potentialities

I wrote something very silly indeed for Yuletide this year! It was a lot of fun.

No Dumb Yuletide Stories, Just Dumb Podcast Hosts (1092 words) by mayhap
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: National Football League RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jason Kelce & Travis Kelce
Characters: Jason Kelce, Travis Kelce
Additional Tags: Humor, Characters React to Fandom, Yuletide
Summary: We gotta talk about it.

Although we still don't have a release date for Happy Gilmore 2, since I wrote this, the trailer did drop. Travis is totally living that self-insert life for real.

Dear Yuletide author,

I am so pleased that we share an interest in one of these fandoms and I can’t wait to read whatever you write for me this Yuletide!

I enjoy a wide variety of stories, all year round but especially at Yuletide. I love short, punchy stories and longer, plotter stories, explicitly smutty and/or kinky stories and coy stories that are all about the teasing and the implications, stories with some kind of meta angle to them and stories that engage with the source material 100% on its own terms, stories with ships that are canon and stories with ships that aren’t.

I am mayhap on AO3 as well. I have checked to make sure I have gifts enabled.

2024 National League Baseball RPF / Baseball RPF
Shohei Ohtani
Tyler Glasnow

I really love both of these guys as players and as personalities, and since they both ended up on my National League team this year I’ve enjoyed seeing them encounter each other, a little like a pair of unlikely animal friends. I first linked the two them together specifically because the broadcast happened to capture Tyler holding out his hand and getting Shohei to place his hand up against it for comparison in the dugout during a spring training game [Tumblr gifset], and that kind of encapsulates the vibe for me here. I’d love a fic that puts them together, in any sense of the word. It by no means has to be anything particularly serious between them.

I’d been familiar with Tyler as a pitcher with the Rays, but I only discovered Tyler as a raconteur once he came to the Dodgers, and I’d been missing out because this man is wildly entertaining whenever he opens his mouth. Not only will he turn an unforgettable phrase like “I’m a little radar slut, anyways,” [Instagram clip, YouTube full episode] or cheerfully volunteer that he wakes up four times a night to pee, he just generally has a propensity for striving to characterize himself and relating his backstory like he’s the first-person narrator of the novel of his life that absolutely delights me. I also love the way he talks about his pitching, including all those numbers that he loves, and assuming the risk of getting hurt, which of course, unfortunately, he is again.

Shohei’s approach to his self-presentation is virtually the opposite, presumably due to some combination of his natural inclinations and the relentless media coverage he receives. I was charmed by the way he handled the respective rollouts of his dog and his his marriage this season, both clearly quite considered and controlled introductions. The Ippei gambling debt bank fraud scandal breaking was something completely out of his control, which sucked, although as a silver lining it did give the Dodgers organization the opportunity to rally around him really early on, like an unplanned team-building exercise. It did not at all stop him from having a truly incredible season as a hitter and a baserunner while still rehabbing his pitching arm, which is bonkers. By all accounts and appearances, he’s had a lot of fun this year, including winning at least one playoff series at the time of this writing. The world had been deprived of postseason Shohei for too long!

Feel free to include any other Dodgers teammates, coaches, etc. as additional characters if you want them there, or even write more of an ensemble fic if you should happen to so desire. Also, I know this is completely out of left field, but at the Dodgers Foundation gala, they made a funny video asking players which teammate they would want to have with them during a zombie apocalypse, and Shohei opted for Tyler because he’s “tall, big and throws hard” [Instagram video]. This has lived rent-free in my brain since I saw it. If you, by any chance, want to do anything with it, up to and including a full-on zombie apocalypse fic, I’d be very much down for that.

Bonus links! Here’s a representative video of them chatting together in the dugout and here’s a nice photo of them getting off the plane together when everyone wore matching Dodgers sweatsuits for the trip.

DNW: wives/girlfriends in shipfic (fine to mention, include or avoid them otherwise, totally up to you), AUs where Shohei and Tyler aren’t professional baseball players

Plain Girl — Virginia Sorenson
Esther Lapp
Mary

I love how delicately and yet powerfully this book explores Esther’s thoughts and feelings—about her family, the Amish community, their way of life, and of course about her new friend Mary, whom she finds so beautiful, not just for her pretty dresses, but also things like her silky hair and her dimpled elbows as well as her wonderful kindness and tact in welcoming her to school and becoming her bosom friend. It’s written as a seduction and that seduction is a good thing, a fountain that sends forth sweet water and not bitter. I see flashes of an eroticism as well, like Esther touching Mary’s hair and finding it so beautiful that a shiver goes through her fingers and her heart starts to beat very fast, or Mary showing Esther her petticoat when they’re planning to change clothes with each other, which I find really lovely.

