KoKoa_B

Auld Lang Syne
Another sweet and lovely story! I can actually empathize a great deal with Jamila and that awful sense of holiday blahs. Sometimes all the enforced merriment is enough to make me want to hide on a cold porch, too.
But let me tell you what I loved about this story. You took a kiss and turned it into this utterly wonderful, sweet awakening, and even though they didn't manage to get past the kiss (not for lack of desire, mind you!), it was still a beautiful consummation of new feelings. A new year is a beginning, and Jamila and Cory are definitely beginning something special.
Thank you for this treat of a story!
And thank you, KoKoa, for the lovely review. I really was always intrigued by the way the Holly King and Oak King change places at the Solstices, and being me, I had to poke it. I'm sure the gods will kick my butt at some point for this one, but it was too good to pass up. I'm glad Derwen's heartache came through. I thought it made more sense to have him be the one who had gotten sick of the endless cycle, although he presides over the winter months as well.

Thanks to KoKoa_B and BronxWench for the reviews so far. Yeah, I was having to write that as backstory for the current book/story I'm working on, so it wasn't much to polish it off and make it one of my holiday one-shots.

I'll start it off!
The Frost Effect
I absolutely loved this story, KoKoa! I love your Frost, and Kris is pretty damned hot, too. And there's nothing like a little romance in the air to make the holiday season bright. You have such a lovely way of making me see the scene, too, and that's a marvelous gift.
Mistletoe Hanging
And on the opposite end of the spectrum, wow, Des! Very powerful story. It begins with such a sweet and familiar premise, a winter holiday dance, and then, wham! Your world erupts in the sort of conflict you excel at portraying. Beautifully done!

The Frost Effect
Great! Nice and lighthearted.
Yule's Gift
Deep, rich. Good reading.

Let it go!

Are any of you familiar with a podcast series called Friday Night Fanfiction? Basically, they find bad fanfic and read it aloud as a sort of drinking game. Anyone who trips on a word, laughs, or otherwise interrupts their reading has to drink.
So imagine my surprise to hear total strangers reading my story “Rated F: A Phineas and Ferb Sex Comedy” aloud! They did a lot of goofily inappropriate voices and accents and such (although I liked hearing Buford’s lines in the voice of Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force), but I actually found a lot of it really funny. And it was gratifying that even though they all had a problem with the notion of an explicit sex story about preteen cartoon characters--which was the reason they chose it to read on the show--a lot of them liked the story anyway. (As one of them said, “I want to stay mad at this, but I just can’t.”)
Ultimately, I think my reaction to their reading was the same as their reaction to my story: I kept thinking that I should be offended by it, but it was so funny that I didn’t care. In fact, I felt kind of flattered by it, kind of the way some musicians do when they find out that Weird Al Yankovic has parodied one of their songs.
And what was especially flattering is that they picked one of my stories instead of something from JayDee.

What she said ^

Alright! I've finally caught up with the reading and I'll have to agree with BW: I'm a bit let down that you ended the last chapter like that!
The one thing that I have a question about is what Islwyn mentioned to Val: someone inside doesn't like the fact that they've slept with one another. But yet and still, Aneurin remembers Islwyn and still beds him. And the way he called her a Dy'ne; it seems that although something inside of him doesn't agree with having sex with male elves, he would rather do that than to love Val as he once did. All because she's human.
If that makes sense...
The unicorn and the druid are definitely hiding something but as much as it pains me to admit, I will put my money on the fact that Islwyn has more to hide than Caoilfionn. The unicorn speaks about prophesies, pretty much talking around everything. But Islwyn is a bit off. He halfway admitted that he was jealous all because he saw her first and felt that she should be his. But in the same breath, he tells her that she doesn't know her place. Which I guess, according to these elves, any and all dy'ne, no matter how loyal or pretty, are only worth being sex slaves to them.
At least Yorwrath is honest with his intentions, albeit blunt.
You can now tell that he does have feelings for Val. And I have a gut feeling that Yorwarth is going to try to hide them until either his death or if somehow he can claim her as his. As the others pointed out: he doesn't want to get hurt again by loving a human like he did before. I believe that he may have felt that she was just some dy'ne before but now... he only calls her that now to mask his true feelings.
I don't know how I feel about the sex scene. Of course, it was beyond hot! And we can tell that the tension between the two had been building for quite some time. It still felt that it came out of nowhere. Almost like a "you're hurt, I'm hurt; let's have sex to make things tolerable"! LOL! But now that Aneurin has lost his memory, I can see Val and Yorwarth as a couple more than Val and Aneurin.

Don we now our gay apparel! It's Holiday time folks! Time for turkey, Egg nog and kisses under the mistletoe!

