thisbluespirit | Entries tagged with mina harker

I started this on 27th Feb 2021 for

100fandomicons and have finally completed it, after taking longer than anybody else ever has, which I suppose is one claim to fame. (You can see the fandoms if you hover over the icons.)

( 100fandoms table under here )

So,

chocolateboxcomm has now been and gone, and I can thank

lurking_latinist and

romanajo123 for my gifts, both for Five/Tegan - Doubt and Doubles and Just This One Time. (Again,

lurking_latinist! ♥)

I was assigned to

calliopes_pen, and wrote three stories for Dracula (TV 1968) - and thanks to Pers for beta-ing for me again! The first two were Canon Divergence AUs based on their prompts and the other a post-canon fic (I - sort of - had made this one earlier!)

I wrote a Lucy/Mina ficlet for their prompt about an AU where Mina interrupts Dracula's nighttime visits to Lucy...

Morning Prayer (902 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mina Harker/Lucy Weston
Characters: Mina Harker, Lucy Weston, Dracula
Additional Tags: Ficlet, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Vampires, Fix-It, Implied harm to a bat, but it is not an actual bat anyway, it is a vampire having a bad night
Summary: Dracula's visit to Lucy is interrupted. It's not a good night for the Count.

And then for their Van Helsing & Dracula prompt, about Van Helsing's giving in to Dracula tempting him with all his knowledge at the end, which was too fascinating not to write. This version has a rather more severe Van Helsing than many of them, so it was a fun AU to explore.

To Catch A Spider... (2082 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968), Dracula & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Dracula & Abraham Van Helsing
Characters: Dracula, Abraham Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, John Seward, Mrs Hoskins (Dracula TV 1968)
Additional Tags: Dark, Evil Wins, Major Character Undeath, Character Death, Vampires, Alternate Universe
Summary: Van Helsing gives into temptation. The Count will learn to be sorry for it - and so will everyone else.

And, finally, for their Jon/Mina/John request, I actually had almost all of this piece written out in rough from a previous Yuletide, but wasn't able to do what I'd planned with it at the time due to illness. I wasn't quite sure if I'd be able to get it into shape and typed up for Chocolate Box, but I did, so here it is:

Inner Demons (3867 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker/John Seward
Characters: John Seward, Mina Harker, Jonathan Harker, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Demonic Possession, Victorian, Blood and Injury, The forces of darkness do not take holidays
Summary: If there's one thing this supernatural business has taught Dr Seward, it's that wherever the Harkers go, there'll be trouble. Unfortunately, it seems that wherever the Harkers go now, so does he...

I had meant to write some other treats because there were so many fun requests, especially in the Doctor Who fandom (there were even other Five/Tegan requesters! Unheard of!) But I got a tad carried away with my assignment mostly because I just had to dust off the would-be hellfire club in the Hotel in Bridlington (although I still did not even get to use the whole Wold Newton Triangle thing).

I scraped in with one last Whumptober effort with this. (3/31, not bad? Heh.)

calliopes_pen suggested Dracula (TV 1968) for Day 27 "Extreme Weather" and how can I resist a 1960s Dracula prompt? (It's not quite as suggested, because I started it that way, realised it was clearly going to take me 5-10k again, so I switched direction and came up with this instead. It's still not a ficlet, though, dammit! It was totally going to be a ficlet. Two ficlets!! It is not.)

Oh, and I am amused because if you live in the UK and wanted to celebrate Halloween by staying up till 1.30am and watching James Maxwell faint on actual telly tonight in Mystery & Imagination's version, you totally can thanks to Talking Pictures. I'm going to bed, but I do think that's pretty wonderful. XD

This also fits the square "Trapped Together" on my current

hc_bingo table.

Red Skies (2030 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker/John Seward
Characters: John Seward, Mina Harker, Jonathan Harker
Additional Tags: Whumptober 2020, Community: hc_bingo, Bad Weather, Rain, Dark, Post-Canon, Trapped
Summary: A storm breaks without warning.

I managed to edit this (which I wrote last week) and had to post, as I have not only completed

hc_bingo's May Small Fandoms Challenge with this, but achieved a bingo for

genprompt_bingo (round 17). \o/

I managed three out of the four prompts on my

hc_bingo 'stamp' (deadline/time bomb, possession/mind-control and sensory deprivation, although I am tempted to claim the fourth as well (orphans) on the technical basis that Mina is definitely an orphan in this, but I thought it was a tad too technical.)

