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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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Part 1 here

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

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

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

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

Title: armies march on their stomachs, wearing hand-knit socks by AlexSeanchai
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing:
Word Count: 87
Summary: "Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war."
Why I Rec This Fic: I don´t envy the Pevensie children being suddenly thrusted into rueling a whole kingdom – that said it makes many interesting stories, I specially like to think about the early days of their reign. And Susans practicality has always been my favorite trait.

Title: Five Battles Susan Pevensie Won by cofax
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 260

Title: and the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbour by romans
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensies,
Word Count: 703
Summary: "Men wrote songs about Susan the Gentle long after the train crash."
Why I Rec This Fic: Middle Aged Susan Pevensie who is happy and having adventures and magic.

Title: feeling warm and bright by embraidery
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie, Original female character
Susan Pevensie/Original female character
Word Count: 826
Summary: Yuliana tosses her long hair over her shoulder as she turns to grin at the crowd. Her whole family cheers and tosses grains of rice. Susan smiles as she applauds. The lady knight meets Susan’s eyes. She grins but quickly hides her smile, bowing to her queen, hair cascading down around her before she flicks it back over her shoulder.
Why I rec this fic: There should be more femslash for Susan, she deserves it.

Title: Undertow by liptonrm
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie, Susan/Orginal female character
Word Count: 1500
Warnings: dubious/non con
Summary: "Freedom has its cost."
Why I Rec This Fic: Creepy atmospheric and weirdly fitting for Narnias early Golden Age.

The Problem of Susan

Title: what of those who live long? by guardyanangel
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 36
Summary: "Susan, at the funeral."
Why I Rec This Fic: Short but poignant.

Title: Grief That Can't Be Spoken by CountlessUntruths (KaliCephirot)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 164
Warnings: canonical character death
Summary: Prompt: 'there's no problem with Susan'.
Why I Rec This Fic: I especially like the prose of the first sentence the character holds a great much back but that first sentence is unbashful angry in a way I just appreciate for this character, she deserves to be angry, my poor brave girl.

Title: nylons and lipsticks and— by TolkienGirl
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 223
Warnings: canonical character death
Summary: "Susan had feared that grief would be silent, but she never expected it to be so loud."
Why I Rec This Fic: I especially like the beginning brave practial Susan.

Title: Untold by cofax
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Peter Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie
Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 238
Summary: "Even in Aslan's Country, there are unreliable narrators. Set during The Last Battle."

Title: Lamp post by orphan_account
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 353
Summary: "She feels a pang every time she passes a lamp post."
Why I Rec This Fic:
Podfic here: by argentumlupine

Title: the iron queens by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie, Jadis
Susan Pevensie/Jadis
Word Count: 348
Summary: "In the cold and dark of Narnia after the end, Susan offers Jadis a bargain."
Why I Rec This Fic: Badass Susan and „redemption“ only though the characters own terms, I am always there for (female) characters x agency.

Title: Rapture by Chibifukurou
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Susan Pevensie/Original female character
Word Count: 455
Summary: "Aslan had sent her away, told her that her purpose was in the world outside of Narnia. She’d listened, even if Peter and Lucy hadn’t been able to. Edmund she thought could have joined her in surviving in a world without Narnia, but he wouldn’t have survived the loss of Peter and Lucy."
Why I Rec This Fic: the fabulous adventures of Susan after narnia. Queer Susan!

Title: The Queen of All the Living by theladyscribe
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensies, OCs
Word Count: 547
Summary: "At age sixteen, Susan Pevensie starts a girl gang."
Why I Rec This Fic: I like Susans adventure in her own world and I like her interacting with other female characters.

Title: Wrong Side of Heaven by SailorSol
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensies,
Word Count: 717
Summary: Susan inherits the wardrobe
Why I Rec This Fic: Great use of an object to explore Susans situation at that time.

Title: once and always by Vail
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 853
Warnings: Canon character death
Summary: "Susan is not asked to identify the bodies."

Title: queen over chlorine and red swimming suits by SearchingforSerendipity
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 872
Summary: Post Narnia: slight AU: Susan as the Queen of the eastern sea
Why I Rec This Fic: the fabulous adventures of Susan after narnia. Love how her determination and strength shines here.

