epic rec post of doom.
This post has been a long time in the making. I have been telling myself to write this up for ages--and now it is actually done! XD Recs for small fandoms from the 2nd multi-fandom horror commentfic meme at sharp_teeth, Yuletide, and more. \O/ I've starred my particular favorites from sharp_teeth & YT.
From sharp_teeth:
Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
* Watch for the Greenwitch by fulselden [alternate link @ LJ and DW]
Warnings: bad things happen to Jane in this story, without her consent.
Prompt: The offering to the Greenwitch always looks tangled and cold. Jane is cold, too.
Disney cartoons (classic)
* see you real soon by bossymarmalade [alternate link @ AOOO]
Warnings: gore, madness, cannibalism
Prompt: There's not enough paint to go around anymore now that cartoons are computerized. Donald leaves smudges of white and orange wherever he goes. Pluto melted long ago, and Mickey only has half an ear. They try to redraw themselves with what they can, but is it worth it anymore?
Firefly
What You Eat, You Are by elvenpiratelady [alternate link @ LJ]
Warnings: character death
Prompt: It's cold out in the black. Sometimes you get lonely. Sometimes... you just get awful hungry.
Jeeves and Wooster - P. G. Wodehouse
* Jeeves and the Creature of the Night by fulselden [alternate link @ LJ and DW]
Warnings: character death, decapitation, newts
Prompt: Bertie is bitten by a vampire, as he toddles home from the Drones Club one jolly evening, a trifle the worse for wear. Since recoiling away from the first blush of rosy-fingered Dawn is perfectly normal for any chap who's spent the best part of the night imbibing unspeakable amounts of gin, he does not immediately perceive the change which has come upon him...
King Lear - Shakespeare
* Made Ripe for Death By Eld by fulselden [alternate link @ LJ and DW]
Warnings: massive amounts of sexism, anti-Catholic bigotry
Prompt: Fear not the storm. Fear the bright light that appears in the midst of it. (Bonus points for creepy Cordelia.)
Magic School Bus
* On the Ice by elvenpiratelady [alternate link @ LJ]
Warnings: swearing, mentions of children meeting horribly vague fates, a couple of children meeting horribly specific fates, Miss Frizzle being unsettling
Prompt: They are on a field trip learning about the tundra when it all goes horribly wrong.
Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
how it wiggled inside her by faorism [alternate link @ LJ]
Warnings: bestiality
Prompt: They stared and laughed when she swallowed the spider. How it wiggled and wriggled and tickled inside her.
Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
* Subtraction Stew by ptelefolone
Warnings: Disturbing imagery
Prompt: Milo has eaten too much subtraction stew.
Pushcart War - Jean Merrill
* By Hand by ferricent
Warnings: none
Prompt: Frank the Flower says he shot down all 18,991 trucks, but there was only a couple of minutes between the flat tire at one intersection and another flat tire 177 blocks away. People say he had a helicopter, or that the second one really was due to a nail. Frank the Flower just smiles.
Secret Garden - Frances Burnett
Trenches by newredshoes [alternate link @ AOOO]
Warnings: none
Prompt: What does the robin want to show Mary? What's behind the wall?
Sherlock (BBC)
untitled by maryaminx
Warnings: choose not to warn
Prompt: A severed head isn't the only thing in John and Sherlock's fridge.
I was so lucky to have several of my prompts filled--SO MUCH SQUEEING on my part, I cannot even begin to describe my glee. Oh, sharp_teeth, thank you for shattering my childhood stories and piecing them back together in the creepiest of ways--I enjoyed it all! ♥
From Yuletide:
13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird - Wallace Stevens
One of Many Circles by alice
You wouldn't call it a magic city, exactly, but Jane totally knows a guy there who spent a weekend in the Elizabethan Renaissance.
20th Century Boys
21st Century Girls by springgreen
[spoilers for entire series] Because girl groups, childhood games, henshin pens, secret passwords, and shoujo manga can save the world. "There was something about the pen encircled by the ring, something that reminded her of summer days trying to keep her red bean popsicle from dripping over the manga she was reading, of lurking in the air-conditioned apartment and spying on the adults for reasons she had long since forgotten."