Though the Light Fails (3956 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker, Mina Harker/John Seward, Mina Harker/Lucy Westenra
Characters: Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, John Seward, Mrs Hoskins (Dracula TV 1968)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Community: hc_bingo, Community: allbingo, Community: genprompt_bingo, Vampires, Blood, Possession, Major Character Undeath, Injury, Death, Grief/Mourning, Horror
Summary: When the light fails, the end will come. If Mina can't find a way to prevent it, that is...

Too late for the April Challenge, but I finished my Dracula (TV 1968)/Doctor Who crossover. Luckily, I had the square "loss of powers" on my regular

hc_bingo card, so used it for that, as well as for

100fandoms and

who_allsorts.

the little things (9482 words) by thisbluespirit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mina Harker/Ace McShane
Characters: Ace McShane, Mina Harker, John Seward, Jonathan Harker, Seventh Doctor, Mrs Hoskins (Dracula TV 1968)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Community: hc_bingo, Post-Canon, Post-Serial: s155 Survival, Vampires, Victorian, Loss of Powers, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Character Death, (both canonical), community: 100fandoms, crypts, ace affected by the Cheetah Planet
Summary: Mina and Ace have both been infected by something alien, but the results are very different...

I also wrote some treats. First off, I was determined to write a treat for

allegoriesinmediasres for Shadow of the Tower,( More writing stuff under here ) Pro-tip for Yuletide, though: don't ship Henry VII. Ship people who are in the History plays instead, that's just normal.

i love the rose both red and white (8072 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Shadow of the Tower, 15th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth of York Queen of England/Henry VII of England
Characters: Elizabeth of York Queen of England, Henry VII of England, Margaret Beaufort, John de Vere 13th Earl of Oxford, Catherine Gordon, Jasper Tudor, Cecily of York Viscountess Welles, Perkin Warbeck
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, 5 Times, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Arranged Marriage, The Wars of the Roses, Background Character Death, Hurt/Comfort, Trust Issues, unfortunate people get sacrificed/locked in the Tower in each AU
Summary: I love the rose both red and white, Is that your pure, perfect appetite?

Five other ways it might have gone for Elizabeth of York and Henry Tudor.

***

Going through the letters, I loved halotolerant's Battle of Hastings request. They wanted crack and this instantly occurred to me and my main worry was that I would not have time or strength to eventually write it after my assignment and the giant treat above. (Well, until I wrote it, and then I worried in case they wanted crack, but not a Modern AU.) It went down well, luckily, and everyone was happy; the perfect Yule outcome, except for me thinking belatedly of Jokes I Should Have Made/forgot when typing in a hurry.

Do you want 1066 retold in a 21st epistolary Organic Farming AU? Possibly not, but I have 100% for real been told in the comments that it has a better ending than canon. So, my fic - totally better than an arrow to the eye! It's official.

We'll Burn That Barn When We Come To It (3511 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 11th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harold II of England/William the Conqueror
Characters: Harold II of England, William the Conqueror, Edith of Wessex (c. 1025-1075), Matilda of Flanders
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Crack, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Epistolary, Humor, Angry exes, Swearing, Arson, Bees
Summary: from: h.godwinson@homespuntwaddle.com
to: brn@norman.org.fr

Hi Bill

Look, can we just talk this over like adults?

And the fact that I’m saying this despite the WIRE FENCE you’ve now erected round the perimeter of my farm ought to show you that I mean it. Please reply!

Harry.

***

Right at the last minute, I also managed to type up a hasty little Dracula (TV 1968) treat for calliopes_pen, a darkish little Jonathan-centric post canon piece, based on part of one of her prompts.

Road to Recovery (2056 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker
Characters: Jonathan Harker, John Seward, Mina Harker
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Post-Canon, Vampires, Victorian, Hurt/Comfort, Dark
Summary: It will take time for Jonathan to become well again, but both Dr Seward and Mina are willing to do everything they can to help him – in very different ways...

(I went over and over it after typing, but it was unbetaed, so apologies for any errors - just let me know and I will fix them, as ever.)

There really were so many great prompts this year, had I only but world and brain enough, but it was a lovely Yuletide that even included a tiny SotT treat for me on top of my gift. I hope everybody else had an equally lovely time with it.

