nomadicwriter

Hello to any prospective caseficexchange writers! This is one of my absolute favourite genres of fic and I'm very flexible about tone and content, so definitely don't worry about following these prompts too closely if you have your own ideas.

My AO3 name is Nomad (nomadicwriter), and I've requested fic as the medium in all of the fandoms below. Treats are enabled and always welcome, including ones based on older prompts from past exchange rounds.

( General Likes )
( The Brokenwood Mysteries )
( Jonathan Creek )
( Ludwig )
( Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators )

Hello to any prospective Yuletide writers! My username is Nomad (nomadicwriter) on AO3, and I have pretty broad tastes when it comes to the kinds of fic I read, so definitely don't feel obliged to stick too closely to my prompts. They're more meant to be for vibes and inspiration than specific scenarios that I'm married to.

Treats are also enabled and very welcome! Please always assume that if I asked for something in a previous exchange I would still be delighted to get it even if I didn't specifically repeat that request here.

( Some General Likes )
( Drop the Dead Donkey )
( Ludwig )
( Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators )
( The Brokenwood Mysteries )

Hello to any prospective caseficexchange writers! This is one of my absolute favourite genres of fic and I have pretty broad tastes when it comes to what I read, so please don't worry about sticking too closely to any specific prompts if you've got your own ideas; I'm just trying to offer a few suggestions because I know casefic plots can be difficult to come up with from scratch.

My AO3 name is Nomad (nomadicwriter). I've requested fic in all the fandoms below, but if you're feeling extra generous both fic and comic treats are very much welcome!

( General Likes and Rambling )
( Cadfael Chronicles - Ellis Peters )
( Jonathan Creek )
( Ludwig )
( Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators )

Yuletide reveals are upon us! This year I was unusually organised and rewatched a bunch of potential fandoms earlier in the year instead of trying to cram everything in November, so I actually ended up signing up again instead of just treating. Which worked out well for me, since I received a delightful Drop the Dead Donkey fic, The Hero We Deserve by brutti_ma_buoni!

My plan for my own writing was to have a nice relaxing time writing my main assignment in a fandom I know well and then attempt some treats at my leisure. Then my assigned fic got very long and ambitious, I picked up a late pinch hit in a fandom I've never written before, still wanted to tackle a couple of my planned treats, and generally finished up in the usual chaotic scramble. I ended up writing four fics in total, for Blackadder, Yes Minister, the UK House of Cards Trilogy and NetHack.

General Relativity (Blackadder, 20k words, Blackadder/Darling)

Darling's remarkable resemblance to French traitor the Duc de Darling - no relation - sees him unwillingly sent to infiltrate a German-occupied château. Blackadder accompanies him even less willingly, especially when he learns exactly what it is they're looking for.

(Baldrick is also there, but no one bothered to find out if it was willingly or otherwise.)

An old favourite fandom of mine I was delighted to be assigned! I was intrigued by the recipient's time travel prompt, and so this turned into a pseudo-crossover between Blackadder Goes Forth and Blackadder II, with supporting plot elements borrowed from the canonical time travel adventures in Blackadder: Back and Forth. I could tell it had, perhaps, got a little ambitious plot-wise around the point I was 10k in and they still weren't inside the time machine. Still, it was a fun challenge trying to distinguish the characterisations of the different versions of Blackadder. (Lord Blackadder is really much more of a charmer and more status and image-conscious; Captain Blackadder is very tired and done with everything and definitely doesn't care what impression he's making on anyone. Baldrick II is also, not precisely brighter, but a bit more in touch with reality and aware of his Blackadder's various shortcomings.)

A Matter of Definition (Yes Minister, 3,800 words, gen)

Early on in his time at the DAA, Jim attempts to pin down some important details about the department he now runs. Such as what it is that it actually does...

I rewatched YM early on last year, having planned for years to do so and never quite managed it in time for Yuletide. When I realised how long my assignment was getting, I regretfully gave up on having time to treat it, but then a pinch hit came up pretty late in the writing period and like a lunatic I claimed it. The recipient gave free rein to write anything, so I ended up spinning up an episode-style plot out of nothing in particular. Which feels sort of fitting for the show, really.

Set My Life Upon a Cast (House of Cards Trilogy UK, 2,400 words, gen)

Francis Urquhart is not a man to believe in visions other than his own.

