Dira Sudis

Many thanks to templemarker for beta, and to everyone else who agreed that, yeah, there should totally be a story where Rudy Reyes is Erica Reyes's uncle! ...And then it took me three months to write. But here it is!


The Strength of the Wolf Is the Pack (9428 words) by Dira Sudis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Teen Wolf (TV), Generation Kill
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Pappy Patrick/Rudy Reyes, Vernon Boyd/Erica Reyes
Characters: Vernon Boyd, Erica Reyes, Rudy Reyes, Pappy Patrick, Timothy Bryan, James Chaffin
Additional Tags: Minor Character Death, The Alpha Pack
Summary:

"Uncle Rudy," Erica said. "It's me."

chemm80 has posted podfic of my GK PTSD babyfic, Don't You Shake Alone!

And on the other end of the story-length spectrum, knight_tracer posted podfic of my shortest Derek/Stiles story, New Moon Shine!

So the just-closed fan_flashworks challenge was "Elusive or Ephemeral" and naturally I wanted to write something about Nate seeing a mirage in the desert. And, well, this was the only pairing that made sense! The fact that I have been waiting a year and a half for this pairing to exist outside my brain is just happy coincidence. :D

Many thanks to iulia, who was at a con with me this weekend and did not smother me with a pillow despite the embarrassing number of times I said YOU NEED TO READ MY STORY BEFORE THE CHALLENGE CLOSES in the last few days. ♥


Nate/Mike. Not explicit. 1300 words.
It didn't seem strange. It seemed perfectly normal.

Oasis on Dreamwidth | Or on the AO3

YAGKYAS authors are revealed, so I can now claim White Hats (or at the AO3) as my own! It's a Nate/Brad + Team One Alpha (including Evan) story--my recipient, dome_epais, requested a fusion with the anime of my choice, but as I am sadly anime-deficient, I wrote a fusion with Holly Black's Curse Workers series instead. Because you know me and my propensity for Generation Kill + fantasy novels. *g*


And now, back to reading my way methodically through the YAGKYAS master list! I made it through a lot more stories this year before the reveal than I have in years past, but I'm not quite done yet.

One of the delightful things about plastering blanket podfic permission all over the place is that every so often I just discover that somebody has podficced something I wrote, and it's a delightful surprise. I've just had two such surprises!

Five Things That Never Happened to Nate Fick, read by sly_hostetter.

Being Found (sleepy Derek/Stiles PWP), read by kalakirya

...No I mean the other wolves. GK wolf-verse!

60,050 words!
I'm in Act IV! One more act to go after this!
THEY'RE ACTUALLY IN IRAQ YOU GUYS. :D :D :D

(I know, I know, you are not a yak! But it is a fond appellation, I promise.)

Ahem.

Dear yagkyasyak (or Yagkyasperson or Yagkyaswriter as you prefer),

I don't rememeber which pairings/characters I requested. Nate/Brad probably, right? Maybe also Brad/Ray? Wow, I really don't remember. If I did request both of those, please resist any impulse to give me both by smooshing them into a threesome; I like both pairings, but not all three together. If I requested some other second pairing instead of Brad/Ray, um, never mind! Write that one if you like! Or gen about any of the single characters, I think I listed some of those too.

Wow, we are off to an excellent start here. Next year I will totally remember to make a note of what I request.

Okay, I do remember that my wild card prompt was Reign of Fire, because I was PRETTY EXCITED about that idea. If you have seen Reign of Fire, ( Reign of Fire spoilers )

If you haven't seen the movie, it actually--okay, I mean, brace yourself for the terrible CGI of the dragons and the fact that it is not by any means a cinematic masterpiece, but it has Christian Bale and Gerard Butler as OTP BFFs co-parenting a couple of dozen orphans in their post-apocalyptic castle in northern England where they hide from dragons, and then Matthew McConaughey shows up leading his militia of Americans who are going to free the world from terror dragons by Liberating The Natives Whether They Want It Or Not and, uh, well, we know that always works out well for Americans. There are, honest to God, thematic resonances with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Plus dragons and Christian Bale speaking in his native accent. And being madly in love with Gerard Butler. And this happens:




Uh. But of course that prompt is optional! You don't need to write about Reign of Fire! I obviously love the canon setting, during or after the war--I love how high the stakes are in everything they do, and putting them in an apocalyptic future full of dragons is a way of raising those stakes, but there is plenty of tension in the original recipe version. And I also do love those moments when they can relax--one of my perennial requests is fic about guys doing laundry (or... not, I guess, in the case of GK) or any other little totally mundane moment. Or porn, porn is always good.

So, apologies if this is totally unhelpful, but I hope you'll have fun writing, and if you are totally stumped you can ask iulia for more coherent pointers, she knows what I like and delights in keeping secrets from me.

Yes, okay, sure, Yuletide nominations. But I find Yuletide nominations sufficiently overwhelming that I tend to ignore them until/unless I frantically nominate something at the last minute because I'm suddenly convinced that I must have it and no one else will think of it.


But right now! It is yagkyas signups time! :D Who's with me?

I am still mulling over my signup options, and meantime I note that signups are accompanied by the Good Cookies prompt meme.

I always find prompt memes sort of bewildering/overwhelming/not relevant to my interests (look, I need neither more ideas for things to write nor a venue to write very short things very quickly) in a way that usually makes me feel sort of cranky and old. But compared to the way Tumblr makes me feel cranky and old, prompt memes are full of fond nostalgia. REMEMBER WHEN WE ALL POSTED FIC ON LIVEJOURNAL? MAN. THOSE WERE THE DAYS.

So, you know. I am keeping an eye on that post while I ponder my signup choices. *g*

Finally I have a Stiles icon! Now I just need a Lydia icon, and an icon of somebody smiling, and an icon that shows Derek's face, and, um, anyway.

Podfic!

glittertine has recorded the two puppy-naming stories from Every Marine a Wolfbrother: Today We Have Naming & Today We Have Naming (Camp Matilda Remix)

She also recorded my very first Derek/Stiles story, Comforter!

And knight_tracer has recorded my gen werewolf fairy tale story, The Metaphor That Made You!

Two things!

1) The lovely ArwenLune has made podfic of "One to Grow On", my YAGKYAS 2011 story--which is, as you know, the most popular Doc/Brunmeier story anywhere on the internet. :D

2) So yesterday the how-to-submit-your-rough-draft instructions came through from warbigbang. The submission deadline is September 15, and since I'm 48,000 words into the Iraq wolf-verse story and the guys still haven't actually started invading Iraq... I don't think I'm getting done in the next three and a half weeks. So no warbigbang for me. :|

I think it's sort of a good thing--I was writing faster than I was figuring out how things should work, for a while there, which turns out to be really frustrating and demoralizing and can lead to things like having to slog through a lot of edits while you're still halfway through writing and falling so far into despair that you give in and start watching Teen Wolf. So now I'm figuring things out and then writing them, um, in between all the Teen Wolf. Okay, so, sort of a tossup.

Anyway. I am still writing! And I'm mostly not completely stuck, just ... frequently distracted by shiny objects and, as always with a new fandom, coming up with new story ideas far, far faster than I can ever write. Yesterday I started plotting Teen Wolf kidfic because obviously what this show needs is more teen parenthood and considerably smaller children in peril, right? Right.

So! I still hope to finish the wolf-verse Iraq fic before Yuletide, but, uh. Turns out there are wolves everywhere.