Seventeen Recs
I'm thrilled to begin with the wonderful story written for me:
Two-part harmony (1509 words)
Fandom: Persuasion - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth
Summary: In which Anne explains how she came to play the piano-forte so well and Frederick tells the story of the first Captain Wentworth. Set just after they reconcile, but before they've told anyone else.
My yuletide gift and absolutely perfect. This is now part of my personal Austen canon!
The others in Sarah Connor Chronicles, Nancy Drew, Greek & Roman Mythology, English & Scottish Popular Ballads, Castle, Rome, Chuck, Blackadder, Sense and Sensibility, Arthurian Legend and Temeraire.
My Father's House Has Many Rooms (2604 words)
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Sarah Connor and James Ellison represent two different but complementary elements to building the resistance in this engrossing story.
though the fig tree does not bud (1196 words)
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Terminator - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: Sarah Connor is alone, now, but her work isn't done.
I love how this piece is focused on Sarah, her pain and her struggle to keep on going.
we stood so long we fell (5189 words)
Fandom: Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Nancy Drew/Ned Nickerson
Summary: Nancy visits Emerson for the Winter Carnival and stumbles into a case, which doesn't matter quite so much as being locked in a museum with Ned all night.
Perfect yuletide treasure for the fandom: of course there's a mystery, but the real question is how long Ned can survive the torture of being an honourable man. Funny and sexy!
Five Futures Kassandra Saw, and One that She Could Not (3888 words)
Fandom: Trojan Women - Euripides, Greek and Roman Mythology
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: to know your fate is to be a slave to it.
This story is painful, difficult and very worthwhile in order to see the Trojan War through Kassandra's eyes.
κάλλος τε καὶ ὕπνος-- Beauty and Sleep (1355 words)
Fandom: Greek Mythology, Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Helen/Menelaos, Helen/Paris
Summary: So beautiful. The most beautiful. No one else more beautiful. It was a lie. The night he pierces me with his spindle, I fall asleep. The wall of thorns grows up again around me. I sleepwalk through this new life, through all the duties of a good Akhaian wife. I weave, I spin, I press the olives into oil, I submit to my husband, and I sleep through it all. The household around me may as well be frozen in time for all that I interact with it.
Briar Rose in the Trojan War. Helen tells her story with the bittersweet edge that only truth can bring.
Seventh (5012 words)
Fandom: English and Scottish Popular Ballads - Francis James Child
Rating: Mature
Characters: Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight
Summary: "How many before me?" she asks through numbed lips.
No, she knows what he is now. Isabel and the Elf Knight. Eerie, engrossing.
Triangle (1991 words)
Fandom: Castle
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Martha Rodgers, Richard Castle, Alexis Castle
Summary: Despite their differences, the three generations of Martha Rodgers' family work better together than apart.
Three generations of the family. This one's centred on Alexis as she grows up. Check out the writer's other two gifts in the same fandom: "Obtuse" and "Acute" for the rest of the picture.
Gens Julia in aeternum (2450 words)
Fandom: Rome
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Mark Antony/Atia of the Julii
Atia of the Julii, her love for Marc Antony, in all of her majesty and failings.
Sarah vs The New Life (1327 words)
Fandom: Chuck (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Chuck Bartowski/Sarah Walker
Summary: Set (vaguely) between Couch Lock and Aisle of Terror, Sarah considers all the aspects of her new life, friends, and family.
Sarah's perspective on Chuck and life with Chuck that comes with a host of others. Very much an ensemble moment, even as it focuses on Sarah and Chuck.
A Living Princess (2992 words)
Fandom: Blackadder
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Summary: Dead men tell no tales, but a living princess might.
Child-bride Princess Leia of Hungary has a cunning plan. . . . As a historian, I'm agog that the author managed to make this story line up with history and the canon for Blackadder the Second. Well done!
Assistance (1062 words)
Fandom: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: Colonel Brandon cannot be in two places at once. Fortunately, he has friends.
I love how the friendships are so clearly delineated and so strong in this gen-fic.
True Purpose (1079 words)
Fandom: Arthurian Legend
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Arthur/Guinevere, mention of Arthur/Morgan
Summary: The purpose of a queen is to be ever humble, temperate, and charitable, and God will bless her in all ways.
Guinevere suffers for his sins. A great restorative to the romanticization of her life.
The View From Here (2282 words)
Fandom: Academia (Anthropomorfic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Summary: In which Theater Studies reflects on his colleagues, especially his relationship with a certain Film Studies.
Academic anthropomorfic! Nuff said! This author knows us!
Answers To What Comes Next (And How To Like It) (1665 words)
Fandom: Love Actually (2003)
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: They dropped Harry off at Heathrow at half past ten on a Saturday morning.
Karen's story leading to the movie's end. Very painful, very honest.
To Say 'I Love You' Right Out Loud (1704 words)
Fandom: Love Actually (2003)
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: A look at what might have happened next for Juliet, Karen, Mia, Harry, Sarah, and Natalie.
Vignettes carrying the movie stories onward: full of hope for better tomorrows (even when matters are going pretty well anyway).
Sweet William (8675 words)
Fandom: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: The Spanish Armada is about to descend upon England, and her greatest hope is a captainless dragon hatchling.
A beautiful bit of alternate history that accounts for the rise of women captains in the time of the Armada.
(And don't we all love the AO3 "share bookmark" feature? Makes reccing so much easier!)
