Yuletide Recs! 60 fics in 46 fandoms
This year was amazing. All three of the fics written for me were absolutely perfect in their own way, exactly what I hoped for, and there was a fourth that wasn't written for me but felt like it was, because it matched a long-term request I've had in multiple ficathons over the last several years. (I also wrote two fanfics, one assignment and one treat, and I'm curious if anyone spotted either as possibly coming from me.)
Here are the fics I received:
Children of the Universe (4006 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Meg Murry O'Keefe, Calvin O'Keefe, Alex Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, Kate Murry, Mrs. Whatsit (Kairos)
Summary: Of course, people don't just go back to their lives, after experiences like theirs.
It's so perfect an encapsulation of the love and the pain together and trying to build something together and heal in the midst of it.
follow your memory upstream
Fandom: A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
This is amazing and I love it. It's a wonderful conversation between the two of them, and I love that her dad validates her anger.
Employment (100 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mamusu "Rose" Grant, Elsie Winstanley
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Yuletide Madness Drabble Invitational
Summary:
One universe over when Peter is ten and Mamasu Grant’s future is about to take a new direction.
This next one wasn't exactly written for me, but it feels like it was; I've been asking for Mamusu-and-Elsie adventures for years, and making sure they're in fanwork exchange tagsets, and this year I was not the only one asking, and someone wrote it!
Bintumani
Working in Freetown, Elsie gets a mysterious letter that sends her on a journey across Sierra Leone.
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
All the details about life in Sierra Leone and who Mamusu and Elsie are and an adventure, it's everything I've been wanting for years since first reading A Rare Book of Cunning Device.
Other fics I loved:
16th Century CE RPF
Periapsides (2303 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn
Summary: Five things Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn could have been to each other.
I love all the what-ifs, they’re such interesting ideas.
Ask A Manager Blog
my wife doesn’t know I hench, the evil sex ray made my employees do it, and more (2007 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots, Ask a Manager Blog - Alison Green
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Alison Green (Ask a Manager)
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Llamas
Summary:
It’s hench week at Ask a Manager!
Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
Reconciling the Irreconcilable (1938 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin
Summary:
Jack and Stephen must rescue a double agent from prison, provoking an unusually frank conversation between them
Jane Austen
Gratitude (5880 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen, Persuasion - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Edmund Bertram & Fanny Price, Fanny Price & William Price, Henry Crawford & Fanny Price, James Benwick / Fanny Price
Summary:
What if the Harvilles took Fanny in, instead of her spending three months with her parents in Portsmouth? This is a gift for everyone who wanted to see someone other than the Crawfords and the Bertrams being truly nice to Fanny.
Constant (2183 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Persuasion - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anne Elliot/Frederick Wentworth
I love all the details of life at sea and how well it suits Anne.
Righteousness and Respectability (10506 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Marianne Dashwood/John Willoughby, Marianne Dashwood/Colonel Brandon, Elinor Dashwood & Marianne Dashwood, Elinor Dashwood & Margaret Dashwood & Marianne Dashwood & Mrs. Dashwood
Additional Tags: Period-Typical Racism, Period-Typical Sexism, Alternate Universe, Racebending, Age of Sail, Non-Consensual Kissing
Summary:
The Dashwood ladies are mixed race. Some things change, but others do not.
Batman
If I’m Shining Everybody Gonna Shine (3902 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dick Grayson & Duke Thomas, Duke Thomas & Jason Todd, Duke Thomas & Bruce Wayne
Characters: Duke Thomas
Summary:
Duke is finally going to his first gala and needs some advice. The quality of advice some of his siblings give is questionable. Very questionable.
“You would be wise to listen to my advice, Thomas.”
“Which is?” Duke asks.
“Bring a weapon.”
Featuring the return of the Wayne Family’s inability to tie a tie.
Dance, then, wherever you may be (1431 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dick Grayson, Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne
Summary:
Dick understands why Cass loves to dance.
