Oh my god, you guys, I got three stories for Trick or Treat this year! Three gorgeous, wonderful stories with absolutely perfect details for the fandoms.

Trick 'r Treat (2008)

A Turn (424 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Trick 'r Treat (2008)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Laurie/Maria
Additional Tags: Werewolves, Horror, Mild Gore
Summary:

Tonight, Laurie could just devour everything.

This is a gorgeous story that has Laurie so much more confident in her own skin after what we see in the movie, with a fantastic scene of werewolves at play in the woods after the hunt, and a delicious ending.

Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin

Between Meals (849 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Baby-Sitters Club - Ann M. Martin
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Claudia Kishi
Additional Tags: Werewolves, Implied Cannibalism
Summary:

This meeting of the Baby-Sitters Club will now come to order.

Werewolves, again, and in such a great way! Claudia's had herself a little adventure, and the details of the coming werewolf transformation are just great. I love all the girls bantering, and the hint of darkness at the end, and pragmatic, judgmental Kristy, and just everything was so much fun, including the great Claudia outfit. (Which is, of course, fitting for the source material.)

Chad Lonford Is Coming (984 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Baby-Sitters Club - Ann M. Martin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Claudia Kishi, Dawn Schafer, Stacey McGill
Additional Tags: Humor, Celebrity Crush, Celebrities, Female Friendship, Teenagers
Summary:

Stacey, Claudia and Dawn try to celebrate Stacey's birthday by getting her an autograph from her crush - but when fate steps in Stacey's left crush, and Claudia must modify her gift to right the wrong.

This story is hilarious, full of excellent friendships and great character voices, and outfit descriptions that made me grin and grin. I literally laughed out loud at the ending, and absolutely loved all the interactions between Claudia, Dawn, and Stacey, as well as all the little nods to the source material.

I am so, so lucky to have received these great stories. What a fantastic way to end Halloween!

Remix Redux fic recs! (Also, if you guess which fic is mine, you get a prize. I only wrote one.)

First, the story remixing one of my stories:

Wait for the Sunrise (The Quantum Entanglement Remix) (1193 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: River Tam, Zoe Washburne
Summary:

At the end of the 'verse, River has a conversation with Schrödinger's cat.

I am speechless over how awesome this is, how powerful, the descriptions amazing.

And It's Surely To Their Credit (The Five-by-Five Friendship Remix) (1366 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek (2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kirk & Uhura
Characters: Nyota Uhura, James T. Kirk
Summary:

Nyota is surprised to learn that she and James Kirk have a number of things in common.

Lovely.

Happy New Year (Begin the Beguine) (1303 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Penelope Garcia/Derek Morgan
Characters: Penelope Garcia, Derek Morgan
Summary:

"Happy New Year, baby girl."

Sweet and charming.

In Foreign Tongues (Been All Over You) (1574 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek (2009)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Gaila/Nyota Uhura
Characters: Gaila (Star Trek), Nyota Uhura
Summary:

Nyota offered herself as Gaila's sister when they first met -- she greeted Gaila with her name in all openness, the traditional overture to the creation of an in-net -- and Gaila has never regretted accepting that gift.

Loved this look at Gaila.

the boys are calling for me (the history boys remix) (4832 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Glee
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kurt/Blaine
Characters: Kurt Hummel, Blaine Anderson
Summary:

Love is all a matter of timing, or: three times the story couldn't have happened, and one time it did.

Gorgeous, nuanced details of three very different settings.

I Bring My Better Angels To Every Fight (The Man in the Mirror Remix) (34839 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Glee
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Burt Hummel, Kurt Hummel, Artie Abrams
Summary:

Burt wanted to change the world for Kurt. He didn't realize that, by changing himself, he already had. Those years of struggling that it took Burt to figure things out.

WARNING: Homophobia, homophobic language, at times really difficult to read.

However, also amazing.

Accordingly Adorned (The BFF Remix) (1253 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Baby-Sitters Club - Ann M. Martin
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill
Summary:

Good fashion sense is gender-neutral. So is friendship.

I love the original a lot, and this is an excellent complement to it.

