due South fic: "Coming Back"

I held off on posting this in my journal, because I wanted to get confirmation that I had earned the porn badge at fan_flashworks! \o/ Badges, how are they so motivating?



Also, Argentina is...kind of too hot for me right now (we're at the coast), but I loved being up in the mountains around Bariloche and seeing the temperate rainforest and the Nothofagus forest there. Photo report coming soon.

Title: Coming Back
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser/Thatcher
Rating: NC-17
Length: 1300 words
Summary: Meg comes back from an undercover assignment.
Notes: This is a science fiction AU which is sequel to this little epistolary snippet, so read that first. It's also a present for sage. : ) Ratio of spaceship action to porn is about 1:1. It fits into the flashworks challenge "The Other Side" because it's undercover work, I suppose, but it also fits in another way: I discovered recently that I almost always write het sex from the female POV, so here's a het sex scene written from the other side.

Coming Back

Recently read books

I am getting tons of reading done, what with all the traveling. A couple of months ago, I finally caved and got myself an ereader (a Pocketbook 360) and wow, I love it! Such a relief not be lugging lots of books around. I am reading lots of fic, too, which is a good thing since my to-read list had grown really long, but it would be far too much work to write about it all (although I do have a good workflow for leaving comments, at least).

Frontier Wolf, by Rosemary Sutcliff

By now I feel like I know what I'll get when I read a Sutcliff book. Which is not a bad thing, because I love her writing! Nnngh, there were some truly lovely descriptive passages in this book. And the characters and plot really worked for me, too. I didn't really see the Alexios/Hilarion that seems to be the popular pairing, though? Alexios/Cunorix was far more obvious to me (though wow, talk about tragic), and I see that isis has recently written this pairing. *puts on to-read list* Although I mostly read this book as gen, actually--it doesn't particularly make me want shippy fic.

A Matter of Oaths, by Helen S. Wright

This has been recced on my reading list (though I don't remember by whom) and you can download it for free at the link above. It's science fiction, and my favorite bit was the worldbuilding, with spaceships being run by a tightly knit team of people communing while submerged in a "web". There's a canon gay couple and a nicely twisty plot, too. This book falls into the "I enjoyed it, but it didn't blow my mind" category, I suppose.