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridged) by sexybee
Like many of you, the Reduced Children's Classics Publishing group has recently heard a lot of stories in the news about how kids don't like reading the classics anymore. And that's just wrong. Because the classics of children's literature are cornerstones of our education, bastions of our culture, the pinnacles of imagination, and, more importantly, free of royalties to some stupid author. So we have decided to try to win back today's young people with our fresh, hip, modern take on the beloved stories of yesteryear.
All Summer In a Day - Ray Bradbury
The Sun Shone on Venus by Ravenbell
A little girl who missed the sun suffered a terrible act of cruelty. This is what happened to Margot, after.
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Founding Fathers by vocal_bard
In the middle-early 1800s, they ran a five-man con. A big one.
*Prae patre mori (ferox et fatale est) by Trojie
Wednesday was made to know all, to fight and kill, to see the future, and to win. In hindsight, Mister Ibis wrote carefully, what he did is not so surprising.
Unforgettable by Measured_Words
Charlene hits it off with an interesting guy she meets at the gym, but her instincts tell her there is more to him than he is letting on. Charlene has good instincts.
Anthropomorfic
[academia] The View From Here by Alley_Skywalker
In which Theater Studies reflects on his colleagues, especially his relationship with a certain Film Studies.
*[computers] if [ $FLAMEWAR ]; then make love; fi by Rebecca
Windows hated Linux with a passion.
Bacchae - Euripides
*Bakcheios by emilyenrose
When I was a very small child my Aunt Semele was struck by lightning and died.
Beowulf
Mother-Tongue by Idhren
"Whoever she was / who brought forth this flower of manhood, / if she is still alive, that woman can say / that in her labour the Lord of Ages / bestowed a grace on her."
[and Beowulf/Old Spice Guy]
Gamol-léac by Castiron
After Beowulf's death, the men of Geatland meet a strange and powerful warrior.
Call Me When You're Sober (music video)
The Cape as Red as Blood by thefourthvine
"My grandmother is dead," Netty told her, blinking away the weirdness of it, how just for a moment the office looked unreal, like a stage set. "I'm going to need to take some personal leave."
Calvin and Hobbes
*This kid I once knew by Minnow
Daniel sends their whole improv group an e-mail saying "check this out its fun1!1" and a link to a web comic called The Adventures of Spaceman Spiff.
[and Foxtrot/Calvin and Hobbes]
The Roommate of +10 Confusion by Grevling
There must be some scientifically sound way for Jason Fox to be able to quantify his new college roommate, but he hasn't found one yet that fits. Especially when he factors in the stuffed tiger.
Chinese mythology
Climbing Mount Kunlun by salifiable
"Not all over the table, venerable sir!" cried Xiao Zhen, but it was already too late.
Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
all over these eyes a storm is rolling over by electrumqueen
There was always something about Jane, Jana, Juno, Jane.
Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Carrying A Concealed Weapon (and other crimes to commit while being Adora Belle Dearheart) by Netgirl_y2k
Adora Belle is arrested, Lady Sybil is there to help, or at least there to make the tea.
The Case of the Vanishing Vampire by AdaptationDecay
Reg and Visit are drawn into a mystery at the heart of Ankh Morpork's undead community. Why would a lifelong black-ribboner suddenly try to kill his landlady? And why have his ashes mysteriously disappeared? With the rest of the Watch focused on a threat to the new underground rail network, Reg and Visit will need to work together to solve the case, because if the two of them can't manage to put aside their differences, somebody's going to get away with murder...
Dot and the Line - Norton Juster
The Dot and the Line Go on a Honeymoon: A Revisionist Romance by yhlee
Wherein the Dot is no slouch, either.
Encyclopedia Brown - Donald Sobol
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Equitable Agency by celeria
FOLLOW THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF THE SUPER SLEUTH IN SNEAKERS
Some stolen books... An application to join the FBI... A two-car accident... Professional troubles in Washington, DC... An unfair verdict... And a surprising request from the last person Encyclopedia Brown ever thought would need his help! These are just some of the trials Encyclopedia Brown and his friend Sally Kimball face in their years away from Idaville. Are you ready to see what happens in the next chapter of their lives? Read along and try to solve the cases with them -- and if you get stuck, some of the answers are found at the bottom of the page!
Fairytales
[Beauty and the Beast] Shades of Bittersweet by Strawberry_Suite
What if Belle married Gaston? A series of vignettes set ten years after Gaston's ultimatum.