Even though they don’t end up wearing each other’s clothes at school they must do it eventually, somewhere, sometime! I’d love for that to be explored in a story, at any age or perhaps more than once, as they get older. Anything exploring their relationship and how it develops in the future would be wonderful. There’s a lot of potential for angst and difficulty but also for love and sharing. Esther, of course, has her new sister-in-law and her brother in her corner when it comes to blending the old and the new, with her parents much more tentatively open, but Mary’s family is wide open for exploration, and so are the rest of their peers. I’d love gen or getting together or established relationship or pre-ship fic all equally.

The Professor — Charlotte Brontë
Frances Evans Henri
Hunsden Yorke Hunsden
William Crimsworth

I am fascinated the role that Hunsden Yorke Hunsden plays in this story, who is of the things that makes it different from Vilette, which is essentially a heavily-revised second draft of The Professor. From the beginning he alternates between needling William and performing these extremely thoughtful favors for him, although it's not always easy for him to get under William's skin as William perversely enjoys some of his bluntness. He brings out such an interesting side of Frances when he meets her, too—I love that promptly she gets into three arguments with him in a row, and the third time she doesn't even believe in the argument she's making; she just wants to fight with him!

I'm particularly interested in a story set when William and Frances are living in England and Hunsden is their neighbor. I love how he has apparently latched onto their family in lieu of starting their own, especially the way he seems to practically be a coparent to Victor when he’s at home. I would love more about their daily life as it's sketched all too briefly in that last chapter, or a story about something that happens as Victor gets older and goes to school, which William worries about.

I would also love threesome fic! William would be almost hopelessly scandalized by the prospect, I think, and surely Frances too, but then with the dynamic both she and Hunsden have with William where they love to tease him I can imagine it working out somehow. I do love stories where characters fumble their way into unusual relationships or sexual practices without quite knowing what they're doing or having the usual vocabulary to talk about it, which is sort of what I would picture here. But I absolutely would be just as happy with a story that explores the dynamic among them some other way.

I got the Zachary Gray & Douglas Austin fic of my dreams this Yuletide!

Between Semesters (1129 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronos (Austins) Series - Madeleine L'Engle
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Zachary Gray, Douglas Austin
Summary:

Zachary Gray goes home to California for winter break. Out of loneliness he drives around Laguna Beach and ends up talking to Vicky's Uncle Doug.

Probably most people don't have dreams about Zachary Gray taking Vicky's uncle Douglas up on his offer to paint him, but it's been one of my most cherished fancies and it could not be more perfectly realized here. You only need to know The Moon by Night to read it and you should!

This year for Yuletide I wrote for The Ordinary Princess, a book that has been extremely dear to my heart for a long time!

A New Fashion for Ordinariness (2674 words) by mayhap
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Ordinary Princess - M.M. Kaye
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Amy/Peregrine (The Ordinary Princess)
Characters: Amy (The Ordinary Princess), Peregrine (The Ordinary Princess), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fluff
Summary:

Problems with pets, periodicals, and picnics.

💜💜💜

Dear Yuletide author,

I am so pleased that we share an interest in one of these fandoms and I can’t wait to read whatever you write for me this Yuletide!

I enjoy a wide variety of stories, all year round but especially at Yuletide. I love short, punchy stories and longer, plotter stories, explicitly smutty and/or kinky stories and coy stories that are all about the teasing and the implications, stories with some kind of meta angle to them and stories that engage with the source material 100% on its own terms, stories with ships that are canon and stories with ships that aren’t.

I am mayhap on AO3 as well. I have checked to make sure I have gifts enabled.

Chronos (Austins) Series — Madeleine L’Engle
Zachary Gray

I adore Zachary in all his messy, self-sabotaging glory. I think L’Engle must have felt something similar, since she brought him back in another book to enact virtually same scenario all over again, and then did it twice more in the Kairos books for good measure. I eat it up with a spoon every single time.