The sports world does not take kindly to her at first. Invaded territory never does, even if they are few and far between that understand Susan's contest. Her form is flawless, her performance is beautiful and her growth in skills relentless. She makes it look easy. Worse, she makes it look easy while looking beautiful, and there are many who don't forgive that.
(It's a good thing that Susan had long stopped asking for forgiveness)

Title: Dedication by Elizabeth Culmer (edenfalling)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 1070
Summary: "Susan's journey to accepting Narnia as her new home is not easy, either within or without."
Why I Rec This Fic: This fic makes narnia feel like a very real place, I also like it how it focus the rebuilding of the country on community and organization (not battle and top down authority)

Archenland sends aid and Susan buys what stores she can from Calormen and the ocean islands in return for Jadis's stolen treasures and the regalia of the former kings, but winter is coming back again, breathing the learned despair of a hundred years, and no courage, no care, no wisdom, no faith, can change the brutal calculation of mute numbers and promise that this strange land given into their care will survive to see the anniversary of its deliverance.

Title: Between a Past and a Present by theladyscribe
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 1138
Summary: "To get to Giza from Cairo proper, they have to cross the Kobri Kasri al-Nil.
Susan hates the bridge, with its lions guarding the entrance. Their eyes seem to follow her whenever she passes by them, their stern gazes sharp knives between her shoulders."
Why I Rec This Fic: Susan and stone lions post Narnia is a good little mini genre/trope.

Title: We Need to Talk About Susan Pevensie by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 1272
Warnings: Period Typical Sexism
Summary: "A lion told her to walk away, and she did. He forbade her magic, he forbade her her own kingdom, so she made her own. Susan Pevensie did not lose faith. She found it."
Why I Rec This Fic: There is a lot of interesting points, Susan after Narnia is just a pool of potential, I like that she fights for what she thinks is right.
Podfic of it here by irrationalpie

Susan living through WW2, huddling with her siblings, a young adult (again), a fighting queen and champion marksman kept from the action, until she finally storms out against screaming parents’ wishes and volunteers as a nurse on the front. She keeps a knife or two hidden under her clothes because when it comes down to it, they called her Gentle, but sometimes loving means fighting for what you care for.

Title: You'll Come Back When It's Over by Kiwipineapple
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie,
Word Count: 1309
Summary: "Many Years Later, Susan Remembers"
Why I Rec This Fic: Susan and stone lions post Narnia is a good little mini genre/trope.

There were lions all over this ancient city. Susan used to love those majestic beasts, but these statues were making her anxious. Maybe they were the reason she felt watched. Those blank stone eyes seemed to be following her around.

Title: Imaginary Menagerie by unoriginal_liz
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Edmund Pevensie & Lucy Pevensie & Peter Pevensie & Susan Pevensie
Word Count: 1320
Summary: "It wasn't surprising they'd played at being Kings and Queens that summer."
Why I Rec This Fic: Great prose.

Because she knows the truth, that Narnia and Aslan are pretty names, but they are empty. They are pretend, and while they are nice, nicer even then many real things, the fact remains – they are not real, the way that wardrobes are real, or being Grown Up is real, or train accidents are real.

Title: Queen of Morning by Sister Coyote (sister_coyte)
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensies,
Susan Pevensie & Avaris Tarkheena, Susan Pevensie & Reepicheep, Susan Pevensie & Lucy Pevensie
Word Count: 1349
Summary: "King Peter's courage and King Edmund's wisdom and Queen Lucy's boldness I would have," Reepicheep said, with a bow and a flourish, "but for a keen eye and a graceful hand, I could find no better, my archer queen."

"Aravis," Susan said, "I am not sure I can tell you what you need to hear. I have been a Queen these long years, but I am queen and sister, not queen and wife. I have never been wed. You will make decisions in tandem with your husband - not soothe the quarrels of your siblings. Or cause them, for that matter."
"I cannot see you causing a quarrel," Aravis said, and Susan knew it was only half compliment. So easy to see her, Queen Susan the Gentle, as meek, will-less, shallow, frivolous, too silly to be at the center of any real conflict.
So she said, "I cause enough of them. They are simply not the quarrels that are solved by the clash of swords."
"Then you have no advice for me?"
"Tell tales, and ride among your people," Susan said. "Be who you are. Whatever they may say about you."

