beatrice_otter | Five Figure Fanworks Recs

I love

fffx, because with just a little bit more word count (at least 10k), you have so much more scope for plotty fic. This year's exchange was great, with over 200 stories written. I wrote one fic and was blessed to receive two (thank you so much, guys!). You should go read through the collection if you haven't yet.

Here are the stories I received:
We're gonna make something so fine (16016 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Sense8 (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: The August 8th Cluster (Sense8), River El-Sadaawi, Sutra (Sense8)
Summary:

After the events of "Amor Vincit Omnia," the August 8th cluster tries to change the world, each in their own ways.

a story of a girl (10147 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Molly O’Brien & Naomi Wildman, Kira Nerys/Keiko O'Brien/Miles O'Brien, Seven of Nine & Naomi Wildman, Keiko O’Brien & Molly O’Brien, Miles O'Brien & Molly O'Brien, Molly O’Brien & Nog & Jake Sisko & Naomi Wildman, Kira Nerys & Molly O'Brien, Geskrengtregk/Samantha Wildman (Star Trek), Icheb & Seven of Nine
Characters: Molly O'Brien (Star Trek), Naomi Wildman, Keiko O'Brien, Miles O'Brien, Kira Nerys, Samantha Wildman, Geskrengtregk (Star Trek), Original Female Character(s) of Color, Original Male Character(s) of Color, Jake Sisko, Nog (Star Trek), Seven of Nine, Icheb (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Holidays, Character Study, Growing Up, Female Friendship, Polyamory, polyamorous parents, Family Feels, Discernment, Peldor Festival, Yuletide, Christmas, (Christmas in the future anyway which is more like a winter solstice celebration), Winter Solstice, Lunar New Year, Bajoran Culture, Japanese Culture, growing up cross-cultural in the 24th century, Post-Voyager Return, Post-Canon, Post-Dominion War (Star Trek)
Summary:

Molly O’Brien has three parents from three different cultures, and played a role in two of Starfleet’s most epic stories before she was old enough to be truly conscious of all of it. That’s a big thing to grow up with.

But when she meets Naomi Wildman, things start to look a lot more manageable.

(Or, Molly and Naomi become friends over the course of three holidays.)

And there are a lot of other great fics! Go check them out! Here are my recs:

furnish (n.) (30093 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: The Mummy (1999), The Mummy Returns (2001)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ardeth Bay/Rick O'Connell, Rick O'Connell & Evy Carnahan, Ardeth Bay/Rick O'Connell & Evy Carnahan
Additional Tags: Medjai Rick, Reincarnation, Temporary Character Death(s), Tattoos, Meaningful Tattoos, Canon Divergence AU, Minor Character Deaths
Summary:

Only the journey is written, not the destination. - Ardeth Bay, The Mummy Returns

The journey gets rewritten. (The destination is slightly different as a result.)

The Trail of Compassion (15741 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Reva Sevander | Third Sister, Tala Durith & Reva Sevander | Third Sister
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Tala Durith Lives, The Path (Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi TV), Jedi Philosophy (Star Wars), The Rebellion | Alliance to Restore the Republic (Star Wars), Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Healing, Service Jobs as a Crash Course in Empathy, Mentorship as a Path Towards Planning for the Future
Summary:

Reva heals and works towards understanding what she wants her future to be.

The Road that Reaches (11550 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mace Windu, Anakin Skywalker, Yoda (Star Wars), Depa Billaba, Shmi Skywalker
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon Divergence - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Anakin Skywalker is Mace Windu's Padawan
Summary:

As the Council sits down on Naboo to consider the newly-knighted Obi-Wan Kenobi's request to take young Anakin Skywalker as his padawan, they're informed of what transpired on Tatooine – and that Anakin used to be a slave. Mace Windu goes to interview the young child to confirm this, and gets rather more than he signed up for.

Free to Fly (12148 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Qui-Gon Jinn Lives, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Qui-Gon Jinn is Sir Not Appearing In This Story, Threesome, POV Anakin Skywalker, OT3, But like a gentle baby bird version of an OT3, Anakin Skywalker Needs a Hug, FFFX 2022, Planet Naboo (Star Wars), Naboo Culture and Customs (Star Wars)
Summary:

"Your sensitivity with the Force is all I wish to borrow, Padawan Skywalker. I will not ask you for anything you cannot give. And it will make Padme glad to see you again."
Those bright yellow eyes are watching him with bird-like attention and Anakin feels exposed.
“Alright,” he says finally. “Consider me yours.” Oh no. “I mean, I’m at your disposal.” There, that sounded better.
O’Ben coughs and Anakin watches him flush prettily. His features aren’t delicate by any stretch, but it makes him look young when he blushes. And happier. He would like to see what O’Ben looks like when he smiles.

Hyperdrive engine trouble sends Senior Padawan Anakin Skywalker back to the Naboo system as he's finishing up a solo mission. He hasn't been back since he and Qui-Gon left when he was nine, and his return trip is proving to be just as emotionally complicated...

