Unthinkable Wings

An odd carriage. A brief cross-over: Emily Dickinson meets Death (THE ONE THAT TALKS LIKE THIS).

Galaxy Quest Episode 57: "The Fairest of Them All". Galaxy Quest: an excerpt from an episode guide. Very funny!

The Alien Lover. Galaxy Quest again, and a backstory for Laliari. Fluff, and "kind of the opposite of tentacle sex", as the author says.

Harmless. Discworld, with a very funny riff on Asimov: what do you get if you cross a golem and the three laws of robotics?

The Escapists. Emily and Anne Bronte get a day out in York. I'm not sure about some of the period detail (I doubt that York Minster smelled of incense in 1845), but it's a lovely fic all the same.

Bolts of Iron. Vorkosigan Saga. Some key incidents in the lives of Pierre and Miles Vorkosigan.

Yip et non. This is what I get for muttering to myself about being sick of fic about Peter bloody Abelard, because this piece of inspired lunacy is hilarious. I can't better the summary: Abelard and Bernard are pomeranians and they have been bad.

Experiments In Intelligence. (Fandom: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording (Youtube). A really rather good exploration of what the octopus might have been thinking...

Scymnus Diaboli". (These Old Shades/ Devil's Cub) I should warn that this contains sexual assault and an attempted rape (it's hurt comfort, though thankfully without Magical Healing Cock - it's gen), but the Heyer pastiche is really pretty good.

She Will Place on Your Head a Graceful Garland; She Will Bestow on You a Beautiful Crown . Hebrew Bible; Bathsheba and Abigail. A very good fic about women in a patriarchal society and the temptations of power, with an excellent Abigail (and a very convincing Michal). My favourite fic of the batch, and worth it even if you're a bit foggy on Kings and Chronicles or not that interested in the Bible.

The Man in the Gaberdine Suit. American Gods. I'm not entirely sure Shadow would make the choice he does at the end of this fic, but it does capture the feel of American Gods very well indeed.

A happy Christmas to all who celebrate it - and, indeed, happy festival of choice if you're celebrating something different, and for that matter, if you're not celebrating anything, then I hope you had a lovely day nonetheless.

The 25th of December, of course, also brings Yuletide! I had two splendid gifts.

The first, The North Face of the Eiger is Swallows and Amazons fic, set a few years post canon, in which Nancy and Titty climb the North Face of the Eiger, otherwise known as Jack's Rake. The characterisation, and the way Titty and Nancy think about the world is spot on - it feels like an extension of canon.

The second is Go and Catch a Falling Star, a plotty cross-over in which Harriet and Peter investigate mysterious cases of spontaneous combustion in Denver, only to find themselves crossing swords with a strange chap calling himself the Doctor, and his two 'cousins'. This is an ingenious blend of the two canons, and the resolution felt very fitting to both sources.

I haven't got any further through the Yuletide fics, but I expect I'll have a rec post up later in the week!

I wrote a fic, a treat, and a Madness ficlet - I suspect at least one of them is really obvious, but I will offer a drabble for the first person to correctly guess each one...

Dear mystery author!

Firstly, thank you for signing up. I can't wait to see what you'll write me (we have at least one of these fandoms in common, so the chances I'll love it are already very good).

Secondly, some general notes about the sort of fics I prefer. I generally like to read fic that explores some aspect of character, or the relationship (not just in the shippy sense) between characters. I love fics that explore what drives a character, looks at their values and obsessions, or examines why they've made the choices they did. I tend to be a canon shipper. I also quite like fics which explore what might have happened if someone had made one different decision, or if things had gone a different way. I'm not keen on the different setting AU (such as high school AUs), though. If you feel it would help, my profile at AO3 will show you the kinds of fic I write/ bookmark.

I'm also not particularly interested in porn, but that doesn't mean I'd be unhappy with a fic that touched on relationships or even included a bit of fade-to-black sex. Slash or het relationships are both fine (but, as I say, I tend to be a canon-shipper.

On the fandoms I've requested.

Rev. Almost anything for this fandom would make me gleeful, as there is no fic out there that I've found! I'd be really happy with something slice-of-lifey (whatever the equivalent of case fic for non-mystery based fandoms). This is the one fandom I've requested that doesn't have a closed canon, but please don't worry about being jossed.

If you want something more specific, though: one of my favourite things about Rev. is Adam and Alex's relationship, and the way you can both see the strain Adam's job puts it under, but also how committed they are to each other. And I love the fact that they both have a slightly (or, in Adam's case, very) goofy side. We usually see things from Adam's point of view, so it would be fantastic to see something from Alex's. She's very much on the edge of her husband's world, and has her own life we don't see anything of.

But I also really, really love the Archdeacon - so sinister, so apparently heartless, and yet every now again we get a suggestion that there's more to him than that. Word of God has it that he is not only gay but has a partner who we'll meet this series, so it might be interesting to do something with that.

I also like the way the show takes Adam's faith seriously, without turning him into a plaster saint or pretending that the church is perfect.


Swallows and Amazons. People tend to write stories about what happens when the children grow up, and they're great (and I'd be very happy with one of those) but I'd be just as happy with a story about them as children. I'm particularly fond of the few times we see Titty and Nancy interacting, and of course the dynamic between John and Nancy us a fun one to explore.


Lord Peter Wimsey. I'm particularly fond of Miss Climpson and the glimpses we get of the Cattery; something involving her working with Peter would be great. I also love Charles Parker and his reactions to Peter's world. Or something about Harriet either pre-Peter or early on in their acquaintance would be love. Gaudy Night has left me very intrigued by Harriet's undergraduate days.

But don't feel bound by any of these suggestions - whatever you write, I will be thrilled to receive fic from a fandom I love. (I also notice I've written masses more on 'Rev.' than anything else. Please don't be discouraged if you aren't a match for this fandom - the fact I've written more on it doesn't mean that I will be disappointed if you write me something from the other two fabulous fandoms. But as the new series has just started, I have lots of prompts buzzing about in my head.)