potentialities

Aes Imaginosum (11169 words) by Sineala
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Marcus Flavius Aquila/Esca Mac Cunoval
Characters: Esca Mac Cunoval, Marcus Flavius Aquila, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Long Lost/Secret Relatives, Community: trope_bingo
Summary:

"Are you very certain you have no brothers, Marcus?" Esca asked.

A classic comedy of errors with the traditional happy ending. ♥

Dungeons & Hawkeyes (5519 words) by inmyriadbits
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hawkeye (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton & Kate Bishop, Kate Bishop & Phil Coulson, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Characters: Kate Bishop, Clint Barton, Phil Coulson
Additional Tags: Pre-Slash, Dungeon, Shirtless, shoeless, Hawkbros, SHIELD, Kidnapping, Boats, Formalwear
Summary:

In which this whole dungeon thing really isn’t working for Kate Bishop, there are far too many nicknames from the Victorian era, socks are vitally important, and Clint insists he is Han Solo in this situation.

This is a New Year's Resolution fic for the same prompt that I wrote for Yuletide last year that zigs where I zagged—it has a Kate POV that is utterly delightful, with Clint/Phil instead of Clint/Kate as the endgame pairing, which is really fun because I totally pondered all those choices myself. Coulson is based on his movie self, but brought into the Hawkguy universe, and the story's sensibility lies totally with the comics, so it's more of a fusion in that sense.

Also, does anyone know of an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D kinkmeme anywhere? I need to know because of reasons.

I have a bunch of things from fic_corner open in tabs, but have scarcely managed to read anything, being more occupied with a.) excessive coughing, b.) watching trashy TV and c.) feeling sorry for myself. However! Have a single, solitary fic that I did manage to read:

Worldbuilding (1006 words) by AdaptationDecay
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Digory Kirke, Polly Plummer
Summary:

"Frank and Helen are going to build an entire world from scratch, almost. I'm longing to see how they do it, but I never shall."

You could hardly have an assignment where a prompt for 'worldbuilding' was more appropriate. *g* I like the way it gently pokes a bit at The Magician's Nephew, which is a Narnia book that I enjoy on its own merits, but as an origin story for Narnia I find it full of fridge logic. Also the fact that C. S. Lewis thought that it ought to be read first is all the proof I needed as a kid that authors could be wrong about their own work.

Weekly Arrest (1684 words) by Incidental_Villainess
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Avatar: Legend of Korra
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Korra/Lin Bei Fong
Characters: Korra (Avatar), Lin Bei Fong
Summary:

PWP. The request was: "Lin/Korra, kinky interrogation room anal." There's also some bondage. That pretty much sums it up.

Some cheeky, fun porn that does the best job of capturing the Lin/Korra dynamic I was looking for. I'm going to be so sad if Lin Bei Fong doesn't turn up in this series of Legend of Korra, being all bitter and competent and hot.

You've Hungered For This All Your Life (7357 words) by karelian [archive-locked]
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Australian Actor RPF, Actor RPF, X-Men RPF, Les Misérables RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Russell Crowe/Hugh Jackman
Characters: Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Paul Bettany, Alan Doyle, Mentions of Gratuitous Celebrities, Various Spouses
Additional Tags: Dirty Talk, Blow Jobs, Fucking, Open Relationships, Falling In Love, Submission, Polyamory, Open Marriage, Light Bondage, Spanking, Rimming, Music, Sexual Fantasy
Summary:

Hugh makes Russell scream. Russell makes Hugh understand why people do things that always seemed crazy to him before -- tattooing their lovers' names on their cocks, drinking their lovers' blood.

Delicious getting-together-during-Les-Mis sex with gloriously subby Russell.

In the Jungle (3707 words) by karelian [archive-locked]
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Australian Actor RPF, X-Men RPF, Les Misérables RPF, Actor RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Russell Crowe/Hugh Jackman
Characters: Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman
Additional Tags: Watersports, Mutual Masturbation, Sharing Clothes, Clothed Sex, Open Relationships, understanding spouses, Celebrity Crush, Wet & Messy
Summary:

Hugh has some boundaries. Russell, not so much.

Nnnnngh. I'm not even into watersports qua watersports, but I totally kink on the characters' kinkiness.

