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Where I've been: You may know me from [archiveofourown.org profile] petra or [tumblr.com profile] petralemaitre, with some fanworks up at [squidgeworld.org profile] petra. I hang out on Discord, and if you're interested in connecting there, drop me a comment. I'm currently namesquatting at petralemaitre @ bluesky. I was petralemaitre @ Twitter before Musk bought it and petronelle @ LiveJournal, both defunct. My pronouns are they/them/theirs.

What I post: This Dreamwidth primarily chronicles my fannish existence. If you are visiting because I signed up for an exchange, you may be interested in my narrative kink list or my feelings about various potentially erotic kinks in fiction.

My current project: This post has details on how to get me to write for you by donating 25 USD worth of money to a food bank or food to a food pantry in your area, to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, or to an organization recommended by Stand With Minnesota.

I like interaction: If you comment on a post or story of any age, I will be glad to engage with you even if I don't know you. If I read your story, I will leave you feedback.

My fanworks: All my stories that are fit to post are tagged here and crossposted to [archiveofourown.org profile] petra. As of 4/27/25, you'll need an account at Archive of Our Own to read my works. Leave me a comment with an email address and I will send you an invitation, no questions asked.

I've written many things in many fandoms, and I think these stories are representative of my best work. If you are interested in downloading all of my stories, here is a .zip file that was last updated January 3rd, 2025. I would love to hear from you if you download it. That's not archive-locked, but it's also not up-to-date with the latest works.

Blanket Permission: if you want to do anything to my stories or posts that you would do in a fannish context to any other kind of source text, please do: podfics, sequels, remixes, critiques, DVD commentaries, translations, and the like are all fair game. I'd love it if you let me know. Caveat: don't feed my work to an AI and ask it to write more. Human ingenuity is great; computers' most likely next words are empty.

How to find stories I like: my recommendations, my AO3 bookmarks, my works, and the resources I use when I am looking for something to read, all in one long-winded post.
petra: Text: Psychic Wolves Lupercalia and Bust (Psychic Wolves - Lupercalia)
Lint rollers (200 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: White Collar (TV 2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Satchmo (White Collar)
Additional Tags: Double Drabble, Psychic Wolves
Summary:

Peter and Satchmo make an arrest -- and a friend.

petra: Text: "Gotta be one around here somewheres. Try the liberal call, boy." (Bloom County - Liberal Call)
Letters from Luigi: Responses to Alleged Fan Mail (981 words) by Petra, Teland, the_Jack
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Political RPF - US 21st c.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Luigi Mangione
Additional Tags: American Politics, Delay Deny Defend, Epistolary, fan mail, Humor, Political Prisoners, the lost art of the thank-you note, United States, Unrequited Crush
Summary:

Teland said, of a photograph of Luigi Mangione reacting to some evidence against him being thrown out:

"There's still a certain 'Je ne sais why a 67-year-old woman who calls herself PresidentMILF keeps trying to convince me to send nudes' about the eyes.

"'Please stop perceiving me kthxbye —LM'"

Nineteen more letters follow that Luigi might, semi-plausibly, have written back... to a wide variety of admirers.

petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
We'd be protesting if it wasn't so goddamn cold and snowy. We'd be, quite probably, rioting, except goddamn it is miserable outside, and unlike the good people of Minneapolis, we are intimidated by Lots of Snow and Ice.

So instead we are sending funds to Minnesota because what the actual fuck.

If you are also sending funds to Stand With Minnesota, and we share a fandom or you like original poetry, I would be happy to write for you!
petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
MSN report here, from last year. I just learned this today. If I can stop anyone else from being exposed, it's worth a reblog.

The dishes in question are basically ubiquitous in kitchens I have known and loved, so that's not great.

ETA:
Okay, now I'm just confused. The lead levels are both a) high and b) technically legal, and it may not be leaching in any case due to the processes used. I hate living in an era where I don't know which of the seven million articles titled essentially the same thing are bullshit, and which are trustworthy. I figured MSN might fact-check, but apparently Corelle has never issued a recall per se, just a "Okay, we guess you might as well buy new stuff, because it's true there's lead in the old stuff." This info from this article.
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The great imponderable of toasted cheese (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin
Characters: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin
Additional Tags: Drabble, Natural Philosophy, Baffle them with bullshit
Summary:

Jack engages in natural philosophy.


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A cuppa (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jane Drew & The Lady (Dark is Rising)
Characters: Jane Drew (Dark is Rising), The Lady (Dark Is Rising)
Additional Tags: Drabble, Hope
Summary:

Jane has tea, not quite alone.


