one moment there was road beneath us (prompts post)

[harborshore]

I wrote today's essay for 14 Valentines on LGBTQ women. Brief TW for a mention of corrective rape (absolutely no description of it) and internalized homophobia.

And on that topic, it's my least favorite holiday tomorrow, but it's Galentine's Day today, and if you want to leave me prompts, I could try writing some ficlets. Because I'd like to show you some love, okay?

Fandoms I can currently write: XMFC, BTVS, DCU (pre-reboot, because I don't know what's going on atm), most things Tamora Pierce has written (or I could post a snippet from the Alex/Thom I'm working on), any book-related fandom you've ever heard me talk about or seen me write in, Leverage, potentially something else I've written in before (but not bandom).

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(Oh god, you WOULD pick the book I left behind in the US five years ago! Uncanny intuition ♥ And thanks for the heart, sweetling!)


Aly is eight. She knows every trick in the "Workbook for a Young Spy" by heart and her father isn't home this week. This will be easy. Escaping the schoolroom is a simple matter of looking a little tragic and pleading a headache, and getting out of Pirate's Swoop is almost as easy. The woods prove a little trickier to navigate, but she is nothing if not resourceful, and cuts off pieces of her skirt so that she will at least know the way back.

Of course, her father finds her before she can even get to the main road and sneak into a caravan.

"You cheated!" she accuses, because there is no way their servants could have gotten an ordinary message back to him in time and have him reach her this quickly.

"If by cheated you mean using all the resources at my disposal," her father says. There's something in his eyes Aly isn't used to seeing. "I like knowing where you are, Ally-cat, and I'm going to cheat for as long as I can."

"Fine," Aly says, and allows him to pull her up on his horse. She resolves to figure out how he did that; she will find a way to travel.

At seventeen, in the slaver's pen, she wishes for a second she hadn't learned which piece of jewelry her father had put a magical tracker on and left it behind. But then she helps start a revolution, and she's sort of glad she did.

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ALY OMG *____*

(i know it's not her best book, and i know aly is a bit of a mary sue, and she cheats too much, and bla bla whatever I DO NOT CARE BECAUSE SHE IS SO AWESOME. i have A LOT OF FEELINGS).

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(I don't mind the cheating! I like Aly a lot! It's a fun book! I just don't have it anymore :D I had to leave a lot of books behind in the US. ♥)

Glad you liked, dearest. <333333