I was actually just finishing watching the House of Cards trilogy when Yuletide assignments went out. (I did a bit of a themed rewatch of 80s and 90s UK political shows this year, on a sort of cross-pollination theory that elements from one might help spark fic ideas for another, though I'm not sure how that actually worked in practice.) The prompt suggesting throwing something out of context like supernatural elements at Urquhart caught my eye, but again I'd sort of given up on finding time to write it until I saw the recipient go out as a pinch hit and was inspired to finish the treat. It seemed natural to write it in first person, given FU's habit of addressing asides to the audience. I considered the more obvious Something Wicked This Way Comes for a title, given all the Macbeth references, but decided that this Richard III line which FU also quotes was more fitting.

Any Other Business (NetHack, 1,200 words, gen)

Minutes of an emergency meeting of the Minetown Council Action Committee.

Always excited to see people asking for fic for old-school roguelikes! Seeing this in the tagset got me playing NetHack again for the first time in about fifteen years. (I'd been meaning to check it out again ever since the devs returned from their long hiatus and started to release new updates in, cough, 2015, but never quite got round to it.) I initially had the idea of writing something from the POV of the Minetown watch, but didn't have a clear idea for a plot, and so the recipient's liking for in-universe documents gave me this idea for a framework. Typically, just when I wanted to revisit Minetown for some in-game inspiration while I was writing, I managed to get a really good game going that went all the way to ascension, so I never got a chance to repeatedly replay the early game as is the more usual NetHack experience.

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Overall, glad I managed to sign up! Received a great gift, wrote some new and different things, and generally had a pretty good Yuletide all round.

This is your annual "resurfacing from lurkdom to post my Yuletide fics" post! Had a bit of a tough writing year this year, for no obvious reason other than I was probably due one after having had some really prolific Yuletides in recent years; I was only writing treats but just lacking in any inspiration for ages and then the writing itself was painfully slow. Thought for a while I was only going to manage two stories and struggle to do that, but in the end I finished my second one with a week to spare and squeaked a third one in under the wire. All humour fics this year, for Terraria, Porridge and Blackadder.

Don't Hate the Player (Hate the Game) [Terraria]
Perhaps a more cautious man would have stopped to ask more questions when the request for a replacement guide had come in with the reason filled out as 'spontaneous combustion'. (2800 words)

I don't play that many recent(ish) video games so jumped at a chance to write for this one, which was possibly a mistake because I proceeded to spend far too much of the early writing period "doing canon review" in the form of playing Terraria. I knew I wanted to write something from the POV of the Guide NPC witnessing the player's bizarre behaviour, but the idea went through many different revisions: I debated whether to go with a humour or horror angle, and considered writing it in the form of reports and diary entries; I started out with the original Guide's POV from the start of the game through to the Wall of Flesh but felt that dragged too long and ended rather darkly, and also came with the issue of having to give the player character a name at some point. Ultimately I switched to the alternative of the replacement Guide's bafflement at arriving in this post-hardmode world where everyone else has had time to get used to the player's weirdness. The narrative also ended up being shaped to an extent by a mix of the particular combination of nominated NPCs and the setup of the world from my playthrough at the time.

A Bit of Bottle [Porridge]
Fletcher's life is complicated by Grouty's latest scheme, some questionable craft projects, the ill-advisedness of carnal thoughts in prison, and Godber. (Fletcher/Godber, 6,900 words)

Trying to write Porridge slash was an interesting challenge, but I was motivated by being surprised to see how little fic existed, a grand total of three crossovers on AO3. I didn't expect a lot, but I did think there'd be a bit more than that. (Of course, Yuletide going the way it does sometimes, by the time I'd finished writing this both people who'd requested the fandom had already received it for their main gift, so we managed to double the amount of fic between us!) At any rate, it was a good excuse to revisit the series, which I probably hadn't seen since the repeats I watched as a teenager in the 90s. Slightly boggling to realise it's now 50 years old; though it has its moments of 70s values, it still holds up very well. I guess the prison setting partly helps to give it a sense of timelessness, but I also watched the spin-off Going Straight for the first time and thought that was equally strong. And frankly worth the price of admission for the first episode with Fletcher and Mackay's final parting alone. All in all a bit of a nostalgia fandom I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting.

