#raspberryhunter

[midnightwinterhawk]

Progress report for @ficreadingchallenge so far. I'm in the mood for a good heist fic so maybe that'll be my next square.

Part of a challenge or event:

Tastes Like Chicken by Merlin Missy (mtgat)

100 | Teen | Eureka | Jack Carter & Zoe Carter

Flesh-eating zombies! Woohoo!

De-aging:

Smells like teen spirit by DaisyBeats

1k | Gen | Teen Wolf | Steter

Prompt: If you ever feel up to writing it: de-aged Peter (preferably teen because I feel like he’d be a menace) who is smitten with stiles and is extra snarky with everyone else when they get near the human he’s claimed as his.

5+1 style fic:

Water Crusade by raspberryhunter

3.1k | Teen | Dune | Feyd & Paul

AU: Paul Atreides and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen meet five times before the events of Dune. "I think that's why I'm comfortable with you," Feyd said. "Because we both know that we are enemies. Because we both know one of us will be killing the other."

Poetry:

lead me to the river (we'll float away together) by @ialwayscomewhenyoucall

200 | Teen | Marvel | WinterHawk

for years bucky was lost, his feathers replaced with razors, his mind and will not his own.

then there was clint.

[rockinlibrarian]

Anyway, I just read something that made me rethink tagging this. Before I was kind of embarrassed, like tagging people was begging for attention. But I read a let-fic-writers-know-you-like-their-stuff post and realized, WAIT a minute, if I DON'T tag people, how will they even KNOW one of their works made my Favorite Things I Read This Year list? Unless they happen to notice the new public bookmark on the fic in question that says so? And that doesn't even apply to the three people whose Inklings Challenge fics here on Tumblr made the list! (There's also a lot of traditionally published picture books on the list, whose authors also would not know this from an AO3 stat, but as far as I'm aware none of them are on Tumblr. Some of them are @literaticat's clients but that's as close as I get!)

So without further ado, here is everyone who has made my Favorite Things I Read This Year lists who have Tumblr handles I'm aware of or could find! (Some of these people are Mutuals, and some of them are people I have never interacted with on Tumblr whatsoever! So...surprise, stranger I tagged!) @destinyandcoins (already tagged on account of making this list AND inspiring something I made), @acetypeface, @historymiss (possibly the same person, I can't confirm-- if not, sorry for bothering you, other historymiss!), @stardustinyoureyes, @clementineofmine, @faithfulcat111, @writerfan2013, @non-plutonian-druid, @b-b-8, @rappaccini, @the-no-name-system, @measuredmisura, @raspberryhunter, @e-louise-bates, @1001paperboxes, @urbanamazon (also can't confirm this blog is the same person, sorry if not!), @scarvenartist, @fremulon (who, that is not their AO3 name, and when I saw it on their profile, I went "Hey! I've SEEN that Tumblr somewhere unrelated!"), @leng_m , @glassheadcanon, @bookshelf-in-progress ! Thanks, everyone, for adding to my reading enjoyment last year! If you're interested in reading only THESE lists, they start just past halfway down the blog post. If you're interested in a lot of picture book recs as well, they start a QUARTER of the way down. I'm a children's librarian: that's where the majority of my reading time goes during the year. :)

Hi there!

Do you enjoy reviews and recommendations of everything from picture books to fanfics to mildly psychedelic music?

Are you interested in half-coherent descriptions of possibly interesting library programs?

Do you like to listen to (read) me ramble?

Don't you want to know about the extreme middle-agedness of the person behind this blog?

WELL THEN, have I got the post for you!

It's exactly what it says! It's organized into nice lists with boldfaced items and headings in larger fonts! It has a lot of @sunnymarbles in it! It has quite a few of YOU (or at least people on Tumblr who may in fact not see this at all unless I tag them) on it, too, but likely just once each, for something you wrote! Except @destinyandcoins who is on there twice for different reasons! @dannypageoflight is oddly enough NOT in it! Sorry Dan! You have apparently done nothing interesting this year!

