The yuletide obscure fandom challenge, redux

Now that we're well into the new year and I'm back from my winter holiday (have learned to chop wood! I feel so butch), I'm allowed to reveal that

- eyebrowofdoom wrote the gorgeous Hornblower story Knowledge, Late in the Day for me (thank you again!).

- I wrote Swords Against Dreams for lynnmonster, set in the Fafhrd & Grey Mouser series of fantasy books by Fritz Leiber.

( More about Leiber and my yuletide story )

But wait, there's more! The New Year's resolution challenge

The yuletide challenge has been transformed into the New Year's resolution challenge, where anyone can look at the list of unfulfilled requests and write a story for a pairing that takes their fancy. (The participants in yuletide were asked to give three or four pairings, so there's a lot of requests left over even though everybody got a story. I asked for Hercules/Iolaus, Hornblower/Archie, Hornblower/Pellew and Inigo/Fezzik.)

I didn't know about this challenge, so imagine my delight when I found out that I'd gotten a story!
therienne wrote it, it's called Bed and Breakfast, it's a deliciously snarky Hercules/Iolaus story, and I love it. I couldn't have gotten a better start to the New Year. Here's an appetizer:

The room was about what could be expected from the rest of the inn, and the roof was leaking directly onto the small straw mattress. Wordlessly, they each went to one end of the bed to move it to the other side of the room. The rotted top of one of the posts snapped off in Iolaus' hand. He threw it to the ground in disgust.

"I'll sleep on the floor," he announced.

"On that floor?" Hercules asked, too aghast to remember their feud.

Both of them scrutinized the floor for a moment. Iolaus shuddered.

Quick H:tLJ Ebay heads-up

Someone is selling the Season I H:tLJ DVD box set on Ebay for a starting price of $ 2.50 here. The listing is pretty unclear, which means a lot of interested bidders might not see this. So: potential bargain, but bid at your own risk, since I don't know the seller or anything about them other than that they seem to have a good feedback rating.

Someone's also selling one of the 11x14 matte photos of Hercules and Iolaus here. Same disclaimer applies.

And thanks to an earlier Ebay post by ltlj, I bought a couple of H:tLJ pics myself, including this angsty one and this one of Herc and Iolaus on the Argo. Woof. It's a wonder they ever made it to Colchis.