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While we're all waiting for Yuletide assignments to come out, I want to take some time to gush about my Kaleidescope fic! The one thing I have been requesting from the world for years is Capital Scandal fic about Cha Song Joo being amazing, and the world has finally seen fit to provide it for me and it is all I could have dreamed:
Twentieth Century Blues
On nights like these, though, when the damp air sticks to the back of her throat and makes even the finest silk hanbok feel like a sodden rag against her skin, her fingers always ache with the memory of hours spent fumbling with numb, greasy hands, assembling and disassembling the weapons placed in front of her.
It's a gorgeous, quiet fic about how dangerous Cha Song Joo is and how tired she is and I love it to pieces, so mystery author, if you're reading this, so many hearts for you!
The other awesome thing about Kaleidoscope is that it's so small I can actually read through the archive in a single day (SO WEIRD) so while I'm here, have a few more recs! The usual procedure is to put the fandoms as the cut text, right?
Chak De! India
Four Times (Plus One) That Komal Broke Something
Komal breaks all the things. Mostly on purpose. And AWESOMELY. (My favorite is the part with the video game.)
Softness
Lesbian Komal! I was dubious about the title but I shouldn't have been, it's adorable.
Red Cliff
Feminine Wiles
All I have to say about this is, I fully believe in Zhuge Liang's abilities to successfully flirt with anyone and anything.
Patience, Love, Courage, Tea
Six thousand words of fantastic Sun Shangxiang character study! Including Sun Shangxiang and Xiao Qiao actually talking, and Zhuge Liang being his usual brilliantly smug self, and everyone being adorable friends. (Also if that title does not successfully lure some of my flist in, man, I don't know you guys.)
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Clouds Reveal the Moon
A gorgeous and completely in-character ghost story, full of fantastic imagery. I didn't think it would be possible to write postcanon ensemble fic in a way I could believe, but somehow someone managed to do it.
Sword and Fan and Feathered Jacket
Shangguan Jing'er character study VIA DANCING! Or, in other words, a fic that despite not being written for me was written for me.
"Of course," she said in rejoinder, "try to bring a sword to a dance or dance through a swordfight and someone will end up bleeding."
Di nodded as though she had said something very wise. "And in both cases, you'll feel as though you have badly overextended a metaphor."
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Votum
One hundred words of perfectly creepy Madoka-esque twist.
Seirei no Moribito
To Be Good
Balsa and Tanda and their not-relationship and not-a-family; also, Balsa's terrible cooking. This has just the right sweet and wistful tone for this canon.
I put my favorites here, but seriously everything I read in the archive haas been awesome, so I definitely encourage you to go check out the full list - there were loads of fandoms that I didn't know but YOU MAY, and if you've always secretly been longing to see them written it may well be your lucky day.
And now I am ready for Yuletide! BRING IT.
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Twentieth Century Blues
On nights like these, though, when the damp air sticks to the back of her throat and makes even the finest silk hanbok feel like a sodden rag against her skin, her fingers always ache with the memory of hours spent fumbling with numb, greasy hands, assembling and disassembling the weapons placed in front of her.
It's a gorgeous, quiet fic about how dangerous Cha Song Joo is and how tired she is and I love it to pieces, so mystery author, if you're reading this, so many hearts for you!
The other awesome thing about Kaleidoscope is that it's so small I can actually read through the archive in a single day (SO WEIRD) so while I'm here, have a few more recs! The usual procedure is to put the fandoms as the cut text, right?
Chak De! India
Four Times (Plus One) That Komal Broke Something
Komal breaks all the things. Mostly on purpose. And AWESOMELY. (My favorite is the part with the video game.)
Softness
Lesbian Komal! I was dubious about the title but I shouldn't have been, it's adorable.
Red Cliff
Feminine Wiles
All I have to say about this is, I fully believe in Zhuge Liang's abilities to successfully flirt with anyone and anything.
Patience, Love, Courage, Tea
Six thousand words of fantastic Sun Shangxiang character study! Including Sun Shangxiang and Xiao Qiao actually talking, and Zhuge Liang being his usual brilliantly smug self, and everyone being adorable friends. (Also if that title does not successfully lure some of my flist in, man, I don't know you guys.)
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Clouds Reveal the Moon
A gorgeous and completely in-character ghost story, full of fantastic imagery. I didn't think it would be possible to write postcanon ensemble fic in a way I could believe, but somehow someone managed to do it.
Sword and Fan and Feathered Jacket
Shangguan Jing'er character study VIA DANCING! Or, in other words, a fic that despite not being written for me was written for me.
"Of course," she said in rejoinder, "try to bring a sword to a dance or dance through a swordfight and someone will end up bleeding."
Di nodded as though she had said something very wise. "And in both cases, you'll feel as though you have badly overextended a metaphor."
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Votum
One hundred words of perfectly creepy Madoka-esque twist.
Seirei no Moribito
To Be Good
Balsa and Tanda and their not-relationship and not-a-family; also, Balsa's terrible cooking. This has just the right sweet and wistful tone for this canon.
I put my favorites here, but seriously everything I read in the archive haas been awesome, so I definitely encourage you to go check out the full list - there were loads of fandoms that I didn't know but YOU MAY, and if you've always secretly been longing to see them written it may well be your lucky day.
And now I am ready for Yuletide! BRING IT.
This entry is cross-posted at Livejournal from http://skygiants.dreamwidth.org/265289.html. Please feel free to comment here or there! There are currently
comments on Dreamwidth.