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Frankenstein - Fanvideo

2026-02-15T16:15:25Z

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Title: Designed for one another

Vidder: littlecatk

Fandom: Frankenstein (Universal Monster verse: Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Frankenstein meets the Wolfman (1943), House of Frankenstein (1944)

Music: Bride by The Mountain Goats

Summary: The Frankensteins, fathers, sons, daughters, mothers and brides

Warnings: Physical triggers (quick cuts/flashing lights), suicide, death,

On AO3 here / on tumblr version without subtitles here / version with subtitles here

This is the first vid in 3 years I finished.
I kind of want to explain my thoughs but I can write even less then edit videos - anyway, one core theme of this video is like self recognition through the other, but instead of self love it ends in repression? In the end of this movies the heterosexual, monogamous, white, abled couple lives and the 'unnatural'/monsterous is destroyed - till the next movie when the next person meddles with it.
Anyway, the first lyric match I decided on was that I wanted the marriage bed(s) standing head to head for "We lie tied to our slabs".
Things that bug me: The shot lenght is so inconsistent in this video and I fear it hurts its pacing. I used a free program to try split screens but I hate the watermarks so much.

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dear festividder (2023)

2023-10-18T07:13:27Z

Dear Festividder and anyone who might like to make a treat!
First of all thank you! Second I hope yu have fun vidding! I know everyone says it but it is true, if you make a vid you love to make I will love watching it, all this fandoms deserve more fanvids and I am really looking forward to see something for any of them.

General: i love female characters, found families, world building/settings, meta stories about storytelling, magic,

General Do Not Want: I am not the biggest fan of dialoge over music, but am okay with dialoge in general outside of it, or maybe over instrumental music. Flashing lights, spinning, give me headaches and nausea so I am not big into them either.
Techno Music, House, dubstep, goa, lofi, anything going deeper into it then Eurotrash Dance Music (which I assume I only like/tolerate because I heard it so often by now. music taste often works like that)

Маугли | The Adventures of Mowgli (1973) [SAFETY],
What it is: The human toddler Mowgli is adopted by wolves, after Sher Khan kills his parents.
My fav thing about this movie is the animation, its so expressive! But I also love the tenderness between Mowgli and his friends.
Its on youtube with english subtitles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPkNG-wFAuk

Zlatovláska | Princess Goldilocks (1973) [SAFETY],
What it is: a pastel coloured fairytale musical, where kindness saves the day.
This one just makes me very nostalgic.
Its on youtube with english subtitles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG0auEvTDl0

ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 | Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou | Record of a Yokohama Shopping Trip OVAs [SAFETY],
What it is: Post apocalypse: a robot tries to manage a lonely little caffee.
Very slice of life, soft and melancholic with lovely pastel colors. Its cozy.
Its on youtube with hardcoded english subs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3_dBxBi84I

Le Roman de Renard |The Tale of the Fox (1930) [SAFETY],
What it is: stop motion animation, anthromorphic animals: the tricks of the fox have gone too far and now the king orders him to be brought to justice, fox will have none of that.
Really impressive animation and a charming fun story.
Its on youtube with english subtitles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCvmEY_9fo

Robin and Marian (1976) [SAFETY],
What it is: an aged Robin returns to England to find everything gone to shit.
While I have complicated feelings from a disabled perspective I do love this movie genuinely. The characters and their tender reconnection really got me. I may be the only one but Little John/Maid Marian/Robin Hood as a ot3, I am there for it.
Its on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKn_TMOMsY4

花木蘭 | Lady General Hua Mulan (1964) [SAFETY],
What it is: Hua Mulan takes the place of her old sick father when each family has to have one person join the army.
Its on youtube with english subtitles (hard coded) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tglm3anmue8

왕의 남자 | The King and the Clown (2005) [SAFETY],
What it is: "late 15th century, two street clowns and tightrope walkers, Jangsaeng and Gong-gil, get entangled with royality."
Warning: sexual abuse, forced sex work, suicide, murder, jealusy/possesiveness,
I liked the negative light in which the rueling class is presented.
Nice costumes. Lovely jester performances too.
Mostly love Gong-gil, but wouldnt say no to a shipping focused vid.

Once on this Island - Flaherty/Ahrens [UMBRELLA],
What it is: Ti Moune a peasant girl has fallen in love with a wealthy light skinned "grand homme", when he chose his social status over her, she dies and is transformed into a tree by the loa.
I only seen the original broadway run on extremly grainy copies so I cant speak much about it.
But I seen the 2017-2019 broadway revival version and some local/smaller productions, but use whatever (and as many (one theme of the musical is story telling itself so I think a multi source vid would be super duper cool)) versions as you want.
I would love anything for this source character focus, ensemble, dance, world/set design focus, meta level about story telling - whatever you want.
The revivial has this amazing costumes that repurpose trash and everyday items for the loas and I love the costumes and set design grounds the story in the aftermath of a hurrican in a contemporary but also very specific point of time (and place), the blurred line of divinity and ordinary life is also something I love. I seen a few photos of the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park production but not the show itself and I find some of that in the set design there too.

Dick Tracy (1990) [SAFETY],
What it is: Detective Tracy tries to get Big Boy Caprice and his mob of the street and accidently adopts a kid.
Its kinda campy, and may be one of this kind of things you love or hate.
I just love the colours of this, it really looks like a comic adaption. My fav thing about this is the setting/world, but I also really like Tess and I am always there for found family.

The Great Mouse Detective (1986) [SAFETY]
What it is: like sherlock holmes but with anthromorphic mice. Basil the mouse detective has to find this little girls missing father and stop Ratigans evil plan to crown himself king.
I like the world, and i adore the characters. Wether you want to vid some (b)romance with Basil and Watson, or found family shenigans, or Ratigan/Basil hate/love shipping centric stuff, just have fun!

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Strange Empire - fic rec

2023-07-12T09:59:08Z

Title: phenomena of nature by wariangle
Fandom: Strange Empire (TV)
Character/Pairing: Rebecca Blithely/Morgan Finn
Rebecca Blithely, Morgan Finn
Word Count: 929
Summary: "Morgan and Rebecca, some ways into the future."
Warning: sex, mention of transphobia & homophobia
Why I Rec This Fic: I really like the voice of Rebecca here.

Usually, the physical exertion is followed by a relaxation of the muscles as well as the mind she's found, and so is surprised when Morgan soon begins to fret next to her, the furrow between his brows, smoothed out by their love-making, growing deep again.
Rebecca turns her head to kiss him, since it is something she finds highly pleasurable and furthermore usually seem to have a restorative effect when Morgan's good mood flees, even though she has found no medical evidence to support it.

Title: i don't want to think about you but i do, i do, i do by aphrodite_mine
Fandom: Strange Empire (TV)
Character/Pairing: Isabelle Slotter/Kat Loving
Isabelle Slotter, Kat Loving, Rebeca Loving, Kelly Loving
Word Count: 1246
Summary: "with your name in my throat, i swallow"

"You'll stay here tonight, at the house." It isn't a question, but Kat still finds her shaking her head in answer. An answer Isabelle doesn't accept. Stubborn, so stubborn, still. "The girls have made a home for themselves in the cribs and don't have the room."
The look Kelly shoots Robin indicates otherwise, or at least the possibility of otherwise.
"I'll make do in the cribs," Kat says, wiping her chin clear of any remaining trace of dinner.
Isabelle's voice is firm, the tone echoed from traces of memory, and from dreams, and nightmares too. "You'll do no such thing."

Title: Kissing Day by sanguinity
Fandom: Strange Empire (TV)
Character/Pairing: Kat Loving/Rebecca Blithely
Word Count: 5161
Summary: "It's Kissing Day, and Kelly has decided that it's high time that some things got fixed. Doc Blithely is just the person to do the fixing."
Why I Rec This Fic: I was just happy to see Kat happy and relexed. Also cool to see her and Rebecca interact.

Title: Freedom in this union by sanguinity
Fandom: Strange Empire (TV)
Character/Pairing: Isabelle Slotter/Kat Loving
Isabelle Slotter, Kat Loving
Word Count: 6000
Summary: "Seven scenes from a marriage."
Warning: canon/period typical racism, and attiudes toward sex work, mention of rape
Why I Rec This Fic: Great Isabelle voice.

His grandfather, Cornelius Sotter, whose world is made of power and control; Cornelius Slotter, who desperately wants an heir; Cornelius Slotter, who has a history of stealing babies.
There is no one to protect little Albert from Cornelius but Isabelle herself, and Isabelle has no resources beyond her money and her wiles.
And, perhaps, Kat Loving.
Cornelius is as wily as Isabelle; Cornelius has more money than Isabelle. What Cornelius does not have, could never have, is a Kat Loving: someone who is fierce and true, someone whose loyalty cannot be bought or sold.
Unfortunately, Isabelle is not sure that she has Kat Loving, either.
They have made no declarations this past month, during their intermittent bouts of pleasure. Nor had Isabelle wanted any, until she looked into Albert Jr.'s face and saw John Slotter's features, and knew that Cornelius would see them, too.

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dear festividder... 2022

2022-10-21T13:06:32Z

Dear Festividder and anyone who might like to make a treat!
First of all thank you! Second I hope yu have fun vidding! I know everyone says it but it is true, if you make a vid you love to make I will love watching it, all this fandoms deserve more fanvids and I am really looking forward
to see something for any of them.

I get headaches and mild nausea from strobbing, blinking, flashing and flickering lights, spinning and extrem zooming.

General Dislikes:
I'm not super fond of text on screen, or dialoge over music.
More a lyric then a instrumental music but if you have the perfect instrumental song feel free to do that.

General Likes:
I like character studies, I like relationship studies (doesnt have to be romantic), I like ensemble vids, I like vids focusing on the worldbuilding/setting.
I like vids that focus on side/minor characters or less focused relationships. I love it when a vid makes a source look queerer then it was in canon.
I love meta vids, I love celebrations of the source but I also like deconstruction and critic in video form, vids that look at a source from a different angle, vids that have a very different tone then the source.
I am a very sappy, you can go out as big on pathos and "feels" as you like to.
Outside source is totally fine by me.
I like female characters, gender feels, parallels and juxtapositions, polyamory, queerness, a strong sense of setting (place, time period), found families, underdogs, misfits banding together, solidarity/community building,

I prefere hopeful things, angst is okay, but i would perfere not completly dark things.

Music:
Starting with what I am not so much a fan of because it is easier: anything that could be described as "ambience", this includes "lofi", "shoegaze", "coffeshop covers" and "lounge" music. Anything techno (dubstep, house, goa, synthwave even just more techno adjent pop and hip hop music).
Most of the music I listen to is from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, I almost completly stopped being aware of current pop/chart music around 2010,
I like to find new (to me) music with fanvids, but don't be afraid of using a song everyone has used if it is really what speaks to your heart.
I prefere music that "moves", a good beat, a strong rythme.

Some sale pitch/rambling for the specific fandoms.

Green Lantern: Legacy (DC Comics 2020) USA
What it is: "When Tais grandmother dies, he inherince her green lantern ring. Meanwhile rich guy Xander Griffin has plans to buy up the neighborhood Tai lives in."
I love the kids and their friendship, they are just cute! I love the theme of community!