Major Opportunity [Blackadder]
After being presumed dead, Blackadder seizes his chance to escape the trenches, and hopefully avoid ending up actually dead. (Blackadder/Darling, 3100 words)

By the time I'd finished and edited my Porridge fic I had about five days left, so I turned to a reliable old standby fandom, Blackadder; I know the characters inside out, the relevant series only has six half-hour episodes, and I own the scriptbook, so it's one I can always dive right back into without needing a lot of canon review. Plus it's always great fun to write capers for! I actually ended up writing for the same person I treated last year, since I sleuthed out that the other possibility had a Blackadder fic as their main gift already (which actually turned out to be the longest story in the Yuletide collection and also written by the person I treated, so good call me). I was still editing at 4am Christmas Eve, again, but glad I persevered and got it finished.

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What else have I been up to this year on a vaguely fannish front? Probably lots of things, but my brain is cheese. Oh, I also rewatched the first series of Yes Minister in the run-up to Yuletide, but ran out of time to watch the later series or write anything. Maybe next year! In a rare foray into currently airing TV I also watched the final series of the BBC's Ghosts, which I really enjoyed, plus the Christmas special. The latter was more of an Ending ending than I would prefer, being generally a fan of open endings where the status quo continues, but it was still fine and didn't ruin anything for me.

My project of attempting to (re)read every book I own in an effort to winnow out my bookshelves continues, albeit in slightly self-defeating style, since I finally got around to continuing with the Vorkosigan books that have been sitting on the shelf since, cough, 2004, and promptly ended up buying even more books to complete the series. (I still have the last two to pick up; I thought Mirror Dance and Memory were the strongest, but like the later books well enough that I might as well finish out the series.)

On the book front I also checked out the Lockwood & Co books when everyone was talking about the Netflix series, since I remembered enjoying Stroud's Bartimaeus books back in the day. I've read three so far and they're fine, readable YA books but not grabbing me at all fannishly. (Predictably, the main character that actually piqued my interest was Barnes; show me a group of plucky teenagers saving the day, and like a heat-seeking missile I will immediately glom onto the nearest tired middle-aged authority figure wearily trying to deal with their antics.)

...I'm sure I must have read and watched more things than this in 2023, but what were they? No idea. The passage of time, how does it work?

I finally managed something I've been trying to do for years, and actually wrote some treats for Chocolate Box. Three more Ghosts fics; apparently a sitcom with a relatively small number of episodes but a large cast is a good recipe for getting my writing brain in gear.

Familiar Problems (BBC Ghosts)
The house is visited by a shadowy presence. [1300 words]

The shortest of my three Chocolate Box fics (you will note I am bad at writing to low minimum wordcounts), featuring Alison, Mary and the Captain.

DIY SOS (BBC Ghosts)
With Alison away, the ghosts have to rely on Mike for entertainment. [1850 words]

Ensemble fic with Mike and the whole roster of ghosts. Between this and Yuletide I'm getting the definite impression that Mike fic is surprisingly popular!

Past Tents (BBC Ghosts)
The Captain and Pat take a moment to admire their handiwork. (Well, theirs in spirit, anyway. Actually mostly Alison's.) [2500 words]

The second fic I've ended up writing based around the events of the camping episode. And back in the Captain's POV again, which just seems to be the one I find most natural to write out of all the ghosts.

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Writing was slightly hampered by the fact Covid finally caught me in early January. (Less than three weeks after I got the booster jab, so I suspect it snuck in under the wire.) The actual cold-type symptoms were so mild as to be indistinguishable from general seasonal blech, but the fatigue was pretty rough for the best part of a month, and I'm still not quite 100% in terms of building back up to my usual daily walk or how tired I get if I work late or stay up too long. Still, glad to have bumped past the worst of it.

My project of revisiting the books I used to read in my teens continues. I reread the Earthsea quartet, which I had slightly mixed feelings about. I don't think I get on with the more mythic style of the first three books so well any more; Tehanu was a much more engaging read on that front, but also a bit of a downer, and the ending feels a bit out of nowhere. I remember reading the follow-up books back when I came out, but I don't own copies and must admit the reread didn't really ignite my enthusiasm enough to bother seeking them out.

