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Title: Born Anew
Fandom: Penny Dreadful
Rating: Explicit
Genre: Drama
Word Count: 1460
Characters/pairing: Sir Malcolm Murray/Vanessa Ives
Warnings: None
Summary: She wakes up in a narrow bed, not knowing who she is, or why she is there.
AN: Written for The Darkest Night 2016. It didn’t got especially dark, though.

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Title: Will Haunt Evil (For A Modest Fee)
Fandom: Penny Dreadful
Rating: All ages
Genre: Humor
Word Count: 709
Characters: Renfield, Sir Malcolm Murray, Vanessa Ives, Ethan Chandler, Ferdinand Lyle, Sembene, Victor Frankenstein, The Creature, Lily, Dr. Seward, Dorian Grey, Henry Jekyll, Catriona Hardtegen, OFC
Warnings: None
Summary: Welcome to The Vanessa Ives Foundation where problems of a certain nature are solved.
AN: I love Penny Dreadful, but though I found the conclusions largely satisfying, there were quite a few plotlines that were left a bit hanging. This is my (hopefully) humorous attempt to right this. Written just for fun and should not be taken seriously. Contain spoilers for the last season. Ivy Pearson is a character from a few movie versions of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a young woman who is unfortunate enough to attract the attention of Mr. Hyde.

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Title: Will Haunt Evil (For A Modest Fee)
Fandom: Penny Dreadful
Rating: All ages
Genre: Humor
Word Count: 709
Characters: Renfield, Sir Malcolm Murray, Vanessa Ives, Ethan Chandler, Ferdinand Lyle, Sembene, Victor Frankenstein, The Creature, Lily, Dr. Seward, Dorian Grey, Henry Jekyll, Catriona Hardtegen, OFC
Warnings: None
Summary:. Welcome to The Vanessa Ives Foundation where problems of a certain nature are solved.
AN: I love Penny Dreadful, but though I found the conclusions largely satisfying, there were quite a few plotlines that were left a bit hanging. This is my (hopefully) humorous attempt to right this. Written just for fun and should not be taken responsibly. But do contain spoilers for the last season. Ivy Pearson is a character from a few movie versions of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a young woman who is unfortunate enough to attract the attention of Mr. Hyde.

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The Yuletide authors have been revealed and I can post my stories here. This is my main gift fic, written for redsnake05.

Title: A Place In the Shadows
Fandom: Penny Dreadful
Rating: All ages
Genre: Gen, friendship
Word Count: 1216
Characters: Vanessa Ives, Sembene
Warnings: None
Summary: Cold in both body and soul, Vanessa finds an unexpected comfort.
AN: One of the things I love about Penny Dreadful is how it manages to evoke such things as smell and sense, not just sounds and vision. I tried to capture some of that in this fic as well. I labeled this fic Gen, but there is a hint of Vanessa/Sembene. Thanks to LilacFree for beta-reading.

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Title: Bittersweet
Fandom: Penny Dreadful
Rating: Teen
Genre: Drama, unresolved sexual tension.
Word Count: 1998 words
Pairings and/or Characters: Sir Malcolm Murray/Vanessa Ives, Ethan Chandler/Vanessa Ives, Ethan Chandler/Ferdinand Lyle, Henry Frankenstein, Sembene
Warnings: None
Summary: They don’t realise it, the people in the large stone house, but the love they feel for each other is perhaps the strongest protection they have.
AN: Written for the Rare Pair Fest 2015. This fic takes place during the second season, before Dorian Grey's ball. I know that there are several suggestions in the show that Sir Malcolm is Vanessa’s biological father, but as I’m not keen on incest I prefer to think otherwise until it is spelled out, and not just suggested.