Spyro the Dragon (Video Game Series) Japan
What it is: Spryo, the small but mouthy juvenil dragon has to save the day. (and again, and again).
I missed the mod post about it - but I specificly meant the Original 3 games (and the Reignited Trilogy) not the Skylander or Cynder Games.
Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer was the first game we owned for the PS1 (well beside Tetris) - I have fond memories of playing all 3, and I still love the colourful world(s) and Spyros attitude.
I love video game vids that use game play but its not a Must.

Peau d'âne | Donkey Skin (1970) [SAFETY] France
What it is: "A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won’t have to marry her father."
Regardless if any of it is my aesthetic the sheer balls of costume and set design is to be respected, its incredible kitschy and i love it.
Warnings/Caveats: treath of incest, light ableism, fairytale typical self harm - someone cut their finger (cause the prince is looking for the woman whos finger fits into this ring), classism

Soul Kitchen (2009) [SAFETY] Germany
What it is: "German-Geek chef Zinos struggles to keep his restaurant afloot and things get more troublesome when his brother appears."
This movie incredible charming to me; i am not sure how well this charm carrys over to other people with a different background but for me this movie feels like home, it Sounds like home, I love the soundtrack and the energy of the people.
Warnings/Caveats: non con drug use and slightly doubious consent to drug use, reference to sex work, one ableist slur,

Slnko V Sieti | The Sun in a Net (1963) [SAFETY] Czechoslovakia
What it is: "Oldrich “Fajolo” Fajták changes his grumpy outlook in life (slightly) when he goes to a formally "volunteer" summer work camp at a farm."
I don't think I ever seen a movie that looked more like summer to me. But even more no movie ever Sounded more like summer - i love the audio design of this movie, its my favorite thing - i have no idea how one would use that for a vid - but i do like how this movie looks too, very new wave: the use of mirror and pov shots, the modern fast cutting, for flashbacks and interviewing the different fragments.
It is a bit of an anti romance, for me with two young people failing to really connect, in the end I like to think they both learned something (though not from eachother) so I am not really looking for a classic "shippy" vid here.
Warnings/Caveats: set in the soviet union

Tout en haut du monde | Long Way North (2015) [SAFETY] France
What it is: “1892, Saint Petersburg. Sasha grandfather an explorer is lost on his last expedition to the north pole. So she decides to find him.”
I love the animation, it has a flat style, with nice shot compositions, and great colours.
Its a pretty simple/straight forward adventure story but at least I don't see many in this format which adds something to it, I also just like this kind of adventure stories.
I love Sashas coming of age arc. I LOVE her relationship with the people she met.

After life (1998) [SAFETY] Japan
What it is: "After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity."
Warnings/Caveats: mention of suicide, sex work, abuse, war,
I LOVE stories about stories and art - if you want to lean into the meta of making fanworks please do! but I also love the simple sentimentality of love and joy being found in little moments.

Cesta do praveku | Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955) [SAFETY] Czechoslovakia
What it is: "Four schoolboys go on an expedition though time."
I just think this was very charming, its approche to it just feels sincer, sincer wonder and love for science.
For its time its approche to the prehistoric humans (and with that for humans with different life styles) is suprisingly gentle/understanding - I liked that.

Kuessipan (2019) [SAFETY] Canada
What it is: "Two childhood friends from the same Quebec Innu community begin to realize that they face very different futures."
I would love a vid for the main friendship but a more general vid would also be nice, i think this movie has a great sense of place and that would make a nice vid theme.
Warnings/Caveats: racism, capitalism, abuse,

Elvira Mistress of the Dark (1988) [SAFETY] USA
What it is: "Horror show host Elvira wants to open a show in Las Vegas but for that she needs money, when her great aunt dies she goes to collect her inheriance but the virture police of the small town takes issue with her."
I admit I included this because i looked over my long list of potential nomination and was like, maybe I should add something more people have actually seen pior - but that doesn't mean I don't love this. I do love this movie.
Its unashamed silly but also warm story about a town coming together and learning to live with different lifestyles, and I love Elviras Aesthetic.
Warnings/Caveats: sexual harrassment, one light homophobic remark, fundamental christianity, reference to sex work, non con drug use

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Mad Max - fic rec

2022-10-20T18:19:20Z

Title: Microcosm by LookingForDroids for PhoenixFalls
Fandom: Mad Max Series; Mad Max: Fury Road
Character/Pairing: Furiosa/The Valkyrie
Word Count: 100
Summary: "Worlds dead and reborn.
Prompt was Green."
Why I Rec This Fic: Furiosa/The Valkyrie give so much in their reunion scene and I understand why it is such a wildly loved pairing.

Title: Five Times Angharad Touched Furiosa and One Time Furiosa Touched Angharad by fourthduckling
Fandom: Mad Max Series; Mad Max: Fury Road
Character/Pairing: The Splendid Angharad/Furiosa
The Splendid Angharad, Furiosa
Word Count: 2234
Summary: "Love is green and hardy, and can grow even in the darkest places. When The Splendid Angharad touches Furiosa, it wakes a seed inside her."
Why I Rec This Fic: My favorite thing about Angharad is that she is very very angry. Her and Furiosas dynamic here is nice too.

Angharad’s face twists and she reaches out, grabbing at the ghost of Furiosa’s left arm. “We can’t stay.” Her expression is hard and angry, but her eyes start to puddle with precious water. “One way or another, I will not let my child live this life.”
“It will die out there. In here, it will have a chance at something. Water, food.”
“We all die at some point,” Angharad said. She turns to go, fingers unclenching from Furiosa’s metal arm. “Might as well die free.”

Title: Cyperaceae by argyleam
Fandom: Mad Max Series; Mad Max: Fury Road
Character/Pairing: The Dag
The Dag & Cheedo the Fragil
Word Count: 2274
Summary: "The seeds of sedge grass were pure when they had been washed, and rinsed, and hulled, and rinsed again. The Dag tried to remember that, in the Citadel. She tried to remember all the rules."
Why I Rec This Fic: Mad Max has many cool costume design details - and i love this backstory for The Dags tattoos.

Cheedo’s face was dirty again - the tears made water which made mud, and the Dag thought again about solar stills, about how her grandmother had taught her that the radiation was too heavy to pass into steam, all but the iodine, which only clay can put a stop to. She wondered if Cheedo’s tears condensed on the windows, and slid down onto the houseplants they kept under the windows. She wondered if the girl had cried all her poisons out yet.
She sat down, a little ways from Cheedo’s slumped form, and washed her hands carefully in the overflow pipe from the spring, and then again, and then wiped them down with Miss Giddy’s disinfectant. She passed a needle through the flame of the lamp, once, twice, and uncapped a new vial of ink.
The arc that the Dag pricked into the back of her own left knuckle was the solar still; the droplets beneath it were the layers of clay. Her grandmother had shown her this, and the memory was foggy and fadey now. And one day she would need to know, again, she was sure of that. One day she would need to find a geiger counter, and a patch of safe clay, and start over.

Title: The Green Place by Moebius
Fandom: Mad Max Series; Mad Max: Fury Road
Character/Pairing: Toast the Knowing/Furiosa
Toast the Knowing, Furiosa, The Dag, Cheedo the Fragil
Word Count: 2252
Summary: "Toast knows things."

“You shouldn’t have done that!” Furiosa’s voice is high and tight. She pulls the bandage around Toast’s shoulder.
“You wanted to know the things I know,” Toast says past grit teeth. “I know how to read rebellion in the eyes of a girl.”
Furiosa ties the bandage off. She looks down at hands covered with Toast’s blood and takes a deep, shaky breath. “Don’t get killed.”
Her voice is so quiet that Toast almost misses what she says. She furrows her brows. “Are you okay?”

Title: The Records of Wandering Years by GriffinExtinct
Fandom: Mad Max Series; Mad Max: Fury Road
Character/Pairing: The Splendid Angharad, Capable, Cheedo the Fragil, The Dag, Toast the Knowing
The Splendid Angharad/Capable
Word Count: 2564
Summary: "pre-film, just a lot about the wives and their ‘happy’ little castle."
Why I Rec This Fic: I love the glimps in the completely ordinary bits of their life - I also like the inclusion of tension between the sisters/wives not the big thematical one just if you live this close in such a shitty situation it makes sense there are fights.

“King Sis,” said The Dag suddenly, crouched on the other side of the stone pond and tilting her head to look at them both. “Kissing makes for a shonky anagram.”
Angharad - cut face, cut arms, but still ever Splendid Angharad - asked, “what about 'love’?”
“Nah,” The Dag said with a quick shake of her head. “You can’t make anything at all out of love.”
Angharad passed the book across to Capable with a sigh and said, “well, that’sdepressing.”
Angharad lay back on the stone, feet in the water, and Capable looked at the Dag and said, “How 'bout 'sisters’?”
The Dag ran her fingers through the water, thinking about it. After a pause she came up with, “resists.”
There was a quiet moment then when Capable felt like they were all thinking the same thing. Resists. What was ever the use in resisting?
“I stress!” Cheedo suddenly cried and all the girls turned to look at her. “Sisters,” she explained. “I stress.”
Toast made a small snort and raised an eyebrow. “Sounds about right.” She and Capable shared a secret smile.

Title: Sweetness and Light by ssstrychnine
Fandom: Mad Max Series; Mad Max: Fury Road
Character/Pairing: The Splendid Angharad, Capable, Cheedo the Fragil, The Dag, Toast the Knowing
Word Count: 3611
Summary: "Wives are spun out of sweetness and light; that's what they are told, that's what they must be."
Why I Rec This Fic: It is such a simple "trick" but it does so much for Mad Max: Fury Road, by having this many female main characters you can literally name on The Fragil and not having it be a statment about all woman and it makes the story so much more enjoyable.

Toast grows up on the Bullet Farm and she finds out exactly where she’s headed when she's around seven years of age. There are not often children at the Bullet Farm, and Toast is uncommonly pretty, and the Bullet Farmer needs a bargaining chip in his treaty negotiations with Immortan Joe. Toast, who is called Toast because the first phrase she speaks is you’re toast before launching herself at a boy twice her size, is told she will be sold to man who doesn't die.
“Everyone dies,” she sniffs, and she counts the years she has left on her fingers. Seven years, well that’s her whole life over again; Toast is unconcerned.

The Dag is found under the wheels of a truck. She’s been living there awhile and it’s been everything a girl with long legs and long arms and long hair could ever want. A skeleton truck to climb over with bars to swing on and dead buttons to push; with mould in the most hidden corners.
“Mould is a living thing, and living things are beautiful,” she declares, and she watches it grow across the seat covers, and she eats it because there is nothing else.

Once upon a time there was a girl named Cheedo and she was more beautiful than water. Joe touches her, and he tells her that she and her sisters are his treasures, and that’s why the only men they are allowed to speak to are Joe and his children. Treasures are only treasures because they are so rare.

Capable is called Capable because her mother dies and she does not. Children like her don’t usually last long, but she scavenges and she scrapes and soon she is ten years old and the raiders notice her again and call her capable. She takes the name, though they laugh at her when they give it, and she tells herself that they will keep on laughing and she will keep on living. Because she can, because she has.
She makes herself useful because she has been noticed and she’d rather be noticed in the ways she choses.

