Literatti: Fiction By Deslea

Story Spotlight:

Real

This short story, 2600 words in total, explores the world of Rodolphus Lestrange, including his quasi-religious zeal for the Dark Lord's cause, and his complicated bond with his wife, Bellatrix, which sits side-by-side with her love for another. Content warning for euthanasia. Read it here

Stories in Languages Other Than English

These stories were translated by teams in international fandoms with my consent. Not being a native speaker of any of these languages, I can't definitively vouch for any of them, but on the basis of my limited knowledge they seem to reflect their English counterparts. Please note encoding requirements when viewing these files. At present, these translations are not available in archive-friendly or large-print formats.

Chinese Translations

I Enjoy You - Chinese
Harry Potter. A little G-rated moment between Snape and Hermione, translated by Joanne at Doorway of Paradise. Presented as a Word doc.
|Read It|

Russian Translations

Not My Lover - RUSSIAN
X Files. NC17 Krycek/Marita backstory, 2000, courtesy of Dark Love Of The X Files. You will need Cyrillic text support to view these files.
|Part 1|Part 2|Part 3|Part 4|Part 5|Part 6|Part 7|

Healer - RUSSIAN
X Files. Krycek/Marita season 8 tie-in, 2001, courtesy of Dark Love Of The X Files. You will need Cyrillic text support to view these files.
|Part 1|Part 2|Part 3|Part 4|Part 5|

Christmas Reunions: St Petersburg - RUSSIAN
X Files. PG13 Krycek/Marita Christmas story, 2001, courtesy of Dark Love Of The X Files. You will need Cyrillic text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Dark Half - RUSSIAN
X Files. PG Krycek/Marita dark vignette, 2001, courtesy of Dark Love Of The X Files. You will need Cyrillic text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Denial - RUSSIAN
X Files. PG Krycek/Marita dark vignette, 2001, courtesy of Dark Love Of The X Files. You will need Cyrillic text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Her Sacrifice - RUSSIAN
X Files. PG Krycek/Marita Season 8 tie-in, 2001, courtesy of Dark Love Of The X Files. You will need Cyrillic text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Searing Snow - RUSSIAN
X Files. PG13 Krycek/Marita Christmas story, 2000, courtesy of Dark Love Of The X Files. You will need Cyrillic text support to view this file. Please note this does not match the English version, which was substantially revised in 2001.
|Read It|

The Wrong Man - RUSSIAN
X Files. PG13 Krycek/Marita One Son post-ep, 2001, courtesy of Dark Love Of The X Files. You will need Cyrillic text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Waiting In Tangier - RUSSIAN
X Files. PG13 Krycek/Marita Existence post-ep, 2001, courtesy of Dark Love Of The X Files. You will need Cyrillic text support to view this file.
|Read It|

German Translations

Der Falsche Mann - DEUTSCHE
X Files. PG13. The Wrong Man. Krycek/Marita One Son post-ep, 2001, courtesy of Worldofx.de. You will need US English - ASCII or Western European - Windows 1252 text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Wie Sonnenlicht Im Prisma - DEUTSCHE
X Files. PG13. Like Sunlight To Prism. Doggett/Reyes Empedocles tie-in, 2001, courtesy of Worldofx.de. You will need US English - ASCII or Western European - Windows 1252 text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Wenigstens Lachelt Die Brunette - DEUTSCHE
X Files. PG. At Least The Brunette Is Smiling. Existence tie-in, humour, 2001, courtesy of Worldofx.de. You will need US English - ASCII or Western European - Windows 1252 text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Four Minutes - DEUTSCHE
X Files. R-rated FTF tie-in, SAC Darius Michaud POV, 2001, courtesy of Worldofx.de. You will need US English - ASCII or Western European - Windows 1252 text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Walk In Darkness, Not In Light - DEUTSCHE
X Files. R-rated Krycek/Diana One Son tie-in, 2001, courtesy of Worldofx.de. You will need US English - ASCII or Western European - Windows 1252 text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Italian Translations

La Meta Oscura - ITALIANO
X Files. PG13. Dark Half. Krycek/Marita dark vignette, 2001, courtesy of Elena. You will need US English - ASCII or Western European - Windows 1252 text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Negazione - ITALIANO
X Files. PG13. Denial. Krycek/Marita dark vignette, 2001, courtesy of Elena. You will need US English - ASCII or Western European - Windows 1252 text support to view this file.
|Read It|

Spotlight On:
Lucius and Tonks, Harry Potter

"Lucius and Tonks, who I wrote a lot in 2012, started out as a happy accident. I wrote a novella (Two of a Kind) where they fell in with each other by chance after the war, while they were grieving Narcissa and Remus. It was supposed to be a love-through-shared-trauma-despite-being-worlds-apart kind of thing. But I found they had a really interesting pair of voices together, and in fact, there are synergies. Tonks is a Black, and in many ways a younger version of Narcissa, and she has reason to be repelled/intrigued by her family of origin. (We see hints of this in her enmity with Bellatrix, which seems to have been mutual – she took grim pleasure in seriously injuring Bella's husband). There is also a shared ruthlessness between them, though tempered by morality on Tonks' side. Tonks, with Kingsley, is an active political player in the Ministry for the Order, as much as Lucius is for Voldemort. There are also intriguing espionage possibilities rising from his position as Voldemort's senior lieutenant and hers as the Order's spy; those were central in Sons of July, The Substitute, and The Blue Vial. There are also suggestions in her relationship with Remus that she is susceptible to tangled relationships with older, unwise men, so Lucius isn't really that much more of a stretch."

About The Ratings

Ratings are roughly equivalent to those used by the Motion Picture Association of America.

G: General audiences.
PG: Parental Guidance. Adult concepts and dilemmas, but without graphic detail.
M (or R): Mature audience. Adult concepts and dilemmas, anti-social attitudes, people doing the wrong thing and not necessarily feeling guilty about it. Also includes low-level sexual content (a few soft-focus paragraphs with little or no direct discussion of body parts). Most of my work is M.
NC-17: No children 17 or under. May contain explicit and extended descriptions of sexual activity, brief but graphic sexual descriptions, or graphic violence. A couple of my works contain rape scenes; these are graphic but not sexualised, and are appropriately marked with content warnings.
Trigger/Content Warnings: I take a conservative approach to triggers and will generally warn for anything that might trigger reader trauma to do with violence, self-harm, or grief. If the term "dark themes" is used, this may mean too many dark themes to mention, a dark theme that I don't want to reveal because it's a plot twist, or a vague dark feel that doesn't have a more precise description. Caveat lector.

Literatti design and content © Deslea R. Judd 1996-2015. More creatives: http://video.deslea.com. The X Files, Harry Potter, CSI, Haven, Tin Man, Imagine Me and You, and the Terminator franchise are the property of various commercial entities that have nothing to do with me. The stories found here are derivative works inspired by those bodies of work, shared without charge, and are intended as interpretation and/or homage. No infringement on the commercial interests of any party is intended.