Yulerecs: 51 recs in 34 fandoms

[beatrice_otter]

Getting my recs in before the wire!

I received not one but three lovely fics, all of which really captured the spirit of their respective canons:

Additional Tags: Denial of Feelings, Feelings Realization (2072 words)
Fandom: Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Computron (Fandom for Robots), bjornruffian (Fandom For Robots)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Semi-Epistolary, Fanfiction within fanfiction, Fic of HyperWarp, a bit - Freeform, Author Has Not Watched Anime, Friendship, Online Friendship, Self-Discovery, the power of fanfiction, Computron has Feelings, Doctor Alquist is a Bad Father, bjornruffian is a Good Friend, Gaslighting, Robot Feels, Musings on the Nature of Sentience
Summary:

bjornruffian is a quick learner. The Hyperwarp fandom is lucky to have an artist so dedicated to rendering accurate representations of robotics. Computron is lucky to correspond with her.
These are objective, factual assessments. He will convey them to her as part of his feedback.

bjornruffian requests RobotFan's input on a new comic she's working on, in which Cyro's emotion circuits feature prominently.
Computron doesn't know why bjornruffian insists he's the best at writing Emotional!Cyro, when he doesn't even have emotion circuits.

a blindness of the heart (2165 words)
Fandom: 将军在上 | Oh My General (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hu Qing/Ye Zhao/Zhao Yujin
Characters: Xuan'er (Oh My General), Hu Qing (Oh My General), Zhao Yujin, Ye Zhao (Oh My General)
Additional Tags: Don't copy to another site, Yuletide 2025, Misunderstandings, yujin reads trashy romance novels, huli's poetic temperment is getting in the way of his own happiness, ye zhao has decided that enough is enough
Summary: In which Huli falls off a roof, Ye Zhao is blunt, and Zhao Yujin flashes a collarbone.


Becalmed (1095 words)
Fandom: Moana (Disney Animated Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Moana Waialiki, Ocean (Disney: Moana)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Introspection, Self-Doubt, manta rays
Summary: Moana thinks about what she's doing out on the ocean



And for the Informal Tumblr Podfic Exchange, someone podficced the story I wrote for Yuletide last year, and it is very well done:
[Podfic of] Interview with the Robot (48 words) by wilfriede0815
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Computron (Fandom for Robots), bjornruffian (Fandom For Robots)
Additional Tags: Chatlogs, Post-Canon, Podfic, Podfic Length: 20-30 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming
Summary:

What happened after the museum found out.

Podfic of Interview with the Robot by Beatrice_Otter.


Someone else podficced a different story I wrote for ITPE, and although it's not a Yuletide fic it is a fic crossover between two yuletide-eligible fandoms, so I thought I would rec it here anyway:

[Podfic] A Spy on the Golden State Train by Beatrice_Otter (38 words) by cheesecake3pods
Fandom: Agent Carter (TV), Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Phryne Fisher, Peggy Carter
Additional Tags: Action/Adventure, Podfic, Podfic Length: 20-30 Minutes, Audio Format: MP3, Audio Format: Streaming, Audio Format: Download
Summary:

Phryne has a little bit of excitement on her first trip to America after the Second World War.

This is a podfic of A Spy on the Golden State Train by Beatrice_Otter.

 

Other stories I enjoyed:
big brother shaped (17949 words)
Fandom: Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic), Batman - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Batfamily Members (DCU)
Additional Tags: Age Regression/De-Aging, Dick Grayson Needs a Hug, Depression, POV Alternating, Angst and Humor, Fluff and Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Protective Siblings, Banter
Summary: It should be hilarious when Dick gets de-aged: another brown-haired baby to throw into the playpen, this one no doubt climbing everything in sight and cheerfully babbling nonstop. Only Jason isn’t staring at a cheerful toddler. He’s looking down at a tiny, badly bruised child, shaking in his little Nightwing suit, staring up at Jason with poorly concealed terror.
(The de-aging, and the aftermath, and Dick and Jason Going Through It.)


What the Butler Saw (2135 words)
Fandom: Batman Beyond, DCU, DC Animated Universe (Timmverse)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Terry McGinnis, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth
Additional Tags: Diary/Journal
Summary: In order to be the Batman going forward – even with Bruce backing him up in the Batcave – Terry McGinnis needed to become at least as good a detective as Bruce.


