Fic Rec: PotC, BtVS, Harry Potter, X-Men, Figure Skating RPF, Firefly, FNL, Supernatural

So I thought about not reccing any fics for the fandom which includes my story, so no one could compare my recs to all the stories and then figure out which one was mine. And then I thought about commenting and reccing my own story if it came down to it, to throw people off. Then I decided maybe I was overthinking this guessing game, but it was a lot of fun. So really, I could have done either of those or both or neither.

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Pirates of the Caribbean

Dwell in the House of the Lord (The Day You Always Remember Remix) is a chilling, haunting story of stories and the monsters hiding in the world, two men sharing the story of Captain Sparrow and the stories he told.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Un/Expected (Straight Girl Remix) is a fantastic Kennedy voice, mixing all the good and bad of her in the source material in a way that is starkly, honestly, hilariously real.

Harry Potter

The Chords We Play is an incredible remix. I tend to live it up to readers whether they read the original story with the remix, but I highly, highly recommend reading both of these stories together, because this twists the original inside out and even as Peter -- who is sharp and cruel and manipulative and still oddly sympathetic here -- manipulates the characters, the remix author manipulates the story so well.

The Wolf Covers Its Tracks (All Us Human Extras Remix) is an amazing look at Fenrir Greyback through the eyes of original characters as Harry Potter hunts him through Banff, Alberta. The children here are amazing, sharp and afraid and strong and weak and just wonderful, and in particular I love Stephanie Wu, whose point of view sections frame the story as a whole and who has a nice, lovely, quiet queer flirtation in the middle of all the blood and destruction.

Inter-House Relations (The Care of Magical Creatures Remix) has an amazing Charlie, sharp and intelligent and funny and besotted with his dragons, which is reason enough to read it. That it is also funny and fun and sweet are more. And though I do not like Draco Malfoy, I'm glad I have this one a chance, because the story is from his POV and still it is wonderful, enjoyable and entertaining and for the length of it, at least, Draco was really well done, caught in his family but fighting the bit.

X-Men Comicverse, X-Men 616, Figure Skating RPF

Fame Monsters (The Twitter Remix) is hilarious. Just absolutely, flat-out hilarious and perfectly in character and has an amazing Jubilee and Johnny Weir and Northstar and the power of the press and social media and it just feels like all the awesome bits of technology coming together, you know, fandom and tech and people and the amazing ways we can interconnect. And also, did I mention hilarious?

Firefly

River Lays an Egg (Upside Down Remix) has a fantastic River and some great River and Mal interaction. I love River's voice here in particular, slightly mad but slightly sane too and completely charming.

Something from Nothing (The Gratitude Sings in Me Chorale) is a lovely River piece, set just after Ariel, about paying debts and saying thank you and created family-in-crew. River's voice is really nicely done here, too.

Friday Night Lights

We're Glad for what We've Done, Done with what We've Lost: The Sing Me Anything Remix is an amazing Tyra piece, about the people left behind in Dillon and the way she's so stuck in her life, working so hard for something she's not even sure she wants and absolutely sure won't help her, and how sometimes it takes motivating someone else to get her to step up and do what needs to be done. Tyra's voice is incredible, so painful and harsh and developed and I love her interactions with Matt Saracen in particular.

Supernatural

Above Us Only Sky (The Golden Age Remix) is a breathtaking, beautiful story about Anna as an angel that left me wordless and filled with a quiet, humming joy and sadness together. It's absolutely lovely.

Fic Rec: Harry Potter, Star Trek, Being Human

I was traveling when I got the news about this and it was really delightful to be surprised during the rare time I was getting to check my email.

"Broken," the Drusilla/Buffy piece I wrote for snowpuppies during Round 25 of femslash_minis won "Best Overall Dark" and "Best Slash" in round three of the absence_oflight awards. I was actually kind of nervous writing "Broken" because I wasn't sure I could pull off a convincing Buffy/Drusilla, but I love the story and I'm glad other people did too. Also, Absence of Light awarded some incredible fics and I can't wait to read the ones I haven't.

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More Remix Redux recs.

Harry Potter

20 Random Facts About Sirius Black, as Annotated and Explained by the Man Himself starts out as a sweet, hilarious, sometimes touching bit of back and forth between James and Sirius, who frequently addresses Harry with his annotations, but just as I was giggling and grinning, it took a sharp turn and left me heartbroken and wanting to cry. Excellent, high praise, that.

Star Trek

The Loudest Noise (affannato, affettuoso, agitato) is an incredibly well done story about language and communication, but it is so much deeper than that, so much more powerful, and Nyoto and Gaila are both amazing in it. Gaila in particular made my heart clench.

Free, Freefalling (The Home is Wherever I'm With You Remix) is a beautiful, painful story in which Chekov makes an official report, but is so very young and so very human and feeling so very guilty as he does so.

Four Times Kirk and McCoy Ended Up Together on Valentine's Day (The Hallmark Moments Remix) is funny and sweet and touching and charming, just a feel good fic about four years and two friends and broken hearts and lots and lots of love.

The Moment of Our Greatness Flickers (The Love is a Losing Hand Remix) is McCoy and Jocelyn falling in love and falling apart and is harsh and tense and painful because it is so exquisitely well done.

Pipe Dreams (The Marzipan in Your Pie Plate Megamix) is horrific and wonderful and shocking and just amazingly twisty. Why are Starfleet captains so fragile? And what happens after?

Never Put My Hope (the Second Generation Masters of Our Destiny Remix) definitely needs to be read after the original story, but the two go together so well it all feels real, like a story I grew up reading, like our history and our religion shaken down to its bones.

Being Human

Flowers in Your Footsteps (The Renewal Remix) is a lovely, layered story about Annie wanting new clothes, but also much deeper than that, about how we live without change and how we find our own ways to take up space and be real.