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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.

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.

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

Title: Travel Notes: Gdańsk
Author:

rodo
Chapter: 1/5
Length: 1460 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.

( Sometimes, you’ve got to eat your own words. )

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: Get Cultured
Fandom: Space Sweepers
Author:

rodo
Length: 692 words
Rating: 0+
Characters: Jang Hyun-sook, Bubs
Disclaimer: everything belongs to Netflix
A/N: written for SleepyMaddy for 2025’s

candyheartsex

Summary: The things Jang Hyun-sook does for her friends…

( “I’m so never doing this again,” Jang Hyun-sook muttered under her breath. )

Title: Coffee and Code
Fandom: Disco Elysium
Author:

rodo
Length: 545 words
Rating: 6+
Genre: missing scene
Characters: Soona Luukanen-Kilde, Kim Kitsuragi
Disclaimer: everything belongs to ZA:UM
A/N: written for laughingpineapple during 2025’s round of

candyheartsex

Summary: While working on the mystery of the church, Soona and Kim have a little chat.

( Soona Luukanen-Kilde blinked. )

So, that break has yet to fully materialize, but I’m getting better, bit by bit. Got my grade – excellent (just barely, but hey, I just wanted to pass) – so at least all the stress and literal stomach aches were more than worth it. I am now officially a computer science expert for software development and I’ve got a piece of paper that proves it. Still feel like a complete n00b who can barely manage an if statement, though.

► The quick fix for the car didn’t last, predictably, so it broke down again while my mother was in the hospital, leaving me to deal with it. I swear, this car hates me. The last time it broke down, my mum was stuck in Poland with Covid.

► My mum’s surgery went well (despite the unexpected general anaesthesia). The recovery, not so much. Because of the wound healing she wasn’t allowed to take the meds against her auto-immune disease, leading to a flare-up. The symptom: excruciating pain in hips, back and shoulders that pain meds don’t work on (getting doctors to take it seriously is always fun, especially with orthopaedists).

► We got the water bill for the year while my mother was in the hospital and it was unreasonably high. My mother couldn’t cope, so we didn’t deal with it until she got back. Only found the potential cause yesterday (faulty faucet for the garden hose), but in the meantime, we “used” 25 litres and hour while no water was being used by us.

► While all that was going on, I actually managed to do

candyheartsex – and I had fun, like always. I even managed to write a last minute treat this time, which I hadn’t managed since

chocolateboxcomm ran.

► I finally got around to editing my travelogue some, so I hope I will manage to post it sometime in the near future. It might be of no interest to any of you, but I like how the act of writing and re-reading them every now and again helps me remember my travels, since I barely get to leave the country.

And so am I. Like, I pretty much collapsed and have only barely started to recover. But I’m done with all my exams – still don’t know my grade, feel shitty about the oral part, but I passed (they told me that much), and that’s the important bit. It was a lot of stress, and I’m beat, mentally and physically. And as always, it’s never just one thing, it’s all the things:

► Shortly before the holidays, the cat started horking up clear liquid/spit in the mornings. Not every morning, at worst twice a week, but enough to have us worried. We thought there was something wrong with her stomach, but there wasn’t. It’s her heart. She’s getting medication, no more horking so far, but she’s almost twelve and I am so not ready to lose her.

► My mother is getting a new hip next week and losing it, pretty much. Too much to prepare, too much to keep in mind, and on top of it, she’s got to organise voting by mail (thanks, Lindner). I’ve got an upper GI endoscopy two days after, because my stomach problems have not gone away.

► To top everything off, the car stopped working this morning for a short while for reasons partly unknown, and we’ve got fibre optics guys in the house on Friday after a tense back and forth via email – so I might not even have internet for a while.

I need a break.

Title: Sick Day
Fandom: Space Sweepers
Author:

rodo
Length: 1318 words
Rating: 0+
Characters: Jang Hyun-sook, Kang Kot-nim, Tiger Park, Kim Tae-ho, Bubs
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to Netflix
A/N: Written for wakeupnew for 2024’s

yuletide but posted late due to getting sick, ironically.

Summary: “I think Kot-nim’s sick,” Bubs said.

( “I think Kot-nim’s sick,” Bubs said. )

Title: Take Me Home (My Heart Is Heavy)
Fandom: Fallout (TV)
Author:

rodo
Length: 5447 words
Rating: 12+
Characters: Lucy MacLean, Norm MacLean, The Ghoul/Cooper Howard
Disclaimer: It’s Bethesda’s and Amazon’s universe and characters, of course
A/N: The title was stolen from a Johnny Cash song. The fic itself was written for All_InProcess for 2024’s

yuletide.

