Weekly Update 20/11/2021
Good evening!
No weekly update last week because I was at the Destination: Star Trek convention, which was incredible! It was such a lot of fun, and really gave me some material for some further DS9 essays over the next few weeks, alongside some other planned non-fiction stuff, especially work around trauma and trauma recovery in DS9. On that note, I'd also really recommend Andrew Robinson's memoir, Stepping Into The Light. It turned my brains inside out a bit, but it's extremely good.
Summary of New Work Published
Serial Updates: An Uncommon Betrothal
Chapter Nine: Blowjobs and premature ejaculation and a great many kisses, but also, just WHAT does the butler have under his clothes?
Chapter Ten: Alexos’ recovery goes far more smoothly than anyone expected; Harry and Alexos negotiate terms.
Chapter Nine on Medium / / Chapter Nine on WorldAnvil
Chapter Ten on Medium / / Chapter Ten on WorldAnvil
TweetFic: Twink and Colleague
Casual TweetFic with casual sex!
Non-Fiction: I’m just in the mood for a movie with gay (or bi) dudes!
That’s not Call Me By Your Name or Love, Simon or another one that’s been recced to me a hundred times already.
Disclaimer: this is not an official rec list of The Best Movies with MLM That You Absolutely Must See! There’s a pretty wide variety to content and tone.
Not all the movies I’m going to recommend are explicitly queer — some of them center heavy implications or are easily read as homoerotic and/or homoromantic, but part of the reason I want to recommend them anyway is because for me, it doesn’t make them less satisfying or exciting to engage with, especially when we’re on the hunt for something to scratch that itch.
With that said, I’m going to put a note before each recommendation noting how implicit/explicit the queerness is, and I’m also going to make an explicit note if a character or relationship is only a side plot or smaller thread, so that you go in knowing what to expect!
Romantic Comedy Short: The Poet and Provocateur
A bodyguard is assigned to look after a very provocative poet. 4.5k, M/M, rated M. Bickering bastards going between American settler towns at the turn of the century. Adapted from a TweetFic.
Content warnings for casual period-typical homophobia and substance use throughout.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Fanfiction Update: Interpersonal Studies
Julian is taken hostage, and Garak is unwell from his cranial implant.
TweetFic: Tender and Tended
A servant in the temple of Hephaestus and a tender of the olive groves.
Just chatter and slice of life.
Romantic Comedy Short: The Pirate Accountant
A quartermaster works up the nerve to finally mount a seduction on their accountant.
Rated M, M/M, 4.5k. Dark humour and biting banter throughout, between an exceedingly cautious and paranoid accountant and the quartermaster who’s finally worked up the courage to ask him out. Adapted from a TweetFic.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Fantasy Short: Dirk and the Weaver
A shopkeeper slowly comes to fall for a weaver when he comes to town.
Slow romance and fantasy short between a shopkeeper in an isolated Scottish village, and a weaver that comes up from somewhere way down south. 12k, rated M, M/M.
Note CWs for blood and violence, spousal abuse, domestic violence, and stalking.
Read on Medium / / Read on Patreon
Fantasy-Horror Short: Ambitious Men
Archie had idolised Casper Hugo almost his entire life.
11.6k. Rated M. M/M. Deeply fucked up fantasy-horror, wherein a man finds that his dream of taking over his hero’s restaurant is not to proceed as smoothly as he hoped. Adapted from a TweetFic.
Content warnings for: horror themes, gender dysphoria, transphobia, classism, substance reliance and addiction, anti-addict sentiments, dehumanisation, implied sexual assault, consent issues, body horror.