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Fic Rec: Yuletide 2012 Round One
Dec. 30th, 2012 12:10 amI normally save my rec lists until I can leave comments on the stories, but I am having a hard time commenting right now, and I'd like to get rid of some of these saved stories, so I'm going to rec them and go back through and comment later. (This is mostly for my edification.) I am reading sporadically, and have not made it through all the stories in any one fandom.
( Aliens series, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Brave, Candle Cove, Choice of Broadsides, Community, Fairy Tales and Related Fandoms, Protector of the Small - Tamora Pierce, Sons of Anarchy, Whip It )
( Aliens series, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Brave, Candle Cove, Choice of Broadsides, Community, Fairy Tales and Related Fandoms, Protector of the Small - Tamora Pierce, Sons of Anarchy, Whip It )
Fic Rec: More Yuletide recs
Dec. 29th, 2009 04:10 pmYou guys, maybe this is just because I am sick, but there have been a couple of recommendations for a couple of my Yuletide fics which had me near tears because they were so beautiful and made my stories sound so glorious. I am saving them so I can go profusely thank the reccers after the reveal.
Fandom: Friday Night Lights
Fades, If You Let It
Summary: It's not very big, and it's certainly not set up to hold a few dozen people, but somehow here they all are at Tim's small ranch house... Five years later, a reunion of the Dillion State Champs.
This is a lovely story, sharp and soft at the same time, a little bittersweet, but mostly just sweet and happy and totally in character.
tennessee in may
Summary: Texas forever just isn't the same.
Lovely, heartbreaking story about Tim making his own life and Lyla off living hers.
Rules
God, Tyra is so sharp here, young and bitter, and her anger is painful to read. It's a gorgeous story though, Tyra and Lyla and Tim and Jason in those moments of summer where you're under new rules but you know the freedom will never last.
The Keeping Place
Summary: Christmas is the keeping place for our memories.
Tami's voice is amazing here, perfectly in character, and the story is full of love.
Fandom: Friday Night Lights/Transamerica/Sons of Anarchy
Across the Great Divide
Summary: When circumstances beyond his control force Toby to take a leave of absence from work, he hops on his motorcycle and pays Bree and Calvin a visit and meets the new Hand that Calvin picked up.
I haven't even seen Transamerica, but this crossover is delicious, fantastic fun. I love the way the three worlds collide, and Toby is an amazing point of view character. Tim Riggins is fantastic here, too, with his animals and his ranch work and basically being awesome.
Fandom: Futurama
Be My Brussels Sprout
Summary: Concerning jealousy, proper robot maintenance, and the hazards of unprotected interspecies relationships.
I love Leela's voice here in particular, but there are some hilarious moments for all the characters.
The Miseducation of Philip J. Fry
Summary: When Planet Express is forced to close for the holidays and their X-mas party is canceled, Fry realizes that everyone in the crew has somewhere else to go to, except him. What follows is a touching, epic journey of self-discovery. And beer. And hot hologram chicks.
This is an awesome story, like a really great episode.
Fandom: Whip It
Searching for Something that Makes Hearts Move
Summary: Pash adjusts the strap of her backpack, double-checks the rainbow button on the front.
Pash is incredible here, so sharp and vulnerable and smart, and I love her with Maggie Mayhem.
Fandom: Tortall - Pierce
Travelling Towards Tomorrow
Summary: "With my mouth, I learnt to duck young." Or, Neal's first year as a squire.
Scenes from Neal's first year as a squire, with bonus Kel being awesome and moments were Alanna is hilarious and then one where she is absolutely heart breaking.
Five Worlds in Which Keladry of Mindelan Did Not Become a Lady Knight
Summary: ... as seen from the one in which she did.
These are fun, interesting, creepy, sad little scenes of Kel's potential lives which leave me even happier than before that she became a lady knight. Kel's my favorite Tortall character and she is amazing here.
Fandom: Friday Night Lights
Fades, If You Let It
Summary: It's not very big, and it's certainly not set up to hold a few dozen people, but somehow here they all are at Tim's small ranch house... Five years later, a reunion of the Dillion State Champs.
This is a lovely story, sharp and soft at the same time, a little bittersweet, but mostly just sweet and happy and totally in character.
tennessee in may
Summary: Texas forever just isn't the same.
