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The Hero Goes Back Into The Mountains (雪之丞変化 | An Actor's Revenge (1963)

2026-01-01T15:22:30Z

HAPPY NEW YEAR! I bring fic:)

Title: The Hero Goes Back Into The Mountains (14,110 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: 雪之丞変化 | An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Rating: Teen
Categories: Gen
Characters: Nakamura Yukinojo, Nakamura Kikunojo, Yamitaro, Ohatsu, Various OCs.

Additional tags: can be read as pre-ship Yukinojo/Yamitaro, Ohatsu makes some phobic comments and so does a random monk, everything sorts itself out eventually, references to death and canon death, References to Child Prostitution, physical child abuse, Brief Ableism,
References to Suicide and Mental Illness, references to domestic abuse, Post-Canon

Summary: Yukinojo finds an out of the way monastery, but will becoming a monk free him from his life of pain?

Notes; Cheery summary and tags for a happy ending fic(!).

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Snowflake Challenge

2025-01-16T16:56:13Z

Challenge #7: In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a wishlist of sorts.

1) "Light" history blog recs. Blogs today are either dead or dead serious.

Erm, that's about it really!

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Snowflake Challenge #4

2025-01-08T14:36:46Z

Challenge #4: Since this is the start of a new year, this challenge will be to set your own goals! Of course we can all make large or ambitious goals, remember that small and/or short goals are also good!

Run unconventionalcourtship the best fic fest again:)

Complete kingstoken's 2025 book bingo. I was two off finishing last year.

Last year I mastered de-cluttering, this year I want to be able to not re-clutter. I cleared a load of stuff out last year and have replaced it with more stuff I didn't really need and I feel silly. I'm also lazy and dislike having to drag everything to the charity shop/post office multiple times.

Erase men! Not really, but my goal is to reduce the amount of fiction books I read by cis, white men who are largely hetro and don't have any other difference since their voices are the ones that take up most of the space over others. Looking at my TBR pile and lists of possible books to read it's very do-able.

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Book Bingo Masterpost 2025

2025-01-02T16:07:02Z

Here is kingstoken's book bingo card for this year:

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I really like this year's card. The prompts are more skewed towards fiction than non-fiction, but I've managed to fit sixteen of my TBR pile to the squares and most of them are NF. The only problem is that NF books are slower reads. I've got lots of fiction book recs to fill in the gaps though:)

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Unconventional Courtship is Back!

2024-04-02T14:32:03Z

Woo hoo it's unconventionalcourtship time \o/ Looks like not doing a new banner worked and people want gay pirates even more (and now no one else will sign up) or else the Bride did it;p

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I was going to write about Easter-ish TV maybe next time!

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New Bride (The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

2023-12-07T16:47:25Z

Title: New Bride (899 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Rating: General audiences
Categories: F/F
Warnings: None
Relationships: The Bride of Frankenstein/Elizabeth Frankenstein
Characters: The Bride of Frankenstein, Elizabeth Frankenstein
Additional tags: post-film

Summary: Elizabeth Frankenstein is fascinated by a monster.

Notes: There's a lot of lovely Bride/Monster fanart out there, but she's not that keen. Perhaps, I should have written an essay on the impulse to heteronormativity or something, but I did a fic instead.

Written to fulfil the 100fandoms prompt #91: right.

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Pause on the Run (Arsenic and Old Lace)

2023-11-15T16:40:07Z

Title: Pause on the Run (512 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Arsenic and Old Lace - Kesselring
Rating: General audiences
Categories: M/M
Relationships: Jonathan Brewster/Herman Einstein
Characters: Jonathan Brewster; Herman Einstein

Summary: Jonathan Brewster wasn't a romantic, he was a man on the run and he expected Doctor Einstein to give him what he wanted.

Notes; Written for the 100fandoms prompt no.93 can.

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Unique Looking (Son of Frankenstein (1939)

2023-10-25T13:37:14Z

Write a fic, forget to mention it!

Title: Unique Looking (117 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: Son of Frankenstein (1939); Frankenstein and related fandoms, Universal Monsters Universe
Rating: General audiences
Categories: M/M
Relationships: Frankenstein’s Creature/Ygor
Additional tags: Body image issues

Summary: Ygor seeks to cheer the Monster up over his looks.

Notes; Written for the genprompt bingo round 20 prompt: Unnatural (Events, Weather, Beings) and Hurt/comfort bingo round 12 prompt: body image issues.

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If Only They'd See (The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)

2023-08-19T12:39:08Z

Title: If Only They’d See (571 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
Rating: General audiences
Categories: Gen
Warnings: None
Characters: Doctor Laurience
Additional tags: Pre-canon, mad doctor.

Summary: Doctor Laurience approaches his new abode in the wilds.

