The Bog

Title: Amphisbaena
Fandom: Final Fantasy 4
Characters: Baigan. Appearances by Golbez, Scarmiglione, Cagnazzo, Kain
Rating: Mature
Length: ~6.6k words
Summary: Being a monster outside as well as inside has its ups and downs.
Notes: Hoo boy. Of all the fics nobody asked for, I think this is the least asked-for of all time. The story actually spun off a different fic that didn't work out (probably for the best given that it was kind of vile even for me) because I couldn't deal with Baigan's stupid snake arms. They suck so bad. In the game he's all like "Golbez has given me a great gift" and I am here to tell you: no he did not. Anyway, this has lots of extremely graphic gore and violence, body horror, non-explicitly-described rape; I hesitate to give this the guro tag given I don't think the gore in this is particularly eroticized, its mostly just gross.

The quote at the beginning is from Lucan's Pharsalia, a Latin epic poem about the conflict between Pompey and Caesar that knocked me on my ass when I read it in school and quickly became my favorite because it has some truly gnarly stuff in it. There's a lengthy sequence near the end consisting of Roman soldiers dying in graphic, horrifying detail to a variety of different deadly snakes, which in all honestly was probably the primary inspiration for this fic.

( At least a blatant seditious act would have given Baigan an excuse to break the Lord Commander's nose. )

Fandom: Final Fantasy 4
Characters: Edward/Anna (though, like...just look at the notes I guess)
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~1.2k words
Notes: I really don't know how to rate this -- it's terribly graphic or anything, it's just kind of a huge downer. I mean it's primarily Edward carrying Anna's body around. Death, grief, brief thoughts of suicide, aftermath of violence.

( Prompt: last kiss )

Fandom: Final Fantasy 1
Characters: f!Black Mage/f!Red Mage
Rating: Teen
Length: ~500 words
Notes: Reposting some Kiss Battle 2024 stuff! First, vaguely femdom wizards. (goals amirite)

( Prompt: only you understand my power )

Drabble around a quote from tonight's Exalted game that I liked. Lan Thousand-Thoughts is mine, as you can probably tell by the relative amount of words dedicated to him lol. He is a sloth-totem Lunar scholar, result of my dedication to making shifter characters based on extremely uncool animals.


"I will say," Iron Hyrax went on, "that it is good to speak with someone who cares about questions, rather than merely getting things done."

Lan Thousand-Thoughts leaned on his staff. With his face still shaded by his straw hat, he was as inscrutable as ever, though there was a pleased note to his voice, faint but distinct like a drop of strong wine in a cup of water. "There is little I enjoy more than a question," he said.

"And for my part," Coptopteryx said, grinning ear to ear, "there is little I enjoy less than getting things done."


Re-pinned my fanfic masterpost, as I realized you could just make the fandoms into little drop down thingies, which solved the problem of it being annoyingly long. Might still get annoyingly long if I add too many fandoms to it but for now it seems all right.

I was working on this Unukalhai (FFXIV) fic a while back, but I ran out of steam for a variety of reasons. One was that the glimpses of the Thirteenth prior to becoming the Void that we've gotten in the game are like, JUST different enough from what I had in the story that I don't think it works anymore but not different enough to spark a new direction. The other was...I just could not for the life of me nail down Elidibus. Unukalhai obviously has mixed feelings about him and I could not figure out the right...balance? Something?

This was the only scene I actually liked upon poking at it again but I genuinely have no idea if it makes sense out of context as its own vignette. Elidibus retrieves Unukalhai from some kind of voidsent torture dungeon shortly after the Flood of Darkness; Unukalhai is unconscious for a while and Elidibus leaves him in that structure on the moon to recover; when he wakes up he's obviously fucking terrified. I think there was supposed to be a scene where he tries to flee and ends up getting caught by Emet-Selch and handed back to Elidibus that I never wrote, because obviously I wanted to get to the part where Unukalhai tries to graphically murder Elidibus.

( The Part Where Unukalhai Tries to Graphically Murder Elidibus (warning: graphic) )

Title: And a Bottle of Rum
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Alisaie/Lyse
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~2.k words
Summary: Alisaie makes an all right pirate when she's properly inspired.
Notes: Written for an exchange. Alisaie and Lyse fool around in an inn after a misadventure, roleplaying a bodice-ripper ravishment fantasy with Alisaie as a pirate and Lyse as a hapless maiden. I think I went overboard on the silly pirate talk, but maybe Alisaie would too. Also features bondage, knife hilts used as sex toys, and girls being dumb.

( Thinking quickly? Not your strong suit. )

Title: Independent Study
Fandom: Johannes Cabal series
Characters: Horst, Johannes
Rating: Everyone
Length: 666 words (yes lol)
Summary: Helping Johannes with his university thesis involves slightly more than just picking up a few books at the library and making a sympathetic pot of tea.
Notes: Yuletide treat, I think. "Asenat" is an Egyptian name from the Bible but I'm certain the intended reference was actually "The Thing on the Doorstep" by H.P. Lovecraft.

( 'This is for my thesis,' Johannes replied tersely. 'Hand me the crowbar.'  )

Title: Diving Under
Fandom: Final Fantasy 4
Characters: Rydia/Leviathan
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~2k words
Summary: Rydia has no use for human things, especially human desires.
Notes: Written for a round of Porn Battle (RIP) and it got kinda weird, although I don't know where else a sex scene betwen a human and a giant sea serpent would go. Sort of soft-vore-adjacent, with fearplay and Rydia as a definite monsterfucker, because she would be.

( A great many monsters, she knew, harbored a desire to sport with mortals. )

Title: Star-Crossed, Star-Misled
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Jannequinard/Carvallain
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~5.1k words.
Summary: Carvallain commits one last sin as a Durendaire.
Notes: Written for Relationshipping 2021. A slight AU where Jannequinard's trip to Kugane goes a little less smoothly. Sibling incest where one party (it's Jannequinard, of course, lol) isn't fully aware of the blood relation. Carvallain and Jannequinard have kind of a nebulous relationship in canon -- there's some stuff that seems to suggest he's Carvallain's younger brother, but Jannequinard is also said to be Charlemend's nephew (making him and Carvallain cousins). I wanted them to be brothers here, though, so brothers they are (even if that doesn't seem to be the current intended interpretation). Background implied parental abuse, and implied past Rufin/Jannequinard.

( Carvallain had once imagined himself a mathematician. )

Title: A Crystal Dimly Lit
Fandom: Final Fantasy 1
Characters: Red Mage, Fighter, White Mage, Monk, special guest appearance by Gigas Worm
Rating: Teen
Length: ~6.6k words
Summary: Four heroes, each bearing a crystal, come to Coneria, and it goes about as well as you'd expect.
Notes: I think this was an exchange fic, and the requester wanted a male white mage, so I just went ahead and made the rest of the party female. There are a zillion of these kinds of fics but I'm still kinda fond of the red mage's backstory here. And yeah I was scared of the Gigas Worm as a kid, IDK.

( Today the sun was hotter than usual -- it seemed to grow hotter every day, and there was precious little shade on the plains. )