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This is where you’ll find a list of my fanfics. First the ones written in English, then the ones written in German. Many but not all were written as part of exchanges. You can also browse my tags, especially if you’re interested in my meta. And if you want to adapt or translate any of my fics, please read my statement on transformative works. You can also find all of my fics on the AO3 and my non-fic work in addition to that on my personal website (both are linked in the sidebar).

Additionally, if you’re open to being a beta reader for me, please check out this post detailing stories that I am currently looking to get betaed.

( My Works (In English) )

Willkommen in meinem DW

Hier findet ihr eine Liste meiner Geschichten (Fanfiction wie Originale). Oben die englischen, und unten die deutschen. Ihr könnt auch außerdem meine Tags durchstöbern, besonders wenn ihr Interesse an Meta habt. Und falls ihr eine meiner Geschichten adaptieren oder übersetzen möchtet, lest euch bitte mein Statement dazu durch. Meine Fanfics könnt ihr auch alle auf dem AO3 finden, und mehr von mir auf meiner Website (beide sind an der Seite verlinkt).

Und für den Fall, dass ihr bereit seit für mich beta zu lesen, bitte ich euch, diesen Post anzuschauen.

( Meine Geschichten (in Deutsch) )

These are stories where I am looking for betas before publishing them. I’m fine with any type of beta you’re willing to offer, from just SPAG to checking plot, characterization, pacing and the like.

50 Acres. Fandom: Warrior (TV 2019). Length: 430 words. Rating: G. A short introspective look at what might go on in Nellie's Head during S3.

The Advantages of Having a Criminal for a Father. Fandom: Banshee. Length: 1730 words. Rating: T. A short fic about the post-canon relationship between Lucas Hood and his daughter, from her PoV.

A Dish Served Cold. Fandom: Warrior (TV 2019). Length: 418 words. Rating: T. Introspective look at Mai Ling after S3.

A Dream in the Moonlight. Fandom: The King's Affection. Length: 613 words. Rating: T. A short fic about how things end between Lee Hyun and his brother, set during the last episode.

Fragments of a Life. Fandom: Moving (Kdrama). Length: 1000 words. Rating: T. A sequence of five double drabbles about Kim Dooshik's life post-canon.

Friends and Benefits. Fandom: Andor. Length: 2809 words. Rating: T. A small pre-canon adventure featuring Bix and Cassian.

Harder to Live With. Fandom: Carnival Row. Length: 1496 words. Rating: G. Three scenes exploring Portia's development post-season 1.

Heleus Herbals. Fandom: Mass Effect: Andromeda. Length: 781 words. Rating: G. A small post-canon ficlet featuring slice of life established F!Ryder/Suvi.

Lick Your Wounds and Get Up Again. Fandom: Warrior (TV 2019). Length: 1519 words. Rating: T. Set immediately after S3 - unexpected guests turn up on Bill O'Hara's doorstep.

Web of Fate. Fandom: Carnival Row. Length: ~77,000 words. Rating: M-E. A post-S1 AU focussing on Jonah and Philo. It's a gen/het mix with explicit-ish sex scenes (Philo/Vignette) but an overarching gen plot with lots of worldbuilding. I'd really love to know if the plot works, most of all, since it's my first fic of this length and type.

Dasselbe gilt auch für die folgenden Geschichten, nur eben auf Deutsch - Rechtschreibung, Plot, Charakterisierung, Struktur und so weiter - ich freue mich über jede Art Feedback, die ihr mir anbieten könnt.

Zu Asche, zu Staub. Fandom: Babylon Berlin. Länge: 883 Wörter. Altersfreigabe: 16+. Eine Übersetzung des gleichnamigen Ficlets - hier bräuchte ich also hauptsächlich Feedback zur Sprache.

I had such great plans for Yuletide. I’m so inspired, I can’t even decide which story I want to write for my recipient and which for myself. Canon review was awesome, I started writing to get into the groove and really felt like that first scene came together on Monday like nothing I’ve written in months did. I was so looking forward to the scene I’d planned to write next, on Tuesday. I love it when writing feels like that. I wanted to write all the novellas and treats…

Then Tuesday hit. Instead of the regular two and a half hours of commute, it was five. And until the last couple of hundred meters, I wasn’t sure if I’d make it. Like, when the train finally started, the train driver told us he didn’t know if we’d make it to the end. It was a broken interlocking system. You know, the brand new one that went online last month… In the end, I crashed so badly, physically and mentally, I would have had to call in sick if it hadn’t been for my boss mercifully granting me home office for the rest of the week after I told him my usual train wouldn’t run for the rest of the week and I’d have to take an earlier one. It took me all three working days and two pain pills to regain a semblance of functionality.

