Yuletide 2021 Recs: 84 recs in 56 Fandoms

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I succeeded in reading EVERY fic in the collection that I was interested in before reveals! And here is my list of recommendations. There are a lot of really good ones, and my tastes may not match yours, so I highly recommend browsing on your own. (And Madness, too!)

My Gifts:

Dirty Computer:
Tideline (1428 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ché/Jane/Zen (Dirty Computer)
Characters: Zen (Dirty Computer), Jane (Dirty Computer), Ché (Dirty Computer)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Escape, Treat, Yuletide 2021
Summary: Where they go after the House of the New Dawn.

I love this! So hopeful, and the reference to the Archandroid was perfect.


Inside Daisy Clover
Waiting for a Change (1021 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lewis Wade, Daisy Clover
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Chance Meetings, Drama, Angst with a Happy Ending, Memoirs, Reunions, Friendship
Summary: Wade manages to track Daisy down. Seems that the rumors of her death were greatly exaggerated after all.

I love this! I could hear their voices--Daisy, especially--and I think it'll be a much better life for her than Hollywood could have been.

General Recs:

16th Century RPF
Bad Reputation (2778 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Barbara Blomberg, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo III Duque de Alba, Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens, Felipe II de España | Philip II of Spain, Juan de Austria | John of Austria
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Character Study, Dark Comedy, Winning at life
Summary: The Duke of Alba might be King Philip's most feared general and the terror of the Netherlands, but even he is an utter loss on how to deal with one woman: Barbara Blomberg, former lover of the late Emperor Charles V., mother of Spain's latest national hero - and determined to live her life exactly the way she wants to.


Murder in Florence (8977 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: 16th Century CE Hapsburg RPF, 16th Century CE RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Alessandro "il Moro" de' Medici/Lorenzo "Lorenzino" di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Alessandro "il Moro" de' Medici/Margherita di Parma | Margaret of Parma, Margherita di Parma | Margaret of Parma & Taddea Malaspina, Taddea Malaspina/Alessandro "il Moro" de' Medici, Margherita di Parma | Margaret of Parma & Charles V Holy Roman Emperor, Alessandro "il Moro" de' Medici & Ippolito de' Medici
Characters: Alessandro "il Moro" de' Medici, Lorenzo "Lorenzino" di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Taddea Malaspina, Cardinal Innocenzo Cibo, Cosimo I. de' Medici, Françoise de Lannoy, Charles V Holy Roman Emperor, Margherita di Parma | Margaret of Parma, Caterina de' Medici, Ippolito de' Medici
Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Coming of Age, Arranged Marriage, Illegitimacy, POV Female Character, Politics, It's Not Paranoia If They're Really Out To Get You, Male-Female Friendship, Misses Clause Challenge, Chromatic Yuletide, Renaissance Era, yule be first, Yuletide, Yuletide 2021
Summary:

When Alessandro de' Medici is murdered, his teenage bride Margaret of Austria may be one of the few people sincerely mourning him - and determined to find out the truth. For the killer is one of Alessandro's closest friends, and Alessandro, the first Duke of Florence, both a bastard of uncertain parentage and a black man, had more than his share of enemies...

I love all the historical details, you really made the people and their world come alive.



Addams Family
Family Matters (2979 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Joel Glicker, Gomez Addams, Morticia Addams, Lurch (Addams Family), Cousin Itt (Addams Family), Wednesday Addams, Grandmama (Addams Family), Margaret Alford-Addams
Summary: Joel Glicker visits the Addams homestead for Wednesday's college graduation. By special request, no less. Whatever that means.

This is lovely! It captures the warmth and weirdness of the Addams family (and how that might be much better than a "normal" family) very well.

And I Have Seen Evil (1276 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Wednesday Addams, Original College Student Characters
Additional Tags: Horror Movies, Literary Theory, Film criticism, College, Gen or Pre-Slash, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Wednesday Addams discovers her college's Horror Club.

Of course Wednesday would feel at home in the horror movie club, and she's right about the fridge horrorness of so many movies.

On Those Who Would Subdue Us (3161 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gomez Addams/Morticia Addams
Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Pre-Canon, Fluff, Canon-Typical Morbidness
Summary: Before they were Mr. and Mrs. Addams, they had been young once. He was lonely and grieving and terribly handsome, and she was anxious and prickly and so determined to become a powerful witch that she hardly had time for anything else. The true story was romantic if you looked at it sideways, if you were the type of person who thought that thorns were the most beautiful part of roses, but it was private, almost painfully so.

great job of writing a young Gomez and Morticia.


Ancient Egyptian Religion
The Beautiful Year (+ 5 Demon Days) (7021 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ptah/Sekhmet (Ancient Egyptian), Hathor/Horus (Ancient Egyptian), Sobek/Renenutet (Ancient Egyptian)
Characters: Bastet (Ancient Egyptian), Sekhmet (Ancient Egyptian), Ptah (Ancient Egyptian), Hathor (Ancient Egyptian), Renenutet (Ancient Egyptian), Neith (Ancient Egyptian), Sobek (Ancient Egyptian), Ra (Ancient Egyptian), Osiris (Ancient Egyptian), Isis (Ancient Egyptian), Set (Ancient Egyptian), Horus (Ancient Egyptian), Taweret (Ancient Egyptian)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2021
Summary: This moment is now. This moment is always. This moment pulls away on the relentless flow that is time. Bast is many things simultaneously. She is one. She is many. She loves. She protects. She smites.
The word beautiful means lovely to the eyes. It means whole. It means becoming perfected. Festivals are beautiful. They are society in the act of becoming perfected.
The time of the festival is now.