[ruinconstellation]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Scholomance - Naomi Novik Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Scholomance (Scholomance) Additional Tags: sentient building, Worldbuilding, POV Nonhuman, the canon is the warning, Canon-Typical Death Rates, Canonical Character Death, School Summary:

The Scholomance watches its children die, in direct violation of its charge, for a hundred years and more.

by @raspberryhunter

[solraneth-archive]

not sure if you're read this already (you probably have) but your norma post made me remember my one of my favorite fics, "so long as i feel your heart beating on my own" by raspberryhunter https://archiveofourown.org/works/16993047

Nope, I hadn’t read it but I did just now and it’s beautiful! tbh I took one look at the author’s username and knew it would be good bc they’ve written some of my fave Don Carlo fics :D but yeah I loved it, thank you so much for the rec <333

[cyber-phobia]

bible... fics.... coming right up......

the tag:

a fic:

So this is a weird request but what the hell Ig i should try.

My dad is asking me for fanfic recs. The fandom? Christian Bible.

So yeah, do you or your followers have good fics about it? I don't read any and my dad refuses to learn how to find them himself.

Excuse me?

[iberiandoctor]

Five Works in 2020

I was tagged by the lovely @angel-in-new-york-city! This was fun, thanks for letting me play!

Rules: Choose your 5 favourite works you created in the past year (fics, art, edits, etc.) and link them below to reflect on the amazing things you’ve brought into the world. Tag as many writers/artists/etc. you want (fan or original) so we can spread the love and link each other to awesome works!

Here are five works, in seven different fandoms, in this past Year of the Plague.

1. The Adoration of the Earth: 

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Strange/Norrell, [E], 6,000+ words.

One should never flirt with odd books at Solstice-time in Faerie, as Mr Strange learns to his great chagrin.

My first JSMN fic, written for @threedomiciles in 2020′s Smut4Smut challenge. Writing explicit fic is challenging, and writing it in Susanna Clarke 19th C. pastiche even more so; still, I’m pleased with how things turned out! Plus, I live for esoteric footnotes ;)

2. The Lark and Her Lieutenants: 

Les Misérables  - Victor Hugo, Cosette/Marius, Enjolras/Grantaire, Valjean/Javert, [G], 18,585 words. 

While Cosette is stirring up the Revolution, Grantaire meets a young man in the Luxembourg Gardens.

My Les Mis Quarantine Edition Big Bang fic, a collaboration with the awesome @thebansacredbanned. Now with art from @sssara-b! In this story, Cosette and Enjolras swap roles: Enjolras is the shy ingenue, Cosette the revolutionary leader; Valjean just wants to get his daughter off the barricades.

3.  The Instruments of Their Master: 

La Comédie Humaine - Honoré de Balzac/19th Century CE France RPF, Corentin/Manuel, [E], 5,700 words. 

The Duke of Otranto had two protégés: one, a police spy; the other, a promising future Deputy. The lessons these men learned under his tutelage �� none more during the Hundred Days, when the Republic hung on a knife’s edge of war and politics — left the one greater, the other more guilty.

My Yuletide treat for @kainosite, in very much a fandom of two; a crossover pairing between Balzac’s fictional police spy, Corentin, and noted 19th century French politician Jacques-Antoine Manuel. Set in France’s Hundred Days period, Napoleon’s spymaster Joseph Fouché pits his two protégés against each other so that they can better work together to secretly thwart old Boney; hatesex and politics and history collide!

4.  Diamonds Taking Shape ... : 

Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston/Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Alex/Henry, Nick/Rachel, [T], 4040 words.  

 … and an intersection with Crazy Rich Love (:winky face emoji:)

My Yuletide assignment for @legendaryguardian; when I saw I’d matched with them on both CRA and RW&RB, I knew I had to write this crossover! Alex & Henry visit Singapore, and have dinner with Nick & Rachel at Gardens by the Bay.

5.  The Age of Imagination and Experience: 

Call Me by Your Name, Elio/Oliver, Oliver/Michol, [M], 2/9 chapters. WIP.   

 “Ah – to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience!" A Gilded Age, The Age of Innocence AU.

I started writing this Gilded Age AU for the December CMBYN Challenge, though the way it’s going, it’ll be well into 2021 before it finishes! I have loved Wharton’s The Age of Innocence for more than half my life, and I couldn’t resist envisioning Elio as Ellen Olenska and Michol as May Welland, with Oliver as Newland Archer, the man in the middle. Having a bisexual male love interest in place of Wharton’s foreign divorcee is a different narrative proposition, and I am very much enjoying exploring 1870s New York society through Oliver’s eyes.

I’m tagging all the talented creators mentioned in this post, and anyone else who wants to join in - @breadcrumbsandstars, I know you wrote a lot last year? @saltedpin; @raspberryhunter, so did you guys!