[Bluebeard] Blueblood by kenaz
A 1980's re-imagining of Bluebeard on the Christopher Street Piers: Note that the story contains harsh language and violence which some people may find triggering. If you are sensitive to depictions of violence, please proceed with caution.
[Bluebeard] Esther and the Egg by sistermagpie
The Egg snatched nearly every chorus girl at The Club Araby. Then he snatched Esther.
[Cinderella] Second Troy by shabnam_e_maghz
A switched-perspective on a certain twenty-four hour period.
[Sleeping Beauty] And Smite the Sleeping World Awake by randomeliza
In which there are apple trees, and crab armies, and a cage of thorns, and a feather, and green sails on a ship, and promises kept.
[various] The Theory and Practice of Fairy-Godmothering, Discussed in an Appropriate Environment, Namely, Over Tea by elstaplador
Three fairy godmothers at tea, discussing sexism, stepmothers, and princesses they have known.
Ghost Soup Infidel Blue (reboot)
Working Title by Franzeska
Luke makes out with Angela's clone and Angela gets mad and seduces Moira just to make Luke mad, and then Ryan and Luke duel to the death with their lightsabers and it ends up in an Angela/Angela's clone/Moira threesome. And Ryan feels really bad and flies off to Mars forever. [The fic makes a lot more sense once you read this post which features Ghost Soup as an imaginary fandom. 8DDD]
Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
*Lights Across the Sound by SQ (proteinscollide)
There was one party at Gatsby's that summer that Nick Carraway never wrote about.
Greek/Roman mythology
Five Futures Kassandra Saw and One that She Could Not by prozacpark
to know your fate is to be a slave to it.
Moirai by prozacpark
"that's the art of war, and she knows war." [Hera and Athena as allies in a war against Zeus.]
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Rosemary for Remembrance by Gehayi
Hamlet in space, starring sensible and heroic Ophelia, genderswapped Claudius, clones Rosencrantz and Guilderstern and alien Fortinbras. (Alas, there are no sharks in space riding motorcycles, nor is there a time machine.)
Hark! A Vagrant - Kate Beaton
*I am Acton Bell's Metaphorical Manhood by xenakis
“Is interpretive dance the new hot thing in Gothic Literature, and nobody told me?”
Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Here's the Smell of Blood Still by athousandwinds
Thirteen things that Haymitch remembers, and twelve things he'd rather forget.
*Fish in a Barrel by Gileonnen
You've trained your whole life for this moment: The moment when you rise into the arena and cheat the odds. The Sixty-Fifth Hunger Games are about to begin.
Two of us by lucifel
Without even seeing her, he blocks her way. (Madge hates just as quietly as she loves.)
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Cities & the dead. 0. by marginaliana
... and little by little, he went back to relying on gestures, grimaces, glances.
Journey to the West
Monkey pays for Hot Cake by neveralarch
A small piece of the journey.
Norse mythology
A Game of Shapes by Bagheera
Someone has stolen little Baldr and replaced him with a changeling child. Thor and Loki go on a quest to rescue Baldr, but not before long, they're joined by a one-eyed giantess.
Old Spice Guy
Meta Yuletide Fic (The Fic You Wish Your Fic Smelled Like) by kristin
Why hello, Yuletide reader. Why don't you sit down for a bit? Get comfortable, because when you click my link you will be reading a work of such magnificence that you won't be able to look away, even if a crew of zombies breaks through your window and bites your neck.
[and Old Spice Guy/Texts From Last Night]
*Texts From Your Shower by madgirl
(555):
Hello, Ladies.
Good night (1 bajillion) Bad night (0)
Portal
The Game Is a Lie by yhlee
GLaDOS: the artificial intelligence that cried wolf.
Rebecca - Daphne duMaurier
*Till human voices wake us, and we drown by lareinenoire
They say the sea will claim its own in the end.
RPF - Anthony Bourdain/Narnia
*No Reservations: Narnia by Edonohana
I’m crammed into a burrow so small that my knees are up around my ears and the boom mike keeps slamming into my head, inhaling the potent scent of toffee-apple brandy and trying to drink a talking mouse under the table.
RPF - Monty Python
READ THIS ONE FIRST & We would skip this one, if we were you -- it’s more of a supporting document, really by trifles
Anne Durham: What it is to be married to Clive. | Move along, move along. There's nothing to see here.