Lyrical and gorgeous

Visions of the Distant Goddess (17020 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Ptah/Sekhmet
Characters: Ra (Ancient Egyptian), Neith (Ancient Egyptian), Amunet (Ancient Egyptian), Ptah (Ancient Egyptian), Shu (Ancient Egyptian), Tefnut (Ancient Egyptian), Sekhmet (Ancient Egyptian), Seshat (Ancient Egyptian), Thoth (Ancient Egyptian), Bastet (Ancient Egyptian), Sobek (Ancient Egyptian), Set (Ancient Egyptian)
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary:
There was a place in the desert where men and women did not often go. This was a place of absolute order. This was a place of utter disruption. This was a place outside of time. This was where time began.

It was impossible to find.
It could be found by closing one's eyes and going.

From order, there was chaos. From chaos, there was renewal. In renewal, there was order.

Beautiful job of weaving all the stories together


Astronomy (anthropomorfic)
Symbiotic Satellite Smiling in the Dark (1254 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Planet Earth/Moon | Earth's Moon (Anthropomorphic), Charon Moon/Planet Pluto (Anthropomorphic)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2021, Transgender, Trans Female Character, Make the Yuletide Gay
Summary: Luna knows exactly who she is. A celestial body who is simultaneously dark and gently shining. A moon in symbiotic embrace with her love. Forever dancing.

I love the metaphors, the way this builds up the transness of the moon.


Ballet Shoes
Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain (1955 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Pauline Fossil, Petrova Fossil, Posy Fossil
Additional Tags: Future Fic, Post-World War II, Bittersweet, Reunions, Family Feels
Summary: After years apart and after World War II, the Fossils prepare to meet again in London.

I love this picture of the three of them, and how they've all grown up and changed and yet are still themselves.


Batman
Not an Important Thing, But Everything (1025 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), Batman - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, Damian Wayne, Duke Thomas, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Batfamily Members
Additional Tags: Domestic Batfamily (DCU), Caring Batfamily (DCU), Sibling Bonding, sibling shenanigans, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent
Summary: A family is there for one another in the ways that are truly important, no matter how unusual that may seem.

Delightful! I love all the relationships between them.


Brigadoon
Giving the Bud (I Give the Flower) (3486 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warningsl
Characters: Jeff Douglas, Tommy Albright, Mr. Lundie (Brigadoon)
Additional Tags: World War II references, Fae & Fairies, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, References to Canonical Character Death, Living at different temporal speeds
Summary: Jeff watches Tommy go and thinks hard about Brigadoon and his own choices. That's his part. Two days and two centuries later, Tommy gets married. As he's more than a century dead, Jeff can't be there, but his last letter to Tommy is.

I love this fic, the thought into what happened outside Brigadoon and the backstories is excellent.


Brother Cadfael
Through the Eye of a Needle (6490 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Brother Cadfael, Sister Magdalen (Cadfael Chronicles)
Additional Tags: Winter, Embroidery, Case fic but without the violence
Summary: On a winter morning in the 1140s, a parcel is left at the door of the abbey church in Shrewsbury. When its contents turn out to be as contested as they are confounding, Brother Cadfael finds himself with some unexpected expert help.

I love the casefic, and this felt like something that could have happened in the books.


Captain America
Uncertainties (1640 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: What If... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger? (Cartoon 2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peggy Carter (What If... Captain Carter), Steve Rogers (What If... Captain Carter), Clint Barton (What If... Captain Carter)
Summary: 60 seconds, maybe, to go from hope to dread.

Very economical, effective storytelling.


Casablanca.
a beautiful friendship (4485 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Rick Blaine, Louis Renault
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Epic Friendship, Epic Bromance, you can see this with ship goggles? probably, World War II, i made up a bunch of backstory but i hope it makes sense, Pre-Canon, Missing Scene
Summary: “Oh, Rick,” Louis shakes his head, “I take it all back. That makes you more of a sentimentalist than anything I ever heard you say. And almost than anything I ever saw you doing.”

“Almost?”
“Letting that plane go is still quite unmatched, my friend.”

“Louis, fuck you,” Rick snorts, but it’s obvious he doesn’t really mean it, and now that he thinks about everything in retrospective… that does sound entirely more likely than stealing the Church’s fund, or rich women being involved.

“So, all things considered, you’d rather throw your lot with us poor, defeated Frenchmen?”

“Not even a question,” Rick says, “and now are you going to keep on asking me things or are you going to greet our guys that are about to come up on shore?”

I love the backstory they gave Rick


A Christmas Carol
The ever-circling years (4039 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jacob Marley/Ebenezer Scrooge
Additional Tags: Ghosts, Mutual Pining, Regret, Redemption, First Kiss
Summary: Scrooge is a changed man, but he and his old partner are not finished with one another.

This made me cry, and I do hope there is hope for Marley, too.