I’d love any any Zach-centric fic, especially one that explores what he might do next. I’ve always been particularly interested in his relationship with Vicky, which affected him profoundly and set the pattern that he gets caught up in repeating. I don’t necessarily think they would or should see each other again after what happened between them, but I do think it could be fascinating if they did, having both experienced more of life in the interim, if you wanted to explore that possibility. I’d love to see Uncle Douglas follow up on the desire he expressed to paint Zach; I feel like he could be a really interesting, positive figure in his life. But of course it’s completely up to you which other characters you want to include, if any.

I’ve requested this under Chronos, but of course Zachary is one of the characters who cross and connect Chronos and Kairos. Feel free to handle that canonical crossover in any way you like—you could fully disregard the books set in Kairos, fully incorporate the events, characters, and more fantastical elements from the Kairos books, or anything in between. Any of these approaches would interest me equally.

National Football League RPF
Patrick Mahomes
Travis Kelce

What happens when you pair a tight end who always gets open with a quarterback with a particular gift for extending plays? I try not to take the virtuosity of the Mahomes-to-Kelce connection for granted, but it can be hard when they’re so busy making the incredible look routine. They’re both so skilled at reading defenses and adjusting to what they see on the fly that sometimes it virtually amounts to mind reading. I love the big flashy plays, like the time they plotted together to get into field goal range to tie the divisional round game against the Bills, but I also love when Kelce is just the biggest, comfiest safety blanket when Mahomes needs to make a play over and over again. I love how they hype each other up on the field, and I love how they party it up together off the field. They seem like a couple of fun dudes who really enjoy each other’s company!

I’d love any kind of fic about them hooking up with each other, in the football sense or the romantic one. Maybe they really can hear each other’s thoughts, or they unlock that ability from playing together, and shenanigans ensue. Maybe they wake up married in Vegas when they’re partying there after winning the Super Bowl. Maybe Travis somehow ends up babysitting Pat’s kid(s) like they keep joking is a terrible idea that should never ever happen. Travis has definitely matured a lot since the days when he routinely racked up unsportsmanlike conducts for objectively hilarious but ill-advised things like flagging a ref; maybe Pat, a ray of human sunshine who speaks like he started media training in kindergarten, had some part in that. Or if there are any other ideas that inspire you, I want to read them!

DNWs: mentions of wives and girlfriends in pairing fic (if gen, do whatever you prefer!); mentions of Tyreek Hill off the field (as a teammate is fine, where applicable); AUs where Mahomes and Kelce aren’t football players

Plain Girl — Virginia Sorenson
Esther Lapp
Mary

I love how delicately and yet powerfully this book explores Esther’s thoughts and feelings—about her family, the Amish community, their way of life, and of course about her new friend Mary, whom she finds so beautiful, not just for her pretty dresses, but also things like her silky hair and her dimpled elbows as well as her wonderful kindness and tact in welcoming her to school and becoming her bosom friend. It’s written as a seduction and that seduction is a good thing, a fountain that sends forth sweet water and not bitter. I see flashes of an eroticism as well, like Esther touching Mary’s hair and finding it so beautiful that a shiver goes through her fingers and her heart starts to beat very fast, or Mary showing Esther her petticoat when they’re planning to change clothes with each other, which I find really lovely.

Even though they don’t end up wearing each other’s clothes at school they must do it eventually, somewhere, sometime! I’d love for that to be explored in a story, at any age or perhaps more than once, as they get older. Anything exploring their relationship and how it develops in the future would be wonderful. There’s a lot of potential for angst and difficulty but also for love and sharing. Esther, of course, has her new sister-in-law and her brother in her corner when it comes to blending the old and the new, with her parents much more tentatively open, but Mary’s family is wide open for exploration, and so are the rest of their peers. I’d love gen or getting together or established relationship or pre-ship fic all equally.

The Professor — Charlotte Brontë
Frances Evans Henri
Hunsden Yorke Hunsden
William Crimsworth

I am fascinated the role that Hunsden Yorke Hunsden plays in this story, who is of the things that makes it different from Vilette, which is essentially a heavily-revised second draft of The Professor. From the beginning he alternates between needling William and performing these extremely thoughtful favors for him, although it's not always easy for him to get under William's skin as William perversely enjoys some of his bluntness. He brings out such an interesting side of Frances when he meets her, too -- I love that promptly she gets into three arguments with him in a row, and the third time she doesn't even believe in the argument she's making; she just wants to fight with him!

