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Title: This Silver Moment, Covered with Mud by bantha fodder (banthafodder)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie, Peter Pevensie
Susan Pevensie & Peter Pevensie
Word Count: 1470
Warnings: violence
Summary: "There are adventures to be had in London, even with Narnia so far away." 

Title: Love Me by BrokenKestral
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Pevensie Siblings
Word Count: 1530
Summary: "Susan craved love with every action in which she gave it."
Why I Rec This Fic: I love the Love and care Susan has for her kingdom and family and I wish her all the love in return.

Title: Death Can Touch by realbutnotsopure
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Pevensie Siblings
Word Count: 1532
Warnings: suicidal thoughts
Summary: “How terrible it is to love something death can touch”
After losing her entire family in the accident, Susan slowly learns to live with the grief.

Title: The Court of Conscience by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Orginal Characters, Lucy Pevensie
Word Count: 1782
Warnings: Original character death, discussion of imprisonment and capital punishment
Summary: "With Peter and Edmund away at the wars, Susan is left to preside over Narnian justice. It's a responsibility she takes very seriously, and would give anything not to have on her shoulders."
Why I Rec This Fic: Great character study, that doesn´t go the violence as agency route.

Title: Summertime by be_themoon
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie/Orginal Female Character
Word Count: 170
Summary: Lucy loves the summertime.
Why I Rec This Fic: Sweet, femslash. 

Title: Running Down Hills by Noxnoctisanima
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie
Word Count: 212
Summary: "Lucy never got to be a little girl."
Why I Rec This Fic: Lucy deserves good things. 

Title: all but the brightest stars by TolkienGirl
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing:  Lucy Pevensie
Edmund Pevensie & Lucy Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie & Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 381
Summary: "Lucy means light."
Why I Rec This Fic: Lucy is love and love is hard work and this are both concepts I am very much here for 

Title: And Footfalls and Soldiers and Dolls by Mercurie
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie
Susan Pevensie, Original Character
Word Count: 794
Warnings: Violence
Summary: "Lucy lives in two worlds." for the prompt bells
Why I Rec This Fic: Lucy in battle! 

Title: On Freckled Skin And Phantom Limbs by Quecksilver_Eyes
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie,
Pevensie Siblings, Lucy Pevensie/Orginal Female Character
Word Count: 818
Warnings: implied sex
Summary: "fae kisses (and by extension dryad kisses) bloom into freckles and BOY is lucy freckled"
Why I Rec This Fic: The relationship both the romantic and the sibling is very warm and I LOVE the casual but focused handling of disability.

“You have new freckles”, Peter says, his shivering hands brushing her shoulders. He touches the wound and Lucy doesn’t flinch. Instead, she throws her left arm around him and kisses his cheek.
“Good morning”, she says into his tunic and Peter chuckles, a sound deep in his chest.
“Good morning, my Queen.” He kisses the top of her head. “Slept well?”
Lucy laughs and turns away from him. 

Title: Follow The Star by rthstewart
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie, Ramandu's Daughter
Lucy Pevensie & Ramandu's Daughter
Word Count: 1014
Summary: "Daughter, sister, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. Lucy and the Star tarry at the World's End."
Why I Rec This Fic: Ramandus daughter deserves to talk to some female characters. 

Title: Laughing legends by Quecksilver_Eyes
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie, Lucy/Orginal characters
Word Count: 2214
Warnings: Blood, violence, minor character death,
Summary: Amarantha, dryad of the Western Woods, grows up with the Valiant Queen, and is tangled in her laughter, her hands.
Why I Rec This Fic: Perfect Lucy characterization, she is a force to be reckoned with and its not only that and but also that because she loves so hard. 

She laughs with her mouth against Amarantha’s hair, laughs a laughter full of sticky sugar and iron and a lion’s roar, and when the little things look at her with their glass eyes, she looks right back, her laughter like the spring sun on her face, her cheeks still salt stained. And Amarantha, half a sapling, still, with the memory of winter hidden deep under her bark and in her winds, stands and watches as Lucy rips her skin open on little thorned hands – laughing, still.

Title: nice girls, knowing eyes by wombatpop
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie
Lucy Pevensie/Original Female Character
Word Count: 2516
Warnings: Implied/referenced period typical homophobia
Summary: "The jolly woman at the grocery store has a daughter, which makes grocery trips fraught with comfort and fear. She’s pretty. Too pretty. And it’s terribly difficult to pretend not to be distracted when she’s appearing without notice, giving Lucy this smile that Lucy has no idea how to respond to."
Why I Rec This Fic: I like lesbian Lucy, and this feels sweet. 

Title: A Song Too Far by Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie, Mrs Beaver
Word Count: 3539
Warning: Sensory Overload, dissociation
Summary: "Mummy had always been so particular on the proper ladylike way to sit, and Lucy thought that if it was important for ladies to sit properly it was probably even more important for queens to sit properly, and so, when Aslan crowned them and they sat before their new subjects on the four thrones in Cair Paravel, Lucy was very careful to sit properly."
Why I Rec This Fic: Interesting worldbuilding. The description of the sensory issues is done well and incredible relatable (see why I recommend grim grinning ghosts by lyricalecho (Yu Gi Oh! DM) though that is mainly based around trauma) the idea of support for different need is just a wonderful escapist fantasy for me, related to that it is also respectful in the way Lucy feels her age (some fiction has difficulty to balance the „precious“ innocence and what a kid would actually understand. 

