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(the time was neither wrong nor right) (962 words) by Laura JV
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock, James T. Kirk & Spock
Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Post-Episode: s03e12 Plato's Stepchildren (Star Trek: The Original Series), T'hy'la (Star Trek), Kolinahr (Star Trek)
Summary:

Four years and two hundred seventy-six days into the five-year mission, Spock initiates a conversation.

The View from T'Khut (5776 words) by Laura JV
Chapters: 1/8
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Spock/Nyota Uhura, James T. Kirk/Spock, Sarek & Spock (Star Trek), Spock & Spock Prime
Characters: Spock (Star Trek), Spock Prime, James T. Kirk, Nyota Uhura, T'Pau (Star Trek), Sarek (Star Trek), Vulcan Characters (Star Trek), Crew of the Starship Enterprise
Additional Tags: Vulcan Culture (Star Trek), Vulcan Mind Melds (Star Trek), Vulcan Language (Star Trek), jj abrams should be ashamed of himself, Vulcan history, Vulcan mythology, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, symbiotic red algae
Series: Part 1 of The View from T'Khut
Summary:

Part I: The Absent World. The planet vanishes, but her people go on.

Part II: An Archaeology of Loss. The world-death left a scar in spacetime, and a void in the heart of the Federation.

Part III: Time and Darkness. In which Ambassador Spock fires unexpected shots.

This story was a very long time coming. I have had the title for it for over a decade, and this summer I realized what story went with that title. It is complete but being posted in parts over the next few weeks and runs about 50K words all told.

Picked up the AO3 alphabet meme from viridian5:

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'a' and 't'. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

Is this is when I am punished for not having uploaded all my old fic to AO3? Let us find out.

A: As compasses. The Goblin Emperor, Idra & Maia
B: Baresark. due South, Fraser/RayK
C: Contamination. Sherlock, casefic
D: Dry Cell. Highlander, Duncan & Methos
E: Exhalation. Star Trek x The Sentinel, Jim/Blair. Second in a series.
F: From Sweet Fellowship Comes Nectar. LOTR, Legolas/Gimli
G: Gammer Gurton's Garland. Sherlock, Sherlock/John, Eurus.
H: hold fast (hold steady). Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Cody, OC/OC
I: I spread my dreams under your feet. Star Trek 2009, Spock/Uhura.
J: [nothing]
K: Kaiidth. Star Trek 2009, Spock, T'Pring, T'Pau, Stonn
L: Lied: Lay My Heart Naked. LOTR, Legolas/Gimli.
M: Maybe Next Time. The Sentinel, Jim/Blair.
N: Numberless the ways, and imperceptible. LOTR, Legolas/Gimli.
O: Once Upon A Time. Highlander, Methos/Kronos.
P: a picnic planned for you and me. Good Omens TV, Aziraphale/Crowley
Q: [nothing]
R: Roust. Written with basingstoke. due South, Fraser/RayK.
S: ship's night, residential deck, third corridor. MCU, Loki & Thor
T: Tech. Hockey RPF, gen
U: unsuitable. The Bone Key, A Theory of Haunting. Blanche Parrington Crowe, Griselda Parrington, & the unfortunate Kyle Murchison Booth.
V: Valse a deux temps. due South x The Sentinel, Fraser/RayK, Jim/Blair
W: The Wrong Tree. Sherlock, Sherlock/John.
X: [nothing]
Y: [nothing]
Z: [nothing]

21/26. I'm almost certain uploading my old fic would not have helped. What I should stop doing is using so many I and W titles and branch out a little more.

Augmented Chord (2809 words) by Laura JV
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Quinlan Vos, Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Quinlan Vos
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, Quinlan Vos
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, AU of an AU, Splinter Sect, Nonmonogamous Relationship
Summary:

Obi-Wan wants this, but it's more than he bargained for.

An AU of an AU, set in roselightfairy's Splinter Sect universe. Set after Shaping Change and contains spoilers for the AU up to that point.

Basic Timeline for The Cemeteries of Amalo Trilogy (The Witness for the Dead/The Grief of Stones/The Tomb of Dragons) (1631 words) by Laura JV
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Meta, Canon Timeline, resources
Summary:

Timeline for The Witness for the Dead, The Grief of Stones, and The Tomb of Dragons. The first two books take place over approximately 2 months, near the first anniversary of the reign of Edrehasivar VII Drazhar; the third book has a longer timeline but covers around 40 days in day-to-day detail.