My first batch of Yuletide recs, now that the server seems to be broken again. I'm off soon to run errands, but I have a lot of reading to do when I get back, so I expect I'll have more to rec later.

Fandom: Baby-Sitters Club - Martin

Abby Stevenson's Theory of Winnertivity
Summary: Abby has a theory about winners--they hate other successful people. Clearly that's why she hates Stacey McGill.

This is the story written for me, and it is absolutely amazing. I love Abby's voice, the list she keeps about Stacey, and the sweetness at the end of the story, when she finally realizes the truth about why Stacey acts the way she does and why Abby herself is so upset. I love it so much and think everyone should read it.

Old Times
Summary: Ten years later, Claudia comes home one snowy Tuesday to find an invitation in the mail.

This is an adorable reunion story which made me smile.

Fandom: Pigeon series - Willems

The Pigeon Wants a Story
Summary: The pigeon is very excited about Yuletide.

This is an adorable story that captures the glee and the stress of Yuletide in a wonderful way.

Fandom: 28 Days Later

I See Us Growing Old, I Watch Us Growing Old
Summary: "There's no fucking way we're spending Christmas in here."

This is an absolutely perfect continuation of the movie, with a Selena voice in particular that is sharp and witty and ever so slightly painful in all the things she's seen in her world.

Fandom: The Girl Who Owned a City - Nelson

parthogenesis
Summary: Glenbard's doctor is learning as fast as she can.

I love this book so much, and I love this fic. The diseases! The child doctor learning how to heal people and what happens when you can't. This world! It's a lovely continuation of the story.

Fandom: Goblin Market - Rossetti

Queer Fruits
Summary: Withered daisies and checked desires.

This is a lovely bit of Lizzie fic with some delicious, twisty language.

The Illusionist
Summary: She thought of Jeanie in her grave,
Who should have been a bride;
But who for joys brides hope to have
Fell sick and died.

Jean is amazing here, determined and head-strong and beautiful, and the plays on magic and illusion and truth were beautiful. The ending just absolutely slayed me.

Fandom: Pushing Daisies

Itty Bitty and the H.O.G.
Summary: Emerson and Olive working together, with bonus Pigby!

You guys, this left me literally clapping my hands with glee at the end of it. Emerson and Olive were absolutely perfectly in character, Pigby was a star, and the story was sweet and hilarious and charming. Hidden Object Games for the win, too!

Mumbly
Summary: Olive Snook finds out. Though "finding out" implies that the finding was passive. Post-series, if we pretend the last couple episodes never happened. Which I sometimes do.

This is the sweetest, loveliest, most charming, adorable, bittersweet, perfectly in character and in tone with the show story I could have ever imagined. It's absolutely lovely and I've already reread it with stars in my eyes. Olive is absolutely, perfectly amazing.

Less Truth, More Lies and Sides of Pies
Summary: Olive Snook comes up with a carefully constructed plan. Or constructs one anyways.

This is a lovely, charming story about Olive coming up with a plan to make the aunts happy. It left me with a smile after I read it.

Fandom: Blood and Chocolate - Klause

Skin
Summary: The line between human and monster is thin and easily crossed.

I am mostly reduced to single words of joy here: Werewolves! Hunters! Bad-ass female hunters! (Okay, that last one obviously isn't a single word, but whatever.) There's a bit of the old werewolf sexism in it, which, though it's been awhile, I also remember from the source material, so that makes sense. (One of the reasons I write werewolf stories is because I hate the sexism so many authors think is inherent in werewolf packs, but that's neither here nor there for this rec.) The original character here is AMAZING and I love Vivian so much, confident and capable. It makes me want to reread the source material and then read this again and again.

Fandom: Princess Bride

A Duplicity of Pirates
Summary: Adventures in piracy, post-movie: The last thing Westley had said to me before he left was, "Fare well, Captain, and remember which side is starboard, and I hope we never see each other again."

Inigo's voice is perfect and I love the fun and adventure of this story.

Fandom: Alien vs. Predator

On the Way Down
Summary: "When I lead my team, I don't ever leave my team."