It's been interesting, though, reading this and the Merlin books right on the back of doing a Discworld reread. I feel like Discworld went on so long and became so much its own thing beyond the basic genre parody that it's easy to forget how much the setup and early worldbuilding is actually riffing on this era of 70s and 80s fantasy, especially when it comes to all the tropes around wizards and witches and men vs women's magic. So it's particularly interesting on that front to reread first the original 1970s Earthsea trilogy where those tropes are played very straight, and then Tehanu where they're revisited more critically two decades later.

Anyway, I'm actually now taking a step aside from the fantasy genre to reread the Cadfael books. I own most but not all of them, and it turns out I don't actually have the first, but I've now reread the A Rare Benedictine short story collection and book two, One Corpse Too Many. I can see why they were unlikely favourites of mine back in my early teens - they're surprisingly quick and easy reads to zip through. I've got enough of them to keep me occupied for a while, and then maybe I'll go on to A Song of Ice and Fire.

Still hoping to write some more Ghosts fic outside of exchange prompts, since I don't think there are many big exchanges coming up for a while that are likely to provide treat-writing opportunities while I'm on this roll, but we'll see.

I opted not to sign up for Yuletide officially this year, but I did still manage to write three treats for it. All humour fic for old favourite fandoms this time around.

The Yunk and the Restless (Discworld: Monstrous Regiment)
Polly spends the night in a nest of vampires. It involves questionable accents, even more questionable nightclothes, and a certain amount of confusion over quite how she ended up classified as Maladicta's 'yunk lady'. (Polly/Mal, 3400 words)

Continuing last year's theme of writing for Discworld characters I haven't before, Monstrous Regiment fic! This was also my first attempt at writing a shippy Discworld fic, which I always feel is pretty tricky to pull off while keeping up the canon style of comedy. But, a bit like the Death books, Monstrous Regiment has its own slightly more sombre tone that gave me a little more room to work with. I actually scrapped the start of my original draft for this because I felt it was too gag-a-minute generic Discworld in a way that didn't quite match the mood of this specific book, but I'm pleased with how it eventually turned out.

Major Story (Blackadder)
Blackadder schemes to take advantage of Darling's talents. (Blackadder/Darling, 4800 words)

Another Blackadder Goes Forth fic, which I also wrote for Yuletide all the way back in, yikes, 2015. Blackadder's POV is great fun to write, but also kind of gruelling in terms of the sheer density of jokes required to fill out an episode-style plot. Apparently I had no brainpower whatsoever leftover to think of a remotely witty summary.

Cat Burglar (Eroica)
Dorian attempts to catch an elusive cat and an irritated major, with similar results all round. (1350 words)

I had three days left and I saw no one had written any Eroica fic yet this year, so I thought it would be a great fandom to come up with some sort of short, silly caper I could manage in the time remaining. Then I stared blankly into space for two of those days before finally coming up with an idea on Christmas Eve. "That's all right, it's only going to be a short fic anyway," I thought, and then spent all day getting bogged down in random bits of research on everything from 18th portrait miniatures to pedigree cat names to which types of trees are best and worst to climb. None of which was actually particularly important to the story, but hey.

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So, all in all, not my most productive Yuletide, but I'm pleased I managed to squeak in a few fics before the end of the year. I'm still vaguely hoping to actually write some more fic outside of Yuletide when I finally finish my Discworld reread, but then, I said the exact same thing last year, so who knows?

Reveals are here! I received a fabulous Eroica bodyswap fic, A Different Sort of Day. Despite being tight on time I also managed to have my most prolific Yuletide ever and finish six treats on top of my assignment, much to my own vague bemusement.

The Rotten Heart (Behind You)
Stonetree is a town with a hell of a past. Then again, I have one of my own. (5150 words)

I was assigned to write for the Behind You webcomic, which I treated once before a few years back. After several failed stabs at writing for another of the nominated strips I switched to this one instead, and found the whole story just flowed from there. The name Chatty Alice popped into my head for the ghost right from the beginning, but I have zero idea why. I can guess the Alice might be some mental association with Alice in Wonderland illustrations, but where I got 'chatty' from I couldn't tell you.

Serving Spriggans Dungeonwide (Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup)
The Spriggan Bakery Network: purveyors of the dungeon's finest vegetarian menu. Our staff are always happy to help!