Stephen Fry called Alan Davies his little puppy on Twitter and my heart skipped a beat. Not least because I'm one of the authors who've used puppy imagery in their fic. But then, it is rather obvious, isn't it? I'm only surprised no one's written full-on puppy play, to be honest. At any rate, this sent me looking for previously-undiscovered fics in my British comedian rarepairs.

Point (1393 words) by Niektete
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Real Person Fiction
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alan Davies/Stephen Fry
Characters: Alan Davies, Stephen Fry
Additional Tags: British Comedy
Summary:

Alan will do most anything to win QI. Stephen approves!

Mmm, a blowjobs-for-points scheme. I like the dialogue, although there's a bit of an epithet infestation.

Audi, Vide, Tace (hear, see, be silent) (685 words) by pushkin666
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: QI RPF
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Alan Davies/Stephen Fry
Additional Tags: Light BDSM, Spanking
Summary:

Alan still isn’t quite sure what this relationship between them is; work colleagues, friends, fuck buddies, Dom and Sub. The different parts of it leave Alan nervous and confused at times, not sure how to react to Stephen. Which has led them here: Alan on his knees and Stephen in full Dom mode.

*whines* What kind of tease writes spanking fic and then ends it before they get to the spanking?

The Terrifyingly Mysterious Case of the Mysterious Phone Call of Mystery (4483 words) by sheldrake
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: British Comics RPF, The Mighty Boosh RPF, Goth Detectives
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Noel Fielding/Russell Brand
Characters: Noel Fielding (Bob Skeleton), Russell Brand, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Humour
Summary:

What is really going on at the end of Hell Lane? Who made that mysterious phone call of mystery? Why are Russell's trousers so tight? All good questions, some of which even may be answered.

This is the delightfully daft Goth Detectives fic of my dreams. ♥

Counting (1844 words) by sheldrake
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Mighty Boosh RPF, British Comics RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Noel Fielding/Russell Brand
Characters: Noel Fielding, Russell Brand
Summary:

It was just a threesome without one of the ones, that was all.

And this is the fic where they get together properly! Well, relatively properly. Consider the subjects, after all.

Via icarus_chained, two fusions of Les Misérables into the Temeraire 'verse:

Claws of Justice by AMarguerite
Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Adventure - Javert - Words: 633

Lieutenant Javert wins a skirmish during the siege of Toulon. Inspired by a tumblr thread started by simplyirenic.

Javert's dragon is named Justice, because of course she is.

and choose the sweetest yoke by voksen
Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Valjean & Javert - Words: 1,488

Javert and Fraternité are stuck on escort duty.

Javert is totally a dragon and Jean Valjean is also a dragon and he can carry way more than just Cosette's bucket of water and I only wish there were more of this story.

And via Rare Pair Fest 2013 (which I seriously type as rairpair fest every single time for some reason and then I have to go back and fix it), two stories that are anonymous at the time of this posting.

All Possible Futures (3336 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Young Avengers
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Billy Kaplan/Nate Richards, Teddy Altman/Billy Kaplan
Characters: Billy Kaplan, Nate Richards (Young Avengers)
Additional Tags: Infidelity, Time Travel
Summary:

After (another) spell gone wrong, Billy finds himself in the future - at least, one possible future out of many. While he's there, he meets someone familiar. Takes place during the new Young Avengers series.

I would never have thought to ship them, but this is a great story that brings out how much Billy and Nate really have in common.

Gift Horses (1311 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Loveless
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Agatsuma Soubi/Kaidou Kio
Characters: Kaidou Kio, Agatsuma Soubi
Summary:

You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes... well, you know the rest.

Poor Kio. Settling for a bit of physical affection when he really wants a relationship with his gorgeous, spectacularly emotionally-unavailable roommate.

Screenwriting for Dummies (13953 words) by irisbleufic
Chapters: 2/12
Fandom: Community (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Troy Barnes/Abed Nadir, Friendship - Relationship
Characters: Troy Barnes, Abed Nadir, Annie Edison, Jeff Winger, Britta Perry, Shirley Bennett, Pierce Hawthorne, Leonard Briggs
Additional Tags: Angst and Humor, Angst with a Happy Ending, Humor, Happy Ending, Fix-It, Post-Season/Series 03 Fix-It
Summary: "And remember: Star-Burns died for your sins."
This will be an episodic series of twelve installments. Each installment will be fairly self-contained, but they'll all string together to form a larger overarching plot, so you can stop reading at any point, etc. This is effectively an alternate Season 4.

irisbleufic wrote the perfect alternate episode where Troy and Abed finally realize that they are in love, and do something about it. Then, as if that weren't awesome enough, she wrote another episode, and now there's going to be a whole alternate season four. The season four that could have existed if the show had been picked up at the end of season three by HBO or Showtime.