Title: All The World's Water Leaving by heartofstanding
Fandom: Mad Max Series; Mad Max: Fury Road
Character/Pairing: Toast the Knowing
The Splendid Angharad, Capable, Cheedo the Fragil, The Dag, Furiosa, Miss Giddy,
Word Count: 5546
Summary: "The counting and reckoning of Toast's days, from the time she was too little to count them to her escape."
Why I Rec This Fic: Love this backstory for Toast.

Toast gets to sit where Nan used to, gets to look out the window at the world that changes with the wind. The car has never felt so big, so empty.
In the space of forty days, they roll into one of the tent-towns, try to trade for water. Toast has to stay in the car still, but there's no Nan to hide behind. The man in charge, the man with the water, looks right at her and smiles. He and Aunty argue a lot and when they get back in the car, with half the water they needed, Aunty's face is twisted up real tight and they don't wait around. As the tent-town gets smaller in the car's mirrors, Mum pulls out one of the spare guns and sets it in Toast's hand. It's a little thing, fitting snugly into Toast's palm.
'Are you sure—?' Dad says.
'It's time,' says Mum.
Mum shows her how to load the gun with bullets, how to aim it, how to switch the safety off and pull the trigger. It's startling, how easy it is.

Title: Iron to Adamant by mautadite
Fandom: Mad Max Series; Mad Max: Fury Road
Character/Pairing: Keeper of the Seeds/Original Female Character,
Word Count: 7230
Summary: "Two women, forty years. And they said nothing grew in the Wasteland."
Why I Rec This Fic: I love this glimps in the Vuvalini.

She met the Valkyrie at the bottom of the dunes when it was done. The girls were already stripping the truck and the bodies, and loading the valuables onto the bikes.
“Little enough,” the Valkyrie said, pulling on her clothes swiftly. She threw a critical eye over what they’d gathered. “Barely worth the gunpowder. Though I suppose there’s no such thing as a wasted shot.”
The Keeper cackled, leaning on her rifle.
“You sound like someone I knew.”
“Oh?” The Valkyrie smiled. “What happened to her?”
“Oh, what happens to everybody else out here, I suppose.” The Keeper patted the pouch at her waist for a few seconds. She allowed herself that. “Come on, we need to move before the crows come. I want to plant a seed.”

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Trigun - fic rec

2022-07-28T00:27:28Z

Title: Something Easy by varilien
Fandom: Trigun
Word count: 776
Character/Pairing: Meryl Stryfe/Milly Thompson
Meryl Stryfe, Milly Thompson
Summary: "Meryl would be lying to tell herself she isn’t happy."
Why I Rec This Fic: Of course watching Trigun my heart latched to the female side characters and their dynamic and AO3 does not have much for them, :(
But it has this sweet little bit and I like it.

Her cheek rests against something warm, and there are fingers combing delicately through her hair, nails scraping lightly against her scalp. It almost makes the hangover feel worth it, honestly, just to be doted on like this.
“You sure slept in a long time, Meryl!” Milly comments, a bit too brightly. She laughs as Meryl groggily reaches up, patting around for her mouth to shush her, and missing several times before her fingers come to rest at Milly’s lips.

Title: Catechisms by severalspoons
Fandom: Trigun
Word count: 1008
Character/Pairing: Nicolas D. Wolfwood
Summary: "A catechism is a religious teaching presented in question and answer format."
Warnings: christianity, cults, child abuse
Why I Rec This Fic: I love this kind of repeative formats.

What is God?
God is the inner voice prompting me to protect children, and the guilt when I kill. God is memories of love and peace, sealed away and almost forgotten. God is any sprout of goodness that manages to survive on this dirtball of a planet.

Are People Good or Evil?
People are mostly a lost cause once they grow up and harden, but children can still be kind. If everyone has to kill or be killed in this world, then I will take over the burden of killing so more children can remain innocent.

Title: The Birth of Stun Gun Millie by severalspoons
Fandom: Trigun
Word count: 1007
Character/Pairing: Milly Thompson
Summary: How Milly got her gun.
Why I Rec This Fic: I love Milly. I like to see more fanwork centering her.

Title: name your courage now by procrastinatingbookworm

Fandom: Trigun

Word count: 1300

Character/Pairing: Milly Thompson, Nicholas D. Wolfwood

Milly Thompson/Nicholas D. Wolfwood

Summary: "A week or so ago, they’d been lying back to back in bed, in the dark, and Wolfwood had told Milly that he wished he could be more like her. When she asked what he meant, he opened his mouth and the word pretty came out instead of the word good, and then Wolfwood’s chest had squeezed so tightly he couldn’t say anything else."

Why I Rec This Fic: Wolfwoods gender anxiety is relatable and beautiful written.

Title: A Little Piece of Paradise by XmagicalX (Xparrot)
Fandom: Trigun
Word count: 9190
Character/Pairing: Vash the Stampede, Meryl Stryfe, Millie Thompson, Original Characters
Summary: "You can't always wait for Eden; sometimes you have to seek your own."
Why I Rec This Fic: I am a big fan of characters building their happy endings.

Vista's plant had failed over a decade ago, as eventually they all would, but there was water running underground, and long before they lost the plant the people had enough foresight to sow seeds. Now trees had grown, more than just saplings, trunks stunted but still stretching bravely up to the harsh sun. The people of the town were beyond proud and protected their triumph zealously, fawned over the trees like parents with a sickly child, watered them with sweat and tears so sweet the salt didn't shrivel the roots.
The strangers worked in the glade with the same devotion as those born in Vista. The women hoed to keep the caked earth loose and helped build the sand-shield walls. The man trapped wormlings and released them in the deep desert, and pruned branches lest one plant inadvertently kill another with shade. He was the only one whose hands didn't shake when he set clippers to that fragile, precious greenery.

Nicholas D. Wolfwood/Vash the Stampede

Title: a virtue in a vice by procrastinatingbookworm
Fandom: Trigun
Word count: 580
Character/Pairing: Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Vash the Stampede, Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Summary: "A cold night, warm bodies, an oft-retread path through a fundamental disagreement."
Warnings: canon typical self destructive behaivor

“Usually,” Wolfwood says. “People learn pretty quickly that if you keep your heart unguarded, you’re going to get a knife in it.”
Vash laughs. Near-silently, but his body moves with it, the heat of him rippling beneath Wolfwood like he’s just another patch of sun-soaked sand. “Better my heart than anyone else’s.”
Nicholas D. Wolfwood is a lot of things. Priest, gunman, liar. A lengthy accumulation of mistakes, in a body older than he ever thought he’d live.
But he’s not cruel. He tries not to be, at least.

Title: Oasis by Lady_Ganesh
Fandom: Trigun
Word count: 1085
Character/Pairing: Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Vash the Stampede, Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Summary: "Vash dreams of rain."
Why I Rec This Fic: I am never over the rain in the desert motive.

"Damn," Wolfwood says. "Been a while?"
"Yeah," Vash said. Twenty years, he thinks, but Wolfwood doesn't need to know that. There are lots of things Wolfwood doesn't need to know; lots of things that don't matter right now. Wolfwood looks hungry, desperate; it's been a while for him too, Vash guesses.
Two years, looking for him. Vash has trouble imagining it. People have looked for him longer, but they've been looking for money or fame, not him. He lets Wolfwood pull his shirt off.

Title: say it's such a fault by procrastinatingbookworm
Fandom: Trigun
Word count: 1975
Character/Pairing: Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Vash the Stampede, Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Summary: "It's been a bad, bloody day. Wolfwood lashes out."
Warnings: PTSD, canon typical violence, intrusive thoughts, body dysphoria, discussion of suicide, canon-typical self-destructive behaivor
Why I Rec This Fic: Nice angst.

Wolfwood shouldn’t tell him. Vash will tear himself apart with it, and it’ll be another scar of his that’s Wolfwood’s fault, like the trifecta of bullet wounds on his shoulder.
He shouldn’t tell him, but he’s already started to, already splashed the messy anger in his chest onto Vash, and now Vash is looking at him, with—fuck, Wolfwood’s a real asshole—tears in his eyes.
“Stop?” Vash asks, all uncertainty, sounding so much like one of this kids at the church, braced to be abandoned, that Wolfwood digs an unnaturally-elongated canine into his bottom lip until he tastes blood so he won’t drop to his knees and explain everything, tear the whole thing out at the roots and break Vash’s heart right there, instead of waiting for Knives to give the order that it’s time to deliver.

Title: something eluding you, sunshine? by ShastaFirecracker
Fandom: Trigun
Word count: 1893
Character/Pairing: Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Vash the Stampede, Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Summary: "The problem with touch starvation is that it can be easy for even good, welcome touch to become overwhelming."
Warnings: sex
Why I Rec This Fic: When it comes to smut, I really like the negoation/communication/things going wrong bits, I find it interesting how characters interact with that. The respecting of boundaries and open communication is also nice to read for me.

Title: And Every Breath We Drew Was 'Hallelujah' by varilien
Fandom: Trigun
Word count: 3079
Character/Pairing: Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Vash the Stampede, Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Summary: "How can he justify any of this? He’s the only one to blame for Wolfwood’s suffering now. Maybe that's human. Human to share your sorrows with another, the same as your happiness. Still, it feels rotten at the time, and Vash wants so bad to make the pain go away, if only for a while."

The angle is wrong when they both move back in, a little too fast, and Vash makes a startled sound when their noses collide painfully. Wolfwood recoils and curses, but when he opens his eyes again, he finds Vash has started wearily laughing. Wolfwood isn't long to follow suit.
"I'm sorry," he begins.
"No no, it's fine," Vash giggles, "here, I'll—"
He brings his hands up, every motion deliberate as he takes Wolfwood's face between his palms, and there's a warm, sappy mix of amusement and tenderness in Vash's eyes as, first, he kisses Wolfwood's nose in apology. Then he bumps his own nose up against Wolfwood's again, though much more gently this time as he nuzzles back in.
Wolfwood can't contain the soft sound he exhales straight from his heart, half like a whine.

Title: you'll leave me lonely at best by procrastinatingbookworm
Fandom: Trigun
Word count: 3570
Character/Pairing: Nicholas D. Wolfwood, Vash the Stampede
Summary: Trigun: Wasteland Rumble: "Wolfwood grieves unnecessarily. Vash makes it up to him."
Warning: sex, alien biology
Why I Rec This Fic: I love their awkward tenderness, they are trying, it is not working that well, but they are Trying.

“I’m sorry,” Vash says, his voice wobbling. “How can I make it up to you?”
Wolfwood should say let me look at those bruises, just sit down and rest and don’t argue for once while I take care of you, keep kissing me like that, you don’t have to cry, I’ll be gentle.
Instead, he backs off of Vash and starts unbuttoning his shirt. “Get yourself out of that coat.”
Vash nods. He looks… relieved, or something similar. He yanks on something inside the collar of his coat, and all the buttons pop at once. “‘Take it out on my ass’?” he asks, an uncertain little smile touching the corner of his mouth. “Was that a specific request, or—?”
“Just take your fucking clothes off,” Wolfwood says. “Make it up to me, Christ, you’re unbearable. I missed you. Can you let this be about that, instead of some fucking favor you owe me?”