In Vulnerability (3223 words)
Fandom: Static Shock
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Richie Foley & Virgil Hawkins, Richie "Gear" Foley/Virgil "Static" Hawkins
Additional Tags: Frieda and Daisy make brief appearances, Miscommunication, Coming Out, A comedy of errors, gay Richie "Gear" Foley, Pining, the pining is technically mutual but Virgil hasn't figured it out yet
Summary:

Virgil had been acting weird all week, and Richie was almost positive that it had something to do with him. Which was absolutely terrible, considering the guy was Richie's best friend. (And secret crush.) But for the life of him Richie couldn't figure out what, if anything, had gone wrong.
As a fifteen year old, this is of course a world ending affair.

A silly little take on the events leading up to Richie's new earring that he has at the start of season 2, and what an accessory like that could potentially mean.


This Time (1640 words)
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Queter (Imperial Radch), Gem of Sphene (Imperial Radch), Original Character, Zeiat and/or Dlique
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Time Travel
Summary: It had been almost one year since the formation of the Republic of Two Systems. Almost one year since Queter had become Sphene's captain. Athoek Station was beginning to fill with a riot of contrasting opinions on what Republic of Two Systems Independence Day decorations should look like, and Queter was taking some time to relax before the journey to come tomorrow.


The Princess Murdered (2471 words)
Fandom: Columbo, Princess Bride (1987)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Humperdinck tries to start a war with Guilder again, but Columbo is making it difficult.


Five times Mendanbar wasn't the king yet, and one time he was (2429 words)
Fandom: Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mendanbar (Enchanted Forest), Willin (Enchanted Forest), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Coming of Age, 5+1 Things, Magic
Summary: Growing up without the magic he knows he's entitled to is so frustrating.


With What Intense Desire (11793 words)
Fandom: Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Fanny Price, Edmund Bertram, Tom Bertram, Susan Price, Lady Bertram (Mansfield Park), Sir Thomas Bertram, Henry Crawford, Mary Crawford
Additional Tags: Alternate Timelines
Summary: Instead of having to wait until Maria Rushworth has run off with Henry Crawford before she is able to return to Mansfield Park, Fanny Price is summoned back sooner.
This tale offers an alternative ending to the story of Mansfield Park. Astute readers will find quotes from the original text incorporated into the story.


Once, Long Ago (4435 words)
Fandom: Persuasion - Jane Austen
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anne Elliot/Frederick Wentworth
Characters: Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, Mary Musgrove (Persuasion), Charles Musgrove, Mr. Musgrove (Persuasion), Mrs. Musgrove (Persuasion), Edward Wentworth
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mutual Pining, Getting Back Together, Reunions, Middle-Aged Romance
Summary: The Crofts never came to Kellynch-hall as tenants, and so Frederick Wentworth never returned to the neighbourhood in the year fourteen. A decade and a half later, when his brother is appointed to the living at Uppercross, he and Anne finally meet again.


What You've Left Behind (4949 words)
Fandom: Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Penric kin Jurald, Rolsch kin Jurald, Florina kin Jurald, Nikys Khatai, the Bastard (Chalion), the Father (Chalion)
Additional Tags: Comfort Food, Winter Solstice, Holidays
Summary: Penric kin Jurald, Desdemona, Nikys, and their family visit Penric's long-neglected kin in the Cantons for a Father's Day celebration, and, as always with Desdemona around, hijinks and chaos ensue.


a knock at your front door (7000 words)
Fandom: World of the Five Gods - Lois McMaster Bujold, Chalion Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Original Characters, the Father (Chalion)
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Saints, corporate crimes, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Verna breathed out. She could deal with some prophetic dreams, or with godly disappointment, or whatever... but she remembered that desolate, hopeless wailing, stretching long beyond the capacity of any living throat.
"Learned," she said. "Why me?"
He spread his hands. "Sera dy Marray, I'm not trying to make light of your burden. But why not you?"


