UPDATE! Book three of my Eight Kingdoms series is now on early release at w/the-burning-season! If you've enjoyed my fanfiction, enjoy m/m romance, glorious smut, Arthurian settings or fae - hell, if you like any kind of fantasy, historical, or romance fiction, check it out! You can see excerpts, recent news, short fiction, and more at my website: !

I'm Lyra. Usually in the dark; light burns me. Therefore: I am me, and hello. My fiction says most of want I want to say; I used to have summaries up here about most stuff but I just have so many pieces now and so many sites to post them on that it's too much too keep up with sensibly...so! This site is where I keep most of my fanfiction, just to keep track of it all in one place; however, not all of it is here.

Archive of Our Own, or Ao3, is still in Beta but quite delicious and has a format I approve of greatly; if I wasn't so lazy I'd probably have moved all my work to there by now. A revised, improved, and remastered version of my Harry Potter fandom piece "In Search of Wonderland" is posted there, as is one smutty little gem of a PWP for the Noblesse (a free Korean webcomic) fandom, "Experiments". Both of those are completed.

Here is a link to my Ao3 Profile: http:///users/LyraInTheDark/pseuds/LyraInTheDark

Dokuga, an Inuyasha fandom site specifically for the Sesshomaru/Higurashi Kagome pairing, is where I post all of my Sesshomaru/Kagome pairing fiction. This includes everything currently posted on this site that includes that pairing, as well as several other drabble collections, one shots, and fictions that I have not posted anywhere but at Dokuga; these include but are not limited to "Apotheosis", a gift fic for AzukaAhara"The Powers That Be", a comedic depravity of PWP and humor, "Kinbaku-bi", "A Tanabata Tale", "Sleeping Beauty and "The Wayfarer and The Way".

Here is a link to Dokuga, where my fiction can be found by typing "Lyra" in the fiction search bar: http:///

Finally, my original fiction is currently available at my tumblr blog, The Argument For Insomnia, reachable here: http:/// Currently it contains a weekly excerpt of smut (oh joy) a daily update to a piece of serial original fiction, "Sleeper" available only there, as well as quotes, writing prompts, and self-captioned images.

UPDATE 7/8/13: Daily update of Quod Si Amor Vincit Omnia continue, despite challenges; we're on 33 today, my dears! I am currently back to putting everything else on a mini-hiatus (probably only a week or two) because I'm working on editing a manuscript to fit editor response; one step closer to being published, woo! Please excuse the delay for that reason; if I can finally start getting my original fiction published, I will in the end have more time to work on these fics as well, so my benefit is your benefit too!

UPDATE 7/20/13: Mini-hiatus, over! Updates resuming; new Bridge of Dreams, Alpha and possibly Bloodlust chapters too. For those who prefer reading there, Quod Si Amor Vincit Omnia is currently updated to include all the most recent chapters at Ao3, Archive Of Our Own; see above for a link!

UPDATE 8/26/13: New updates! Quod Si Amor Vincit Omnia, Alpha, and Bloodlust have all been recently updated; Alpha a day or two ago, Bloodlust today, and Quod Si is back on its regularly scheduled updates - one per day! Harry Potter and the Bridge of Dreams and War Without End should both be receiving updates sometime this week, if all goes as planned!