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Loyal Revenge


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Empty Dagger Hand (The Three Lands). Dolan is a quiet young man who spends his days working as a scribe. So why does he carry a hidden dagger?

New installment:

Side story | Loyal Revenge. His loyalty and his wickedness have come into conflict with each other.


EARLY ACCESS

My readers at Patreon and Ream get the first look at Flight Through the Forest (The Thousand Nations: The Motley Crew #2). That novella will go into general release next month.


BLOG FICTION

Tempestuous Tours (Crossing Worlds: A Visitor's Guide to the Three Lands #2). A whirlwind tour of the sites in the Three Lands that are most steeped in history, culture, and the occasional pickpocket.

New installment:


NEWS & UPCOMING FICTION

I'm sorry for posting so little online fiction last month; I spent all month struggling to transfer computers, so that I could retain/regain laptop access to the web, which I managed to achieve at the beginning of this month. Fortunately, I was able to edit and lay out "Flight Through the Forest" on my old laptop in the meantime.

The novella Heir (The Three Lands: Blood Vow side story) is up next on my release schedule. If you started reading Chronicles of the Great Peninsula during the last few years, here's your chance to meet several of Dolan's kinfolk, back when they were young. If you've been reading Chronicles of the Great Peninsula for a while now, here's the return of the characters from The Fire Before, fourteen years later. If you're a careful reader of Chronicles of the Great Peninsula, you know what's about to happen to the town of Valouse.


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Fic in brief

Nov. 3rd, 2025 09:15 pm
sholio: aged sepia paper with printed text saying "If undelivered, return to Air Ministry, London" (Biggles-london air ministry)
[personal profile] sholio
A couple of quick things I wrote for Fandom Giftbasket:

Firefly (Biggles/EvS, G, 1500 wds)
An evanescent moment on the journey home from Sakhalin.

Vaguely inspired by a photo of fireflies in India.

Birds (Alliance-Union, Meg/Dek, 500 wds)
Posted as a commentfic snippet, just a soft little moment for them after a rider ship mission.
sholio: (B5-station)
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Rewatching Babylon 5's "Ship of Tears" and (parts of) "War Without End" was definitely not conducive to ending up in the most cheerful frame of mind this evening. It's so good, though.

Something I noticed in Ship of Tears )

Gifts everywhere!

Nov. 2nd, 2025 12:11 pm
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[personal profile] sholio
[community profile] trickortreatex and [community profile] fandomgiftbasket both revealed this weekend. I have gifts to coo over!

Trick or Treat:

Beware of Gurathin Bearing Gifts (Murderbot, gen, 580 wds)
Fun and playful with some nice little cultural details, and a tantalizing hint of a future mission to come.

Fandom Giftbasket:

Jala, Tujula, and Fraught Understanding by [archiveofourown.org profile] pushkin666 (Babylon 5, Londo & G'Kar, 700 wds)
This is lovely, a possibly-late-in-series vignette with a little bit of cultural exchange (via food/drink) and a little hard-won wisdom/acceptance.

Keepsake by [archiveofourown.org profile] opalmatrix (Murderbot, gen, 3200 wds)
A really enjoyable, very slightly AU slice-of-life on Port FreeCommerce in which Ratthi takes MB shopping for the first time. Great in-character interactions and a lovely ending!

Zayd & Marwan by [archiveofourown.org profile] celli (Murderbot, gen, 750 wds)
Murderbot, Mensah's kids, and cats. Cute and fun!

Fandomgiftbasket Reveals are out

NSFW Nov. 2nd, 2025 03:10 pm
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[personal profile] sholio
Whumptobers will continue until morale improves probably a ways into November, since I'm still having a good time with it, and I have a few incomplete ones.

Alt Prompt: Organ Theft
Murderbot & Tarik, 800 wds (bookverse, post-System Collapse)
Also on AO3: Grand Theft Human

800 wds under the cut )

My 1000th fic on AO3!

Oct. 31st, 2025 02:53 pm
sholio: two men on horseback in the desert (Biggles-on a horse)
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And fic #1000 turned out to be .... a follow-up to the time travel Biggles fic that I wrote for Out of Order Exchange. I had threatened to write what happened between Algy and Erich in 1918, and here it is.

Out of Time (2300 wds, Algy & Erich, gen)

The first one should probably be read first, if you haven't already.

And there it is, and here's to the next 1000!
sholio: airplane flying away from a tan colored castle (Biggles-castle airplane)
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Another of the alt prompts written earlier in October.

“I hear you’re alive, how disappointing.”
Biggles & EvS, 600 wds, enemies-era

600 wds under the cut )

Gratuitous poll

Oct. 29th, 2025 11:03 pm
sholio: Text: "Age shall not weary her, nor custom stale her infinite squee" (Infinite Squee)
[personal profile] sholio
I have reached a never-again milestone on AO3; my number of works is currently sitting at 999!

It'll increment in a few days when some currently unrevealed things are revealed, but before it does that I want to try to write a lucky 1000th fic.

(Appropriately, I'm also hitting this weird little milestone on the 25th anniversary of my time writing fanfic, which started in 2000.)

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 52


What should I doooooo?

View Answers

Write something extra special or iddy
44 (84.6%)

Use this as motivation to finish a WIP
19 (36.5%)

Actually manage to write something for spook-me this year
6 (11.5%)

Write a fandom or pairing I've never written before
3 (5.8%)

Revisit a fandom or pairing I haven't written in ages
23 (44.2%)

Write something experimental or wildly off brand for me
7 (13.5%)

Write something I, the person taking this poll, would like to see and will tell you about in comments
5 (9.6%)

Write a giant mega crossover of every fandom I've ever been in
8 (15.4%)

How very DARE you limit me to 3 options on this poll! I will express my opinions in comments
3 (5.8%)

sholio: Gurathin from Murderbot looking soft and wondering (Murderbot-Gura)
[personal profile] sholio
No. 26: “Nothing like a relapse to rehash the kid who was scared.”
Relapse | Drawn Curtains | Power Cut

[TV-verse] Murderbot & Gurathin, 800 wds
Also posted on AO3 as Power Through.

800 wds under the cut )

B5 fic: Where You End (And I Begin)

Oct. 26th, 2025 10:31 pm
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This is another one that's been sitting around in my drafts for a while now, mostly because I was trying to work out Lyta's POV chapter, and whether I was happy with the ending, but I finally decided to tidy it up and post it basically as-is. (Spoilers for everything; mostly gen despite the pairing notes.)

Where You End (And I Begin) (Babylon 5, G'Kar/Londo, Lyta/G'Kar [sort of], 4900 wds)
Lyta, G'Kar, Londo, and lingering vestiges of Dust telepathy. Set about a year after "Objects at Rest."
sholio: murderbot group from episode 10 (Murderbot-family1)
[personal profile] sholio
While I slog my way back from a 9-hour time difference of jet lag, I decided to make characters suffer too.

Organic (Murderbot books, MB & Mensah, 2600 wds)
Murderbot isn't sure what's up with its unreliable systems this time, so it asks Mensah. (Set somewhere after System Collapse.)

This one's pretty definitely bookverse, or at least bookverse-compatible; there's nothing specific to the TV universe.

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