I'm particularly interested in a story set when William and Frances are living in England and Hunsden is their neighbor. I love how he has apparently latched onto their family in lieu of starting their own, especially the way he seems to practically be a coparent to Victor when he’s at home. I would love more about their daily life as it's sketched all too briefly in that last chapter, or a story about something that happens as Victor gets older and goes to school, which William worries about.

I would also love threesome fic! William would be almost hopelessly scandalized by the prospect, I think, and surely Frances too, but then with the dynamic both she and Hunsden have with William where they love to tease him I can imagine it working out somehow. I do love stories where characters fumble their way into unusual relationships or sexual practices without quite knowing what they're doing or having the usual vocabulary to talk about it, which is sort of what I would picture here. But I absolutely would be just as happy with a story that explores the dynamic among them some other way.

The Story Girl series — L.M. Montgomery
Felicity King
Sara Stanley

I really appreciate the group dynamics among the six cousins and their two other playmates in these books but especially the simmering tension between Felicity and the Story Girl. Even though Felicity’s beauty and cookery are pitted against the Story Girl’s charisma and fancy clothes, I like that it’s not that they’re competing with each other over a love interest; they both want everyone to be more attracted to them than to their rival.

I’d love another childhood story set during the books, or something set when they see each other again some time in the future. If you fancy doing something with outsider POV, it could be particularly delightful to have Beverley narrate when there are things going on between them that go over his head entirely, but of course he needn’t even be involved at all. If you want to make me cry buckets, you could write something set around Cecily’s funeral, although conversely I’d happily join you in denial that she’s even consumptive in the first place. If you don’t end up writing Felicity/Story Girl then do feel free to let Felicity end up with Peter, if it’s something that comes up. I’d love, say, Felicity hand-feeding the Story Girl all her favorite good old-fashioned Canadian baked goods that she couldn’t get in France, or the Story Girl discovering that she likes sharing her Parisian silks with Felicity when she's the only one who gets to look at her wearing them, or anything that inspires you.

Trouble series — Stephanie Tromly
Philip Digby
Zoe Webster

I want to go back to Planet Digby! I ship Zoe/Digby like it was written specifically for me, which it might as well have been, and I crave more. The bickering is amazing, obviously, but I also love the combination of earnestness and irony when it comes to things like mental health and feelings, and the mixture of grounded realistic details and handwave-y rule of cool when it comes to their adventures.

I’d love some coping with long-distance relationships, or meeting up for dates (and/or pursuing leads) in New York City, or really anything at all as long as it’s set in the future and Zoe and Digby are together. The fade to black in the books is already scorchingly hot to me, so if you want to write pure porn with little to no plot, I would also be utterly thrilled. Zoe’s offhand mention of fandom in the first book never really comes up again, but if you wanted to pick that thread up and do a story with more fandom in it, it’d be fun (and I definitely approve of her taste in dark Harry Potter femslash!). Really, anything would be great.

For Yuletide this year I got a gorgeous glimpse of Green Sky, shimmering with possibilities on the cusp of changes:

What are You to Be? (1025 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Green Sky Trilogy - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Teera Eld, Pomma D'ok
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, First Crush, Coming of Age
Summary:

“Teera, Teera!” Pomma said, palms out beseechingly. “Don’t go to sleep again, it’s Second Counseling today!”

This year I wrote fic for Possession, which was equal parts intimidating and inspiring.

Marra Tivvit (1331 words) by mayhap
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Possession - A. S. Byatt
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Randolph Henry Ash/Christabel LaMotte
Characters: Randolph Henry Ash, Christabel LaMotte
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Hurt/Comfort, Sickfic, gratuitous extension of a metaphysical conceit
Summary:

“Now was he hers, if she should ask of him
Body or soul, he would have offered all.
And seeing this, at last, the Fairy smiled.”
      —Christabel LaMotte, The Fairy Melusine

Dear Yuletide author,

I am so pleased that we share an interest in one of these fandoms and I can’t wait to read whatever you write for me this Yuletide!

I enjoy a wide variety of stories, all year round but especially at Yuletide. I love short, punchy stories and longer, plotter stories, explicitly smutty and/or kinky stories and coy stories that are all about the teasing and the implications, stories with some kind of meta angle to them and stories that engage with the source material 100% on its own terms, stories with ships that are canon and stories with ships that aren’t.

