Clio's writing journal

Author: Clio
Title: An Excellent Thing
Pairing: Suits: Harvey Spector/Mike Ross
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Once Mike notices—really notices—the way that Harvey's vests nip him in at the waist just so, he decides to buy Harvey something else that will do the trick. After all, if wool and silk and buttons can do that, what could leather and boning and laces do?
Warning: (skip) Mike gets Harvey a corset, and it ends up effecting them both like a collar, in that when Harvey wears it he belongs to Mike. So some dom/sub elements, though very understated. Enthusiastic consent, definitely, and promise to set up boundaries.
Length: 2200 words
Notes: Written for the "collar" square on my kink bingo card, though the collar here is a corset. Same effect; see content notes for more detail.
Title from the line from King Lear—"Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman"—that Caroline Ingalls often quoted to her girls.
Special thanks to canis_takahari for her enthusiasm for the story!!

( Ma says Pa could span her waist with his hands when they were married )

Author: Clio
Title: The Migratory Patterns of Omegas
Pairing: Teen Wolf: Lydia Martin/Erica Reyes
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Erica and Stiles are convinced that they're going to go down in history as the first-ever omegas at Beacon Hills High School to go unclaimed. But they also, deep down, have an alpha that they're hoping will come to them when they go into heat. Both of these ideas about instinctive mating are pretty much entirely wrong.
Warning: (skip) Unproblematically positive treatment of instinctive mating-for-life, but nothing dub- or non-con. A/B/O dynamics. Participants are 17.
Length: 8700 words
Notes: Written for the a_b_o_ladies challenge! And thanks to the mod there for having this challenge. I'd been having thoughts about how omega verse works in a femslash context so it's awesome to have a place to work out my ideas!
Also this fic would not be what it is without the Wincon femslash panel and their idea of what an alpha female organ should be, and everyone's general enthusiasm for the story. HUGE thanks to radioaches for cheerleading and verity for being a great beta!
Obviously I'm pretty unapologetic about falling into this particular fandom wormhole, but I will say that this story is grade-A Romantic Fantasy Sugar that presents instinctive mating-for-life at seventeen as entirely unproblematic. There's a lot of overt mutual consent going on, but I know some people feel that mating as a concept is always already dub-con, so note that this really is an omega verse story. For the challenge our requirements were preset roles from birth, a biological imperative for mating (heat or rut) and biological differences between alphas and omegas, and all of those are present in the story as well as the mating-for-life. Oh, and the tentacle-like ovipositor.

( I'm not going to cower in the middle of the caf. )

Author: Clio
Title: Do You Want It On Your Biscuits, Baby?
Pairing: Teen Wolf: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Rating: PG
Summary: Stiles is about to turn eighteen, and he's ready to make something happen with Derek. Scott, being the good friend that he is, has a suggestion.
Warning: (skip) Nothing to warn for!
Length: 2000 words
Notes: So on tumblr there was a TFLN for Teen Wolf in which Scott tells Stiles, "Dude, seduce him with cookies. You almost turned me gay with scones. Don't be surprised when they get you laid." And I said, I could write that, and verity said, "DO IT" and I thought I'd write it for the maintenance challenge on Tumblr today, and here it is. VERY quickly and wonderfully beta'd by 17pansies. Could be considered a prequel to the currently tumblr-only story "In Which Scott is an Awesome Friend, Mostly." Title from the Jill Scott song "It's Love."

( if you want more of this, ask Stiles )

Author: Clio
Title: Distractions
Pairing: Lydia Martin/Erica Reyes
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Lydia and Erica have fun teasing Stiles while he drives them home, but just a tease isn't enough for them.
Warning: (skip) No warnings!

Length: 1900 words
Notes: This is a companion to the Stiles/Derek story Distracted, and fulfills the phone sex square on my kink bingo card.
A billion and a half thanks to verity and radioaches for beta'ing both fics!

