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Summary: Elio and Oliver have found their way back to each other, and everything is old and new again.

Characters: Elio/Oliver

Words: 900

Notes: This ficlet is inspired by a line from “once bitten and twice shy” by elospock, written for me this past Yuletide.

This could be read, if you choose, as following very soon after another fic of mine, “Storm Hits the City and the Lights Go Out” – or it stands equally on its own.


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( Tremble Before My Name )

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Over the years, I've been very fortune that various folks have asked to translate quite a few of my fics into other languages (most often Chinese, but also a few into Russian and one into French). There have also been a couple times that someone has made fanart, or remixed a fic, or podficced a fic. Every single time, every one of these is such an honor and a delight! It is beyond amazing to think that someone liked a thing I made enough to want to do a further thing with it. And then it's amazing again to see the thing they made, how they interpreted it and what new things they brought to it.

Until now, only one fic of mine had ever been podficced (finnagain's wonderful recording of "Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Father Christmas," my very first Sherlock fic). Until...

...two days ago! When averytree podficced not one but TWO of my fics, in two different fandoms. (This is part of Voiceteam, a podficcing team-based, scavenger-hunt-style challenge I'd never heard of until now, but it sounds enormously fun. It runs all of May, so right now there are all these podficcers out there, running around the internet completing various recording challenges!) Akikotree recorded one silly fic in a comedy fandom (John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme) and one serious/emotional/romantic fic in a drama fandom (Call Me By Your Name), which also makes for a nice contrast. Anyway, both are delightful, and I found it so moving to hear my words interpreted by someone else like this. The podfics are:


Since You Ask Me for a Tale of Magic (John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, gen, rated G, under 10 min)

Summary: Well, since you ask me for a tale of magic, I do have one account you may find…enchanting.


Time Is the Enemy, Time Is the Guide (Call Me By Your Name, M/M, rated T, under 10 min)

Summary: “Imagine,” Elio says. “In twenty years, do you think we’d still be here?” Or: late at night on the bench in the garden with Elio, Oliver thinks about time.


I really encourage you to listen & leave kudos if so moved, or maybe go wander around the Voiceteam collection on AO3 and support some other podficcers and all the cool things they're producing right now. :D

TIME IS THE ENEMY, TIME IS THE GUIDE

Fandom: Call Me By Your Name

Summary:

“Imagine,” Elio says. “In twenty years, do you think we’d still be here?”

Or: late at night on the bench in the garden with Elio, Oliver thinks about time.

Characters: Oliver/Elio

Words: ca. 1,000

Notes:

Written as a Yuletide treat for Macdragon / katemacetak. (I really don’t know if this is at all what you were looking for, because my mind got captivated by the “time” part of the quote you cited and stayed stuck on that… But in any case, here’s a little expansion of a canon scene, attempting to reach toward the lovely way your prompts talked about the film, and especially about the role of setting.) Thank you to xslytherclawx for betareading!

“The only antagonist in this film is time.” –Armie Hammer


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( Time Is the Enemy, Time Is the Guide )

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The final part of a series I wrote kind of accidentally, for Yuletide, not having expected to write Call Me By Your Name fic at all...


SEA LION CAVES IN THE DARK

Fandom: Call Me By Your Name

Summary: It’s the last night of Hanukkah, and Oliver returns to B.

Characters: Oliver, Elio, Annella, Samuel, Anchise, Mafalda, Vimini (Elio/Oliver)

Words: 4,700

Notes:

The title is (once again and always!) from Sufjan Stevens – from the song “The Only Thing.” It’s a song about finding reason to live, in the world’s small moments of astonishing beauty. “Sea lion caves in the dark” are one of those moments.

This fic again draws a bit from book canon in addition to film canon, for example that the Perlmans’ villa is directly by the sea, instead of inland. Also, Vimini exists. :-)

Thank you to Karios for betareading!


Previously in this series:
Sweetly, Before the Mystery Ends
Be My Rest, Be My Fantasy
Wasted My Life Playing Dumb

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( Sea Lion Caves in the Dark )

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ONE WEIRD THING

Fandom: Call Me By Your Name

Summary: Oliver is so irritatingly perfect. Why, Elio wonders, can’t he have just one weird habit?

Characters: Elio, Oliver, Samuel, Annella

Words: 200

Notes: A Yuletide Madness treat for lionessvalenti.

Dear lionessvalenti, I read your Yuletide letter and I loved this prompt so much:

“What I love about this movie is its exploration of intimacy. It has these really beautiful moments or not just sexual/romantic intimacy, or the familiar intimacy of Elio and his parents, but the things people do when they're alone. The silly things, the mindless, the quiet. One of my favorite little scenes is that moment when Elio puts Oliver's trunks on his head. It's something no one would ever do with anyone around, but there's a freedom in being alone, and seeing someone just being alone makes this movie so beautiful. I think that's the beauty of the infamous peach scene, and Elio's reaction, is having those weird things we do by ourselves called out and noticed.”

I tried for ages to write you a different, longer, more serious fic to that prompt, but it just wasn’t working out. Then Karios told me you like drabbles! So instead, here’s a (double) drabble for you.

Thank you to Karios for betareading. :-)


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( One Weird Thing )

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SWEETLY, BEFORE THE MYSTERY ENDS

Fandom: Call Me By Your Name

Summary: Oliver wonders how it’s possible that everything he’s ever written now sounds stupid.

Characters: Elio, Oliver, Annella

Words: 2,100

Notes:

A Yuletide treat foriomixit.

Dear iomixit/asuralucier, I was browsing through Yuletide letters, and your prompt about how much Oliver needs a hug grabbed my mind and wouldn’t let go. I wasn’t necessarily planning to write in this fandom, and yet here we are. :-) Happy Yuletide!

Title from (of course) Sufjan Stevens, from the song “John My Beloved.”

Uncountable thanks to Karios, for in-depth and thoughtful betareading!


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( Sweetly, Before the Mystery Ends )

 

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