World’s Okayest Detective (2690 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:
Bruce tries to shake a present. Tries being the operative word.
proper rites (7215 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Stephanie Brown
Summary:
Being a cat for three weeks has repercussions, it turns out.
Jason snacks his way through one of them. Damian reads books. Both of them drink a lot of tea. It’s nice, mostly, which Jason finds highly suspicious.
can everyone please stop touching Bruce Wayne’s bust (2998 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Stephanie Brown, Selina Kyle
Summary:
Everyone in the family just can’t stop touching Bruce Wayne’s bust.
Wait, no, that’s not quite right…
Love the shenanigans and sibling fighting.
Katie, Bar the Door (2915 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Duke Thomas, Batfamily Members
Summary:
Duke’s never been to a hockey game. Jason thinks that’s a shame.
Blackadder
Private Party (2448 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Edmund Blackadder/Kevin Darling
Characters: Edmund Blackadder, Kevin Darling, Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, George Colthurst St. Barleigh, Baldrick (Blackadder)
Summary: A dubiously merry Christmas in the trenches.
The author has all their voices down cold!
Cabaret
From Cradle to Tomb (2193 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Cliff Bradshaw, Emcee (Cabaret), Sally Bowles, Ernst Ludwig
Summary:
In which Cliff finishes the first draft of his manuscript before he leaves Berlin, and receives advice from a friend.
Or: history is dust. You are not.
A fascinating look at all the ways Cabaret is about stories and storytelling.
Cadfael
Christmas Rose (3797 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hugh Beringar & Brother Cadfael, Aline Beringar/Hugh Beringar
Summary:
Cadfael reminisces about an old investigation.
The characterization is lovely, and the mystery feels like the sort in canon.
Chalion Saga
Demon Touched (3634 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Adelis Arisaydia, Penric kin Jurald, Desdemona (Chalion), Nikys Khatai
Summary:
Adelis’s entire life changes in an instant. Set somewhere post-current-canon.
The Inverted Chord (8705 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Penric kin Jurald, Nikys Khatai, Adelis Arisaydia, Desdemona
Summary:
Adelis returns from leading Duke Jurgo’s army against the Rusylli to meet Penric again, this time as his brother-in-law.
I love this, both the insight into the Father here and the way Pen helps with Adelis’ lingering trauma over what happened to him.
A Christmas Carol
Fellow Passengers (3453 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Tiny Tim & Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley & Ebenezer Scrooge
Summary:
Paying Marley’s debt comes at a cost. Tim is a comfort.
This made me cry, and it really captures the Dickens voice.
The Price of Salvation (5780 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jacob Marley & Ebenezer Scrooge
Summary:
Scrooge received only one visit from the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come.
Jacob Marley came many times.
Angsty in the best way
Dune (2021)
hear them chant (burn the witch) (2295 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Duncan Idaho, Jessica (Dune), Leto Atreides I
Summary:
the witch had to die.
I like the subtleties of this.
Future Tense (1172 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Paul Atreides/Duncan Idaho
Summary:
“If I became Emperor, would you still serve me?” (Duncan lives!AU)
Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Witchcraft and Dragons (10102 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Morwen (Enchanted Forest), Archaniz (Enchanted Forest), Morwen’s Cats (Enchanted Forest), Kazul (Enchanted Forest), Deadly Nightshade Gardening Club
Summary:
How Morwen arrived at the Enchanted Forest
The worldbuilding was perfect and so were the character voices, it felt like a part of canon!
Enola Holmes
i’ll hide underneath my pride (18834 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Enola Holmes/Viscount “Tewky” Tewksbury
Summary:
Enola doubted that when Tewksbury had invited her to his childhood friend’s countryside home for a weekend away that he had planned for her to solve the theft of a very important item. But luckily for everyone in attendance, Enola Holmes was always on the case.