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How to apply torture (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Leia Organa & Darth Vader
Characters: Leia Organa, Darth Vader
Additional Tags: Drabble, Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Series: Part 3 of The Shoop Shoop Soulmate Song
Summary:

Common wisdom says everyone has one soulmate, but common wisdom has forgotten the Force.

petra: CGI Anakin Skywalker, head and shoulders, looking rather amused. (Anakin - Trash fire Jesus)
That's where it is (600 words) by Petra
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padmé Amidala
Additional Tags: Drabble and a Half, Drabble Sequence, Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Series: Part 2 of The Shoop Shoop Soulmate Song
Summary:

A variety of ways in which Anakin meets his soulmate.


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People read and reviewed, so I wrote more.
petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
He fits he sits (400 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Derpy the Tiger & Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters)
Characters: Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters), Derpy the Tiger (KPop Demon Hunters), Bobby (KPop Demon Hunters)
Additional Tags: Drabble Sequence, A cat being a cat
Summary:

Rumi asks Bobby for help. He comes through. Everyone in Rumi's household is pleased.


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I added donations to Stand With Minnesota.com's suggested donation sites to the list of donations that I will write thank-yous for. Details and a place to request stories or poems here.
petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
I was talking about story exchanges with friends and realized my kink list of yes/no/maybe in fiction dated to 2011.

And that that was 15 years ago.

I overhauled it, so for anyone interested in a dive into my kinks, by all means have at.
petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
Stand With Minnesota.com has mutual aid opportunities and testimonals of what happens when the president decides he doesn't like a state and sends in ICE to harass everyone.

If you donate 25 bucks to any listed org, tell me about it, and I will write for you in any of my fandoms. Anonymous comments signed with a username are welcome, and I explicitly 100% do not want anything that doxxes you.

Stay safe out there and help each other.
petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
Do you like to sing socially? Do you like traditional music and music in the style of trad music?

Youth Trad Song is a youth-focused but not youth-exclusive event focused on singing with an awareness of social justice issues underlying the trad song community. It's happening the last weekend of March, 2026, in Connecticut.

Registration has closed, but they have a lot of openings left, so get your name in for the waitlist ASAP!

But money )
petra: CGI Obi-Wan Kenobi with his face smudged with dirt, wearing beige, visible from the chest up. A Clone Trooper is visible over one shoulder. (Obi-Wan - Clones ftw)
The other day, I posted If you wanna know if he loves you so, a 150-word story about a boy meeting his soulmate(s)(?).

I included discussion questions in the first comment because I had recently had a Tumblr conversation with [personal profile] teland where I linked her to someone floating the possibility of discussion questions on fanfiction with the implication that the questions, and responses, would be AI slop.

She responded by writing discussion questions for her seminal DC Comics identity porn story, A clarification of range, written before we called it "identity porn" and long before the term got diluted into "X doesn't know Y's secret identity... yet!" which is more properly, if less catchily, (if I do say so myself) anagnorisis.

If you have any knowledge or inquisitiveness whatsoever about DC Comics, run, do not walk, to read or reread that story. I still laugh about it regularly, and I have to remind myself it's not canon. I read it before I read any of Young Justice or the relevant Teen Titans, and it built foundational parts of my characterization.

Here are [personal profile] teland's questions:
Students! Did you know 'The End' is just the beginning? Follow along with me, and the story will never die! )

My response was:

Tonight’s homework: Read Whither Kelvin Trillion, Wither the Republic (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Explicit, the one in which one character writes filthy limericks about everyone else in canon worth boinking and a few who aren’t.)

Pre-reading: Given your knowledge of the author, speculate on the pairings.

Discussion Questions )

Té and I had a good laugh about it.

Then we got talking about soulmates as a trope, and I wrote the story linked at the top with discussion questions.

[personal profile] sanguinity's comment threw me bodily to the floor, convulsed with giggles of joy. It's considerably longer than the drabble-and-a-half I wrote and shows an attention to detail I cannot but applaud.

I may have broken kayfabe in my response. Can you blame me?

See, sometimes a good grade in commenting is normal to want and possible to achieve. I definitely got a good grade on the story and questions, so it's only fair.

But it's not a perfect grade, due [personal profile] sanguinity having good enough taste not to have watched the Star Wars prequels. Gotta deduct points for not reading the deeply silly text.
petra: A man with a spyglass looking excited; a man next to him seeming unimpressed (Hornblower - Oh baby)
I recommended the first story in this series when I read it in Yuletide, suspecting but not being sure at the time that it was by [personal profile] sanguinity.

