Unovis

Latest addition to my OFMD series, The Pirate and the Barber

Reunion -- M/M, Ed/Stede, M rating
It's a flashback to Stede and Ed's reunion in this canon-era, canon-divergent series. I started it after Season 1 and never adapted it to Season 2, if that floats your dinghy.
The crew maroons the two of them on a beach with a lighthouse and its keeper's hut, alone, for 7 days, to kill each other or patch it up.
There are a lot of references to Portman, the barber/pirate from the series, but it can be read independently. Just shrug when you see his name and carry on reading about Ed divesting Stede of his saltwater and sand soaked britches.

It's smut adjacent, meaning nothing is described in excruciating detail, but there's a lot of wandering around naked and a one-bed situation. Also a turtle and lizards.

I love into a bar stories. This challenge is always fun -- sign-ups open through May 19, midnight, PST.

A Ficathon Goes Into a Bar: sign ups

I'm stretching a little bit, trying to write every day. I think I can do 500 words, though the character I'm given always throws me.
This year I'm offering Ned the jungle cat from Our Flag Means Death going into a bar; the fandoms for a character he'll meet are Highlander; Lucifer; Good Omens; The Great Mouse Detective; What We Do in the Shadows; and Discworld.

In my Barber and the Pirate series, Ned is very popular among the four or five readers I have now. Ridiculous, but oh, well.

Some things are improving a bit, through the grace of several old friends and my sister. I'm accomplishing tiny things each day and sleeping too much. Today my Max subscription expires--I unsubscribed from almost everything. I binge watched The Sopranos before the end. I was surprised at how funny much of the dialogue is.

I'm allowing myself a small treat for my 75th birthday, if I can just figure out what to order. A quart of borscht from Veselka is high on the list. For my 70th, I bought myself some gold earrings from Italy.

Or I could get the tattoo I've been promising myself for when the estate is settled. I don't know if I want to wait that long, now. I don't want to wait for much. I dithered over pretty designs, but I think I want the Unovis symbol like this: https://images.app.goo.gl/6GUjvbPK5cpXYZbC8
Haven't decided whether to keep the Cyrillic script or make it Roman.

I experimented with taking an old story and repurposing it for a different fandom -- plagiarizing my own work, I suppose.

It worked pretty well for the character, I thought, and my re-setting it in her world. I thought it would appeal, since the character is popular and she doesn't seem to have a lot of backstory (this is funny, and I swear to God, it's not badly written), but it fell through the cracks again. 16 hits, 3 kudos (almost obligatory, from friends).

Maybe they didn't think the erotica was erotic? I'm rather tone deaf to some things, and looking at what I thought was a funny scene (because the original heroine of this piece was a strong fighter, just caught off guard) might read badly as assault? It doesn't explain why so few readers even looked at it, but it might explain why those who did, didn't like it.

Anyway, It was practice, and something different from the series I've been grinding away on.

I liked the one I wrote about the talking fish.

However, The Wrench now has 5 kudos!
Poor Roger, at 52K words, has 7. I'm trying to work up the will to finish the epilogue/s.

We have to go to court (18 months estimated) to ask for a partition of Mom's estate by an independent authority because my brother will not cooperate with us on the house sale. Our new lawyer, the second we've hired, described him as a sociopath who would never agree to a compromise. Three of us vs. him, and all he has to do is sign a paper and sit back while we finish all the work we've done for this so far. Not including the seven years I acted as primary in-house caretaker for Mom and the house, since Dad died. Rotten brother didn't even attend her funeral, didn't come to visit her for the last four years of her life -- cry me a river, I could go on and on, but mainly, my share of the inheritance that should have come to me by May or even June, will now be delayed for god knows how long and will be greatly reduced by lawyer and court fees and paying HOA fees and the mortgage for the house. I'm dead broke and living on a very skimpy SSA check. At least, I own the condo I'm living in, but can't afford any repairs to the place.

Bah.

I'm carrying on, slowly, finishing up major WIPs I had from 15 or so years ago. This is

The Wrench (D/M), a PWP I started back in 2004 or earlier. I believe I wanted to make it sexy without any sex, with tension coming primarily from the setting and props.

It might be tools or hardware kink. Hard wooden chair kink? Duncan's just being a bastard, and, well, they're both being bastards, but since it's from Methos's POV, he'd the one you see turned on.

 It seems there aren't any pirate show fans here, but just for the record-- I wrote a little thing between episodes. No smut, really. It's a fish story.

Fish Talk -- Edward Teach, OC; Ed's first day, wouldn't you know it.

I'm still working on Poor Roger updates. I had to finish two other things for OFMD first, and now a week of high-stress cleaning/moving is going to fall on my head. I haven't forgotten.

 
Izzy in Hell? Our Flag Means Death/Lucifer, PG
Izzy has a favor to ask the Devil, if he can find him.
Short, mild, fanciful, no porn, not anti-Izzy. I think it's kind of cute. Locked to AO3, trying to avoid AI scrapers.

More Stede and his ex-pirate barber, plus a little self-check between Jack attacks.

Part 3