere, nutrition, and circadian rhythm requirements which leads to everyone taking shifts to keep the ship running and A LOT of ecosystem-specific services to meet everyone’s needs. In addition, there is competition between departments and some listed are ship maintenance headed by Pearl, architecture headed by a rotating cast of hermits, terraforming headed by Bdubs, R&D headed by Doc and co-headed by Cleo and Zedaph, and management which is headed by Xisuma. Departments are not set in stone and frequently Hermits will “cross into” other departments for a project or two (for example Mumbo is R&D who is now taking some extra jobs in architecture for the hell of it). Also Doc observes a lot of varying Hermit season 9 shenanigans in the background like Tango’s creation of his new Decked Out game in the simulation room, Ren’s rise (and fall) to managerial power, and finally Joel and Skizz’s introductions and inclusion into the crew among other things.

Honestly, I love this au but I don't have Doc's character voice down enough to ever write this out fic style without some major rubber ducking and bouncing back from a doc-main so this is the closest I will get I think.

ive got such a mighty spacehermits au boiling in the background rn but 90% of it is speculative biology and the other 10% is doc's god complex i'll be real

[enbylestat]

VFk.inktober / fangtober2024 (enbylestat's edition)

As I whisper in your ear - Lestat/oc (cause if I don't do at least one of those per fandom event am I really on brand?)

St Louis - Louis/Lestat

@vampirefest & @lady-phasma

[enbylestat]

Anti-hero

Anti-hero

the beginning.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/48428218/chapters/122150491

Pairing: multi - but primarily Benjamin Tallmadge/an original character of mine & Lestat de Lioncourt/an original character of mine.

Fandom: multi-fandom crossover & my own original work. TURN: Washington’s Spies x My own original work x Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice x the TTRPG Vampire: The Masquerade.

Rating: E - explicit. standard reminder to read tags and if you don’t like it, don’t read it.

Summary: An exploration in perspectives, heroism, anti-heroism, goodness, evil, love, mortality and what makes one a monster or the very nature of human?

Excerpt: Blue eyes mind you, were he of the fairer sex he’d fall into instantly, eyes that poor down like New York rain. Quite unlike his steely blue of the Auvergne in France. No words come to Lestat’s mouth but they don’t have to. It takes a liar to know a liar. — Lestat de Lioncourt

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51

Playlist.

Archive of our own.

Link of links.

[enbylestat]

Queens of the Damned 2024: masterlist ~ reines des damnés by enbylestat

Full collection here.

1 - all dolled up: this I learned by watching you.

2 - sapphicism: no place for grief.

3 - m.ommy k.ink: yes maman.

4 - siren: Found a Pearl.

5 - femme fatale: Loveliness we share.

6 - p.egging/f.emdom - Escapade with The Vampire.

@vamptember

[enbylestat]

Femslash February 2024: The Cruelty of Women

Read here.

The beginning.

Fandom(s): Vampire: the Masquerade, my original work, The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice and TURN: Washington's Spies.

Pairing: Audrey/Magdalena (my original characters), Lestat de Lioncourt/Audrey (oc) <- mentioned, Benjamin Tallmadge/Audrey (oc) <- implied.

Rating: E - explicit - don't like: don't read.

Summary: Late, dark! Femslash February starring Audrey and Magdalena my original characters.

Excerpt: Her blood was sweet and so was her mouth and… and. Well, she need not detail the Florentine Vampire Prince that far. 

Pulling back from Magdalene’s wrist Audrey purred like a pleased cat, satisfied at least in the hunger department. 

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[enbylestat]

Yorktown, 1781

Yorktown, 1781.

the beginning.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/50928910/chapters/128662936

Pairing: Benjamin Tallmadge/Mary Floyd Tallmadge, & Benjamin Tallmadge and existential crisis (/hj).

Fandom: TURN: Washington's Spies.

Rating: T - Teen and up for non-graphic violence, the moral quandary of war, non-graphic disease, existentialism and canon typical Protestant Christian philosophizing by Benjamin Tallmadge.

Summary: Benjamin Tallmadge at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. Exploring the moral quandaries of war, ethics, subjectivity, duty to one’s country and God - and if God even exists at all.

Except: Raining down cannon fire which soon spread set the vast majority of the English fleet aflame. Tallmadge didn’t see it, not all of it. Truthfully, it was hard to watch, the agony of others, even the enemy, even redcoat lobsters, practically flamed alive. Cornwallis retreated in a small escape vessel but in but a manner of hours, the English fleet at Yorktown and the men who had stood through no fault of their own for their… King and Country were obliterated. 

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Playlist.

Archive of our own.

Link of links.

[enbylestat]

From The Ashes

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply (read the other tags!) 

Relationships: Jeyne Poole & Sansa Stark

Characters: Sansa Stark, Jeyne Poole

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Trauma, Character Study, Nightmares, Friendship, Future Fic, Angst

Summary: It was better that way.

[enbylestat]

La Petite Mort

Chapters: 1/1 by @hobgoblinns

Fandom: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)

Rating: M - Mature

Warnings: Major Character Death

Relationships: Claudia (Vampire Chronicles)/Original Female Character

Characters: Claudia (Vampire Chronicles), Original Female Character(s)

Additional Tags: Prostitution, Murder, No Sex, Stalking, Introspection, Character Study, in a sense?, K.inktober

Summary: Claudia plays pretend with her next victim.

[enbylestat]

Of course <3 and also a gentle reminder to everyone broadly. Don't like, don't read. Fan fic writers and professional paid writers don't owe you things and there is 0 (exactly) reasons to hate on a fic or a person for shipping something you personally dislike or find uncomfortable. Any censorship is censorship and especially as here, if they disclose content warnings? not for you, great! put it down and read something else.

Not Attuned to Mirth

Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Dracula/Jonathan Harker, Dracula & Jonathan Harker, Brides of Dracula/Dracula, Brides of Dracula/Jonathan Harker, Brides of Dracula & Jonathan Harker, Brides of Dracula & Dracula, Jonathan Harker/Mina Murray Harker Characters: Jonathan Harker, Dracula, Brides of Dracula, Mina Murray Harker Additional Tags: Vampires, Non-Consensual Blood Drinking, allegorical sexual assault, Lesbian Vampires, Bisexuality, bisexual jonathan harker, Pansexual Dracula, bisexual brides of Dracula, Bisexual Mina, Predator/Prey, Blood, Child Death, Book compliant, 1890s, Period Typical Attitudes, Blood and Violence, Violence, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Implied/Referenced Torture, Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence, Vampire Bites, Abusive Relationships, Power Dynamics, Dark, Angst, Gothic, Psychological Horror, Survival Horror, Horror, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Angst with a Happy Ending, Happy Ending Series: Part 2 of Accounts of Carpathian Vampire Summary: Jonathan is well aware he is being hunted and whilst he thinks only of Mina he isn't stupid, he is observant and studious, and he will not lose his soul or sanity.

Inspired by Re: Dracula and Dracula Daily, Dracula/Jonathan Harker. Exploring themes of personhood, victimhood, abuse and cycles of abuse. All sexual assault is allegorical I am still tagging it, just in case.

Inspired by @0nelittlebirdtoldme <3

[enbylestat]

In light of the recent drama, I think it would be a nice if we could focus on fics we are loving instead? I would love to know of any fics you’d want to highlight so we can spread some positivity! Thanks!

I agree completely! Note, I am a book and show fan but I was a book fan first, and always will be. So... I will tag each accordingly. If someone wants to moralize or call someone a 'bad person' over fiction I don't have the time of night for that. thank you, anon, for the suggestion!

Update: book fic recs.

Show fic recs.