RPF - pundits/Doctor Who
Happy Hour by karokegal
Rachel can't resist a good story.
RPF - sociology
*Many Forms of Resistance by amalnahurriyeh
No one had ever expected a critical theory conference to end so poorly. The worst you could usually expect was that someone would get wine thrown on them.
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters In Search of a Fandom by Mithrigil
The Stepdaughter turns to the rest of her family of characters and announces, “We’re going to be a Yuletide fandom.”
Slender Man mythos
*journal transcript thing by Wilde_Shade
just something i found on my cousin's computer.
Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman
Under by Nonesane
A look into the life of Mary Morstan, in the year of Her Majesty 1883.
World War Z - Max Brooks
Templeton, Iowa by kynical
When faced with monsters tough decisions must be made.
From go_exchange:
within a shadowed forest by possibly_thrice
AU. Adam... succumbs to his inner Son of Satan, when the time comes. Adam being Adam, this still involves a little rewriting of the Plan.
[art] IMAGINATION by ormery
cowboy hats! horses! guns! a dog!
From asoiaf_exchange (you need to be a comm member to view):
The Bluest Rose by misstopia
Who was Lyanna Stark, and why did she run? And where was she going without ever knowing the way?
[art] The Winter Bride by matitablu
AU: surviving the Red Wedding, political consequences, dramatic escapes, remarriage.
[after which I had an ASOIAF art heyday going through her dA: Nouveau Cersei, Jaime speedpainting, Cersei speedpainting, Cersei & Jaime dancing, Brienne, Tywin triumphant, ASOIAF colour scheme meme, the giant in the castle (Sansa & Gregor), Bronn, Petyr & Alayne]
From yuletart:
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Dragon of the West, Victorious (Again) by reflectedeve
One thing Iroh never managed to do during the series was to convince Zuko to participate in music night.
Your turn, uncle by alias_sqbr
Iroh and Azula playing Pai Sho. Azula has set one of Iroh's pieces on fire.
Hunger Games
Victor Paper Dolls™ Presents Kiss Me Katniss: The Girl on Fire by kaiserkuchen
From the makers who brought you Fancy Finnick Odair! The latest design for the popular Victor Paper Dolls™ series is finally here: Style Katniss Everdeen, Capitol's newest darling, in 3 stunning new outfits!
Inception
Let There Be by staticlights
They build worlds together (Ariadne/Eames).
Narnia
A Moment's Peace by cathybites
Edmund & Aslan, storybook illustration.
Sherlock (BBC)
Mycroft Goes Christmas Shopping by sleightofhand
Sherlock can be so difficult to buy gifts for...
And not from recent fandom events, but things that are awesome anyway:
Doctor Who
A Partial Map of Your TARDIS (Subject to Change) by alibi_factory
What it says on the tin. 11th Doctor-era-ish.
Iron Man
'The Kids Aren't All Right' by Christine Everhart (vanityfair.com) by samdonne
[movieverse] PG. "It’s been 'a hell of a year' since industrialist Tony Stark owned up to his alter ego in a move that stunned observers and longtime aides alike. With the US facing unprecedented homegrown suicide attacks, Iron Man's contribution to national security is more than ever under scrutiny. As she follows Stark during a year of crisis, exclusively for Vanity Fair, Christine Everhart explores the many contradictions of the man behind the mask, uncovers tales of personal loyalty, patriotism gone awry and corporate betrayal, and asks whether Iron Man is the embodiment of an outdated American fantasy-a self-made, unilateral, technological solution to hopelessly complex problems-and whether he can survive the violent encounter with reality."
RPF - National Public Radio
Wait Wait Don't Eat Me by Nestra
"We're going to be cutting our show a little short today, because, as you may have heard, there's an apocalypse happening! But we didn't let the election of Barack Obama stop us, and we're not going to let the zombie hordes stop us either."
Sandman/Inception
Cities of Sand by tongari
G. "So tell me instead, Lord of Dreams. Why am I here?"
Sherlock Holmes/House of Leaves
The Baker Street Record by featherfish
R for fucked up themes and also some fairly explicit sexual content. this is not for you.
World War Z/Stargate Atlantis
Appendix B: Excised Material from the UN Special Report on the Great Panic by 10leaguesbeyond
PG-13 (swearing, blood, zombies). Four never-before-published oral histories, with footnotes.