Out Of The Loop (1433 words)
Fandom: Groundhog Day - Minchin/Rubin
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Phil Connors, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, POV Outsider, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Phil's boss thought he had a pretty good idea of what the consequences of sending his weather guy to Punxsutawney would be. He could not have been more wrong.


pistachios (1545 words)
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Csevet Aisava, Deret Beshelar
Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Aftermath of trauma, Set After Winternight, Csevet-centric, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Referenced violence, Referenced Death, Missing Scene
Summary: After the attempted assassination, Csevet cannot sleep. He meets Beshelar in the kitchens of the Alcethmeret.


events leading to "An Inventory of Religious Iconography in the Untheileneise Court Vigil Chapel"
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Archaeology, the vigil chapel (goblin emperor), Post-Canon, ethuverazhid religion, minor spoilers for tomb of dragons, Written without reference to orb of cairado
Summary: Scholar Saivenu Orlenchazan and their two junior assistants begin work on their approved research plan to study the Vigil Chapel of the Untheileneise Court.


for tonight (1364 words)
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maia Drazhar, Deret Beshelar
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Nightmares, Sharing a Bed, Cuddling, Maia is touch-starved, this fic occupies that gray area where it's written as pre-slash but really could be platonic
Summary: It was not something he could ask of anyone, let alone one of his nohecharei. But he could not help but long somewhere deep in his heart to be held. It had been so very long since anyone had touched him in affection and not in anger. And he could imagine Beshelar's arms around him, their strength, the protection they offered—
Or: When Maia is awoken by a nightmare, Beshelar is desperate to help his emperor, and Maia can only think of one thing to help lull him back to sleep.


Right There Where You Left It (1369 words)
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cala Athmaza & Deret Beshelar
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary: After becoming a nohecharis, Beshelar returns to the barracks to retrieve his things. His men are glad to see him.


the air we breathe (3386 words)
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Maia Drazhar, Idra Drazhar, Deret Beshelar, Leilis Athmaza
Additional Tags: Csevet and Kiru make minor appearances also, Sick Character, Caretaking by Proxy, (Because Maia Has Issues and Is Also Emperor)
Summary: Idra gets sick and Maia handles it as one might expect: badly at first, and then better with help.


The Sixth Saber (1066 words)
Fandom: Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
Summary: [bjornruffian] I’ve been thinking about the end of the last episode. When we see Cyro getting pushed down the side of the mountain before it cuts to black. Do you think that Cyro would be injured? Or would his frame be able to withstand the damage? (I’M SO NERVOUS ABOUT WHAT WE’RE GOING TO SEE NEXT SEASON)
[RobotFan] I have to consider this.
[RobotFan] I will conduct some analysis.


do human hearts hammer? (3783 words)
Fandom: Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: bjornruffian & Computron (Fandom for Robots)
Additional Tags: Canon Universe, Friendship, Personal Growth, or: where bjornruffian learns she does not have to grow out of fandom
Summary:

[RobotFan] Where I am stuck in place has not changed
[RobotFan] In human expression
[RobotFan] The invite is always open
[RobotFan] :D

bjornruffian is in her final year of university, working frantically on her thesis, and thinks she can never go back to her old fandom.
A keychain from a nemesis proves her wrong.

Finding a Home for the Holidays (1302 words)
Fandom: Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: bjornruffian & Computron (Fandom for Robots)
Characters: Computron (Fandom for Robots), bjornruffian (Fandom For Robots), Hexode (mentioned)(Fandom For Robots)
Additional Tags: Fundraising, Friendship, Minor Character Death, Robot/Human Relationships, Robots, robot/human friendship
Summary: The museum is closing at the end of the year. Computron does not know what will happen to him.
bjornruffian takes matters into her own hands.


The Interdepartmental Politics of Snake Selection (1806 words)
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Epistolary
Summary: Selected interoffice memos regarding the assignment and procurement of snakes for the Spring 2026 term


Snake Logistics for Spring Defenses (1562 words)
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Comedy, Bureaucracy, Yuletide 2025, the epic highs and lows of working in higher education
Summary:

Hayley: Does this kid want the boa constrictor?
Hayley: THIS IS HOW YOU GET THE BOA CONSTRICTOR

Mechanics of Knowledge (1914 words)
Fandom: Farscape
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Pilot & Aeryn Sun, John Crichton & Aeryn Sun
Characters: Aeryn Sun, Pilot (Farscape), John Crichton
Additional Tags: Season/Series 01, Peacekeepers (Farscape), Engineering, Present Tense
Summary: Aeryn realizes she has to maintain her own Prowler now. The Peacekeepers don't make it easy. It might not be the kind of fight she's expecting, but how hard could tech work really be?


Look After the Princess (6147 words) 
Fandom: Farscape
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Aeryn Sun, Katralla (Farscape)
Summary: Separated from the others, Katralla and Aeryn Sun have to find their way back to Moya.


