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Today I did the Monday tasks
and re read https://archiveofourown.org/works/224601 Unalienable by Basingstoke
a lovely intricate xover that makes excellent sense and is full of feelings.
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Today I have not (yet) listened to DW because I was reading

Four Cups of Wine (56536 words) by borealowl
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), some OCs - Character
Additional Tags: Pesach | Passover, I Don't Even Know, Pining, Shavuot, Crowley Has PTSD (Good Omens), Jewish Character, Lesbians, Rosh HaShana | Jewish New Year, Yom Kippur | Atonement Day, Sukkot | Tabernacles, Hanukkah, Purim, Jewish Good Omens (Good Omens), Found Family
Series: Part 1 of Four Cups of Wine and related stories
Summary:

Crowley is terrified of losing Aziraphale again, but unable to confess his feelings. He follows Aziraphale on an errand to America, where they end up invited to a seder and spend the next year being invited to other holidays and gatherings on both sides of the Atlantic. Is Crowley's pining painfully obvious to everyone but Aziraphale? (Yes.) Are the rabbi and her wife going to try and get them together? (Yes.) How many Jewish holidays will these two ineffable idiots be invited to before they finally admit their feelings to each other? (Read it and see!)

(And because someone requested it, there is now a link to brief explanatory notes about the various Jewish terms at the beginning of each chapter.)



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I like it very well.

Fic rec

Jul. 16th, 2020 02:43 am
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Yesterday I stayed up weird hours reading a fic
because it made me happy, it made me laugh, and it made me realise I do still care about these characters as long as I ignore... most canon since 2012 and just hang out with the versions that care about each other.

Hopscotch and Red Rover (87514 words) by scifigrl47
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Darcy Lewis/OC
Characters: Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Clea, Steve Rogers, A wild pack of OCs appears
Additional Tags: magic goes poorly, OCs Abound, Stephen Strange should not babysit, Clea absolutely positively should not babysit, Tony and Steve are going to have so many words about this, It's going to be SUCH A DISCUSSION
Series: Part 7 of Tales of the Bots
Summary:

For my Marvel Trumps Hate auction

My first winner, girlbehindtheglasses, requested a bunch of my OCs doing what my OCs do best: making very poor choices, aided and abetted by Tony and Stephen Strange.

Magic abounds. Tony suffers.



I want to go back and read all the things and catch up to this story again and read it again.

It might be the first thing I've been enthusiastic about since March.
... no, wait, Staged was great, and a couple of audio adventures.
Still. This year. *sigh*

But I liked this story.
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An Ever-Fixed Mark (190537 words) by AMarguerite
Chapters: 19/19
Fandom: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam, Jane Bennet/Charles Bingley
Characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliam (Pride and Prejudice), Georgiana Darcy, Catherine de Bourgh, Anne de Bourgh, Charlotte Lucas, William Collins (Pride and Prejudice), Maria Lucas, Jane Bennet, Charles Bingley, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Kitty Bennet, George Wickham, Duke of Wellington, Mary Crawford, Mary Bennet, Caroline Bingley, William Elliot (Persuasion), Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility), Marianne Dashwood, Eliza (Sense and Sensibility), Henry Tilney, Catherine Morland, Frederick Wentworth, Anne Elliot, Elizabeth Elliot, Arthur Wellesley
Additional Tags: Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Soulmates, Comedy, Deconstruction, Napoleonic Wars, Regency, Regency Romance, Pining, badass Elizabeth Bennet, Miscarriage, 19th Century Medicine, Battle Of Waterloo, battlefield descriptions, Mention of Surgery, medicine sure was fun before germ theory, Period-Typical Homophobia, Period-Typical Sexism, Elizabeth Bennet/ Mud, is the true OTP, Feminist Themes, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Grief/Mourning, Slow Burn, Reaaaally slow burn, Burn so slow it takes like six chapters to defrost first
Series: Part 1 of An Ever-Fixed Mark
Summary:

One would think that having the name of one's soulmate appear on one's wrist on one's sixteenth birthday would make matrimony much less complicated. It mostly does not. And not at all for Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourne.