Two-part harmony (1509 words)
Fandom: Persuasion - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth
Summary: In which Anne explains how she came to play the piano-forte so well and Frederick tells the story of the first Captain Wentworth. Set just after they reconcile, but before they've told anyone else.
My yuletide gift and absolutely perfect. This is now part of my personal Austen canon!
The others in Sarah Connor Chronicles, Nancy Drew, Greek & Roman Mythology, English & Scottish Popular Ballads, Castle, Rome, Chuck, Blackadder, Sense and Sensibility, Arthurian Legend and Temeraire.
My Father's House Has Many Rooms (2604 words)
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Sarah Connor and James Ellison represent two different but complementary elements to building the resistance in this engrossing story.
though the fig tree does not bud (1196 words)
Fandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Terminator - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: Sarah Connor is alone, now, but her work isn't done.
I love how this piece is focused on Sarah, her pain and her struggle to keep on going.
we stood so long we fell (5189 words)
Fandom: Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Nancy Drew/Ned Nickerson
Summary: Nancy visits Emerson for the Winter Carnival and stumbles into a case, which doesn't matter quite so much as being locked in a museum with Ned all night.
Perfect yuletide treasure for the fandom: of course there's a mystery, but the real question is how long Ned can survive the torture of being an honourable man. Funny and sexy!
Five Futures Kassandra Saw, and One that She Could Not (3888 words)
Fandom: Trojan Women - Euripides, Greek and Roman Mythology
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: to know your fate is to be a slave to it.
This story is painful, difficult and very worthwhile in order to see the Trojan War through Kassandra's eyes.
κάλλος τε καὶ ὕπνος-- Beauty and Sleep (1355 words)
Fandom: Greek Mythology, Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Helen/Menelaos, Helen/Paris
Summary: So beautiful. The most beautiful. No one else more beautiful. It was a lie. The night he pierces me with his spindle, I fall asleep. The wall of thorns grows up again around me. I sleepwalk through this new life, through all the duties of a good Akhaian wife. I weave, I spin, I press the olives into oil, I submit to my husband, and I sleep through it all. The household around me may as well be frozen in time for all that I interact with it.
Briar Rose in the Trojan War. Helen tells her story with the bittersweet edge that only truth can bring.
Seventh (5012 words)
Fandom: English and Scottish Popular Ballads - Francis James Child
Rating: Mature
Characters: Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight
Summary: "How many before me?" she asks through numbed lips.
No, she knows what he is now. Isabel and the Elf Knight. Eerie, engrossing.
Triangle (1991 words)
Fandom: Castle
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Martha Rodgers, Richard Castle, Alexis Castle
Summary: Despite their differences, the three generations of Martha Rodgers' family work better together than apart.
Three generations of the family. This one's centred on Alexis as she grows up. Check out the writer's other two gifts in the same fandom: "Obtuse" and "Acute" for the rest of the picture.
Gens Julia in aeternum (2450 words)
Fandom: Rome
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Mark Antony/Atia of the Julii
Atia of the Julii, her love for Marc Antony, in all of her majesty and failings.
Sarah vs The New Life (1327 words)
Fandom: Chuck (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Chuck Bartowski/Sarah Walker
Summary: Set (vaguely) between Couch Lock and Aisle of Terror, Sarah considers all the aspects of her new life, friends, and family.
Sarah's perspective on Chuck and life with Chuck that comes with a host of others. Very much an ensemble moment, even as it focuses on Sarah and Chuck.
A Living Princess (2992 words)
Fandom: Blackadder
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Summary: Dead men tell no tales, but a living princess might.
Child-bride Princess Leia of Hungary has a cunning plan. . . . As a historian, I'm agog that the author managed to make this story line up with history and the canon for Blackadder the Second. Well done!
Assistance (1062 words)
Fandom: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: Colonel Brandon cannot be in two places at once. Fortunately, he has friends.
I love how the friendships are so clearly delineated and so strong in this gen-fic.
True Purpose (1079 words)
Fandom: Arthurian Legend
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Arthur/Guinevere, mention of Arthur/Morgan
Summary: The purpose of a queen is to be ever humble, temperate, and charitable, and God will bless her in all ways.
Guinevere suffers for his sins. A great restorative to the romanticization of her life.
The View From Here (2282 words)
Fandom: Academia (Anthropomorfic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Summary: In which Theater Studies reflects on his colleagues, especially his relationship with a certain Film Studies.
Academic anthropomorfic! Nuff said! This author knows us!
Answers To What Comes Next (And How To Like It) (1665 words)
Fandom: Love Actually (2003)
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: They dropped Harry off at Heathrow at half past ten on a Saturday morning.
Karen's story leading to the movie's end. Very painful, very honest.
To Say 'I Love You' Right Out Loud (1704 words)
Fandom: Love Actually (2003)
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: A look at what might have happened next for Juliet, Karen, Mia, Harry, Sarah, and Natalie.
Vignettes carrying the movie stories onward: full of hope for better tomorrows (even when matters are going pretty well anyway).
Sweet William (8675 words)
Fandom: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Rating: General Audiences
Summary: The Spanish Armada is about to descend upon England, and her greatest hope is a captainless dragon hatchling.
A beautiful bit of alternate history that accounts for the rise of women captains in the time of the Armada.
(And don't we all love the AO3 "share bookmark" feature? Makes reccing so much easier!)