[simone-boccanegra]

Simon Boccanegra (2018 Vienna) liveblog because I haven’t had my fix in a while

Part 1: https://vk.com/video297789660_456239025

Part 2: https://vk.com/video297789660_456239026

of course I’ve seen this production (Stein) twice so it’s nothing new but it’s pretty decent. there’s Fiesco dressing like a Jedi, red vs blue, and Paolo in that ridiculous orange thing, but ya know. some Beautiful Moments in there

also: Hampson

also: Rebeka

also: Belosselskiy

unfortunately, also Meli (but who watches this opera for the tenor? XD) 

@raspberryhunter this is for you

[raspberryhunter]

Chapters: 1/1 (9649 words) Fandom: Don Carlos | Don Carlo - Verdi/du Locle/Méry Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Carlos/Rodrigue, Rodrigo & Elisabeth, Elisabeth & Eboli, Philip & Rodrigo Characters: Rodrigue | Rodrigo, Élisabeth de Valois | Elisabetta di Valois, La princesse Eboli | La Principessa Eboli, Philippe II | Filippo II, Carlos | Carlo Additional Tags: Fix-It, fix all the things, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Extremely Ahistorical, Save Flanders, Trick or Treat: Treat, Treat, Rodrigo/Flanders, Elisabeth/Philip - Freeform, Carlo/Elisabeth, Loyalty, Trust Summary:

Rodrigo and Elisabeth, Elisabeth and Eboli, Philip and Rodrigo, Carlos and Rodrigo: together, they can strengthen each other; together, they can save the ones they care for.

SO HERE IS LONG (for me) FIX-IT. I FIXED ALL THE THINGS. Gosh, Verdi/du Locle/Mery really made it difficult -- there are so many things working against Our Heroes, and at one point I had this whole list and diagram of all the things that had to be fixed and what order they had to be fixed in because if one didn't do it in the right order it all fell apart.

It's extraordinarily, unrepentantly ahistorical, and I super don't care because Verdi didn't either :D I also did the opera thing of pulling things from Schiller when I felt like it and cheerfully ignoring Schiller when I didn't :)

Thank you to @iberiandoctor and sprocket for very helpful betas!

[iberiandoctor]

@raspberryhunter

the loose, flowing white shirt with the poofy sleeves 🤍

Interview With The Vampire (1994) Cursed (2020–) Black Sails (2014–2017) Galavant (2015–2016) Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003) Blackadder The Third (1987) Merlin (2008–2012) Pride And Prejudice (1995)

[catchperfectamericanpresidents]

Frederician Fic Recs  Part 1/?

 Five Ways in which Frederick the Great and Maria Theresia did not Meet by Selena

The Boy Who Lived by Selena

You Should See Me In A Crown by Selena

Between the Hour and the Age by Selena

Anonymous by Selena

Learning Frederick by Selena

My Brother Narcissus & The Moon Flies Face to Face With Me by Selena

Promises to Keep by Selena

Fiat Justifa by Selena

The Very Secred Chat Transcript of Three Fritzian Fanboys by Selena

Counterpoint for two Flutes by Raspberryhunter & Mildred of Midgard

Pulvis et Umbra by Mildred of Midgard

The Care and Feeding of Italian Greyhounds by Mildred of Midgard

Lovers Lying Two and Two by Mildred of Midgard

Yet they Grind Exceedingly Small by Mildred of Midgard

With You There’s A Heaven by Mildred of Midgard

[radialarch]

i finished the penultimate peril for the second time & then finished the end for the first time without realizing it was the first time until, in fact, i got to the end, and was subsequently struck by a hunger for fic but without any particulars as to what kind of fic that should be

so here’s a selection of recs from my unstructured wanderings through the series of unfortunate events section of ao3:

- The Ruinous Relationship by soupytwist (G | 1844 | Count Olaf/Kit Snicket)

This is your last chance to decide not to read this tragic story. You can still get that copy of The Luckiest Kids In The World: Happy Fun Times At The Funfair if you run fast enough.

- Eleven Chapters in a Story by prodigy (G | 3911 | Count Olaf/Kit Snicket)

Files chronicling the lives of one Count O. and one K. Snicket -- or rather, their intersection.

