yuletide recs
Jan. 5th, 2019 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sea_changedI know I'm terribly late with these, and I still have a few assorted fandoms and fics on my TBR list, but I wanted to get up a few recs for things I've particularly enjoyed this round.
Skin and Stone by![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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Fandom: The Awakening (2011)
Characters: Florence Cathcart/Robert Mallory
Excerpt: She could not grow used to him, to the way he accepted her strangeness as a match for his own. They had argued about ghosts and God and manners, yes, but not her trousers or her ambitions or even her cervical cap. She loved him in a way that went beyond her heart all the way to her backbone, to the support of her in her entirety, but she wasn’t yet accustomed to him.
Rec: I have a huge soft spot for this movie and this is a wonderful coda to it, capturing the characters and their imagined future relationship wonderfully.
No Unnecessary Space bylesyeuxverts
Fandom: The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley
Characters: Merrick Tremayne/Raphael
Excerpt: I want to swallow every breath that he exhales, to cap every one of his words with a kiss. I want to be delicate enough, soft enough, to place a kiss on each of his eyelashes, to feel them flutter against my skin.
Rec: This is impossibly lovely. Raphael's point of view is carefully and wonderfully rendered, so perfect I didn't even mind the first person.
Therese bytearoses
Fandom: Carol (2015)
Characters: Therese Belivet(/Carol Aird)
Excerpt: She is the daughter of a daughter of a daughter
And she will live enough lives for all of them
Rec: A poem, unexpected but very nicely done.
chiiyo86
Fandom: Lynes and Mathey Series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott
Characters: Julian Lynes/Ned Mathey
Excerpt: He remembered Myers saying that Ned had told him Julian was brilliant, and a good person. Many people would probably have agreed with the first assessment, but only Ned would think the second one.
Rec: A look at their much-storied school days, subtle and in-character; this fits seamlessly within canon.
Second Level Prestidigitation for Apprentice Magicians bydesertscribe
Fandom: Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link
Characters: Jeremy Mars
Excerpt: The episode is almost universally condemned by fans as being the most boring and useless hour of filler in the entire series. Even the episode which took place in the dark and in Morse code is better liked, because at least that one has some good jokes in it.
Rec: So delightful, and it captures perfectly the tone of canon. I love Kelly Link and "Magic for Beginners" in particular is my forever favorite of hers, and this was just such a lovely expansion on it that captures so much of what I love about the source.
Skin and Stone by
Fandom: The Awakening (2011)
Characters: Florence Cathcart/Robert Mallory
Excerpt: She could not grow used to him, to the way he accepted her strangeness as a match for his own. They had argued about ghosts and God and manners, yes, but not her trousers or her ambitions or even her cervical cap. She loved him in a way that went beyond her heart all the way to her backbone, to the support of her in her entirety, but she wasn’t yet accustomed to him.
Rec: I have a huge soft spot for this movie and this is a wonderful coda to it, capturing the characters and their imagined future relationship wonderfully.
No Unnecessary Space by
Fandom: The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley
Characters: Merrick Tremayne/Raphael
Excerpt: I want to swallow every breath that he exhales, to cap every one of his words with a kiss. I want to be delicate enough, soft enough, to place a kiss on each of his eyelashes, to feel them flutter against my skin.
Rec: This is impossibly lovely. Raphael's point of view is carefully and wonderfully rendered, so perfect I didn't even mind the first person.
Therese by
Fandom: Carol (2015)
Characters: Therese Belivet(/Carol Aird)
Excerpt: She is the daughter of a daughter of a daughter
And she will live enough lives for all of them
Rec: A poem, unexpected but very nicely done.
Traces Through Time by brutti_ma_buoni
Fandom: Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
Characters: Harriet Vane/Peter Wimsey
Excerpt: The “Domina” addressed is commonly identified with HV, although this remains supposition. The Wimseys did complete a tour of the region once married, as a prelude to their famous Italian peregrination, which makes some of the promises made particularly intriguing. The echo of Text 7.1 in the Cologne passage is potentially significant.
Rec: I'm a sucker for meta-fic, and this does a great job of capturing Peter and Harriet while having a ton of fun with the academic monograph set-up.
Fandom: Lynes and Mathey Series - Amy Griswold & Melissa Scott
Characters: Julian Lynes/Ned Mathey
Excerpt: He remembered Myers saying that Ned had told him Julian was brilliant, and a good person. Many people would probably have agreed with the first assessment, but only Ned would think the second one.
Rec: A look at their much-storied school days, subtle and in-character; this fits seamlessly within canon.
Second Level Prestidigitation for Apprentice Magicians by
Fandom: Magic for Beginners - Kelly Link
Characters: Jeremy Mars
Excerpt: The episode is almost universally condemned by fans as being the most boring and useless hour of filler in the entire series. Even the episode which took place in the dark and in Morse code is better liked, because at least that one has some good jokes in it.
Rec: So delightful, and it captures perfectly the tone of canon. I love Kelly Link and "Magic for Beginners" in particular is my forever favorite of hers, and this was just such a lovely expansion on it that captures so much of what I love about the source.