Ethan of Athos
Time Enough (20075 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Terrence Cee/Ethan Urquhart
Summary:
Terrence Cee had spent most of his life feeling jumpship caught in the gravity well of a blackhole. Engines on full bore. Only able to keep out of the crushing center, but never able to escape. Now in his new life on Athos, he found himself unsure of how to find a new pace.
Ethan wondered if there was a way to get his love life gestating again. Not frozen like zygotes stored in a bio-freezer against some eventual future.
step by step (planet by planet) (950 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Terrence Cee/Ethan Urquhart
Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Unresolved, Oblivious Ethan Urquhart
Summary:
“We’re being watched,” Cee said, and then, before Ethan could respond, “Don’t look.”
Fandom For Robots
Stay In Touch (1019 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: bjornruffian & Computron (Fandom for Robots)
Summary:
Computron and bjornruffian stay in touch.
Fiddler on the Roof
firebrands (3894 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hodel/Perchik (Fiddler on the Roof)
Summary:
In a world where Hodel is also a revolutionary, she and Perchik fall in love.
I love this exploration of what Hodel could have been, and the exploration of her and Perchik’s relationship.
The Goblin Emperor
On the Twelfth Hour of Winternight (2060 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Csevet Aisava/Maia Drazhar
Summary:
Edrehasivar smiled, and Csevet marveled and despaired in equal measure at how that smile still hit him like an arrow to the gut, even after all this time.
Or: Csevet’s emperor needs help fetching Winternight presents, and Csevet is only too happy to assist.
Really sweet, in the best way
Need To Know (2151 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Csethiro Ceredin, Maia Drazhar, Csevet Aisava
Summary:
After Eshevis Tethimar tries to assassinate the Emperor at the Winternight Ball, information is shared on a need-to-know basis - and Csethiro needs to know.
it gets okay to praise the day (5770 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Thara Celehar, Iäna Pel-Thenhior, Maia Drazhar, Anora Chanavar, Velhiro Tomasaran, Othalo Rasaltezhen
Summary:
Thara, while gradually recovering from the aftermath of his encounter with the revethavar, discovers that he is not so alone in the world as he tends to think.
The Grief of Knives (1841 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Thara Celehar, Iäna Pel-Thenhior, Velhiro Tomasaran
Summary:
The moment of catharsis in the Orshaneisei maze had lightened the pain Thara carried. It did not eliminate it. But this time, Iäna is there.
As long as thou com'st back (1438 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Thara Celehar/Iäna Pel-Thenhior
Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Developing Relationship, Hopeful Ending, Canon Continuation
Summary:
A man like Thara Celehar is worth waiting for. Iäna does.
A look at what their next interaction after The Grief of Stones might look like, from Iäna’s eyes.
Great Iäna perspective
Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
favorites (3414 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Justice of Toren & Original Character, Justice of Toren/Original Character
Additional Tags: Identity Issues, Grief/Mourning, Canon-Typical Violence, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
Summary:
Justice of Toren and its favorite officers.
I love this perspective on what it was like to be a ship and all the ancillaries together and taking care of officers. Very interesting.
Henry V
I’ve no language left to say it (1014 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Henry V/Montjoy
Summary:
“Read for me, Montjoy?” He pushed it to the side. Montjoy picked up the letter.
“In English or in French, your highness?”
“En anglais, s'il vous plaît.”
Into the Woods
careful the tale you tell (that is the spell) (2555 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Rapunzel (Into the Woods), Cinderella (Into the Woods), Baker (Into the Woods), Baker’s Mother (Into the Woods)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Rapunzel Lives, Family, Parenthood, Trauma, Past Child Abuse
Summary:
Rapunzel learns to tell her own story, and just what story it is she wants to tell.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Lost Works of the Dry-Cræfticen of Wherwell: a New Approach (1450 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Magical Realism, Pseudo-History, Academia, Archaeology
Summary:
An article from the book Female Magicians in Pre-Aureate England, published in 2006 by York University Press.