And Together We Can Still Achieve What We Set Out To Do (9672 words)
Fandom: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Athoek Station & Its Residents
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Epistolary, Screenplay/Script Format, (well it's written transcriptions of security feeds but i don't think there's a tag for that), Two Full Single-Spaced Pages Of Imaginary Verb Forms, (they're plot-relevant I promise), Linguistics, Ychana culture, Xhai culture, Protests, Civil Unrest
Summary: Planning a protest is always difficult, and planning a large-scale protest against a tyrannical ruler while under lockdown with an AI that can see and hear everything you do . . . well, that's certainly a challenge. But Athoek Station's residents are clever and determined, and Station itself is committed to helping and protecting them in whatever way it can.
(Messages and security feed excerpts from the leadup to the sit-in protest that occurs towards the end of Ancillary Mercy)


an early gift (1362 words) 
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster (TV 1990)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Dahlia Travers
Additional Tags: Fluff, Sort of Christmas themed, Gifts, POV Reginald Jeeves
Summary:

Bertram Wooster and Reginald Jeeves have roles to play in public.
However, sometimes they are given a respite.

the ties that bind (10230 words)
Fandom: Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Reginald Jeeves & Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Angela Travers, Dahlia Travers, Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle
Additional Tags: Sickfic, in the mildest possible sense, Humor, Established Relationship, a thinly veiled excuse to sneak in the authors favourite love poem ever, Fluff, what i can only describe as a game attempt at the wooster voice. i tried!, Slice of Life, theyre both a bit daft bless them, this just kept getting longer and yet somehow it covers less than i had planned, i blame it on bertie. why use a word when you can use thirty and a shakespeare quote!!
Summary: On this particular tender morn, however, I was thrust like a newborn babe into the harsh light of day without any Jeeves to console me. I did not quite weep and wail as a n. b., but I confess it was a near thing. My prev. misgivings from the night before descended upon me like a wolf on the fold.
Perhaps Jeeves had been kidnapped? Perhaps (I thought, recalling a recent novel I had read) he had been chlorophormed while a burgler ransacked the ap. searching for jewels disguised as a copy of Spinoza's latest?
There was only one thing for it. We Woosters fought at Agincourt, you know, and a burgler is only one chap compared to several French Johnnies on horses. Steeling myself, I went to investigate.
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Jeeves is ill. Bertie rallies round. Featuring much talk of newts, Anatole's marvellous cooking, the aged a., and a rather quiet sort of love.


Peripateia (1946 words) 
Fandom: Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Alessandro Simonelli
Summary: How does a bastard, orphan, son of a Fairy and the third daughter of a York linen-draper... manage to survive his recent caper?


The King's City (2442 words) 
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: John Childermass & Jonathan Strange
Additional Tags: And I suppose John Uskglass is there in the background. lurking. like ALWAYS
Summary: In which two magicians have a talk about more than just magic.


The Last of the Gentleman Sleuths (3465 words) 
Fandom: Knives Out (Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Benoit Blanc (Knives Out), Phillip (Knives Out)
Summary: A case is closed.


Snow on Snow (14591 words) 
Fandom: Miss Marple - Agatha Christie
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Jane Marple, Raymond West
Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Case Fic, Christmas, Queer Character
Summary: It is December 22nd, 1962, and one the coldest winters in living memory is about to freeze Britain over. On the insistance of her nephew Raymond, Miss Marple spends the night in a remote village rather than risk going all the way to London by train. But when a man is found dead in the snow outside the cozy guest house in which she is staying, it is up to Miss Marple to save Christmas... and finish reading the draft of Raymond's latest book.


Happiness In Time of Joy (2389 words)
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey
Characters: Peter Wimsey, Gerald Wimsey Viscount St George, Mervyn Bunter
Additional Tags: Canon Compliant
Summary: Certain scenes which took place before Peter Wimsey's wedding


The Day After (4505 words) 
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey
Characters: Mervyn Bunter, Harriet Vane, Peter Wimsey
Additional Tags: Missing Scene
Summary: A coda to Busman’s Honeymoon.