Emperor's New Groove
New Plan, Kronk! (1330 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Yzma (Disney), Kronk (Disney), Kronk's Shoulder Angel, Kronk's Shoulder Devil
Additional Tags: Cooking
Summary: Yzma returns to her old tricks. She isn't any better at killing this target than she was at killing Kuzco. And all actions have consequences.

Delicious consequences.

I love that Kronk was dedicated to safety equipment.


Denmark's New Groove (1380 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Emperor's New Groove (2000), Hamlet - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Hamlet Sr. (Hamlet), Hamlet (Hamlet), Horatio (Hamlet)
Additional Tags: rosencrantz and guildenstern (ish), cameos (divers), 100 percent cheap jokes by volume
Summary:

HAMLET
My lord, I think you have misunderstood
The fate that’s come upon you.

So funny


Enchanted Forrest Chronicles
Roses, Too (3796 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Cimorene (Enchanted Forest), Kazul (Enchanted Forest)
Additional Tags: Post-Dealing with Dragons, technically canon compliant, Domestic Fluff, Friendship, Cooking, fairytales - Freeform, Gender, Queer Themes
Summary: In which Cimorene becomes a Chief Problem-Solver and Kazul worries about the power of stories.

I love this! The references were great, and I love the way they wrote Cimorene.


Enola Holmes
Public Lives (3113 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Enola Holmes, Cecily Alistair
Additional Tags: Victorian Attitudes, Restaurants, Newspapers, Discreet Public Allusions to Private Indiscretions, Caricature as a window to the soul, Or at least a decent excuse to dine out
Summary: Enola has lunch with an intimate acquaintance.
Because she can.

I love how this captured the differences between the two of them.


Fairy Tales
so comes snow after fire (1440 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Prins Lindorm | King Lindworm (Fairy Tale)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: The Girl (Kong Lindorm | Prince Lindworm), Prince Lindworm (Kong Lindorm | Prince Lindworm)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Developing Relationship
Summary: "And even dragons have their endings." ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

I love what this did with the aftermath, and what it would be like for her.


Keys (7405 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Craobh-Òir agus Craobh-Airgid | Gold Tree and Silver Tree (Fairy Tale), Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: An Darna Bean | The Second Wife (Craobh-Òir agus Craobh-Airgid), Am Prionnsa | The Prince (Craobh-Òir agus Craobh-Airgid), Craobh-Òir | Gold Tree (Craobh-Òir agus Craobh-Airgid)
Additional Tags: Threesome - F/F/M, Arranged Marriage, Gothic, Supernatural Elements, Worldbuilding, Hurt/Comfort, Implied Sexual Content, Developing Relationship
Summary: The queen gathered scraps of knowledge about Craobh-Òir the way she gathered peat for fire.
I love this expansion of the second queen's perspective.


Galaxy Quest
Boys Go To Jupiter (3976 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Gwen DeMarco, Jason Nesmith, Alexander Dane, Fred Kwan, Tommy Webber
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Humor, Found Family
Summary: The government has questions about what happened at the Galaxy Quest convention. Does Gwen have the answers? Maybe not, but at least she can act like it.

Gwen was awesome!


The Green Knight
he hatz nere that he soght (he is close to what he sought) (1160 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: The Green Knight (2021)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gawain/Lord (The Green Knight 2021)
Characters: Gawain (TGK 2021), Green Knight (The Green Knight 2021), Lord (The Green Knight 2021)
Additional Tags: virtue - Freeform, Blood, just a little bit, Transformation, Nature, contemplations on life and death
Summary: Gawain just wants to live.

It's so lyrical, I love the imagery.


The Goblin Emperor
from laden boughs, from hands (3100 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maia Drazhar
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Infrastructure Porn, Canon Compliant, or at least I'm trying, Food
Summary: A day in the life of the Untheileneise kitchens.

I love the worldbuilding, and each vignette was built very deftly.


a visit to the winternight market (1272 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maia Drazhar, Csevet Aisava, Ino Drazhin, Mireän Drazhin
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Worldbuilding, Fluff, christmas markets, (the fantasy version thereof), Post-Canon, Yuletide
Summary: The market stokes Csevet’s memories of his own childhood—every child in the Elflands knows the joy of seeing the Winternight market set up, knowing the smells of sugared spiced nuts and savory grilled sausage will soon be drifting up in the freezing air. Even those without the pocket money to buy the little wooden toys—hand painted in bright colors and coated in shiny lacquer—could still delight in the displays of lanterns and garlands that looped over the streets and alleyways.
Well, Csevet thinks, almost every child in the Elflands has fond memories of the Winternight markets.

How sweet! Maia deserves all the fun childhood things.


Guys and Dolls
The Scribing Business (2883 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Archy and Mehitabel - Don Marquis, Guys and Dolls - Damon Runyon
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Archy (Archy and Mehitabel), Harry the Horse (Guys and Dolls)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Gangsters, Journalism, Prohibition
Summary: Harry the Horse has the idea that Archy can help him out with a little problem he is having, which is that he and Spanish John and Little Isadore wish to knock over a truck belonging to Solly Fingers which is carrying certain products from Canada. Solly neglects to notify anybody as to when it is due to arrive, out of a suspicion that someone may wish to knock it over. But the schedule will certainly be in his little club over on Eighth Avenue, and Harry says he does not know of a club anywhere on Eighth that can keep out a cockroach that is as smart as Archy, or in fact a cockroach of any description whatsoever.

