cornerofmadness

Here's the series I wrote from that last week of May to the last week of June Power Play written for

getyourwordsout's Yahtzee challenge

CW - Angel is a sex worker (subjected to domestic violence and sexual assault), violence/gore, lots of foul language (all of which are canon)

First three stories - teen rating, last two - mature rating, bonus story - explicit (hi I'm Porn with Plot written for

summerofthe69

One of These Nights - Angel is excited for the new script Valentino has in mind with the help of a newly fallen Sinner: airship pirates. His only problem is convincing Pentious to use his airship.

Holding Out for a Hero - Even Pentious might have been impressed with Angel’s new steampunk movie and Angel would give anything to be able to make a sequel. That would mean Pentious and his airship were still alive and he wouldn’t be mourning a friend. Worse, the Vees want to capitalize on his pain and force him to betray the friends he still has.

I Got the Boys to Make the Noise - Arackniss regrets ever walking into Vee Studio. The job they want him to do is trouble whether he says yes or no. The last thing Angel expected was to see his brother walk through the hotel doors and will do what he needs to in order to keep his friends safe.

Brother, I Watched the Sky Burn - Everyone is on high alert after Arackniss’ news that the Valentino is planning to harm everyone at the hotel, especially Angel. However, Angel has to pretend everything isn’t on fire and has to go to work every day like it’s normal, like Val hasn’t put a price on his head. (Watch the tags on this one, it has extreme gore)

I Am the Reckoning - As Angel’s wounds heal, he, his kin and Husk, work up a plan with Lucifer, Alastor, Vaggie and Charlie to take on the Vees before they make their next power move. If they don’t stop the Vees now, it might be too late because they have their eyes on Lucifer’s throne and are ready to try and take it.

Make Me Feel Alive - Angel wants to show Husk a great date night and he succeeds. The only problem with his plan is he needed a car. He helped himself to Arackniss’. (explicit sex)

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I've been disappointed by how few hits I've had on this one. Yes, it's an old, OLD manga fandom, and yes, it's an AU, the start of something longer, parts of which already exist, but still...

Stumbling Into Something is the story of how Ryo Maclean, also known as Country singer Randy Lane, meets New York detective Dee Laytner when they both happen to go on vacation to Hawaii at the same time. Will this be nothing more that a holiday romance, or might it lead to something more?

Find it here on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/66707548

Or, here on dreamwidth: https://badly-knitted.dreamwidth.org/2564292.html

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Yeah it always hurts when you don't get much attention (heck I have ones that are in a new fandom that suffer this fate and I feel fairly sure my writing is better than that)

Sounds like an interesting premise for those two

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It's always the FAKE fics I think are my best that get the least hits, and almost no kudos.

I hope I can get the next part written soon so I can sort out the dozen or more one-shots written for challenges into some sort of order and get those posted to my journals.

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I suspect that's because FAKE is a small fandom and an old one to boot

good luck wiht it

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Yeah, sadly. Plus I think some FAKE fans just don't like my take on the characters, for whatever reason. Maybe because I kind of brought them into the modern world.

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Yeah that's disappointing too

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Ah well, I enjoy writing the characters and reading my own stories, so I guess that's what matters.

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true but it's always nice to get some recognition

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Yes, and I do have one fan of my FAKE fics, which is nice.

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that's good

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For this, I'm going to recommend the story I produced the most on this month: "I Don't Like Your Girlfriend — Remix". This is (as the title says) a remix of my earlier fic "I Don't Like Your Girlfriend", which started out as a fairly standard love triangle fic and ended up as an almost 100K-word polyamory fic. The remix came about because the original story was written in 3rd person and I decided I wanted to see how it would work in 1st person. The sample I giving here came from the most recent chapter I've remixed, chapter 55, which is a tribute to the scene in The Hobbit where Thorin and company arrive at Beorn's house.

"Not another one!" Mrs. Lee grumbles as she stomps off to get the door. I motion the others to be quiet, and we hear Mrs. Lee. "I know the story: You're Seo-jeong's girlfriend. You've come to make peace between us. You love my daughter more than anything and you want to make her happy."

"What. . . how. . . why, yes, that's all right. Yes. How did you know?" Yoojung's voice had never sounded so surprised as it did in that moment.

"You're late," Mrs. Lee says as she leads the way back to the living room. "Seo-jeong's other girlfriends are already here. Have a seat—" she points to an empty corner of the couch next to Lua— "and as soon as I fix you a cup of tea we can get to the bottom of all this."

After fixing Yoojung a cup of tea, Mrs. Lee takes her own cup of tea and retreats to her chair. She looks at all of us, a vaguely disapproving look on her face. She then turns her attention to me. "You were here first, Suyeon, so maybe you'll know: Are there are more of Seo-jeong's girlfriends who are going to show up and interrupt us, or can we talk in peace?"

I look nervously at Doyeon, then back at Mrs. Lee. "This is all of us— I mean— Seo-jeong has one more girlfriend, but I asked her to take Seo-jeong to the street market so that I could take the train out here and talk to you without her knowing."

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Very cool. I liked your snippet

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Glad you enjoyed it! This is one of my pieces of writing that I'm most proud of, to the point that I'm sure people who talk writing with me long enough get tired of hearing me talk about them. (The other piece that I'm guilty of with this is my story "Going Backstage," where the two main characters don't share a common language and so conduct their entire romance through translation apps.)

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actually that sounds like a fun idea too

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It came about through a combination of "failure to plan" and "stubbornness." The couple in question were chosen through the time-honored method of "they're cute — they should kiss!" Then once I thought to check if they had a language in common and realized that they didn't, rather than changing my characters, I decided to stick with it, remembered that Google Translate is a thing, and went from there. It ended up being a fairly major part of the story — they spend over half a chapter unable to talk to each other because one of the characters accidentally left her phone in a hotel room, and the other one had her phone battery die.

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I very much liked the idea. Neat how it came about. I did read one true-life story (that I hope isn't a lie) where a couple (in Europe) got together. Neither spoke the others language but they both spoke Klingon (they met at a con) and they used that until they could get more fluent in a common language

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I hope that story is true! I think I've also heard of couples where the only language they have in common is Esperanto.

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