(A deconstruction of the "soulmate identifying mark" trope, using "Pride and Prejudice." Trigger warnings in the tags.)

Bookmarker's Notes:

A thorough and engaging exploration of soulmate marks and the influence of their interpretation.



***


As you can see, that was a lot of words, so that was all I've been doing for some days now. Good reading, interesting thoughts.
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Haven't read much yet but I like this one

Forge a Path for the Crossroads (26415 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Young Justice (Comics), DCU (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dinah Drake/Oliver Queen, Tim Drake/Cissie King-Jones
Characters: Cissie King-Jones, Oliver Queen, Dinah Lance, Bart Allen, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Tim Drake, Cassie Sandsmark, Anita Fite, Joan Garrick, Bonnie King
Additional Tags: Angst, Family Secrets, Friendship, Father-Daughter Relationship, Misses Clause Challenge, Coming of Age, Ollie is Cissie's dad, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
Summary:

Now living as simply Cissie King-Jones rather than Arrowette for the first time in her life, Cissie struggles to keep her old friends, overcome old habits, and find out what being herself actually means, all while contending with a shocking revelation about her parentage.





and this



Scout's Honor (4859 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Justice League International (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Big Barda, Scott Free, Original Characters
Summary:

Believe it or not, the whole thing started with cookies.

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So, with the handy Share button and the stories I shared on tumblr tagged, I have a small collection of Yuletide I especially liked :

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.
beccaelizabeth: my Watcher tattoo in blue, plus Be in red Buffy style font (Default)
Am reading Accelerando
http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/accelerando.charles_stross/sisu_manifest.html
[ETA: link broke, try http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html ]

Am about ready to give up on concept of science fiction.
The future is not only weirder than we think, it's weirder than we can think.

Any properly plausible future isn't very much to do with humans.

Don't know what stories I could make that are any plausible at all.



Could make more a bit like Stargate where now humans run around meeting people of coincidental similar development.

Would involve ignoring how unlikely that is.



Also I have no idea what morality looks like once so many possibilities exist.
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Fic rec: legionseagle.livejournal.com/10098.html
Can't Trace Time by [livejournal.com profile] legionseagle
link goes to last part, 10/10 complete, has links to all earlier parts.
Torchwood/Vorkosigan xover with Owen and Bel Thorne, plus a few other familiar faces.
Nice action plot, and lovely characterisation.

I read a story about Owen. I stayed up after class on two hours sleep because I wanted to see what happens next. And I liked it.

That's some quality writing, that is.








[broken link made visible March 2022]
think it was
https://archiveofourown.org/works/619277/chapters/1117399
beccaelizabeth: my Watcher tattoo in blue, plus Be in red Buffy style font (Default)
There's a fic I read once I'm trying to remember the name of now. I think it was by someone I really ought to remember. I think it was Due South. The key part is that they keep writing the day wrong, so it stays Tuesday over and over until they work through their issues. And that image has bunnied me for Torchwood. I know it's a bit groundhog day too, but if I'm inspired by something specific it seems polite to mention it in the notes, you know?
So, anyone know which one? I almost know but it's been bugging me all day, and you can't exactly google usefully for Tuesday.

ETA: Solved!
http://www.trickster.org/speranza/Eight.html
(see comments)
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Tea and Biscuits

only two words in the whole thing I didn't like, those being 'The End'
moooooooore!
*loves it lots*

No Limits

Feb. 3rd, 2005 12:21 pm
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http://ats-nolimits.com/episodes/ep0610.php
this week? 'Girls' Night Out' - *hilarious* I just sat here for about five minutes applauding the screen and lol too much to keep reading. Go. Now. Extreme funny.

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