Really interesting worldbuilding
The stones shall make a throne for me (5756 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Stephen Black, Original Characters, John Uskglass | The Raven King
Summary:
The new king of Lost-hope is not like the last.
What a great perspective on the Nameless King and what he might do next.
King’s Progress (3840 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Stephen Black, John Uskglass | The Raven King, Original Characters
Summary:
The man once Stephen Black, as the new King of Lost-Hope, decides to make a Royal Progress through his demesne on the advice of a raven after realizing how little he knows how to rule a fae court. He meets the Raven King himself with surprizing consequences for both.
I love the poetry in this.
When Once We Are Buried, You Think We Are Dead (3186 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: John Uskglass | The Raven King, Catherine of Winchester, Martin Pale, John Childermass
Summary:
The great Cathedral at Winchester seems as near timeless as any work of man in England. But time and magic can intersect…oddly.
L'Empereur (5043 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: John Childermass, Stephen Black
Summary:
Childermass’s search for the meaning of the King’s Letters leads to an unexpected encounter.
Kings (2009)
All this, and love too, will ruin us (8080 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Benjamin/David Shepherd
Summary:
Everyone thought him pampered beyond measure, but this…this was where Jack felt most alive: soldiering had been the first place he’d known who he was, and hardship and deprivation had never been punishing, not when he was with his men, his comrades in arms. His brothers. And that was what David was, right now—his brother in arms. His brother.
Little Women (2019 Movie - Gerwig)
Happy (2144 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Theodore Laurence/Amy March
Summary:
“Anything interesting from the girls?” Aunt March says. They’re in the drawing room of the hotel, and Amy still has the letter from Jo held tightly in her hand. She carefully places it down on the writing desk.
“Oh, not much Aunt March,” Amy says, turning the information over in her mind. Beth is ill…and they’re not sure what to do, and mother has been called. “Beth is sick,” she says.
Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Scene on a Balcony (1965 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Eiluned Price, Sylvia Marriott, Gerald Wimsey Viscount St George, Helen Duchess of Denver
Summary:
8th October 1935 and it’s the wedding of the year - Lord Peter Wimsey and Miss Harriet Vane have finally tied the knot. But the wedding breakfast (served at the Dowager Duchess’ London house) is getting a little heated. So the balcony is an excellent place to which to escape.
A Little Princess
Rajasi (2067 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Becky/Sara Crewe
Summary:
Four princesses Becky met, and one she loved.
MCU
Moon Knight
Scarlet and Moonlight (4769 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Moon Knight (Comics), Moon Knight (TV 2022)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Marlene Alraune/Steven Grant, Gena Landers & Jake Lockley
Additional Tags: Marvel 616/MCU Crossover, Comics AU Layla El-Faouly, Layla El-Faouly-centric, Multiplicity/Plurality, Team Moon Knight is in So Much Denial, Alternate Origin Story, POV Outsider
Summary:
Phantom thief Layla has finally tracked a stolen artifact to some rich couple’s collection. Shouldn’t be too hard to break into their mansion and retrieve it, right? This Steven Grant and Marlene Alraune are probably total pushovers.
(Spoiler alert: they are not total pushovers.)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Awkward (1775 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katy Chen/Xu Xialing, Katy Chen & Shang-Chi
Summary:
It wasn’t that Katy was ashamed of her relationship with Xu Xialing. She was, in fact, rather proud of herself for locking that down. In a world of superhero tens, Xialing was an eleven. Brains, beauty, an entrepreneurial spirit combined with a hard work ethic—Xialing had it all.
It was just awkward.
I love the way they wrote Katy.
Ms. Marvel (TV 2022)
Three Times Kamala Thought About Revealing Her Identity And One Time She Didn’t (1312 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kamala Khan, Nakia Bahadir, Muneeba Khan, Yusuf Khan, Tyesha Hillman-Khan, Aamir Khan (Marvel), Sheikh Abdullah (Ms. Marvel)
Summary:
Three times Kamala Khan thought about revealing her secret identity and one time she knew better.