Apart from Earl. We're a bit worried about Earl. (1150 words)

I'm always fascinated by requests for fic for roguelike games, which have a whole lot of lore and complexity but almost no plot, and I was playing DCSS a lot earlier in the year so it was still fairly fresh in my mind. It's a game I go back to on and off that seems to release a new version every time I turn round, and in fact when I checked if I was still up-to-date I found 0.24 had just come out during Yuletide signups. That ended up informing some details of the fic, since they made a change to weapons commonly used by spriggan enemies which inspired me to incorporate that and some other past gameplay changes as actual tech advances and cultural shifts taking place for the dungeon denizens.

Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams (Infamous Iron Man)
Victor returns to the ruins of Castle Doom in search of answers. (1450 words)

I always try to write some Doctor Doom fic for Yuletide, so I jumped on this request for more of Doom interacting with the fake version of his mother from Infamous Iron Man. Title is kind of an obvious choice of quote from The Hollow Men; I was vaguely chasing some other poem about shades I thought I remembered reading but couldn't manage to dig it up, so went with this instead. Summary brought to you by the, "Oh, crap, I was all ready to upload but only just remembered I still need a summary," school of half-assed summary composition.

Wayfinding (Discworld: Thief of Time)
All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, including the one to enlightenment. It's just that some people choose to walk a different way. (1900 words)

I started a Discworld reread a few months ago, though it got stalled a bit by various things taking precedence, and I was conscious that I hadn't written any Discworld fic for "a couple of years". (AKA since, yikes, Yuletide 2013.) Thief of Time seemed like a nice straightforward standalone for which I would only need to reread the one book, though it rapidly spiralled into reading all kinds of random other stuff for small snippets of Mrs Cosmopilite and Lu-Tze cameos, none of which actually proved necessary to the writing this fic. But reading a bunch of stuff out of order did reignite my enthusiasm for finishing my readthrough after getting a bit bogged down in the early books, and the fact that only the standalones and less popular subseries are eligible for Yuletide now meant I got to have fun revisiting books I wouldn't normally think to.

The Tortoise Moves (But Not Very Much) (Discworld: Small Gods)
Even the most strong-minded of witches would hesitate to wear a Borrowed body for too long, lest their way of thinking be permanently changed by the new perspective.
But of course, gods are different. (1250 words)

I hadn't initially flagged this request for treating, not remembering the book well enough to have any immediate ideas, but since Lu-Tze makes his first appearance in a cameo in Small Gods, I figured I could kill two birds with one bit of canon review and try to come up with something for it while also looking for any snippets to incorporate into Wayfinding. I was a bit stuck for title and summary when it came to the time to upload, so the parenthetical subtitle went through multiple revisions (I think it was "Slowly" and "But Only Slowly" before I settled on this one) and the summary ended up as just a rather clumsily abridged version of the opening lines.

A Kiss is Still a Kiss (Eroica)
Dorian has a plan. Klaus is difficult, as usual. (1650 words)

Eroica's another fandom of mine I hadn't written for a few years, since most people are pretty flexible about just wanting any canon-like caper and I'm a bit short on ideas by now without more specific prompts. The prompter's choice of phrasing somehow sparked off this one, which was also slightly inspired by a scene from Due South. Again, I was caught short at upload and had to pull out a fairly generic summary on the fly (you may notice a running theme here), but I do quite like this one.

The Bones of the Hills (Discworld: Tiffany Aching)
The old people called the biggest flints 'calkins', which meant 'chalk children'. (4250 words)

"Hey, I've still got four days left, surely I can reread at least the first Tiffany book and squeak another short treat in?" I said. Then it ran 3000 words longer than planned and I somehow decided it was a good idea to take my first stab at both Feegle and troll dialect in the same fic. But it turned out to be my most successful fic by a mile, so I'm glad I went for it. (Honestly quite bemused by how much it outdistanced my other Discworld fic; I had no idea the Tiffany books were so popular!) The troll stuff was probably inspired by rereading the troll scenes in The Light Fantastic some months back, and several little bits of serendipity came together in the writing: I set a scene at the river before I rechecked the description and found the canonical pebble beach, only reached Miss Tick explicitly mentioning a past ice age in Wintersmith after I'd already referenced one, and didn't plan any of the plot around the terrible pun at the end but came up with it in a flash of late inspiration during the writing.