Oh, and then I found out that my usual train won’t run for another month, because absolutely nobody understands the train company’s emergency schedules, myself included. So, yeah, I think that was it as far as my grand Yuletide plans are concerned. Especially since I’ve already been through more than half the trains not running for a month once, and the ones that do run… well. I expect a few more Tuesdays, and hardly any free time.

In other news: I think I’ve finally got my first slightly wanky programming opinion. Usually I’m the person who says do whatever works for you, but even I have my breaking point. If you’re going to type anything slightly challenging any, why are you even using TypeScript? JavaScript is right there and there’s nothing wrong with it! (Guess who’s had to delint somebody else’s codebase this week...)

Title: Breathless
Fandom: Rivals (2024)
Author:

rodo
Length: 1187 words
Rating: 12+
Pairing: Rupert/Taggie
Disclaimer: everything belongs to Disney
A/N: written for

bearholdingashark72 during 2025’s

fandomgiftbasket

Summary: With everyone gone, Taggie is left to take care of her father on her own – until Rupert arrives to help, that is.

( Mummy was having the time of her life in London, and Daddy was throwing himself into his work even more than usual. )

Title: One Track Conversation
Fandom: Bullet Train (2022)
Author:

rodo
Length: 519 words
Rating: 12+
Characters: Lemon & Tangerine
Disclaimer:
A/N: written for

otaku_girl_ao3 during 2025’s

fandomgiftbasket

Summary: Tangerine loved Lemon – a lot – but sometimes having him around could grate on him. It was the little ways that were the worst.

( The door fell open, revealing a hotel room that was all sleek surfaces and gleaming metal. )

So, I have a job. At the grand old age of… yeah, I’d rather not say. But it’s my first actual job, and so far it’s fun, even if it’s also stressful and the hours and commuting time are not so great and I feel like a giant imposter. But that’s all manageable. Except for that one time the trains couldn’t run because a train crashed into a car (no fatalities) due to the trains being the trains.

It’s been one month since I started, and I honestly hadn’t noticed how hard looking for work was on my health (mental health especially), even if I did notice that it was bad. The extend of it was what surprised me when I suddenly got better. Looking back, I think the people who don’t get mentally ill in some way after being stuck in the system for a year are probably the minority. It would be great if the Job Center actually helped you find a job, but they do pretty much everything but that.

Unfortunately, the good news meant I couldn’t write as much for

fandomgiftbasket as I usually did. It fell right into the right-before and right-after starting the job period, and my mind was elsewhere for pretty much all of it. I hope it gets better once I’ve settled in a bit more. I signed up for Yuletide as well (and am extremely pleased with my assignment), so I want to make my recipient happy. Wish me luck!

First off, I hope you’re going to have fun writing for me and that this letter helps you. I’d also like to say that I’d like fic for all the characters/pairings/fandoms I’m requesting here, whether it follows my prompts or not. If you have an idea that you absolutely want to write about these characters and it doesn’t go against my DNWs, feel free to write it. And if you think you have a better idea than me (which is quite likely) the same applies.

( General information, DNWs and Likes )

Now for the canons:

Le Bazar de la Charité | The Bonfire of Destiny (TV)
Cat’s Eyes (TV 2025)
忍びの家 | House of Ninjas (TV 2024)
무빙 | Moving (TV)
설강화 | Snowdrop (TV)
극성 | Tempest

► After over six months, job searching really did a number on me, in part because the constant rejections and pressure on all sides is just not conductive to proper mental health, even if you aren’t predisposed to mental problems. It doesn’t help that it doesn’t seem as if the authorities take that into account at all, even though it’s going to pose a great hurdle to getting people into jobs. But of course, now that that might be on the verge of changing, my brain is basically playing Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now at me.

► I think I’ve lost my oldest friend to their executive dysfunction/whatever shit they’ve got going on. We’ve been at this point before until I sat them down to tell them the way they treated me wasn’t okay, and they got better after. But that was twenty years ago, and I’m no longer as patient as I used to be, plus I’ve got my own shit going on (see above). I can’t manage someone else’s life on top of it, especially when they live half a country away and do their level best to ignore anything that distracts from their hyperfocus of the day. Still, it’s kind of sad. We met when we were 14/13. That was almost thirty years ago.

► Spam on the AO3 is getting out of hand. It’s weird, but I think we might be getting to the point where, from an author’s perspective, ff.net might be more usable because all I have to do is click the Report button next to a spam comment and type a couple of sentences (or words, even), and after a couple of very dire months, reaction has become quite swift as well. AI truly has brought great technological advancement to the world – if you’re a spammer, at least. If things keep moving at this pace, the internet is slowly going to become completely unusable.