Paristan (1166 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sana | Kamala Khan’s Grandmother, Muneeba Khan, Kamala Khan
Summary:
Sana Ali leaves home behind, and finds home anyway.
Men’s Hockey RPF
i’m your passenger (2382 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joel Farabee/Travis Konecny
Summary:
“I figured it out!” his staffer exclaims—Sarah, the tiny white embroidery on her polo reads—holding TK’s hand up like a prizefighter. “TK will fit.”
He blinks at her. “Fit where?”
One of the staffers steps back and he sees it: the neon orange fluffy monstrosity, slumped bonelessly against a chair.
(Or: Gritty needs a body. TK provides.)
Right Where You Left Me (9913 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carey Price/P. K. Subban
Additional Tags: post-retirement, Age Regression/De-Aging, but not to childhood, Getting Together, Pining, Angst with a Happy Ending, totally ignoring vast swaths of real life
Summary:
PK hasn’t seen Carey much in the past eight years, but he doesn’t remember him looking quite this young.
Grindin’ It Out (In the App) (6464 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jeff Carter/Mike Richards
Summary:
A chance Grindr encounter leads - eventually - to a reunion.
Miss Marple
Three Card Trick (3816 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple, Raymond West, Joyce Lemprière, Henry Clithering
Summary:
A Christmas party and a small magical mystery.
An interesting little mystery, very much in the style of Miss Marple.
Murderbot Diaries
Heuristic Analysis (10965 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
Summary:
Three makes some choices.
I love this whole thing. The worldbuilding of PUMNT. The way they build and raise baby AIs. The philosophy students having just enough knowledge to do some really stupid things. Three’s choices and reactions all the way through. Perfect.
Paint Your Wagon
Wandrin’ (3763 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Pardner/Ben Rumson/Elizabeth Rumson, Pardner/Elizabeth
Summary:
It’s been five years since Ben Rumson was on the road to No Name City.
This sounds much more likely than Pardner and Elizabeth just settling down and becoming farmers. I love it!
Philadelphia Story
Unionville, PA. (2194 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tracy Lord & C K Dexter Haven & Macauley Connor, Tracy Lord & Liz Imbrie
Summary:
“I have the most wonderful little house in Unionville. It’s up on a hill with a view that would knock you silly. I’m never there except in the hunting season, and not much then, and I’d be so happy to know that it was of some real use to someone….There’s a brook and a small lake, no size really, and a patch of woods, and in any kind of weather, it’s the most wonderful…”
RED
Leave Room for Dessert (1721 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Han Cho Bai/Victoria Winslow
Summary:
Three times Han and Victoria enjoyed a meal together.
Singin’ in the Rain
picture stars on parade (3383 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cosmo Brown/Don Lockwood/Kathy Selden
Summary:
Cosmo’s dearest friends are busy making movies, and he would like to see more of them. Lots of musicians rendered unemployed by the coming of talking pictures are writing to him to try and get jobs, and the stock market just crashed.
Why not try to solve every problem with a party?
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute RPF
Nest-wrecker (1053 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Chris Crowe (Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute RPF), Walnut the Crane (Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute RPF), Original Characters
Summary:
Chris was pretty average looking, Nora thought, just a normal guy - but then, she wasn’t an endangered and horny white-naped crane, so what did she know?
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Fall Into Your Sunlight (3459 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Number One | Una Chin-Riley/Christopher Pike
Summary:
When a snowstorm interferes with the transporter, Pike and Number One are forced to take shelter in an abandoned cabin. Revelations ensue.