The tone and style are PERFECT.


Gypsy
here's to the girls on the go (1065 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Gypsy Rose Lee | Louise, June Hovick (Gypsy)
Additional Tags: Sisters, Lunch, Character Study, Humor, Bittersweet, Real Life
Summary: June catches Louise when she's in New York. A lunch date ensues.

I'm glad to see the two of them caring about and supporting each other.


Humans are Space Orcs Meme
Having A Ball In Space (4507 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: POV First Person
Summary: Humans are indeed Space Orcs, but in this case mostly benevolent. And having a ball is sometimes very useful, especially if you can throw it.

Interesting take on the space orcs trope.


Imperial Radch trilogy
1Amaat's Mercy (6862 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Tiktik Girl (Imperial Radch), Mercy of Sarrse One Amaat One | Nyseme Ptem
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, In-Universe RPF, in-universe media, Screenplay/Script Format, POV Outsider, Imperfect translation capabilities, Canon-Typical Violence
Summary: The girl Breq met on Nilt watches an audiovid with her friends. It claims to be BASED ON A TRUE STORY.

I love how Minit is wrong about Breq and Seivarden ... and yet, sort of right, at the same time. Also, I wonder if they ever see a "based on true events!" audiovid about Breq starting the civil war, now that would be interesting.

A Truly Disasterous Tea Ceremony (1307 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Seivarden Vendaai, Mercy of Kalr Kalr Five | Ettan, Tisarwat (Imperial Radch), Mercy of Kalr (Imperial Radch), Zeiat (Imperial Radch), Justice of Toren One Esk Nineteen | Breq, Piat (Imperial Radch), Gem of Sphene (Imperial Radch), one unnamed Radchaai ambassador, Ensamble (Imperial Radch)
Additional Tags: Humor, Tea, Presger-Typical Weirdness, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Take one Presger translator, one Radchaai ambassador, numerous representatives of the Provisional Republic of Two Systems, and one Presger-mandated tea ceremony. Steep until bitter, and enjoy with fish sauce.


In the Heights
The Dance of Time (3280 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kevin Rosario & Nina Rosario, Kevin Rosario & Abuela Claudia
Characters: Kevin Rosario, Original Female Character
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Dating, Family
Summary: Camila has been dead for a year, but grief isn't a straight line.



Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
The Top 9 Trends To Bring Back In 2022! (1115 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Yuletide 2021, Clickbait, Worldbuilding, Future Fic
Summary: The last one won't shock you!

These are all hilarious


The Man With Darkness in His Eyes (6017 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: John Childermass/Jonathan Strange
Additional Tags: Madness, Tarot, Light Angst, Unspoken Mutual Attraction, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, (but it's only a tiny divergence), Strange's bonkers Venice period and all the mess that entails
Summary: Upon hearing that Jonathan Strange has cursed the city of Venice with a tower of night, John Childermass is sent to investigate.

Really interesting, love Childermass's perspective on magic and Strange.


Fortuitous (1458 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, HAROLD THEY'RE LESBIANS, Post-Book, Society of York Magicians
Summary: It has been years since Mr. Strange or Mr. Norrell have been seen in England, and the Learned Society of York Magicians has quite rebuilt itself. Miss Catherine Holloway sets off for her first experience of their meetings.

I love the worldbuilding and the ocs.


Law and Order
The Law, in its Majestic Equality (4034 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ben Stone (Law & Order), Shambala Green, Additional Tags: Ben Stone/Shambala Green UST, Original Character(s), Unresolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Emotional Tension, Past Abuse, Past Sexual Abuse, Past Violence, Non-Graphic Violence, Law Nerdery
Summary: Shambala takes on the case of an eighteen-year-old immigrant who killed her abusive employer. Ben is sympathetic, but insists on adhering to the letter of the law and prosecuting Shambala's client to the fullest extent of the law. Tension ensues.



The Lion in Winter
Zeal Now Melted (1037 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Geoffrey Plantagenet, Eleanor of Aquitaine
Summary: Mark, how they whisper: urge them while their souls are capable of this ambition. They couldn't help but be themselves, even if they wanted it not.


Lord Peter Wimsey
to translate a passion, to divide a sorrow (3641 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Harriet Vane
Additional Tags: Writing, Meta-Casefic, Meta-Femslash (OCs), Yuletide Treat
Summary: Harriet Vane bestows a murder on her college, to the benefit of all.

I love this look into Harriet's writing process.

Drown My Books (1521 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Harriet Vane, Peter Wimsey, Mervyn Bunter
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Magic
Summary: Harriet struggles with a plot point. Wimsey can resolve it - if she asks.


All Over the World (1040 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Bredon Delagardie Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, Peter Wimsey
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, internet research
Summary: On April 23rd, 1945, the powers that be decided that it was safe to lift the blackout which had been enforced in England since September of 1939. The war wasn't over, but the end was in sight, and for Bredon Wimsey it would be the harbinger of a new era.



Mansfield Park
Captain Norrington Comes to Mansfield Park (5235 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen, Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fanny Price/James Norrington
Additional Tags: other Mansfield Park characters, James Norrington in a Regency setting, no actual pirates, Fanny Price POV
Summary: There was a guest at Mansfield Park. This was not entirely unusual, except that the family rarely welcomed Naval Captains into their midst.