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All in all, a very successful Yuletide considering I was initially wavering over whether to even sign up this year. It's also kind of given me the urge to resurrect some old ideas for longer, non-Yuletide-eligible Discworld fic, although considering some of those outlines date back to, er, 2004, I wouldn't advise too much breath-holding.

I didn't officially sign up this year, which is probably just as well since I didn't really get much chance to write until December, but I did manage to finish three treats.

Emergency Procedures (Fantastic Four comics)
Reed notices Victor behaving oddly during a fire drill at ESU. Of course, when isn't Victor behaving oddly? Reed/Doom. (2100 words)

I had to fill chiaroscuros's prompt for Reed/Doom fic involving typical undergrad situations like early morning fire drills, because really I am just endlessly fascinated by this period in Doom's life where he's still living as a relatively normal college student at ESU. "Victor von Doom dealing with completely mundane things" is a genre that will apparently never get old to me.

There turned out to be three other people who also wrote Reed/Doom fic this year, but we all went completely different ways with it, which was fun. I feel like there's been a burst of new interest in Doom as a character from the fic side of fandom since Secret Wars and the whole Infamous Iron Man arc, and having been waving the Latverian flag mostly on my own for many years I'm very here for it.

A Snowball's Chance in Hell (Fantastic Four comics)
Ben tries to extend a hand of friendship to Victor in college. It goes about as well as expected. (1400 words)

My second "Doom in the ESU era" fic of this Yuletide. snowshus asked for something exploring the pre-canon relationship of Ben and Doom, which is something I've been a lot more interested in since their post-Secret Wars interactions with Reed gone and Victor trying to reform. They've always been previously portrayed as boringly one-note hostile, but really there's a lot gone unexplored about the fact that Ben remembers him from this pre-Doom period, plus digging into Ben's background to write this made me realise that really, growing up in poverty on Yancy Street and losing most of his family, he has a lot more in common with Doom's circumstances at this age than Reed does. Plus the contrast of young Victor's likely attitude to cold weather after his father froze to death versus typical US teenagers' response to snow is a theme I always wanted to do something with.

Parting Gifts (IT - Stephen King)
Everyone else might be leaving, but Mike still has work to do. (2750 words)

I wanted to write something more for IT while I still remembered it fairly well from my reread for last year's Yuletide. (For "remembered fairly well", read "vastly underestimated the amount of paging back and forth I would have to do to relocate tons of one-line references I was vaguely sure were in there somewhere".) Maidenjedi had a bunch of different character prompts but for some reason the idea of Mike and Beverly jumped out at me. I'm always interested in this transition period before the group has finished drifting apart, and Mike's is an intriguing position because he's the one who stays behind and remembers. For a while this was almost set at the library with Mike having an early part-time job there, but I decided most of the drifting away happened while they were still pretty young, plus there's so much in the books about his life on the farm that it made a much more atmospheric setting.

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So, anyway, these fics will also be crossposted to ff.net... um, sometime. Other fannish activity has kind of stalled a bit since I've been pretty busy at the end of this year, and have also just finally replaced my ancient Windows 7 PC. (It's nice to have one that's much faster, but man, every day with Windows 10 is a new adventure in finding fifteen more settings I need to turn off to stop it using all my bandwidth and sending my data everywhere, and Googling "How do I do extremely basic useful thing that used to be the default?" and to discover the answer is "They completely removed that functionality".)

At least I actually wrote one moderately long non-Yuletide fic as well last year? (Touch Therapy, House/Wilson, 10500 words.) So, again, this year I'll be hoping to catch up on more of my DVDs that have been piling up unwatched for years and write more fic throughout the year instead of just this brief burst of Yuletide activity.

Today in "finally getting around to watching DVDs I've had for over ten years" news: House fic! I'm poking at various longer plot ideas, but I'm only up to the beginning of s3 in my rewatch so far, so I've been writing some practice ficlets to prompts that ended up evolving into a longer House/Wilson thing. Set somewhere around season two.

Touch Therapy (10,450 words)

It's not that House needs the human contact. It's just that when you're sharing an apartment, these things happen sometimes.

Also up on ff.net, if AO3's still playing up as it was when I was trying to upload it.

Wow, this is the first non-Yuletide fic I've posted in years. I've got to try and get back in the habit of writing fic more regularly.