Six Recs in Six Fandoms
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The Lost Prince
Most Fervently. This fic in which Marco and the Rat are aged up to young adulthood combines lovely pastiche of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Edwardian-style narration, the sweetness of the relationships in the original novel, decorously hot UST-then-RST, and, well, some reproductive oddities that I'm not going to spoil here but which, strangely, work with the canon just fine. Rated M, but considerably less explicit than most M-rated fics. (The author is considering a more explicit sequel. Encourage them, for God's sake!)
The Eagle
Wherever You Go. Esca POV as he and Marcus run for their lives. He's fallen painfully hard for Marcus, but first and foremost he's Marcus's protector, and he conceals his emotions behind a fierce façade to keep them both going… until, diverging from canon slightly, they find temporary shelter. The author could have stopped there, because the writing is Just That Gorgeous, whether it's illustrating how desperately and deeply Esca has come to love Marcus, or how a native hunter sees all the deadly pitfalls in the lushly rendered Sutcliffian landscape. But the author didn't stop there… and, unf, I'm very glad they didn't. Rated E.
16th Century CE RPF
All The Pleasures Prove. Kit Marlowe, renowned playwright and asshole extraordinaire, strikes up an acquaintance with Will Shakespeare when the latter pays an unexpected visit. Will's plays turn out to be more complex than Kit can appreciate at first. And Will's modest mien and cheap coat conceal an able verbal-sparring partner — and perhaps a partner of another sort. Rated T, but it's a little hotter than the usual T. Including Will's come-on line.
Calvin & Hobbes
Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine. This one's already getting high praise. Susie Derkins — age twenty-one, on the brink of college graduation, and just as much of a hot shit as she was as a kid — encounters Death. What do you do when you run into Death and you're not ready to go? You play Calvinball with her. Great balance between the comic's madcap spirit and the gravity of trying to stave off one's own mortality. And there are the little, unpretentious philosophical observations that made Calvin & Hobbes so much more than just a kid's comic. Gen; rated T.
Moby Dick
The Queen of Rokovoko. "A divinely decreed orgy, a ship full of eager men, 200 barrels of sperm oil ... and a captain they decided not to invite. What could possibly go wrong?" What indeed. The height of the crackiness, I'd say, is an impressive revelation about Ahab that is immediately followed up by a treatise on cetacean reproduction. Melville would have been proud. Fellini too. Rated M, arguably could have been E.
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Velvetskynn™ Rabbit. Margery Williams pastiche, but with sex toys instead of kids' toys. By turns exceedingly sweet and totally gross. Hilarious lines like "The only toy who was kind to him was the Fleshlight." And possibly the funniest tags this year. Rated M, but much closer to E.
yuletide_recs.The Lost Prince
Most Fervently. This fic in which Marco and the Rat are aged up to young adulthood combines lovely pastiche of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Edwardian-style narration, the sweetness of the relationships in the original novel, decorously hot UST-then-RST, and, well, some reproductive oddities that I'm not going to spoil here but which, strangely, work with the canon just fine. Rated M, but considerably less explicit than most M-rated fics. (The author is considering a more explicit sequel. Encourage them, for God's sake!)
The Eagle
Wherever You Go. Esca POV as he and Marcus run for their lives. He's fallen painfully hard for Marcus, but first and foremost he's Marcus's protector, and he conceals his emotions behind a fierce façade to keep them both going… until, diverging from canon slightly, they find temporary shelter. The author could have stopped there, because the writing is Just That Gorgeous, whether it's illustrating how desperately and deeply Esca has come to love Marcus, or how a native hunter sees all the deadly pitfalls in the lushly rendered Sutcliffian landscape. But the author didn't stop there… and, unf, I'm very glad they didn't. Rated E.
16th Century CE RPF
All The Pleasures Prove. Kit Marlowe, renowned playwright and asshole extraordinaire, strikes up an acquaintance with Will Shakespeare when the latter pays an unexpected visit. Will's plays turn out to be more complex than Kit can appreciate at first. And Will's modest mien and cheap coat conceal an able verbal-sparring partner — and perhaps a partner of another sort. Rated T, but it's a little hotter than the usual T. Including Will's come-on line.
Calvin & Hobbes
Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine. This one's already getting high praise. Susie Derkins — age twenty-one, on the brink of college graduation, and just as much of a hot shit as she was as a kid — encounters Death. What do you do when you run into Death and you're not ready to go? You play Calvinball with her. Great balance between the comic's madcap spirit and the gravity of trying to stave off one's own mortality. And there are the little, unpretentious philosophical observations that made Calvin & Hobbes so much more than just a kid's comic. Gen; rated T.
Moby Dick
The Queen of Rokovoko. "A divinely decreed orgy, a ship full of eager men, 200 barrels of sperm oil ... and a captain they decided not to invite. What could possibly go wrong?" What indeed. The height of the crackiness, I'd say, is an impressive revelation about Ahab that is immediately followed up by a treatise on cetacean reproduction. Melville would have been proud. Fellini too. Rated M, arguably could have been E.
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Velvetskynn™ Rabbit. Margery Williams pastiche, but with sex toys instead of kids' toys. By turns exceedingly sweet and totally gross. Hilarious lines like "The only toy who was kind to him was the Fleshlight." And possibly the funniest tags this year. Rated M, but much closer to E.