I am also mayhap on AO3.

Colors in the Dreamweaver’s Loom series — Beth Hilgartner
Remarr
Vihena

The world of these books has always been so magical to me, especially the way that their quest brings Zan and the Five together in the first book. I love how Remarr and Vihena, the changelings, serve as foils to each other, and how they both have to deal with having their respective insecurities exposed by their companions’ mind-reading abilities. I remember assuming that they would get together when I was a kid and I’d still be interested in that, even as I’d be just as likely as an adult to read either or both of them as queer. Mostly, I’d like to see them finding a place of mutual respect that they never quite managed to maintain in the books, even if it’s difficult and painful.

Maybe they’re forced to work together again to help restore order to their world, or maybe Remarr composes a new song about Vihena’s great deeds with the sword, or maybe they’re already engaged and navigating two sets of wedding customs plus a whole clan of outraged Khedathi in-laws! I’d love absolutely anything that inspires you about these characters in this world.


The Great British Bake Off RPF
Mary Berry
Paul Hollywood

Paul and Mary were perfectly paired as judges and I’m still not over Mary leaving! They’re both so engaging on screen and they built up a delightful chemistry over the years. I particularly love to rewatch the Masterclass episodes, which are even more soothingly low-stakes than the main show, being composed entirely of baking and banter. I love all the usual things they tease each other relentless about, while at the same time being extremely courteous and appreciative as they go about their baking and sampling

If you fancy writing something more explicit, I’d love to read Mary cheerfully domming Paul as he plays up the mischief (but also shows off how good he is with his hands). Otherwise, I’d love absolutely anything that showcases the rapport of their working relationship, whether it be within the milieu of the show or not, perhaps wit a bit (or a lot) of classic GBBO innuendo.

DNW: References to Paul’s real-life relationship issues. Any other real-life biographical stuff is totally fine.


Green Sky Trilogy — Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Pomma D’ok
Teera Eld

I love the worldbuilding in these books, especially the cross-cultural friendship and partnership between Pomma and Teera. I love the radical utopianism of the Kindar but also how much they struggled with accepting the true nature of the Erdlings and integrating them into a new unified society. I'd really like to read a story about them growing up together as the Kindar and the Erdlings adjust to each other and return of spirit-powers, with as broad or as narrow a scope as you would like to imagine.

I think Pomma and Teera would be make an adorable couple and that you could also do incredibly fun setting-specific things with it—trying to keep your crush a secret from someone you can pense with? Gruntspreking to give you and your partner some privacy or engage in some bondage? Kiniporting sex toys, even? Not to mention differences in ideas about romantic relationships, which comes up in the books as well, athough of course only heterosexual relationships are mentioned. But it's also absolutely fine with me if you'd rather pair them off with other characters or with OCs or with no one; I wouldn't feel like you were breaking up my pairing or anything.

DNW: Incorporation of video game canon.


The Professor — Charlotte Brontë
Frances Evans Henri
Hunsden Yorke Hunsden
William Crimsworth

I am fascinated the role that Hunsden Yorke Hunsden plays in this story, who is of the things that makes it different from Vilette, which is essentially a heavily-revised second draft of The Professor. From the beginning he alternates between needling William and performing these extremely thoughtful favors for him, although it's not always easy for him to get under William's skin as William perversely enjoys some of his bluntness. He brings out such an interesting side of Frances when he meets her, too -- I love that promptly she gets into three arguments with him in a row, and the third time she doesn't even believe in the argument she's making; she just wants to fight with him!

I'm particularly interested in a story set when William and Frances are living in England and Hunsden is their neighbor. I love how he has apparently latched onto their family in lieu of starting their own, especially the way he seems to practically be a coparent to Victor when he’s at home. I would love more about their daily life as it's sketched all too briefly in that last chapter, or a story about something that happens as Victor gets older and goes to school, which William worries about.

I would also love threesome fic! William would be almost hopelessly scandalized by the prospect, I think, and surely Frances too, but then with the dynamic both she and Hunsden have with William where they love to tease him I can imagine it working out somehow. I do love stories where characters fumble their way into unusual relationships or sexual practices without quite knowing what they're doing or having the usual vocabulary to talk about it, which is sort of what I would picture here. But I absolutely would be just as happy with a story that explores the dynamic among them some other way.


