To Be Under The (Yuletide Fic, R)

So my Yuletide fic this year has to double as my birthday story, for which I feel rather sheepish. *blushes* But here 'tis.

Title: To Be Under The
Fandom: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording (an utterly delightful Youtube video)
Rating: R
Pairing: Octopus/Guy
Summary: Three meetings of two very different minds.
Content Advisory: Tentacles, sex, interspecies interaction, Lovecraftian themes
All Thanks To: boosette, who showed me the video and for whom I wrote this.
Disclaimer: This fanwork has been created for pleasure only and not for profit.
Title from Octopus's Garden by Ringo Starr; section headings from that and Octopus by Arthur Clement Hilton Algernon Charles Sin-Burn

( She first sees her land-fish when she is very little, very minute indeed. )

Happy Birthday!

To jerusha and capra_maritimus! And also to me. :)

(And, one day early, to micheinnz!)

Fannish Snowflake Day 2: Some Non-Self-Recs

I admit, this is being done in a rather slapdash manner on my part. I've had a delightfully busy day. But here are four stories that have lingered in my imagination and my soul and which I think I haven't recced before.

Annotations on a Self-Made Elegy by igrockspock (Torchwood, Toshiko Sato, PG)
Indecent Proposals by Merry Arwen (Sherlock Holmes, Mature, Mary/John/Sherlock)
My Best Kept Secret by sophinisba (Merlin, R, Merlin/Freya)
A Day at the Beach by thistlerose (X-men:First Class, teen, Alex/Armando aka Darwin/Havok)

And here is my Recs Memories category.