Two of my interests have influenced this fic. First; the history of perfume and the way we relate to smells. After the scene when Evelyn Poole is buying perfume, I started to wonder which perfume Vanessa would wear. And I think a perfume by Guerlain; Jicky, would suit her well. It is the oldest perfume still in production and when it was released in 1889 it was a bit of a revolution; it was one the first perfumse using synthetic notes; coumarin and vanillin. It was also the first abstract perfume, meaning it wasn’t dominated by a single note. The first modern perfume if you want. It really is a rather odd perfume, often described as a “lavender-vanilla” but with so much else going on. There are citrus and herbs as top notes, followed by patchouli, vetiver, rose and carnation, to dry down to a vanilla civet with hints of leather. It really changes a lot during the time you wear it. I am, however, talking about vintage versions of the perfume here. Modern Jicky is very nice, but much smoother in its formulation. (It’s a sad fact that perfumes are frequently re-formulated, often with the aim to make them cheaper, which can drastically change the way they smell.)

Secondly I love fashion history and upper class women clothes could be quite complicated in the late 19th century, often requiring a second pair of hands to get on and off properly. We never see a lady’s maid skulking around Sir Malcolm’s house, to which I gather either he or Sembene must help Vanessa with her more elaborate clothes…

The quote in the beginning is from Elegies IV. The Perfume by John Donne.

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Title: Bittersweet
Fandom: Penny Dreadful
Rating: Teen
Genre: Drama, unresolved sexual tension.
Word Count: 1998 words
Pairings and/or Characters: Sir Malcolm Murray/Vanessa Ives, Ethan Chandler/Vanessa Ives, Ethan Chandler/Ferdinand Lyle, Victor Frankenstein, Sembene
Warnings: None
Summary: They don’t realise it, the people in the large stone house, but the love they feel for each other is perhaps the strongest protection they have.
AN: Written for the Rare Pair Fest 2015. This fic takes place during the second season, before Dorian Grey's ball. I know that there are several suggestions in the show that Sir Malcolm is Vanessa’s biological father, but as I’m not keen on incest I prefer to think otherwise until it is spelled out, and not just suggested.

Two of my interests have influenced this fic. First; the history of perfume and the way we relate to smells. After the scene when Evelyn Poole is buying perfume, I started to wonder which perfume Vanessa would wear. And I think a perfume by Guerlain; Jicky, would suit her well. It is the oldest perfume still in production and when it was released in 1889 it was a bit of a revolution; it was one the first perfumse using synthetic notes; coumarin and vanillin. It was also the first abstract perfume, meaning it wasn’t dominated by a single note. The first modern perfume if you want. It really is a rather odd perfume, often described as a “lavender-vanilla” but with so much else going on. There are citrus and herbs as top notes, followed by patchouli, vetiver, rose and carnation, to dry down to a vanilla civet with hints of leather. It really changes a lot during the time you wear it. I am, however, talking about vintage versions of the perfume here. Modern Jicky is very nice, but much smoother in its formulation. (It’s a sad fact that perfumes are frequently re-formulated, often with the aim to make them cheaper, which can drastically change the way they smell.)

Secondly I love fashion history and upper class women clothes could be quite complicated in the late 19th century, often requiring a second pair of hands to get on and off properly. We never see a lady’s maid skulking around Sir Malcolm’s house, to which I gather either he or Sembene must help Vanessa with her more elaborate clothes…

The quote in the beginning is from Elegies IV. The Perfume by John Donne.

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So I got great pairings to choose from for Rare Pair Fest 2015 and my reciever wrote a really informative letter and we have a lot of overlapping likes so my fic basically evolved while I was reading it. And half of it is already written. Yay!

I’ve managed to salvage the last chapter of Professor Keller from memory and it’s nearing its completion as well. I suffer from separation anxieties.

The pesky fic that didn’t got written for the ‘Classics’ entry re-shaped itself in my mind. I’ll be ditching about ⅔ of it and some will be re-written but at least it clicked for me.

And I have seen the last episode of Penny Dreadful and I’m still thinking eeeep and need to talk about it. I love the show from the first episode in season 1 but I think season 2 was so much better, which says a lot. Helen McCrory as a main villain was so much better than the elusive vampire king from last season. Which I’m still not certain they really got, at least, if they did, then I think they shambled that bit. And acting, casting, costumes and setting has been all round wonderful!

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Title: A Letter
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from Penny Dreadful, I just play with them for fun.
Fandom: Penny Dreadful
Rating: R
Category: Angst/drama
Summary: An unsent letter from Vanessa to Mina

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