Yuletide rec time!
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First up, MY PRESENT:
Picture Perfect, Warehouse 13
Claudia is very sure about the first thing she should do after she becomes the new Caretaker. (A possible future, set indeterminately sometime post-S2.)
I squeaked when I read the summary in my email, and then I kept right on squeaking when I went to read it. Pete is seriously slow on the uptake! Claudia ACTS LIKE MRS. F! And then she FIXES THINGS!
This kid I once knew, Calvin & Hobbes
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.
Susie in college, having adventures of her own, and not thinking Calvin was the worst thing to ever happen to her. (And of course Calvin draws a webcomic!)
The Roommate of +10 Confusion, Calvin & Hobbes/FoxTrot
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.
The roommate match made in... SOMEWHERE REALLY REALLY GOOD.
A Day in the Life, Code Monkey - Jonathan Coulton
Just your everyday guy, er gal, er whatever, going to work, sitting in meetings, crushing on their co-worker... it's starting to sound familiar.
I am all in favor of queering up the text, and this does a fantastic job with it. And it even gives our hero (heroine? some non-gendered word that achieves the same effect?) a happy ending, or at least the hope for one. (And don't worry if you don't know the text itself; it's interlaced with the story.)
Wrap Around Your Dreams, Disney's Sleeping Beauty
Philippa has avoided fate and magic all her life, but there's something about the sleeping woman in Room 931 that she can't avoid.
Okay, so I read it for the genderswap AU, but I stuck around for the way the magic is just matter-of-factly thrown in alongside the very real setting.
The Dot and the Line Go on a Honeymoon: A Revisionist Romance, Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line
Wherein the Dot is no slouch, either.
So The Dot and the Line is utter crack itself, and this carries that spirit on perfectly. Also, it gives the dot a chance to be awesome too!
Measure in Love, Enchanted(/Rent)
AU/crossover-ish. Nancy used to be known as Maureen Johnson, but has since moved on from that life to settle into adulthood. This is the story of what might have happened if she'd come across Giselle first.
You don't have to know anything about Rent to read this and have it make sense, but the hint of a crossover really doesn't hurt. (Of course, I may mostly be saying that because Mark has a cameo.) The story itself is also a very interesting twist on the movie.
Hymn, The Handmaid's Tale
The story of a Wife who hoped that Gilead might be a Paradise. Warning: Contains non-graphic violent death, including of children.
A sympathetic take on Serena Joy - no, really. The amount of justification she's had to sell to herself is heartbreaking.
I am Acton Bell's Metaphorical Manhood, Hark! A Vagrant
“Is interpretive dance the new hot thing in Gothic Literature, and nobody told me?”
Anne Bronte is frustrated by her Dramatic Sisters, Charlotte has high hopes for their ridiculous pseudonyms, and Emily WRITES THE BEST THING EVER.
The Alot, the Tuit, Mrs. Gradgrind, Sophie and Me, Allie, Hyperbole and a Half
Allie's mom, teacher and best friend all insist that Alots are not real animals. Allie's friend the Alot is determined to prove that "imaginary" doesn't mean "unreal."
I was wondering from the time I saw this show up on the fandoms list just how one would write for this... storyblogthing without the Paint pictures. Now I know: COMPLETELY BRILLIANTLY, IS HOW. (And part of me hopes the imaginary drawings get made real at some point.)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Stephen King's The Long Walk
Of high prices and things that aren't quite dead yet.
I don't know the fandom for this one at all, but I beta-read the story; it's a wonderfully creepy tale, even without the fandom background.
First up, MY PRESENT:
Picture Perfect, Warehouse 13
Claudia is very sure about the first thing she should do after she becomes the new Caretaker. (A possible future, set indeterminately sometime post-S2.)
I squeaked when I read the summary in my email, and then I kept right on squeaking when I went to read it. Pete is seriously slow on the uptake! Claudia ACTS LIKE MRS. F! And then she FIXES THINGS!
This kid I once knew, Calvin & Hobbes
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.
Susie in college, having adventures of her own, and not thinking Calvin was the worst thing to ever happen to her. (And of course Calvin draws a webcomic!)
The Roommate of +10 Confusion, Calvin & Hobbes/FoxTrot
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.
The roommate match made in... SOMEWHERE REALLY REALLY GOOD.
A Day in the Life, Code Monkey - Jonathan Coulton
Just your everyday guy, er gal, er whatever, going to work, sitting in meetings, crushing on their co-worker... it's starting to sound familiar.
I am all in favor of queering up the text, and this does a fantastic job with it. And it even gives our hero (heroine? some non-gendered word that achieves the same effect?) a happy ending, or at least the hope for one. (And don't worry if you don't know the text itself; it's interlaced with the story.)
Wrap Around Your Dreams, Disney's Sleeping Beauty
Philippa has avoided fate and magic all her life, but there's something about the sleeping woman in Room 931 that she can't avoid.
Okay, so I read it for the genderswap AU, but I stuck around for the way the magic is just matter-of-factly thrown in alongside the very real setting.
The Dot and the Line Go on a Honeymoon: A Revisionist Romance, Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line
Wherein the Dot is no slouch, either.
So The Dot and the Line is utter crack itself, and this carries that spirit on perfectly. Also, it gives the dot a chance to be awesome too!
Measure in Love, Enchanted(/Rent)
AU/crossover-ish. Nancy used to be known as Maureen Johnson, but has since moved on from that life to settle into adulthood. This is the story of what might have happened if she'd come across Giselle first.
You don't have to know anything about Rent to read this and have it make sense, but the hint of a crossover really doesn't hurt. (Of course, I may mostly be saying that because Mark has a cameo.) The story itself is also a very interesting twist on the movie.
Hymn, The Handmaid's Tale
The story of a Wife who hoped that Gilead might be a Paradise. Warning: Contains non-graphic violent death, including of children.
A sympathetic take on Serena Joy - no, really. The amount of justification she's had to sell to herself is heartbreaking.
I am Acton Bell's Metaphorical Manhood, Hark! A Vagrant
“Is interpretive dance the new hot thing in Gothic Literature, and nobody told me?”
Anne Bronte is frustrated by her Dramatic Sisters, Charlotte has high hopes for their ridiculous pseudonyms, and Emily WRITES THE BEST THING EVER.
The Alot, the Tuit, Mrs. Gradgrind, Sophie and Me, Allie, Hyperbole and a Half
Allie's mom, teacher and best friend all insist that Alots are not real animals. Allie's friend the Alot is determined to prove that "imaginary" doesn't mean "unreal."
I was wondering from the time I saw this show up on the fandoms list just how one would write for this... storyblogthing without the Paint pictures. Now I know: COMPLETELY BRILLIANTLY, IS HOW. (And part of me hopes the imaginary drawings get made real at some point.)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Stephen King's The Long Walk
Of high prices and things that aren't quite dead yet.
I don't know the fandom for this one at all, but I beta-read the story; it's a wonderfully creepy tale, even without the fandom background.