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beccaelizabeth) wrote2018-01-02 10:24 pm
Yuletide recs 2017
Lock Me In Your Pocket (6460 words) by torakowalski
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Blood-Smoke Series - Tanya Huff, Smoke Series - Tanya Huff
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tony Foster/Lee Nicholas
Characters: Lee Nicholas, Tony Foster, Amy (Smoke Series), Zev Sero
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Coming Out
Summary:
Getting together was easy, telling people is harder.
World Enough and Time (7521 words) by nomeancity
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Chanur Series - C. J. Cherryh
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Pyanfar Chanur/Khym Mahn, Khym Mahn/Original character
Characters: Khym Mahn, Pyanfar Chanur
Summary:
Khym Mahn lived the life his world expected of him. He would like another one for himself.
Assistance to British Nationals Abroad (20372 words) by melannen
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: British Government Cats RPF, Slip Slidin' Away - Paul Simon (Song), Monstress (Comics), Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Palmerston (Chief Mouser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), Larry (Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office), Tam Tam (First Record-Keeper of the Is'hami Temple), Cronus (Assistant to the Chief Whip), Toby (Rivers of London), Molly (Rivers of London), The Woman Who Became A Wife, The Man Who Wore His Passion For His Woman Like A Thorny Crown, The Father Who Had A Son, Siffha'h (Tower Bridge Gating Team)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Cats, London, worldgates, Tentacle Monsters, Spiders, Dogs, Wizards
Summary:
Three cats, three humans, a dog and a tarantula walk through a Gate -
This one is really good, and not just because cat wizards are excellent. Plot, characters, adventures. Don't be put off by the xovers, I don't know from half of them, but it explains things as needed.
Extraordinarily Mundane (2363 words) by tptigger
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Nita Callahan, Kit Rodriguez
Additional Tags: Carl Romeo - Freeform, hazards of being sevarfrith, College Applications, slight Nita/Kit, spoilers for Interim Errantry and Games Wizards Play
Summary:
When so much of the amazing things you've done involve wizardry, how do you explain to a college how cool you are without breaking sevarfrith?
Siding Springs (6474 words) by alessandriana
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Martian (2015), The Martian - Andy Weir, The Martian - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mark Watney, Melissa Lewis (The Martian), Beth Johanssen, Rick Martinez (The Martian), Chris Beck, Alex Vogel
Additional Tags: Ares III has terrible luck
Summary:
"Oh, hey, Vogel, you've got a telemetry update, and Commander, there's a space weather advisory for the crew."
"What does it say?" Lewis asked, coming to stand behind Johanssen.
"Hmm... we're going to be passing through the tail end of a comet debris field starting this afternoon, so there will be a slightly increased chance of micrometeoroid impacts."
Slightly increased? Yeah, it’s Ares III. Our luck is just not that good.
And I Think My Spaceship Knows Which Way To Go. (3832 words) by Lanna Michaels
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Martian - Andy Weir, Wonder Woman (2017)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beth Johanssen/Chris Beck/Mark Watney
Characters: Beth Johanssen, Chris Beck, Mark Watney, Diana (Wonder Woman)
Additional Tags: Yuletide 2017, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Crossover, Established Relationship
Summary:
No one becomes an astronaut because they want to stay home all the time.
Improvise (3976 words) by UrbanAmazon
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dinotopia - James Gurney
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dinosaur OC, Human OC
Additional Tags: TED Talk
Summary:
"Hello. Thank you. Breathe deep. My name is Thundertooth, of the line of Crookeye. Though, to be fair, you might know me better from some of my other roles."
A TED tale from modern Dinotopia.
Grace in Memory (8174 words) by SunlitStone
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lupe dy Cazaril/Betriz dy Ferrej, Iselle dy Chalion/Bergon dy Ibra, Betriz dy Ferrej & Bergon dy Ibra, Lupe dy Cazaril & Iselle dy Chalion
Characters: Betriz dy Ferrej, Bergon dy Ibra, Iselle dy Chalion, Lupe dy Cazaril
Additional Tags: Family, shipfic, Introspection
Summary:
When Bergon and Betriz are trapped by a cave-in, they must talk with each other to pass the time and to keep awake. Meanwhile, Iselle and Cazaril, stuck on the other side of the rocks, must wait while their loved ones are rescued, and have little to do to while they wait but talk, themselves.
When the Wild Comes Rising, None Shall Turn It Back (20942 words) by Sage
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton, Bran Davies/Jane Drew, Jane Drew/Will Stanton, Bran Davies/Jane Drew/Will Stanton
Characters: Jane Drew, Bran Davies (Dark Is Rising), Will Stanton, Tethys, Herne the Hunter, Barnabas Drew (Dark Is Rising), Simon Drew, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fix-It, wild magic, Polyamory, Polyamory Negotiations, Environment, Monsters, Folklore, Mythology - Freeform, Yuletide, Yuletide 2017
Summary:
There are kaiju in the 24 hour news cycle.
The word kaiju gave me weird expectations because I only know it from Pacific Rim, but this is a good one about the Wild magic rising all over the world, in locally appropriate forms. And the Wild surely does have its reasons.
There are always more fics in more fandoms, and most authors I follow this year wrote for source I don't know, but I think I've read the ones I recognise now and these were good.
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