Title: Guidance by Dragonbat
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie, Mrs. Beaver
Lucy Pevensie & Mrs. Beaver
Word Count: 1046
Summary: "One day, Narnians would know her as Queen Lucy the Valiant, but she didn't start out that way. In fact, when she first ascended the throne, she was downright scared!"
Why I Rec This Fic:  Lucy is just a kid when she becomes queen, it is interesting to read about but it also makes me happy she gets support here, also I think the Beavers are underrated. 

Title: a meadow I still go back to by katakokk
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie
Word Count: 1287
Summary: "Lucy falls in love with Narnia."
Why I Rec This Fic: Lucy feels her age and very narnian, I love how she loves her home.

Title: And the endless skies by smallestbird (jenwryn)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie
Lucy/Dyrad, Lucy/Faun, Lucy/Naiads
Word Count: 1471
Warnings: explicit sex
Summary: "And the moon and the stars were gifts
You gave to the dark and the endless skies"
Why I Rec This Fic: I like the details that make the battle aftermath feel real, and how Lucy loves Narnia and how it loves her back.

Lucy needs this. Needs the land to make her clean again. Needs the stream to push the battle from her mind.

Title: Space Taxes by Unpretty
Fandom: Star Wars
Character/Pairing: Lando Calrissian & Leia Organa, Lando Calrissian/Han Solo, Leia Organa/Han Solo,
Lando Calrissian, Han Solo, Leia Organa
Summary: "Lando and Han can't get divorced. For tax reasons."
Wordcount: 587
Why I Rec This Fic: Do i understand nothing about taxes? Very much yes. Do i find this funny and cool that someone did write about it? Also very yes.
Podfic aethel-multivoice (aethel), elaineofshalott (LadyofMisrule), reena_jenkins, secretsofluftnarp, wingedwords (gunpowderandlove) here 

Title: a hungry darkness by Elsajeni
Fandom: Star Wars
Character/Pairing: Luke Skywalker, The Force
Owen Lars
Word Count: 657
Summary: “They ride in silence for a while, Luke turning the strange awful feeling over in his mind, gnawing at it. They’re almost back to the farm when he decides he can’t contain it anymore and blurts, “You know that old camp up by the bridge?”
Owen slows the speeder almost to a halt and frowns at him. “The Tusken camp?”
“Yeah,” Luke says-– he didn’t know it was a Tusken village, there’s not enough left of the houses to really tell, but as soon as Owen says it he knows it’s the same place. “The abandoned one. What happened there?””
Why I Rec This Fic: The force makes for excellent ghost/horror/tragedy stories.
Podfic by Podfic_lover here 

Title: Luminous firefly lavender by lotesse
Fandom: Star Wars (original trilogy)
Character/Pairing: Luke Skywalker/Han Solo, Leia Organa
Word Count: 1416
Warnings: a slur for a male sex worker
Summary: Firefly Setting AU,
Why I Rec This Fic: Firefly has such a interesting world to offer but unfortunately is a racist mess and use it more as a „exotic“ accessory then as a part of the live of the characters (who are all white) this fic does not, instead the details feel real, like they shaped this characters. (i am no authority there through as i am not Chinese) 

They told Luke not to think about the Browncoats' rebellion. “Won't change the harvest,” his Uncle Owen said, chopsticks punctuating.

Title: Son of Necessity by Elizabeth (anghraine)
Fandom: Star Wars
Character/Pairing: Luke Skywalker
Word Count: 2197
Summary: "Luke Skywalker, fifty times."
Why I Rec This Fic: I like the 1 Sentence format cause it allows to write about the many different facets that make something. Also: aro! Luke. Ace! Luke! 

When Luke thought of his childhood on Tatooine, the mundane and horrifying mixed together freely: Uncle Owen’s hand resting protectively on his shoulder, Biggs’ cousin tortured and killed by Sand People, dreams of burning, Aunt Beru’s potatoes.

Luke unclipped his lightsaber, running his fingers over every scratch and dent, thinking of how natural it felt in his hand, of how easily he reached for it, of everything he’d done with it -- of how he was never more a Jedi than when he ignored it, or cast it aside. 

“Well, once Leia decided she wanted to learn how to stop blasterfire with her mind, I figured someone’d have to keep the two of you fed,” Han said, stepping over a pile of rubble, and Luke couldn’t help but beam at them both. 

Title: tell me, get my shit together, by paperclipbitch
Fandom: Star Wars (orginal triology)
Character/Pairing: Lando Calrissian/Han Solo, Han Solo & Chewbaca, Lando Calrissian & Chewbaca
Han Solo, Lando, Chewie
Word Count: 5310
Summary: “I thought we were actively avoiding each other after the Trandosha Shitshow,” Han says. “We’re actively avoiding each other after the Iridonia Shitshow,” Lando corrects him, “the Trandosha Shitshow is That Which We Do Not Speak Of.”
Why I Rec This Fic: Its not my usual Han/Lando dynamic but this fic is great great fun. Chewie is perfect and has despite hanging with the biggest loser of the galaxy the time of his life because he just loves to say „I told you so“. Also there is quite a bit Wookie linguistic nerd-y so if thats not a selling point. And Lando & Chewie friendship.