Double Exposure
Peter Wimsey, casefic, polyamory
The noise of the British Intelligence Service’s Christmas Ball spilled from the ballroom’s windows into the early December air, sending laughter, music, and volleys of cigar smoke tumbling away down the hill.

a certain group of women (3182 words) 
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey, Honoria Lucasta Dowager Duchess of Denver & Harriet Vane
Characters: Harriet Vane, Peter Wimsey, Honoria Lucasta Dowager Duchess of Denver, Letitia Martin
Additional Tags: Oxford, Nostalgia, the unbearable longing to be an undergrad again
Summary:

TO HONORIA LUCASTA, DOWAGER DUCHESS OF DENVER
DUKE’S DENVER

PETER CALLED AWAY TO FRANCE STOP AM WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENT TO SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT AT OXFORD AS RESULT STOP WOULD BE HONORED TO HAVE YOU AS GUEST IF NOTHING ELSE ON FOR YOU STOP
YOUR LOVING HARRIET

When her husband Lord Peter Wimsey is unexpectedly summoned to France on business, Harriet Vane invites her mother-in-law, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, to join her at Shrewsbury for a speaking engagement. Will she be able to bring these two worlds together?


Dog Hamlets (3241 words) 
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lord Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, Mervyn Bunter
Additional Tags: casefic


Shared Flight (12244 words) 
Fandom: Mulan (Disney Animated Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fa Mulan | Hua Mulan/Shan Yu (Disney)
Characters: Fa Mulan | Hua Mulan (Disney), Shan Yu (Disney), Li Shang (Disney)
Additional Tags: Romance, Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Shan Yu Lives
Summary: The Emperor has decreed that a group of peace-making beauties be sent to marry into the ranks of the Huns, as a gesture of unity and fraternity towards the now defeated tribe, their new allies.
Hua Mulan goes along as an escort. Shan Yu finds this, and her ever increasing anger at him, endlessly amusing.


like friends once parted (2980 words)
Fandom: Roman Holiday (1953)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Princess Ann | Anya "Smitty" Smith/Joe Bradley
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Slice of Life, Mutual Pining, Happy Ending, 5+1 Things
Summary: Not all goodbyes are final, and neither Joe nor Ann can seem to exit the other's orbit completely.
OR
5 headlines from Joe Bradley’s career + the time he was the headline


Rejoice (2184 words) by 
Fandom: Roman Holiday (1953)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Princess Ann | Anya "Smitty" Smith/Joe Bradley
Characters: Princess Ann | Anya "Smitty" Smith, Joe Bradley, Anya's parents
Summary: "The Princess graciously waved to the throngs of supporters gathered outside her country's embassy." A load of manure, that's what that was. Why couldn't they tell the real story? Her eyes were like stars. She forgot to be shy when she smiled. She moved like a dancer when not weighed down by formal gowns and jewels. She could earn her living as a cook, if only she had someone to cook for.


Twice Over (6992 words) 
Fandom: Some Like It Hot (1959)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jerry "Daphne"/Osgood Fielding III, Jerry "Daphne" & Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
Characters: Jerry "Daphne", Sugar Kane Kowalczyk, Osgood Fielding III, Joe "Josephine"
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Domestic Fluff, Fluff, Found Family, Marriage Proposal, She/Her pronouns for Jerry "Daphne", Canon Compliant, Trans Character
Summary: Three months after their escape from Miami, a girls’ day out with Sugar becomes a reminder of how drastically Daphne's life had changed since she and Joe had fled Chicago - and how much of a perfect dream it had become.
Or - Osgood wants to propose again, properly this time. Sugar helps.


The Shadow of a Sound (2278 words) 
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peter Grant & Thomas Nightingale
Characters: Peter Grant (Rivers of London), Thomas Nightingale
Additional Tags: WWII History, set between Foxglove Summer and The Hanging Tree
Summary: When Peter and Nightingale are summoned to deal with magical device believed to have been dropped on London during this Blitz, something about it feels... off.


reach down and prove something (1406 words) 
Fandom: Pitch (TV 2016)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ginny Baker & Mike Lawson, Ginny Baker & Original Character(s)
Characters: Ginny Baker (Pitch), Mike Lawson, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Baseball, Mentorship, Slice of Life, Legacies
Summary: Post-retirement life still holds some surprises for Ginny and Mike.