Norrington would be such a good match for Fanny, for all the reasons this fic shows. So many people don't understand or value Fanny, both in canon and in fan reactions to the book, so it's wonderful to see a fic that appreciates her as this one does.


Miss Marple.
Painted Murder (7507 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple, Dolly Bantry
Summary: When a murder stirs up memories of the Tuesday Night Club, Miss Marple ventures forth into stately drawing rooms, artists’ studios, and London art galleries to unravel the mystery in the way that only she can do, and to find justice for an old friend.

I love the casefic aspect, it really felt like something out of the books. And I could hear Miss Marple's voice.


Moana
all the time wondering where i need to be is behind me (2708 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Tui Waialiki's Best Friend/Tui Waialiki/Sina Waialiki, Sina Waialiki/Tui Waialiki, Moana Waialiki & Sina Waialiki
Additional Tags: Threesome - F/M/M, Polyamory, Angst with a Happy Ending, Grief, Trauma, Trust Issues, Resolved Miscommunication, Resolved Jealousy, Non-Linear Narrative, Bisexual Male Character, Established Relationship, Oneshot, Missing Moments, Alternate Universe - Pre-Canon, Backstory, Canon Compliant, (tagging both because there’s nothing in canon to contradict it but nothing to support it either), Yuletide, Yuletide 2021, Three Turtle Doves
Summary: All the island knows that Ihaka was Tui’s best friend.
What few also know is that Ihaka and Tui were lovers as well.
Or that Sina had been lover to both of them as well.
AU (or canon-compliant backstory, depending on how you look at it).

I love the depth this adds to their backstories and relationships


Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Damp Dames Distributing Daggers (1371 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dennis (Monty Python and the Holy Grail), Constitutional Peasant Woman (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Additional Tags: Humor, Nonconsensual sword distribution, Anarcho-syndicalist commune committees, Arthurian Elements, Yuletide Treat
Summary: “It is your destiny, which cannot be escaped,” the lady intoned.

“Watch me,” Dennis said, and escaped.

Hilarious


Ms. Marvel
home (is with you) (1104 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nakia Bahadir/Kamala Khan
Additional Tags: Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, srsly all the fluff, Friendship, Friends to Lovers, Yuletide 2021
Summary: It’s nearly 4 in the afternoon on a Saturday when Nakia’s phone buzzes on her desk.

3:49pm - Kamala: can i come over?
3:50pm - Nakia: sure

Very sweet


Much Ado About Nothing
Dessert (1697 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beatrice/Benedick/Don Pedro (Much Ado About Nothing)
Additional Tags: Pining, Friendship, Sometimes a Man Just Wants to Be Seduced By His Hot Married Best Friends
Summary: Earlier in their marriage, Don Pedro tried and failed to give them space.

Perfect shot of why this OT3 rules.


Murder, She Wrote
Body Number One (4922 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jessica Fletcher
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary: One time when Jessica didn't solve the mystery, and five times when she did.

"Surely that will never happen to her again." *dies laughing* Oh, Jessica ... On a more serious note, I love the way it loops back around and we find out who the first body was.


Murderbot Diaries
Iterable Objects (1179 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries), Asshole Research Transport (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Post-Book 5: Network Effect
Summary: Two cycles into our continued trajectory away from the colony, Perihelion taps me in the feed and asks, Do you have sufficient visual inputs for your ongoing spatial function?
I instinctively run a diagnostic. This Unit is functioning with 92.4% performance reliability.
In the feed, it looms closer. That is not what I asked.


Murderbot and Birthdays (1595 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Amena (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Asshole Research Transport (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Birthdays, Existential Crisis, Ice Skating
Summary: Murderbot does not have a birthday.


Runtime Error (1693 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tlacey's ComfortUnit (Murderbot Diaries), Cargo Transport Bot (Murderbot Diaries), SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: First Meetings, awkward ones - Freeform, Finding Family, finding yourself
Summary: I had been in there so long, Pilot had mated Ezy5 with another inflight cargo vehicle, shifted some stuff between the two, enjoyed some bot chit chat, and decoupled. Pilot insisted I strip right there in the hold so it could burn my slimed coveralls and run me through decontam.
This is why I was naked when the unknown rogue SecUnit walked into the hold.


Altered Parameters
I love ART having to learn how to be less of an asshole.

Community building (2878 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Bharadwaj (Murderbot Diaries), Tlacey's ComfortUnit (Murderbot Diaries)
Summary: The humans think Murderbot should take a leadership role in the growing construct community on Preservation Station. Murdurbot thinks this might be a mistake …


Gratitude (1561 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Amena (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Asshole Research Transport (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Gifts, Humor
Summary: SecBots do not own things; they are owned. Murderbot owns itself and its collection of media; everything else is temporary. That is about to change.

ART earns its name!


Ocean's 8
Meadowwood Estate Queerness (7220 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lou Miller (Ocean's), Debbie Ocean, Danny Ocean, Rusty Ryan
Additional Tags: University, 1990s, Period Typical Attitudes, Friendship, Secret Crush, Friends to Lovers, Meet the Family, Christmas Party, Alcohol
Summary: Louisa Miller has worked very hard to turn herself into Lou. She's got cooler clothes. She's got a smoother attitude. And she's got a new best friend, Debbie, who her old self never would have gotten close to.