Han and Chewie have worked out a thing, where Chewie goes along with what Han says will happen, and then, when it doesn’t, Chewie will mop up the pieces of what does, in fact, happen, and save both their lives, and only growl I told you so maybe six to eight times when they’re safely back on the Falcon and everyone’s bleeding has been safely patched up; and, if while all this is happening, they come across any Wookiees who are in need of help, then Chewie can drop everything to go help them, and Han will not bitch, and he will provide back-up or explosives or at least stand at a safe distance yelling “bang” in what is intended to be a helpful manner. 

Title: Repair by BananasAreForParties
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars: Original Trilogy, Star Wars Legends
Character/Pairing: Mara Jade/Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade & R2-D2, Luke Skywalker & R2D2
Mara Jade, Luke Skywalker, R2D2, OCs
Word Count: 20524
Summary: "Mara Jade came to Aran to trade. She acquires nutcakes, Imperials, and one Luke Skywalker, condition: damaged. Hurt/Comfort fic."
Why I Rec This Fic: R2D2 being Lukes too smart mouthy kid who has to get used to his new stepmom! Cool alien concepts and relation, great orginal crew, nice Luke and R2 relationship! pining and unresolved romantic/sexual tension with a reason to stay unresolved!
I know next to nothing about Mara before reading this fic, so I can’t attest to any canon conformity of the fic, but she is an interesting character, who straddles the line between practical, competent & also angry and caring: she does care for her trade partners, for her crew and for Luke even if she is not the best at showing it in a way that may be understood and I love that in a character. From the author "I don't buy it when Mara is described as 'cold'. My suspicions are always raised when that word is ascribed to a lady in any capacity." honestly same. 

"None starved through last winter's sleep. It is a first for our colony," the Grand Mother explains, ignoring the translation unit. The Grand Mother is six times as big as a male, and rotund besides. She's close to laying another round of larvae soon. The Honored Children (all sisters) of the Grand Mother are all about, under the dome of the elaborately woven house. They click their mandibles like a round of polite clapping.
"I am gratified to hear of your bounty of children," Mara replies.
"I thank you! And it pleases Us to learn you have added employee-children to your tribe."
It has been a struggle to convey the physical differences between a humanoid species and aracnoid, let alone the cultural gulf the old translation unit does little to bridge. Mara has surmounted the trouble by explaining humans only have one to six children in a lifetime and so would 'build' their tribes from non-relations as an explanation for her coworkers helping her. The Grand Mother, along with all her drone children were astounded and confused, but apparently came to think that it must be a great feat to acquire 'employees' from their existing family units and to keep them happy with pretty stones.

Title: memorial by orphan_account
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars: Princess Leia (Comic)
Character/Pairing: Leia Organa/Evaan Verlaine
Leia Organa, Evaan Verlaine
Word Count: 223
Summary: Evaan brings Leia flowers.
Why I Rec This Fic: Very sweet. I am also always there for Leias feelings for Aldeeran being explored. 

Title: Home to You by barrisscoffees
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars: Princess Leia (Comic)
Character/Pairing: Leia Organa/Evaan Verlaine
Leia Organa, Evaan Verlaine
Word Count: 1342
Summary: "Evaan lost everything when Alderaan was destroyed - taken from her. More than the possessions, more than the tree in her mother's garden, more than the memories she could no longer make, Evaan lost a home. Those weren't particularly easy to find these days." 

Title: May I? by skatzaa
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars: Princess Leia (Comic)
Character/Pairing: Leia Organa/Evaan Verlaine
Leia Organa, Evaan Verlaine
Word Count: 526
Warnings:
Summary: “Evaan,” Leia says, sleepy and soft and slow. She does not wish to disturb the silence, but she cannot resist the temptation of Evaan’s golden hair fanned out across the pillows, almost silver in the moonlight spilling through the window.

Title: hologram/sunset by SidleyParkHermit
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars: Princess Leia (Comic)
Character/Pairing: Leia Organa/Evaan Verlaine
Leia Organa, Evaan Verlaine
Word Count: 567
Summary: prompt: "Narrowly averted disaster". No disasters are averted.
Evaan plays it through night after night. 

Title: Things That Endure by Artemis1000 for thedevilchicken
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars: Princess Leia (Comic)
Character/Pairing: Leia Organa/Evaan Verlaine
Leia Organa, Evaan Verlaine
Word Count: 884
Summary: "With Poe Dameron on the way to Jakku, Leia and Evaan have a quiet moment to themselves to reminisce on the battles they have withstood together, and the ones to come. They may have grown older and gotten more tired, but Alderaan's daughters endure."

