fic: a triptych on Cet's forgetting [Dreamblood]

So, kink_bingo. The amnesty period is ending in a few months, which is why I'm making this post now - I tend to write more in the spring, but February is lasting into April this year - and I don't think I'm going to write anything further. The thing is of course I didn't sign up for kink bingo thinking I'd make a bingo or anything close to it, but I think it's okay to write something, anything, while acknowledging you're not terribly good at it. My issue is partly that I'm not good at writing kink in abstraction - sometimes you have characters, or a story you want to tell, and then the kink(s) suggest themselves organically, and I can't do it the other way around - and partly it's from the same roots as my well-documented inability to write straight people. (And gay people. It's a multilateral empathy failure.) By which I mean, I find it very difficult to write for kinks that are not my kinks. (Not terribly good at it, okay.)

But I tried! For my card, I wrote a grand total of two stories, well done me. One is "a clipped piece of silver" (Vorkosigan; for the washing/cleaning square) and this is the second one.

(The thing that annoys me is that I could have sworn I wrote a story for "silk feathers furs"! I checked yesterday and it seems I wrote "forget all other angles" a couple of weeks before I got my card, which strikes me as odd because the story is not a very me story - not one I would have written out of cloth without a prompt or challenge. Did I write it in anticipation? If so why? Past self so mystifying &tc.)

Anyway. This story suggested itself very gently after I read The Narcomancer, and what I love about it is it's essentially a sort-of love story about a brown asexual dude and his genderqueer partner in crime serious business. I mean, you could read it other ways. But I'm not gonna.

fic: a triptych on Cet's forgetting
by Raven
1000w, NK Jemisin's Dreamblood, Cet/Ginnem. The way home.

( the way home )