Chocolate Box

So I did manage to write something for Chocolate Box, but it was short and felt like pulling teeth, and I don't think it was particularly good. : / It was a pairing I'd offered to fill out my offer, which I was reasonably sure I could manage to write, but I wasn't really inspired. Considering I defaulted on Yuletide, right now I feel like I will never be inspired to write again, but hopefully that isn't true. To be fair, it wasn't just lack of inspiration, but also that my mind was full of other things.

But! I did receive an absolutely wonderful gift myself. I've asked for this fandom several years for Yuletide and never got it, and I am so happy to get it now--it's such a well-observed portrait of Ann and Sax.

Lookout Point (2283 words) by arpent
Fandom: Mars Trilogy - Kim Stanley Robinson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ann Clayborne/Sax Russell
Characters: Ann Clayborne, Sax Russell, Nadia Chernyshevski
Additional Tags: Antarctica, Depression, Pining, First Kiss, Very slight reference to child abuse
Summary: It was a code, in their little society. There were, of course, reasons to go hiking that had to do with science, or beautiful views, or mental well-being, but the fact remained that saying “x and y went on a hike together” meant a very particular thing, and Sax couldn't fail to understand it.