I have also made a spoiler-free concordance of months, dates, etc. in my directory of overly-specific Osreth spreadsheets.

Cat in Boots (2474 words) by Laura JV
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Origin Story, Fairy Tale Style
Summary:

An old wonder-tale from the Eastern Ethuveraz about a talking cat who cleverly enlists help from the gods to gain power, wealth, and the hand in marriage of a princess for his penniless and baseborn master. In folkloristics, Cat in Boots is classified as a subtype of "The Cat as Helper". This version of the tale has been translated from Ethuverazhin by Sambrazhed and Manithor of the University of Chadavelo, Barizhan.

As compasses (3981 words) by Laura JV
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Idra Drazhar & Maia Drazhar, Idra Drazhar/Paru Tethimin, Csevet Aisava/Maia Drazhar, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Thara Celehar/Iäna Pel-Thenhior, Orchenis Clunethar/Uleviän Clunetharan
Characters: Idra Drazhar, Maia Drazhar, Paru Tethimin, Csevet Aisava, Iäna Pel-Thenhior
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Emperor Idra Drazhar, Archprelate Maia Drazhar, Idra & Maia's Excellent Railroad Adventure
Summary:

The Emperor of the Elflands doesn't want to be doing what he's doing, but at least his favorite uncle is along for the ride.

Edit: now part of a series: Emperor Idra & Archprelate Maia AU

part one

1. sent in deposit check for chimney repairs (which are going to eat pretty much the entire household repair budget for this calendar year)
2. agreed with spouse re: repairs to elderly car rather than replacing elderly car at this time
3. scheduled maintenance for other, slightly less-elderly car 
4. called water authority re: wtf no water at my house??? (answer: planned outage a quarter-mile away is unexpectedly unplanned much larger outage continuing well past end of planned outage, sorry! halfway through a load of laundry? too bad!) 

Arrangements made since yesterday:
1. purchase and installation of a dishwasher, and haul-away of old dishwasher which has been broken since December
2. purchase and installation of a water heater, and haul-away of old water heater which needs a repair involving a $300 backordered part. for a water heater not already at EOL I would wait, but not for one whose next trick is likely to be "...and there goes the tank" on account of being elderly.
3. estimate for repair of chimney that is leaking inside the house

Hey so broke & dislocated ribs, very fun times for me. I'm healing up pretty well, as these things go.

One thing I did run into is that -- look, I am very busty. My usual bra is a 34K, and that means I have to wear a bra to keep the weight of the breast itself off the damaged rib -- but of course the bra hurts, too. So I went looking for how to manage that situation and I....not that I don't understand the impulse to help? but people who have naturally smaller breasts -- by which I mean anything under an F-cup UK sizes for small band sizes, it's different at larger band sizes -- need to stop giving breast management tips to people with large breasts. The difference in managing these situations is substantial. (And I noticed SEVERAL people with, like, 36B-cup breasts offering advice and then there was a gap in reported cup sizes and then F+ cup people came in, which -- my GENERAL experience is that people with C+ cups understand there's a management difference, and a LOT of B-cup people absolutely the fuck do not, and it's incredibly annoying. Like C-DD people are all "ooh, that has to suck" and B people are "I have useful advice" YOU DO NOT, STFU.)

Like. I'm sorry. Layering two camisoles is a small boob support trick. And all the small boob people replying to large boob broken rib people had suggestions like that -- two camis! lightweight compression top! front-close bralette! etc.

Actual large boob people tips were very different and were things like "use gaffer tape to relocate the weight of the breast" and "buy an entirely new bra with these specific qualities".

By the way, here's what worked for me:
- a back brace for additional support/preventing me from moving in ways that hurt
- using kinesthesiology tape (instead of gaffer tape) to shift the weight of my breast to my upper pectoral area & collarbone -- this provided instant and substantial relief.
- using a bra expander to make my band a little less firm, but still allow support for the bust

Some people report success with basques sized up a band size or two, but I have not tried that, because I had all the other stuff in my house.