Title: The Gospel According to Wolfwood by DWatson
Fandom: Trigun
Word count: 4172
Character/Pairing: Nicholas D. Wolfwood, Vash the Stampede
Summary: "Vash is a gentle soul, capable of weeping at the sight of a freshly fried donut. It's annoying and unsightly, but like a badly wrapped present, it's what you have to put up with, if you want to get to the good bits. Wolfwood-centric journey through Trigun Maximum."
Why I Rec This Fic: Nice Wolfwood voice.

Wolfwood's biology schooling over at the Eye of Michael didn't exactly extend much beyond which organs to aim for in order to ensure instant death. Assuming Vash can be classified as human (and the jury's still out on that one), his body is more like 70 percent iron and 30 percent parts-that-will-soon-be-replaced-with-iron. If he ever walked past a lifting magnet, he'd probably get half of his internal organs ripped out of his torso. And he'd probably survive that, too–the monster–at least long enough to lecture Wolfwood on the virtues of lifting magnets, and how it's entirely possible that they could one day decide not to attract metal, if given a proper chance to reform.

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crazy rich asians - fic rec

2022-03-19T20:45:20Z

Title: Words My Mother Taught Me by stickmarionette
Fandom: Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Character/Pairing: Rachel Chu, Kerry Chu, Eleanor Young
Word Count: 5616
Summary: "This whole thing with Nick's family left her feeling distinctly clumsy, wishing that her Mandarin was better, less stilted, and that she had the instinctive understanding of their world that felt like her birthright.
To the Chinese, 'who are you' meant 'who are your people?'
For years, Rachel's only root was her mom, and through her, she learned words and phrases and meaning, and took them for herself like she was covering some classic song. And somehow her cover got through to Eleanor."
Why I Rec This Fic: I think the cultural differences/clash both in terms of class/money and disapora is the most interesting aspect in the movie, so I am happy that this fic exist.

十指连心
"Uh - the fingers link to the heart? Is that it?"
"Yes. Very good, Daughter."
"But what does it mean?"

Kerry ruffled her hair, laughing at her escape attempt. "It means that you're very very precious to me, like you're a part of my body. Connected to my heart."

Femslash

Title: bellini brunch by ElasticElla
Fandom: Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Character/Pairing: Astrid Leong/Goh Peik Lin
Astrid Leong, Goh Peik Lin
Word Count: 653
Summary: "Astrid checks her phone, a small line of worry between her brows. Oliver isn’t one to be late, the most conscientious of time in the family."
Why I Rec This Fic: I just think Astrid deserves good things you know?
Podfic by blackglass here

Astrid Leong/Rachel Chu

Title: Beautiful Things by Dubiousculturalartifact (222Ravens)
Fandom: Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Character/Pairing: Rachel Chu
Rachel Chu/Astrid Leong
Word Count: 543
Summary: "It’s just... I tried the whole Cinderella thing, and all I ended up with was a broken shoe, y’know?"
AU where Nick never does the second proposal, where Nick stays, while Rachel goes back to New York, and Astrid… Well.
Why I Rec This Fic: When I seen the movie I almost wished there had been no second proposal or that Rachel turned Nick down at it, because it would have been a great end for her small arc – the other alternative ending I wanted was Rachel/Astrid – this fic seems to agree that this are more statisfying for Rachels character, I like that.

Title: in bloom by ElasticElla
Fandom: Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Character/Pairing: Rachel Chu/Astrid Leong
Rachel Chu, Astrid Leong
Word Count: 1375
Summary: "Astrid has over a dozen apartment buildings, more than a few which would make it easy for Michael to visit Cassian on the weekends."
Why I Rec This Fic: The cute post canon stuff they deserve, moving in together and raising the kid.

“Are you here for Nick’s stuff? There’s a box- I meant to mail it, it’s fragile and going that far-”
“No,” Astrid interrupts. “Do you want to get a drink?”
Rachel raises an eyebrow, not smiling but at least her face is moving again. “Don’t tell me you flew all the way here for drinks. That would be ridiculous.”
Astrid nods, “That would be. Especially since the subway is much faster than a helicopter downtown.”
“What- are you- did you move?”
“I’ll be living here for a while.”
Astrid’s using her sincerely happy tone- even half means it- but Rachel sees through her, and suddenly they’re hugging. (She didn’t even realize how much she needed this, or maybe Rachel in general, feels like she can breathe for the first time since that night on the beach.)

Title: everything is falling apart by Cloud_Lightning
Fandom: Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Character/Pairing: Rachel Chu/Astrid Leong
Rachel Chu, Astrid Leong
Word Count: 1510
Summary: Astrid and Rachel dance.

They danced in silence, only the faintly sounds coming from the living room filled the silence in the kitchen. Rachel out her head on Astrid’s shoulder as she leads the dance, or more likely they were just swaying back and forth.
“You know…” Rachel trailed off.
Astrid hummed.
“Despite everything that happened,” Rachel sighed deeply. “I can say that I’m happy now. Or at least
starting to be happy.”
“Happiness is an on-going process, Rachel. It’s okay, take your time.”
“Will you be there with me in every step of the way?” Rachel stopped the dance, looking at Astrid with a tender look.

Eleanor Young/Rachel Chu

Title: to follow you up the long stairway by kerrykins
Fandom: Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Character/Pairing: Eleanor Young/Rachel Chu
Eleanor Young, Rachel Chu
Word Count: 1055
Summary: "Five times Rachel cried in front of Eleanor and one time Eleanor cried in front of Rachel."

Title: Perfect by elle_nic (orphan_account)
Fandom: Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Character/Pairing: Eleanor Young/Rachel Chu
Eleanor Young, Rachel Chu
Word Count: 1345
Summary: "Rachel knew that this was more than just adopting a child together, more than just becoming a mother again. It was… everything."
Why I Rec This Fic: Just sweet fluff.

“What should her name be?”
“Something regal,” Eleanor said. Rachel rolled her eyes and snickered.
“She’s so little, though. We have to pick a name that she can grow into,” Rachel said into the long neck beside her, kissing gently.
“I was a very small baby and my father still gave me the name ‘Eleanor’.”
“So, you think we should name her ‘Eleanor’?” Rachel chuckled.
“You’re being impossible,” Eleanor said, but she didn’t sound very upset.

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Jurassic Park - fic rec

2022-03-19T19:08:13Z

Title: Patterns Repeating by alyse
Fandom: Jurassic Park, slight mention of Jurassic World
Character/Pairing: Alan Grant, Billy Brennan
Alan Grant/Billy Brennan
Word Count: 1420
Summary: "It's been years since Isla Sorna, but people never learn."
Why I Rec This Fic: Love to see their reaction to Jurassic World, and how established and comfortable they are with eachother.

"I can’t believe they’re doing it again."
The corner of Billy’s mouth turns up in a mirthless smile. "I can," he says. "Money talks, sanity walks."
Alan sneaks a glance at him, trying to read the weather of Billy's mood in his face. His eyes linger for a moment on the silvery scars winding around Billy's neck and disappearing into his partner's collar, but Billy doesn't call him on it.
He's not stupid enough to think it's because Billy hasn't noticed.
"Are you okay?" he asks, because in spite of his outrage, his disbelief and his fury at the stupidity of those behind the new park, that is the most important question.
It's the only question. It's just a pity Alan took so long to realise it.

Title: While All the World Is Turning to Noise by Ruuger for avocadomoon
Fandom: Jurassic Park, slight mention of Jurassic World
Character/Pairing: Alan Grant, Billy Brennan
Alan Grant/Billy Brennan
Word Count: 1501
Summary: "The first thing that Alan thinks of when he hears the news that the Jurassic World has met with the same fate as the original Jurassic Park is Billy."
Why I Rec This Fic: Love to see their reaction to Jurassic World.

When he sees the news reports that a herd of dinosaurs have been set free in Northern California, the first thing he thinks about is Billy.
His phone vibrates, and he struggles for a moment to get the touch screen to accept his lock code before he manages to open and read the message that has just arrived from Ellie.
Trying to reach Mark to see if State Department has more info. I'll call you as soon as I can.
He tries to answer it - Charlie had shown him how to use his new phone the last time he'd visited Ellie - but only manages to delete the message and open some social media application that he hadn't even known he had on his phone.
Ian's message, which follows a minute later is just one word in capital letters:
CHAOS!
By the end of the night he's also gotten calls from Lex and Tim and Eric Kirby, and been drafted against his will by Ellie into a taskforce to work out a proposition for Homeland Security on how to handle the crisis.
When he goes to bed that night, he wishes he still had Billy's number. Because there are so many questions he'd like to ask.
"Did you hear?"
"Are you safe?"
And, most importantly:
sorry, I was wrong. Please can we start all over again?"

Title: The Difference Between Imagining and Seeing by Jedi Buttercup (jedibuttercup) for avocadomoon
Fandom: Jurassic Park
Character/Pairing: Alan Grant, Billy Brennan
Alan Grant/Billy Brennan
Word Count: 1600
Summary: "When Alan had told Billy before their flight to Isla Sorna that the bones would still be there when they got back, he hadn't envisioned quite so much time passing before they met up again at the dig."

The difference between imagining and seeing, he remembered telling Eric. To be able to touch.
Maybe Alan had a little bit of the astronaut in him after all, from the way his own pulse sped up in response. He'd kicked a Pteranodon in the face, escaped unscathed after looking up at the underside of a giant theropod's foot, and actually exchanged verbal communication, however rudimentary, with a velociraptor; what was left for Alan to be afraid of?
Nothing that having Billy in his life wouldn't solve.

Title: Chaos Theory by thedevilchicken for Gigi_Sinclair
Fandom: Jurassic Park
Character/Pairing: Alan Grant, Billy Brennan
Alan Grant/Billy Brennan
Word Count: 1645
Summary: "Four years on, Alan and Billy receive an unwanted gift."
Why I Rec This Fic: My favorite Jurassic Park (II) fics seem to be, post-movie very established relationship musing.

There's an awful picture of the author on the back cover, black and white, probably because he thinks it looks classier. He hasn't changed at all, in the picture or at all – if he had, he wouldn't have sent the damn book in the first place. But apparently Ian Malcolm knows no shame, or he's under the mistaken impression that they share a bond because of Isla Nublar, because here the book is. He doesn't need to read it, any of it, to know he doesn't want to read it, how it's full of chaos this and chaos that because everything he writes always is. Alan always gets around to reading them sooner or later and each time he's reminded that the two of them have only one thing in common: they never want to go back to Jurassic Park.

Maybe he'll read it later, he thinks as he stuffs it into his bag. Maybe he'll let Billy read it first so he can give him the highlights – after Ian's unexpected visit to their corner of the world last spring, Billy even does a pretty good impression. But the whole thing, from the moment he tore open the wrapping this morning before his first class and right up to this second, just reminds him of the park. He can feel the ground tremble with the weight of the T-Rex, he can smell the triceratops, hear the raptors scream. He knows he'll never forget. He doubts that Billy will, either.

