Check out all the completed works for the Spring 2022 layer challenge! Good luck to all those writing for Sapphic Summer!
Alternative Spring — gender and sexuality outside of the binary
275,604 words | 10 stories | 5 fandoms | 8 authors
To Every Season is a layer challenge. Most stories are written as part of another event or challenge, though some works may be specifically for To Every Season.
9-1-1
Acceptance by DarkJediQueen
Title: Acceptance
Author: DarkJediQueen
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationship: Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz
Warnings: None
Word Count: 8,630
Summary: It starts with the meeting of Buck and Chris and finds its inevitable end with the relationship of Eddie and Buck.
All My Days by Jilly James
Title: All My Days
Author: Jilly James
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationship: Evan Buckley/Eddie Diaz
Warnings: Non-graphic memories/thoughts of an asexual person, who is sex averse, having forced themselves through past sexual relations. No beta.
Word Count: 3,890
Summary: Eddie wakes on a languid morning ten months into his new life and thinks about how he got here.
Home by ScarsLikeVelvet
Title: Home
Author: ScarsLikeVelvet
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationship: Evan "Buck" Buckley/Eddie Diaz
Warnings: None
Word Count: 3737
Summary: Evan Buckley comes out to Eddie when they were packing up Buck's things so he could move in with Eddie and Chris.
Love Comes Around by Keira Marcos
Title: Love Comes Around
Author: Keira Marcos
Fandom: 9-1-1, The Sentinel
Relationship: Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Background Maddie Buckley/Lou Ransone, Athena Grant/Bobby Nash
Warnings: Discussion-violence, explicit language and sex
Word Count: 62,541
Summary: Eddie Diaz comes online as a Sentinel in a combat zone. One feral combat drive, two bullet wounds, and a Silver Star later, he’s facing a Guide search in the civilian system after failing to make a match within the military ranks.
Evan Buckley has been online for a few years and recently found his calling as a firefighter. He didn’t expect to meet his Sentinel the very first time he’s selected in a search.
The Burden of Decisions by Bythia
Title: The Burden of Decisions
Author: Bythia
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationship: Evan Buckley/Taylor Kelly, Evan Buckley/Eddie Diaz
Warnings: Discussion of Canon Domestic Violence, Discussion of Post-Partum Depression, not Chimney friendly
Word Count: 106,000
Summary: When Chimney shows up at Buck’s apartment, he doesn’t notice Taylor standing at the top of the stairs and witnessing the argument and the punch. Her decision on how to handle the situation after Chimney left changes the course for all of them.
Walk Me Down Your Broken Line by Jilly James
Title: Walk Me Down Your Broken Line
Author: Jilly James
Fandom: 9-1-1
Relationship: Evan Buckley/Eddie Diaz
Warnings: Minor character death, Canon-level situations, Canon-level violence, Canon-level angst, Explicit Sex. Can be read as anti-Chimney.
Word Count: 61,800
Summary: After being abducted and held hostage, Buck wants nothing more than to be with Christopher and Eddie. But things take a turn for the worse when his relationship implodes and he suffers an unexpected personal loss.
Faced with the potential destruction of his friendship with Buck, Eddie takes a trip of self-discovery that forces him to face his own desires.
Boku No Hero Academia
If you want to go far by Timothy Wren
Title: If you want to go far
Author: Timothy Wren
Fandom: BNHA, Power Rangers (2017)
Relationship: Ashido Mina/Bakugou Katsuki/Hagakure Tooru/Kirishima Eijirou/Midoriya Izuku
Warnings: Canon-typical Violence
Word Count: 3,807
Summary: The exam wants them to destroy robots, which is both painfully ironic and deeply satisfying. Once, he might have hesitated– a year ago, maybe. Now his body knows these steps and jumps into the rhythm like a familiar dance.
The hardest part is keeping his armor under his skin.
Stargate: Atlantis
Four Shots and a Hangover by halestrom
Title: Four Shots and a Hangover
Author: halestrom
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Relationship: Ronon Dex/Teyla Emmagan/Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Warnings: None
Word Count: 9051
Summary: It started as most things did in John's life. With alcohol and a dare.
Superman & Lois
Pajamas by DarkJediQueen
Title: Pajamas
Author: DarkJediQueen
Challenge: Alternate Spring 2022
Fandom: Superman & Lois
Relationship: Clark Kent/Lois Lane
Warnings: Explicit Sex
Word Count: 6,274
Summary: Clark can't find the top of his pajamas after Lois spends the night.
MCU
All's Fair in Love, War, and Movies by darkseraphina
Title: All's Fair in Love, War, and Movies (Also available on Ao3)
Author: darkseraphina
Fandom: MCU
Relationship: Tony Stark/Loki
Warnings: discussion of murder, alcoholism and drug addiction, gaslighting and abuse of an adult by someone (Obie) with legal and financial control over them, past enabling of addiction as a means of control and abuse; Obadiah Stane; general assholery and swearing; trope subversion
Word Count: 9874
Summary: Enemies clash over the Earth and dangerous relics that have been unearthed by SWORD; Tony Stark and Loki Laufeyson navigate in the wake.