With many thanks to persiflage_1, who never even blinks at the random things I send her to beta, especially at Yuletide! <3 (You dodged a bullet, Pers - there were 1960s vampires in the end! ;-p)

I've been getting back to the overdue AU Meme, and finished the Three & Jo & the Brig one the other day, so was determined to do the Lucy/Mina/John one for today since it was Hallowe'en and I just about did, so here they both are. Hopefully the last three will also follow soon!

AU Meme: Mina Harker/John Seward/Lucy Weston (1508 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mina Harker/John Seward/Lucy Weston
Characters: Mina Harker, John Seward, Lucy Weston
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Chalet School Fusion, Ficlet, Vampires, Major Character Undeath, Jonathan dies a lot off-screen, Dr Seward doesn't even faint once
Summary: 10x scenarios for Mina/John/Lucy written for a Dreamwidth meme.

(I might have got a tad evil in some of them. Also I couldn't think what things get used for Fusions in fandom - I'm not doing that category next time! - and so I wound up doing a Chalet School one.)

AU Meme: Three & Jo & the Brigadier (1221 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Third Doctor & Jo Grant & Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Characters: Third Doctor, Jo Grant, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Ficlet, Humor, Request Meme, Mentions of the Master - Freeform
Summary: 10x AU scenarios for the Third Doctor, Jo Grant, and the Brigadier, for a Dreamwidth meme.

I am not doing well at keeping these as short as possible, though, whoops.

I got slowed down in the writing meme not only by life, but by the fact that this one wanted to be a full length missing adventure. (It is instead now one of those things where I reckon if I sound tongue in cheek enough about cliches I can merrily skip over plot and thus not implode my brain. One day I will be up to the epics again, though. Or possibly I'll just die in the attempt; it could go either way.)

Trouble Comes in Threes (4609 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker/John Seward
Characters: Mina Harker, Jonathan Harker, John Seward, Abraham Van Helsing, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, duplicates, Cliche, Request Meme, Random Pairing Generator, Dr Seward only faints once, Imprisonment, Science Experiments, Waxwork dummies, Castles
Summary: It appears that the Harkers and Dr Seward are now doomed to run into danger of the supernatural kind wherever they go…

It's always weird trying to write recovered Jonathan for this adaptation, because it really does not give you much idea of what he's like, other than far less into Mina than book Jonathan, but at least I didn't kill him to get round it again. Oh, and clones in this being in the general meaning of 'duplicates'. It was an interesting prompt, though (even if it wasn't the one I was meant to be writing), as Mina/John/Jonathan is a logical solution to some issues of their post-canon situation when you think about it. (It's just obv. not as good as Mina/Lucy/John.)

I still don't feel great, but at least a bit better, and I have managed to finish off typing up the last part of this post-canon Dracula (TV 1968) fic, which I started sometime last autumn. It got slightly derailed because I adapted one of the segments into a Yuletide treat for

calliopes_pen as it matched one of her prompts, but I decided that story ended up differently enough even from that particular segment of this to warrant typing this up as well. It also fits the

genprompt_bingo square "push and pull."

Out of the Darkness (4215 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Mina Harker/Lucy Weston, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker, Mina Harker/John Seward
Characters: Mina Harker, Jonathan Harker, Lucy Weston, John Seward
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Community: genprompt_bingo, 5 Times, Vampires, various deaths, but Jonathan dies the most, Blood
Summary: Five possible futures for Mina, post-canon.

I managed to write three mostly slight fills for the Commentfest, and here they are :

Predictable (605 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Zodiac (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: David Gradley/Esther Jones
Characters: Esther Jones (Zodiac TV), David Gradley
Additional Tags: Obscure and British Commentfest, Ficlet, Horoscopes
Summary: Grad finally asks Esther to draw up a horoscope for him...

Not So Much Awry (1736 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sapphire and Steel
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mercury (Sapphire & Steel), Iron (S&S), Emerald (Sapphire & Steel)
Additional Tags: Obscure and British Commentfest, original elements, Original Character(s), Haunted Houses
Summary: There are ghosts in the basement.

Restless Spirits (1093 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mina Harker/Lucy Weston, John Seward/Lucy Weston, Mina Harker/John Seward, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker
Characters: Mina Harker, John Seward, Abraham Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, Lucy Weston, Dracula
Additional Tags: Humor, seances, Post-Canon, Obscure and British Commentfest, Possession, Ghosts, For Science!, More of Van Helsing's Necromancy
Summary: Professor Van Helsing feels it is their duty to hold a séance, for science. Needless to say, it doesn't go well.