- Rarely Told in Full by ViolaCoye (T | 2092 | Lemony Snicket/Beatrice Baudelaire)

And if a woman you loved for years says, "I love you, but I can not be with you and I hope this two hundred page book I have sent with your engagement ring explains why,” you would likely look over the fact that she still loves you and instead focus on the fact that she is now married to another man and pregnant.

- The Calumnious Coda by Relia (T | 2374 | Baudelaire siblings-centric)

If you have ever been on an extended sea voyage on a small boat, then you may be familiar with the feeling of wishing you were back upon land, surrounded by the company of all your closest friends and associates, where there is plenty of fodder for conversation -- a phrase which here means “things to talk about other than saltwater, the weather, the narrow dimensions of the boat, or which fins a shark might wear shoes on, if it wore them” -- where the food is freshly prepared and where, so far as you are able to tell, the floor remains mostly where you left it.

- when we met, my life began by postcardmystery (T | 1054 | Lemony Snicket/Beatrice Baudelaire)

I love you as your namesake never loved Dante, as your other namesake loved the Seine. I love you although I have forbidden myself to speak either of your names aloud, and thus I love you as a secret only I am permitted to keep, the most cherished of my midnight whispers. I love you although you have been dead a year, and because of it, for nothing you could ever do could make me love you less. I love you as the fish loves the fish-hook and the worm loves to be bait, as the bells love to toll for a funeral and lilies love to make the mourners sneeze.

- The Extremely Appropriate, Inoffensive, and Altogether Cheery Pony Party by raspberryhunter (G | 1077 | a message)

I have followed in the recursive footsteps of my associate by writing a story of a story within a story.

With all due respect, [a letter which was illegible and could have been an L. or a B.]

- Ellipses by worldturtling (T | 1214 | Count Olaf/Kit Snicket)

There was a girl. And a town. And a smell.

Or, a story about the sentence that was their relationship.

- the last one left in line by endquestionmark (M | 3339 | Lemony Snicket/Beatrice Baudelaire)

1 The worst decision in the world does not involve kerosene, or ominously rusty machinery, or even the ill-advised pastime of teasing a grove full of hybridized Apis mellifera, more commonly known as the Africanized or “killer” honey bee. It involves a much more invasive species: the writer, which is far less easy to detect and almost impossible to eradicate once an infestation has been established. The worst decision in the world is not even a decision at all, but rather an error; it involves knowing a writer and letting it close enough to fall in love with one, because any other terrible fate will seem positively polite by comparison.

[count-di-luna]

raspberryhunter replied to your post “Thais liveblog (Met)”

Nicias is the best. Hampson is also the most angsty, and Fleming is the most gorgeous. (although Hampson is very pretty too)

also: Athanaël is such an elfy name I immediately created Yet Another Warden (elf mage) named after him

problem is, elves can’t have beards so I couldn’t properly model after him

my other opera-inspired Warden, Eugene, is a bit better:

[count-di-luna]

Well, Rodrigo di Posa of course! And Filippo :D

Rodrigo

Headcanon A:  realistic - he’s gay. is this even “headcanon”, it’s just straight up canon

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious: Rodrigo doesn’t know he’s in an opera, and that’s how he ended up being a good and pure baritone. he just doesn’t know the traditions.

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends - he did sleep with Filippo for both political advantage and because he realized Filippo desperately needed love, but he feels very guilty about it 

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own. - what do u mean he died. CLEARLY he faked his death and got Carlo to safety with the help of Carlo Quinto, then they ran away to Flanders where they led La Résistance and got married

Filippo

Headcanon A:  realistic: he’s bi and deeply in the closet, having a lot of Catholic Guilt™

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious: it’s hard to think up something hilarious about him 

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends - he fell in love with Posa (pretty much canon tbh) and his aria, while mostly about Elisabeth, is also about him realizing everyone loves his son more

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own. - after the finale he makes sure the Inquisitor meets an unfortunate “accident” and actively works on being a better husband

[count-di-luna]

Figaro Susanna Rosina ☺️

WHY

I’d probably marry Rosina (she deserved better than Almaviva), fuck Susanna and kill Figaro (sorry Figaro, I’m into women)

[count-di-luna]

raspberryhunter replied to your post “The Great Ring Liveblog Project 3: Siegfried”

Siegfried really is such a jerk

even for a tenor

[count-di-luna]

raspberryhunter replied to your post “the other day I showed grandma the Onegin finale (you know the one)...”

They both DO look so pretty!

now imagine someone who’s bi and in the audience back then...