Persuasion
Tomorrow (2847 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, Lady Russell (Persuasion)
Additional Tags: Prequel
Summary: “They were gradually acquainted, and when acquainted, rapidly and deeply in love. It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.”

What a lovely story of their courtship! I loved the historical detail.


Before the Deluge (5645 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Anne Elliot, Lady Russell (Persuasion), Mary Musgrove, Charles Musgrove, Louisa Musgrove, Henrietta Musgrove, Elizabeth Elliot
Additional Tags: merely loving longest, Courtship, Sisters, Snobs, dancing at balls
Summary: Young Squire Charles Musgrove thinks about marriage, as at age twenty-two, Anne Elliot looks ahead into life . . .

Interesting look at what the Musgrove courtship might have been like.


Peter Pan
The Man Who Was an Island (8057 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Peter Darling - Austin Chant, Peter Pan & Related Fandoms
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peter Pan | Peter Darling (Peter Darling), Peter Pan (Peter Pan), James Hook | James Harrington (Peter Darling), James Hook, Tiger Lily (Peter Pan), Crocodile (Peter Pan), Neverbird (Peter Pan)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Canon Queer Relationship, Canon Trans Character, Vengeful Mermaids, Non-binary fairy monarch, Musing about mortality, Growing Up, Rough Sex, Gratuitous cowboys in assless chaps
Summary: Peter Pan has grown up and made his peace with James Hook. But what if they didn't go back to England? How will Neverland fare now its egotistical god has a man's strength, a man's consistent determination, and no nemesis to hold him in check?

I love all the worldbuilding.


Philadelphia Story
Sophisticated Ideas (1934 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Macaulay Connor/C.K. Dexter Haven/Tracy Lord
Additional Tags: A brief appearance by Liz, Fluff, Polyamory, That Cary Grant and Randolph Scott photo shoot but it’s all three of the leads, Established Relationship
Summary: Tracy reacts to blackmail by doing the thing even harder, Mike is skeptical, Dex is along for the ride.



Piano Man
Man, What Are You Doing Here? (2754 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Davy (Piano Man), Paul (Piano Man), John (Piano Man), Waitress (Piano Man), Businessman (Piano Man), Bill (Piano Man), Old Man (Piano Man)
Additional Tags: Gay Bar, Gay Male Character, everyone is gay except the pianist and the waitress, oblivious straight guy, No Smut, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Drinking, Bisexual Male Character
Summary: "No, I mean, what are you doing here?"



Political Animals
Making Friends in Rehab (10975 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Thomas "T. J." Hammond, Margaret Barrish, Agent Clark (Political Animals), Douglas Hammond
Additional Tags: Recovery, Rehab, Fluff
Summary: TJ had promised himself he'd stay sober. If not forever, then at least until his mother was elected President.

He'd achieved that very limited goal, but it was embarrassing how close it had been.

On November 4, 2012, Elaine Barrish won the election by a landslide. Throughout her entire campaign, TJ felt as if he was running a marathon of drug avoidance, keeping clean until the election, making sure he didn't fuck up his mother's chances with yet another overdose she'd have to hide from the press. But then she won, and he felt like he'd broken the ribbon at the end of the race, like he didn't have to try anymore. So, he didn't.

TJ Hammond managed to wait until his mother was elected President to fall off the wagon. But now that he's in rehab, he's going to need friends to help him figure out what to do with the rest of his life.


I love this, it's such a realistic-and-hopeful look at TJ's possible future.


Poirot
The Mystery of the Runaway Heir (9816 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur Hastings/Hercule Poirot
Additional Tags: a cosmopolitan queer life, Oblivious Hastings, 1936 gay London, Awkward Social Situations, Case Fic
Summary: Poirot tracks down a runaway heir and a missing painting, but he’s really on the track of something else. As usual, Hastings is oblivious.

I love this story, both the casefic and the delicacy of their developing relationship.


Pride
orphans of the storm (1000 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gethin/Jonathan (Pride)
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Christmas, Tenderness, Kissing, Make the Yuletide Gay
Summary: There’s something sacred about Christmas morning.


You Don’t Even Like Boys (2541 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Steph (Pride), Jonathan (Pride), Gethin (Pride), Steph’s Mum, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: HIV/AIDS, Post-Canon, Every woman is a lesbian at heart, Clubbing
Summary: As the HIV/AIDS epidemic surges in London, Stephanie Chambers tries to hold onto her sense of self while continuing to be one of the blokes.


Rivers of London
The Butler Did It (5531 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Northern Exposure
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Thomas Nightingale, Alexander Seawoll, Sahra Guleed, Varvara Sidorovna Tamonina, Alona Silver, Ed Chigliak
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Seawoll does say fuck a lot
Summary: In which Nightingale exercises his investigative skills and demonstrates he can manage while Peter is on parental leave. Guleed tries to stand in for Peter. Seawoll is much put upon. A new magical tradition is encountered. And co-workers and sometime allies abound.