► I signed up for

fandomgiftbasket again – and hope to have a lot of fun. It’s happening late this year and I don’t know how much writing I can squeeze in between Yuletide and (hopefully) a new job, but since it’s not mandatory to create something, I decided to risk it. I still want to have fun, after all!

Title: Better Late Than Never
Fandom: Knight Flower
Author:

rodo
Length: 7639 words
Rating: 12+
Genre: romance, humor
Pairing: Cho Yeo-hwa/Park Soo-ho
Disclaimer: everything belongs to MBC
A/N: written for kaitou during 2025’s

fandom5k

Summary: Yeo-hwa is back in Hanyang, but getting together with Soo-ho turns out to be a bit more complicated than she had imagined. But then again, when has their relationship ever been simple?

( Mischievous banter, a hand on her wrist, an elegant twirl like a practised dance move, and Cho Yeo-hwa found herself in Park Soo-ho’s arms. )

► I absolutely loved the first season of the Murderbot TV series! If you haven’t watched it yet, I can only recommend it, because all the characters are varying levels of adorable, but especially Murderbot itself is just wonderful and Alexander Skarsgård does a great job. Also, it’s very relatable. I too would rather spend my time watching trashy TV shows instead of being a Productive Member of Society™. I’ll stay out of the fandom, though. That way lies madness.

► I’ve also played Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, and honestly, worst game of the series I’ve played so far. It’s just so long, and such a slog. After sixty hours I was still stuck in the middle somewhere, doing repetitive tasks. Plus, the ahistoricity really weighed on me, even though I have no idea about the time period – if even I can tell, how bad is it really? Also, I hate Sigurd. Like, why is he the boss to begin with, with everybody seemingly being all into it? All he does is swan around sprouting great ideas while everyone else does all the work. I’ve met too many people like that in real life to find it charming – and it wouldn’t even have been that bad if only they’d made him actually do significant stuff off-screen. But no, this is a video game, and the PC has to do everything… also, one of the most annoyingly buggy games I’ve ever played. Twice, I accidentally skipped over half a quest… and that was just the worst of a very buggy experience.

► I binged The Assassin recently, an Amazon Prime mini-series with 6 episodes, and I loved it! For those who might be interested, here’s what it’s about: Middle-aged retired assassin Julie (Keeley Hawes) is not enjoying her retirement on a quiet Greek island when her estranged son Edward (Freddie Highmore) visits with news about his impending marriage and questions about his father. Then, someone tries to draw her back into the job – only for things to take a catastrophic turn almost immediately. Along for the ride are rich siblings Kayla and Ezra and innocent bystander Luka, as well as an assortment of Julie’s former associates and a mysterious MILF who’s really into anime.

Title: Words Left Unsaid
Fandom: The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
Author:

rodo
Length: 2250 words
Rating: 12+
Genre: hurt/comfort
Characters: Rear Adm. George Tarrant & Nancy Brubaker
Warnings/Labels: grieving, canonical character death
Disclaimer: The movie and everything from it belongs to Paramount Pictures.
A/N: written for ifiwereabell for 2025’s

hurtcomfortex.

Summary: Harry Brubaker’s story ended in death – but that wasn’t really the end. Life went on after death, and Nancy Brubaker was left to pick up the pieces of hers, same as Admiral George Tarrant, who had been doing so for a decade. And sometimes, the only thing that helps is picking them up together.

( Dear Nancy, I am writing to you today to express my heartfelt condolences regarding the death of your husband. )

► As I mentioned, I did Rough Draft Month this month, a small, cosy NaNo replacement. It was supposed to pick me up a bit, and it did. But of course it was also stressful. Still, managed to hit my word count, all on one story. It’s a shitty story, but since my goal wasn’t to write a good one, that’s okay. I find that I am far more experimental and free with my English when just writing for the sake of it, rather than to produce something good, and that’s something I can then use in other stories. It also helped me figure out some general things about the story, should I ever rewrite it, from the natural stopping point (which I actually hit at 50k, by some miracle), and the arc of one of the main characters that I’d been struggling with. One of these days, I need to try this kind of challenge with a pre-planned story, though, rather than winging it all the time.

► I somehow managed to write my

fandom5k story in addition to that. Which was A Lot. Fandom 5K is the one exchange where I really wish the writing period was longer, since I tend to do intensive canon review with a lot of notes, and since coming up with a story idea sometimes takes me some time as well. I still need to do some editing, which is rare for me. I’m usually done at least a week early.