(Or, take one emotional Senior Padawan chafing at the bit, one Naboo queen trying to plan for her planet's future, and one self-exiled man with yellow eyes that Anakin has thought dead for ten years, and add in a Sith mystery.)

if we've arrived, how would we know? (11351 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Peridan/Edmund Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie & Lucy Pevensie & Peter Pevensie & Susan Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie/Original Male Character(s)
Characters: Edmund Pevensie, Peridan (Narnia), Lucy Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Peter Pevensie, Various Narnian Characters, Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Golden Age (Narnia), Post-The Silver Chair, Pre-Book: The Last Battle (Narnia), Spare Oom, Boarding School, Explicit Sexual Content, Period Typical Attitudes
Summary:

Two glimpses into Edmund's life - one in Narnia, and one in England.

Insurrection Delta (11706 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kathryn Janeway/Tom Paris
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Undercover, Captivity, Huddling For Warmth, Holding Hands, Kissing, Flirting, Betrayal, Escape, Stubbornness, Scars, Hurt/Comfort, Backstory, Starfleet, Maquis (Star Trek), Cardassians, Kazon (Star Trek), Seska - Freeform, Background past Tom/B'Elanna, Pre-Canon, Episode: s01e01 Caretaker, Seasons 1-2
Summary:

Kathryn, though, saw right through Tom, pierced into his posturing rather than plowed past it. He’d thought it was because she was so much like him: boastful, arrogant, reckless. It never even crossed his mind that it might be because she had a dossier on him, that she had already known everything about his background and planned every interaction accordingly.

Auscultate (16317 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Teyla Emmagan/John Sheppard/Todd the Wraith, Teyla Emmagan/John Sheppard, John Sheppard/Todd the Wraith
Additional Tags: Non-Linear Narrative, surreality, Telepathic Bond, Telepathic Sex, Wraith Queen - Freeform, Wraith Physiology
Summary:

Atlantis's return to the Pegasus galaxy comes with a price attached: A mission to the Wraith homeworld.

Impulse and Opportunity (10700 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Colonel Brandon/Elinor Dashwood, Marianne Dashwood/John Willoughby
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Falling In Love
Summary:

Sir John Middleton was exactly the sort of relative most appreciated when one desired an unexceptionable excuse to absent oneself from one's home.

Banished into Distance and Indistinctness (17941 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Persuasion - Jane Austen
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Anne Elliot/Frederick Wentworth, Anne Elliot/Charles Musgrove, Louisa Musgrove/Frederick Wentworth
Additional Tags: Pining, Married to Other People, Emotional Infidelity, (No physical cheating on spouses), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Part Epistolary, 5+1 Things
Summary:

When Charles Musgrove asked Anne Elliot to marry him, she did not suppose that she had any other prospects (not anymore), and so she accepted his proposal.

Frederick Wentworth received the news of Anne's engagement only hours too late, and yet those hours were as good as a lifetime. And since he, too, could no longer conceive of any better prospects, he cast his eyes about for a satisfactory match, and pursued Anne's husband's sister, Louisa. It was his choice to do so, and so perhaps, in the end, this was all his own fault.

(Or, five times that it was too late for Anne and Frederick to be together, and one time when it was better late than never.)

Goodfellow (13211 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peter Grant (Rivers of London), Thomas Nightingale, Danni Wickford
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Organized Crime
Summary:

There had been thefts at three successive Goblin Markets, and one incident of serious vandalism, before Robin Goodfellow had deigned to call in the munificent arm of the law—in this case, the Special Assessment Unit, colloquially known as the Folly, and disparagingly called the Isaacs by the demi-monde. Which just goes to show that after over a century of alternating condescension, neglect, and active persecution, it takes more than a few years of community-focused policing to change community perception. Even when that policing is being done by a handsome and charismatic DC such as myself.

In This or Any Other Universe (33434 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: The Batman (Movie 2022), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Alfred Pennyworth, Salvatore Maroni, Jim Gordon
Additional Tags: Crossover, Timeline Shenanigans, Dimension Travel, Identity Porn, Reverse Mentoring, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Dick Grayson is Nightwing, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Socializing, Wrong Universe Hijinks, Canon-Typical Violence, Haly's Circus (DCU), The Flying Graysons (DCU), Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Angst and Feels, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Batman Played by Robert Pattinson, Bittersweet Ending, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Moral Dilemmas, Butterfly Effect
Summary:

There was a new vigilante in his city: a man who smiled too much and talked too loud and knew his way around a fight a little too well. Bruce wasn't bothered by his antics. Except the man also seemed to know a little too much about him.

Who was this Nightwing, anyway?

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OR: Dick Grayson (DCU) accidentally lands himself in Battinson’s Gotham.

look all around, there's nothing but blue skies (11312 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katniss Everdeen/Finnick Odair
Characters: Katniss Everdeen, Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Healing, Getting Together, Oblivious Character, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:

Katniss moves to District 12 after Peeta's death, where Finnick is mourning Annie.