Notes; Written for the 100fandoms prompt 063: theory.

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Waiting for the Monster (Son of Frankenstein (1939)

2023-07-22T12:58:28Z

Title: Waiting for the Monster (1232 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Rating: General audiences
Categories: M/M
Warnings: None
Relationships: Ygor/Frankenstein’s Creature
Characters: Ygor, Frankenstein’s Creature

Summary: He does things for me - Ygor (Son of Frankenstein (1939).
The monster has done a lot of things for his friend. Ygor thinks about them as he waits for the baron to make him well again.

Written for the 100fandoms prompt no.57: sleeping.

Notes; After watching Son of Frankenstein I went looking for fic and found none. Therefore I had no choice but to write fic;p

Afterwards, I went looking for The Black Cat (1934) works because I thought there was bound to be fic for that, but there is none. Fandom, I am very disappointed with you.

The sole work on AO3 for The Black Cat is an ace, if spoilery, fanvid which is some consolation.

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100 Fandoms Prompt Table

2023-07-10T14:25:43Z

1. I've decided to have a go at the 100fandoms challenge. The aim is to write fics in 100 different fandoms using a table of 100 prompts. There's no time limit which is a good thing for me;p

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2. unconventional_courtship is over for another year and the master list of fic has gone up. There's a nice mix of fandoms big and tiny to peruse.

3. Has there been a classic films-athon or something on? I've received a smattering of kudos for my 'Casablanca' fics recently.

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Woof Night [WWDITS]

2023-06-12T15:43:54Z

Title: Woof Night (4820 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
Rating: Teen
Categories: M/M
Warnings: None
Additional Tags: Adultery
Relationships: Anton/Deacon Brucke, Anton/OFC
Characters: Anton, Deacon, OMC, OFM
Summary: When a chance encounter with a mysteriously sexy stranger leads to a night he'll never forget, independent Deacon can't believe his luck. Until the morning after...when the stranger turns out to be Stu's pack leader, Anton. Not to mention he'll be working with him to bring his latest hippest designer knitting venture to life.
Anton can't believe his bad luck. Hitting the sheets with a vampire isn't the smartest move he's ever made. Or is it?

Notes: Written using the summary for 'Nothing but the Best' by Kristin Hardy for the 10th Unconventional Courtship Challenge \o/

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47600554

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Help Under a Moon

2023-04-05T15:06:34Z

Title: Help Under A Moon (2548 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
Rating: Teen
Categories: Gen
Warnings: None
Relationships: Anton & Deacon
Characters: Anton, Deacon, Viago, Vladislav, Katherine, Nick.
Additional tags: Petyr and Stu in spirit

Summary: It's the night of the full moon and on the way to the woods, Anton's pick-up has broken down. Will the vampires help him?

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45960685

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Run Away! And Then Run Back

2023-04-03T14:23:24Z

Yes! It's that time of year again ~~when I spam up your reading page~~ for unconventionalcourtship! The multifandom fic challenge is now on its tenth round! I'm going to do some banners for participants at the end to celebrate the anniversary.

There is personal celebration for me this year as I have defeated the UC generator's attempts to hide anything workable from me and I have a summary and a Muse that appears to be awake, unlike last year. I thought I'd have to chop off the end of the summary's paragraph as it seems to position one of the pairing worrying they're not good enough for the other which didn't seem likely, so I decided the other would be thinking how great they are \o/

And for those that like to combine challenges genprompt_bingo has started a new round:D

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The Not Much Mystery of the Missing Coffee (Casablanca)

2023-03-26T14:56:20Z

Title: The Not Much Mystery of the Missing Coffee (654 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: Casablanca (1942)
Rating: General audiences
Categories: M/M
Warnings: Nope
Relationships: Louis Renault/Rick Blaine
Characters: Louis Renault
Additional tags: post-canon

Summary: A light bite of nothing to be served with one's favourite hot beverage.

Notes; There was going to be actual mystery with this, but I lost interest(!) and despite the sudden ending I think it’s worth posting.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/46029379

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Snowflake Challenge #13

2023-03-25T15:10:09Z

Challenge #13: In your own space, rec three fanworks that you did not create.

Shut Up and Kiss Me by tarathemeerkat (Father Brown; Father Brown/Herule Flambeau; General audiences; 3113 words)

Summary: Father Brown had been led to some strange places in his investigations and usually relished it, but a party full of bored socialites and aristocrats who only want to ply him with alcohol and make a mockery of him was one he'd rather not have been led to. Luckily, Hercule Flambeau was there and always willing to provide a distraction...