The Ship Who Galloped (3129 words) 
Fandom: Ship Series - Anne McCaffrey
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Spaceships, touches on ableism in canon-typical ways, Brain/Brawn Dynamics, Yuletide Treat, Transhumanism
Summary: When he was a baby, J had to rock himself to sleep.
That was not because he was neglected; quite the contrary, he was being given an enormous amount of care and attention because of the priceless jewel that he was.


the (un)magnificent lives of adults (3329 words) 
Fandom: Sense8 (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wolfgang Bogdanow/Kala Dandekar/Rajan Rasal
Characters: Kala Dandekar, Wolfgang Bogdanow, Rajan Rasal, Will Gorski, Sun Bak (Sense8), Capheus Onyango, Nomi Marks, Amanita Caplan, Lito Rodriguez, Riley Blue
Additional Tags: Post-Canon
Summary: A year and a half ago, she and her whole cluster had been fighting for their lives, caught in a war and on the run. Now Kala was back at work, on her way to have lunch with her husband and their lover, and at the end of the day she would go home with them and to them, and they’d probably watch something on Netflix and Kala would call her parents and Rajan would make dinner while trying to teach Wolfgang to cook and then they’d make love, and it would all be so utterly, terrifyingly, wondrously, normal.
Not, perhaps, normal by the standards of most people in terms of the specifics, but in the overarching sense, in the quotidian daily routines of a comfortable life.
“Isn’t that a good thing?” said Sun mildly.
Kala and her cluster wrestle with what their new normal means.


What Wouldn't I Do For That Man (11779 words) 
Fandom: The Sting (1973)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Henry Gondorff/Johnny Hooker
Characters: Henry Gondorff, Johnny Hooker (The Sting), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Con Artists, 1930s, Gay Bar, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Nonverbal Communication, First Time, Post-Canon
Summary: Johnny strained for the faintly crackling feeling of awareness he'd gotten used to, looked for those tiny shifts of head, hands, stance—but nothing doing. Henry's attention was fully on the matinee idol and the idol's on him, murmuring in their own closed circle, while Johnny watched them like a stray through a cafe window.
Okay, so, this was new. He'd gotten on top of every knuckleball Henry had thrown him so far. You just had to watch, and then you'd see. Nobody ever said it was always going to be a goddamn delight.


INFORMATION DISCLOSURE EXPLOIT (5154 words) 
Fandom: Terminator (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: John Connor & Kyle Reese (Terminator)
Characters: John Connor (Terminator), John Connor | T-3000 (Terminator: Genisys), Skynet (Terminator), Kyle Reese (Terminator)
Additional Tags: Body Horror, machine assimilation, violation of physical and mental boundaries, Darkfic, One-Sided Relationship (kind of), Excessive use of full names, skynet POV, deliberate use of em-dashes, canonical character alteration, Manipulation, Angst, Movie: Terminator Genisys
Summary: John Connor's memories and feelings toward Kyle Reese are... complicated. Skynet isn't helping.


Adventures in Interplanetary Commerce (1857 words) 
Fandom: Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Carmela Rodriguez, Ronan Nolan, Nita Callahan, Kit Rodriguez, Sker'ret (Young Wizards)
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Entrepreneur Carmela Rodriguez, Interplanetary Travel
Summary: “He’s going in with me on a trading venture,” said Carmela.
Ronan waggled his eyebrows at Nita. “Chocolate.”

ETA: Plus Several Madness Recs

Anchors Away (554 words)
Fandom: Some Like It Hot (1959)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jerry "Daphne"/Osgood Fielding III
Summary:

Osgood liked to think of himself as a reasonable man, but he ran a tight ship.

Tiger in a Teacup (1373 words)
Fandom: Shazam! | Captain Marvel (Comics), Monkey Prince (DC Comics)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Marcus Sun, Billy Batson, Tawky Tawny
Additional Tags: Tea Parties, Fluff and Humor
Summary:

When Billy invites both Marcus and Tawny to his tea party, Marcus is shocked to meet a tiger.

Shelf-Check (check yourself) (498 words)
Fandom: Young Wizards - Diane Duane
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Libraries, Librarians, the wizard's manual, Take Your Fandom to Work Day
Summary:

The librarian pauses, and the wizard manual's familiar title stares back at him. It's waiting to be found by the right child. He has complicated feelings about that.

FAQ: The “Snake Fight” Portion of Your Magical Practitioner Examination (581 words)
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns, Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peter Grant (Rivers of London), Thomas Nightingale
Summary:

Nightingale was aghast at my lack of ophidian knowledge.

Joy (307 words)
Fandom: Fandom For Robots - Vina Jie-Min Prasad
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: bjornruffian & Computron (Fandom for Robots)
Characters: Computron (Fandom for Robots), bjornruffian (Fandom For Robots)
Additional Tags: Friendship, Fluff
Summary:

The announcement for season two of Hyperdimension Warp Record is released at exactly 12 pm GMT, or 7 am in Computron's local timezone.

 

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks for winnowing the Wimsey--public service journalism at its best.

[beatrice_otter]

You're welcome!