Yuletide Recs: The First.
The Little Mermaid
Mysterious Fathoms Below
From the Royal Scientific Lecture, year unknown. Dr Charles Milo Thatch, on "Regnum Sub Maris - The Kingdom Beneath The Waves"
Clever and beautiful and haunting. I am never going to watch TLM the same way again.
I feel like these two should be next to each other, so:
Ponyo
I Have Been One With The Sea
On the beach below the Institute of Algological Research, graduate student Fujimoto Hiroshi finds something more than the seaweed he's after.
Okay, I'll be honest. Did I go into this thinking one of the best fics I read this Yuletide will be the fledgling romance of Ponyo's mom and dad? I most certainly did not. But it was!
Metropolis: The Chase Suite
Sincerely, Cindi.
Being of sound mind and a silenced body, this is your messiah speaking.
I don't really know what to say about this yet except it made me really joyful.
Scott Pilgrim
Strangely Patriotic
Ramona, Kim and Knives road trip across Canada.
This is just really, really ridiculous cute.
Moon
spiral out, keep going
GERTY has a lot of feelings, and I care very deeply about every single one.
Spirited Away
Along The Way
Chihiro's journey does not end when she leaves the spirit world.
I was hesitant about reading this because I have my own, very tightly ingrained, headcanon about what happens to Chihiro after the film, and while this fic contradicted most of it, is unusual and gorgeous, and it made me cry.
Mysterious Fathoms Below
From the Royal Scientific Lecture, year unknown. Dr Charles Milo Thatch, on "Regnum Sub Maris - The Kingdom Beneath The Waves"
Clever and beautiful and haunting. I am never going to watch TLM the same way again.
I feel like these two should be next to each other, so:
Ponyo
I Have Been One With The Sea
On the beach below the Institute of Algological Research, graduate student Fujimoto Hiroshi finds something more than the seaweed he's after.
Okay, I'll be honest. Did I go into this thinking one of the best fics I read this Yuletide will be the fledgling romance of Ponyo's mom and dad? I most certainly did not. But it was!
Metropolis: The Chase Suite
Sincerely, Cindi.
Being of sound mind and a silenced body, this is your messiah speaking.
I don't really know what to say about this yet except it made me really joyful.
Scott Pilgrim
Strangely Patriotic
Ramona, Kim and Knives road trip across Canada.
This is just really, really ridiculous cute.
Moon
spiral out, keep going
GERTY has a lot of feelings, and I care very deeply about every single one.
Spirited Away
Along The Way
Chihiro's journey does not end when she leaves the spirit world.
I was hesitant about reading this because I have my own, very tightly ingrained, headcanon about what happens to Chihiro after the film, and while this fic contradicted most of it, is unusual and gorgeous, and it made me cry.