Title: Surely to the Sea by inoubliable
Fandom: Jurassic Park
Character/Pairing: Alan Grant,
Alan Grant/Billy Brennan, Alan Grant/Ellie Sattler
Word Count: 1900
Summary: "A timeline of Alan Grant's life following the events on Isla Nublar, leading to the events on Isla Sorna.“ „It's 1993, and Alan Grant has almost been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Twice."

He doesn’t realize he’s holding Billy’s hand until Ellie sits beside him. He doesn’t pull his hand away.
“He’s going to be okay,” Ellie tells him, and he adores her more than ever for making it sound like a fact, not a question. Ellie is an eternal optimist, but she’s not in the business of false hope.
“Yeah,” Alan says, because it’s all he can think of.
“You’re going to be okay,” Ellie tells him. She’s not looking at him when he glances at her, but he gets the feeling she doesn’t need to. No one ever understood him like Ellie.

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Fanvid - The christmas setup - all i want for festivids

2022-02-26T14:28:27Z

Title: All I want for festivids is...
Fandom: The Christmas Setup
Summary: Christmas fluff.
Characters: Patrick Ryan/Hugo Spencer
Additional Notes: Made for elipie for festivids 2021/2022

AO3 link

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The fifth Element - fic rec

2022-02-23T00:34:27Z

Title: To Be Known Across a Thousand Lives by trascendenza for EleanorJane
Fandom: Fifth Element (1997)
Character/Pairing: Diva Plavalaguna/Leeloo, Leeloo, Diva Plavalaguna
Word Count: 861
Summary: "There are few she has called friend, fewer still she has called kin."
Why I Rec This Fic: The implied relationship between the two really interested me when I first seen the movie and I want more fanwork with them.

Title: Radiant Fire, to Things Ephemeral by yuletidefairy for Brown Betty
Fandom: Fifth Element (1997)
Character/Pairing: Leelo, Korben Dallas,
Word Count: 1073
Summary: "The Mondoshawan had named her Hope-Bearer, Fire-Bringer, Mother-of-All-Life."
Why I Rec This Fic: More Leelo perspective!

She never thought of it as a punishment until the humans named it that in their stories. She thought of if as a sacrifice. A pain not separate from life, not an artificially imposed judgement, but a part of life itself. Yes, to birth life, a single life or all life, hurts: because you are tearing out part of yourself and giving it autonomy.
And it's worth it, isn't it? It's a worthy sacrifice, isn't it?

Title: made glorious by the touch by Beatrice_Otter for yue_ix
Fandom: Fifth Element (1997)
Character/Pairing: Leelo, Korben Dallas, Ruby Rhod, Vito Cornelus
Word Count: 2174
Summary: "The Mondoshawans come to pick Leeloo up."
Why I Rec This Fic: I though Leelos perspective comes a bit short in canon so this made me happy. I also liked the wacky found family.

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My fair lady - fic rec

2022-02-23T00:05:28Z

Title: Tea and Conversation by fajrdrako
Fandom: My fair lady
Character/Pairing: Mrs. Higgins, Eliza Doolittle,
Word Count: 1705
Summary: "Eliza enjoys tea (and maybe raspberry tarts) with Higgins' mother."
Why I Rec This Fic: Enjoyable fluffy female friendship and Eliza who has her own life and is not just an object for men.

"I take it," said Mrs Higgins, after a sip of tea, "you have managed another week of life in Henry's house without actually murdering him?"
"My restraint is formidable," said Eliza calmly. She took another sandwich. "It helps that he has been reasonably well-behaved. I am thinking of taking art classes. It occurred to me that I would rather paint flowers than sell them."
"Have you had any experience in water-colours?"
"Not a whit. I may have no talent at all. I won't know till I try. I have a strong belief," said Eliza, in the firm tone of someone who has never had this thought before, "that a person can learn anything."

Title: A Mother's Work is Never Done by Myrtle
Fandom: My fair lady
Character/Pairing: Mrs. Higgins, Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, Colonel Pickering
Word Count: 4998
Summary: “Mrs. Higgins and Henry, through the years.“
Why I Rec This Fic: Found family feels! Female characters being awesome! No Henry Higgins/Eliza Dolittle romance (this was why i clicked at it and i got what i wanted)

Eliza is directing Freddy in clearing the dishes, which will no doubt only create more work for poor Mrs. Pearce, but no matter - Eliza has never quite gotten used to having servants, and it gives her pleasure to order her husband about. Mrs. Higgins and Pickering are at the piano, where he is attempting to recreate some melody from his youth in his rather weak singing voice, much to her amusement. Henry, of course, is hunched over some charts of American dialects or some such, utterly ignoring their fun.

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Chicago - Fic rec

2022-02-22T23:45:57Z

Title: Shining by sheldrake
Fandom: Chicago
Character/Pairing: Roxie Hart/Velma Kelly
Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly
Word Count: 938
Summary: "Roxie wonders why it can't be like the movies."
Podfic by litrapod (litra) Here

Title: Encore (They Both Reached for the Gun Coda) by voodoochild for recrudescence
Fandom: Chicago
Character/Pairing: Roxie Hart/Velma Kelly
Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly
Word Count: 1607
Summary: "Velma has a signature - all her partners die. She seems to be forgetting that Roxie's got a signature of her own."
Warnings: sex, murder
Why I Rec This Fic: Love the musical structure and it all fits the tone of the movie perfectly.

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The Handmaiden - fic rec

2022-02-22T23:17:59Z

Title: Love and Other Stories by caramarie
Fandom: The Handmaiden (2016)
Character/Pairing: Hideko/Sook-hee
Hideko, Sook-hee
Word Count: 944
Summary: "Hideko reads to Sook-hee."
Why I Rec This Fic: Takes the meta level of taking back the narrative, which I love, to something tangible.

‘You could learn to read,’ Hideko would say.
‘You’d think people would write proper stories,’ Sook-hee would say, and dismiss her.
She side-eyed every bookseller. If Hideko thought to read, Sook-hee would try to distract her. And Sook-hee could be very distracting.

Title: Echopraxia by unheroics for theoldgods
Fandom: The Handmaiden (2016)
Character/Pairing: Hideko/Sook-hee
Hideko, Sook-hee
Word Count: 1543
Warnings: Sex, themes of trauma/childhood sexual abuse,
Summary: "Hideko walks down the street in the clothes of a man, a curious habit that has stuck to her like a comfortable glaze. It allows her to observe other women and girls, who are nothing like Sook-hee, but Hideko finds that they are nothing like the women and girls from her uncle’s books and monographs, either."
Why I Rec This Fic: It took „so slip your hand inside of my glove“ for me to find a way to understand and like Hideko, but I like to deepen it and see what other fans do with her.

Title: so slip your hand inside of my glove by Lirazel
Fandom: The Handmaiden (2016)
Character/Pairing: Hideko/Sook-hee
Hideko, Sook-hee
Word Count: 2623
Summary: "Hideko and Sook-hee, after."
Warnings: Sex, themes of trauma/childhood, sexual abuse,
Why I Rec This Fic: Really beautiful words for healing, with the ups and downs. Made me find a way to understand and love Hideko.

There are moments when her breath starts coming fast, her ribs hitching and aching like her corset’s been pulled too tight, and after Sook-hee drags her back to their hotel, she doesn’t leave the room for a week to recover. It’s the smells, mostly, so many she can’t name, and the noise, and the sheer human heat of bodies packed in tight. Sometimes it’s just too much. In every city, the smells and sights are different, but the sound of traffic beneath her window is the same, and she would give much for the cool silence of Uncle’s house, the comfort of knowing there are whole empty rooms between her and the nearest person who isn’t Sook-hee.

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Toy Story - fic rec

2022-02-21T22:22:59Z

Title: Each Star is a Mirror by Anonymous
Fandom: Toy Story
Character/Pairing: Andy Davies, Bonnie Anderson
Word Count: 244
Summary: "Andy comes over to play with Bonnie, and can not find Woody."
Why I Rec This Fic: I read some horrifying reviews of Toy Story 4 so this is nice – I think there is a part of the fandom that never gave Bonnie any chance and why the movies focus on the toys she is just a kid and doesn´t deserve hate.

Title: You Are Cordially Invited by Jougetsu
Fandom: Toy Story
Character/Pairing: Buzz Lightyear & Woody Pride, Buzz Lightyear, Woody Pride, Bonnie
Word Count: 557
Summary: "Bonnie attends a wedding, naturally the thrill has to be recreated with her toys."
Why I Rec This Fic: Sweet, self indulgent in the best way.

Two weeks ago Bonnie’s Uncle Steve married a man named Tony, who was henceforth known as Uncle Tony. Bonnie made for an exuberant flower girl and was very much impressed by celebration of their wedding which had a great many more balloons, streamers, and brightly colored dressed adults than any party she had ever been to before in her short life. It was even more fun than Mary Jenkin’s fifth birthday party – and that party had a pony.

Title: Cotton Cowboy by khilari
Fandom: Toy Story
Character/Pairing: Woody Pride, Ensemble Cast
Word Count: 1287
Summary: 50 sentences for Woody. Spans 1-3 movies.
Why I Rec This Fic: I love the varity this format gives something.

#30 - Block
He never realised how many things they used the alphabet blocks for until Molly grew out of them.

#31 - Escort
He walks Bo back to Molly’s room and in the hallway there’s no one to watch if they kiss.

#33 - Blood
It’s not until Bonnie scrapes her knee and his insides twist the same way they did whenever Andy was hurt that Woody realises he loves his new owner.

Title: Lesson Plans by khilari
Fandom: Toy Story
Character/Pairing: Barbie, Woody Pride, Barbie/Ken
Word Count: 1433
Summary: Post 3 Movie: "Barbie is planning to teach a gender studies class at Sunnyside. Having her planning interrupted isn't exactly welcome, but she may find it provides a new perspective."
Why I Rec This Fic: This is not what I expected to find, but it is an interesting topic handled in an interesting way, and Barbie was a cool character so its nice to see something with her.

Back in Molly's room Barbie had known Woody vaguely as the leader of Andy's toys and also as the kind of guy who wouldn't make a fuss about being asked to look for a lost accessory. Then, when all hope had seemed lost, he'd shown himself to be the kind of leader who would come back for his people and was capable of coming up with a plan for springing them. Now he was Bonnie's toy, but on those occasions when she brought him in he liked to check in with Barbie. Sunnyside wasn't his problem, but he seemed to think it was and Barbie was happy to have a second opinion. Or rather a third one, after Ken. Somehow she didn't think he'd be much help with her current plans, though.

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static shock - fic rec

2022-02-16T00:36:15Z

Title: Attraction by zorilleerrant

Fandom: Static Shock
Character/Pairing: Richie Foley/Virgil Hawkins
Richie Foley, Virgil Hawkins,
Word Count: 433
Summary: Puns

Title: Favourite Superheroes by TheWitchBoy
Fandom: Static Shock
Character/Pairing: Richie Foley/Virgil Hawkins
Richie Foley, Virgil Hawkins,
Word Count: 2079
Summary: "Virgil and Richie just kicking back and talking favourite superheroes."
Why I Rec This Fic: superheros playing the "who is your favorite superhero" is a fun concept. The kids are cute in this.