OH GOD THAT IS ENOUGH. XD;
From sharp_teeth:
Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
* Watch for the Greenwitch by fulselden [alternate link @ LJ and DW]
Warnings: bad things happen to Jane in this story, without her consent.
Prompt: The offering to the Greenwitch always looks tangled and cold. Jane is cold, too.
Disney cartoons (classic)
* see you real soon by bossymarmalade [alternate link @ AOOO]
Warnings: gore, madness, cannibalism
Prompt: There's not enough paint to go around anymore now that cartoons are computerized. Donald leaves smudges of white and orange wherever he goes. Pluto melted long ago, and Mickey only has half an ear. They try to redraw themselves with what they can, but is it worth it anymore?
Firefly
What You Eat, You Are by elvenpiratelady [alternate link @ LJ]
Warnings: character death
Prompt: It's cold out in the black. Sometimes you get lonely. Sometimes... you just get awful hungry.
Jeeves and Wooster - P. G. Wodehouse
* Jeeves and the Creature of the Night by fulselden [alternate link @ LJ and DW]
Warnings: character death, decapitation, newts
Prompt: Bertie is bitten by a vampire, as he toddles home from the Drones Club one jolly evening, a trifle the worse for wear. Since recoiling away from the first blush of rosy-fingered Dawn is perfectly normal for any chap who's spent the best part of the night imbibing unspeakable amounts of gin, he does not immediately perceive the change which has come upon him...
King Lear - Shakespeare
* Made Ripe for Death By Eld by fulselden [alternate link @ LJ and DW]
Warnings: massive amounts of sexism, anti-Catholic bigotry
Prompt: Fear not the storm. Fear the bright light that appears in the midst of it. (Bonus points for creepy Cordelia.)
Magic School Bus
* On the Ice by elvenpiratelady [alternate link @ LJ]
Warnings: swearing, mentions of children meeting horribly vague fates, a couple of children meeting horribly specific fates, Miss Frizzle being unsettling
Prompt: They are on a field trip learning about the tundra when it all goes horribly wrong.
Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
how it wiggled inside her by faorism [alternate link @ LJ]
Warnings: bestiality
Prompt: They stared and laughed when she swallowed the spider. How it wiggled and wriggled and tickled inside her.
Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
* Subtraction Stew by ptelefolone
Warnings: Disturbing imagery
Prompt: Milo has eaten too much subtraction stew.
Pushcart War - Jean Merrill
* By Hand by ferricent
Warnings: none
Prompt: Frank the Flower says he shot down all 18,991 trucks, but there was only a couple of minutes between the flat tire at one intersection and another flat tire 177 blocks away. People say he had a helicopter, or that the second one really was due to a nail. Frank the Flower just smiles.
Secret Garden - Frances Burnett
Trenches by newredshoes [alternate link @ AOOO]
Warnings: none
Prompt: What does the robin want to show Mary? What's behind the wall?
Sherlock (BBC)
untitled by maryaminx
Warnings: choose not to warn
Prompt: A severed head isn't the only thing in John and Sherlock's fridge.
I was so lucky to have several of my prompts filled--SO MUCH SQUEEING on my part, I cannot even begin to describe my glee. Oh, sharp_teeth, thank you for shattering my childhood stories and piecing them back together in the creepiest of ways--I enjoyed it all! ♥
From Yuletide:
13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird - Wallace Stevens
One of Many Circles by alice
You wouldn't call it a magic city, exactly, but Jane totally knows a guy there who spent a weekend in the Elizabethan Renaissance.
20th Century Boys
21st Century Girls by springgreen
[spoilers for entire series] Because girl groups, childhood games, henshin pens, secret passwords, and shoujo manga can save the world. "There was something about the pen encircled by the ring, something that reminded her of summer days trying to keep her red bean popsicle from dripping over the manga she was reading, of lurking in the air-conditioned apartment and spying on the adults for reasons she had long since forgotten."
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Abridged) by sexybee
Like many of you, the Reduced Children's Classics Publishing group has recently heard a lot of stories in the news about how kids don't like reading the classics anymore. And that's just wrong. Because the classics of children's literature are cornerstones of our education, bastions of our culture, the pinnacles of imagination, and, more importantly, free of royalties to some stupid author. So we have decided to try to win back today's young people with our fresh, hip, modern take on the beloved stories of yesteryear.