I'm offering you all the chance to pass around the Egg Nog and tell us your best Winter Holiday Tale! That is of course Deck the Shout Box, a collection of one shot original fiction with a Winter Holiday theme from our wonderful wordsmiths here on Adult-fanfiction.org.

Guidlines:
One Shot (Max. 50k words) Holiday element (Christmas, New Years, Yule, Hanukkah, Santa, Reindeer, Elves, monorrah, mistletoe, New Years Eve, Thanksgiving, Turkey, Family... all of that crap. ) Original Fiction At the top each story MUST include the tags for your content. At the bottom include a link to your profile. Before you add your story please add a 255 character summary of your content here in your post declaring your interest. ​On the 20th of December, I will post in the archives a story titled "AFF's Deck the Shoutbox 2015" . You may add more than one story as long as it fits the a general winter holiday theme. Also, the story does not have to be sexual in nature.

If you're interested please reply with your pen name on the archives, a short description of what you might write about and the title if you don't have a title that's fine just put (unknown). (Example: see below). I will keep track here of those author's interested.

This time, the reply thread will have a poll where you can vote for your favorite story in a bunch of categories!

Story link: N/A


Participating Authors
Author: ChrissyQuinn; Title : UNKNOWN; Summary: SOMETHING Author: BronxWench; Title: Yule's Gift ; Summary: The Wheel turns and Derwen knows he must play his role, as he has done for longer than he cares to remember. So why is this Yule so hard?
Author: DirtyAngel ; Title: Santa's Rosy Cheeks ; Summary: ​Santa has been kidnapped and it's up to the "elves" of the shout box to find him and save Christmas. Can Santa's little shout box helpers, along with the help of the North Pole creatures and a tough, if slightly unbalanced, detective from the North Pole Municipal Police, actually save Santa and get Christmas back on track?
Author: Tahn ; Title: UNKNOWN; Summary: The Angel on the tree looks a little too real.
Author: Desiderius Price Title: Mistletoe Hanging ; Summary: Long before Jaimie or Joe were born, a fourteen year old Ernest Campbell goes to the "Winter Solstice Festival" high school dance; it's a night he'll never forget.
Author: Desiderius Price Title: The Phone, Part II Summary: Honeymoon is over, but Marcia keeps messaging during Thanksgiving and a holiday meet-greet for the families left behind on Earth.
Author: KoKoa_B Title: Auld Lang Syne (as you've witnessed with the Halloween one, this is subject to change...) Summary: It's New Year's Eve and Jamila is throwing a party in her home! As the countdown begins, Cory contemplates on his next move. *Not a sequel to Right Like Rain*
NOTE: This is not an attack on Christmas, it can cover New Years and Thanksgiving and every holiday in between. If you think this is a war on Christmas, please see Walmart... they've had their decorations up since the day after Halloween.

Ok, so here's something no one is bringing up. Anny isn't the only one with magic and every time he and Val get it on, a magic bomb goes off. I wonder if it'll be enough to snap him back? If not, there would be no way in hell I would stay near the shell of my greatest love and watch him pretend to care.

I've been Yorwrath's biggest advocate all along, but I think Valentina will always look at Aneurin and mourn what they lost, especially since it was Aneurin who broke with all protocol to bind her to him before the old gods. She'll have to lay with him as his queen, and it will be torture.
Yorwrath will feel it as well, because his baby brother, whom he's protected at all costs, is lost to him as well. As much as he could love Valentina, the ghost of Aneurin will always be a third party to their lovemaking, and I can't see them finding the same sort of passion between them. Maybe they'll create their own passionate bond, but there will always be a piece in the shape of Aneurin that's missing.

Ok, gonna throw my two cents into the ring...Not sure if this is what Chrissy had in mind but this is how I see it:
Aneurin is dead, what has taken his place is some kind of mishmash of all the elf kings, sort of a genetic memory that was unlocked by the spell Caoilfionn and Islwyn; so Anuerin is still in there but he is now a small part of the whole and from the sounds of it a very subservient part, he Called Val a Dy'nn and the true Aneurin never would have, that would be like Magus calling me or Kari a whore, never happen. Now this hot tub party might bring the old Aneurin to the for front but it will never be him, not really and she's willing to try but I think the influence of the kings of the past will never let him see her as more than a pet. No, sorry but what they had is as dead as her old lover.
As for Yorwrath, I think you are all underestimating him. His abrasive manner was his way of keeping people at bay. He loved a human woman deeply and his father took that away from him, made him watch her die a horrible death, as well watching his son die. I couldn't even imagine what that would be like and honestly hope I never have to find out, but I know someone who does know and I watched him go through something quite similar. Yorwrath is just trying to never get close enough to anyone, especially a human female, so he never has to feel that pain again. But his walls are cracking, he didn't want to have rough sex with Val, he wanted to make love with her like his brother did and that tells me that no matter how he rails against it he's falling in love with her. I see the old Yorwrath resurfacing, the one his brother said was kind and even happy and when Val sees what's under that cold exterior I think she'll re-evaluate him and the two of them may find comfort in each others arms, a comfort that will grow into a deep love...I'm a romantic
As for Islwyn and the unicorn, gonna have to go with Kari on this one, they die slowly and screaming.
So I see a future with Yorwrath and Val presiding over a house full of little half elf half human rug rats, maybe not a happily ever after, but a bitter sweet ending.

