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I received two absolutely lovely Candy Hearts gifts, both of which I highly recommend.

Ring on in Silver, A Civil Contract, Adam/Jenny--a warm, quiet, and sweet look at Adam and Jenny's future together. The contentment here feels very true to them, and it's a lovely coda to the book.

Never Apologise, Never Explain, Biggles, Algy/Ginger--hilarious and adorable story in which Ginger tries frantically (with Bertie's help) to stop Biggles prying into the matter of some fresh bruises actually obtained through hot, exuberant, and possessive sex.
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I received three totally delightful gifts for Biggles Holiday Airdrop! This is the absolute best way to wrap up the holiday season.

Vacation, lovely Biggles/EvS romantic getaway in a stunningly described location, with hot sex and sweet feelings.

Algy Takes a Hand, super-hot and super-adorable Algy/Ginger smut with spanking and pitch-perfect characterization.

On Camels, unbelievably cute Biggles & EvS fluff with a drugged-up and extremely cuddly Biggles and wonderful bonus hair-petting.

I am still reading and commenting on the other stories in the collection, but everything I've read so far has been amazing.

Yuletide!

Dec. 28th, 2022 06:46 pm
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Happy Yuletide! I was lucky enough to receive three (!) Yuletide gifts for three different fandoms, all of them very different (outside of featuring hot porn for my preferred ships). Behold the bounty:

Fog of War: Joyeux Noel sex pollen! Horstmayer and Audebert run afoul of a different kind of weapon, and their truce consequently gets implemented much more suddenly and in a much pornier direction. :D Great action, even before the, ahem, action.

The Road: The Long Walk missing scene where Garraty opts into the handjob McVries canonically offers him--and then the hot poignancy of that shifts into an incredible new gear. Surprising and achy and beautiful--and best read without me spoiling it further.

What's Expected of Us: A Perfection story that delivers even more high-octane sexiness and darkness than the original movie, now with incredible, eerie cosmic horror as the best bonus. Complicated, intense, and perfectly Lizzie/Charlotte.

This has already been a great Yuletide, and I'm looking forward to reading more in the collection. I don't know how much commenting I'm going to be able to do this year--it's just been quite the month--but I hope to do some, because there's a lot that looks incredible.
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Summer of Horror went live on Wednesday night, and I need to rec my three (!) terrific gifts:

Biggles - W.E. Johns

Blood Magic (Biggles & von Stalhein, 4.5k) Really rich dark fantasy with extremely cool blood magic, feelings-packed h/c, a soulbond, and Erich von Stalhein being irresistibly drawn to Biggles's, well, Bigglesness.

Nor Any Drop (Biggles & von Stalhein, 12.5k) Intense, suspenseful, well-crafted, and delightfully plotted Biggles Goes East AU where Biggles--still undercover as Brunow--and von Stalhein have to investigate a deadly supernatural menace.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Sokovia, still (Sam & Bucky & Zemo, 1.2k) Lovely, eerie, and elegiac story of the trio needing to pass through a thoroughly haunted Sokovia. Thoughtful and full of quiet emotion.
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I got an incredible six (!!) gifts for Chocolate Box, all of which were incredibly enjoyable.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Blue and White and Red All Over

you feel like home

Delightfully, these two Sam/Bucky stories were both written for my prompt about Bucky starting to wear a ton of Captain America-themed merch and he and Sam both getting really into it, and they are a perfect example of TWO CAKES, because they're both funny and sweet and wonderfully shippy while taking distinct approaches.

Miss Mack - Michael McDowell

A Lifetime of Saturdays

An inventive and incredibly satisfying fix-it that still keeps the story's horror, just shifting it around. PLUS Miss Mack/Janice adorableness.

Joyeux Noël

Water to Wine

A lovely and warm post-movie fic with an Audebert-Horstmayer reunion. Delicate and sweet, capturing the movie's tone while still being reassuring.

Sweet Smell of Success

something's wrong with the morning

Sharply written and hot bit of Sidney/J.J. manhandling and continuous attempts to get an edge, complete with my trans Sidney Falco headcanon.

Starsky and Hutch

The Other Me, The Other You

Starsky/Hutch dream sex fic where Starsky's new dreams about Hutch are more real than he thinks, complete with feelings epiphanies and a cool casefic angle.
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Again, this is woefully complete. I have fandoms where I've only read one fic so far and fandoms where I haven't gotten to anything yet. So I look forward to also having great stuff to discuss post-reveals.

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More belated than I meant it to be and woefully incomplete, since I still have about fifty tabs open (including a bunch in fandoms where I've only read one of the fics there so far) and also have already noted some recs I need to make but have split up to make tomorrow, but I've read a lot of terrific stuff this Yuletide that I want to talk about.

(I helped with brainstorming one of these, so I'm admittedly biased in its favor, but I would have loved it regardless.)

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I had the absolute best Trick or Treat Exchange experience.