Title: Thirty minutes to Skaradosh by halfeatenmoon for thedevilchicken
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars: Princess Leia (Comic)
Character/Pairing: Leia Organa/Evaan Verlaine
Leia Organa, Evaan Verlaine
Word Count: 1473
Summary: "Evaan had always held the Princess Organa in the highest regard. It was frustrating the hell to watch Leia just decide to do reckless things like offer herself up as hostage in exchange for a single Alderaanian refugee, but Evaan respected her. And against all her better impulses, Evaan was beginning to like her, too."

Title: apple a day by voksen
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Dickon Sowerby, Colin Craven
Colin Craven/Dick Sowerby
Word Count: 100
Summary: Prompt: "all grown up now"
Warning: implied sex

Title: Short Form Dreaming in Miscellanea by Last_Haven
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Colin Craven/Dickon Sowerby/Mary Lennox
Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby, Mary Lennox
Summary: Prompt: "The secret garden - Mary/Colin/Dickon or Mary&Colin&Dickon + flower crowns"

Title: sharing is caring (the corsets and collars remix) by havisham
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 
Characters/Pairings: Colin Craven/Mary Lennox/Dickon Sowerby
Word Count: 563
Summary: "Colin and Mary compete for Dickon's attention and succeed in distracting themselves."
Why I Rec This Fic: This children are precious (by which I mean Colin and Mary are both little terrors and I love that, and Dickon has both hands full with them but that’s what you got two hands for)

Title: Nest building by Argyle
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Dickon Sowerby, Colin Craven
Colin Craven/Dick Sowerby
Word Count: 638
Summary: "Their belief in the Magic was an abiding thing. (France, 1915)"

Title: A Touch of Magic by soukokudoubleblack
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 
Character/Pairing: Dickon Sowerby, Martha Sowerby
Word Count: 700
Summary: "You are magic, aren't you?" Colin demands. He's never been one to let things lie.
Why I Rec This Fic: This subtle magic fits the canon very well. 

Title: You belong here by dalula
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Colin Craven/Mary Lennox/Dickon Sowerby
Mary Lennox, Dickon Sowerby, Colin Craven,
Word Count: 1000
Summary: "If I asked who this garden belongs to, what would you say? He had asked them once.
Us, they had replied.
And me? Who do I belong to?
They had understood, then. Dickon was theirs, just like they were his."
Warnings: sex
Why I rec this fic: I love Colin and Mary being little gremlins and bickering, I also love Dickon getting all the love he deserves.

Title: everything's coming up roses by verity
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Colin Craven/Mary Lennox/Dickon Sowerby
Mary Lennox, Dickon Sowerby, Colin Craven, Archibald Craven,
Word Count: 1064
Summary: "Dickon and I will be lord and lady of the manor, and you'll be the old maid," Mary says, tucking a stray lock of Colin's hair behind his ear. "You'll keep our house, won't you?"
Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics

Title: in that rich earth by brightsidest
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Colin Craven/Mary Lennox/Dickon Sowerby
Mary Lennox, Dickon Sowerby, Archibald Craven, Martha Sowerby
Word Count: 1081
Summary: During WWI Mary worries about her boys.

“I just want them back,” she says, as soon as she can control her crying.
“I know,” says Archibald, and she knows that he does.
“I don’t care if they’re wounded or hurt or different now, all that matters is that they’re alive, it’s the one thing I want and I’m not going to get it and why should I when so many people-”
She breaks off, thinking I sound like I’m still the Sahib’s daughter, always wanting things. Archibald shushes her and strokes her shoulder, as if she’s one of his greyhounds.

Title: certains t'ont promis la terre by Las
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Colin Craven/Mary Lennox/Dickon Sowerby
Mary Lennox, Dickon Sowerby, Colin Craven,
Word Count: 1476
Summary: "A decade later, and some things change."

run
“Don’t be a spoilsport, Sowerby,” says Colin as Mary kisses Dickon once on the cheek and once on the mouth, before Colin grabs the front of his shirt and tugs him closer, and Dickon is late for supper after all.

strength
When they were children, Colin preferred for Mary to push him on the swing, because Dickon didn’t respond to demands of “Higher! Higher!” – as if I am still an invalid, he had thought indignantly – but Mary pushed with all her might, and laughed with him.

forever
“I don’t make promises like that, Mary,” Dickon says softly, and somehow she isn’t surprised, but oh, she had hoped.

Title: A Strong Woman by Mary_West
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Mary Lennox, Colin Craven,
Mary Lennox & Colin Craven, Colin Craven/Dickon Sowerby
Word Count: 1759
Summary: "Mary Lennox has decided that some people have power.
And some have more than others.
So she's taking it back.
She joined the Suffragette Movement."
Warning: period typical sexism, classim and racism
Why I rec this fic: The handling of class (and race and disability) in canon is very of its time/shitty - its nice to see Mary still herself angry and contrary taking that to help others, it fits her character - Colin also feels like himself though it is a bit sad seeing him like that.

Title: Perennial by avani
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 
Character/Pairing: Orginal Female Character,  Mary Lennox
Word Count: 1764
Summary: "When Mridula came to serve the Lennoxes, she was not in the least disagreeable-looking. She could not afford to be.
(Mary's parents survive the cholera epidemic and stay in India. This does not mean that the garden, or its magic, is done with her.)"
Why I Rec This Fic: Canons handling of race is horrible, this fic takes the perspective of a character of colour, and allows her to be a full character.

