From the Alaskan Frontier

Title: love is many things (none of them logical)
Author: fireweed15
Fandom / Setting: Helluva Boss — The Princess Bride AU
Characters / Pairings: Stolas x Blitzø / Stolitz; featuring Moxxie and Millie, Andrealphus
Word Count: 1646
Rating: T
Warnings / Notes: Written for Stolitz Week on Twitter: Day II — Actor / Movie AU
Summary: The Imp in Black challenges Marquis Andrealphus to a fight to the… pain?

sooooooo movie au clearly means Princess Bride AU right? it's not an OTP until I do a Princess Bride sendup lmao

I had three possible scenes to choose from, including this one, and my girlfriend specifically requested it. 😆 It ended up being a goddamn delight to do! Translating Westley to Blitzø was so fun, and Andre and Humperdink are dangerously close to one another haha. Honestly, writing Andre all pissed off was a delight because I'm intimately familiar with how cold behaves. Plus it was -20F / -29C at the coldest out when I wrote this.
 

Title: Chamomile Lavender Tea
Author: fireweed15
Fandom / Setting: Critical Role Campaign I: Vox Machina
Characters / Pairings: Percy de Rolo III and Keyleth of the Air Ashari
Rating: T
Word Count: 965
Warnings / Notes: Written for Hurt / Comfort Bingo 2023: Asking for Help
Summary: Sometimes, not even the rhythmic click of The List could lull him to sleep.

This friendship is so important to me for reasons I can't quite describe, and I would walk across burning hot Legos for them. I know at one point Percy told Grog it was nice to have an older brother again, and I absolutely think he would feel the same way about Keyleth, especially since he, y’know, saw his youngest sister die even if she did get better.

This is likely more TLOVM compliant than original stream / podcast compliant, but that's what I know best. Overall this is just a Vibe™ I wanted to play with.
 

Title: where the fear has gone there will be nothing (only I will remain)
Author: TheCrazyAlaskan
Fandom / Setting: Class of the Titans
Characters / Pairings: Archie Vincent x Theresa Sheridan
Word Count: 1263
Warnings / Notes: TW: references to past child abuse; Written for Round XIII of Hurt / Comfort Bingo: Forced to Face Fear; prompt from @Whumpster-Dumpster on Tumblr
Summary: He who has overcome his fears will truly be free — Aristotle

Guess who's going through a big ass resurgence of their middle school Greek mythology phase? :P 

 

Title: in ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live
Author: fireweed15
Fandom / Setting: Dungeons & Dragons (5e)
Characters / Pairings: Eltoris "Ell" Omaric, Frida
Rating: T
Word Count: 1715
Warnings / Notes: Written for Round XIII of Hurt / Comfort Bingo: Near Death Experience (Wild Card)
Summary: Things we lost to the flames / Things we'll never see again / All that we've amassed / Sits before us, shattered into ash

Inspired by an actual moment at the table. First, Ell succeeded in using a fire-based spell against an enemy, prompting the fire genasi wizard Frida (played by my buddy Chris) to ask "Do you respect the flame as I do?" to which Ell replied with a resounding no. Later, he got a nat 20 to yeet Frida across a ravine, so I joked that he was going "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oAo " the whole time.

So yeah. Now you know why Ell has crippling pyrophobia! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
 

Title: make good and finally make you proud of your boy
Author: fireweed15 / TheCrazyAlaskan
Fandom / Setting: Avatar The Last Airbender
Characters / Pairings: Zuko
Word Count: 751
Recommended Music: Proud of Your Boy — Aladdin Original Broadway Cast
Warnings / Notes: TW: references to past emotional / physical abuse; Written for Round XIII of Hurt / Comfort Bingo: Lost Childhood
Summary: Zuko takes care of one last thing before joining the Avatar.

🜂 🜂 🜂

Can I just take a minute to geek out / cry about Zuko's character arc / glow up?

My favorite character type is definitely "asshole with a heart of gold and underlying trauma" and great goddamn, does Zuko fit that bill! I mean honestly, he was practically just a baby when he lost his mother, the woman who instilled in him the values of kindness and compassion—the values his father loathed, the values that made him speak out to save a troop of new recruits and that caused him to have to face his father in a fight that got half his fucking face burned off. Call me a softy but I look at him and I see a little boy who lost his mother and hurts for it.

ANYWAY. Zuko's character arc is fucking legendary and I wanted to explore the idea that his mother would no doubt approve, a concept that was helped along with the song "Proud of Your Boy" from the Aladdin musical.

Title: distance between us (like a river of magpies)
Author: fireweed15
Fandom / Setting: Dungeons & Dragons (5e)
Characters / Pairings: Taz'vroth "Taz" Kurjish x Faith; appearances by Iados Voyager, Lorilla "Lola" Nackle, NPCs
Rating: T+
Word Count: 2743
Warnings / Notes: Prompt from @whumpster-dumpster on Tumblr
Summary: Taz cries to cross the river separating him from Faith.

Because if you're gonna write angst, you may as well marry that angst to your favorite piece of Chinese folklore… which is also devastatingly bittersweet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Title: kisses like honeyed berries
Author: TheCrazyAlaskan
Fandom / Setting: Critical Role — Campaign II: The Mighty Nein
Characters / Pairings: Fjord x Caduceus Clay / Fjorclay, NPCs
Word Count: 1001
Rating: T
Warnings / Notes: brain melting fluff

my first two fics were angsty, so here's something sweet and fluffy

Title: Forgiveness (Can You Imagine?)
Author: fireweed15
Fandom / Setting: Critical Role – Campaign II: The Mighty Nein
Characters / Pairings: Mollymauk "Molly" Tealeaf x Caleb Widogast / Widomauk
Rating: T
Word Count: 774
Warnings / Notes: Written for Round XI of Hurt / Comfort Bingo: Fever / Delirium [Wild Card]; prompt from here; dubiously self translated Zemnian German
Summary: Caleb's fever burns away some of his aloofness.

This was an itch only planning and feverishly no pun intended translating English to German and back again at 2am could scratch. Hashtag no regrets

Title: Better or Worse
Author: fireweed15
Fandom / Setting: The Arcana x Steven Universe / Steven Universe Future
Characters / Pairings: Julian Devorak x Pink Pearl
Word Count: 881
Rating: T
Warnings / Notes: Written for Round XI of the Hurt / Comfort Bingo: Motion Sickness

it's my bingo and I get to pick the crack ship ♡
and that's the only good thing about this piece, idk just take it

Title: the cell to wicked souls is hell
Author: fireweed15
Fandom / Setting: The Arcana (Pre-Game) — AU
Characters / Pairings: Ąžuolas Tobeluk, Muriel of the Kokhuri, appearance by Count Lucio
Rating: T+
Word Count: 919
Warnings / Notes: Written for Round XI of Hurt / Comfort Bingo: Cages
Summary: Ąžuolas accompanies his boss on a visit to the markets under the Coliseum.

Time to come out swinging for a new round of Hurt / Comfort Bingo!

Set in an AU where Ąžuolas is either an NPC or a romanceable love interest, and works as Lucio's somewhat weary, put-upon assistant the portia to lucio's nadia, if you will

Quote comes from the following piece written by Paul Pellisson on the walls of a cell in the Bastille—

Doubles grilles à gros cloux,
Triples portes, forts verroux,
Aux âmes vraiment méchantes
Vous représentez l'enfer:
Mais aux âmes innocentes
Vous n'etes que du bois, des pierres, du fer.

(Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates—the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.)