Title: Where We Started by Merlin Missy (mtgat) for laulan
Fandom: Static Shock
Character/Pairing: Richie Foley/Virgil Hawkins
Richie Foley, Virgil Hawkins, Sharon Hawkins
Word Count: 2158
Summary: "A lot of things are changing in Virgil's life, but Sharon driving him up the wall will always be a constant."

Title: Underneath by stormy1x2 for Nope
Fandom: Static Shock
Character/Pairing: Richie Foley & Virgil Hawkins
Richie Foley, Virgil Hawkins
Word Count: 3332
Summary: Bodyswap: "Gear's invention was supposed to take Ebon's powers for their own use. Virgil really should have seen this coming."
Why I Rec This Fic: One of my fav sub genres of Bodyswap work is "Chronic Pain exploration", this is that.

Title: August and Everything After by Merlin Missy (mtgat)
Fandom: Static Shock
Character/Pairing: Richie Foley/Virgil Hawkins
Richie Foley, Virgil Hawkins
Word Count: 6684
Summary: "This is the story of how Richie Foley fell in love with his best friend and never ever told him."
Why I Rec This Fic: My fav thing about this fic was the like, sense of place, that just touched me. I also really liked the references to the bigger DC universe (I have consumed only very very little other DC stuff but I like how it makes the world more real, there are other stuff going on)
The relationship between Virgil and Richi is perfect and makes me happy, Virgils dad is also done well.

"He's not going to abandon Dakota the way the car makers have, the way the politicians try to every year by slowly strangling the schools and the roads and the rest."

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fighting with my family fanvid (festivid)

2022-02-08T23:45:44Z

DISCLAIMER: This is a fan video. I do not own the rights to any of the clips or music. For nonprofit entertainment purposes only.

Title: A different Kind of Love song

Fandom: Fighting with my family (2019)

Summary: Sing it out loud and proud.

Character: Saraya Britani "Paige" Knight
Music: Singing Machine by Kimya Dawson

Warnings: Physical triggers (flashing lights/quick cuts)

Additional Notes: Made for elipie for festivids 2021/2022

AO3 link / tumblr link

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Stardew Valley - fic rec (work in progress)

2021-12-10T16:02:50Z

Title: and our horses run to the kingdom come by egelantier
Fandom: Stardew Valley
Character/Pairing: Abigail & Female Player
Word Count: 100
Summary: "Abigail notices."

Title: torrent by Milieu
Fandom: Stardew Valley
Character/Pairing: Emily/Sandy
Word Count: 134
Summary: "Sandy visits the valley, just in time for a thunderstorm."

Title: From the mines by Emmster5
Fandom: Stardew Valley
Character/Pairing: Abigail/Maru
Word Count: 541
Summary: "Maru has to patch up her girlfriend after an adventure in the mines."

Title: the comfort of a friend by KalteHerz
Fandom: Stardew Valley
Character/Pairing: Sam/Sebastian
Maru & Penny, Abigail
Word Count: 703
Summary: "After finishing their most recent campaign in the Solarion Chronicles, Sebastian realizes how much he cares for Sam"

Title: Wanna Barter Mrs? by ooopo123
Fandom: Stardew Valley
Character/Pairing: Traveling Merchant & Jas
Word Count: 961
Warnings:
Summary: "Jas was a well-mannered child. She knew her ‘please’s, ‘thank you’s and ‘excuse me’s by heart and was always sure to ask permission before touching anything on display in Emille’s mobile business.
It was because of her that Emille always looked forward to visiting the valley. Jas was really quite interesting."
Why I Rec This Fic: I have personal headcanons for Jas and the Traveling Merchants interactions so this was a nice find, its also a nice little look how the war between the Gotoro Empire and the Ferngil Republic may affect the village.

Title: Bouquets for Sale by catsinouterspace
Fandom: Stardew Valley
Character/Pairing: Abigail/Female Player, Abigail & Sam & Sebastian
Word Count: 1018
Summary: "Abigail collapsed onto the couch, sprawling herself over Sam and Sebastian's laps, “She’s just so pretty.”"

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just so stories - fic rec

2021-12-10T15:58:00Z

Title: Places by Thimblerig
Fandom: Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
Character/Pairing: The First Woman, The Cat Who Walks By Himself
Word Count: 1043
Summary: "Of the Cat Who Walked By Himself, and the First Woman, and what came after..."
Why I Rec This Fic: The fic does a great job capturing a lot of the style of the original but also has something of its own, it’s also just a very charming story, that makes me smile. And it includes a nice podfic version of the story!

Title: For Always and Always and Always by Katherine
Fandom: Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
Character/Pairing: The Cat Who Walks By Himself
Word Count: 1426
Summary: "Daughter, daughter," the Wild Cat said, her thick tail curling from one side to the other. "For now you are still a Kitten who plays by herself. But you will be a Cat who walks by herself when you are grown if you wish to be."
Why I Rec This Fic: Reading this I totally forgot it was not canon, it’s a bit sad but soft story about time.

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Avatar the last Airbender - fic rec (work in progress)

2021-12-10T15:53:18Z

Title: Bad Day by Lisse
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: OC, mention of canon characters
Word count: 1112
Summary: AU, Future Fic
“The war went badly.“ And "His old man wears an Earth Kingdom name like a shirt that doesn't fit."
Why I Rec This Fic: I love repetition as story telling structure, I love legacy and found families, I love everything this fic is. So far it may be my fav from this fandom.

Title: A glass darkly by AzarDarkstar
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Word count: 1,370
Summary: Canon divigent AU - child soldiers, and responsibility
Why I Rec This Fic: The words are clear but with weight thats fit the real horror of the situation.

“She wiggles her feet in the dirt, but that only makes her missing toes stand out more.“

Title: Exile by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: (spoilers) Katara, Pakku, Uncle Ihro,
Word Count: 2154
Summary: Canon divergent AU – where the final battle ends a bit different.
Why I Rec This Fic: Katara is so strong here, and she shouldnt have to – I adore reading about her and how she manages politics but it is so heartbreaking, poor kid.

Title: Generations by ArtemisRae
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Katara
Word count: 100
Summary: “Katara's first child is held up for inspection.“

Title: Does not say by Lisse
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Sokka, Sokka&Katara
Word count: 284
Summary: “On love, warriors, and what Sokka keeps to himself.“
Why I Rec This Fic: I love Katara and Sokkas dynamic. I love stories about people wanting to protect the ones they love, and i love stories about communication and the things we can´t say.

Title: More Than Words Can Wield by nebroadwe
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Katara/Aang
Word Count: 490
Summary: "When Aang tells Katara she was his first love, she struggles to find the right words with which to answer him. Set post-series."
Why I Rec This Fic: Poetry (and Folk Tales)!

Title: Changelings by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ihro
Iroh & Lu Ten, Iroh & Zuko
Word Count: 200
Summary: Episode: s02e13 The Drill "Somewhere here, his son died."
Warning: Intrusive Thoughts, Mention of Kidnapping
Why I Rec This Fic: We see Ihro kind of from the outside, and there is a lot of potential darkness to write about, I am kind of picky about what kind of it I want to read about but this is just perfect for me.
I like how perfect it slots into canon.
And the way the Intrusive Thoughts are written really hit me, felt my hear start racing with the sentences - it felt true to life to me.

Title: Six Years After by thesometimeswarrior for Zilliannie
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ihro
Iroh & Lu Ten,
Word Count: 200
Summary: "On the sixth anniversary, while you are living in Ba Sing Se, you wander. (Your legs are restless, and you have already drunk as much tea as you can, and you do not know what else to do.)"
Why I Rec This Fic: i love this, not a word too much not a word too few - and the reality/heartbreak that Lu Ten was fire nation royalty and military and not where Ihro is at this point - and the reality/heartbreak that Ihro maybe isn’t quite where people including himself like to see him - i am so there for that angst

Title: Shadows by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ozai & Zuko, Azula & Zuko, Iroh & Zuko
Zuko, Iroh
Word Count: 517
Summary: "Zuko is twenty-five years old when the man dies, consumed by despair and by a burning fury that no longer has any fire into which or young princes onto which to release it.
There is no fanfare, no memorializing, but Iroh comes anyway."

Title: Times Such As These by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Iroh & Jeong Jeong & Piandao
Iroh, Jeong Jeong, Piandao
Word Count: 555
Summary: “We do not induct children into the Order, Piandao!” exclaims Jeong Jeong.
“He’s not a child,” insists Piandao calmly, without standing up. “He might have been, were this a different time, had he not grown up in the midst of a war. But he did."

Title: Healing by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Kanna/Yugoda, Katara & Yugoda
Yugoda, Katara
Word Count: 643
Summary: Episode: s01e18 The Waterbending Master: Katara tells Yugoda Pakku will train her in fighting.
Why I Rec This Fic: I am always there for people looking at the shitty options and going it is either this or that, and chose door number 3 – I am also always there for more background on female side characters, specially the one that do not fit mainstreams idea of stories to be told like older ones like Yugoda here.

Now that she’s seen the girl’s resemblance to Kanna, it’s hard for Yugoda to see anything else on her face. Each move Katara’s features make, each expression, is just as she remembers Kanna’s to have been. And when the girl comes to approach her in the Healing Huts, Yugoda is able for an instant to imagine that she’s sixty years younger, that her one-time best friend is here, in front of her, with that defiant glint in her eye.

Title: The Mark of a Great Leader by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Katara & Zuko
Word Count: 700
Summary: “The offer that I made in Ba Sing Se,” says Katara in response to Zuko’s question. “You know, to try to heal your scar. It still stands.”
Why I Rec This Fic: Despite overzealous shipping wars I still do like Katara and Zukos relationship/friendship but I am a bit cautious about reading fic for them for reasons – this is nice, I like Zukos self-reflection, and I like her support, and the bigger political picture in which this teenagers have to navigate their friendship.

It’s the first day he’s had in the four months since his coronation without a meeting or some sort of public appearance scheduled, so, of course, he has to spend it waging war on the chaos that is his office. His uncle only recently moved back to Ba Sing Se, and though he has made it clear that he is willing to come back and help whenever Zuko needs him, the Fire Lord is not willing to call him for something as trivial as helping to organize.
Well, then, I’ll come, Katara had written when Zuko mentioned as much in one of his letters, and also how the task overwhelmed him. Aang is going on a meditation retreat that weekend at the Southern Air Temple anyway...He hasn’t had a chance to, since the War ended.
And then she had arrived, before Zuko could reply telling her it wasn’t necessary.

Title: Between Rocks and Hard Places by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ihro,
Ihro & Zuko
Word Count: 771
Summary: "He sits on the side of his bed, buries his face in his hands. The Avatar is a child."
Why I Rec This Fic: Rekindling early Ihro characterization with what the character grew to be.

Title: In Memoriam by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Zuko
Word Count: 1069
Summary: "There had been plans, under Ozai, for a memorial in heart of the Capitol City commemorating the massive number of Fire Nation lives lost during the Siege of the North."
Why I Rec This Fic: Great bit of world building, Zuko characterization and gives room to easily to forget side characters.