Title: Frostbitten by shopfront
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Mary Lennox, Colin Craven,
Colin Craven/Dickon Sowerby/Mary Lennox
Word Count: 2155
Summary: "No matter how they'd wished to, they couldn't spend their entire lives at Mistlethwaite and in the garden... or could they?"

Dickon finished his half of the border first. After pressing the dirt down with one last murmur, he got to his feet and headed straight for her. He spoke to her equally as softly, like she was one of the slumbering bulbs he wanted to encourage to grow. “What does it matter, really? Perhaps it works, perhaps it doesn’t. It’s just like when you still used to plant the lilies upside down by accident and we hoped they’d turn themselves right way up without us. It makes him feel better. He's worrying himself that you'll have to marry somebody else one day and we'll lose you.”

Title: To Remember You in the Entire by ViaLethe
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Colin Craven/Dickon Sowerby/Mary Lennox
Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby, Mary Lennox
Word Count: 2403
Summary: "Between the three of them, they've gotten their feelings as tangled up as the roses in the garden."

Lost in her reverie, she's startled when something is set upon her hair; a quick feel reassures her it's merely a crown of flowers, and Colin throws himself down in the grass beside her, grinning and raising an eyebrow in the direction of her bare feet. Resisting the urge to put out her tongue at him (one must get too old for such things eventually, surely), she settles for raising her own brows in return, and he laughs, shaking his head and pulling up a bit of grass which he uses to tickle her arm.
“You shouldn't be too obvious, you know,” he says, sobering, following the direction of her gaze when she turns back to Dickon. “Even he will notice eventually if you keep staring at him so.”
Mary flushes and picks up her discarded hat to fan her face, hoping he'll put it down to the heat even while knowing Colin's far too perceptive for that. “Perhaps I want him to, did you ever think of that?” she responds, choosing instead to brave it out.

Title: Letters Home by Penknife
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Colin Craven/Dickon Sowerby/Mary Lennox
Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby, Mary Lennox
Word Count: 2437
Summary: "Set during WWI. Colin can't help wondering sometimes how the story will end."

. . . I wish I were more like my mother--oh, not really, not careless and thoughtless and a bit unkind, but I wish I knew how to make people forget their troubles. We talk about the war until I want to scream and go running out the door out into the clean open air. It will be better in spring, when everything is in bloom. The robins and the lilies will know nothing about the war. They will build their nests all the same. I envy them . . .

Title: Cool Evening's Benison by Makioka
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Colin Craven/Dickon Sowerby/Mary Lennox
Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby, Mary Lennox
Word Count: 2544
Summary: "Dickon returns home from war and the magic is still there to welcome him."

"And you're young," Colin adds grandly, the same touch of hauteur that always attends him there in his voice. "You can heal. The magic will make it so," and he says it teasingly, but with that half edge of belief that's always there in his voice. Of all of them, Colin believes in the magic the most. Dickon believes more in healthy food, fresh air and less fretting. He is his mother's son in this, and Mary remains caught between them, as though she still wants to believe but draws away as her skirts lengthen and her hair shortens.
"I don't think the magic can fix this," he says, and if his voice chokes a little bit on that, he doesn't think there's a court that'll hold him to that. Suddenly he's aware of it once again, that empty space between him and Mary. He wonders if that will be all they can see now, but then Mary's hand is there on that pinned up sleeve and it's like an electric shock has echoed down his spine, some prickling sensation and for one second, one irrational moment he wonders if it's the magic, but it's just Mary and as he turns to her, Colin leans into him from the other side.

Title: The Skylark's Song by amoama
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Colin Craven/Dickon Sowerby/Mary Lennox
Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby, Mary Lennox
Word Count: 2624
Summary: "In hope of magic at the end of a long war."

Title: Those Who Know Secret Things by Arsenic
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 
Character/Pairing: Mary Lennox/Dickon Sowerby
Word Count: 4669
Summary: "The older they get, the more complicated the secrets Mary and Colin keep become."
Why I Rec This Fic: While the canons missteps in terms of race and disability are more glaring the handling of class is iffy too – I like the way it’s a subtle theme here while it is still a mostly soft romance focused fic.

Title: So I Could Blend in With the Sky by Voylitscope_speed
Fandom: The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Character/Pairing: Colin Craven/Dickon Sowerby
Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby,
Wordcount: 5281
Summary: "Sometimes, it felt as if Dickon knew Colin's secrets before Colin himself did."

"Where would we be if we just kept walking?" Colin asked in a whisper, looking over at Dickon. "How far could we go?"
Dickon smiled at him in that kind and easy way he always did.
"Don't know," he said, shaking his head. "That'd depend on how much time we spent walkin'."
Colin nodded and looked back up the hillside, trying to see as far as he could.
"I think you were right. I think the moor is calling to me," Colin said, taking a long breath. "I think I can hear it."
Colin had no experience listening to moors speaking — or understanding the world outside his bedroom at all — but it felt like the truth. In that moment, he truly felt as if he could hear the moor calling him to some sort of grand adventure.
He thought he could learn to answer it if he had Dickon to guide him.

