frog princess

Title: From the heart
Pairing: Roger/Rafa
Rating: NC 17
Word count: 10,003
Warnings: explicit m/m
Disclaimer: everything in here is completely fictional
Notes: this is written for niennah's prompt: Sometime in the future, when they haven't met for some time (one or both have retired), Roger and Rafa meet and look at photos of their tennis days, reminiscing. Perhaps realising something they never realised before... ? I hope this is something along the lines of what you wanted! Thanks so much for emungere for beta and plot chewing, and to buckle_berry for beta and holding my clammy hands during the tennis. Eta: I made a bit of a booboo in the first version of this I uploaded, so this is v1.2.

Summary: Set at Wimbledon 2025. Their tennis careers are long over, but Rafa and Roger are bought together again as commentators. This leads to many realisations, and also some inept commentating.

( From the Heart )

Here's the collated version of Rafa's diary, as promised.

Title: Rafa's Diary
Rating: worksafe, pg for m/mish type stuff
Warnings: none really that I can think of
Disclaimer: this is entirely fictional
Notes: this is the complete, all in one place version. niennah has written some corresponding sections of Roger's diary, which I recommend you read because she creates such a great Roger voice. It's not essential to read them both at the same time, but it would be fun! So I've put links to Roger's diary entries in the appropriate places throughout this fic. Thank you to emungere for looking parts of it over and to everyone for encouraging me with feedback - it's much appreciated.

Summary - Rafa's diary throughout the 2009 US Open

( Read the entries )

Title: Rafa's Diary - day five & day six
Pairing: Fedalish
Warnings: worksafe
Rating: G

Day one Day two Day three Day four

( Day five – Friday )


( Day six - Saturday )

Thanks for all the positive comments on my etsy stuff yesterday, it gave me a much needed boost of confidence about it all.

In other news, am off to the dentist tomorrow as I have a painful tooth - one I paid a couple of hundred quid to have a root canal in. MASSIVE SIGH. I loathe the dentist. If anyone was mentally scarred by ever read any Herbert Van Thal Pan horror anthologies as a youngster, do you remember the one with the man who had a tentacle monster living in his gums? I reckon that was written by someone who had bad teeth. Dentists give me the fear.

tarteaucitron came to Reading on Friday. She is v awesome. <3 We hit up the Malmaison cocktail bar again and totally failed to restrain ourselves to just a "quick drink". After three each, we went back to mine, got bagels and cupcakes to eat and watched the last seven episodes of Supernatural season 4. It's no spoiler to say there was a lot of angst. A LOT. Spn is a fandom that I love to read in, and Tarte is good at the fic pimping so I'm enmeshed in a huge amnesia/psychiatric ward fic at the moment. Very satisfying.

I posted day two of Rafa's diary in the middle of the night. *shameface* It's here.

I stayed up late with buckle_berry, morebliss and emungere. We watched Feli losing to Dent (why Feli why??) and then the Mandy v Gulbis comedy tennis match. Honestly, it was the most hilarious thing I've seen for weeks. Gulbis is a complete mook - talented but his mind is clearly not on tennis, it's floating somewhere in space-- and then at the end Mandbot did a little pirouette and a split step.

( Here's the damning proof )

Roger is through to the second round, having beaten 18 year old Devin Britton. Britton had his eyes completely replaced by stars. From his post match interview, when asked about Roger's forehand:

Q. So you think you're going to have some bad dreams about that forehand?
DEVIN BRITTON: No, I'm going to have great dreams about it. It's so pretty, you know. Any dream about that would be good.

I'm taking codiene based painkillers at the moment, so the sensible thing to do is to write Rafa's US Open diary! Here's Day One, in which Rafa watches films and muses on the nature of Toni, Abba and twins, amongst other things.

Title: Rafa's Diary
Rating: gennish although that might change
Warnings: none really that I can think of
Notes: thank you to emungere for giving it a read through.

