White Collar

Title: But I am More Faithful Than I Intended to Be
Author: veleda_k
Wordcount: ~8800
Rating: PG-13
Pairing(s): Kate/Neal
Contains: (highlight to reveal) The aftermath of minor violence. The threat of major violence and rape, especially rape by coercion. No rape or major violence actually takes place. Feel free to contact me if you have further questions.
Notes: For LC, and written for my old love_bingo card, using the prompt "faithfulness." The title is taken from Tennessee Williams. Thank you to florafic for betaing. Spoilers for "Forging Bonds."
Summary: Once a week, every week, for three and a half years, Kate visited Neal in prison. Somehow they survived.


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Title: To Commemorate the Occasion
Author: veleda_k
Wordcount: ~2800
Rating: PG-13
Pairing(s): Kate/Neal
Summary: Neal loved anniversaries. It was an excuse to celebrate, and they appealed to Neal’s sense of the dramatic. Kate might have expected that he would want to celebrate the anniversary of their first date. She hadn’t expected him to want to celebrate the anniversary of the first time they ordered Chinese, or the first time they danced. But she could get used to it.

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Title: Make Believe (Is Made of This)
Author: veleda_k
Wordcount: ~1300
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): Kate/Neal
Contains: Graphic sex
Notes: Written for florafic, for fandom_stocking.
Summary: In moments like these, Kate thinks reality is better than fantasy.


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For month_of_meta I wrote up an examination of the way the women of white collar are written, and how the show deals with gendered tropes.

White Collar is one of my very favorite shows. And one the reasons I love it so much is its varied cast of interesting and awesome women characters. In this piece (one couldn't really call it an essay), I'll discuss how the women of White Collar are written as individuals as well as the way the writers address gendered tropes. Expect this to spoil all the way through the end of season three.

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