Deviant Tales

X-Men: First Class Remix is over!

I got absolutely glorious remix of my story The Quiet Ones, the Remix was: Absolution by arcapelago

It's really good, and so damn clever, a whole new level of dark. I love it so much!
I tried to guess which one of my stories would caught a remixers eye, and I would've never guessed this one would get the honor.

I wrote three stories, one main recipient and two madness stories. All the recipients seemed to like the results, so that's good!

Also, I posted six finished KB stories. Didn't get a line bingo, but I figured that I better just post what I have instead waiting for the very last minute in the hopes I would finish the squares. Bingo or not, at least I can get a card in the upcoming new round.

I know I said this last year, and then failed at it, but I'm going to try it again: no more XMFC stories. I'm going to finish Path, and then that's it. Done, crossing the finish line, having a fancy victory dance!

Of course I'll sign up for Kink Bingo, but other than that, I don't know what I'll write, if anything. I'm going to see how I feel.

I finished and posted one of the three Project fics!

Wild Charms (6 727 words)

I wrote nothing but that whole day yesterday. I decided to follow the trader rule of thumb: "Cut your losses short but let your profits run."

That story pulled yesterday, it felt easy to write it, so I abandoned all time constraints and let it run. Perhaps it would've been wise to let the story rest for few days and then glance at it again, but to be brutally honest with myself, I've rewritten that story so many times that I don't know if there was a way to make a good story out of it anymore.
So I cut my losses at that point, and called it done.

Now, time to turn focus on the other two!

Title: You Love To Fail
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Relations: Erik/Logan/Charles
Kink: shaving/depilation, caning, bondage (wrist/ankle), free square (bondage other)
Word count: ~1400
Notes: Written for xmen_firstkink meme prompt: "Charles likes to act like a bit of a brat in the bedroom in order to get taught a lesson by Erik and Logan. Erik and Logan argue about how much is too much while Charles just really loves both of their methods."

Story is a stand-alone, but it can also be read in line with the two fills for the same prompt, my another fill Green Light and OP's own fill "In Other Bedrooms" (same link as the prompt).

( You Love To Fail )

Title: First Move and Last Move; Or the True Account of the Fall of Sebastian Shaw
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Characters: Azazel, Emma Frost
Kink: exhibitionism, plushie kink
Word count: ~1400
Notes: Magneto may claim that he was the one who killed Shaw, but he wasn't the one who made him fall.

( First Move and Last Move )

Title: Angel Raised Her Hand
Fandom: X-Men: First Class
Relations: Erik/Emma/Mystique/Angel
Kink: guns
Word count: ~820
Notes: Family that plays together, stays together.

No sexual content, but some allusion of the matter.

( Story this way... )

Title: Deep Skin
Fandoms: Push / X-Men: First Class
Pairing: Teresa Stowe (The Stitch) / Emma Frost
Kink: injury
Word Count: 501
Notes: How do you heal an injured diamond? You go see a specialist.

( Deep Skin )

Title: Picture Me And You
Fandom: X-Men:First Class
Pairing: Charles Xavier / Raven Darkholme
Kink: vanilla
Word count: ~1300
Notes: Raven attempts to play a game with Charles, but like in Calvinball, you can never play with the same set of rules twice.

Thank you all the commentators at kb_cafe, who gave valuable pointers and thoughtful suggestions to my questions about the essence of vanilla kink.

Story was also inspired by xmen_firstkink meme prompt: "Charles brings home another random girl, and Raven pretends to be his wife or girlfriend to scare them."

Warning: nothing really sexual

( This way to the story )