Star Wars
salvage (2559 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Andor (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Maarva Andor/Clem Andor, Maarva Andor & Cassian Andor, Cassian Andor & Clem Andor
rief/Mourning, Relationship Study, Established Relationship, Yuletide, Yuletide 2022, Yuletide Treat, Background Cassian Andor/Bix Caleen
Summary:
It turns out that taking in this boy is like taming a wild Loth-cat. Clem tells her that, one night: “It has to be on his own terms, in his own time.”
(A family study of the Andors, from initial adoption through what happens on Rix Road.)
All Blue and Gold and Glittering (1635 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Andor (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tay Kolma
Summary: In search of a present for Mon Mothma, Tay Colma pays a visit to an antiques shop he’s been told she’s fond of.
תנ"ך | Tanakh
The Giant Killers (and marginalia) (13234 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: David | Dāūd/Yehonatan | Jonathan, David/Michal (Abrahamic Religions), Michal/OFM
Summary:
Listen you children of exile, let not your ear close up. Listen now even in forced mirth. Hear a song that the weavers sing in their enforced labor.
Hear how a princess of an Israel united in the company of a barbarian, a mighty hunter, a priest of great knowledge, a seer of Ein Dor, a princely warrior of pure and noble heart, and a musician blessed by YHWH, defeated giants that threatened all the lands of the earth.
This is AMAZING, I love all the historical details and the footnotes! And the adventure is great, and so is the queerness, this story makes me so happy.
Temeraire
an ever fixed mark (1216 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: William Laurence & Temeraire, William Laurence/Temeraire
Additional Tags: Possessive Behavior, Jealousy
Summary:
In fact, Laurence realized, with no small amount of chagrin, by all accounts one would have to consider him the wife in their arrangement.
Watchmen
now that we are dead (1636 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dan Dreiberg/Laurie Juspeczyk, Dan Dreiberg/Laurie Juspeczyk/Rorschach, Dan Dreiberg/Rorschach
Additional Tags: Post-Karnak, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Rorschach Lives (Watchmen), Suicide Attempt, Post-Apocalypse, Unhealthy Relationships, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
Summary:
Rorschach tries to kill himself after Karnak.
Great job at showcasing the complex issues between them all.
We Are A Picturesque Small Town And We Refuse To Be The Setting For Your RomCom (McSweeney’s)
I’ll Be Home for Winter (4161 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary:
Terry Pratchett told us, “The theory of narrative causality…means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the vibrations of all the other workings of that story that have ever been. This is why history keeps on repeating all the time.“
In other words, stories want to be told, and a few pesky rules aren’t going to stop them.
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Sunny was walking alone. The sky was clouded, and the air was thick and foggy. Light rain drizzled down on his hat and on the sidewalk. He shivered. Sunny should've listened to Mari when she said to wear a jacket and pants, not a gray short sleeved shirt and khaki shorts.
He kept walking. Sunny watched as the rain pattered on the grass beside him and on the leaves of the trees that made up the dense forest. He saw something from the corner of his eye and stopped. A sign that read, "Keep off the grass!" and beside that, two pairs of muddy footprints. Sunny decided to follow the footprints out of curiosity.
Sunny toed through the mud, careful not to make any noticeable footprints. So far, the only thing he could hear was the chirping of wild Forfinch, small black and white finches with four wings. As he went deeper into the forest, he could hear some chatter and hid behind a bush.
"See? I told you it was worth it! Just look at this spot!" A female voice shouted.
Sunny peeked up from the bush to see an enchanting forest clearing. There were many Buzzileaves, small bee Pokemon with leaf-like wings and light yellow fluffy collars. Kermole, giant rose seeds with faces and feet and Peresprout, a brown egg-shaped creature with triangular legs and a rose sprouting from its head, were waddling around. Soft light was shining through the canopy, illuminating a large stone in the middle coated in moss, grass and flowers that was shiny due to the rain.
In front of him, Sunny saw the two people who appeared to be his old friends, Aubrey and Basil. Their appearances had changed a lot since he last saw them.