Terrible title, great fic:D

The Darkplace Christmas Special by tarabas (Garth Marenghi's Darkplace; General Audiences; Thornton Reed, Rick Dagless, Liz Asher, Lucien Sanchez, Dean Learner, Garth Marenghi; 1352 words)

Summary: “I’m proud to say that the Darkplace Christmas special was so scary that only a few scenes of it exist today. The whole thing was simply too horrifying, too radical, that top brass deleted most of our recordings. It was the only way they could deal with what they’d seen.

Like an actual episode except it's fan fiction and that means reading words which isn't like watching a TV show, although words can paint a thousand pictures as the readers of Garth Marenghi's novels will know. The penultimate paragraph is as good as anything in the show it might even be better! And a bonus Easter egg for Doctor Who fans.

a beautiful friendship by janie_tangerine (Casablanca (1942); teen; Rick Blaine, Louis Renault; 4485 words)

Summary: “Oh, Rick,” Louis shakes his head, “I take it all back. That makes you more of a sentimentalist than anything I ever heard you say. And almost than anything I ever saw you doing.”
“Almost?”
“Letting that plane go is still quite unmatched, my friend.”
“Louis, f**k you,” Rick snorts, but it’s obvious he doesn’t really mean it, and now that he thinks about everything in retrospective… that does sound entirely more likely than stealing the Church’s fund, or rich women being involved.
“So, all things considered, you’d rather throw your lot with us poor, defeated Frenchmen?”
“Not even a question,” Rick says, “and now are you going to keep on asking me things or are you going to greet our guys that are about to come up on shore?”

What trouble did Rick get into in the US? This fic gives a convincing answer.

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OFMD Icons x 4

2023-02-10T15:37:46Z

Snowflake Challenge #10: In your own space, create a fanwork.

Four Our Flag Means Death icons. It's been two years since I've done any icons!

Comments, taking and credits are <3
Hotlinking isn't <3.

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Snowflake Challenge #14

2023-01-31T16:24:12Z

Challenge #14: In your own space, do the Fandom Wrap Challenge.

What were your top 5 fandoms for 2022 based on the amount of time you interacted with them?
A poor year fannishly until the autumn and then it all took off, before then I thought I used up my ability to get fannish about new to me things. It seems my brain can still be taken over.
1. Old films
2. Classic Doctor Who
3. MLP G1 (toy line not the cartoons)
4. Find It, Fix It, Flog It
5. First Tetralogy

What were your top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) you experienced fandom in terms of time spent?
1. Dreamwidth
2. Instagram
3. AO3
That's about it, being in tiny fandoms means very few spaces outside of my head.

What are the top 5 things you did to contribute to fandom in terms of time? Did you write? Comment? Send positive energy into the universe? Create art?
1. Knitting.
2. Liking posts on insta.
3. Being the Lord High Evil Enabler with pom-poms.
4. Sewing.
5. Commenting.

What were your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions? (i.e. in terms of likes, kudos, reblogs, comments, etc.)
Lol, whatever a big name fan is I'm the opposite; no-name fan;p

Have a Top 5 List you'd like to share??
Songs which I think would be good for fan vids, but prove I'm wise not to make vids because they wouldn't:
1. Sunspots - Julian Cope (I'm sure it had more lyrics. I can't resist a pop song with a recorder solo)
2. Like a Prayer - Madonna (ha, ha)
3. Forever - Haim (Nice intro. Action film edition)
4. Not the only Person - The Rumble Strips (Noir or 1970's grotty, miserabilist Brit TV?)
5. Rescue -Echo and the Bunnymen (What more eighties indie disco? Nice bass).

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Snowflake Challenge #15

2023-01-30T15:53:49Z

In your own space, opine on the future of fandom.

In the future, Gen A fans bring back DVDs, making old fans of shows from 2022 delighted to get proper copies of those series they watched on streaming services that didn't do DVDs.

Deep fakes for fix-its instead of fic.

Fans talk nostalgically talk about the time superheroes were all the rage.

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Snowflake Challenge #12

2023-01-24T14:52:23Z

In your own space, set yourself some goals for the coming year:

To learn great speeches. I did set out to learn the whole of Richard III(!!!) in December, but came to the conclusion, maybe not. Aside from not being a positive play, I didn't fancy learning the dull bits between the good bits. Instead, I have set the goal to learn only speeches that chime with me or sound nice. So if I only find one monologue that I like this year, then so be it, quality not quantity.

It's a nice fannish thing to do, because it means one can always have a piece of it with you and it doesn't take up any room or cost any money, well, apart from shelling out for a copy of a play or film with subtitles.

Personal: To work with myself, rather than against myself, which most probably means starting a journal, aieee;p

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Snowflake Challenge #11 I Aim for World Peace

2023-01-21T15:43:35Z

Challenge #11: In your own space, Talk about your favorite trope, cliché, kink, motif, or theme.

I dunno, I just like reading stuff!