Title: what susan forgot by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Pevensie Siblings
Word Count: 1494
Warnings: Body Dysphoria
Summary: Memories and what you make of them.
Why I Rec This Fic: I love the style of this piece, so many interesting and important things are touched upon.
podfic by RickyPulcifer here

"Let’s talk about what Susan Pevensie forgets: her older brother’s face, the sound of dryads gossiping in the leaves, and occasionally her house keys.
Susan forgets the tune of her favorite Narnian lullaby, the one Mrs. Beaver had sung to Lucy when they were still small, the one Susan had planned to sing to her own children, back when she had thought they would be there forever.
They say Susan forgets Narnia, but she doesn’t forget all of it. She puts it aside. She forgets faces and names, tax
rates and the color of her favorite court shoes. Susan never forgets the weight on her shoulders that came from that responsibility, that power, that loss. She sometimes forgets she is strong enough to carry it.
Sometimes she remembers."

Title: Pageant by acrosticacrumpet
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Lucy Pevensie
Word Count: 2017
Warnings: Sexism
Summary: "What happens to Susan is simple. Terrifyingly so."
Why I Rec This Fic: I do not like Susans siblings talk like they talk about her in canon so it’s nice to read about them reflecting about why she may act like she did.

Title: old enough to start reading fairytales again by aletterinthenameofsanity
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Susan Pevensie/Original Male Character(s)/Original Female Character(s)
Word Count: 2482
Summary: She traces her fingertips along the wood of the outside of the wardrobe, but she never makes an attempt to open it. She isn’t even tempted to open the door. She doesn’t want to open the door, to see if Aslan has given her a glimpse into the world he never gave her siblings back when they needed it.
She has more than made her peace with this world- she has fallen in love with it. She has fallen in love with the people here, her job, and her briefcase. She has no desire to return to her old kingdom, not when she has built her own here.
Why I Rec This Fic: More fabulous adventures of Susan post narnia featuring polyamory.

Title: a call rattling in her bones by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Character/Pairing: Susan Pevensie
Pevensie Siblings
Word Count: 3145
Summary: "Here, on this drab concrete, her people are untouchable, indefensible; herself is vanished, her kingdom gone; she can feel the loss like a wound. She has lost her power, but that trust, that responsibility remains. It circles her ankles, trips her in the school hallways."
Why I Rec This Fic: Makes me cry every time, I really like the practical details about her ruling of Narnia that makes her and the world feel more real.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: in its lonely & ramshackle head by Murf1307
Fandom: X Men
Character/Pairing: John Allerdyce/Bobby Drake
John Allerdyce, Bobby Drake
Summary: "In 2015, the United States Supreme Court legalizes marriage equality in all fifty states. To celebrate, Kitty and Rogue drag Bobby and Kurt to Vegas as the witnesses to their lesbian wedding. It’s all going swimmingly, but then..."
Warnings: Contains references to drunk sex and whether or not that sex is regrettable.
Word Count: 1263
Why I Rec This Fic: Not very deep down I am still the person I was when I first watched X Men, and that person ships Iceman/Pyro with this special flavor of 13 year old indulgence.

Title: A Pear and an Apple by Charis
Fandom: X Men
Character/Pairing: Kitty Pryde, Ororo Munroe
Summary: "The first time she remembers doing this, she was four years old.
Kitty in her first year at the X-Mansion, trying to find her footing. A familiar ritual and some unexpected company prove exceedingly helpful."
Warnings:
Word Count: 1497
Why I Rec This Fic: One cool thing about fanfiction is seeing stories that are seldom shown in Mainstream. Here Kitty celebrates Tu BiShvat | The 15th of Shevat. Lovely bit of character exploration.

Angel

Title: now you bring me your bruises by littledust
Fandom: X Men
Character/Pairing: Angel Salvadore, Raven|Mystique,
Raven|Mystique/Angel Salvadore
Summary: "Raven doesn't scar."
Warnings: Implied/Referenced Abuse
Word Count: 323
Why I Rec This Fic: Angel deserves so much better/more then canon gave her, and I had a soft spot for this ship for a while, they really play of eachother well and Angel brings out very interesting things in Ravens story.