(It's not too late to make fills! Or, indeed, even to leave prompts, although their chances of being filled are inevitably smaller by this point.)

I was tagged for one of these on tumblr and since I haven't done the WIP meme here since last May, I thought I'd post it here too:

( WIPs under the cut )

Crossposts: https://lost-spook.livejournal.com/663268.html

I didn't complete my assignment, so I have no main fic in the collection, but, once I'd put the poor malformed thing down and admitted defeat, I went back to some treats I'd had vague ideas for already:

arrows to the heart (1102 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 15th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margaret Beaufort & Henry VII of England
Characters: Margaret Beaufort
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, 5 Times, Mother-Son Relationship, The Wars of the Roses
Summary: She sends him arrows, always.

( More details )

Served Cold (3402 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968), Dracula & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker
Characters: Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, John Seward, Abraham Van Helsing
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Dark, Revenge, Vampires, Blood, Yuletide Treat, Crueltide, Major Character Undeath, Rocks Fall Everyone Dies, Mentions of Mina/Lucy
Summary: Mina’s one remaining desire is simple: she wants revenge.

I'm never less anonymous than when writing for Dracula (TV 1968), but one of

calliopes_pen's prompts, about the Harkers getting revenge on Van Helsing, matched something I'd already come up with. (A five times fic about Mina, which actually I might type up as well anyway, since this adaptation of the end segment wound up very different to the original.) And, er, what the tags say, really!

Of Human Bondage (or Five Times Adam and His Friends Found Themselves All Tied Up) (2486 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adam Adamant Lives!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones & William E. Simms
Characters: Adam Adamant, William E. Simms, Georgina Jones, Louise (Adam Adamant Lives), Other(s)
Additional Tags: Victorian, 5 Times, Yuletide Treat, Humor, Bondage, 1960s, Hijinks & Shenanigans
Summary: In Adam’s line of work, getting tied up is practically a daily occurrence.

I'd also wanted to do two AAL! stories (the other one being Liadt's prompt about Adam's house), but that was over-ambitious, but at the eleventh hour before I left for home, I managed to finish this, which was pure frivolous fun and I enjoyed coming up with the canon-typical ridiculous scenarios and also dropping rl historical figures into them too just because I could. (I'm sorry, Liadt! One day!)

(With many thanks to

persiflage_1 who never even blinks regardless of what I ask her to beta, or when, or how fast and who went through all three of them to catch any typos and moments of ME-incoherency. <3 <3 <3)

And, as I've said, my gifts were pretty fab all round and at least now I know who to thank! And I may be able to write a couple NYRs too, which would be great. And next year I will be v v careful about what I sign up for. (The thing about book fandoms is that in most cases, I still find reading hard work, so canon review exhausted me and squashed any hope of fic before I'd started, especially once life also took a hand. Whoops.)

Crossposts: https://lost-spook.livejournal.com/639440.html

The next effort for the Spooky Writing meme, this one for

calliopes_pen, for Dracula (1968):

Valley of the Shadow (1053 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker
Characters: Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, Dracula
Additional Tags: Meme, Alternate Universe, Werewolves
Summary: The Count's bite has a very different effect this time around...

Crossposts: https://lost-spook.livejournal.com/633017.html

Far more icons than anyone could ever want from the ITV 1968 Dracula, starring Denholm Elliott, James Maxwell, Suzanne Neve, Corin Redgrave, Susan George, Bernard Archard & Joan Hickson. (I posted a handful of these before; also some of them were originally made for

calliopes_pen, who was happy for me to share them further.) Including 8 text only icons.

Teaser:

( I have long wished to cross swords with your eminent friend - metaphorically speaking, of course. )

Crossposts: https://lost-spook.livejournal.com/618135.html

For

john_amend_all in the Fic Commentary Meme, a commentary on In The Blood, a Lucy/Mina ficlet for Dracula (1968).

