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Mad Max - fic rec
Oct. 20th, 2022 07:27 pmTitle: 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.”
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.”