Title: the graffiti on your body (too easy to wreck remix) by lady_krysis (saekhwa) for littledust
Fandom: X Men
Character/Pairing: Angel Salvadore,
Raven|Mystique,
Raven|Mystique/Angel Salvadore
Summary: "In Angel's life, it's always a jackass with something."
Word Count: 533
Podfic: by kalakirya here

Title: Rise by littledust
Fandom: X Men
Character/Pairing: Angel Salvadore,
Raven|Mystique, Bolivar Trask
Raven|Mystique/Angel Salvadore
Summary: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence: "Angel's escapes, from her childhood home to Trask Industries."
Warnings: Unethical Experimentation, Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence, Strippers & Strip Clubs,
Word Count: 3204
Why I Rec This Fic: Angel deserves her story being told, and I like the writing style here.

She was born with the marks, otherwise her stepfather would have had words with her mother about her harlot daughter getting tattooed. Angel only learned the trick of calling out her wings a few years ago, when a neighbor's dog leapt its too-small fence and started chasing her. Even on the run, frightened tears streaming down her face, Angel had marveled at the feeling of flight.
Her wings won't take her all the way to LA before there are people awake to spot the girl built like a dragonfly, but they can get her far enough to hitch a ride the rest of the way.
Angel doesn't leave a note for her mother, doesn't look back as she leaps into the air. What would she say? I love you. Don't come looking for me. Try to stay alive.

Title: how the west was won by kaydeefalls
Fandom: X Men
Character/Pairing: Angel Salvadore,
Erik Lehnsherr, Emma Frost, ,Ororo Munroe, Chris "Bolt" Bradley, Raven|Mystique
,Summary: "Angel has never been anyone but herself."
Warnings: racism, fantasy racism, sex work, implied/referenced underage sex work,
Word Count: 2772
Why I Rec This Fic: I adore the style spare on words but nailing characters perfectly.

The one thing I look for in Pride and Prejudice fic is femslash.

Title: I will not send this letter by doctornerdington
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Anne de Bourgh/Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth Bennet & Charlotte Lucas
Charlotte Lucas
Word Count: 1003
Summary: "Charlotte Collins falls in love (not, it need hardly be said, with her husband)."
Why I Rec This Fic: Charlottes feels very queer in text, and this unspoken feelings/internalized homophobia breaks my heart.

Charlotte Lucas/Elizabeth Bennet

Title: Miss Lucas Considers Her Options by Lempo Soi (Lemposoi)
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Charlotte Lucas/Elizabeth Bennet
Word Count: 200
Summary: "Impossible love, politely." Unrequired love
Why I Rec This Fic: I am actually surprised that there are not many Charlotte/Elizabeth fics cause they are such a classic trope. (pining for your best friend, marriage of con

Title: Everything by vendettadays
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Charlotte Lucas/Elizabeth Bennet
Word Count: 300
Summary: "Elizabeth loved Charlotte's hair."
Why I Rec This Fic: This two deserve some soft sweet moments.

Title: A Letter for Mrs. Collins by shittydemon
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Charlotte Lucas/Elizabeth Bennet
Word Count: 516
Summary: "Elizabeth writes her friend Charlotte a letter a week after she visits her and Mr. Collins at their new home"
Why I Rec this fic: the classic take on this (kind of) ship is pining Charlotte so its cool to see a role reversal in this.

Title: In Another Life, You and I by Silvereye
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Charlotte Lucas/Elizabeth Bennet
Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth Bennet
Word Count: 999
Summary: “I wish you had been born a man,” Eliza said one day, when they were walking in the park. “I could marry you.”
Warnings: period typical sexism

Title: In Preparation by Lefaym
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Charlotte Lucas/Elizabeth Bennet
Charlotte Lucas, William Collins
Word Count: 1035
Summary: "Charlotte steels herself for the day to come."
Warnings: Masturbation, light period typical sexism, mentioning of unhappy sex
Why I Rec this fic: Charlotte Lucas deserves some nice things

Title: Housekeeping by onedogtown
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Charlotte Lucas/Elizabeth Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy
Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy
Word Count: 2603
Summary: "A conversation between Mr. and Mrs. Darcy, some weeks after their marriage."
Why I Rec this fic: I love this a bit more mature Elizabeth and how her growth change her relationship.

