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A transmasc reimagining of Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott begins on Patre♡n! Wherein we explore the queer themes in the character of Jo March and the biography of Louisa May “Lu” Alcott.

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A new chapter will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]

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♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)

Completed works...
♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm)
♡ A Willing Canvas - John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm)
♡ The Train Job - Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
♡ Hold Fast 2 - Hold Faster (mm)
♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm)
♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+)

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Chapter One of Theo - a transmasc reimagining of Little Women - is up on Patre♡n! Wherein our heroes clash.

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“And now if you please, Mr. Tilton—”

“Mr. Tilton is my grandfather,” the fellow said with a lackadaisical smile. “My friends call me Leslie.”

“You’ve decided we’re friends, then,” Theo replied far more coolly than he felt. Even in his schoolhouse days no one had befriended him. Too queer by half for the girls and too trussed-up-as-a-girl for the boys. He tempered his flying hopes with the reminder that there was really only one reason a young man would wish a friendship with his feminine neighbors. If he didn’t want Theo himself, then he had designs on Annabelle. Or perhaps, despite his recent return to town, he’d already heard tell of the eldest Wolcott’s beauty, and hoped a friendship with Theo and Annabelle would lead to an introduction to the fabled Myrtle.

“In that case,” Annabelle chimed in, “since our eldest sister is already Miss Wolcott, you may call me Annabelle, and—” she added, thrusting her mittened hand toward Theo, “you may call her Theodora!”

Theo could’ve strangled her.

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Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them. You'll also be invited to join an exclusive Discord server just for patrons!

A new chapter will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]

Currently posting…
♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)

Completed works...
♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm)
♡ A Willing Canvas - John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm)
♡ The Train Job - Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
♡ Hold Fast 2 - Hold Faster (mm)
♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm)
♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+)

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Chapter Two of Theo - a transmasc reimagining of Little Women - is up on Patre♡n! Wherein our heroes ice-skate into peril.

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New England autumn swiftly turning to winter proved a far cry indeed from summer in Venice.

Leslie Tilton didn’t know if that made matters better or worse.

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Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them. You'll also be invited to join an exclusive Discord server just for patrons!

A new chapter will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]

Currently posting…
♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)

Completed works...
♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm)
♡ A Willing Canvas - John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm)
♡ The Train Job - Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
♡ Hold Fast 2 - Hold Faster (mm)
♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm)
♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+)

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Chapter Three of Theo - a transmasc reimagining of Little Women - is up on Patre♡n! Wherein our hero mounts a daring rescue.

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Leslie plunged into the depths before he could even cry out. The lake engulfed him in water so cold it burned against his flesh. Shock forced his breath from his lungs in a sharp burst of bubbles. He watched them float towards the little halo of light that marked the hole he’d fallen through. He had to follow it, he knew, if he wanted any chance at saving himself. Yet breaking the convulsive shiver that had consumed his limbs upon entering the water felt like shattering iron chains. He willed his limbs to move despite the cold, despite the shock, despite the burning in his chest and the heavy waves of exhaustion crashing down again and again over his mind. Below him, the darkness loomed, a midnight sky devoid of stars.

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Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them. You'll also be invited to join an exclusive Discord server just for patrons!

A new chapter will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]

Currently posting…
♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)

Completed works...
♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm)
♡ A Willing Canvas - John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm)
♡ The Train Job - Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
♡ Hold Fast 2 - Hold Faster (mm)
♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm)
♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+)

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Chapter Four of Theo - a transmasc reimagining of Little Women - is up on Patre♡n! Wherein our hero enters a formerly-forbidden domain.

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Determination had seen Theo through the most fearful moments—skating back to the dock to snatch the oar from the rowboat, screaming Leslie’s name, waiting for him to break the surface again, drawing him out and marching him off the lake and keeping him moving, keeping him warm—but now, with Leslie bundled up and whisked off into the unknown depths of the mansion, there remained nothing to distract him.

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Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them. You'll also be invited to join an exclusive Discord server just for patrons!

A new chapter will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]

Currently posting…
♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)

Completed works...
♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm)
♡ A Willing Canvas - John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm)
♡ The Train Job - Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
♡ Hold Fast 2 - Hold Faster (mm)
♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm)
♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+)

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Chapter Five of Theo - a transmasc reimagining of Little Women - is up on Patre♡n! Wherein a hidden truth is revealed.

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“You’re not a girl,” said Leslie.

Theo stared at him.

Leslie realized his feverish rambling required further explanation. “Not really. I mean, they dress you up like one, and call you one, and expect you to act like one… but you’re not.”

Theo continued staring.

Leslie elaborated on his point. “So I don’t think you’re a girl at all. I think you’re rather a man.”

Theo said nothing.

“Like me,” Leslie said, with a little gesture of his hand towards his chest, as if Theo needed a reminder of what a man was. “Or, not exactly like me, but as much like me or any other man as a man like you can be.”

Theo blinked at him, slowly, like a cat, and it occurred to Leslie for the first time that he might not be making as much sense as he’d hoped.

But just as Leslie opened his cracked lips to try again, Theo spoke.

“Took you long enough to notice,” he said.

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Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them. You'll also be invited to join an exclusive Discord server just for patrons!

