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Gilmore Girls
The Day You Come, by cgb.
Nestra: Written for the future tense challenge. Precise and lovely.
I Don't Know Why Sometimes I Get Frightened, by shaye.
Nestra: Everything goes wrong on Luke and Lorelai's first date. No one is surprised. Hilarious screwball comedy.
Good Omens
A Hole in the Hedge, by Vyola.
Nestra: Creepy with potential.
Revisited and Riding Out, by Patrick Phelan.
shrift: Pepper and Adam and the Them are perfectly perfect here in every way.
Harry Potter
Desk Duty, by Mosylu.
shrift: In which Madam Pince proves she is totally awesome.
Hummingbirds in Britain, by Shaye.
Shrift: Petunia used to see faeries. Lovely story about why she stopped.
A Little Night Air, by penknife.
Nestra: Snape and McGonagall have a nighttime chat, with the easy familiarity of old adversaries.
Spark, by Jane St. Clair.
Nestra: Molly Weasley during the first war. Brilliantly fleshes out Molly in a few short paragraphs.
Too Far, by Resonant.
Nestra: Stunningly erotic without really being explicit. Resonant has such a sure touch with her writing that she paints a vivid picture in a short scene.
The Library, by Jintian.
Nestra: Harry and Ron take it upon themselves to distract Hermione. Yowza.
Coffee at Midnight, by Julie Fortune.
Nestra: Oh, poor Remus. Ghosts, every which way he turns.
Like a Good Book, by Kyra Cullinan.
Nestra: Kyra's answer to the "Harry Potter First Time Bad Sex Project" is melancholy and evocative.
Highlander
Phage, by Julie Fortune.
Shrift: Something goes awry with Methos and he's desperate for help.
House
Game, Set., by Basingstoke.
shrift: House and Cuddy and banter! Yay!
Justice League
Day 812, by Sarah T.
Shrift: The Justice Lords have made a mad, mad world, and Harley's is as sane as can be. Right?
Gravity Always Wins, by Jintian.
shrift: Jintian continues with Hawkgirl's story after the events of Starcrossed: She was alone, but they were watching her. Earth was too small a planet to lose someone forever, and they wouldn't have let her be lost even for a moment. They didn't trust her enough for that.
In Glass Vases, by Voleuse.
shrift: One thing I love about this story is that Voleuse makes Vixen an actual person.
L.A. Confidential
Collaboration, by shalott.
Nestra: shalott's doing astonishing things with just one movie for canon. What would Ed do if Bud and Lynn stayed in L.A.?
Epilogue, by Nifra Idril.
shrift: They're all great, but I love the last one best.
La Femme Nikita
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Wind is to Fire by Betsy.
Nestra: Betsy's one of those writers who make me turn unflattering shades of green. Characterizations that are better than those on the show, framed by intriguing, episode-based plots.
Jinx, by JayBee.
Nestra: This reminds me of the good old days of Nikita. There's such a feel for the relentless pragmatism of Section, and then there's the possibility that maybe there really is a jinx...
Photographs by grit kitty.
Nestra: An atypical Michael and Nikita story, tender without being sappy, and with achingly true characterizations.
Lord of the Rings
Beauty, by kate bolin.
Nestra: A brief, sharp AU. What if Galadriel had accepted the Ring?
In Bliss, by Jen.
Nestra: Ten years after The Return of the King. Jen captures the sometimes bittersweet nature of marriage.
Joy, by penknife.
Nestra: A snapshot study of Eowyn and Arwen, with beautiful, delicate language.
Webs, by Roz Kaveney.
Nestra: I don't know why I haven't recced this before. A dark and barbed AU.
Lost
not to keep, by Gale.
shrift: Oh, wow, this is good! Sabrina feels real, and I like Boone and Shannon here. Hell, they all feel real, and I love the hints of things that have happened to them over the years. It's a wonderful look at the future, and it really does feel like the show, if Sabrina were to get an episode.