starfishstar

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.


Read this fic on AO3, or here below:


( Tremble Before My Name )

.

I said the series was complete...but now I guess it's even more complete? (Inspiration struck for a coda!)


WILL WONDERS EVER CEASE

Fandom: Call Me By Your Name

Summary: Elio moves to New York. (Glimpses of their new life together, set across the course of one year.)

Characters: Oliver, Elio, OC

Words: 3,700

Notes:

A New York coda to the series “He Thinks of Elio.” Thank you to Tessiebear81, whose comment got me thinking about this! It will probably make the most sense if you’ve read the rest of the series (or at least part 3, “Wasted My Life Playing Dumb”). But you could also get by if you just know the following:

When Oliver returned to New York after his summer with the Perlmans, trying to figure out what to do now that Elio had upended his life, he made friends with his elderly (and awesome) neighbor Esther. Her wisdom and perspective gave him just enough of a nudge towards making a different decision than in canon: daring to try to make things work with Elio despite his fears, and visiting him that winter for Hanukkah. Now a month or so has passed since that wintertime visit in Italy, and it’s the beginning of 1984.

Just to keep with the theme of the series, the title is of course from Sufjan Stevens, from “Mystery of Love.”

(This is a set of vignettes over the course of a year, each taking place on a different Jewish holiday – though as you’ll see, some relate more directly to the holiday in question than others.)


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


Read this fic on AO3, or here below:


( Will Wonders Ever Cease )

.

Third and nearly final fic in the series...


WASTED MY LIFE PLAYING DUMB

Fandom: Call Me By Your Name

Summary: Oliver walks through New York, and everything is Elio.

Characters: Elio/Oliver

Words: 3,300

Notes:

The title is a line from “The Only Thing” by, yes of course, Sufjan Stevens.

This one draws a bit more from book canon as well as film canon (e.g. that Elio and Oliver do keep in touch in the ensuing months, and have talked about at least trying to meet up again).

Thank you so much to Karios, whose feedback on an early draft of this fic made this much better than it was, and who was kind enough to check over the final draft, too.

Explanations of Yiddish words in the end notes. :-)

Read on AO3, or here below:

 

( Wasted My Life Playing Dumb )

.

BE MY REST, BE MY FANTASY

Fandom: Call Me By Your Name

Summary: Elio is reading poetry. Of course.

Characters: Elio/Oliver

Words: 1,600

Notes:

A Yuletide treat for two recipients, because I ended up inextricably inspired by both of you.

Ghostcat’s guidelines for writing Elio and Oliver were a delightful encapsulation of these two characters:

“1. Elio and Oliver are always intelligent.
 2. They are always Jewish.
 3. Elio is always inclined towards boldness and
 4. Oliver always loves it.”

And lionessvalenti’s prompt for “UST-filled teasing and roughhousing” was so evocative that it slipped in and declared its place in this fic before I even knew it! That combination of intelligence, boldness and physicality seemed just right for Elio/Oliver.

The title is – but of course – from Sufjan Stevens, from the song “Should Have Known Better.”

Thank you to Karios for above-and-beyond betareading!


Read on AO3, or here below: 


( Be My Rest, Be My Fantasy )

.