( You are so vulgar )

Author: Clio
Title: Invitations
Pairing: Avengers: Natasha Romanov / Pepper Potts
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Someone is stealing Stark Tech and using it to fight the Avengers, which offends Pepper on every level. So when Phil asks her to team up with Natasha to root out the traitor she's more than happy to—even if it means reopening some old and not-so-old wounds.
Length: 8700 words
Notes: Man, this was absolutely my very very first choice of art and I'm so excited to have it and all of Rachel's suggestions; Natasha and Pepper working together was her idea and I hope I've done it and her art proud. You can see it here on AO3; it's not quite safe for work, I'd say.
Thanks to my cheerleaders and first-readers amyamy, verity and stevie, who made the work of my super amazing beta ali_wildgoose much easier. Also thanks to the lovely organizers of the avengers_rbb!

( Pepper, your presence is requested. )

Author: Clio
Title: Girls To Talk To
Pairing: Janice Rand/Christine Chapel, with Spock/Nyota Uhura. Also James T. Kirk/Leonard "Bones" McCoy and Gaila/Montgomery Scott
Rating: R/Mature
Summary: Four young women meet as Radcliffe freshmen in 1959.
Warning: (skip) None.

Length: 21,000 words
Notes: All graphics by my big bang parner, kymericl
A companion fic to When the Game Ends We'll Sing Again, this time about those Radcliffe ladies. References and influences at the end.
Thanks to verity, the_dala, and weepingnaiad for their help in shaping the story, and ali_wildgoose for the amazing beta job.





( For the next four years, we will let everyone see the smart girls—no, women, the smart women that we are )

Author: Clio
Title: Surround Sound
Pairing: Avengers: Clint/Phil/Pepper/Natasha
Rating: PG
Summary: Four people, six first kisses.
Length: 1800 words
Notes: Some OT4 action originally written for foxxcub's kissing meme.
Six Thomas Dolby songs provided the inspiration for each of the kisses (hence the title). I'll note all the quotes at the end.

( it's a slow building process but stronger for that )

Author: Clio
Title: Domesticity Is a Cult
Pairing: Avengers: Natasha Romanova/Pepper Potts
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Pepper's daily routine is interrupted when Natasha is off on a mission, so Tony steps in to help her out.
Length: 1400 words
Notes: Cobbled together from a few prompts--thanks SO MUCH to everyone who answered my call for them! Also so many thanks to ali_wildgoose for giving it a once-over!

( Pepper misses her most in the mornings. )

Author: Clio
Title: Appropriate Motivation Is Required
Pairing: Avengers: Phil Coulson/Clint Barton
Rating: PG-13
Summary: They've only just started their trip and already Clint seems more edgy than usual. But Phil can handle that; he's good at improvising with whatever's available.
Length: 1000 words
Notes: For the "five questions" meme, pts gave me this prompt:
Remember that one time Clint and Coulson were roadtripping across the country and they pulled over to camp somewhere out in the middle of the Nevada desert, and they set up some beer bottles to do target shooting and Clint was being a real mouthy brat about Coulson's constant missing? HOW DID COULSON FINALLY SHUT HAWKEYE'S STUPID MOUTH?!?!
and this story is basically what happened. (Clever readers will also note that I borrowed the payoff from a certain s1 episode of Castle.)
So many thanks to pts, and also to ali_wildgoose for giving it a once-over!

( He prepares to dig in and wait it out )

Author: Clio
Title: If You'd Escaped What I've Escaped
Pairing: Inception: Yusuf/Ariadne
Rating: PG
Summary: Cobb told them to lie low for a while, but that isn't the only reason Ariadne is the last person Yusuf expects to see walking into the Redondo Beach Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.
Length: 300 words
Notes: Written for the Versicolor Week Challenge @ tumblr and posted there a couple of weeks ago in a slightly less cleaned-up version. Title from "Paris" by Kanye West and Jay-Z, specifically: "If you'd escaped what I've escaped / You'd be in Paris getting fucked up too."

( He tried to act a bit cooler than he felt. )