Stories for a rainy Wednesday
Fandom: Harry Potter
Title: Ten Years After
Author: Aoibheann, AKA celticwitch
Link: http://ashwinder.sycophanthex.com/viewstory.php?sid=570
Rating: Lascivious
Status: Complete, Oldie but Goodie
Summary: 10 years after Hogwarts, Professor Hermione Granger-Potter finds herself at a conference in New York, where she runs into her former potions professor. Is she prepared for the consequences of their encounter?
Why I fangirl this: I like good stories, usually romances with happy endings. This is an older SS/HG, but it’s a good one which navigates the end of one relationship for the beginning of another. I also like my stories to deal with adults and in this one the characters are adults. There is a continuation which is just as good: http://ashwinder.sycophanthex.com/viewstory.php?sid=1290
Fandom: Harry Potter
Title: The Gamekeeper
Author: richardgloucester
Link: http://owl.tauri.org/stories.php?sid=8204
Rating: None that I saw
Status: Complete
Summary: This is a story about friendship, and about coming to terms with loss. The new gamekeeper arrives to take up his post at Hogwarts, where he finds many memories waiting for him.
Why I fangirl this: It’s a fabulous story about friendship and coming home.
Fandom: Harry Potter
Title: Dudley Dursley and the Knights of Walpurgis
Author: HumanTales
Link: http://owl.tauri.org/stories.php?psid=6589
Rating: None that I saw
Status: WIP up to 8 chapters
Summary: After twenty years of happy normalcy, Dudley sees another letter from Hogwarts. This one is addressed to his daughter.
Why I fangirl this: It’s a great next gen story without all the saccharine of the Epilogue.
Fangirl: Harry Potter
Title: The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere
Author: Fearthainn
Link: http://www.dracoandginny.com/viewstory.php?sid=2545
Rating: None
Status: Complete
Summary: It is 2010, 12 years after Voldemort's downfall, and Draco Malfoy has returned to England at long last. A Draco/Ginny story.
Why I fangirl this: Draco Malfoy is a Mountie, complete with red jacket. ‘Nuff said.
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey
Title: Preludes to a Symphony
Author: Hydriotaphia
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2009/works/34425
Rating: None at the AOO
Status: Complete
Summary: Many years later Harriet would reflect that those last days at Shrewsbury ran together in a terrible block and that all frame of time before Peter was ordered and all frame of time after his arrival was muddled.
Why I fangirl this: I’ve always wondered how Harriet dealt with Wilfred and why he was such a schmoop.
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey
Title: As Their Wimsey Took Them
Author: Thassalia
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2009/works/36627
Rating: None at the AOO
Status: Complete
Summary: A few moments of domesticity.
Why I fangirl this: Lord Peter Wimsey -- my second literary love. It was very selfish of Dorothy L Sayers to shuffle off this mortal coil. I mean really, couldn't she have stayed around a few more years?
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey
Title: Good Fellowship
Author: regan_v
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2009/works/33683
Rating: None
Status: Complete
Summary: The members of the Shrewsbury SCR gather to determine who should receive next year's research fellowship.
Why I fangirl this: Dons, Dons, and more Dons. I love the Dons. Plus, how Miss de Vine came to Shrewsbury.
Fandom: Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes
Title: A Mary Russell Companion
Author: Various
Link: http://www.laurierking.com/etcetera/the-mary-russell-companion-free-ebook
Rating: None
Status: Complete
Summary: Can’t get enough of Miss Mary Russell? Now you can delve deeper into the world of her ten memoirs with the Mary Russell Companion ebook, available as part of our BoucherCon 2010 celebration.
Why I fangirl this: It’s a fabulous eBook in honor of BucherCon. Need more Russell? Check out the companion.
Fandom: Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes
Title: Can’t Steal Happiness
Author: wintercreek
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2009/works/37903
Rating: None
Status: Complete
Summary: Sussex, 1917. In which Holmes and Russell come to several understandings and Russell acquires a new set of skills.
Why I fangirl this: As with the above eBook, I cannot get enough of Mary Russell. This story deals with pickpocketing and departure. Holmes is very much Holmes.
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes
Title: No Poetry
Author: earlwyn
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2009/works/34918
Rating: None
Status: Complete
Summary: "It seemed an object perfectly designed to appeal to your curiosity," Mycroft had added as a post-script, after the necessary business of funds was cleared. "Or to your ego. I understand he plans to make it a series.”
Why I fangirl this: Sherlock Holmes was my first literary love. I adore any story that brings Conan Doyle’s back to life and answers the questions about what Holmes did during the Great Hiatus.
Fandom: Child Ballads
Title: Bell and Burial
Author: Gileonnen
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2009/works/33161
Rating: None
Status: Complete
Summary: The plague comes to Betsy Bell and Mary Gray--bearing posies to ward off illness.
Why I fangirl this: I use the Child Ballads as sources of inspiration. I like knowing that other people do also. The ballads are often creepy, in a good way.
Fandom: Wire in the Blood/The Mentalist
Title: Wreathed with Seaweed
Author: The Dead Parrot
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/32521?view_adult=true
Rating: graphic violence
Status: Complete
Summary: Above him, a smiling face is hand-drawn in blood on the refrigerator. The killer used so much blood that the eyes look as though they are crying, red tears dripping down its face. "Ah," Tony says, muttering under his breath, "you always did have a fondness for signing your work."
Why I fangirl this: I love Patrick Jane. The Mentalist is fun TV mind candy. I also adore Tony Hill, love the books and the TV shows. This is a good story that combines the two.