Title: Steel In Love With You (Or: Swords Just Wanna Have Fun) by darthjamtart
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede 
Character/Pairing: Cimorene, Alianora,
Word Count: 619
Summary: “Literally, or metaphorically?” Cimorene asks.
Why I Rec This Fic: Very in tone of the book, funny.

Title: Inevitable Truth by strix_alba
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede 
Character/Pairing: Cimorene
Word Count: 1110
Summary: "When she was seven, Cimorene informed her parents, the King and Queen, that she was not going to grow up to be a prince, but a princess."
Why I Rec This Fic: The tone of the fic fit canon and the handling of gender identiy/roles also fit what canon could be. 

The court philosopher pointed out that, with five sisters, Cimorene was doubtless confused by the differing roles, and recommended more father-son bonding time. As a consequence, Cimorene spent every Sunday from noon to dinnertime riding around the countryside with the King, surveying the land and training the royal falcons. Since this was a good deal more interesting than the history lessons which had previously been relegated to Sunday afternoons — her tutor tended towards sudden and mysterious deafness if she tried to persuade him to tell her stories about princesses and brave ladies-in-waiting in addition to tales of the kings and knights — Cimorene didn’t complain.

Title: Best Served Cold by firstlovelatespring for lorata
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Character/Pairing: Cimorene, Alianora, Morwen, Kazul
Word Count: 1573
Summary: "In which Antorell causes trouble in the Enchanted Forest, and Cimorene and Alianora make an amphibious new friend."
Why I Rec This Fic: Really really captures the tone of the source, and I like how female centric it is which is not much surprise given canon but it’s still Nice, it’s a funny and sweet little gen adventure. 

“A princess turned into a frog! I’ve never heard of that before,” Alianora said.
Ribbita hung her head. “That’s what everyone says. I’ve been trying to get turned back into a human for ages, but no one wants to give me true love’s kiss. I’ve even tried asking a magician to turn me back. He said it wasn’t proper for a princess to be turned into a frog. But I’m a princess, and I was. I think my parents were trying to break the taboo, naming me Ribbita and arranging for me to be cursed and all, but being a frog really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”
“I didn’t know it was cracked up to be anything,” Cimorene said. “I understand why you’d like to be turned back. And I think I know someone who could help you out.”

Title: In Which Cimorene Ventures into the Enchanted Forest, and Does Not Return for Some Time by firstlovelatespring
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Character/Pairing: Cimorene, Alianora, Morwen,
Cimorene/Morwen
Word Count: 2046
Summary: "It was possible that there were people like Morwen in Linderwall, but Cimorene had certainly never met one."
Why I Rec This Fic: There should be more Dealing with Dragons femslash fanworks, the book is made for it, this is a sweet little funny and very canon like bit.

Title: Not Exactly Diamonds and Toads by JanLevine
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Character/Pairing: Telemain, Morwen, Cimorene
Word Count: 2364
Summary: "Cimorene's scheduled tea with Morwen is delayed by the consequences of a fairy godmother's annoyance. Contains marbles, mysterious ingredients, many cats, and -- eventually -- tea."
Why I Rec This Fic: fun magic gen adventure

Title: Flying With Dragons by Marien
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Character/Pairing: Kazul, Shiara
Word Count: 2755
Summary: "In which a princess and a dragon come home."
Why I Rec This Fic: I am always there for stories that give people more agency.

Morwen peered at me, frowning. "I don't follow."
"When Cimorene suggested Shiara come as a princess, she said 'Kazul would have no objection to training the next Queen of the Enchanted Forest.' Without so much as asking Daystar and Shiara how things stand between them."
"Oh, my. " Morwen furrowed her brow. " ...she might have thought it was a way of rewarding Shiara, too? She's ambitious and intelligent. There'd be far worse Queens, someday."
"True enough." I sighed. "Perhaps I'm overstepping. It's her choice. I just would hope she's left free to make it by everyone else."

Title: Dealing with Princesses by Canon_Is_Relative
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Character/Pairing: Kazul, Cimorene, Morwen, OCs
Word Count: 3262
Summary: "Cimorene finds strange objects around Kazul's cave, and with them come stories about her former princesses."

“I arranged for her to be rescued by the king of the adjoining country in hopes it would bring peace to both their nations, but he showed up a day early and it was a bungled affair. In any case, she left the book behind. I’d always meant to return it to her but it made for fascinating reading and, before I could make up my mind, the humans brought the war to us and we were driven out of those mountains. The last I heard those countries had destroyed each other, my little Melanie with them. I rather think this might be the sole surviving record of what used to be a peaceful and prosperous nation. I’m glad you found it, I think I shall translate it.”

Title: An Unexpected Meeting by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Character/Pairing: Cimorene, Morwen, Kazul, OCs,
Word Count: 3526
Summary: "One Monday morning two months after Kazul's coronation (and all the chaos leading up to it), Cimorene woke up completely and utterly out of patience for wrangling her new responsibilities. "We are taking tomorrow off and inviting Morwen over for a picnic," she said as she cleared away the breakfast dishes. Kazul readily agreed.
Of course, nothing ever works out quite so smoothly in practice..."
Why I Rec This Fic: They do deserve a day off, and I like to think seeing multiple happy different relationship (and gender role) models would be good for Cimorene.

