picowrimo

"Hi, I'm Ann; I write..... fanfic."

Anyway, I write in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosiverse; it's my only fandom, and a small one at that.

So in the spring, the

bujold_fic community had a ficathon (indexed at http://community.livejournal.com/bujold_fic/16423.html). Among the pieces was something by

sahiya about one of the Vorkosiverse's perpetual bachelors, Ivan Vorpatril. It was slashy, but had the following excerpt about a previous episode in his life:

He’d first slept with Donna Vorrutyer after a wedding, he recalled. Not one of hers – the daughter of one of Ivan’s mother’s friends, he thought. The details of the event itself were rather vague, especially since he’d been an even bigger fan back then of the whole “open bar” concept, but he remembered how she’d looked in a blue dress with no back and a neckline that had made his mother frown in disapproval. Ivan was used to pretty girls, but Donna . . . Donna wasn’t a girl. She wasn’t pretty either, exactly. She’d taken him home at the end of the evening – and Ivan realized now that any say he may have had in the matter had been purely for show – and made him completely forget every blushing Vor damsel he’d ever sweet-talked out of her knickers.

And now, he was at her wedding. Her third – or was it fourth? Except she wasn’t the bride this time around.

I asked

sahiya if I could grab this as a plot bunny, because Lady Donna/Lord Dono is one of my very favorite characters. And she said yes, but then I started something else, which has turned into the Fanfic Novella That Ate My Life. And I need a break. So for the challenge, I'll be writing something wicked about Lady Donna and Lord Ivan.

(For those who have not read the books, the Vor are essentially the warrior/ruling caste. They seem to have a good helping of European Regency behavioral norms, but set some thousands of years in the future. And in one of the later books, Lady Donna has an unprecendented sex change in order to fulfill her political destiny.)

Most of what I have written is indexed at http://www.lse.org/~quietann/