I got two winter Friday the 13th stories:

Chocolate and Blood. Fluffy/cracky story about the sweet relationship between a mother and her hard-working son, complete with dorky Christmas sweaters and hot cocoa. It's just that they're Pamela and Jason Voorhees.

Slay Bells. Absolutely feels like the cold open to a winter Friday movie! Great setup, awesome use of the setting and winter season, slasher-style creepy, and accompanied by some downright iconic cinematic images.

And I got two Ginger Snaps fics:

Aqua Eyeshadow and Knee Bruises. A happier ending for modern Ginger and Brigitte--but, in inimitable werewolf style, there's still a dead Avon lady. Funny and oddly sweet, with the perfect blend of horror and comedy and dark suburban satire. And werewolves digging holes with their hands/paws.

Dead Men's Tales. Awesome "found manuscript" folkloric horror set in historical Canada. Beautifully written, incredibly creepy, and so very much my jam. And this one will totally work even if you don't know canon, so I highly recommend it for your Halloween horror needs.

And the very first Twin Peaks Cooper/Audrey/Laura fic, at least on AO3:

Under So Many Lids. Stunningly poetic--"get drunk on the language" prose--and a perfect evocation of Lynch in general and The Return in particular. Post-canon Cooper keeps searching, and, on a winding and mythical path, is eventually reunited with both Laura and Audrey. Bittersweet, gorgeous, and with some scorching hot sex. I adore it, and I'm going to slide this in as the perfect canon postscript.

And this amazing Misery fic:

Sophronia. Annie conjures up Misery out of fan love so she can save her from her dire fate... and keep her favorite character imprisoned in her house as a kind of grotesque living doll. This somehow manages to be a skin-crawling bit of horror, an incredible metafictional look at a character from a romantic and Romantic world transported into our own, a sweet and lived-in look at my fiction-within-fiction OT3 (Misery/Geoffrey/Ian FTW!), and incredibly suspenseful and well-paced and clever. <3
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Getting this in right under the wire before reveals. Again, this is woefully insufficient--I've read a lot of absolutely amazing stories this year, and I'd like to get in a third recs post for them, though it will probably half to be after author reveals.


give your sleep a rest (The Exorcist TV). A gorgeous, warm bed-sharing story full of pining and hurt/comfort. Exactly what I wanted from this trope, and beautifully executed.

where our boundaries were thinnest (We Have Always Lived in the Castle). Stunningly good and in-character Merricat/Constance fic, 17k of obsession and codependency and magical thinking. May have been written by the ghost of Shirley Jackson.

Singing the theme to 'North by Northwest' (The Holiday). Cute, warm, funny Miles/Iris, post-movie.

some kind of happy ending and Cookies and Sympathy (Iron Fist), both sweet-but-not-schmaltzy looks at (especially) Ward post-season two, getting a little better day by day, achieving detentes and friendships.

i survive while falling apart at the seams (Sports Night). Perfectly IC bantery Casey/Dan first time fic, complete with Dan failing to make sense of his coffee machine. This was the perfect rush of nostalgia for me for one of my oldest perennial fandoms and ships.

the rain falling on the sunshine (The Secret Garden). Pitch-perfect, delicate look at Mary, Colin, and Dickon post-WWI--this takes on Dickon's PTSD with a light but devastating touch, and is beautifully bittersweet.

friends beside me on this road (A Simple Favor). Surprisingly emotional Emily/Stephanie, with all the possessiveness you could possibly ask for, and a twisty, complex Emily POV.

Who's got their hand in the oopsy jar? (A Simple Favor). This is exactly what I wanted after watching the movie: scorching hot porn--graveside fucking that takes advantage of Emily's jacket-with-no-blouse--written in pitch-perfect Stephanie voice.

Oranges & Lemons (The Terror). A beautifully written and exquisitely painful look at Crozier and Fitzjames almost becoming friends earlier in the expedition, except of course they don't. Some of my all-time favorite Crozier characterization here.

on rats and men (The Terror). An elegant, haunting, sympathetic look at Gibson, and one that's definitely enriched how I look at the character in canon. Great early Hickey/Gibson here as well.

The Last Temptation of James Fitzjames, or, An Occurrence on King William Island (The Terror). Heartbreaking, full of pining and illuminated backstory and unrequited love and what-might-have-beens. James, on his deathbed, drifting.

kiss the rod (The Terror). Hot, nightmarish AU Hickey/Crozier, with ghost/dream sex and gore and delirium. I love the AU premise, too--it's technically subordinate to the porn but haunting all on its own.

an ill-sheathed knife (The Terror). Possibly my favorite of the excellent batch of Hickey/Crozier fics. An AU that makes me fully buy the pairing as something genuinely emotional for them both, even if, in typical Hickey fashion, it eventually still ends in cannibalism and mutiny. Seriously, this is tender and perfectly characterized and, like all the Terror fics I read this Yuletide, written in prose that's so amazingly good I want to frame every sentence.

turn not thy back to the compass (The Terror). Mutiny-era Hickey/Goodsir, with Goodsir in a believable seethe of hatred and anger that unwillingly softens, over the course of the story, into the dispiriting understanding that Hickey is more man than monster. Lovely, and exactly to my sentiments on a moral level. Also tagged for Scurvy Blowjobs, which the world needs more of.

she holds a smile like someone would hold a crying child (Sharp Objects). Dark, gorgeously written Amma/Camille, incredibly fucked-up and true to canon while also adding the explicit incest we all knew was coming.

details of your devotions (Sharp Objects). Non-linear Amma POV, incredibly well-realized, and with a truly haunting bit about her mother teaching her the exact right way to smile.