Tenderized (1911 words) by longwhitecoats
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hannibal (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Will Graham & Hannibal Lecter, Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter
Characters: Will Graham, Hannibal Lecter
Additional Tags: BDSM, Kink Negotiation, neuroatypical character, Anxiety, Developing Relationship
Series: Part 1 of Staccato
Summary:

Will lets something slip to Dr. Lecter in one of their conversations. Dr. Lecter isn't about to let it go.

This is the first story in an ongoing series/WIP, and I'm linking to the whole thing, but it's easier to use the sharing code for a story, since there isn't any equivalent for a series on AO3.

I'm loving the slow build and how much the negotiation phase is a kink in itself, which fits especially well with Hannibal's character. This is a guy who likes to listen.

Flick, Flick (5185 words) by mellish
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Magids Series - Diana Wynne Jones
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maree Mallory/Rupert Venables, Roddy Hyde/Nick Mallory
Characters: Roddy Hyde, Nick Mallory, Maree Mallory
Additional Tags: Siblings, Sleep, Pasta, the trouble with forgetting, First Crush
Summary:

Nick isn't quite all right yet, but it's nothing a little magic and kindness can't fix.

This is the closest thing that currently exists to the Maree/Nick fic that I so desperately crave. Really lovely funny Maree&Nick gen post-Merlin Conspiracy.

More hair than she needs (517 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery, Tangled (2010), The Color Purple - Alice Walker, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley, Eugene Fitzherbert | Flynn Rider/Rapunzel, Celie/Shug Avery
Characters: Anne Shirley, Gilbert Blythe, Rapunzel (Tangled), Rapunzel's Mother, Shug Avery, Celie (The Color Purple), Kathryn Janeway, Leia Organa, Mon Mothma, Diana Barry
Additional Tags: Hair, Femininity, Self-Determination, Female Character of Color, Canon Lesbian Relationship, Feminist Themes, Drabble Collection, Bechdel Test Pass, 5 Things, Female Friendship
Summary:

Five female characters who cut their hair, and one who didn't.

This was posted just as I was pulling this post together, yay!

I only have two stories to share this week, but they're both amazing and they both have illustrations!

Babysitter of the Daleks by sloth_in_a_box, lippian and aceattorneysho
Baby-sitters Club/Doctor Who (Eleventh Doctor) crossover. Gen/Humor/Crack. ~PG. 31,820 words.
The Eleventh Doctor comes to Stoneybrook and unlocks the alien mystery of its perpetually-looping timeline (among other things) in this Baby-sitters Club Christmas Super Special.

As a huge fan of DW, the BSC, and cracktastic crossovers, I knew I was going to love this story the minute I saw the lovingly hand-rendered cover. It is absolutely filled with in-jokes about the OTT ridiculousness of the BSC books and I love it.

Vae Victis (33405 words) by Sineala
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Marcus Flavius Aquila/Esca Mac Cunoval
Characters: Marcus Flavius Aquila, Esca Mac Cunoval
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Ancient Greece & Rome, Alternate Universe - Etruscans, Alternate Universe - Gaul, Etruscans, Gauls, War, Romance, First Time, Additional Warnings Apply
Summary:

War looms on the horizon as Marcus' homeland of Etruria is faced with the unreasoning demands of the Gauls, a vicious, deadly foe. Young and lonely, Marcus begins a tentative friendship -- a friendship that could become something more -- with Esca, a prince of the Gauls. But the differences of the two nations cannot be ignored, and both Marcus and Esca must choose between the needs of their peoples and the desires of their hearts.

True story: I actually had a freshman seminar on the Etruscans with Larissa Bonfante, mumblety-mumble years ago. The Etruscans are awesome, and so is this story.

Also contains gorgeous artwork by alby_mangroves!