I'm on firmer ground on what fic I write though so I will talk about that instead. My fics have changed over the years in that I used to consider myself a gen hound and now I mostly write slash. The general theme I would say goes from good natured to sickly sweet fluff, and everyone lives happily ever after or is a bit less grumpy. My darkest fics are 'Richard III' and 'Henry VI' - Shakespeare, but then canon itself isn't fluffy. I still couldn't kill off Dickie though, even if I did bury him alive;p

I do like a happy ending. I wouldn't say I was particularly fix-it, but there a line in 'Martin Chuzzlewit' by Dickens when one of the female characters (I read it about twenty years ago, hence vagueness) says something to Thomas Pinch(?) and she wants him to have a happy ending like her and he says something along the lines of that's very nice for you to wish it for me, but I'm not a character in a story, life doesn't have fairy tale endings for all. But by the power of fic I can cure all ills! Or at least sort out characters inability to get it together in canon, mixed in with whatever is sloshing around in my head at the moment. I know it's not always true or believe that people can only achieve happiness in a monogamous romantic relationship, but it's nice to draw hearts around characters.

I do tend to go for (rare) older pairings if that counts as a kink, maybe it's because I'm an old (for fandom) duffer, or I think people who aren't seen as having love (yeah, people over forty having love lives who knew this could be possible, lol) should get love. Not that I think people should stop writing about young and super attractive characters having excitingly hot! times together. I hope I'm not coming across as ageist to both young and old people here:S

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Snowflake Challenge #9

2023-01-17T16:41:50Z

Challenge #9: In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, time you spent in the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.

I wrote my first fic in over a year, after getting bunnied by 'Casablanca' and it would have been two fics, but rl got in the way in December. The short one I posted in 2022 was the second fic I wrote. Still, at least it left me one fic to celebrate in 2023 if nothing else. It's nice to know I can still write a fic. I also made a Richard III doll. I'd wanted one for a while and now I have my own. I also knitted a full length Dr Who scarf and it came out well, which is a good feeling as it's not a small project.

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Book Bingo 2023

2023-01-15T15:26:26Z

I completed kingstoken's book bingo last year and I'm doing it again. Hopefully, I will be able to complete it this year without the helping hand of manga.

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Crime or Mystery: Affair of the Mysterious Letter - Alexis Hall
Banned Book swapped for Wild card: Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Book Made into a Movie or TV Series: Caesar and Cleopatra - George Bernard Shaw
Historical: Rose of Versailles Vol. 5 - Riyoko Ikeda
Number in the title: Strictly Come Dancing Annual 2023 - Alison Maloney
Female Author: Silver in the Wood - Emily Tesh
Book From Your TBR Pile: Dragonsdawn - Anne Mc Caffrey
Three Word Title: The Saint Intervenes - Leslie Charteris
Craft, hobby or cookbook replaced with wild card: This Way To Spaceship - Rhys Darby
By an Author from your State/Country: The Art of Being Normal - Lisa Williamson
Person's Name in the Title: Richard II - William Shakespeare
Book With a Woman Protagonist: Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce
Free Space: Something More than Night - Kim Newman
Animal on the cover: A Man and his Cat 4 - Umi Sakurai
Sci-fi or Fantasy: In the Hand of the Goddess - Tamora Pierce
Author You've Never Read Before: M - Anton Kaes
LGBT+: The Unbinding of Mary Reade - Miriam McNamara
More than 300 Pages: Journeys to the Other Side of the World - David Attenborough
Disability or Mental Health: Diary of a Young Naturalist - Dara McAnulty
Recommended: Wicked Bargain - Gabe Cole Novoa
Romance Plot or Sub-plot: Peter Darling - Austin Chant
Action or Thriller: The Cut - Chris Brookmyre
Book from the year you were born replaced with YA/Children's: Buttons McGinty Book 2 - Rhys Darby.
E-Book or audio book: The Pants of Perspective by Anna McNuff
Mythology replaced with Movie/TV Tie-in: Adventures of a Young Naturalist - David Attenborough

Bingo completed August 2023.

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Snowflake Challenge #7

2023-01-14T14:58:05Z

Challenge #7: In your own space, interact with a community or a fic.

I commented on a fic! I've been commenting on various Snowflake Challenge posts too. I do feel discouraged from commenting on fics where comments are not acknowledged or only comments from certain users are answered though.

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Fic: Dispelling the Clouds [Casablanca]

2023-01-13T16:32:17Z

Title: Dispelling the Clouds (3,458 words)
Author: Liadt
Fandom: Casablanca (1942)
Rating: Low Teen
Categories: M/M
Warnings: None
Relationships: Rick Blaine/Louis Renault
Characters: Rick Blaine, Louis Renault

Summary: The war is coming to a close and with the certainty of freedom for Europe, Rick frees himself from the lies he'd told himself.

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