Book of Gramarye

Fandom: My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
Rating: G
Summary: Katarina, naturally desperate to figure out exactly which potential suitor has caught Maria's eye (and thereby come up with the most appropriate escape route for herself), has devised an absolutely ingenious and completely foolproof plan for determining the most likely love interest. Admittedly, it wasn't really a part of the Fortune Lover game mechanics, but what better way could there be to reveal Maria's secret longings than through the traditional "support-boosting gift" method? All she has to do is present Maria with four potential gift options tailored to the likes of the four young men who might receive them, and then step back and wait to see the results!
...or at least, that's the plan.
Notes: A little side note, somewhere in the anime's first season. Written for serenissima for Yuletide 2022. Additional notes are at the end. (Also on AO3.)

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Title: Will to Live
Fandom: Mononoke-hime
Rating: G
Summary: San pleads with her mother allow her to fight against the humans who have been defiling their forest. Moro has her own reasons for wanting San to stay out of the clan's battles. But to San's surprise, Moro's concerns have very little to do with San's weakness -- and far more to do with San's strength.
Notes: Written for krionachen for Yuletide 2020. Additional notes are at the end. (Also on AO3.)

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Title: Late Afternoon in the Office Suite
Fandom: Microsoft Office Danshi
Rating: T
Summary: You know them, you work with them, occasionally you want to strangle them. In the Microsoft Office Suite, the products don't always play nicely with each other -- but then again, what kind of coworkers would they be if they did?
Notes: Written for marmolita for Yuletide 2019, based on the Microsoft Office Danshi character designs by rainbow-taishi. Additional notes are at the end. (Also on AO3.)

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Title: Write Your Name a Thousand Times (And Maybe I'll Remember Why)
Fandom: 鬼灯の冷徹 | Hoozuki no Reitetsu
Rating: G
Relationship: Hoozuki and Hakutaku
Summary: On the morning of New Year's Day in Japanese Hell, after a long night of year-ending drunken revelry, Hakutaku blearily opens his eyes to discover that he's written Hoozuki's name in bright red paint on every possible available surface in Mortal Hell -- and has absolutely no memory of why he might have done so.
Notes: Written for Healiel for Yuletide 2017. (Also on AO3.) All notes are at the end of the fic!

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Title: Water Offerings
Fandom: Gakkou Gurashi! | School-Live!
Rating: T
Summary: In any survival situation, the importance of water cannot be underestimated.
Notes: Written for ried for Yuletide 2015. (Also on AO3.) Spoilers for the series in general, at least through EP 10. All notes are at the end.


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Title: The Articles of War
Fandom: Treasure Planet
Rating: 12/PG
Summary: Nasty business, but I won't bore you with my scars. (Or, a formative incident in Amelia's service with the interstellar fleet.)
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Written for wildgoosery for Yuletide 2013. (Also on AO3.) This story contains descriptions of military corporal punishment that are a bit more graphic than anything Disney would've sanctioned. Further notes are at the end.

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Title: The Monster at the End of This Book
Fandom: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Rating: U
Summary: 'Even when I ask about him, all that anyone will ever say is that he is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, the Prince of Silence, the Foe of Speech. But they will not tell me what he is like, or what he can do, or how he will react to those who try to stop him. How can we spy on him if we don't know the first thing about him?'
Notes: Written for Lalaith for Yuletide 2011. (Also at AO3). A missing scene that takes place shortly before the Plentimaw Fishes find that they cannot go on any further, and Haroun and the others leave them behind to continue their journey towards the Old Zone.

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Title: Reservoirs
Fandom: The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Rating: U
Originally posted: Yuletide 2009 (also available at AO3)
Summary: Friendships, like reservoirs, are often shaped by what lies well below the surface. But even after thirty years of friendship, Will Stanton is not entirely prepared to find some unexpected depths.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: Like any good piece of political fiction, this story has its origins in a kernel of truth. On 19 October 2005, the Liverpool City Council did in fact issue an apology for the flooding of the Tryweryn valley, an act that was instrumental in building support for Plaid Cymru as a Welsh nationalist political party and for Welsh devolution in general. I hope that I have changed or obscured sufficient details -- including Bran's constituency and ministerial office -- to avoid giving any offence. Any factual errors in this fictional world, however inadvertently introduced, are entirely my own.

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Title: A Matter of Finesse
Fandom: House of Cards
Rating: 12/PG (implied noncanonical m/m relationship)
Originally posted: Yuletide 2007 (also available at AO3)
Summary: In March 1979, Conservative Party whip Francis Urquhart is about to engineer the downfall of the Labour Government -- and he has no intention of letting an overeager young policy researcher muck things up. Pre-canon, implied (but only implied) Francis Urquhart/Tim Stamper.
Disclaimer: All original works are copyright of their respective owners; I lay claim only to this particular story.
Notes: The initial framing idea for 'A Matter of Finesse' is heavily based on the actual series of events that led up to the 1979 General Election, in which Jim Callaghan's Labour Government was turned out of office and replaced by a Conservative Government under Margaret Thatcher. As a result, the events of this story take place approximately 11 years before the events of House of Cards. With a few minor adjustments to compensate for the fictional nature of the series, all of the parliamentary procedures and other political aspects of this story -- including the arcane legal and constitutional regulations of life and death in the Palace of Westminster -- are quite true and accurate.

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