Time had given her both distance and a new interest; now Elizabeth could pick through the details of housekeeping and Mr. Collins’s amiable nature to understand a little more of Charlotte’s true thoughts. They had not been as far apart from her as she had assumed; often she was struck by Charlotte’s noting a particular path that she thought that Elizabeth would like to walk in, or mentioning a piece of ridiculous village gossip which she must have known that her friend would have delighted to hear, and more sentences than she remembered were addressed to “dear Eliza”. Rooms were described, and the business of maintaining a home, but very few other people; Elizabeth thought that Charlotte must have been alone very often. Considering the company this was, perhaps, not unwanted; and yet it must have been an odd change for her.

Title: The riches of Flora are lavishly strown by ChronicBookworm
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Charlotte Lucas/Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy/Original Male Character
Elizabeth Bennet, Charlotte Lucas
Word Count: 2684
Summary: "After Mr Collins dies, Elizabeth invites Charlotte to stay with her. This is a selection of the letters sent to and from Pemberley during this time."
Why I Rec this fic: I love Epistolary fic and I love Charlotte finding happiness (realizing that happiness and real companionship is something she can have) I love Lizzie being happy and non-angsty about being queer and sharing her happiness with her sister and friends even if society wasnt friendly to them, and I love the detail of Lizzie still seeing Georgie as shy and related Charlotte not wanting to go back to her parents home where they will see her as they saw her before she married.

Kitty Bennet/Georgina Darcy

Title: On Music by parcequelle
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Catherine Bennet/Georgiana Darcy
Catherine Bennet, Georgiana Darcy
Word Count: 125
Summary: Georgiana never though she would get so lucky.
Why I Rec This Fic: Sweet! Good for them.

Title: The Other Miss Bennett by halotolerant
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Catherine Bennet/Georgiana Darcy
Catherine Bennet, Georgiana Darcy
Word Count: 1411
Summary: for the prompt „Hidden“
Why I Rec This Fic: Lovely sweet beginning of a relationship. Also chronic ill Kitty!

Title: strawberries and sunlight by polkadot
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Catherine Bennet/Georgiana Darcy
Catherine Bennet, Georgiana Darcy
Word Count: 3253
Summary: "It was some four months since Kitty had come to stay at Pemberley, when she found to her great astonishment that she had not thought of young officers in a fortnight."
Why I Rec This Fic: It is nice to see the characters matured but still recognizable and their love story is sweet. I also like the period fitting tone of the fic.

Title: Kitty and Georgy (The Healing Old Hurts Remix) by Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Character/Pairing: Catherine Bennet/Georgiana Darcy
Catherine Bennet, Georgiana Darcy
Word Count: 7371
Summary: "Kitty is often ill, but she is determined to live her best life anyway."
Why I Rec This Fic: I pretty much hated the treatment of others by Elizabeth Bennet and her father and that is presented as rightous and even charming, specially where it cross over in ableism/bigoty against chronical ill people.
Podfic by TheOneCalledEli here (41:32)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: A Quiet Life by Merfilly
Fandom: Hocus Pocus (1993)
Character/Pairing: Dani Dennison, Dani Dennison & Thackery Binx
Word Count: 100
Summary: She never owned a cat after that night.
Why I Rec This Fic: Lovely story telling that works well with its length.

Title: Familiar by kay_obsessive
Fandom: Hocus Pocus (1993)
Character/Pairing: Dani Dennison, Thackery Binx
Word Count: 571
Summary: "But she was only trying to help him, just as her brother and Allison had wanted to all those years ago, trying to find a way to free poor Thackery Binx. And Dani, clever Dani, had succeeded. At least to a point."
Why I Rec This Fic: Creepy but perfect. Witch Dani!

Title: The Homefront by Ania
Fandom: Hocus Pocus (1993)
Character/Pairing: Allison Watts,
Allison/Max Dennison
Word Count: 706
Summary: "Allison has everything she ever wanted, including a few things she hadn't known she wanted back when she was a teenager."
Why I Rec This Fic: Allison shows a lot of strength in the movie, its nice to see a bit of appreciation for her.

