ride_4ever

Title: A Sound of Bells
Author: ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Characters: Renfield Turnbull, Diefenbaker
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 139 words
Summary: Renfield Turnbull is in a festive holiday mood...and so is Diefenbaker (the half-wolf, not the 13th Canadian Prime Minister).

AN: Written for the RCW 139 Ficlets Collection, a challenge to write a 139-word 3-paragraph fic where the first paragraph starts with "R," the second paragraph starts with "C," and the third paragraph starts with "W". Also written for the Event Central Western Title Challenge with the title "A Sound of Bells". Also written for the dSC6D snippets comm Challenge 21 with the prompt words "border," "vacuum," "hum," and "liquid".

Fic on AO3.

Title: That Dream Again & That Awakening
Author: ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Rating: Teen and Up
Categories: Gen, M/M
Characters: Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser, Diefenbaker
Word count: 139

Summary: Ray dreams that dream again, then he awakens.

Fic on AO3.

Title: Toasted Purple
Fandoms: Canadian Six Degrees, Purple Toast
Rating: Teen and Up
Categories: Gen, F/M, M/M
Characters: Callum Keith Rennie,Brent Spiess, various members of movie and TV cast and crew
Word count: 1,236

Summary: It begins with an actor and an avant garde movie and it concludes with a Canadian TV show...and an essentially gratuitous mention of Harry Potter to make use of a Firewhiskey Fic prompt.

Fic on AO3.

Title: Insomnia is Not the Agent (the “Satisfaction is the Agent” Remix)
Fandom: due South
Pairings: Benton Fraser/Stella Kowalski, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 541
Summary: Fraser/Kowalski times two: first the Stella and then Ray.


Fic on AO3.

I consider this a hat-trick, the general definition being "a series of three achievements"...as I wrote this fic for the dSC6D snippets comm on DW and for the story-works comm on DW and for the "30 Below" due South 30th anniversary fest. (Those DW comms are hyperlinked in the Author Notes on AO3.)

Title: Ice Queen, Dragon Lady
Author: ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Character: Inspector Margaret Thatcher
Rating: Gen
Length: 82-word poem

Fic on AO3.

Title: This Thing of Darkness
Author: ride_4ever
Fandom: due South
Characters: Ray Vecchio, Pop Vecchio, Armando "The Bookman" Langoustini
Rating: Teen & Up
Length: 286 words
Prompts: Written for the dSC6D snippets comm on DW. The prompt words: if, then, where, when. The prompt phrase: "Two of these creatures you must know and own; this thing of darkness I acknowledge mine….” (Shakespeare, The Tempest ). I used all the prompt words and the prompt phrase...'cause that's how I roll.

Summary: It’s another grim day for Ray Vecchio being undercover as Armando “The Bookman” Langoustini.

Fic on AO3.

Meme snagged from noxelementalist who snagged it from bluedreaming. Instructions: Go through your five most recent fics and, without providing the context, share the first and last lines.

Content warning: some of these lines are sexually explicit.


Zero-Sum Gambit
First line: “If I could control the Topaz Sun and the Silver Plate Moon,” said Azkadellia, Queen of the Outer Zone, to Zero, the captain of her Longcoat Soldiers, “then I would have control of all that is Light and all that is Dark in the OZ.”
Last line: And if they do stay that hand…the reaching out one…we’ll let you know.

Can You Beat a Spiderwolf – a Psychic Spiderwolf -- at Baseball (Even If You Train, They Can Commandeer Your Brain)
First line: the spiderwolves only play night games
Last line: they are arachnid-lupine conquerors and can commandeer the gameplay in such a way that your brain train-station is a bypassed brain

L'Inverno Arriva a Napoli
First line: Winter comes to Naples … no, not the ice and snow … it’s that the Russian mafia comes to Italy.
Last line: Katya is reluctant to take Goncharov’s attention away from continuing to tongue-fuck her, but she feels it’s necessary to say “Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days … and dead guests often even sooner.”

Fête de l'âne
First line: "My tongue to your pucker, lick you like a sucker," Ray murmurs to you as he moves down your body, nuzzling and kissing.
Last line: Inside you – and giving you a rimming that is so sweet it’s poetry in motion – and you shake, you do – your orgasm shakes you like the sequential Nahanni earthquakes of 1985.

Night Vale Community Radio Announcements
First line: Good evening, listeners.
Last line: Good night, Night Vale. Good night.

Written for petra's annual Psychic Wolves for Lupercalia.

Title: Can You Beat a Spiderwolf – a Psychic Spiderwolf -- at Baseball (Even If You Train, They Can
Commandeer Your Brain)
Fandom: Welcome to Night Vale
Rating: General Audiences
Category: Gen
Characters: Night Vale Spiderwolves Baseball Team
Word count: 102

Summary: The Spiderwolves Baseball Team only plays night games, psychic ones.

Fic on AO3.

Meep! It's almost time for the Winter Edition of FireWhiskeyFic and yet I haven't posted about how I did in the Summer Travel Edition! Well, here it is. I continued my winning streak of having one or two first-place wins every time I've participated in FWF. Here are my banners for 1st Place in "Best Use of Prompt" and 1st Place in "Most Coherent". Link to fic will be in a separate post.

My January Firewhiskey Fic award-winning fic:

Title: L'Inverno Arriva a Napoli
Fandom: Goncharov (1973)
Rating: Explicit
Categories: F/M and M/M
Relationships: Goncharov/Katya, Goncharov/Andrey "The Banker" implied, Katya/Sofia implied
Characters: Goncharov, Katya, Hagrid "The Hairy Man" Brasi
Word count: 426

Summary: Winter comes to Naples…no, not the ice and snow…it’s that the Russian mafia comes to Italy. More specifically, Goncharov comes to Naples and becomes Lo Straniero.

Fic on AO3.