Lovely, heartbreaking story about Tim making his own life and Lyla off living hers.
Rules
God, Tyra is so sharp here, young and bitter, and her anger is painful to read. It's a gorgeous story though, Tyra and Lyla and Tim and Jason in those moments of summer where you're under new rules but you know the freedom will never last.
The Keeping Place
Summary: Christmas is the keeping place for our memories.
Tami's voice is amazing here, perfectly in character, and the story is full of love.
Fandom: Friday Night Lights/Transamerica/Sons of Anarchy
Across the Great Divide
Summary: When circumstances beyond his control force Toby to take a leave of absence from work, he hops on his motorcycle and pays Bree and Calvin a visit and meets the new Hand that Calvin picked up.
I haven't even seen Transamerica, but this crossover is delicious, fantastic fun. I love the way the three worlds collide, and Toby is an amazing point of view character. Tim Riggins is fantastic here, too, with his animals and his ranch work and basically being awesome.
Fandom: Futurama
Be My Brussels Sprout
Summary: Concerning jealousy, proper robot maintenance, and the hazards of unprotected interspecies relationships.
I love Leela's voice here in particular, but there are some hilarious moments for all the characters.
The Miseducation of Philip J. Fry
Summary: When Planet Express is forced to close for the holidays and their X-mas party is canceled, Fry realizes that everyone in the crew has somewhere else to go to, except him. What follows is a touching, epic journey of self-discovery. And beer. And hot hologram chicks.
This is an awesome story, like a really great episode.
Fandom: Whip It
Searching for Something that Makes Hearts Move
Summary: Pash adjusts the strap of her backpack, double-checks the rainbow button on the front.
Pash is incredible here, so sharp and vulnerable and smart, and I love her with Maggie Mayhem.
Fandom: Tortall - Pierce
Travelling Towards Tomorrow
Summary: "With my mouth, I learnt to duck young." Or, Neal's first year as a squire.
Scenes from Neal's first year as a squire, with bonus Kel being awesome and moments were Alanna is hilarious and then one where she is absolutely heart breaking.
Five Worlds in Which Keladry of Mindelan Did Not Become a Lady Knight
Summary: ... as seen from the one in which she did.
These are fun, interesting, creepy, sad little scenes of Kel's potential lives which leave me even happier than before that she became a lady knight. Kel's my favorite Tortall character and she is amazing here.
Fic rec: Yuletide
Dec. 28th, 2009 02:13 pmI think J and I are off to run errands and maybe actually do something with this slug of a day, but have some more Yuletide recs, from both archives.
Fandom: Eastwick
well, maybe just a half a drink more (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: It doesn't take long for annual martini night to turn into what Darryl would call "some serious debauchery".
This is a sexy fun story about women and magic and sex. Lovely and fitting to the show.
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (Fairy Tale)
Beleza and the B.E.A.S.T. (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: Belaza was angry with her father for selling her to the B.E.A.S.T. in order to settle some old shipping debts, but mostly she was frightened--frightened of what her life would be like on the space station, of the empty corridors and the lonely days, and, more than anything else, frightened of the B.E.A.S.T. itself, the Biomechanical Electronic Ahuman Sentience Transfer which was responsible for all of the station's functioning.
AWESOME rewrite.
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (Disney movie)
A Different Path (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: The Beast wasn't turned human again and is wasting away in misery.
The Beast stays a beast! What more do you need to know? This is the ending I always wanted for the movie.
Fandom: Hellboy (movieverse)
Stars are Born (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: Hellboy has chased werewolves into plenty of strange places, but this one might just take the cake.
This combines two of my favorite things and I love it.
Fandom: Little Red Riding Hood (fairy tale) and Rapunzel (fairy tale)
Soldier On (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: Red's cloak didn't always used to be red, and Rapunzel's hair wasn't always so short.
Red and Rapunzel in a post-war world is AWESOME.
Fandom: Fringe
Cleanliness and Hard Work (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: A short introspection into how Astrid views herself and the lab. (Goes through Season 2, Ep 9, "Snakehead")
Astrid fic for the win! I love the scenes of Astrid and the lab and the way her views of it and herself change with time.
Help Wanted
Summary: Astrid didn't want to be Walter Bishop's lab assistant. Unfortunately, neither did anyone else.
