[fic recs] Yuletide recs
Being Human
+ "Connections" has a delightfully creepy Mitchell who is casual with his violence when he needs to get answers, needs to find George, and a warm friendship between them.
D.E.B.S.
+ "Sugar and Spices and Explosive Devices" is a sweet, funny story with an excellent title. It's Lucy Diamond backstory, and it is absolutely wonderful.
Dr. Seuss - One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
+ "Out of the Dark" is delightfully creepy, it made me shiver. I'll reread at night and I'll shake and I'll quiver.
+ "I Am Not Clark, My Name Is Pete" tells a sadder tale, of a creature misnamed and stolen away from his home.
The Fast and the Furious
+ "Vortex" is Letty/Dom, and I was shocked to see a Letty/Dom story at Yuletide, most of the fandom is so focused on Dom/Brian. And this is incredible, a great Letty point of view, and captures so much of what I love about them, their sharpness, the way Letty and Dom are a team but spark off each other, in good ways and bad ways, the way Dom is so overwhelming, so powerful without actually looking like he's doing anything other than simply existing and being himself. It's amazing, and so very fitting on a personal level. I like Dom, in part, because he reminds me so much of J, and reading this was like looking at parts of J and me, and the way we interact and relate to each other.
+ "Gravity" is all about Letty and Mia, about family, and loss, and trying to make a place for yourself, and doing the things you don't want to do. The way they all pitch together, and take over, and help out, and it can be overwhelming and exactly what is needed all at the same time. Letty and Mia are strong characters, but there are other strong women in this story, women doing what needs to be done, and pulling everyone together, and keeping their world alive, and it is incredible. Plus, the cars are always there, hot and dangerous and seductive, and that's such a constant in the movie it's great to see it translated so well into this story.
Kim Harrison - Rachel Morgan aka The Hollows series
+ "Friendly Fire" is a hot little story about Rachel acting under a courage spell and Ivy's seduction of her. I usually dislike stories based around Rachel under a spell in order to give in to Ivy, so I was quite surprised when I found myself enjoying this one.
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House series
+ "A Land So Wild and Savage" broke my heart and stole my breath and brought me to the edge of tears. I have wanderlust carved into my bones, and watched my father leave, and leave, and leave, following his. I've always like Charles, but this paints him so well, a flawed character, torn between his love for and duty to his family, and his need to go, to explore, to adventure, that call of travel, of West. It makes my chest ache for him, makes it hard to breathe.
+ "Little Settlement On the Moon" is slightly hilarious and absolutely wonderful. It captures that sense of awe, and over the top adventure, and joy I remember from the first time I ever read the series, and also makes me want to read this version, with their adventures in space.
+ "No Doubts" also brought me near tears, and is a lovely Caroline introspective on marriage, and how it brings joy, but pain, also, and her fears and hopes for Laura. It is lovely.
Lost Boys (movie)
+ "Four Times Star Told David No and One Time She Said Yes" is an incredible look at Star, and the way she's fighting so hard to outlast David, and the ignore the way the blood calls to her. The format is wonderful, and I love the little details, David's manipulation, and the press of Santa Carla and the Boardwalk all around her.
Mean Girls
+ "Well, That's New. To Me, At Least" has some fantastic, spot-on characterization of all the girls, and a wonderful look at Cady's twisty thoughts, and the way she's getting sucked into being a real Plastic without even realizing it, and Regina's amazing manipulation, even into kissing.
+ "Spin me 'round again" is a sweet, light, touching story about the romance between Norbury and Duvall, and the way they dance around each other and with each other, and the slight awkwardness from students, or former students, when they realize that their teachers can be involved.
Pushing Daisies
+ "hoping's very fears" is like watching an episode of the show, mysterious and charming and thoughtful. There's adventure, and laughter, and this sense of need between Chuck and Ned, the need to touch, to reach the end of it all, which stole my breath.
+ "The Teddy Bear and the Itty Bitty, or, How Olive's Persistence Finally Paid Off" has all the charm and humor of the source material. I love Emerson and Olive, and have been wanting stories about them. This is everything I could have asked for, charming and sweet and lovely.
+ "One Minute, Counting" has absolutely perfect voices and characterization. Death comes, and goes, and leaves questions behind.
+ "5 Things Olive Snook Never Thought and One Thing She Did" is a short and sweet threesome which now makes me want to read more about Chuck, Ned, and Olive, and the way being a surrogate for their touch doesn't make her less important.