I love William Bush's POV too:

Too Late, Too Late (2008 words) by sanguinity
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hornblower (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: William Bush, Horatio Hornblower
Additional Tags: POV William Bush, Episode: e07 Loyalty (Hornblower), Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss
Series: Part 2 of The Worst Part of Waking Up
Summary:

Bush is too late to the beach to stop the firing squad.

Bonus Bush point-of-view on the beach scene.

petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
Take the AI-related survey and tell them what you think, especially if you agree with me!
petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
Ahem )

Look at me being Responsible and not using my relevant (SO relevant) icon! Because some people would like to be unspoiled! I am such a good fannish citizen.

Ahem pt. 2 )
petra: CGI Anakin Skywalker, head and shoulders, looking rather amused. (Anakin - Trash fire Jesus)
If you wanna know if he loves you so (150 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, Padmé Amidala/Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Drabble and a Half, Alternate Universe - Soulmates
Summary:

"May I?" says Master Qui-Gon's padawan, Obi-Wan Kenobi, reaching toward Anakin's shoulder and leaning down.


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This is not the first thing I have written recently that was all [personal profile] teland's fault, but it sure is the first Star Wars she's responsible for.

There are discussion questions in the first comment.
petra: A blonde woman with both hands over her face (Britta - Twohanded facepalm)
Minneapolis shooting thoughts, neither coherent nor polite )
petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
Both of these things made me laugh aloud at various intervals.

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[Podfic] Whither Kelvin Trillion, Wither the Republic (62 words) by 1lostone, farkenshnoffingottom, InklingDancer
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Satine Kryze, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Bail Organa/Breha Organa, Padmé Amidala/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Mace Windu, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Hondo Ohnaka, Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Dexter Jettster/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Guy Fieri/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yan Dooku/Obi-Wan Kenobi, General Grievous/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jar Jar Binks/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Obi-Wan Kenobi/Shaak Ti
Characters: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Satine Kryze, Bail Organa, Breha Organa, Padmé Amidala, Mace Windu, Anakin Skywalker, Yoda (Star Wars), Hondo Ohnaka, Cody, Dexter Jettster, Guy Fieri, Yan Dooku, General Grievous, Jar Jar Binks, Shaak Ti
Additional Tags: Limericks, Documentation, Buzzfeed, Podfic, Audio Format: Streaming, Podfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Series: Part 4 of Star Wars Podfics
Summary:

Who is the holonet's mystery limerick writer, and does he really get it on as much in real life as he does in his filthy poetry?

A podfic of "Whither Kelvin Trillion, Whither the Republic"



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Written for me for Yuletide New Year's Resolutions: Madalena (Galavant) meets Shawn & Gus (Psych). Set in s2 of Galavant and who-even-knows of Psych.

Faire Play (1997 words) by HematiteBadger
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Galavant (TV), Psych (TV 2006)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Madalena (Galavant), Burton "Gus" Guster, Shawn Spencer
Additional Tags: Crossover, unabashedly silly
Summary:

Madalena has a chance encounter with a pair of very strange folk on her journey to seek the DDEL.


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I have a new Psych/Galavant ship. It is not Lassiter/Richard.
petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
Drabbles and limericks for people who requested them:
Chrestomanci
due South + Murderbot
due South + Venom
Interview with the Vampire (TV)
KPop Demon Hunters
Pride and Prejudice
Singin' in the Rain
Slough House
Star Wars

Prompt me if you would you like something in one or more of my fandoms. I may not get to you today, but we can have Even More Joy Day tomorrow!
petra: Barbara Gordon smiling knowingly (Default)
Love, Bertie (239772 words) by cucumbermoon
Chapters: 40/40
Fandom: Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves & Wooster (TV 1990)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Honoria Glossop, Dahlia Travers, Agatha Gregson, minor OCs, Florence Craye, Thomas Gregson (Jeeves), Mabel Biffen
Additional Tags: Epistolary, Letters, World War II, Period-Typical Homophobia, Bertie fought in WWII, Aunt Agatha is evil, Established Relationship, Angst with a Happy Ending, War, Minor Character Death, Non-Graphic Violence, Angst, Fluff and Angst, PTSD, Trauma
Summary:

Separated by war, Bertie and Jeeves exchange letters.


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This author has a deft grasp of Wodehousian pastiche, a keen eye for when it's time to add OCs, and a dashed lot of humor to put into a story whose premise seems bleak. I enjoyed the twists and turns of this epic tale no end.
petra: A cartoon cat holding up a large paw to the viewer (Neko-Sensei - Talk to the paw)
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My dearest furry companion is an aging black kitty who likes to sit on my chest and get in the way of my writing.

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