Trouble Series — Stephanie Tromly
Philip Digby
Zoe Webster

I’m not ready to leave Planet Digby! I ship Zoe/Digby like it was written specifically for me, which it might as well have been, and I crave more. The bickering is amazing, obviously, but I also love the combination of earnestness and irony when it comes to like mental health and feelings, and the mixture of grounded realism and rule of cool when it comes to their adventures.

I’d love some coping with long-distance relationships, or meeting up for dates (and/or shenanigans) in New York City, or really anything at all as long as it’s set in the future and Zoe and Digby are together. Even the fade to black in the books is insanely hot to me, so if you want to write pure porn, I would also be thrilled. Zoe’s offhand mention of fandom in the first book never really come up again, but if you wanted to pick that thread up and do a fandom story, it could be fun (and I approve of her taste in Harry Potter femslash!). Really, anything would be great.

I got three amazing fics for the ClickHole article An Oral History of the 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase. Serendipitously, they all complement each other perfectly by covering different parts of history in pitch-perfect fashion.

The Extended 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (3406 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: An Oral History Of The 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (ClickHole Article)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Randy Johnson, Willie Mays, Bud Selig, Santa Claus, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa
Summary:

Or, how Willie Mays and two horny dicks saved the world, baseball, and also Christmas

an oral history of the 2019 major league baseball juiced ball dingerfest (3020 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: An Oral History Of The 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (ClickHole Article), Baseball RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Rob Manfred, Bud Selig, Joe Girardi, Randy Johnson, Derek Jeter, Will Smith (Baseball b. 1995), Pete Alonso, Brodie van Wagenen
Summary:

Randy Johnson (photographer; member, Baseball Hall of Fame): Rob Manfred found me somehow. I don’t know how. I thought, 20 years ago, it had been enough. I was in my backyard taking some photos of birds and Rob stood on my deck and said, “Randy, you have to help us out with a project,” and I said, “I will only help you if it’s a photography project, Rob, I am retired now, you can go to my website to look at my photos,” and Rob said, “if you didn’t want to help us, you shouldn’t have given up that goddamn moonshot to McGwire.”

A Narrative History of the Home Run (1031 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: An Oral History Of The 1998 Major League Baseball Home Run Chase (ClickHole Article), Baseball RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Willie Mays, Barry Bonds
Summary:

Willie Mays invented the home run.

I feel so fortunate that three people shared this ridiculousness with me this Yuletide. ♥

I wrote two things for Yuletide and they're definitely very different from each other! Both pretty on-brand for me, though, in their own way.

The Tale of the Water of Living Stone (1286 words) by mayhap
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: VitaminWater "Dogs Lost In A Maze That Is Also In Egypt" Commercial
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Fletcher (Dogs Lost In A Maze That Is Also In Egypt), Nicole (Dogs Lost In A Maze That Is Also In Egypt), Pat (Dogs Lost In A Maze That Is Also In Egypt), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Don't Have to Know Canon, Pastiche
Summary:

A newly-discovered Egyptian text which is definitely NOT part of a viral marketing campaign for Dogs Lost in a Maze That Is Also in Egypt from electroLIGHT and açaí.blueberry.pomegranate studios, in theaters at some point. #dogsinamaze #XXXsummerblockbuster

What do you mean, Dogs Lost in a Maze that is Also in Egypt isn't a real movie? It has a Rotten Tomatoes page! This is the novelization that an ancient Egyptian might have written if he had a strange and anachronistic mandate to include prominent product placement.

Happiness Is a Water Gun (2313 words) by mayhap
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adventures in Odyssey
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
Relationships: Richard Maxwell/Dr. Regis Blackgaard, allusions to past Jellyfish/Richard Maxwell
Characters: Richard Maxwell, Dr. Regis Blackgaard, John Avery Whittaker, Connie Kendall
Additional Tags: Revenge Sex, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Face-Fucking, Humiliation, Yuletide Treat, Yuleporn
Summary:

With Dr. Regis Blackgaard forced to his knees at gunpoint, Richard Maxwell takes his revenge. AU of Waylaid in the Windy City.

Adventures in Odyssey is a long-running radio drama produced by Focus on the Family which is supposed to teach your children important lessons, but I learned all the wrong lessons from it. Like that revenge is actually awesome and the only thing that would make it better would be getting the guy who'd deliver the lecture about how revenge is bad out of the room so that things can get really filthy. Hence this fic.