I wrote a thing! As I hinted on Twitter, it is both unlike anything I've written before, mainly in its affected style, and exactly like most of the fics I've written before, with its theme of partners working together to satisfy someone's kink.
Title: The Lion Tamer and the Strongman
Prompt/Character: Submissive Circus Strongman (Original Work)
Rating: Adult
Word Count: 3,220
Content notes: d/s, size difference, bisexual character, asexual character, bondage (sort of), cuddling. Reference to animals in captivity.
For:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
sweetcarolanne/![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
schlitzie_ramone as part of the 2018 Trick or Treat Exchange (![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
trickortreatex)
Thanks: tostultiloquentia for brainstorming & helping with a vocab question and to v_greyson for her German expertise
For the prompt:
Read on the AO3 or behind the cut.
( 'I think I know what you want, friend,' I said to Otto, softly. 'I would like to give it to you, if you'll have me.' )
Research notes: I learned about positive reinforcement-based lion-training techniques from articles at HowStuffWorks and The Guardian. Henri is named after Henri Martin, a pioneer of accustoming circus tigers to humans. Meanwhile, Otto's ribcage trick is based on a feat performed by Pierre Gasnier, "the French Hercules," according to Vintage News.
I… do not know a lot about mid- to late 19th-century European circuses. Would a traveling troupe like this have resided in tents or in train cars? Might their beds have had wooden frames with legs? Who knows? Not me, and not any of the sources I frantically dug up in the two and a half days in which I wrote this story. If you happen to know, I'm open to modifying the text for greater historical realism.
Title: The Lion Tamer and the Strongman
Prompt/Character: Submissive Circus Strongman (Original Work)
Rating: Adult
Word Count: 3,220
Content notes: d/s, size difference, bisexual character, asexual character, bondage (sort of), cuddling. Reference to animals in captivity.
For:
schlitzie_ramone as part of the 2018 Trick or Treat Exchange (trickortreatex)Thanks: to
stultiloquentia for brainstorming & helping with a vocab question and to v_greyson for her German expertiseFor the prompt:
I love the idea of consensually "bringing the giant down" - everybody believes this big muscular guy is an alpha male type who's stronger than everybody else, but he secretly longs for someone to put him in his place, using whatever means necessary. And someone discovers this secret! Who are they, and what happens? Bonus points if they're someone less physically powerful than the strongman! I tend to prefer M/m for this scenario…
Read on the AO3 or behind the cut.
( 'I think I know what you want, friend,' I said to Otto, softly. 'I would like to give it to you, if you'll have me.' )
Research notes: I learned about positive reinforcement-based lion-training techniques from articles at HowStuffWorks and The Guardian. Henri is named after Henri Martin, a pioneer of accustoming circus tigers to humans. Meanwhile, Otto's ribcage trick is based on a feat performed by Pierre Gasnier, "the French Hercules," according to Vintage News.
I… do not know a lot about mid- to late 19th-century European circuses. Would a traveling troupe like this have resided in tents or in train cars? Might their beds have had wooden frames with legs? Who knows? Not me, and not any of the sources I frantically dug up in the two and a half days in which I wrote this story. If you happen to know, I'm open to modifying the text for greater historical realism.