A Day In The Life Of Abigail Kamara (2725 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Abigail Kamara, Simon's Mum (Rivers of London), Mrs Kamara, Paul Kamara, Original Characters, Simon (Rivers of London)
Additional Tags: Abigail is busy, Goblin Market, Surveillance, low-key surveillance, Supernatural Elements, Fae & Fairies, Magic, Rivers, Orissa - Freeform, Family, Learning Disabilities, Disability, caregiver issues, Junior Apprentice Abigail, Demi-Monde, Moving, London, POV Character of Color, Female Character of Color, Character(s) of Color, Yuletide, Yuletide 2021
Summary: Abigail on the move, in so many senses of the word.


The Secret Garden
A Thousand Charms (1112 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mary Lennox (The Secret Garden), Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby, Mrs. Susan Sowerby, Archibald Craven
Summary: Some quality lies all unseen to other eyes--something in the heart or mind. There is, in fact, no such thing as Magic.



Singin' in the Rain
If I Ever Dared (7755 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Cosmo Brown, Don Lockwood, Kathy Selden, Lina Lamont, RF Simpson
Additional Tags: Pining for the person you're sleeping with, Relationship Negotiation, Established Relationship, Developing Relationship, Mutual Pining, Resolved Pining, Gosh just a lot of pining, Different Types of Love
Summary: Kathy put her hands on her hips and gave Cosmo a long, not very flattering appraisal. “Don is convinced that you’re dying, or you’ve developed an alcohol problem, or you’re packing up and moving to New York and don’t know how to tell us, but it doesn’t look like any of those things are happening. So why are you avoiding us?”

The angst and the sweetness at the end is just perfect together.


Speaking Those Glorious Words (4096 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Cosmo Brown, Don Lockwood, Kathy Selden, Lina Lamont
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Historical References, Historical Figures, Golden Age Hollywood, Established Relationship
Summary: “I wouldn’t mind doing something a little different for a change,” Kathy said. “We’ve made over a dozen movies during the last four years, and they all followed a similar recipe: romance, upbeat tunes, and a happy ending.” Hollywood, 1932. New challenges and an old acquaintance.

I love this, that Don and Kathy get to stretch their skills, and Lina gets a happy ending too.


Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings
Finding Our Way Together
Very sweet romance

Katy Chen and the Battle of Alcatraz (1851 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Katy Chen, Shang-Chi (Marvel), Xu Xialing (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Post-Canon, Teamwork, News Media, media attention, Katy Chen is a fricking badass, the one where San Francisco falls in love with Katy and Shang-Chi
Summary: Katy is just minding her own business, eating her dinner at her favorite Korean barbeque place, when the skies open up above Alcatraz.“SHIT,” Shaun says, already calling the Rings up out of his backpack and onto his arms. “Not these guys again!”


heading for something (somewhere i've never been) (4000 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Katy Chen, Shang-Chi (Marvel), Xu Wenwu (Marvel), Xu Xialing (Marvel)
Additional Tags: 5+1 Things, Falling In Love, Friends to Lovers, Feelings Realization, First Kiss, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Ten years in California, five karaoke nights, and the one girl Shaun fell in love with along the way.

I really love the depth of characterization


it's been a long cold lonely winter (3900 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Xu Xialing (Marvel), Shang-Chi (Marvel), Katy Chen, Xu Wenwu (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pre-Canon, Estranged Siblings, Sibling Bonding, Family Issues, complicated families
Summary: In which not one but two of Katy's friends turn out to have aliases, and the Xu family has a lot of feelings to work through.

you got it if you want it (6518 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katy Chen/Xu Xialing
Additional Tags: Accidental Sugar Baby Acquisition, Post-Canon, Getting Together, Mutual Pining
Summary: Xu Xialing stops in the doorway, staring.
Katy, lying on the bed, feeding herself perfectly cubed mango by hand, almost chokes.
She sits up, re-arranging her robe and hastily licking mango juice off of her fingers.
Xu Xialing’s lips press together. “You have been well-treated?”
Katy thinks about the Bath Experience, the heavenly soft clothes, and the fruit and nut platter. “Oh yeah,” she says.


Spiderman
Fire in the Cold (8925 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Fantastic Four (Comicverse), Spider-Man (Comicverse)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peter Parker, Johnny Storm, May Parker (Spider-Man), Susan Storm (Fantastic Four), Reed Richards, Ben Grimm
Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Holidays, Christmas, Yuletide Treat
Summary: “I need you to do me a favor,” Johnny said.
“No,” Peter said.
“But you didn’t even hear what it is yet!” Johnny protested.
“And somehow I already know it’s going to be stupid,” Peter said. “Okay, fine, shoot. Tell me what it is and then I’ll say no.”
Johnny took a deep breath.
“I need you to come with me on my family’s holiday trip and pretend to be my boyfriend,” Johnny said.

This is a perfect fake-dating friends-to-lovers, it's so sweet and funny.


Stardust
Endless is our great adventure (3068 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Tristran Thorn, Yvaine (Stardust), Captain Shakespeare
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Banter, Established Relationship, Adventure & Romance, Post-Canon
Summary: The Wall needs a guardian, since the last one quit in a huff. Tristran and Yvaine go on a journey to search for a new one.



Star Wars
Useful Assets (12092 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars Legends: X-Wing Series - Aaron Allston & Michael Stackpole
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Corran Horn & Mirax Terrik, Wedge Antilles/Talon Karrde
Additional Tags: Timeline What Timeline, Undercover Missions
Summary: Double-crossed by a business associate, Mirax turns to both Rogue Squadron and Talon Karrde for help.



