lilacsigil

Having a broken wrist, even my non-dominant hand, is super annoying. And having a cast means no swimming which means my arthritic SI joint is kicking up a fuss. Lots of wobbly stretches and heatpacks at the moment. On the positive side, I went to the fracture clinic and the bone remains perfectly in place, so no surgery needed, there are no signs of osteoporosis, and five more weeks in the cast should fix everything. My osteoporosis worry is because I had TSH medically suppressed for 12 years due to the thyroid cancer, which can affect bone density, and because my mother has serious osteoporosis. Then again, we are very different builds - she's tiny and delicate, I'm a big chonker and I haven't been under the 64kg risk threshold since I was about eleven

In better news, baby lizards have emerged! The daisy is about 1cm across for scale.

This is Stumpy, a blue tongue lizard (skink) who lives in our garden. Two years ago she lost most of her tail - it looked like it had been partially bitten off, then the rest dried up and fell off - hence her name. Her tail is not as stumpy as it was! She currently looks very pregnant, so hopefully there'll be more blueys soon!

( A fine lizard indeed )

The Orchid and the Vine (9229 words) by lilacsigil
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Link/Zelda (Legend of Zelda)
Characters: Link (Legend of Zelda), Zelda (Legend of Zelda), Impa (Legend of Zelda), King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule, Link's Father (Legend of Zelda), Urbosa (Legend of Zelda), Purah (Legend of Zelda)
Additional Tags: Rule 63, Alternate Universe - Always a Different Sex, Female Link (Legend of Zelda), Hard of Hearing Link, Pre-Calamity (Legend of Zelda)
Summary:

Link, young daughter of a family of knights, is summoned to the castle to attend Princess Zelda. She becomes Zelda's public decoy, best friend, and last hope.

For rule63exchange now that the anon period is over!

In the Script of the Future (721 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men (Comicverse)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Irene Adler/Raven Darkholme
Characters: Raven Darkholme (X-Men), Irene Adler (X-Men)
Additional Tags: Seers, Shapeshifting, Mutant Powers, Braille
Summary:

A first parting, and a first reunion.

A truly innovative use of mutant powers and a beautiful intimacy between two characters who have spent a long, long time together.

Hi! Thanks for making something for me! I've chosen both fanart and fanfic for each of my prompts and would be thrilled with either. If we've matched on Imperial Radch and you don't want to draw an entire spaceship or station, a place in/on the ship or station would be great.

Things I enjoy: character interaction, exploring a canon world, interesting use of superpowers or non-human abilities, crossovers, established relationships, teammates to lovers, enemies to friends or lovers.

Do Not Wants: non-con or rape; non-canon permanent character deaths (canon deaths are fine); mentor/student, adult/teen or adult/child sexual interaction; zombies; apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic AUs; mundane AUs; cancer or other serious and possibly terminal illness (short or long-term disability is fine.)

What I'm really looking for in this exchange is people being competent. "Competent" doesn't have to mean victorious or heroic but I really like to see characters who have goals, whether it's relationship goals or taking over New York or saving the world or protecting their crew or all of the above! Another thing I really love is expanding a canon world or a character's place in or understanding of it. In art terms, I like to see characters doing something, whether fighting together or fighting each other or maybe learning/training together, or on a date in the clouds. I like complex heroes with flaws and complex villains who think they're doing the right thing.

So I haven't been well and was disappointed that I didn't feel game to sign up for femslashex but then meds kicked in a bit, the prompts got to me and I wrote...five fics.

Two Marvel (one with a Sandman crossover)

High Stakes (5055 words) by lilacsigil
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men (Comicverse)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ororo Munroe/Raven | Mystique
Characters: Ororo Munroe, Raven | Mystique
Summary:

Mystique and Ororo are both at the casino in Sydney to find the same item: an updated Genoshan power-suppression collar. When Ororo immediately recognises a disguised Mystique, Mystique feels the hand of Destiny.