All Summer In a Day - Ray Bradbury
The Sun Shone on Venus by Ravenbell
A little girl who missed the sun suffered a terrible act of cruelty. This is what happened to Margot, after.
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Founding Fathers by vocal_bard
In the middle-early 1800s, they ran a five-man con. A big one.
*Prae patre mori (ferox et fatale est) by Trojie
Wednesday was made to know all, to fight and kill, to see the future, and to win. In hindsight, Mister Ibis wrote carefully, what he did is not so surprising.
Unforgettable by Measured_Words
Charlene hits it off with an interesting guy she meets at the gym, but her instincts tell her there is more to him than he is letting on. Charlene has good instincts.
Anthropomorfic
[academia] The View From Here by Alley_Skywalker
In which Theater Studies reflects on his colleagues, especially his relationship with a certain Film Studies.
*[computers] if [ $FLAMEWAR ]; then make love; fi by Rebecca
Windows hated Linux with a passion.
Bacchae - Euripides
*Bakcheios by emilyenrose
When I was a very small child my Aunt Semele was struck by lightning and died.
Beowulf
Mother-Tongue by Idhren
"Whoever she was / who brought forth this flower of manhood, / if she is still alive, that woman can say / that in her labour the Lord of Ages / bestowed a grace on her."
[and Beowulf/Old Spice Guy]
Gamol-léac by Castiron
After Beowulf's death, the men of Geatland meet a strange and powerful warrior.
Call Me When You're Sober (music video)
The Cape as Red as Blood by thefourthvine
"My grandmother is dead," Netty told her, blinking away the weirdness of it, how just for a moment the office looked unreal, like a stage set. "I'm going to need to take some personal leave."
Calvin and Hobbes
*This kid I once knew by Minnow
Daniel sends their whole improv group an e-mail saying "check this out its fun1!1" and a link to a web comic called The Adventures of Spaceman Spiff.
[and Foxtrot/Calvin and Hobbes]
The Roommate of +10 Confusion by Grevling
There must be some scientifically sound way for Jason Fox to be able to quantify his new college roommate, but he hasn't found one yet that fits. Especially when he factors in the stuffed tiger.
Chinese mythology
Climbing Mount Kunlun by salifiable
"Not all over the table, venerable sir!" cried Xiao Zhen, but it was already too late.
Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
all over these eyes a storm is rolling over by electrumqueen
There was always something about Jane, Jana, Juno, Jane.
Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Carrying A Concealed Weapon (and other crimes to commit while being Adora Belle Dearheart) by Netgirl_y2k
Adora Belle is arrested, Lady Sybil is there to help, or at least there to make the tea.
The Case of the Vanishing Vampire by AdaptationDecay
Reg and Visit are drawn into a mystery at the heart of Ankh Morpork's undead community. Why would a lifelong black-ribboner suddenly try to kill his landlady? And why have his ashes mysteriously disappeared? With the rest of the Watch focused on a threat to the new underground rail network, Reg and Visit will need to work together to solve the case, because if the two of them can't manage to put aside their differences, somebody's going to get away with murder...
Dot and the Line - Norton Juster
The Dot and the Line Go on a Honeymoon: A Revisionist Romance by yhlee
Wherein the Dot is no slouch, either.
Encyclopedia Brown - Donald Sobol
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Equitable Agency by celeria
FOLLOW THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF THE SUPER SLEUTH IN SNEAKERS
Some stolen books... An application to join the FBI... A two-car accident... Professional troubles in Washington, DC... An unfair verdict... And a surprising request from the last person Encyclopedia Brown ever thought would need his help! These are just some of the trials Encyclopedia Brown and his friend Sally Kimball face in their years away from Idaville. Are you ready to see what happens in the next chapter of their lives? Read along and try to solve the cases with them -- and if you get stuck, some of the answers are found at the bottom of the page!
Fairytales
[Beauty and the Beast] Shades of Bittersweet by Strawberry_Suite
What if Belle married Gaston? A series of vignettes set ten years after Gaston's ultimatum.
[Bluebeard] Blueblood by kenaz
A 1980's re-imagining of Bluebeard on the Christopher Street Piers: Note that the story contains harsh language and violence which some people may find triggering. If you are sensitive to depictions of violence, please proceed with caution.
