nomadicwriter

Yuletide reveals are here again! This year I got into a new-to-me fandom, The Brokenwood Mysteries, just in time to add it to my requests, and received a delightfully spooky story for it, Breakdown by Arazsya, which is in that vein of mundane detectives meeting the supernatural that I always love. I also managed to write five stories myself, having initially aimed for three but finished the third with a few days left to spare. All in all, a pretty successful year!

Communication (Always Leaves Me Incomplete) (Ludwig, 1750 words, John/Lucy-ish)

John has boxes of files to try and sort out, as well as some other things that are a bit more complicated.

I ended up matching with the same person I've written a couple of Ludwig treats for before and already had a pretty clear concept for this fic in mind, but it still turned out to be a little tricky to write as it was my first time writing from John's POV. Conveying ambiguous UST from the POV of a character who can't tell it's there is an interesting challenge! Also, I seem to have started a minor tradition of using songfic titles from 60s-80s songs for my fics in this fandom, for some reason.

And Threaten Present Blusters (Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators, 5800 words, Frank/Lu)

A tale of two stakeouts, one elderly burglar, and the importance of savoury baked goods in a relationship.

I actually matched my recipient on two different fandoms and decided I wanted to try and write fics for both, especially since there's very little fic for this fandom and almost nothing for the ship, so I thought they deserved some version of a get-together arc. I struggled for a summary and don't love the one it went live with, though it's miles better than what I had before. At least titling fics for this series is easy, given it's just a matter of digging out a fitting quote! I quite liked this one.

The Money Tree (The Brokenwood Mysteries, 6550 words, gen)

The discovery of a body at the old cement works leads to a dangerous confrontation.

Having requested this show before I'd had time to finish watching it, I was still scrambling to get through the last few seasons while Yuletide was ongoing, so I especially wanted to try and treat the one other person to request it (who incidentally also turned out to be my writer) while it was still fresh. Summary and title were again a bit of a struggle and I feel like what I ultimately picked was a little bland, but at least it didn't go live with its placeholder title of "In the Works"! Hoping to write more fic for this fandom this year both in and out of exchanges, since it has a great ensemble cast of recurring characters that are giving me lots of ideas.

General Inspection (Blackadder, 2000 words, Blackadder/Darling)

Baldrick attempts to bring some Christmas cheer to the dugout with a touch of greenery. Well, brownery.

I wasn't initially planning to write for Blackadder again this year, but I saw one of my past recipients pop up as a late pinch hit and then finished my three planned fics with a few days left to spare, so I thought I should have a go at spinning something up. Since there wasn't really time to come up with an elaborate plot and the recipient was up for Christmas-themed fic, I went for some under-the-mistletoe silliness. For Blackadder Goes Forth values of 'mistletoe'.

Snow Job (Yes Minister, 1950 words, gen)

Something has to be done about the snow. Unless it doesn't.

I enjoyed writing for Yes Minister last year but really didn't think I was going to have time to do it again, since I had all of one day left after prioritising the Blackadder treat. However, the requester repeated a prompt from last year and I discovered I'd actually written some early notes for it back then before I was diverted by picking up a different YM request as a pinch hit. I had most of the dialogue for Humphrey's conversation with Ian scribbled down already, and so wrote the rest of the fic around that. Glad I went for it in the end, because it seems to have gone down pretty well!

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Next up on the schedule, caseficexchange! It's running a little earlier this year, and I hope it'll only continue to grow after the successful first year. I had fun with it last time and now have another new detective fandom to throw into the mix this year, so looking forward to having another regular exchange to do annually alongside Yuletide! Also hoping there might be a prompt or two in candyheartsex I can write some treats for, as signups have just opened today.

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 )