thisbluespirit: (divide & rule)
thisbluespirit ([personal profile] thisbluespirit) wrote2021-01-27 09:40 pm

Fic: Austerity Gamble (Original)

A [community profile] rainbowfic AU that got rather out of hand. I wrote it in 2019 as a thing to cheer myself up and never really intended to type it up (for various reasons but also because I was amusing myself in part by writing this while reading Austerity Britain and making it the dullest AU ever as is appropriate for 1947) but then I decided I would to cheer myself up and keep typing regularly with 2020 being what it was, so I did. These two choices probably shouldn't have gone together. But I've finally edited the thing now, so here it is.

It also fills 2 bingo squares and a [community profile] rainbowfic prompt and hopefully it will cheer at least somebody else up sometime too, and it is always good practice at steady writing, so I don't regret my life choices as much as I ought to.


Austerity Gamble (35854 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Male Character
Characters: Edward Iveson (OC), Julia Graves (OC), Hanne Graves (OC), John Iveson (OC), Elizabeth Iveson (OC)
Additional Tags: Community: rainbowfic, Community: hc_bingo, Community: genprompt_bingo, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Romance, 1940s, Family Loss, Grief/Mourning, mentions of World War II, Mentions of the Blitz, Austerity Britain, Northumberland, fetes, Nightmares, Period Typical attitudes to divorce
Summary: All Edward Iveson needs right now is someone who can type, not a proposal by proxy from a family friend who’s decided he should marry her daughter. Julia has excellent typing and shorthand and no intention of doing what her mother tells her, so there shouldn’t be a problem, should there?
executrix: (blakeposter)

[personal profile] executrix 2021-01-27 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I read Austerity Britain and the other two! I even bought them! (although second-hand).