[Bluebeard] Esther and the Egg by sistermagpie
The Egg snatched nearly every chorus girl at The Club Araby. Then he snatched Esther.
[Cinderella] Second Troy by shabnam_e_maghz
A switched-perspective on a certain twenty-four hour period.
[Sleeping Beauty] And Smite the Sleeping World Awake by randomeliza
In which there are apple trees, and crab armies, and a cage of thorns, and a feather, and green sails on a ship, and promises kept.
[various] The Theory and Practice of Fairy-Godmothering, Discussed in an Appropriate Environment, Namely, Over Tea by elstaplador
Three fairy godmothers at tea, discussing sexism, stepmothers, and princesses they have known.
Ghost Soup Infidel Blue (reboot)
Working Title by Franzeska
Luke makes out with Angela's clone and Angela gets mad and seduces Moira just to make Luke mad, and then Ryan and Luke duel to the death with their lightsabers and it ends up in an Angela/Angela's clone/Moira threesome. And Ryan feels really bad and flies off to Mars forever. [The fic makes a lot more sense once you read this post which features Ghost Soup as an imaginary fandom. 8DDD]
Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
*Lights Across the Sound by SQ (proteinscollide)
There was one party at Gatsby's that summer that Nick Carraway never wrote about.
Greek/Roman mythology
Five Futures Kassandra Saw and One that She Could Not by prozacpark
to know your fate is to be a slave to it.
Moirai by prozacpark
"that's the art of war, and she knows war." [Hera and Athena as allies in a war against Zeus.]
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Rosemary for Remembrance by Gehayi
Hamlet in space, starring sensible and heroic Ophelia, genderswapped Claudius, clones Rosencrantz and Guilderstern and alien Fortinbras. (Alas, there are no sharks in space riding motorcycles, nor is there a time machine.)
Hark! A Vagrant - Kate Beaton
*I am Acton Bell's Metaphorical Manhood by xenakis
“Is interpretive dance the new hot thing in Gothic Literature, and nobody told me?”
Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Here's the Smell of Blood Still by athousandwinds
Thirteen things that Haymitch remembers, and twelve things he'd rather forget.
*Fish in a Barrel by Gileonnen
You've trained your whole life for this moment: The moment when you rise into the arena and cheat the odds. The Sixty-Fifth Hunger Games are about to begin.
Two of us by lucifel
Without even seeing her, he blocks her way. (Madge hates just as quietly as she loves.)
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Cities & the dead. 0. by marginaliana
... and little by little, he went back to relying on gestures, grimaces, glances.
Journey to the West
Monkey pays for Hot Cake by neveralarch
A small piece of the journey.
Norse mythology
A Game of Shapes by Bagheera
Someone has stolen little Baldr and replaced him with a changeling child. Thor and Loki go on a quest to rescue Baldr, but not before long, they're joined by a one-eyed giantess.
Old Spice Guy
Meta Yuletide Fic (The Fic You Wish Your Fic Smelled Like) by kristin
Why hello, Yuletide reader. Why don't you sit down for a bit? Get comfortable, because when you click my link you will be reading a work of such magnificence that you won't be able to look away, even if a crew of zombies breaks through your window and bites your neck.
[and Old Spice Guy/Texts From Last Night]
*Texts From Your Shower by madgirl
(555):
Hello, Ladies.
Good night (1 bajillion) Bad night (0)
Portal
The Game Is a Lie by yhlee
GLaDOS: the artificial intelligence that cried wolf.
Rebecca - Daphne duMaurier
*Till human voices wake us, and we drown by lareinenoire
They say the sea will claim its own in the end.
RPF - Anthony Bourdain/Narnia
*No Reservations: Narnia by Edonohana
I’m crammed into a burrow so small that my knees are up around my ears and the boom mike keeps slamming into my head, inhaling the potent scent of toffee-apple brandy and trying to drink a talking mouse under the table.
RPF - Monty Python
READ THIS ONE FIRST & We would skip this one, if we were you -- it’s more of a supporting document, really by trifles
Anne Durham: What it is to be married to Clive. | Move along, move along. There's nothing to see here.
RPF - pundits/Doctor Who
Happy Hour by karokegal
Rachel can't resist a good story.
