Fandom: DRAKE’S VENTURE
Pairing: Thomas/Francis
Length: Multi-chapter novella
Author on LJ: alinewrites 
Author Website: DV fic by Alinewrites
Why this must be read: In the grand tradition of leaving the best for last, I present to you one of the most loved stories in the fandom. I’ve been reccing a lot by alinewrites , and there’s a good reason for it: if you want hot ( Read more... )

Fandom: DRAKE’S VENTURE
Pairing: Thomas/Francis
Length: ~1200 words
Author on LJ: odsbodkins 
Author Website: None
Why this must be read: Another story that touches on the legend of Francis Drake, this time the story that he was a wizard who sold his soul to the devil to gain the power to control the winds. Odsbodkins recasts the story of Drake and Doughtie as ( Read more... )

Fandom: DRAKE’S VENTURE
Pairing: Thomas/Francis
Length: ~5300 words
Author on LJ: alinewrites 
Author Website: DV fic by Alinewrites
Why this must be read: In yet another reincarnation fic, Aline creates a fascinating alien world, exotic, lushly detailed, absolutely convincing. In it she places two very familiar characters, whose strange future is determined ( Read more... )

Fandom: DRAKE’S VENTURE
Pairing: Thomas/Francis
Length: ~400 words
Author on LJ: blakefancier 
Author Website: None
Why this must be read: Thomas and Francis, together again and again in a series of vignettes, linked by an image, cloaked in a sense of mystery and inescapable destiny. This prose-poem by Blakefancier takes the genre of reincarnation fic and both ( Read more... )

Fandom: DRAKE’S VENTURE
Pairing: Thomas/Francis
Length: ~500 words
Author on LJ: entropy_house 
Author Website: DV fic by Entropy House on LJ
Why this must be read: I really wanted to rec “Humpback” with “A Brief Corruption,” by alinewrites , but I couldn’t stretch the rules of the comm to include it…after all, they aren’t by the same author, aren’t in the same series - hell ( Read more... )

Fandom: DRAKE’S VENTURE
Pairing: Thomas/Francis
Length: ~1900
Author on LJ: alinewrites 
Author Website: DV fic by Alinewrites
Why this must be read:  Want a double dose of angst, violence and raw, primal sex?  The reincarnation AU is a staple of this fandom. Given their tragic canon, we just can’t resist the chance to give Thom and Fran a do-over.  Usually, we ( Read more... )

Fandom: DRAKE’S VENTURE
Pairing: Thomas/Leonard
Length: ~2600
Author on LJ: nautile26 
Author Website: None
Why this must be read:

Drake’s Venture is the story of a relationship going down in flames. “Stories about a ship on a boat,”dv_ficarchive  proclaims; our essay for ship_manifesto  entitled “ One Terminal Pairing.”  So is it any wonder that 90% of the fanfic ships Thomas/Francis? ( Read more... )

Title by Author: Playing Games by Alinewrites
Pairing: Thomas/Francis
Length: 4 part series
Author on LJ: alinewrites 
Author Website: Index of Aline’s DV fic on LJ
Why this must be read: There have been plenty of DV crossover stories, but the most tempting targets are Blakes 7 (playing on Paul Darrow’s role as Avon) or The Sweeney (with John Thaw as D.I.Jack ( Read more... )

Fandom: DRAKE’S VENTURE
Pairing: Thomas/Francis
Length: ~300 words
Author on LJ: blakefancier 
Author Website: None
Why this must be read: A tiny story, more of a poem than a story, really. The images, economical and bladed, cut to the heart - and end on a note of surprising hopefulness.

Thomas closed his eyes and heard the beating of the drum. It reminded him of ( Read more... )

Fandom: DRAKE’S VENTURE
Pairing: Thomas/Francis
Length: ~3000 words
Author on LJ: alinewrites 
Author Website: DV Fiction by Alinewrites on LJ
Why this must be read: Written for the dv_squee  Requestathon on the prompt “Thomas is Persephone, Francis is Hades,” everyone immediately guessed that the author was alinewrites due to the stunningly gorgeous sensory detail (and the blue ( Read more... )