Summary: While Lucy and Cooper need to find a way to get supplies for their hunt for Hank MacLean, Norm is faced with a different problem: how to get out of turning into a popsicle.

( Norm stared at the empty cryo pod in front of him. )

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 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)
忍びの家 | House of Ninjas (TV 2024)
무빙 | Moving (TV)
설강화 | Snowdrop (TV)

( Gran Hotel (TV) )

( 忍びの家 | House of Ninjas (TV 2024) )

( 무빙 | Moving (TV) )

( 설강화 | Snowdrop (TV) )

… and I’m looking forward to being done with it. It wasn’t all bad. Just very, very stressful in a couple of different ways.

I failed getyourwordsout – which is fine. As I mentioned in January, I gave myself permission to. I tend to get most of my writing done in November during NaNo, and that wasn’t an option, with three exams and the super important project scheduled then. But I did way better than expected! I’m only 16,485 words short of 75k, when my self-imposed goal was hitting 25k (aka what’s left without NaNo).

I survived the exams and did end up doing really well in those too. I won’t be done with everything until mid-January (barring illnesses etc.), but then I’ll be free (to go look for a job. Urgh.) Exams suck, especially if they’re no longer routine, and if a lot depends on your performance on a couple of days.

Another success this year: I hit 200k written for exchanges. That is A Lot. I also managed to take a pinch hit this year and had a lot of fun with it!

I have so many projects that I started and still need to finish… hopefully, I’ll get that done some time next year.

So, I recently played the game. I’ve been into Dragon Age since the first game, and my feelings about this one are… complicated. There are definitely elements I like about this game: the combat system was fine by me. Too many boss fights (I hate those with a passion), but otherwise, nothing to complain about. I’m not hugely into mechanics, so as long as a game is relatively playable without too much effort, I’m easy to please. A couple of locations were too dark, but game developers love darkness, so, whatever. The finale was definitely better than in Inquisition (but that might be because I don’t tend to buy DLCs and so I never got to play Inquisition’s ending) and I liked it, overall.

The main bulk of the story, though, is a different matter. I’m really not too happy with how most of the returning characters except Harding got treated – and honestly, the missives from the Inquisitor made me think there was a game there I’d rather be playing happening down south. What I did like was most of the companions and how their relationships unfolded. I adored Taash’s relationship with their mother. I was happy about some worldbuilding regarding the elves and dwarves, even. But what really wasn’t my thing was how shallow it all felt. It took me a while to pinpoint why, too.

( Continue for more )

So, if it takes me a little longer to get around to my gift(s), it's because I got a cold just in time for the holidays today (yay). No idea yet how bad it's going to end up being and how it'll interact with my general exhaustion from exams and other current health issues etc., but I thought I'd warn you just in case, since my colds can get pretty bad.

Current Mood: sick

Feeling pretty shitty right now, though, and like I failed the algorithm part (I can’t for the life of me program on paper and so forgot like half the algorithms). But I handed in my documentation on Friday (80 footnotes, way more than I used for any paper in uni, even though they’re both the same length; got creative to squish the text onto 15 pages and hope nobody notices), and now I’ve got the three exams on one day behind me. Time to fall apart until about mid-January.

I hope for my health that I passed. I got a bad case of gastritis seven weeks ago that landed me in the ER and my stomach still hasn’t fully recovered. Since it was probably triggered by stress, that’s not exactly a surprise, but I need to get checked out for other causes now too.

Hopefully, after a bit of sleep, I’ll recover enough to get into a Christmassy mood, clean up the mess around me, and get started with my Yuletide Assignment.

Still hanging in there (with the help of dramas), only two and a half weeks left... so here's some recs from the last couple of months.

( The Atypical Family, Black Out, The Kidnapping Day, My Dearest, What Comes After Love )

Title: A Long Night
Fandom: Rogue One
Author:

rodo
Length: 1385 words
Rating: 6+
Characters: Jyn & Kaytoo
Disclaimer: everything belongs to Disney
A/N: written for

tielan during 2024’s

fandomgiftbasket

Summary: Cassian got himself hurt, and there's only one thing Jyn and K-2SO can do: wait.

( We regret to inform you that Captain Andor was admitted to the infirmary in serious condition. )

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