This story left me breathless and slightly broken. I loved AvP in a way I never expected, and it was all because of Alexa. This story captures that, her strength and the depth of her personality and the way she's changed after facing unspeakable horror and the way she hasn't. It has Mt. Rainier, too, and though I am not a mountain climber, I have been to Rainier and it was -- it was much like this story, dangerous and sharply beautiful and it left me shaken and without breath, watching the full moon rise on it.

Fandom: The Hardy Boys - Nixon

Our Red Sea
Summary: Your father's gone. Don't lose your brother too.

Oh, god, this story. It was lovely, slightly painful and sad, Joe in the aftermath of his father's death, and then the final paragraph broke me open and I almost cried, it was so perfect and the brotherly love so incredible.

No one's guessed the stories I've written for Yuletide, so here are a couple of clues, if you want to guess (or to try again): I wrote five stories, three of them are over 1000 words, two are shorter treats; three are in fandoms I've written before, two are in new fandoms; three are pairing-focused and all three are slash, while one is more about family, and one is about self.

So. Guesses?

( Yuletide Recs )

Chronicles of Narnia

+ "Queen of Morning"

Even afterwards, when she had returned home and much of her first-life as a queen had faded, she would always remember this: the bitter cold before morning, the heat of tears on her cheeks, Aslan's clipped fur beneath her hands.

And then the dawn.

This is an amazing story of Susan, and her bravery, and her heartbreak.

Tamora Pierce - Tortall series

+ "Letters From Rajmuat"

Message intercepted from Aly's pack Received at Pirate's Swoop May 16, 464 H.E.

Hi Da!

Ha, I guess your trainee picked the wrong message. Sorry about that. You didn't really want to read about our kitchen cutlery, though, did you? Better luck next time.

Love and kisses, Your Aly

This is a fun, funny story told in, well, letters, obviously. Aly isn't my favorite of the Tortall women, but she is quite interesting, and this is a nice continuation of her story, as well as a believable way for her to talk to her father.

Baby-Sitters Club

+ "Opening Night"

Janine takes a deep, shuddery breath that she lets out slowly. She once presented a complicated paper about her interpretation of fluid dynamics to an audience of tenured physics professors and she did it without sweating. She answered their questions and posed a few of her own, and received two job offers, valid whenever she graduated or even if she didn't. "It's obvious your creativity will only be stifled if you continue at school. Come work for us right away, and you'll have an experimental budget twice the size of your current scholarship." Nice to dream, but she had her heart set on the B.S. (now nicely framed in her office, so it was worth it), and her future -- and the future of the economy -- lay in computer science. Theoretical research grants go dry after a few years, but the internet is forever.

Oh, Janine. I love that last line there, and I love Janine here, so comfortable in her world, so uncomfortable in Claudia's.

I started this recs list yesterday, and it's slow enough at work today that I'm going to keep reading as much as I can. (We probably should have been closed today--I certainly wish we had been closed today, I'm exhausted.)

First, the story written for me.

A Knight's Tale

"5 Firsts", a gorgeous, heartbreaking, wonderful story about Kate the blacksmith and her relationship with her dead husband and her relationship with Christiana. The scenes between the women are absolutely breathtaking and wonderful, I can't believe how much so. The whole story is terrific, the tone wonderful, the bits of dialogue perfect for the source material. I am filled with so much glee because of this story, and reading it has made me happy.

Fandoms include: 10 Things I Hate About You, Bend It Like Beckham, 1602, 28 Days Later, The Addams Family (movie), The Baby-Sitters Club, California Diaries, The Village, Ugly Betty, Tamora Pierce - Tortall series, Stick It, Stephen King - It, Stephen King - Cell, The Simpsons, and Silent Hill.

( Recommendations Below )

Woo, nearly time to go home and read some more.

"Jessi and the Potential Disaster" by wisdomeagle is a Baby-sitters Club fic set after high school, in which Jessi obsesses about dance, still, and absolutely breaks the reader's heart with her views of the world and of love. It's sweet and painful and packs a powerful blow in a small space.