Rarelywritten: Cabin Pressure, Strange Empire, Brooklyn 99
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ariadnes_string gifted me a story about Carolyn Knapp-Shappey deciding that there is no point in being a twice-divorced lady of a certain age unless you could have exactly what you want. And she wanted a dog:
The Loophole by
ariadnes_string for
sanguinity
Cabin Pressure
Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, Snoopadoop, Douglas Richardson
Approx 2,000 words
Every dog has an origin story.
It’s a delightful story; I read it right through, then immediately turned around and read it out loud to
grrlpup.
I wrote two Strange Empire fics. Have I talked about Strange Empire here? A Canadian feminist western, starring three women: a Metis gunslinger, a white autistic doctor, and a black woman who is determined to own the mine, the town, and everything in both. Most of the supporting cast is female, too. It is the western of my dreams, although it runs toward grimdark and one must warn for… well, let’s say that almost everything that anyone could conceivably ever need a warning for, it happens sooner or later. (If you want warnings for a particular thing - rape, child harm, etc. - ask me.) It aired this winter in Canada, and then the CBC failed to renew it, so the one season is all we get.
Apparently it wasn’t cancelled for ratings but for… unexplained reasons. Some have suggested that the show was not flattering enough to the myths of Canadian history? This is not a thing I would know about. All I know is that a Metis woman was deputized as sheriff - first by her daughters, then by the other women of her camp - and in-among her and the other women saving and organizing and doing all the things, she and the mixed-blood US Marshal on the other side of the border get to have lots of passionate arguments about law, justice, policing, moral vs. legal authorizations to act, and their preferred strategies for resisting genocide. This show, it was written for me.
But I am straying from the topic:Kissing Day by
sanguinity for
evewithanapple
Strange Empire
Rebecca Blithely, Kat Loving, Ruby Slotter, the entire Loving brood
Approx 5,000 words.
Post-canon, spoilers for everything, generally upbeat but references some grimdark plot points
It's Kissing Day, and Kelly has decided that it's high time that some things got fixed. Doc Blithely is just the person to do the fixing.
As Safe as Houses by
sanguinity for
aphrodite_mine
Strange Empire
Morgan Finn / Miss Logan
Approx 3,000 words.
Post-canon, spoilers for nothing, canon trans character, fluff, stealth crossover
It wasn't the surprise that Morgan had planned.
I haven’t read very far into the collection yet, but while I’m here, let me recommend this Rosa Diaz fic by
inlovewithnight: Butterfly Knife. It has Rosa Diaz, ballet school, femslash, and knives. What more could one want?
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