raspberryhunter

I got two brilliant presents for the candyheartsex exchange! :D

The first is a lovely set of vignettes describing the writer Voltaire and his partner in Enlightenment, Émilie du Châtelet, who was an awesomely cool scientific thinker whom I had never heard of before getting into this fandom. (The endnote says a little more about her.) You could read this knowing nothing about Émilie but in that case I suspect it would help to know a little about Voltaire -- just knowing he was a famous snarky writer is probably good enough; this story would be appropriate background.

She blinded me with science (1848 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Émilie du Châtelet/Voltaire (Writer), Émilie du du Châtelet/ Florent-Claude du Chastellet-Lomont, Émilie du Châtelet/Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Émilie du Châtelet/Science
Characters: Émilie du Châtelet, Voltaire (Writer), Florent-Claude du Chastellet-Lomont, Jean François de Saint-Lambert
Additional Tags: Romance, POV Female Character, Falling In Love, Established Relationship, Developing Relationship, Break Up, Reconciliation
Summary:

The first time she kisses him, it’s partly to shut Voltaire up. How two people of genius fell in love and tried to live with each other for two decades.

The second follows John Sheridan and Elizabeth Lochley through their long relationship, briefly romantic but mostly not, before she comes to Babylon 5, and is everything I had wanted for these characters and their relationship -- this is becoming my headcanon for Sheridan and Lochley <3

Someone like you (1953 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5 & Related Fandoms, Babylon 5 (TV 1993)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Lochley/John Sheridan, Elizabeth Lochley & John Sheridan
Characters: Elizabeth Lochley, John Sheridan
Additional Tags: Exes, Relationship Study, Character Study, Trust, Friendship, Missing Scene
Summary:

John Sheridan and Elizabeth Lochley have history. More importantly, they know they can trust each other.

So I have been sort of slammed in RL and never did do a Yuletide reveal or any kind of Chocolate box posts. So I'm just going to cram them all here :)

( Yuletide reveal: Norma and Book of Mormon and faith struggles )
( I got FMA Olivier fic for Chocolate Box! )
( Chocolate Box reveal: Hamilton, Don Carlo(s), Falsettos )
( One more bonus Norma fic, Yuletide-related )

Someday I will post about a fic that isn't canon-divergence fix-it fic, but today is not that day.

I didn't actually sign up for Chocolate Box, but categranger had this really awesome letter and I am already sort of obsessed with Eugene Onegin, and, well, I ended up writing a Eugene Onegin treat. And then I ended up writing a sequel to the treat. The original treat is basically pure opera (I even kind of imagine them singing it), but the sequel, which is a series of letters between Onegin and Tatyana, is much more Pushkin-based because it required a lot more worldbuilding which was already present in Pushkin (though I always also tried to stay true to the opera, and in particular the character of Olga is more opera-flavored than Pushkin-flavored).

The second fic is probably readable without reading the first, only knowing that it is in fact a canon-divergent AU, with the details of the divergence gradually revealed as the fic goes on.

The point of divergence is — well, okay, this owes a debt to Pushkin too. In Pushkin, he says Tatyana doesn't know about the duel, and even goes so far as to ask whether she might have stopped it had she known. And categranger also pointed up the duel as, gosh, if only it could be fixed — and, well, so.

Happiness Within Our Reach (2046 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Евгений Онегин | Eugene Onegin - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tatyana Larina/Eugene Onegin, Olga Larina/Vladimir Lensky
Characters: Tatyana Larina, Eugene Onegin, Olga Larina
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Character Death Fix, Chocolate Box Treat, Operatic
Summary:

Tatyana and Olga know about the duel. They know they must stop it.

Renewal (5906 words) by raspberryhunter
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Евгений Онегин | Eugene Onegin - All Media Types, Евгений Онегин | Eugene Onegin - Aleksandr Pushkin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tatyana Larina/Eugene Onegin, Olga Larina/Vladimir Lensky
Characters: Tatyana Larina, Eugene Onegin
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Fix-It, Sequel, Chocolate Box Treat, Redemption, Minor Character Death, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

Evgeni goes away for a time, but he and Tatyana write.