► My cat: it is summer, woe is me, I am a sad puddle on the floor, please make it stop. Also my cat: it is now the middle of the night and we need to cuddle. I don’t care if it’s still hot, need cuddles. (She’s elderly now, and she lost a lot of weight – down to a healthier 4.5 kg – which was hopefully just due to a change in diet when she started taking her heart meds, but whatever the case, she gets to get away with everything and I suffer through sleepless nights with a furry furnace clinging to me.)

( obligatory picture of the puddle in her favourite melting place )

► Job search is not going well and it’s beginning to eat at my soul. In fact, half the time, I just want to give up. The mandatory job searcher coaching is… whatever the opposite of helpful is.

► The garden is a lost cause. We planted so much, but then one bunny became three and four new crops became minus ten, because they eat everything. The onions? Sad green stumps. The strawberries? Ditto. The Swiss chard? Never had a chance. Neither did the radishes. The herb garden will hopefully regrow next year, but for now, no fresh herbs. The potatoes and rhubarb? Nibbled on at the edges (which my mother says can’t possibly be healthy for them). The only plants still standing unharmed are the red kuri squash (hidden on the compost heap), the zucchini and the borage, for reasons unknown. I’m livid, and I was this close to breaking the snitches get stitches rule of our neighbourhood and ratting our neighbour out to whoever’s responsible for irresponsible pet owners. We have fucking wolves here. He only managed to cage them again last week.

► I figured out something new about myself (that never stops, does it?) – my reaction to hearing the bass of distant music is misophonia, not just a normal reaction to it/tiredness. That’s why it doesn’t matter how quiet it gets. Even if I can barely hear it, it’s a rage/depression/confusion/madness button (in fact, often-times the low volume makes it worse). Brought to you by my neighbours starting to party at midday and not stopping until the middle of the night. They turn down the volume at night so as not to bother the neighbours/break the law, but doesn’t help in the slightest if the mere suggestion of it is enough to drive you batty. At least it was a Saturday, meaning I could use earplugs for sleeping.

► I signed up for Rough Draft Month next month. Not sure if it’s a good idea, what with, well … *points upwards*, but I’ve got my Fandom5K Assignment to get to and I can use a distraction. I think I really need my brain to stop running in circles, and writing tends to do the trick.

first off, I hope you’re going to have fun writing for me and that this letter helps you. I’d also like to say that I’d like fic for all the characters/pairings/fandoms I’m requesting here, whether it follows my prompts or not. If you have an idea that you absolutely want to write about these characters and it doesn’t go against my DNWs, feel free to write it. And if you think you have a better idea than me (which is quite likely) the same applies.

( General information, DNWs and Likes )

Now for the canons:

Gran Hotel (TV)
무빙 | Moving (TV)
설강화 | Snowdrop (TV)
Zorro (TV 2024)

( Gran Hotel (TV) )

( 무빙 | Moving (TV) )

( 설강화 | Snowdrop (TV) )

( Zorro (TV 2024) )

► Still looking for a job. Had my first proper interview and I was so happy I got rejected after. I was not a good fit for them and they were not a good fit for me, even though they were perfectly nice. But I’m beginning to wonder if I’ll ever get anywhere…

► Taking a break from the garden because of the birches. Allergies suck. But, I managed to sow all the seeds, and we’ve managed to score Sieglinde potatoes this year. Hopefully the drought doesn’t ruin our harvest because Sieglinde are the best potatoes (you can try to fight me, but you haven’t lived until you’ve had Sieglinde grown in bog soil). The strawberry harvest was already ruined because the neighbour’s bunny ate all the leaves. (Neighbour sucks at keeping her caged and this is not her first summer in our garden. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrBEFrbLlqM&feature=youtu.be )

► My mother got the all-clear on Monday. The hip replacement surgery went about as well as one can (minus the rocky recovery due to auto-immune disease) and I no longer have to drive her everywhere. She’s pretty happy to have her independence back too, as you can probably imagine. She’s also noticeably more active when it comes to the little things, like carrying everything out to the verandah so we can have coffee in the garden – she didn’t manage that once last year.

► And lastly: I wrote a haiku (in German), even if I usually prefer tankas:

Zank im Apfelbaum.

Zwei Amseln wettern. Es fällt:

ein Blütenregen.

Happy Labour Day, everyone!

Title: Travel Notes: Gdańsk
Author:

rodo
Chapter: 5/5
Length: 1167 words
Rating: 6+
Genre: travelogue
A/N: feel free to read; I wrote this mainly for myself, to better remember my time in Gdańsk
Summary: In the summer of 2024, I found myself with time and money to spend, and on short notice, decided to visit Gdańsk, a city I’d never been to, but had always wanted to see. Here, you can read all about my trip – the boring and hopefully not so boring details, illustrated by a couple of photos.

