seven days of self-promotion meme
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kindkitThere's a meme going around called "Seven Days of Self-Promotion." How could I not play?
The first day's topic is: Something old (i.e., talk about an old fanwork you made). I interpreted "old" to mean "made more than five years ago," and I decided to avoid the fanworks I usually talk about when I'm self-promoting. Instead, here's my favorite of the stories I wrote during my brief sojourn in due South fandom.
Five Confessions (4570 words) by kindkit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Kowalski/Original Male Character
Characters: Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser, Stella Kowalski, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Infidelity, Religion, Homophobia, Established Relationship, Angst, Anal Sex, Queer Themes, Bisexual Character
Summary: Ray really needs to tell somebody.
This is, I think, one of the more adult stories I've ever written. Not in the sense of sexually explicit (it's not very explicit, really), but in the sense of emotionally adult. I tend to go for either romance or tragedy (which is also, in its way, romance), but this is neither; it's a "bad things that can happen in a romantic relationship even when two people really love each other" story. Specifically, it's about infidelity; it's about knowing you've done something wrong and being sorry and wanting to redeem yourself and find forgiveness, but not knowing how. (If infidelity is a triggery/touchy subject for you, I'll say that it happens offscreen before the story begins, and there are potentially mitigating circumstances. But it's still infidelity.)
I like the Ray K. voice in this one, and the backstory I invented, and in particular I like, or at least am rather proud of, an OC I created. And I like the ending. Is it a happy ending? I think so, but not everyone who reads it agrees with me.
N.B. Although this was posted to AO3 in 2009, it was written in 2005.
The first day's topic is: Something old (i.e., talk about an old fanwork you made). I interpreted "old" to mean "made more than five years ago," and I decided to avoid the fanworks I usually talk about when I'm self-promoting. Instead, here's my favorite of the stories I wrote during my brief sojourn in due South fandom.
Five Confessions (4570 words) by kindkit
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Ray Kowalski/Original Male Character
Characters: Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser, Stella Kowalski, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Infidelity, Religion, Homophobia, Established Relationship, Angst, Anal Sex, Queer Themes, Bisexual Character
Summary: Ray really needs to tell somebody.
This is, I think, one of the more adult stories I've ever written. Not in the sense of sexually explicit (it's not very explicit, really), but in the sense of emotionally adult. I tend to go for either romance or tragedy (which is also, in its way, romance), but this is neither; it's a "bad things that can happen in a romantic relationship even when two people really love each other" story. Specifically, it's about infidelity; it's about knowing you've done something wrong and being sorry and wanting to redeem yourself and find forgiveness, but not knowing how. (If infidelity is a triggery/touchy subject for you, I'll say that it happens offscreen before the story begins, and there are potentially mitigating circumstances. But it's still infidelity.)
I like the Ray K. voice in this one, and the backstory I invented, and in particular I like, or at least am rather proud of, an OC I created. And I like the ending. Is it a happy ending? I think so, but not everyone who reads it agrees with me.
N.B. Although this was posted to AO3 in 2009, it was written in 2005.
