chainofclovers

This is my fic for the 2008 Secret Santa exchange. I was delighted when I found out my giftee was hawkbehere because her good humor, vocabulary, and creativity are some of the best parts of this fandom. I also loved her prompt. The following is the part of the prompt I chose:

Fanfic, truly preferably M/A but S/E are a second pairing I'm not averse to, as you might have guessed. NO ANGST that does not end well. Life is like that enough without reading it. :-)

Preferably something holiday-related.

I, too, would like to see the first Sachs parents/Priestly get together after the great reveal. Nothing like a May/December lesbian romance with two children attached to liven up a Christmas dinner! Again, I'd prefer it to end happily. But turkey or cranberry sauce can be thrown if need be.

Christmas is my favorite holiday and the Midwest is my favorite region of the United States so I was very excited to write a Christmas piece about a Midwestern homecoming. Christmas makes me joyful, but I tend to appreciate the melancholy "Charlie Brown Christmas Special" sort of Christmas story to any sort of schmaltz. Keeping HbH's "no angst that doesn't end well" request in mind led this story to turn into a constant battle between sappy ideas and Miranda's extremely pervasive depressive tendencies.

HbH, I truly hope you enjoy the story--and think it ends well enough. I hope you have had a wonderful holiday season!

xoxo,
chainofclovers

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Title: Picking and Choosing
Pairing: Miranda/Andy
Rating: R, borderline M
Disclaimer: "The Devil Wears Prada" does not belong to me, nor would I desire such a thing.

( Andy Sachs was absolutely sick of compartmentalizing love... )

Title: Waking Up
Pairing: Miranda/Andy
Rating: Mostly R; some M
Disclaimers: These characters do not belong to me.
Note: This piece is the last in the series that began with Job Security and was followed by There Will be Time and Good Medicine. This particular piece is written from Miranda's perspective, which was challenging and nerve-wracking but ultimately enjoyable. Several of the writers in this community have been very inspiring and have given me a lot of different ways to think about this pairing. In particular, I want to mention the story "Miranda Priestly's Five Best Friends", by Telanu. It's a great piece that I read before getting this LJ account, and re-reading it recently inspired me to write about internalized homophobia.

So, enjoy! I had a lot of fun with this one, despite trying to deal with a difficult theme.

( 'How much did you hear?' 'A lot, I think.' )

Title: There Will be Time
Pairing: Miranda/Andy
Rating: PG-13?
Disclaimer: These characters are certainly not mine. And I quite pathetically ripped off Eliot's "Prufrock" for the title.
Note: This piece is a continuation of Job Security, my first attempt at writing fic. It isn't totally necessary to read that one, but helps explain the time-line of this piece. Feedback is welcomed, especially since this piece gets a bit dramatic and near-maudlin, which wasn't anticipated when I began writing.

( I seem to sabotage goodness... )

(Devil Wears Prada, Miranda/Andy)
I blame somniesperus and thelastgoodname, among others.
( From Angst to UST, 10 words each... )