Because I've been miserable and depressed, I've been a brat. So, to apologize, pretties for DA:


(Now that's a lady elf...)
And one for Chrissy:


And because I love MY elves:

Yeah... the death was lacking, part of that was just because of who Valentina is as a character. Aneurin's death was totally out of her hands, she couldn't do anything about it. Yorwrath on the other hand was something drawn out over the course of a week and a half. She just kind of threw herself at Yorwrath and his illness partly because she could turn off her grief for a while a tackle the problem she had before her.

lol... Can I get Yorwrath on Weekends? Every other first of the month? Kokoa you can keep Islwyn to yourself

KoKoa, we'll love the elves together, you and me...

Vampire elves...

Very nice indeed...
Oh, and sorry, DA, this is a male elf.

updating soon?

BW is right Also what he says to her earlier when he throws her back behind Grwn "gwaedlyd gwirion dy'ne" is him calling her a bloody stupid human. I put those two phrases in without explanation because next chapter she finally gets to learn some "elven" phrases
Also welcome to the mad house dailara

KoKoa, I didn't mind Val stabbing Yorwrath's arm to get him to let go. That was nothing. It's the potential maiming that has me twitchy, because I can't see Yorwrath being able to go on and remain sane if he's rendered useless.
Contrary to the SB silliness last night, he's a creature of physical prowess, a swordsman and warrior. Take away his ability to defend those he loves, like Aneurin, and those to whom he's loyal, like his people, and he has nothing. Not even the promise made by Caoilfionn that he will share Valentina with Aneurin and Islwyn would be enough. He'd be without purpose, and that's the kind of maiming that's far worse than any physical wound.
And there's a strong streak of nobility in Yorwrath. He knew what would happen if he shed a tear for his wife when Aeron killed her, but he did it anyway. He's willing to die for his brother. And he had the chance to make trouble at the claiming, and didn't, nor did he touch Valentina when he slept beside her and his brother. So, if anything, he's becoming more of a tragic figure than a villain, although I wouldn't say the same thing about Islwyn, who hides his motivation far too well for me to trust him. Sadly, he's the underdog I'm rooting for, and I have the worst feeling that I'll be crying in the next chapter or so.

Well tahn, someone died

So... no one likes Islwyn but me...? *takes the druid and sallow elf with her* Fine... we'll be... somewhere with that heavy incense and intoxicating wine if you need us...
So, I won't lie; the last chapter felt somewhat of a filler but I actually enjoyed reading about Val and Yorwrath sparring. He proved a great point; he's the one with the most experience with a sword. And sorry, BW but I also enjoyed that stabbing! Not like it really hurt him, though...
The "unicorn" was indeed a surprise unicorn, like you told us in SB! Hmm... did we take a little something from The Last Unicorn...? I loved that movie!
Anyway; this is great stuff and you guys are hilarious!

So... no one likes Islwyn but me...? *takes the druid and sallow elf with her* Fine... we'll be... somewhere with that heavy incense and intoxicating wine if you need us...
So, I won't lie; the last chapter felt somewhat of a filler but I actually enjoyed reading about Val and Yorwrath sparring. He proved a great point; he's the one with the most experience with a sword. And sorry, BW but I also enjoyed that stabbing! Not like it really hurt him, though...
The "unicorn" was indeed a surprise unicorn, like you told us in SB! Hmm... did we take a little something from The Last Unicorn...? I loved that movie!
Anyway; this is great stuff and you guys are hilarious!

Drug the poor girl? So getting my troll and redheaded witch and we're riding in there and save poor Val...who will be so grateful she will fall head over heals in love with me...cause I'm Carrie Sue LOL

Nice, KoKoa, usually I blame DA for the threads going off topic but congratulations, this one goes too you!
Anyway, back on topic, I've officially logged 50,207 words as of 1pm today (would have been sooner but didn't actually write anything for three days ) so I'm a wiener na na na boo boo!