RMSE is open!

[selenak]

The Rare Male Slash Exchange has gone live. Originally, I didn't think I'd participate this year, since my Frederician pals could not and I doubted I would be able to find enough rare slash pairings I'd be able to write, but then I had a look at the requests and found not one but three I thought I not only could write but would want to write. And indeed I was assigned one of them. (I had meant to write the other two as treats, but in the end was too busy, alas.)

Meanwhile, I got this lovely gift, backstory to one of my all time favourite movies, The Third Man:


A Man Who Writes Westerns (3174 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Third Man (1949)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harry Lime/Holly Martins
Characters: Holly Martins, Harry Lime
Additional Tags: Sexual Content, Pre-Canon, Light Angst
Summary:

“When did you see him last?”

“September, ‘39.”

Comments

[mildred_of_midgard]

Yay! Your Frederician pals commented to each other that we were happy to see you signing up, despite our absence!

[selenak]

Want to guess which one I wrote? It's in a fandom I recently saw you have knowledge of.

[mildred_of_midgard]

Hahaha, challenge accepted!

Hmm, browsing through the collection, there's only a few I know. It's not obvious to me which of those you would like and would only have recently discovered I have knowledge of.

Ahh, wait, but it's possible you forgot our intermittent exchanges over the years about the broader umbrella fandom for this one and were recently reminded (because we did talk about it recently), and I know you know this specific sub-fandom because you recced it to me and Cahn. (I was unable to finish because of my difficulty watching things, sorry.)

Okay, let's see if the fic has German punctuation marks.

...

It does, it does! (Always your Achilles heel when it comes to anonymity during ficathons. ;))

The fic also has very Selena-ish tags, including the obligatory D--- R---. Aaand the author's notes mention drawing on a source that I know you know (and which I recently bought and have browsed through, but have not read beginning to end, because wow comprehensive).

I found it! :D

(Does that sound right?)

[selenak]

It does sound like the Royal Detective striking again, yes!