RPF - sociology
*Many Forms of Resistance by amalnahurriyeh
No one had ever expected a critical theory conference to end so poorly. The worst you could usually expect was that someone would get wine thrown on them.
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters In Search of a Fandom by Mithrigil
The Stepdaughter turns to the rest of her family of characters and announces, “We’re going to be a Yuletide fandom.”
Slender Man mythos
*journal transcript thing by Wilde_Shade
just something i found on my cousin's computer.
Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman
Under by Nonesane
A look into the life of Mary Morstan, in the year of Her Majesty 1883.
World War Z - Max Brooks
Templeton, Iowa by kynical
When faced with monsters tough decisions must be made.
From go_exchange:
within a shadowed forest by possibly_thrice
AU. Adam... succumbs to his inner Son of Satan, when the time comes. Adam being Adam, this still involves a little rewriting of the Plan.
[art] IMAGINATION by ormery
cowboy hats! horses! guns! a dog!
From asoiaf_exchange (you need to be a comm member to view):
The Bluest Rose by misstopia
Who was Lyanna Stark, and why did she run? And where was she going without ever knowing the way?
[art] The Winter Bride by matitablu
AU: surviving the Red Wedding, political consequences, dramatic escapes, remarriage.
[after which I had an ASOIAF art heyday going through her dA: Nouveau Cersei, Jaime speedpainting, Cersei speedpainting, Cersei & Jaime dancing, Brienne, Tywin triumphant, ASOIAF colour scheme meme, the giant in the castle (Sansa & Gregor), Bronn, Petyr & Alayne]
From yuletart:
Avatar: The Last Airbender
The Dragon of the West, Victorious (Again) by reflectedeve
One thing Iroh never managed to do during the series was to convince Zuko to participate in music night.
Your turn, uncle by alias_sqbr
Iroh and Azula playing Pai Sho. Azula has set one of Iroh's pieces on fire.
Hunger Games
Victor Paper Dolls™ Presents Kiss Me Katniss: The Girl on Fire by kaiserkuchen
From the makers who brought you Fancy Finnick Odair! The latest design for the popular Victor Paper Dolls™ series is finally here: Style Katniss Everdeen, Capitol's newest darling, in 3 stunning new outfits!
Inception
Let There Be by staticlights
They build worlds together (Ariadne/Eames).
Narnia
A Moment's Peace by cathybites
Edmund & Aslan, storybook illustration.
Sherlock (BBC)
Mycroft Goes Christmas Shopping by sleightofhand
Sherlock can be so difficult to buy gifts for...
And not from recent fandom events, but things that are awesome anyway:
Doctor Who
A Partial Map of Your TARDIS (Subject to Change) by alibi_factory
What it says on the tin. 11th Doctor-era-ish.
Iron Man
'The Kids Aren't All Right' by Christine Everhart (vanityfair.com) by samdonne
[movieverse] PG. "It’s been 'a hell of a year' since industrialist Tony Stark owned up to his alter ego in a move that stunned observers and longtime aides alike. With the US facing unprecedented homegrown suicide attacks, Iron Man's contribution to national security is more than ever under scrutiny. As she follows Stark during a year of crisis, exclusively for Vanity Fair, Christine Everhart explores the many contradictions of the man behind the mask, uncovers tales of personal loyalty, patriotism gone awry and corporate betrayal, and asks whether Iron Man is the embodiment of an outdated American fantasy-a self-made, unilateral, technological solution to hopelessly complex problems-and whether he can survive the violent encounter with reality."
RPF - National Public Radio
Wait Wait Don't Eat Me by Nestra
"We're going to be cutting our show a little short today, because, as you may have heard, there's an apocalypse happening! But we didn't let the election of Barack Obama stop us, and we're not going to let the zombie hordes stop us either."
Sandman/Inception
Cities of Sand by tongari
G. "So tell me instead, Lord of Dreams. Why am I here?"
Sherlock Holmes/House of Leaves
The Baker Street Record by featherfish
R for fucked up themes and also some fairly explicit sexual content. this is not for you.
World War Z/Stargate Atlantis
Appendix B: Excised Material from the UN Special Report on the Great Panic by 10leaguesbeyond
PG-13 (swearing, blood, zombies). Four never-before-published oral histories, with footnotes.
OH GOD THAT IS ENOUGH. XD;