The Musings of the Midnight Fox

And for most of it there is no excuse.

Anyway -

1) My Yuletide piece is written, edited and submitted. I'm quite happy with it, and especially that I was given a prompt that matched a story I have wanted to write for years! I just hope my recipient likes it as much.

2) I've just received 4 very important letters that I've known about for years: ADHD. Yup, diagnosis confirmed. I don't have any great hope for the drugs - me and psych drugs just don't get on. Mind you, a lot of "don't get on" is probably due to the abovementioned ADHD, so ... Anyway, that makes me AuDHD now, so NeuroSpicy Plus. Yay!

Now to get on with the rest of stuff.

Were you aware that, in the plethora of various daily quizzes like Wordle and Numble and Flagle, that there's a quiz based on using logic to solve a murder mystery? It's called Murdle. It's rather fun.

My Yuletide request this year matched on my willingness to help the greater good (the greater good) and write a Hot Fuzz fic.

And then I saw they liked Murdle.

So I asked if I might write a crossover. And they said Yes.

It Takes a Village tells of the chaos that occurs at Sandford when the Rainbow Retirement Home of Former Murderers starts up.

Enjoy.

Is it really that time again? I'm shocked!

( Hello my lovely writer. Do you know how magnificent you are? )

Hello, my lovely Unsent Letters Writer. I'm repeating the prompts down below, and trust in your abilities to turn them into magic.
( Cut so as not to clog up your pages. )

2 and a half hours before deadline is still "on time", yes?

I signed up for Yuletide, and wrote my gift-fic (which I'll tell you all about in January). And because the plot-bunnies WOULD NOT SHUT UP, I wrote a treat and two pinch-hits (I have a second treat simmering but it's not behaving so it might end up being a New Year's treat instead).

I saw the gift to me hitting the Gift list back in October.

Today I noticed I have another Yuletide gift there.

Someone has decided to treat me, and I couldn't be happier! In these ghastly times of plague, someone decided they'd take the extra effort and make me something special that they hadn't even signed up for.

So whoever you are, yay. Love your work. No matter what it is.

I've been writing quite a bit. The writing part refers specifically to my works on Archive of Our Own, including some Extreme smut on a side account that I do not admit to :-) Obviously my Fanfiction.net account's numbers would be quite different.

One of these days I must move the rest of the FF.Net ones over.

However, Meme, Snurched from mywitch ( and hidden behind this cut for your sanity: )

... that I had been unfaithful. I've finally finished my Star Wars Sequel Characters in a Modern Day Mafia setting piece. It's here.

And my prediction that it might go to 25 000 words?

Double that.

I am very pleased with it.

TW: Smut light, snakes, some violence, some bad crossover jokes and at least one bad maths joke.

And what I have been researching.

So I made the foolish mistake of looking at the Reylo¹ Fanfiction on various sites. There's a twitter account called Reylo Prompts which is exactly what it says - pictures or moodboards or snippets of poetry or just ideas that could be the basis of a story.

What it also is, and what it does not admit to, is being a hive, a warren, a TOTAL BLOODY INFESTATION OF PLOT BUNNIES!

Ahem.

I got bitten by the idea that Rey is the spoiled granddaughter of Mafia Don Palpatine, and Kylo Ren is a trusted Capo tasked with looking after her when there's a contract out on her. I was going for 10K. I think it'll hit around 25K.

So the things I have googled so far that amuse me greatly? And also enquired of patient friends such as moxie_man?

• Whether there's a slang expression for French Canadian Lumberjacks around the North-Eastern states.


• Have the eastern US Catholic Churches stopped using stoups?


• Is there a Star Wars Stratego game? There is! Several, in fact.


• Italian for Judas, Death Star, faggot² and how to refer to your period


• Timber rattlesnakes, their habits during winter, their general colouring, and how fast the bite will kill you.


• Is hunting legal in National Parks? No, except for a couple of places in Alaska


• Low-impact septic systems and how long between maintenance


• Symptoms of COVID-19 in the elderly, and how fast they can go from healthy to intubation.


• The plotline to the Bodyguard movie.


• Expensive good-quality Italian wines


• Innumerable Star Wars minor characters, locations and references. I have seen the last 3 movies once each only, so it's a good thing this is a full-on AU.

And all this just for Star Wars Fanfic.

1. Reylo = Rey/Kylo Ren (Ben Solo). Yes I've got a thing for dark broody antihero types. So bite me.
2. Apologies for the epithet. It's what the Don has been calling Kylo, making assumptions about him.

( It's a process. )
It's a little slower than some of my others, and rather wordy, but I felt it had enough meat to make a meal of.

For MyWitch, with my very very best regards. Untangling.