the deep moans round with many voices

Summary: The cult of the Signless Sufferer has no clergy and no rites, only one rule. Latula Pyrope is five sweeps old when she first learns it. (400 words)

[ETA: The AO3 crosspost is now up!]

( The Whole of the Law )

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Okay, that was something I never expected to write. *blinks* I'm not sure what I think about it, other than it's obvious I still have a thing for ethics and religion.

Back in 2013 I had a story idea for the Ladystuck Dark challenge, which I called "The Time-Traveler's Kismesis." It was born from a couple stories I'd seen that had the Demoness tracking the Condesce through her life, and hating her passionately. And I thought, yeah, that works... but the thing the Demoness would hate most isn't casual entitlement. It's hope. And the person who has that, the one who tries to change the world for the better, and most particularly the one who also has personal experience with slavery, is the Dolorosa. The Demoness knows nothing is ever going to change. Nothing will ever matter. And the Dolorosa, despite being caste-bound into a form of servitude, and having her son killed in front of her and his movement destroyed, and being mind-controlled and raped, keeps on going.

I never did write that story. But this is one of the scenes that would go into it: shortly after the Dolorosa flees the brooding caverns with the Signless, she meets the Demoness for the second time... at least from her perspective. (825 words)

[ETA: The slightly revised final version is now up on AO3!]

( The Time-Traveler's Kismesis: Counterthesis )

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Now I want to outline and write the rest of the story properly. Stupid plot bunnies!

Random fic scraps I've written at work. I don't have dates for these -- I am not always as scrupulous about dating pages as I'd like to be -- so they go from shortest to longest.

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( Jade, isolated )

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( Davesprite and wing repair )

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( In a Purple Wood - aka, Terezi meets Nepeta )

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I have no idea where I was going with the first fragment.

The second fragment was going to be another "Tales from the Yellow Yard" fic, but it never really clicked and I abandoned it unfinished.

"In a Purple Wood" is canon for my "Alternian Nights" sequence of fics. It's just disproportionately shorter than the other three stories and I couldn't figure out where to go after the initial meeting -- what happens is Nepeta takes Terezi back to her cave for the day and then Terezi cautiously allows Nepeta to visit her own hive in return, but I couldn't make that narratively interesting, alas. :-(

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And that's pretty much it for fic scraps, aside from some original fiction which is too short to contain any useful contextual information, and I don't feel like writing ten paragraphs of non-fiction to explain two paragraphs of actual fiction. Somehow that doesn't feel like a good use of my time. *wry*

In any case, I should get back to writing the epilogue of "Secrets," which has been giving me absolute fits of frothing frustration. I think I have been approaching it all wrong and should start over with a different scene at a different time and place (though the same three characters) which will hopefully be more conducive to making them have the conversation I want them to have. *resolve face*

Vriska tries to teach herself to sail. Terezi waits on shore for the inevitable disaster. 2,100 words, written for cottoncandy_bingo prompt lending a coat in the cold.

Because Vriska had to learn sailing at some point -- she was clearly comfortable on ships when she and Eridan were Flarp partners, and if nothing else she would have jumped at yet another way to imitate Mindfang -- but I sincerely doubt she would have wanted to learn from Eridan. A teaching relationship would give him far too much implicit power over her. Terezi, though... yeah, I think Vriska might have been willing to be vulnerable in her Scourge Sister's company. And before the Team Charge debacle, I don't think Terezi would have taken advantage.

[AO3 version]

( Scourge of the Sea )

That story is obviously not the songfic I was talking about. The thing is, when I opened that fic for editing it was blatantly obvious that I'd only written half the story and I needed to write a parallel/mirror second section in the alpha timeline. And that will require some actual structural planning -- I need to make song choices and work in ways for Rose's aspect and title to affect her life like I did for Roxy in the beta timeline part that's already written -- which takes a lot more time and thought than just setting two characters into a basic scenario and seeing what happens.

So you get Vriska and Terezi instead, because I always meant to write something about their relationship and this seemed like a good opportunity. :-)

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Master List of Elizabeth Culmer's Fanfiction: Homestuck
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Organization: This list is organized by associated narrative cycles; within each section, stories are arranged first by timeline (if applicable) and then by date. Word counts and writing dates are approximations.

Content/Warning Policy: 1) I am not consistent about warnings! I use them when I remember, for a few relatively broad categories of potentially problematic content, but if something is off-page, non-explicit, or generally backgrounded, I probably won't think to note it in the metadata. 2) The things I try to warn for are explicit sex, rape, murder, torture, cannibalism, incest, depression/suicide, familial dysfunction, and occasionally also societal dysfunction (aka dystopia). Sometimes I just slap a general content warning on all my fic for a given fandom and don't label each individual fic. I also don't generally warn for violence, unless the violence in a fic is dramatically out-of-step with the violence in its source canon. 3) I don't use any content rating system unless I'm posting to a site or community that requires or encourages ratings, because I find movie-style ratings counter-intuitive when applied to written fiction, and not particularly useful for anything other than denoting the presence of explicit sex, which I already note in the metadata.

Quality Rating System: I've marked my favorite stories with asterisks, on a scale of 1 to 4. The more asterisks, the more I like the story. This doesn't necessarily mean that stories without asterisks are bad, just that I don't like them as much. Also, I am not claiming to be an arbiter of taste; you may love stories I dislike, and vice versa. I am just providing a heads-up about the ones that I think are best written and/or most interesting.

Notes: I completely and utterly blame askerian for my descent into this fandom. I hadn't even heard of Homestuck before she started writing fic for it, but I love her writing and generally trust her taste. So in late January of 2012, I did a little poking around via Google, found the comic, and... yeah. If you're here, you know how it hooks you. Then I made the mistake of reading through the backlog of homesmut kinkmeme posts and fills. Before I knew it I had a file of prompts that looked intriguing. Then I was writing one. And it was porn, which if you know me is so bizarrely out-of-character there are no words. There was really no turning back after that.

I am still trying to figure out exactly how this fandom mugged me so thoroughly, but what the hell, it's been a fun ride so far and I'm sure it will continue to be so. :)

Where To Read: As always, if an AO3 version exists, it is definitive. FF.net versions are definitive in the absence of an AO3 version. Journal versions are the equivalent of beta drafts, though the shorter and/or fragmentary works may never be posted anywhere else.

Contents: Trollstuck, Alpha Timeline Fluff, Tales From the Yellow Yard, Alternian Nights, Ancestral Nights, Untimely Ripped, Leaf and Letter, explanation of uncategorized stories, Uncategorized pre-canon stories, Uncategorized during-canon stories, Uncategorized post-canon stories, Assorted partial AUs, Assorted complete AUs.

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( Trollstuck )

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( Alpha Timeline Fluff )

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( Tales from the Yellow Yard )

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( Alternian Nights )

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( Ancestral Nights )

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( Untimely Ripped )

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( Leaf and Letter )

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( Stories Nominally Based in Canon )

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( Uncategorized Pre-Canon Stories )

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( Uncategorized During-Canon Stories )

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( Uncategorized Post-Canon Stories )

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( Assorted Partial AUs )

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( Assorted Complete AUs )

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