island_of_reil

Five Times Marco Reproduced in a Special Loristan Way, and One Time He Did It the Standard Way by island_of_reil
Rating: T
Words: 9422
No Archive Warnings Apply
Pairing: Marco/The Rat
Characters: Marco Loristan, Stefan Loristan, The Rat, Lazarus, The Old Priest, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Crack, Sex Education, Reproductive Weirdness, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Egg Laying, Implied Mpreg, HOW IS LORISTAN FORMED, 5 + 1 Things
Summary: Loristans are very special people. They don’t produce children through anything so common and mundane as heterosexual fucking. (Well, okay, maybe that one time, they did.)
Inspiration: "Most Fervently" by halotolerant.

Read Five Times Marco Reproduced in a Special Loristan Way... at An Archive of Our Own.

Cross-posted to the_lamp_is_lighted.
 

The authors mentioned in this post are as follows:

"Most Fervently," the cracky yet gorgeous Lost Prince story, was written by halotolerant.

"Wherever You Go," the fic for The Eagle that segues from beautifully rendered h/c and pining into fiery porn, was written by alby_mangroves.

"All The Pleasures Prove," the witty and hot Marlowe/Shakespeare fic, was written by wildestranger.

The brilliant " \Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine," in which Susie Derkins from Calvin & Hobbes challenges Death with a game of Calvinball, was written by starlingthefool.

"The Queen of Rokovoko," Melville pastiche featuring an orgy to which Ahab isn't invited and the mating habits of cetaceans, was written by the_alchemist.

And "The Velvetskynn™ Rabbit," a hilarious adult version of the Margery Williams book, was written by gnomad.


I still have a lot of YT stories I want to read but haven't yet. Here are four more:

"Delete Selected Email?" by storiesfortravellers. This is based on Mallory Ortberg's post "The Rage of Jonathan Franzen" and is a screamingly funny piss-take of one of litfic's most grossly overrated and most unpleasant figures.

"The Red Hot Brawling Sun" by Nokomis. It's the story of Stagger Lee and Billy Lyons (which I had no idea was an actual 1895 murder), played out night after night at a roadhouse stuck in the mists of time. So you ignore the railspike and hammer lying carelessly next the broad-shouldered man whose chair threatens to break under his massive musculature, and the haunting strains of the blues coming from the guitar of a man with hellfire in his eyes. Chills.

"The Not Entirely Accurate Chronicle of John Polidori, Genius Physician and Brilliant Writer, and His Rather Less Distinguished Companions" by lady_ganesh. A cracky recounting of Polidori's, Byron's, and the Shelleys' Not-So-Excellent Vacation, influenced by Kate Beaton, as well as by The Awl. Includes the tag "Lord Byron's Penis."

"Back on the Horse" by novembersmith. I know absolutely nothing about Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series, but I clicked through anyway upon seeing a rec for this fic somewhere. The sex scene between the two main characters is absolutely incendiary, full of love and new sensations and trembling and saying each other's names, and the teasing that leads up to it makes it even hotter.

https://www.pinterest.com/janemary1/illustrations-frances-hodgson-burnett/




Marco and The Rat listen to the news sellers.




Marco and the Rat in the court with the Squad.




The Rat finds Marco in the cellar.




Giving the Sign to the lady in Paris.




The Bearers of the Sign arrive in Samavia.




Marco and The Rat arrive back in London.
 

was also the place where Thomas the Rhymer met the Queen of Elfland.

Incidentally, Patricia Southern writes in Roman Britain, "The three peaks have to be viewed from a particular angle to see that there are indeed three peaks, one of which looks as though it is struggling to get away from the other two."

While I'm on the subject of legend:

An enduring legend claims a huge army of knights sleep inside Blaník, a mountain in the Czech Republic. The knights will awake and under the command of St. Wenceslaus and bring aid to the Czech people when they face ultimate danger.

Forgers of the Sword, anybody?
 

Source.
 

As long promised, this is for osprey_archer. Why? See here and here.

****

Marco's Splendid Chest

"My God, Marco," the Rat said, "what a splendid chest you have."

Marco chuckled. "Well, thank you, Rat. I have Rastka to thank for finding it for me."

The Rat, leaning on his crutches by Marco's chest, ran an appreciative hand over the satiny-smooth mahogany and the well-defined carvings. Idly he fondled the two delicate knobs that were at eye level with him.

"Where did Rastka find it, may I ask? It's one of the loveliest gentleman's chests I've laid eyes, or hands, on."

"I believe," Marco said, "it initially belonged to one of the Iarovitch. Since the war, it had sat in a storage room, neglected and unappreciated."

"Well, I intend to appreciate it greatly every time I'm in your office," the Rat said. "Would you mind terribly if I looked in your drawers?"

"No, not at all," Marco said. "You're my aide-de-camp, and there are no secrets from you in this office."

The Rat leaned forward a little more to slide one perfectly oiled drawer open. Gazing at the various odds and ends arranged inside with all the neatness and organization one would expect of Stefan Loristan's son, he exclaimed, "My word, you certainly have a great deal in your drawers."

"Indeed," Marco said. "A prince will always have a great deal to keep in his drawers. However, if you ever have the need to put something into them yourself, you have my express permission."

"Thank you, Marco," the Rat said, "that will be good to keep in mind. Unfortunately, as much as I'd like to stand here and admire your chest some more, I must go."

"Ah," Marco said. "Will you be drilling the new Army recruits? Or handling the boat full of seamen that's docked in the river?"

"Neither," the Rat replied. "It's time for my weekly blacking of your father's boots."

---

Well, what did you think I was talking about?

Vassal, Chapter 1 of 2 (15,016 words) by island_of_reil
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Marco Loristan/The Rat, Marco Loristan/Original Female Character
Characters: Marco Loristan, The Rat, The Emperor's Favorite (Prince Rudolf of Vienna), Original Female Characters, Original Male Characters
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Threats of Rape/Non-Con, Implied/Referenced Torture, Period-Typical Homophobia, Period-Typical Ableism, Execution, Hanging, Infidelity, Angst
Additional Tags: Loyalty, Political Intrigue, 1920s
Summary: It is six years after the events of "Lord and Liege." Happy in his marriage to Paulina, who has since borne two little princes and a princess, Marco has been able to resist his longing for the Rat. In the meantime, the Rat has attached himself romantically to a nobleman whom Marco does not fully trust.
     Marco has enacted some reforms to Samavian law, but nowhere near enough. When the nobility’s violent opposition put the Rat in danger, Marco gave up on reform temporarily. But he cannot do so forever, especially not with the threat of the Soviets so close at hand. The Rat suggests they quietly slip away to his lover’s remote mountain dacha to work on the reforms without opposition or the attention of spies. In this peaceful rural setting, they must acknowledge what they are to one another — and face grave danger.

Read Vassal, Chapter 1 at An Archive of Our Own.