Under a Moonlit Sky (Little House on the Prairie). The Almanzo/Laura wedding night fic I've always needed, but never thought anyone would be able to write with this superb a level of characterization and hotness. Awkward virgins fumbling their way into having good sex is one of my favorite things, and this is an unbelievably lovely example of it.
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I'll hopefully get at least a couple of these done up before the end of the anon period--ever since I got back from Christmas-related traveling, I've been reading my way through the collection and finding a lot to love.

First, my amazing gifts:

The Luckiest Woman in the World (The Leftovers). One of those writing accomplishments that leaves me in awe, because the show has a particular blend of strangeness, wonder, and ordinariness that it's bizarrely hard to capture in prose, but this story does it perfectly, and in a way that makes each rereading a richer and richer experience. It's about Nora, her search for her children, and what it would mean to let go, and it would be hard to say more without spoiling it. (Except I'll add that it's swoonworthy in its romance.)

Twitch (Thoroughbreds). A hot, perfectly-characterized AU look at what would have happened if Mark had lived and Lily had been sent to Brookmore after all, with Amanda following along soon after (naturally). This has the same restrained humor and uncomfortable, crackly darkness as the movie, but it makes all the delicious sexual tension explicit, as Amanda realizes that the recurring fantasy she's been having features Lily in particular. Subtle but smoking-hot.

And the rest of the collection has some real delights, too:

deep red bells (The Stand). An eerie, mindblowing combination of folklore and true crime, crafted into an original AU where Nadine goes hitchhiking to track down Flagg and always seems to be coming across belated traces of him. Real horror, really good.

In the Dark of the Moon (The stand). Also involves Randall Flagg and modern folklore, this time in the form of creepypasta and Randall Flagg/Reader, a premise that in theory should not work but in practice absolutely does. Terrifying and brilliant.

Son of a Gun (The Hateful Eight). This fandom gets some great fics, and this is no exception--in fact, I think it's one of my all-time favorites. Warren and Mannix get reunited, and reconnect through some amazingly hot gunplay/object-insertion porn and Mannix's sort of flattering neediness.

I Have Not Wanted Syllables (Sense and Sensibility). Well, this does not feature gunplay/object-insertion porn, but it does have a nuanced, restrained, well-crafted Elinor/Brandon romance, beautiful and heartfelt, with perfect details.

Piracy is Our Only Option (Sense and Sensibility - Movie). Adorable, incredibly well-done epistolary fic as Margaret runs away to sea and gets her freedom and all the adventures she deserves, while still writing home to hear about her sisters' very different lives.

She always returns to me (Rebecca). Great, creepily in-character diary entries from Mrs. Danvers, before and after Rebecca's death. All about desire, obsession, and mourning; deeply human and uncanny at the same time.

All Set for Extinction (Ex Machina). Post-movie Ava/Kyoko, building a life for themselves outside of Nathan's control. The icy, empathetic-but-not-strictly-human POV here is absolutely great, and the brief evocation and nailing of Nathan's awfulness is brutal and accurate.

Forget Me Not (Twin Peaks). An AU where Laura, knowing Cooper has forgotten what she told him in his dream, visits Albert, Audrey, and Donna too--always in the form of a different literary/cinematic Laura. The homages are well-chosen and beautifully-done, but you don't need to know the source material for them to make this eerie, atmospheric story work.

Checkers (Selfie). Eliza makes her move, and Henry never sees it coming. Shockingly cute and a perfect evocation of the show's tone, even down to a one-off line from an OC. And an offhandedly hot denouement, too.

Lifeline (The Punisher). Marvelous, iddy h/c longfic where Frank gets deafened and blinded by a flashbang while trying to rescue David from a hostage situation, and the two of them have to work together while he's (relatively) incapacitated. Amazing characterization. Funny, sweet, and action-packed, and so rewarding on a hurt/comfort level.

a sweete stroke on the lute (The Terror). Terror fandom is terrific in general, and the stories I've read for it so far this Yuletide have all been astonishingly good. More on them in the next recs post, since I read a number of them back to back, but I'll close this post out with the first one I tried, the brilliant Jacobean AU Hickey/Crozier piece where you can actually get drunk off of the language.

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