( I hadn’t looked forward to the trip back, and that had more or less ruined my sleep and left me with neck muscles so tense it was affecting my balance and making me dizzy. )

The Chapters

Day 1: Sunday, 28th of July 2024: All is well… | Day 2: Monday, 29th of July 2024: Getting Started | Day 3: Tuesday, 30th of July 2024: Something New(ish) | Day 4: Wednesday, 31st of July 2024: A Walk and Another Museum | Day 5: Thursday, 1st of August 2024: … That Ends Well

In the past couple of months, that is.

► Looking for a job. In this economy. Well, it’s going about as well as you’d expect.

► Keeping busy with the garden, ever since temperatures rose above freezing at night. The garden has been very neglected these past few years and since my mother is still out of commission, I’m doing the work of two people. But, the veranda is ready for summer and we’re on track with the vegetable garden for the year, unlike last year. If only this drought would stop…

► I’ve been replaying Skyrim for the first time in a decade. I do not remember it taking this long to get through – but then again, I manage maybe two hours a day, between the garden, cooking, running errands, etc. Sometimes, adulting sucks. But, I’ve built a house, adopted two children, and done a lot of quests that have zero to do with the main one, as usual. Finally managed to become arch mage and burned down too many beehives.

► Not sure what to make of the NaNoWriMo news. I didn’t participate last year because, well, everything happening in November for me, but I wasn’t sure I ever would again, after all the scandals. Right now I’m really wishing someone would make an International Writing Month with black jack and hookers. I miss the community aspect of it, even though that’s been suffering for ages, at least from my POV. People on Reddit mentioned that some people are working on replacements, but we’ll see what sticks. So far, none of them seem to be my thing. Maybe Rough Draft Month…

Title: Travel Notes: Gdańsk
Author:

rodo
Chapter: 4/5
Length: 1319 words
Rating: 6+
Genre: travelogue
A/N: feel free to read; I wrote this mainly for myself, to better remember my time in Gdańsk
Summary: In the summer of 2024, I found myself with time and money to spend, and on short notice, decided to visit Gdańsk, a city I’d never been to, but had always wanted to see. Here, you can read all about my trip – the boring and hopefully not so boring details, illustrated by a couple of photos.

( I woke up with a headache. Again. )

The Chapters

Day 1: Sunday, 28th of July 2024: All is well… | Day 2: Monday, 29th of July 2024: Getting Started | Day 3: Tuesday, 30th of July 2024: Something New(ish) | Day 4: Wednesday, 31st of July 2024: A Walk and Another Museum | Day 5: Thursday, 1st of August 2024: … That Ends Well

Title: Travel Notes: Gdańsk
Author:

rodo
Chapter: 3/5
Length: 1380 words
Rating: 6+
Genre: travelogue
A/N: feel free to read; I wrote this mainly for myself, to better remember my time in Gdańsk
Summary: In the summer of 2024, I found myself with time and money to spend, and on short notice, decided to visit Gdańsk, a city I’d never been to, but had always wanted to see. Here, you can read all about my trip – the boring and hopefully not so boring details, illustrated by a couple of photos.

( I woke up at a quarter to six. Again. )

The Chapters

Day 1: Sunday, 28th of July 2024: All is well… | Day 2: Monday, 29th of July 2024: Getting Started | Day 3: Tuesday, 30th of July 2024: Something New(ish) | Day 4: Wednesday, 31st of July 2024: A Walk and Another Museum | Day 5: Thursday, 1st of August 2024: … That Ends Well

Title: Travel Notes: Gdańsk
Author:

rodo
Chapter: 2/5
Length: 1977 words
Rating: 6+
Genre: travelogue
A/N: feel free to read; I wrote this mainly for myself, to better remember my time in Gdańsk
Summary: In the summer of 2024, I found myself with time and money to spend, and on short notice, decided to visit Gdańsk, a city I’d never been to, but had always wanted to see. Here, you can read all about my trip – the boring and hopefully not so boring details, illustrated by a couple of photos.

( All was not better the next day. )

The Chapters

Day 1: Sunday, 28th of July 2024: All is well… | Day 2: Monday, 29th of July 2024: Getting Started | Day 3: Tuesday, 30th of July 2024: Something New(ish) | Day 4: Wednesday, 31st of July 2024: A Walk and Another Museum | Day 5: Thursday, 1st of August 2024: … That Ends Well

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