Title: Biases by thesometimeswarrior for Zilliannie
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ihro &Toph Beifong, Ihro &Azula,
Ihro, Toph Beifong
Word Count: 1483
Summary: “No.” His voice is firmer than Toph has ever heard it. “It is not her fault. At least, not entirely. Yes, she should be held accountable for her actions, as we each should be. But, Ozai…I saw that Zuko needed help. I knew Zuko. And when I came back from War all those years ago, I saw how much he needed me. So I tried to help him—”
“You did. From how I’ve heard it, you basically saved Sparky’s life!”
“And if I had not, he very easily could have been like Azula is now. She needed me as well…and yet I did not see it.” He pauses. “You will think poorly of me.”
Why I Rec This Fic: People clever then me have written about redemption and who gets them in media – Azula isn’t the biggest “should have been treated better by the narrative”- character in ATLA for me but she is on the list – and this piece does exams Ihro as a character with flaws wonderful and also gives a great interaction between Ihro and Tophs whos interactions in canon are just great and should have tons of fanworks together.

Title: Tea? by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Ihro &Azula,
Ihro, Azula
Word Count: 2082
Summary: "he thought only she’s crazy, and she needs to go down, because he thought of Zuko, saw that Zuko needed him, especially then.
It is only now that Iroh realizes that she did too. That she still does."
Warning: mental instability, forced institutionalization
Why I Rec This Fic: Kind of a follow up to Biases by thesometimeswarrior. Azulas situation here really gets to me, and I am very happy that Ihro tries for her.

Title: At Least the War is Over by Sour_Idealist
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Azula/Ty Lee
Ty Lee
Word Count: 1123
Summary: "Sometimes we leave people because we're afraid of what we've become; some people are hard to leave no matter what they come to be."
Why I Rec This Fic: I really like this ship and I love the ANGST about this ship post-canon.
Podfic: here by Chestnut_filly

Title: like a fly will never love you by lastwingedthing for ConvenientAlias
Fandom: Avatar the last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Azula/Mai/Ty Lee
Mai, Azula, Ty Lee
Word Count: 2372
Summary: "Mai hates the Earth Kingdom."
Why I Rec This Fic: Mais pov is so interesting, and I love the girls messed up relationship.

Azula agreed that the lack of attention on security in Omashu was appalling.
Azula agreed that something needed to be done.
Azula thought Mai was capable of doing it –
Mai had almost forgotten what it felt like, to have someone believe her, believe in her. Even when she – they – failed at their first task, letting theAvatar and his friends escape, Azula still wanted her for the mission. And Azula never accepted anything but the best.
When they left, the three of them together, Mai didn’t look back.

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Batman - fic rec - work in progress

2021-12-10T15:38:31Z

Title: Missed Call by iamfitzwilliamdarcy
Fandom: Batman
Character/Pairing: Jason Todd, Damian Wayne; Jason Todd & Damian Wayne, Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne
Word Count: 549
Summary: "Damian guilts Jason for not checking in.
Prompt: Jason and Damian, "It's not like I missed you or anything""
Why I Rec This Fic: Ah, dysfunctional families, my favorite, the communication dissonance works and the details about the surrounding activities felt make it feel more realistic.

Title: At the End of the Day byiamfitzwilliamdarcy
Fandom: Batman
Character/Pairing: Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne
Word Count: 887
Summary: "Being a teenager is hard. Being the butler and sole guardian of a teenaged Bruce Wayne is harder."
Why I Rec This Fic: Bruce is just a teenager here even when the things that make Batman are there, and the loving but complicated relationship shines though in this small moment.

Title: Equivalent Exchange by Lysical
Fandom: Batman
Character/Pairing: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson & Jason Todd
Word Count: 1367
Summary: Apparently favors don't expire on death.
Why I Rec This Fic: Great sibling banter.

Title: Agony! That Can Cut Like a Knife by iamfitzwilliamdarcy
Fandom: Batman
Character/Pairing: Tim Drake,
Batfamily, Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Damian Wayne
Word Count: 1563
Summary: "Tim Drake loves Gotham sports, but Gotham sports do not love Tim back"
Why I Rec This Fic: Funny!

Title: And So This is Christmas by Drag0nst0rm
Fandom: Batman
Character/Pairing: Alfred Pennyworth
Alfred Pennyworth & Batfamily
Word Count: 1901
Summary: "It's not that Alfred isn't happy with his job. It's just that sometimes he really wishes that he had known what he was getting into when he signed up for it."
Why I Rec This Fic: From what I can gather Alfred is the only person in the bat-household with sense – he deserves a raise. Funny and heartwarming.

"And we've pretty much given up on getting Damian to apologize for anything short of attempted murder at this point."
He hoped that last part was hypothetical, but given the rest of this insanity, he rather doubted it. "Then I assume Master Damian has given up on ever having dessert privileges.

Title: Minimum Height Requirement by Drag0nst0rm
Fandom: Batman
Character/Pairing: Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon, Alfred Pennyworth, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain
Word Count: 66462
Summary: "Somewhere in the multiverse, there's a universe where letting his children dress up in capes and follow him into vigilantism seems like a good idea.
Bruce is determined that it isn't going to be this one . . . Despite his children's repeated attempts to convince him otherwise.
(Or: "When you're eighteen, you can do what you want. Until then, no capes.")"
Why I Rec This Fic: There is so much in this: a cool concept, incredible funny moments (so much long-suffering bat-dad), heartwarming and heartbreaking family dynamic because it isn´t necessary easier like this.

Bruce watched him go with dismay. “Commissioner Gordon’s daughter is studying library science. Commissioner Gordon’s daughter stays in the Cave. Where did I go wrong?” he moaned.
Alfred patted his shoulder consolingly. “I know what you mean, Master Bruce. I know what you mean.”

Title: Positive reinforcement by towardsmorning
Fandom: Young Justice (cartoon)
Character/Pairing: Bruce Wayne & Dick Grayson
Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson
Word Count: 1038
Summary: "Batman is looking at him with slightly narrowed eyes that anyone else would be likely to find intimidating, but which Robin knows well enough to interpret as Batman's 'what is the appropriate way to respond to people who are actually remotely normal' face."
Why I Rec This Fic: I like how Young Justice deals with parental/mentor/family relationships mostly, but there is also a lot of room in the canon for little explorations like this.
Podfic by Tipsy_Kitty here

Batman Beyond

Title: Not a Happy Day by Vexed_Wench
Fandom: Batman: Beyond
Character/Pairing: Melanie Walker
Word Count: 100
Summary: "She still had a small amount of hope."
Why I Rec This Fic: Batman Beyond has some real cool female characters, they are all kind of underused. Melanie is one of them. Her relationship with her family is interesting.

Title: An Awfully Big Adventure by MiraMira for raz0rgirl
Fandom: Batman: Beyond
Character/Pairing: Maxine "Max" Gibson, Terry McGinnis
Maxine "Max" Gibson & Terry McGinnis
Word Count: 745
Summary: "Batman isn't the only hero Gotham will always need."
Why I Rec This Fic: Max is really cool, and should have gotten more in canon. She is a tough cookie and she takes her fate in her own hands.
Podfic by Argentumlupine here

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Lord of the Rings - fic rec (work in progress)

2021-12-10T15:12:07Z

Title: after the scouring by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Character/Pairing: Rose Cotton, Sam Gamgee, Frodo Baggins
Rose Cotton/Sam Gamgee, Rose Cotton & Frodo Baggins,
Word Count: 1501
Summary: Rosie Cotton after the War of the Ring.
Why I rec this: This person has a great writing voice, and shines a light on all different kinds of strengths in their work.

When Sam came home, there was a feather in Pippin’s cap, a horn on Merry’s hip. All Sam had was a box of dirt with one large, smooth seed tucked inside. Even in Mordor, Sam had only been fighting for the Shire. He spent the rest of his life helping things grow.
Let’s talk about Sam crying over rabbit stew, because a brace of coneys had been a spot of luck, once; because even then, even when he still had his pots and his pans, when Frodo had not yet snarled at him and told him to go– Mr. Frodo had still been gone too far by then to ever come back again.
Rosie, who did not cry easy, chopped onions so he would not be the only one with wet cheeks to scrub off. She asked him about herbs and spices, about stirring and cooking times, about what loaf would go best with it all. Sam said, “Rosemary, tarragon.” Part of him still rang against the greening metal of a copper pot dropped down a chasm and left somewhere on the edges of Mordor, but she saw him breathe deep and reach for thyme.

Title: Muddy Toes and Fresh-Baked Bread by nenya_kanadka
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Character/Pairing: Rose Cotton, Sam Gamgee, Frodo Baggins
Sam Gamgee/Rose Cotton/Frodo Baggins,
Word Count: 1176
Summary: "Domesticity, muddy toes and fresh-baked bread."
Why I rec this: Domesticity!

Title: Green by yeaka
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien,
Character/Pairing: Gandalf | Mithrandir/Radagast | Aiwendil
Gandalf | Mithrandir, Radagast | Aiwendil
Summary: "Radagast makes Gandalf tea and misses what could’ve been."
Wordcount: 822
Why I Rec This Fic: Pining! Domesticy!
Podfic link here: by KeeperofSeeds

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marvel fic rec - work in progress

2021-12-10T15:06:54Z

Title: Good for Goodness Sake by Redrikki
Fandom: Ms Marvel
Character/Pairing: Kamala Khan, Nakia Bahdir, Bruno Carreli, Zoe Zimmer, Doyle
Summary: "It's hard enough being an American Muslim at Christmas time. Then the Inventor had to go and make it worse."
Warnings: harm to children, white privilege
Word Count: 3243
Why I Rec This Fic: Really captures the tone of canon. Also its just cool to see this kind of stories around.

Title: I know you—a glance, and what you are by blackkat
Fandom: MCU, Hawkeye (Matt Fraction comics)
Character/Pairing: Clint Barton, Kate Bishop, Laura Barton
Summary: The look Kate gives him is deeply offended, like he just turned her world on its head. “Last week I had to stop you from eating pizza you scavenged out of a dumpster,” she says. “You called Tony Stark to help you hook up your TV because you lost the manual.”
Word Count: 494

Title: Homecoming by thatdamneddame
Fandom:
Character/Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson, past Phil Coulson/OMC
Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, OCs
Summary: "When Phil Coulson was twenty-three, he fell in love. It’s what people are supposed to do, fall in love and settle down, but for all Phil Coulson is a practical man, he’s never been one for convention."
Word Count: 5484
Why I Rec This Fic: There is just something about this kind of relationship, the mood (quiet, and nostalgic bittersweet but happy) and the characterization of Coulson that just right up my type.
Warning: mention of homophobia, minor character death

When Phil was twenty-eight, both his parents died in a car crash, and it was like whatever had been holding him to the conventional life had been severed with it. Richard doesn’t know, can never know, that SHEILD had contacted him before. That Phil was twenty-six and in an undisclosed location on a mission that never happened and everything that could go wrong did, and Phil, covered in the blood of the commanding officer he couldn’t save, single-handedly got his unit the hell out of dodge. And Phil had said no then because he couldn’t lie to his parents.
But he could lie to Richard.
Phil’s not really proud about that, but he’s honestly not that ashamed either.
His sister, Lydia, was older by two years and as quietly competent as him. She was a court stenographer until she found Henry, who found Phil and Richard to be against God, and Phil found he didn’t really have time for people like that, not when he had taken bullets for his country.
He sends her cards for Christmas and her birthday, and gift cards to his niece and nephew, who he’s only ever met twice, on appropriate gift giving occasions. Lydia sends him the occasional email and mails him family photos that Phil keeps in a lock box under his bed.
They were close when they were younger, but years and miles and jobs and spouses have come between them. Phil doesn’t really miss her, not when he knows she’s safe and happy. Now he has his makeshift family at SHIELD. For years, it’s been more than enough.