Superman
Home Brew (1146 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Superman & Lois (TV 2021)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: John Henry Irons, Clark Kent
Additional Tags: Yuletide, past John Henry Irons/Lois Lane, Missing Scene
Summary: After John Henry saves Clark, the two share a drink, but it's hard making friends with the man married to your wife. Tag to episode 1.12.


Ted Lasso
the loneliness calls (1509 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Flo "Sassy" Collins/Ted Lasso
Additional Tags: One Night Stands, there were no weddings, there was a funeral, Missing Scene
Summary: Two people walk into a bar. There’s no joke. Just two people keeping each other company. Ted and Sassy spend some time together after the funeral.

I love this, the dynamic between them, how Sally sees Ted in a way most people don't.


The More Things Change (2688 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Roy Kent, Phoebe, Jamie Tartt, Keeley Jones
Additional Tags: Pre-Poly, Ensemble Cast, Post-Season/Series 02
Summary: "I am so fucking sorry," Roy says, for about the fifteenth time today.

I Know We're In The Long Game (4110 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Roy Kent, Keeley Jones, Ted Lasso, Rebecca Welton, Jamie Tartt
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, Friendship, AFC Richmond Players are Himbos (Ted Lasso), Found Family, Ted Lasso is Good at Sex, Happy Ending, Swearing, It's Roy Kent after all
Summary: Roy and Keeley do brunch. It’s not a double date with Ted and Rebecca, but it’s also not not that.

if you could redirect my day (11574 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Roy Kent, Jamie Tartt, Keeley Jones
Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 02, Vacation, Getting Together, Roy Kent Swears, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Roy is alone in Marbella, and it's fine until he finds out that Jamie fucking Tartt is in Ibiza.

He gives the invitation to join him for a few days against his better judgment, but he still gives it.

I love the development of the relationship.


Time Team
The Mystery of Mantlemass (7682 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Time Team (UK TV 1994), The Mantlemass Chronicles - Barbara Willard
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mick Aston, Phil Harding, Carenza Lewis, Tony Robinson (Actor), Stewart Ainsworth, John Gater, Tim Taylor, Celia Medley, Charles Dalloway
Additional Tags: Crossover
Summary: When Time Team comes to Stayly searching for a lost iron foundry from Tudor times, they find more than they expected.



World of the Five Gods (Chalion saga)
Opinion: The real issue of 'private Quintarianism' (1354 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Summary: Behind the current debate about decriminalizing hedge-sorcery lies a deeper rejection of Temple authority. We should take our children's dissatisfaction seriously.

First, the theology is interesting. Second, I'm curious about all the details of history that you drop and want to know everything about what's been going on recently, the details scattered throughout were very tantalizing. Third, I love the parallels with religion in modern-day Western countries.


X-Men
Demons, Doom, and Pink Jelly Shoes (1545 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: New Mutants (Comics)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Illyana Rasputin, Ororo Munroe, Kitty Pryde
Additional Tags: Demon Summoning, Shopping, 1980s, Clothing, Trauma
Summary: I can always tell when a story about summoning demons is written by someone who’s never summoned a demon.

I love the last line, it's perfect.


Young Wizards
Lonely among us (7840 words) by Anonymous
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Nita Callahan, Kit Rodriguez, Rhiow (Cats of Grand Central), Urruah (Cats of Grand Central), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Relationship Problems
Summary: Kit and Nita go to college separately and figure some things out together.

Feels like it could be canon


Can You See That Young Star Overhead? That's the One That Designed My Undoing (6825 words) by Anonymous
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Nita Callahan, Harry Callahan (Young Wizards), Lone Power (Young Wizards), Kit Rodriguez
Additional Tags: post Games Wizards Play, Established Relationship, can i leave heaven once i am there? if not how is it different than a fancy prison, explain how if i cannot leave it is not a prison
Summary: During a dream visit to Timeheart, Nita meets the Lone Power-- before he fell.

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“Not exactly me,” he said. “Someone I have the potential to be.”

“Is it really potential if you are always going to be here, like this?” Nita asked.

“That’s the beauty of potential, isn’t it? You never have to live up to it.” He looked distant. “You can see what it is, but you never have to reach out your hand and take it.” He illustrated with a gesture, his hand curling around nothing in the air in front of himself. She admired his fingers, how graceful the movement was.

“Do you want to?”

“Want?” he asked. “Now, that’s something that there isn’t much of in Timeheart.”

For some reason that she couldn’t have possibly explained, this made Nita unbearably sad.

Oh, wow, this is such an alternate-but-still-feels-like-canon take on things.

Comments

[kaasknot]

Thank you for the Galaxy Quest fic, I need to go re-watch that movie now.

...And then hit up Yuletide.

[beatrice_otter]

Do, do! Yuletide produces so much amazing fic.

[tabaqui]

Thank you so much for all these marvelous recs!!

[beatrice_otter]

You're welcome!

[frausorge]

Those are some gems for Shang-Chi - thanks for sharing the recs!

[beatrice_otter]

You're welcome! I encourage going through all the fics in the collection, there are a LOT of great Shang-Chi fics, of which these are only the ones I personally liked the most.