( Cut for 60s vampire femslash )

Crossposts: http://lost-spook.livejournal.com/604737.html

I wrote a fic for this year's New Year's Resolutions, for

calliopes_pen, because I'd been trying to think of something a little more Jonathan-centric (although everybody else still got in on the act; I can't help it!) and also reflecting on the differences between the book and the TV adaptation and this bit of pre-canon exploration happened:

Night Falls (8535 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Count Dracula/Jonathan Harker, John Seward/Lucy Weston
Characters: Jonathan Harker, Dracula, John Seward, Mrs Hoskins (Dracula TV 1968), Mrs Weston, Lucy Weston, Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing
Additional Tags: Mental Institutions, Mental Disintegration, Victorian, Victorian Attitudes, Pre-Canon, Period Typical Attitudes to Mental Illness, Mind Control
Summary: Something unknown and sinister is coming for them all…

Crossposts: http://lost-spook.livejournal.com/577218.html

And so my treats. I wrote the first for

calliopes_pen, chiefly in a hopeless attempt to remain anonymous, so that she might at least wonder which one was me. (I had vague plans for a rather different one, but I got seized by this idea while reading through her likes in the letter):

Influence (1368 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968), Dracula & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Abraham Van Helsing & John Seward, Count Dracula/Jonathan Harker, John Seward/Lucy Weston, Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker, Mina Harker/Lucy Weston
Characters: Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Dracula, Jonathan Harker, Lucy Weston, Mina Harker
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Implied/Referenced Mind Control, Dark
Summary: Some personalities are magnetic, they exert an irresistible pull on others.

Then there were two prompts in particular that jumped out at me this year, the first being Wasuremono's great prompt about Miss Marple being a goddess, the genius loci of St Mary Mead, which I obviously had to write:

The Spirit of St Mary Mead (4005 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple, Griselda Clement, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Historical, Multi-Era, Roman Britain, English Civil War, 18th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Misses Clause Challenge, Miss Marple is a Goddess
Summary: St Mary Mead has had an unusual guardian down through all these centuries.

The second was for moemachina, about Feste & Olivia from Twelfth Night. As I've loved Feste since I did the play for A-Levels mumble years ago, I couldn't resist. I had an idea, but then remembered that writing Shakespeare fic is TERRIFYING. So I watched BBC TN twice in a row, found some 16th C jokes and riddles on the internet, built my fic around those and then went for it. And then typed it up while mentally going LALALA not writing Shakespeare etc. Happily, it seems to have got some really lovely comments, so I clearly didn't mess it up too badly.

movements of the mind (1892 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Feste & Olivia (Twelfth Night)
Characters: Feste (Twelfth Night), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Friendship, Backstory, Jesters, Implied/Referenced Character Death
Summary: ”Look you now, he’s out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged.”

That done, I decided to write a couple of treats for Madness if I could, but the Adam Adamant Lives! fic for Liadt grew large enough for the main collection, even if it was probably too frivolous for Yuletide (and I don't think Liadt was fooled by my anonymity for a minute, either):

Battered and Bruised (1812 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adam Adamant Lives!
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adam Adamant & Georgina Jones
Characters: Adam Adamant, Georgina Jones, William E. Simms
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Cake Fic Meme, Cake, Humor, Hijinks & Shenanigans, I was going to label this crack, and then thought soberly about canon, and didn't
Summary: Mr Adamant suffers a truly traumatic incident at a village gala. Unfortunately for him, Georgie is on hand to help...

And lastly, this tiny bit of post-canon for Gerry and Sandra from New Tricks, for Dynapink:

Vintage (532 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: New Tricks
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sandra Pullman & Gerry Standing
Characters: Sandra Pullman, Gerry Standing
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Ficlet, Yuletide Treat
Summary: "You look as if you've seen a ghost..."

With many thanks to Pers who patiently beta-ed all three full treats and a second beta of my long assignment! (Those who have been around these parts a while: I think you can probably already guess which one got the influential rec. Oh, yes. It is my fate, my doom, my only claim to fame. :lol:)

Crossposts: http://lost-spook.livejournal.com/568431.html

I wrote several things this year but my actual assignment was for

calliopes_pen in Dracula (TV 1968):

The Poison Tree (27258 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Dracula (TV 1968)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Jonathan Harker/Mina Harker, Count Dracula/Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker & John Seward, Jonathan Harker & John Seward, Jonathan Harker/Original Male Character(s)
Characters: Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, John Seward, Mrs Weston, Mrs Perkins (Dracula TV 1968), Mrs Hoskins (Dracula TV 1968), Original Characters
Additional Tags: References to Mina Harker/Lucy Weston, Vampires, Hypnotism, Post-Canon, World War I, Victorian, Edwardian Period, Blood, Yuletide, Dark, Religious Imagery & Symbolism
Summary: Dracula may have been defeated, but the future has never been less certain for Jonathan and Mina. Everything has changed, most especially the Harkers themselves…

I both enjoyed writing this a lot (despite surface dissimilarities, we clearly overlap on a lot of tropes and things, which made it particularly fun to do) and worried about it far too much! Par for the course for Yuletide, really, I suppose. The adaptation has a rather open, ambiguous ending (Mina is still showing vampiric influence, while we don't even know what sort of state Jonathan is left in), so it was really interesting to try and write one possibility of what might happen next. I planned it to be somewhere around 8,000-12,000 words - and then it more than doubled in size, taking me way outside my current comfort zone in what I can do without making myself ill. I regret nothing, though. Except that it doesn't have even more stuff calliopes_pen likes in it.