A new chapter will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]

Currently posting…
♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)

Completed works...
♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm)
♡ A Willing Canvas - John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm)
♡ The Train Job - Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
♡ Hold Fast 2 - Hold Faster (mm)
♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm)
♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+)

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Chapter Two of the YA rough cut for Theo - a transmasc reimagining of Little Women - is up on Patre♡n - a wholesome cozy Alcott pastiche that I absolutely could not keep up for the length of a full novel.

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In the midst of this apple pie disorder, Leslie at once lost all sense of where he belonged and what he ought to be doing. He stood stock still and rather stupid in the precise spot where Theo had let go of him to go and take her part in the merry tempest. His presence must have disrupted the Wolcott’s routine—yet if it did, he never heard a word of it, for they all kept working ‘round him like clockwork figurines adjusting to a new cog in the chaos.

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Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them. You'll also be invited to join an exclusive Discord server just for patrons!

A new chapter will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]

Currently posting…
♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)

Completed works...
♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm)
♡ A Willing Canvas - John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm)
♡ The Train Job - Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
♡ Hold Fast 2 - Hold Faster (mm)
♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm)
♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+)

See you on Patre♡n!

Chapter Four of the YA rough cut for Theo - a transmasc reimagining of Little Women - is up on Patre♡n - a wholesome cozy Alcott pastiche that I absolutely could not keep up for the length of a full novel.

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Before that moment in the Tilton foyer, Theo had never made any friends besides his sisters. He had always wanted to befriend another boy, but circumstances prevented his success. Boys and girls went to separate schools in town, and of course society had shunted him off into the girls’ academy. He had no brothers, nor any male cousins nearby in age or location. Myrtle strongly discouraged talking to any strange boy they met in town without a proper introduction, and such introductions proved few and far between. If Theo should happen to find himself introduced to another young man at a party, the other boy’s behavior would, without fail, fall into one of two categories: obsequious and obnoxious in efforts to prove himself a gentleman towards one he perceived as a lady, or aloof and standoffish towards one he perceived as a mere girl.

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Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them. You'll also be invited to join an exclusive Discord server just for patrons!

A new chapter will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]

Currently posting…
♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)

Completed works...
♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm)
♡ A Willing Canvas - John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm)
♡ The Train Job - Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
♡ Hold Fast 2 - Hold Faster (mm)
♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm)
♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+)

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Chapter Six of Theo - a transmasc reimagining of Little Women - is up on Patre♡n.

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Many times, when they thought themselves out of earshot, the staff discussed how foolish Leslie had been to try to skate across the middle of the lake, and whether the first freeze was always the safest or most dangerous ice of the year. Occasionally they spoke of Theo himself and his kindness in doting on the invalid—though one particular housemaid, he knew not which, considered him “too clever by half” in insinuating his way into the household with “an eye for the young master’s hand and the inheritance with it.” Once Theo overheard the nurse talking with one of the footmen and calling him “a perfect little angel of the house,” and had to force himself to think of it as the compliment she’d intended, rather than the sickening twist he felt in his guts.

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Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them. You'll also be invited to join an exclusive Discord server just for patrons!

A new chapter will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]

Currently posting…
♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)

Completed works...
♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm)
♡ A Willing Canvas - John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm)
♡ The Train Job - Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
♡ Hold Fast 2 - Hold Faster (mm)
♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm)
♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+)

See you on Patre♡n!

Chapter Seven of Theo - a transmasc historical MM romance inspired by Little Women - is up on Patre♡n, wherein our heroes endure a Christmas.

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“All right!” Annabelle cried. “Open your eyes!”

Theo dropped his hands. His well-practiced smile froze on his lips as his eyes fell upon the waist-high white cage assembled in the center of the room.

Myrtle and Mother stood on either side of it, holding it up and beaming with pride, while Annabelle hopped around them both, bursting with excitement.

“Isn’t it marvelous?” Annabelle cooed, looking as if she’d like to crawl under the cage’s domed roof herself.

“Yes,” Theo lied, and put all his effort into maintaining his smile as he stepped forward to touch the cage—a whalebone crinoline, to hang under his skirts. He hoped his shocked dismay would read as wonderful disbelief.

“Don’t pout just because it isn’t steel,” said Myrtle.

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Joining me on Patre♡n will give you access to “drawer fic” – aka the 500k+ words worth of manuscripts that have been shelved until I figure out how to fix or finish them. You'll also be invited to join an exclusive Discord server just for patrons!

A new chapter will go up every week. Missing (unwritten) scenes will be indicated by brackets describing what would probably happen if the scene were written. Example: [in this scene Aubrey and Lindsey ride a carousel]

Currently posting…
♡ Theo. (transmasc historical mm romance)

Completed works...
♡ the Aubrey & Lindsey solar fantasy project (mm)
♡ A Willing Canvas - John Halloway x Lord Cyril Graves (mm)
♡ The Train Job - Rowena Althorp x Rebekah (ff)
♡ Hold Fast 2 - Hold Faster (mm)
♡ Vampires Vampires Vampires (mmm)
♡ The Sebastian Nothwell Contemporary Expanded Universe (mmm+)

See you on Patre♡n!