Another amazing Astrid fic, with a great look inside her head and her reasons for not wanting to work with Walter, and her reasons for finally deciding to do so. I love Astrid so much anyway, and here she is amazing.
Fandom: Thriller (music video)
The Funk of Forty Thousand Years (Yuletide Madness)
Deliciously fun and creepy.
Fandom: Lost Boys (1987)
Hynopompic (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: David... won. In a way.
Michael dreams in a delicious, twisty, dark little story.
Fandom: Secret Garden - Burnett
Wick
Summary: Dickon's first year after he comes home from the war.
This is heartbreaking, painful and lovely, with a couple spots with gorgeous turns of phrase.
Fandom: Saving Face
Yum Cha
Summary: Even after you get your happy ending, you've still got to get up in the morning and deal with your relatives. And yourself. A story about trains, family, and dim sum.
This is lovely.
Fandom: Saddle Club - Bryant
A New Home, A New Chapter
Summary: Lisa Atwood is moving to Colorado for college and plans to stay at the Bar None Ranch, but a fight with her mother causes those plans to come to fruition faster than she'd anticipated. Mild AU; this is a future-fic that follows the continuity of The Saddle Club but not the Pine Hollow series.
I love Lisa here, bisexual and proud and dealing with a lot of shit without losing her sense of humor or her love of life.
Fandom: Whip It
Purple
Summary: When she had been in high school, Bliss had thought that escaping from Bodeen and the beauty pageant circuit and getting to avoid real college would be so perfect that she wouldn't ever be unhappy. But it was hard for her to make friends at work, and her derby friends didn't know how to talk about anything else. Bliss kind of sucked at making friends, but she almost didn't need them, 'cause she still had Pash.
This is sweet and sexy and hilarious and so very in character.
Fandom: Bend It Like Beckham
Five Days, Five Months
Summary: Coming to the US was the last thing Jess thought would put a rift in her relationship with Jules, but the moment she arrives everything starts to change.
This is such a sweet story, slightly sad but mostly just adorable and lovely and wonderful, Jess and Jules growing apart and then coming back together in a whole new way.
Fandom: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Ordinary Chocolate
Summary: Most times, Wonka made candy for the sake of making candy. This time, he made it for Charlie.
Lovely, entertaining story about Charlie trying to balance being just a boy and being Wonka's heir and Wonka not really understanding why Charlie wants to do the things he does, but helping nonetheless. It really captures the fun of the movie.
Fandom: Finding Nemo
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia: Editing Moorish Idol
Summary: A yuletide treat: tell me how Gill got caught in the first place (and it can't have been easy, can it, not when it was Gill).
This is a glorious, fantastic story about Gill being a badass fish in a big giant ocean.
Fandom: Blue Crush
Truth or Dare
Summary: Anne-Marie wants to know what it's like.
I love this story, though it's painful and a little heart-breaking. Anne Marie is kinda an idiot here, and Eden is so long-suffering, so in love but unwilling to settle for less than what she wants, which is Anne Marie's love.
JJ Says...
Summary: "Tell Eden she's a hottie!"
I love this story, Anne Marie being a little shy about the things she does with Eden, but wanting it anyway. It's lovely, sexy and sweet and funny all at the same time.
Fandom: Eastwick
well, maybe just a half a drink more (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: It doesn't take long for annual martini night to turn into what Darryl would call "some serious debauchery".
This is a sexy fun story about women and magic and sex. Lovely and fitting to the show.
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (Fairy Tale)
Beleza and the B.E.A.S.T. (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: Belaza was angry with her father for selling her to the B.E.A.S.T. in order to settle some old shipping debts, but mostly she was frightened--frightened of what her life would be like on the space station, of the empty corridors and the lonely days, and, more than anything else, frightened of the B.E.A.S.T. itself, the Biomechanical Electronic Ahuman Sentience Transfer which was responsible for all of the station's functioning.
AWESOME rewrite.
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (Disney movie)
A Different Path (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: The Beast wasn't turned human again and is wasting away in misery.
The Beast stays a beast! What more do you need to know? This is the ending I always wanted for the movie.
Fandom: Hellboy (movieverse)
Stars are Born (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: Hellboy has chased werewolves into plenty of strange places, but this one might just take the cake.
This combines two of my favorite things and I love it.