Title: Job Security by justlikethehamptons
Fandom: Hocus Pocus (1993)
Character/Pairing: Dani Dennison, Max Dennison, Thackery Binx
Word Count: 736
Summary: There is always work to do.
Why I Rec This Fic: Witch Hunter Dennisons!

Title: A Halloween Secret by Paper_Sunflower_Lane
Fandom: Hocus Pocus (1993)
Character/Pairing: Alison Watts
Word Count: 936
Summary: "And at that moment, she wondered if her ancestor would be proud of what she and her friends had done."

Title: War Bride by Merlin Missy (mtgat)
Fandom: Mulan (1998)
Character/Pairing: Shang Li, Mulan Fa, Mulan/Shang
Word Count: 100
Summary: “When the war comes, their daughter is not quite five years old.“
Why I Rec This Fic: This is really the dynamic I want to read about for the two (including Mulan being Ping too (gender feels!))

Title: Smile Lines by dramatic owl (snarky_panda)
Fandom: Mulan (1998)
Character/Pairing: Fa Li, Grandma
Fa Li & Grandma
Word Count: 533
Summary: "The lines in her new mother-in-law’s face were smile lines and she no longer worried."
Why I Rec This Fic: This is the only fic, I know about this two interacting and I like that I found it

Title: Uxorilocal by Val Mora (valmora) for isabeau
Fandom: Mulan (1998)
Character/Pairing: Shang Li, Mulan Fa, Mulan/Shang
Word Count: 733
Summary: "A short exploration of political issues leading up to Mulan and Shang's wedding."
Why I Rec This Fic: I like to see them happy in their marriage, I like to see Mulan happy and secure in it.
Podfic version: Here by reena_jenkins

Fa Mulan was beautiful, and Li Shang was handsome, and that was the most that was said about the ceremony itself in official circles.
Unofficially:
The groom and his mother had a polite argument over where she was to sit, the bride’s dog ate a significant portion of the roast pork, the late General Li’s younger brother was most rude to the bride’s grandmother while he was deep in his cups, and the village matchmaker barged in during the party demanding that she receive a fee as it was as a result of her advice that Fa Mulan had joined the army.

Title: Dragon's Heart by imaginary_golux
Fandom: Mulan (1998)
Character/Pairing: Shang Li, Mulan Fa, Ling, Yao, Chin Po, Mulan/Shang
Word Count: 874
Summary: AU: "Mulan wants to save her father, and China, and possibly win honor for her family. She doesn't mind dying if that's what it takes.
Surviving the avalanche brings some surprises."
Why I Rec This Fic: Cool idea!
Podfic version: By Bōchord of Leâspell (Oddball_BoL) here

Title: A Girl Worth Fighting For by prettysophist for Violsva
Fandom: Mulan (1998)
Character/Pairing: Shang Li, Mulan Fa, Mulan/Shang
Word Count: 1062
Summary: "For the first time that Mulan could remember, everything in her life was perfect. Unfortunately, perfection didn't suit her at all. Disregards second movie."
Why I Rec This Fic: Like many of my favorite happily ever afters Mulans version just isnt that traditional.
Podfic version: Here by blackglass

Title: The River Serpent by Val Mora (valmora) for Elenauial
Fandom: Mulan (1998)
Character/Pairing: Fa Mulan, Shan Yu, OCs,
Word Count: 1235
Summary: "Even six months after the Mandate of Heaven fell upon another, the river runs foul all its length, no matter how they dredge it for corpses, or poison."
Based on the Twisted Princess Fanart series by jeftoon01 (on devinart)
Why I Rec This Fic: I think there is some real cool world building concept, and unlike other dark twist this is not a tragedy as it is not about the loss of agency but instead someone having some beyond their grave – I find that easier to read.
Podfic version: Here by chestnut_filly

When the new Emperor took the throne, the river began to run black. Not all at once, of course, but from its source the darkness flowed down its length, going first grey and then black. Still the consistency of water, smooth and sparkling, but black.

At first, it is only drinking water and cooking water, and the people dig wells, and it is enough.

And then spring and the snowmelt comes, and the rice paddies fill with darkness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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