Aubrey now had pink hair and a light blue do-rag with a Pokeball patch that had once belonged to Mari. She wore black triangular sunglasses and a black tank top with a blue blazer that had white vertical stripes. Aubrey had a long, dark denim skirt that extended down to her ankles. She had white, pink and blue walking shoes.
Basil wore a dark blue bowler hat with a pink flower in it. He still had blond hair. Basil wore an off-white long sleeve with pink flower inspired cuffs and a matching collar and fanny pack. He had pale green jeans with white embroidered flowers dotted all over and brown hiking boots.
"I guess, but we're going to get yelled at if we get caught. Or worse." Basil said timidly.
"Stop being such a crybaby already! You always do this when we do exciting stuff." Aubrey hissed, "It's not like anyone's out here anyways. They're all so wimpy that they wouldn't dare step on some measly grass."
Aubrey stepped further into the clearing, accidentally tripping over a long string of grass and a bush near the rock. She grunted.
The string of grass flicked back and forth, and the rock started to rise up. Aubrey yelped and jumped backwards as the rock grew four, huge legs. The boulder was actually a huge elephant!
The elephant Pokemon was mostly stone gray with dark green spiking patterns on its legs, tusks and ears. It had a thick moss ruff encircling its neck and rich, floral greenery on its back, stretching down to the tip of the tail. Its long trunk also had some moss on it, and some grass and yellow flowers surrounding the nostrils. The elephant's eyes were a piercing yellow and had grass over the top of them resembling eyebrows. On the top of its head, it had more grass that connected to the back greenery.
The elephant turned its head to Aubrey and Basil and narrowed its eyes. It faced them head on and prepared to charge up an attack.
Aubrey turned around and started to run, but Sunny jumped out of the bushes. He grabbed both Basil and Aubrey's arms and dragged them to the floor behind the bushes just before the elephant charged forward.
"EEK!--" Basil screamed but Sunny covered his mouth.
The elephant screeched to a stop when it realized it didn't hit anything. It looked and listened for any sound, but there was only the rain pattering against the leaves. The elephant turned around and walked back to the clearing, where it settled down and went back to sleep.
Sunny uncovered Basil's mouth and he let out a sigh of relief. Basil turned to Sunny and his eyes widened.
"Sunny? Is that you?" Basil whispered.
Sunny nodded, "Hi. It's been a while, but I think we should talk later. That thing could wake up any minute now."
Sunny stood up and walked out of the forest with Aubrey and Basil following.
They made it out, but were greeted by an irritated man with half circle glasses who was standing on the sidewalk. He was bald and had a thin brown beard and mustache that were connected. The man wore purple suspenders, a white, long-sleeved button up, a black tie with fossils on it, and gray formal pants. He had swamp green rain boots on and was holding a clear umbrella.
"What do you think you all were doing in there? You could have gotten seriously hurt!" He said.
Aubrey was scrunched up and silent. Basil noticed this and said, "Uh, sorry, I got a bit lost."
"A bit lost? You do know what lies in those woods right?" The man questioned.
Basil shook his head.
"Legend says that a monster named Graphelant roams the forest disguised as mere grass and kills any person who even walks near it," The man said. "You all were lucky enough to make it out alive."
"I'm sorry, it was my fault. It wont happen again." Basil looked to the side.
"Good. Now go home, the rain is getting worse." The man walked off.
Basil sighed. "I'm, uh, gonna listen to him. Polly is probably going to get worried. Bye, Aubrey. Can we catch up later, Sunny?"
Sunny nodded.
"Thanks." Basil left.
"So, Sunny," Aubrey turned to Sunny. "Why were you hiding in the bushes? Were you following us?"
"Sort of." He replied.
"You weirdo," Aubrey snickered. "Don't follow me right now though, Okay? I have to meet with my boss about some work things and he doesn't take too kindly to spectators. See you around."
Aubrey then walked away.
After that long outing, Sunny was tired. He decided to call it a day and go back home.
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