I'm not quite sure when the cut-off will be, so I wanted to take the opportunity now to say how delightful it's been to share my love of fairy tale fanfic with you.  Because it is a Small Fandom, I had a chance to read and recommend so many more than I thought possible.  I tried to rout out stories of the more obscure canon as well as showcasing ( Read more... )

Fandom: Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and Rose Red, Grandaunt Tiger
Characters: original and canon characters
Length: 2K words
Author Website: at AO3

Why this must be read: If you're looking for the dark of Red Riding Hood and perhaps a little more, give this a try. Grandaunt Tiger is sometimes referred to as the Chinese version ( Read more... )

Fandom: Fairy Tales: Catskin
Characters: Princess (Catskin), King, Prince
Length: 3K words
Author Website: at AO3

Why this must be read: It's an interesting treatment of what is essentially a tale of a dark subject: mourning turned to obsession. As the Princess watches her widowed father fall apart, she does her best to cope. But when he demands ( Read more... )

Fandom: Fairy Tales: Beauty and the Beast
Pairing/Characters: Belle/Beast; OFC
Length: 2K words
Author Website: at AO3

Why this must be read: Because sometimes you need a levelheaded woman to make sense out of a fairy tale ( Read more... )

Fandom: Fairy Tales: Aladdin (Disney)
Pairing/Characters: Aladdin/Jasmine; OFC, Abu, Carpet, Genie, Sultan, Jafar
Length:
Author Website: at AO3

Why this must be read: Excerpt: "Fact: My father left before I remember, and my mother died when I was two. Fact: All underfed children look similar, and when people see 'scruffy' they think 'male'. Fact ( Read more... )

Fandom: Fairy Tales: Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
Pairing/Characters: Belle/Beast
Length: 701 words
Author Website: This story has been orphaned. It was originally written for a Porn Battle Challenge in 2009

Why this must be read: It's a fairy tale PWP! Belle has moved from fear of the Beast to attraction, but how to let him know when he's ( Read more... )

Yuletide pre-dates AO3, so this story was on the original site. When Yuletide was migrated to AO3, there were thousands of stories that did not get the exposure that they had enjoyed before. That's why I've had such fun digging up these older stories. This one is from Yuletide 2007.

Fandom: Fairy Tales: The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Pied ( Read more... )

Fandom: Fairy Tales: Disney Princesses, Mulan
Pairing/Characters: Belle/Fa Mulan; Ariel, Prince Naveen, Fa Mulan, Belle
Length: 1281 words
Author Website: at AO3

Why this must be read: Disney Princesses in Space! The spaceship "The Wendy Bird" is having propulsions problems. Mulan goes in search of the new engineer, Belle, and discovers a whole ( Read more... )

Fandom: Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty
Pairing/Characters: OFC, the King, OCs
Length: 9K words
Author Website: at AO3

Why this must be read: Because for every princess and happily ever after, there are good folk surrounding them whose stories are worth telling. One of them is Fina, a young woman who lives in a village within Sleeping Beauty's ( Read more... )

Fandom: Fairy Tales: Little Mermaid (Disney)
Pairing/Characters: Ariel/Eric; King Triton
Length: 1584 words
Author Website: at AO3

Why this must be read: Eric loves Ariel totally and he knows she feels the same way. Yet her transition to the land world has been hard and their differences are many. He wonders whether she will regret their life and ( Read more... )