June is the new articles challenge on Fanlore, and I seem to have created 35... ( Long rambly stuff under the cut, mainly Bujold & Tolkien related... )

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More miscellaneous than usual, with the usual mix of old & older. Including my favourites from Night on a Fic Mountain 2014 & Not Prime Time 2013.

( 10 recs in Chalion, Doctor Who, Hamlet, HP, Narnia, Norse myth, P&P, Silmarillion, Torchwood, Watership Down )

A predominantly female-centric batch including Sutcliff Swap 2014 & Rare Women 2014.

( 5 recs in Tolkien, Sutcliff (Blood Feud, Outcast, Silver Branch )

I've been recommending gen stories at
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LotR crossover triple drabble. (I was hoping this might go another way but couldn't make it work.)

He planted himself on the rock overlooking the waterfall for a season and watched the meltwater from the two peaks turn white

Also Twin Peaks AU drabble

She Wears a Smile
A pretty girl lives. Everything changes

Crossposted from Dreamwidth (with
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For my final set, a batch of magical stories, that incorporate magical elements and are also absolutely charming! Several of my favourites here.

( 6 recs in Chinese mythology, Discworld, Graveyard Book, How to Train Your Dragon, Smith of Wootton Major, Spirited Away, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio )

I've been noodling around Fanlore of late, after being invited to join the gardening team, and had the idea for a project to add ten classic stories for each of my main fandoms. I soon got round to bending the rules a bit, as you will see. Here's some thoughts for Tolkien -- 20 LotR & Silmarillion stories... ( under the cut... )

Dark is Rising

Watch for the Greenwitch, by Selden'In the light from the bonfire the Greenwitch rose up, tall and ragged against the sky, like something from long ago. Not the fine past of the grail, of long spears and iron, thorny, intricate poetry and patterns. Not even the past, thought Jane, of neat sharp flints laid out on red velvet under ( Read more... )

Three favourites from the lgbtfest -- one new-to-me fandom, surprisingly, and one I thought I'd never recommend in again...

Discworld

Modern Love, by Penknife'"Nobody's she in the mines, Sergeant. No one wears heels on their boots or paints their faces or wears breastplates that curve in interesting ways."' Penknife uses a series of vivid OCs to bring to ( Read more... )