Title: Resources and Rescues by Violsva
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Character/Pairing: Cimorene, Morwen, OC,
Word Count: 3710
Summary: "In which Cimorene settles in as Queen, visits a friend, and does some mild rescuing."
Why I Rec This Fic: Canon like gen adventure.
Podfic here by GoLBPodfics (GodOfLaundryBaskets)

Title: Roses, Too by Sixthlight
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Character/Pairing: Cimorene, Kazul
Word Count: 3796
Summary: "In which Cimorene becomes a Chief Problem-Solver and Kazul worries about the power of stories."
Why I Rec This Fic: It´s the clever and funny turn on fairytale stories that I want for this fandom and makes the subtextual queerness text another thing I like in my fanfiction.

“If you hadn’t noticed,” Kazul said, “it’s all to my benefit as King for people to owe my Chief Cook favours.”
“I’m not doing it because I want them to owe me a favour!” Cimorene said hotly. “Just because…”
Kazul leant comfortably on her folded front legs. “Because what?”
Cimorene thought about it. “Because I don’t like to see people in trouble, I suppose.”
“Maybe you should have been a knight, not a princess.”
“And,” she said more reluctantly, “because I like being clever, and thinking of ways around things. Which is more like a wizard, isn’t it.” She wrinkled her face in the way that humans did when they were displeased by things, or smelt something bad.
“Like a witch,” Kazul corrected her. “It’s like a witch, and it’s why you’re friends with Morwen.”
“That I like better.” Cimorene stretched her arms out. “I really must figure out that sleeve enchantment Morwen uses – maybe I shall put it on a bag – carrying those books back was such a pain. But the library, Kazul –”

Title: Alone by Val_Creative
Fandom:  The Princess and the Frog
Character/Pairing: Charlotte La Bouff/Tiana
Charlotte La Bouff, Tiana
Word Count: 203
Summary: "Tiana wished frogs could have stayed in the pages of Lotti's fairytale pages, and only formed in green silk paper. She wished too much. It never gave her what she wanted in the end — Daddy didn't come back, and she and Lotti didn't marry."
Why I Rec This Fic: I think this is a very cute pairing and this kind of pining childhood friends is my jam.

Title: Home Cooking by littledust
Fandom: The Princess and the Frog
Character/Pairing: Tiana&Lottie
Word Count: 1188
Summary: „When Tiana finds Lottie trying to cook, she steps in to help.“
Why I Rec This Fic: Tiana and Lotties relationship is one of the highlights from the movie, and this fic has their voices down perfectly. I love stories about people teaching others. I love how Lottie is not just a shallow idiot in this, and Tia sees that.

They dance around the kitchen as the shrimp boils, laughing all the while, and Tiana can’t think of anything better than having a good time with someone you love while something hot simmers on the stove. Home, her heart sings out in time with the trumpets.

Title: Sugar, Honey, and A Little Something Else by FreshBrains for MizRootbeer
Fandom:  The Princess and the Frog
Character/Pairing: Charlotte La Bouff/Tiana
Charlotte La Bouff, Tiana
Word Count: 1235
Summary: "For all Tiana loved Lottie to bits and pieces, Lottie had never picked up a wooden spoon in her life, unless it was to taste Tiana’s gumbo or crepe batter."
Why I Rec This Fic: As said before I like the pairing and the theme of people showing their love though food/cooking and it feels very fitting for the movie.

Lottie whipped around, her blonde curls slapping her red cheeks.  “Oh, hey, sugar!”  She glanced down, giggling nervously.  “Get it?  Sugar?”
Tiana raised an eyebrow, trying not to let a smile crawl onto her lips.  “I get it.  But what are you exactly doing with the sugar?”

Title: I Could Have Danced All Night by ami_ven
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric,
Word Count: 100
Summary: “I can’t go on anymore.”
Why I Rec This Fic: happy married Ariel! Dancing!
Podfic here: by LittleRedRidingHood

Title: Ocean Child by misslucyjane
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric, Ariel&her sisters,
Word Count: 957
Summary: "He thought he was marrying merely a girl."
Why I Rec This Fic: Happy married Ariel! 
Podfic here: by Rhea314

She laughs now and kneels beside him, holding him around his waist as they look out at the rain tapping on the windowpane. "The storm won't hurt us," she tells him. "Grandfather will always look after us. But you can tell the storm, 'I am not afraid of you.' Shall we do that?"
"Yes," says David, and together they tell the storm, "I am not afraid of you. I am not afraid."

Title: Work in Progress by obsessivemuch for isabeau
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric,
Word Count: 1141
Summary: "Here's the dirty little secret about happy endings: They're hard work and Eric and Ariel are still very, very young." angst with happy ending

After the honeymoon, Grimsby bangs on their door at 6 a.m. every morning, walks into the room with a list, and starts reciting all the things that the royal pair has to do. Ariel feels exhausted just listening to the exhorbitant duties that a prince and princess must do, christen this new ship and that new shop, talk to everyone in the kingdom, entertain visiting royalty, and for her especially, training in a variety of subjects.

