Tag: Theme: Retirement
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Good Coin
Category: M/M, Character: Bale, Character: Quiver, Character: The Champion, Rating: M, Theme: Adventurers & Dungeon Parties, Theme: Found Family, Theme: Gender Dysphoria, Theme: Gender Exploration & Nonconformity, Theme: Identity & Personality, Theme: Intimacy, Theme: Retirement, Theme: Self-Esteem Issues, Theme: Sex Work & Sex Workers, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Thieves & Rogues & Burglars, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Warriors & Mercenaries, Theme: Weight Gain, World: The Dragonplanet
Romance & Fantasy short. A warrior has tension with the rogue in their party. 7.5k, rated M, M/M. Just some romance and learning to understand one another. A mercenary — not an adventurer, thanks much — struggles to understand the compulsive deception of the party’s rogue. Adapted from a TweetFic. Mentions of sex work, past sexual abuse, trafficking, implied gender…
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Retirement Beckons
Category: M/M, Kink: Baths & Showers, Rating: T, Setting: Loegr, Setting: Wetley, Theme: Chronic Pain, Theme: Disability, Theme: Fae & Faeries, Theme: Fae Deadland, Theme: Homophobia, Theme: Intimacy, Theme: Men Who Love Men | Homosexuality, Theme: Messengers & Postmen, Theme: Retirement, World: Magic Beholden
Slice-of-life & fantasy short. An ageing doctor tends to a deliveryman. Photo by Lum3n via Pexels. 2.5k, M/M, rated M. A deliveryman to fae lands comes back to his doctor — his lover, too. Metcalf was tall, thin, and dead-eyed, and when he shambled into Ginger’s office, it was without his greatcoat — a sign that the winter had given…
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The Secretary
Category: Gen, Setting: 1960s, Theme: Anxiety Disorders, Theme: Books & Literature, Theme: Grief & Loss, Theme: Homophobia, Theme: Men Who Love Men | Homosexuality, Theme: PTSD & C-PTSD, Theme: Retirement, Theme: Sailors & Sailing, Theme: Secretaries & Personal Assistants, Theme: Sexual Abuse & Rape, Theme: Trauma & Trauma Recovery, Theme: Veterans & Retired Soldiers, Theme: World War II, Theme: Writing, World: Magic Beholden
Short story. A young woman goes to collect her inheritance. 4.1k, rated M. Content warnings for loss of a loved one and non-graphic references to sexual assault. Sarah had never even known the man, so when the letter had come, it had been a surprise. She hadn’t even been sad at first — she’d felt somewhat guilty…