Fandom: Little Red Riding Hood (fairy tale) and Rapunzel (fairy tale)
Soldier On (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: Red's cloak didn't always used to be red, and Rapunzel's hair wasn't always so short.
Red and Rapunzel in a post-war world is AWESOME.
Fandom: Fringe
Cleanliness and Hard Work (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: A short introspection into how Astrid views herself and the lab. (Goes through Season 2, Ep 9, "Snakehead")
Astrid fic for the win! I love the scenes of Astrid and the lab and the way her views of it and herself change with time.
Help Wanted
Summary: Astrid didn't want to be Walter Bishop's lab assistant. Unfortunately, neither did anyone else.
Another amazing Astrid fic, with a great look inside her head and her reasons for not wanting to work with Walter, and her reasons for finally deciding to do so. I love Astrid so much anyway, and here she is amazing.
Fandom: Thriller (music video)
The Funk of Forty Thousand Years (Yuletide Madness)
Deliciously fun and creepy.
Fandom: Lost Boys (1987)
Hynopompic (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: David... won. In a way.
Michael dreams in a delicious, twisty, dark little story.
Fandom: Secret Garden - Burnett
Wick
Summary: Dickon's first year after he comes home from the war.
This is heartbreaking, painful and lovely, with a couple spots with gorgeous turns of phrase.
Fandom: Saving Face
Yum Cha
Summary: Even after you get your happy ending, you've still got to get up in the morning and deal with your relatives. And yourself. A story about trains, family, and dim sum.
This is lovely.
Fandom: Saddle Club - Bryant
A New Home, A New Chapter
Summary: Lisa Atwood is moving to Colorado for college and plans to stay at the Bar None Ranch, but a fight with her mother causes those plans to come to fruition faster than she'd anticipated. Mild AU; this is a future-fic that follows the continuity of The Saddle Club but not the Pine Hollow series.
I love Lisa here, bisexual and proud and dealing with a lot of shit without losing her sense of humor or her love of life.
Fandom: Whip It
Purple
Summary: When she had been in high school, Bliss had thought that escaping from Bodeen and the beauty pageant circuit and getting to avoid real college would be so perfect that she wouldn't ever be unhappy. But it was hard for her to make friends at work, and her derby friends didn't know how to talk about anything else. Bliss kind of sucked at making friends, but she almost didn't need them, 'cause she still had Pash.
This is sweet and sexy and hilarious and so very in character.
Fandom: Bend It Like Beckham
Five Days, Five Months
Summary: Coming to the US was the last thing Jess thought would put a rift in her relationship with Jules, but the moment she arrives everything starts to change.
This is such a sweet story, slightly sad but mostly just adorable and lovely and wonderful, Jess and Jules growing apart and then coming back together in a whole new way.
Fandom: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Ordinary Chocolate
Summary: Most times, Wonka made candy for the sake of making candy. This time, he made it for Charlie.
Lovely, entertaining story about Charlie trying to balance being just a boy and being Wonka's heir and Wonka not really understanding why Charlie wants to do the things he does, but helping nonetheless. It really captures the fun of the movie.
Fandom: Finding Nemo
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia: Editing Moorish Idol
Summary: A yuletide treat: tell me how Gill got caught in the first place (and it can't have been easy, can it, not when it was Gill).
This is a glorious, fantastic story about Gill being a badass fish in a big giant ocean.
Fandom: Blue Crush
Truth or Dare
Summary: Anne-Marie wants to know what it's like.
I love this story, though it's painful and a little heart-breaking. Anne Marie is kinda an idiot here, and Eden is so long-suffering, so in love but unwilling to settle for less than what she wants, which is Anne Marie's love.
JJ Says...
Summary: "Tell Eden she's a hottie!"
I love this story, Anne Marie being a little shy about the things she does with Eden, but wanting it anyway. It's lovely, sexy and sweet and funny all at the same time.
Tags:
- fic rec: beauty and the beast,
- fic rec: bend it like beckham,
- fic rec: blue crush,
- fic rec: charlie chocolate factory,
- fic rec: eastwick,
- fic rec: finding nemo,
- fic rec: fringe,
- fic rec: hellboy,
- fic rec: little red riding hood,
- fic rec: lost boys,
- fic rec: saddle club,
- fic rec: saving face,
- fic rec: secret garden,
- fic rec: thriller,
- fic rec: whip it,
- fic rec: yuletide
