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What if the bad guys won/the good guys won? What if Bucky Barnes went to Narnia? What if Kylo Ren was a chicken? What if Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters was haunted by the ghosts of all the dead (or temporarily dead, or dead in a different timeline) X-Men?
Come back and comment if you read and liked something!
I will return with more recs in varied fandoms when I have read more, but for now, I highly recommend my two fantastic gift stories. They're both for Stephen King books, and they're both GREAT and you should read them if you like the books.
Star Shot and Gravity Bound. The Dark Tower. AU: Space Opera setting, Susan Delgado as gunslinger, and several others I'll leave you to discover. This beautifully captures the atmosphere of longing and doom that's one of my favorite things from both the books and a certain type of space opera, and does an amazing job of translating book details into a new setting.
She took her Moira up, singing a little under her breath. An old song, a gunslinger hymn:
Home is the sailor, home from the sea
And the hunter home from the hill,
But the hull needs the hole that the gunslinger gives,
So frost-fire is homeward for thee.
Roland had sung that to her once. Once and once only-for all Susan knew, she’d had the words wrong for years. Had Roland’s people even said thee and thou?
There was no one else left to sing it. That made her version true.
Take the House. The Stand. AU: Canon Divergence. Nadine Cross reaches out to Flagg pre-flu, causing a huge ripple effect of divergences. Beautifully written, with great canon Easter eggs and sharp commentary on what we expect of men and women.
There had been the night in college with the Ouija board
(HOW I LOVE TO LOVE NADINE)
and you could, if you wanted, call that their first date.
Crossposted to https://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/2216797.html. Comment here or there.
What if the bad guys won/the good guys won? What if Bucky Barnes went to Narnia? What if Kylo Ren was a chicken? What if Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters was haunted by the ghosts of all the dead (or temporarily dead, or dead in a different timeline) X-Men?
Come back and comment if you read and liked something!
I will return with more recs in varied fandoms when I have read more, but for now, I highly recommend my two fantastic gift stories. They're both for Stephen King books, and they're both GREAT and you should read them if you like the books.
Star Shot and Gravity Bound. The Dark Tower. AU: Space Opera setting, Susan Delgado as gunslinger, and several others I'll leave you to discover. This beautifully captures the atmosphere of longing and doom that's one of my favorite things from both the books and a certain type of space opera, and does an amazing job of translating book details into a new setting.
She took her Moira up, singing a little under her breath. An old song, a gunslinger hymn:
Home is the sailor, home from the sea
And the hunter home from the hill,
But the hull needs the hole that the gunslinger gives,
So frost-fire is homeward for thee.
Roland had sung that to her once. Once and once only-for all Susan knew, she’d had the words wrong for years. Had Roland’s people even said thee and thou?
There was no one else left to sing it. That made her version true.
Take the House. The Stand. AU: Canon Divergence. Nadine Cross reaches out to Flagg pre-flu, causing a huge ripple effect of divergences. Beautifully written, with great canon Easter eggs and sharp commentary on what we expect of men and women.
There had been the night in college with the Ouija board
(HOW I LOVE TO LOVE NADINE)
and you could, if you wanted, call that their first date.
Crossposted to https://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/2216797.html. Comment here or there.