( Day One - Monday )

Fandom: tennis rps
Title: The beauty of it
Pairing: Roger/Rafa
Rating/warnings: not worksafe, explicit m/m
Notes: thanks to buckle_berry and emungere for inspiration, untangling my sentences and patiently correcting my comma-blindness. This story is quite possibly part of a longer story that I have not got round to writing yet. It's set currently, where they are in relationships with Mirka and Xisca.

Summary: they've agreed they aren't going to this any more, but they are unable to stop

( The beauty of it )

Title: Ready for a fall
Characters: Feliciano Lopez/Rafa Nadal (with implied Roger/Rafa too)
Rating: NC 17
Disclaimer: This is all entirely fictional.
Notes: I really wanted to write something about how Rafa might cope with being on tour all the time, and also Feli because Feli is pretty. Couple this with me obsessing over his Roger-love and you have the following story. Probably. Thank you very much to emungere and buckle_berry for beta and helpful comments and encouragement. Gratuitous photos: Feli, Feli and Rafa

Summary: Feli has figured something out about Rafa. Rafa and Feli are closer than people think.

( Like Feli said when they started, it was just a way of releasing tension. Nothing else. It didn't mean anything. It was just guys together, helping each other out. )

Title: All we ever have is now
Pairing: Roger/Rafa
Rating: g
Notes: a short fic that I wrote a little while ago and then tucked away in my box of stories I am not sure about. Thank you emungere for beta and also for prodding me to post it.

Summary: they are at playing at Wimbledon again

( All we ever have is now )

Title: Take the road again (sequel to Ne me quitte pas)
Fandom: Saiyuki
Pairing: Hakkai/Gojyo
Warnings: explicit m/m
Notes: This is a sequel to Ne me quitte pas, which can be found here, and I'd recommend reading that first before you read this, but only if you want to. I wrote this story for smillaarq, who won me over at livelongnmarry. I'm glad she did, because I very much enjoyed writing this. She mentioned how she wanted something to balance out the loneliness and sadness of their time apart in the original story and that idea drew me very much. I wanted to know more about schoolteacher Gojyo and his new and rather different life of domesticity with Hakkai. This is set a couple of months after the original story ended.

Summary: someone-- or something-- wants Gojyo's attention and he is losing sleep over it

( Take the road again )

Title: The Curse
Fandom: Saiyuki
Pairing: Hakkai/Gojyo
Warnings: explict het and m/m, genderswap
Notes and summary can be found here. Any feedback and comments are very much appreciated.

part one

( The curse - part two )

Title: Turn the page
Pairing: Roger/Rafa
Warnings: explicit m/m
Notes: emungere = beta of much awesomeness. This story was sparked off by the reports that Rafa was unhappy with the results of his photo shoot for New York magazine. I was curious about why.


( Rafa's jaw is mulish, and his brows are pulled down )

Rogelio won! ROGER IS STILL ROGER. Rafa said it yesterday, and Rafa is wise.

I still feel giddy. I've been rolling around in punditry all morning, in between work and staring at pictures of Roger kissing the giant silver cup. And the pictures of him rollling around on the court where you can halfway see up his shorts.

I really coud not love this fandom more. Apparently, Roger is going to Mallorca this weekend to visit Rafa attend the wedding of a friend. He said something extra special nice about Rafa too, in his post-match interview. Some unprompted gushing about his 'rival':

I mean, Rafa I always knew he was going to be a great player from the first moment I played him on. And I think Novak's done a incredible job of improving because I wasn't that impressed from Novak in the first place when I played him in Monaco. But Rafa, from the first moment, I knew he was going to be unbelievable.

Aww! Also, I could do an entire post on the oddities and trends of tennis press conference language. For tennis players, so much is 'unbelievable'. Rafa even admitted that he used the word too much. Roger says it all the time. Juan Martin Del Potro said it about fifteen times in one of his interviews. Copying the greats, clearly.

From Mandy's post match interview:

Q. Obviously you came here for the trophy. You're going away at 21 with a check for a million dollars. Does it seem slightly unreal?

ANDY MURRAY: That's about 10 pounds, isn't it?

Hahaha. I think I have to like him after all.

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I wrote a little snippet with emungere: Not bad - Roger/Rafa, male kissage