Death and the Widow (2981 words) by lilacsigil
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Sandman (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Death of the Endless/Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
Characters: Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Death of the Endless
Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Red Room, Ballet
Summary:

Death likes humans, but their lives are so short that she usually only gets to see them twice, and they don't remember one of those. Natasha is different.

One Killing Eve, which I enjoy a lot but hadn't previously written:

Containment (4441 words) by lilacsigil
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Killing Eve (TV 2018)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eve Polastri/Villanelle | Oksana Astankova
Characters: Eve Polastri, Villanelle | Oksana Astankova, Carolyn Martens
Additional Tags: Locked In, Hiding, Ice Cream, Voyeurism, Masturbation
Summary:

A kill order is out for Villanelle and everyone she knows, so Carolyn orders Eve into hiding. Eve tries to make her own fun until a surprise visitor shows up.

And two Original Works, which is not something I've done in fandom before! One is early Edo Period Japan, which was fun, and the other is shapeshifters in present-day Melbourne. I hardly ever write in an Australian setting (none of my fandoms are Australian) and so it's quite trippy to do so!

Seventh Hour by the Moon (8060 words) by lilacsigil
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Female Character, Noblewoman Entering an Arranged Marriage/Her Noblewoman Bride
Characters: Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Edo Period, Arranged Marriage, Aristocracy, Butch/Femme
Summary:

Matsu had always expected that she would be married away to another house, but she had not expected that she would be married to a woman.

Heart in Danger (13560 words) by lilacsigil
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Female Character, Adorable Monstergirl/Hunter Who Ignores Warnings Because She’s Cute
Additional Tags: Shapeshifting, Australia, University, Monster Hunters
Summary:

Jenelle's mum hunts illegal shapeshifters for a living, and Jenelle has never questioned that. Once she moves to Melbourne for university, though, she meets new people (such as her girlfriend Arki) and starts to question what she's always thought to be true.

Uninvited Guests (6057 words) by lilacsigil
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mercy of Kalr (Imperial Radch), Gem of Sphene (Imperial Radch), Sword of Atagaris (Imperial Radch), Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq, Seivarden Vendaai, Anaander Mianaai, Athoek Station (Imperial Radch)
Additional Tags: Spaceships, Space Stations
Summary:

There had never been an adoption ceremony for a ship before.

Two verified fundraisers that are directly assisting the victims, their families, and their community. There are more details at each of the links. All my love and sympathy to the people of Christchurch, to Muslims in NZ and worldwide, and to everyone else under threat from this white supremacist ideology.


On Launchgood: The New Zealand Islamic Information Centre, focusing on immediate assistance.

On Give A Little: The New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups, focusing on both immediate and long-term assistance.

ETA (via muccamukk: The New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups' site is now overloaded with support and is asking that this site be used instead.

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you so much for writing a story for me! I've tried to put plenty of information for each fandom, but if you would like to write something completely different please feel free! I am also happy for you to include as many or as few of the nominated characters as you wish. If you're not sure about anything, or want to do a crossover with another fandom and need to check if I know it, just ask my partner st_aurafina.

Things I enjoy: stories about female characters, plot, character interaction, gen fic, slash, femslash, female-centric het, exploring a canon world. I also like OCs as a way to expand the canon universe, so if that's a direction you want to go, that would be great. AUs are awesome – both in the sense of a deviation from canon and a completely different world – as long as they're not mundane AUs. Coffee shop no, superpowered coffee shop yes.

Do Not Wants: non-con or rape; non-canon character deaths (canon deaths are fine); mentor/student, adult/teen or adult/child sexual interaction; zombies; apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic AUs; mundane AUs; cancer.

( Baker Street (graphic novel) )

( Daredevil (comics) )

( The Defenders (TV) )

( Hawkeye (comics) )

( Jessica Jones (TV) )

( Twin Peaks )

What a fine 12-year-old kitty who still gets the zooms at least twice a day!



For his birthday I got him a glitter ball from under the couch where he had put it, and he greatly enjoyed the rediscovery.