Title: Steve Roger's Soviet Assassins Dating Service by MissMorwen
Fandom: Captain America (Movies)
Character/Pairing: James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers
Word Count: 289
Summary: "In which Steve tries to be sneaky, Natasha and Bucky try to be even sneakier, and everyone end up much happier than they were at the beginning."

Steve doesn't mind Natasha's relentless matchmaking, in fact, he thinks it's kind of sweet of her, if a bit inconvenient at times.[...]It reminds him of how Bucky used to make him go on double dates.

Title: Golems by thesometimeswarrior
Fandom: Iron Man
Character/Pairing: Tony Stark, Howard Stark, Howard Stark Sr., Steve Rogers
Summary: Three generation of Starks.
Word Count: 976
Why I Rec This Fic: Great character study, and beautiful bit with the feel of reclamation of the narrative.

"He names himself Stark because he wants it to be true. Stark, he figures, is the American for Shtark, which is Yiddish for Strong, and that’s the one thing the thirteen year-old-boy who will one day be known as Howard Stark Sr. wants to be."

Title: Maqqaba by Domenika Marzione (domarzione)
Fandom: Captain America
Character/Pairing: Peggy Carter, Howard Stark, Abraham Erskine, Colonel Phillips
Summary: "Chanukah in the SSR."
Word Count: 1879
Why I Rec This Fic: Nice use of the outside pov. The lab has a great real life energy, and the way Erskins memory lives in this fic while he is absent though it is really touching.

Title: צוריס [tsuris] by Lasgalendil
Fandom: Captain America
Character/Pairing: Winifred Barnes, James "Bucky" Barnes, George Barnes
Summary: "No mother should have to outlive her child."
Word Count: 280
Warnings: Antisemitism
Why I Rec This Fic: I love minor character povs and the historical references and short style make an interesting read.

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Natasha Romanoff - centric - fic rec (work in progress)

2021-12-10T15:02:02Z

Title: The Cat That Comes Back by kvikindi
Fandom: Black Widow comics (works also if you only know the movie version)
Character/Pairing: Natasha Romanov, Liho the cat
Summary: "There is this other world, where people have cats and lose them. She doesn't know how to be part of it."
Word Count: 1463
Why I Rec This Fic: Lovely distinct style, and a sad but soft story, really captures one of my fav aspects of Natasha as a character.

Title: love always wakes the dragon by opensummer
Fandom: The Avengers
Character/Pairing: Natasha Romanov
Clint Barton & Natasha Romanov
Summary: “Love is for children.” She said dismissively, knowing it is a lie.
Warnings: canonical child abuse, brainwashing
Word Count: 1744
Why I Rec This Fic:

Title: aseret ha-dibrot by allapplesfall
Fandom: The Avengers
Character/Pairing: Natasha Romanoff
Natasha Romanoff & Clint Barton, Natasha Romanoff & Bucky Barnes
Summary: "Natasha's life, as told through the Ten Commandments."
Warning: Antisemitism, Brainwashing, Canonical Child Abuse, Child Soldiers, Assimilation,
Word Count: 4333
Why I Rec This Fic: I really love the style of writing in this.

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Black Panther - fic rec (work in progress)

2021-12-10T14:54:31Z

Title: another life breathing by TolkienGirl
Fandom: Black Panther
Character/Pairing: T'Challa, Okoye
Okoye & T'Challa, Erik Killmonger & T'Challa, Okoye/W'Kabi
Summary: “"Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from the ships, because they knew death was better than bondage." - Erik Killmonger
Wordcount: 402
Why I rec this Fic: The fic is really beautiful with its soft but strong sense of duty, and love. And how they are not easy to navigate together.
Podfic by Blackglass here (3:27 minutes)

Title: Princess of Wakanda by Lumeleo
Fandom: Black Panther
Character/Pairing: Shuri
Shuri & T´Challa
Summary: "Shuri is many things, but above all she will always be a princess."
Word Count: 500
Why I Rec This Fic: Nice character study, also Trans Shuri!
Podfic by Ravin_Pods (Ravin) here (4:11 minutes)

Title: For Better by CatsGirlsComicsAndThisOddball
Fandom: Black Panther
Character/Pairing: Nakia, Okoye, T´Challa
Nakia/Okoye/T´Challa
Summary: Dealing with the aftermath.
Word Count: 1224
Why I Rec This Fic: I love characters who are stubborn devoted to some duty and I love angst.

"There are still people here who care about you, Okoye. Consider letting them."
“You haven’t gone home yet, have you?”
Okoye takes a measured breath in, out. In again. Their house- her house now, hasn’t had anyone in it in a week now. She has all she needs in her quarters in the palace, and there is much to do.
“I haven’t found the time.”
“Would you like me to accompany you?” T’Challa offers, as if he hadn’t gone without sleep for the last two nights.
“I am fine, my King.” Okoye swallows. “T’Challa. We should go back to work.”

Title: Melodies from the Green Veld by Endeni
Fandom: Black Panther
Character/Pairing: Erik Killmonger, T'Challa
Erik Killmonger & T'Challa
Summary: "T’Challa thought he was going to be the last Black Panther."
Word Count: 1322
Podfic by blackglass here

Title: rhythms of unseen drums by lissomelle
Fandom: Black Panther
Character/Pairing: Nakia, T'Challa, Okoye, Shuri, T'Chaka)

Nakia/T'Challa, Nakia & Shuri

Summary: "King or country, which do you serve? Nakia passed every test to join the Dora Milaje but one."

Word Count: 3762
Why I Rec This Fic: Love the style of prose.

Podfic by blackglass here

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The Chronicles of Narnia - fic rec

2021-12-10T14:47:15Z

Title: Choice and Consequence by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Original Character
Word Count: 125
Summary: "Brynnhild joins the White Army because she wants a better life for her sister's children."
Why I Rec This Fic: Makes it all feel much more real.

Title: the mournful kingdom of sand by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Jadis Sister, Mr Tumnus, Lucy Pevensie
Word Count: 133
Summary: "A hundred years of summer and never a drop of rain."
Why I Rec This Fic: A cool concept.

Title: Greatly Exaggerated by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Original Character
Word Count: 160
Summary: "There were dozens of stories in circulation about how Sergeant Cara of the Narnian Coastal Guard had lost her upper right fang and acquired a gold replacement."
Why I Rec This Fic: I mostly read Pevensie focuses angst (and some fluff) but this slice of life of an ordinary narnian makes the world feel more lived in.

Title: Always Winter And Never Pesach. by Lanna Michaels (lannamichaels)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Word Count: 232
Summary: "This is the custom of Narnia."
Why I Rec This Fic: I am delighted by this world building idea and taken this narrative and putting this spin on it.

Title: Snow in your footsteps by FiKate
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Mr Tumnus, Mrs Beaver,
Mr Tumnus & Lucy Pevensie, Mr Tumnus & Mrs Beaver, Mr Tumnus & his father
Word Count: 689
Summary: "Five Times Tumnus hoped for snow to hide in and one time he welcomed it."

Title: The Golden Age: A Historical and Cultural Survey by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Word Count: 233
Summary: "An excerpt from the introduction to The Golden Age: A Historical and Cultural Survey, published by the University of Redhaven in the year 1667."
Why I Rec This Fic: I love media from fictional worlds its such a cool form of world building.

Title: King of the Solstice by TeaRoses
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Jadis White Witch, Father Christmas
Jadis White Witch/Father Christmas
Word Count: 432
Summary: "He has been imprisoned here so long, yet the Witch still comes to tempt him."
Why I Rec This Fic: There are gods in narnia a fact that is never explored in canon, this is a small but nice dive into that.

Title: where king's blood blooms by madnessiseverything
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie, Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 514
Summary: "“Have you ever wondered,” Susan asks with a strangely hollow voice, one that immediately pulls Lucy’s eyes back to her in worry, “why the fields towards the north are so overflowing in flowers?”
the one where spilt blood has its own aftermath."
Why I Rec This Fic: I love the quote from Prattchet about stories being parasites and I have angsty feelings about this kids having to rule a kingdom; I also love the motive/image of blood nurturing soil and flowers blooding out of the blood of saints – this is just right up my alley of magic angst. The world is alive and it has its own agenda of survival that is not bothered by literal children and their wellbeing.

Title: Springs' Offering by Did_you_see_the_light_in_my_heart
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie, Mr Fox,
Word Count: 708
Summary: "A quiet day of Spring invites Queen Lucy into the forest. She follows the pull of her chest and at the end of the road, there's a little pool of water waiting for her. It feels like a home she can no longer remember."
Why I Rec This Fic: Really captures the magic of narnia

Title: With Hands Held Out by Asakiyume
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Sea Girl, Lucy Pevensie
Word Count: 904
Summary: "The Sea Girl in the Last Sea looks up from tending her fishes and sees Lucy Pevensie aboard the Dawn Treader"
Why I Rec This Fic: Sometimes there is a character that only appears for a few sentences but that stays with you, the Sea Girl that Lucy sees in Voyage of the Dawn Treader is one of them, so I love that there is fanworks for her. It’s great to see it from her point of view, without over explaining there is a lot of worldbuilding here.

Title: The Longest Night by Ptelea
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Lucy Pevensie
Word Count: 1200
Summary: "Queen Lucy and four different midwinter celebrations in Narnia. A drabble series."
Why I Rec This Fic: Lovely world building with the different traditions, and I like Lucys connection to narnia.

Title: Without Any External or Physical Form by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Mr Tumnus, Lucy Pevensie,
Word Count: 1264
Summary: "Lucy and Mr. Tumnus discuss history and hypotheticals over tea, in the second summer after the end of the Witch's reign. Daemon AU."
Why I Rec This Fic: I love how people do worldbuilding in Daemon verse Aus! Its always interesting.

Title: Finest Job by FiKate
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing:
Word Count: 1390
Summary: prompt: Susan and Edmund, ruling and lawmaking in Narnia plus a sense of history in Narnia.
Why I Rec This Fic: I love how people give Narnia a history.

Title: Little Things by BeautifulLife
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Queen Helen, King Frank, Father Christmas
Word Count: 1506
Warnings: animal death
Summary: "The first time Queen Helen's fingers blistered on her needles, she felt an unwelcome pang of envy for the dryads and naiads who clothed themselves in bark with a thought.
Vignettes of the first year of Queen Helen and King Frank's rule in Narnia."
Why I Rec This Fic: Love the world building, and character study of Helene here.

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