Roundup: Once Upon a Fic Exchange

[firecat]

Once Upon a Fic Exchange is for fairy-tale retellings, where "fairy tales" encompasses folk tales, legends, myths, and so on. Text of the requested story has to be legally available online.

I absolutely love this idea and I want to write a story for practically every tale nominated. Here is a list of all the nominated tales:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTlmc__r-Qa2iHmGDzVGLFetJ7Ta0HMWRfAxiA6CWL-2wIeg0WC17OHrcWKgGH6lI3r_0M0ZacsGCI-/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

38 works were posted.

I had fun writing stories based on the sources, but I wonder if I might have made them too different from the original tales to be pleasing to the recipients.

I was overextended on exchanges so I managed to finish one assignment and one pinch hit but I still have a long way to go before I write one for every nommed tale.

What I wrote:
The Apprentice, The Wizard, and the Great White Bear (8185 words) by firecat
Fandom: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne | East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Apprentice/Wizard
Characters: Apprentice, Wizard, Great White Bear
Additional Tags: Fairy Tale Style, Apprenticeship, Bears, Wizards, Transformation, Animal Transformation, Curses, Fairy Tale Curses, Falling In Love, Secrets, Possible misuse of Russian diminutives
Summary: When he climbs onto the back of the great white bear, to travel to his new apprenticeship, Andrei has little idea how much his world will soon expand, along with his heart and his mind.

Lawless, Winged, and Unconfined (3281 words) by firecat
Fandom: Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Cupid (Ancient Roman Religion & Lore)/Psyche (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Eros/Psyche (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Characters: Cupid, Psyche (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Aphrodite (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Additional Tags: Gods, Bows & Arrows, Falling In Love, Lust, Oracles, Wings, Imprisonment, Self-Sacrifice, Happy Ending
Summary: Cupid had never tasted for himself the madness that his arrow wound brought on. No one had told him how much it hurt.



I received two fics that I really liked (Selkies! More Cupid & Psyche!), and one of them came with a bonus podfic!


What I received:
sea-called (1045 words) by Pingoodle
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (Traditional Ballad)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maiden (The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry) - Relationship, Silkie (The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry) - Relationship
Characters: Maiden/Silkie (The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Gender Changes
Summary: Most people like her didn’t live so close to the sea. She didn’t know if it was the same elsewhere, but here, the sea called. Those who could hear it moved to midtown, cloaked in the solid stone hewn from cliffside far above the seaspray. Every year, a few of the sea-called went over the cliffs. Every year, a few more of the sea-called moved away. Outside this place, she’d heard, water was water and nothing more. Salt tasted bitter, not sweet. 

Bonus podfic for this story: [Podfic] sea-called


Treatsie (1027 words) by Missy
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Cupid and Psyche - Apuleius, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eros/Psyche (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Characters: Eros (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Psyche (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Additional Tags: Mid-Canon, Curiosity, dares, Humor, Established Relationship, Teasing, Oral Sex, Cunnilingus, Very Mild D/S Overtones
Summary: Psyche cannot help but be curious about this man who is her husband.