Title: tell you a tale of the bottomless blue by betony
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid, The little mermaid – Hans Christian Andersen
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ursula, Flounder
Word Count: 1460
Summary: Alternate Universe - Daemons
Why I Rec This Fic: Daemon AU! Which fits perfect with Hans Christian Andersens fairytale.

Title: Triton's Cove by cjmarlowe for genarti
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric, Triton,
Word Count: 1584
Summary: "Eric had always known that Ariel could make the choice to return to the sea, that all she had to do was ask. He was as in love with her as he had been from the moment they met, but once the first delirious days of their relationship passed, he couldn't help but wonder if he would wake up one morning and find her gone."
Why I Rec This Fic: Making it work, Eric interacting with his family in law!

Title: Bright Things by Penknife for genarti
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric,
Word Count: 1636
Summary: "Eric knows she's from a world he'll never entirely understand."
Why I Rec This Fic: I love Ariels love for the ocean but I also love stories about her not being completly unhappy in her marriage on land – this fic has both, it also has Ariel as a good queen which I definitly love.

"If you can keep up with the schools of fish, it's like they're dancing around you in the water," she says. "You can't see anything but their colors when you're in the middle of the school, you just have to follow the way they do, feeling them touch you all over, everywhere--" She twists awkwardly as if she expects to be able to twirl in the air, and he traces sympathetic spirals on her skin with his fingertips.
He knows she misses it. She's entranced by bright things -- daylight, fire, paintings, birds' wings -- but there are so many things that she's lost that he doesn't even understand.
"The coral was alive," she says, "and you could hear it singing. Well, not singing, really, but humming. I wish sometimes ..." She shakes her head. "I don't know why the trees here don't sing," she says, a little sadly.

Title: The Skin Beneath the Skin by jibrailis for isabeau
Fandom: Ariel the little mermaid
Character/Pairing: Ariel, Eric, Ariel/Eric,
Word Count: 2254
Summary: "Even if Ariel were to want to return to the sea, even if memories of shells and coral overshadow her restless nights, even if she were to look at her children, who speak only of land matters and never of the water -- even then, she cannot."
Why I Rec This Fic: Okay this is sad, and I hate sad stories but its also written well, with good world building bits and Ariel feels like herself even all grown up.
Podfic by Rhea314 (Rhea) here

Sleeping Beauty

Title: Memory in Her Toes by fresne
Fandom: sleeping beauty (1959)
Character/Pairing: Aurora, Merriweather, Fauna, Flora
Aurora/Phillip
Word Count: 1422
Summary:  "Her first step is in a meadow. She won't remember it. Who remembers their first step after all? Tremulous. Toddling. Toppling. Plop the wee distance of tiny chubby legs on soft green blades of grass that bend at the blow. She falls. All children fall.
She does not so much rise again, as grow."
Why I rec this fic: lovely poetic exploration of Briar Rose/Aurora and how her upbringing may have influenced her 

Title: more bright than of the midday sun by LittleRaven
Fandom: sleeping beauty (1959)
Character/Pairing: Aurora, Merriweather, Fauna, Flora
Aurora/Phillip
Word Count: 1016
Summary: "Briar Rose learns more of the value of sleep than her aunts intended."

Rose was supposed to be different from her aunts. But they were family, and families shared. She was proud she’d ended up a little like them.

Title: A world all new by Morbane
Fandom: sleeping beauty (1959)
Character/Pairing: Aurora/Phillip, Aurora, Phillip
Word Count: 992
Summary: Happy-Ever-After takes some getting used to.
Why I Rec This Fic: There are some really nice stories about Briar Rose and her relationship to her new name and role, but most of them are really sad (which they are allowed to be, its a topic with plenty of room for that) but softie as i am tend to be more drawn to this one: Its hopeful. 

In the morning, descending the tower's long spiral stair with Phillip, it had been all right - it had been more than all right. Daylight pierced the tower in long, slender shafts through the narrow windows - just like the arrows, Phillip explained, that these windows were designed to keep out. She peered through, looking out over the land.

Title: Drunk Kissing In The Fourteenth Century by ashleybenlove
Fandom: sleeping beauty (1959)
Character/Pairing: Hubert, Stefan
Hubert/Stefan
Word Count: 200
Summary: "It's the Fourteenth Century! So why not drunkenly kiss your fellow King?"
Why I Rec This Fic: funny and cute (nobody can tell me this did not happen)

Title: Whole New World By Roga
Fandom: Aladdin (1992)
Character/Pairing: Genie, Aladdin
Word Count: 2227
Summary: "Genie always returns to Al."
Why I Rec This Fic: Inmortality is always angst, add time travel and the thing is perfect. But its not just angst but also a very loving look at family and the world despite it all (including a Lilo and Stich reference) and that always make me feel better (after i have cried my heart out)

Genie does a great Brando.
It's a wasted talent, because Al wouldn't know the difference between Vito Corleone and Stanley Kowalski if his life depended on it, and Genie's never gonna leave Al, not now, no way, not in a million years. (Well, okay, he'll leave him in fifty-two years, when Al's gonna die of a freak trampling accident in a ripe old age, but that's when Genie will start watching over Al's oldest, who wouldn't recognize a perfectly pitched "Stella!" either.)