( Some ramblings about writing it )

( And some rambling thoughts on reading Dracula for it )

And I'll have to go and rest now, so I'll post the treats in another post later.

* The upshot of this is that now I want fic about the housekeepers. The housekeepers are great, even if it took me ages to get their actual names straight! Mrs Hopkins is not fazed by anything! (She works in an asylum; fair enough) and Mrs Perkins bosses Mrs Weston about all the time. And they're both tiny and fierce! (O, Network, when will you run to subtitles on your releases?)

** I have to say, The Woman in White must surely have been an influence - asylums, wicked counts, Laura and Marian and Lucy and Mina, mesmerism etc. even in addition to the Collins-esque epistolary/evidence-gathering format.

Crossposts: http://lost-spook.livejournal.com/568250.html

I was feeling a bit down and so thought of doing this as maybe an occasional thing: here are five nice things I've bookmarked recently:

Third Time Pays For All by JohnAmendAll (G, 922 words, Lucy Weston/Mina Harker/John Seward.) Lucy had been vaguely expecting a confession of a clandestine love affair between her fiancé and her best friend. The truth was far stranger.

Written for me in a recent meme, this is a lovely Dracula TV 1968 fic from the prompt Lucy/Mina/John & timeloops.

Appropriately enough, two very excellent DW fics from the

who_at_50 53rd Anniversary Fanworkathon:

The Scientific Method by nonelvis (Teen, 1723 words. Implied Liz/Brig; Liz/Kate Stewart) Five moments in the life of Elizabeth Shaw. Liz, being awesome as ever.

An Offer You Can't Refuse by Shivver (All ages, 4959 words.) Trying to recover an ailing population's stolen medical supplies, the Doctor and Ace come up empty when the smuggler's trail goes cold. Great missing adventure for Seven & Ace (never an offer I can refuse, that's for certain).

Dance Apocalyptic by thingswithwings and eruthros I really really wanna thank you for dancing to the end. Amazing multi-fandom vid about when the world is ending.

I get so used to finding no fic I like when I poke into modern fandoms (just endless fluff and AUs and ships), that I was actually shocked when I looked into Ripper Street on AO3 and found actual multiple good fics. (I suppose it is a fandom where one of the main attractions is its use of language...)

Inspector Reid's Catalogue of Criminals by shyday (G, 6616 words. Edmund Reid, Homer Jackson, Fred Abberline.) An archive fic. Great capturing of the voices - Reid, his obsessions and dreams and his archive project. (set shortly before 3.01).

Crossposts: http://lost-spook.livejournal.com/561805.html

The first few results of the writing meme, plus a birthday ficlet:

( Under the Cut )

Crossposts: http://lost-spook.livejournal.com/561288.html

Because I finally got started on Ripper Street S4 (\o/ But I am only 1 ep in; don't spoil me) and THIS HAPPENED. (No, it was not that they shot Matthew Macfadyen in beautiful blue lighting with perfect matching tie; that happens a lot. It's one of the reasons I watch.) It was much better than that (but probably only if you are me):

( 50 year snap )

In other news, Yuletide progress continues and I'm behind deadline for my Fourth Doctor recs post (the two facts are not unrelated) which I thought was today. Readers, it was yesterday. I hope to have it posted by at least tomorrow.

Crossposts: http://lost-spook.livejournal.com/557977.html

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Chocolate Box Reveals

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Yuletide Reveals II: Treats in Historical RPF, Shadow of the Tower & Dracula

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Fic: Trouble Comes in Threes (Dracula 1968)

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WIP Meme

Yuletide Reveals

Fic: Valley of the Shadow

55x Dracula (1968) Icons

Fic Commentary: In The Blood

Fic: Night Falls

Yuletide Reveals II: Dracula, Miss Marple, Twelfth Night, Adam Adamant Lives! & New Tricks

Yuletide Reveals: The Poison Tree (Dracula)

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