Remix Redux fic recs! (Also, if you guess which fic is mine, you get a prize. I only wrote one.)

First, the story remixing one of my stories:

Wait for the Sunrise (The Quantum Entanglement Remix) (1193 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Firefly
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: River Tam, Zoe Washburne
Summary:

At the end of the 'verse, River has a conversation with Schrödinger's cat.

I am speechless over how awesome this is, how powerful, the descriptions amazing.

And It's Surely To Their Credit (The Five-by-Five Friendship Remix) (1366 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek (2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kirk & Uhura
Characters: Nyota Uhura, James T. Kirk
Summary:

Nyota is surprised to learn that she and James Kirk have a number of things in common.

Lovely.

Happy New Year (Begin the Beguine) (1303 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Penelope Garcia/Derek Morgan
Characters: Penelope Garcia, Derek Morgan
Summary:

"Happy New Year, baby girl."

Sweet and charming.

In Foreign Tongues (Been All Over You) (1574 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek (2009)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Gaila/Nyota Uhura
Characters: Gaila (Star Trek), Nyota Uhura
Summary:

Nyota offered herself as Gaila's sister when they first met -- she greeted Gaila with her name in all openness, the traditional overture to the creation of an in-net -- and Gaila has never regretted accepting that gift.

Loved this look at Gaila.

the boys are calling for me (the history boys remix) (4832 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Glee
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kurt/Blaine
Characters: Kurt Hummel, Blaine Anderson
Summary:

Love is all a matter of timing, or: three times the story couldn't have happened, and one time it did.

Gorgeous, nuanced details of three very different settings.

I Bring My Better Angels To Every Fight (The Man in the Mirror Remix) (34839 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Glee
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Burt Hummel, Kurt Hummel, Artie Abrams
Summary:

Burt wanted to change the world for Kurt. He didn't realize that, by changing himself, he already had. Those years of struggling that it took Burt to figure things out.

WARNING: Homophobia, homophobic language, at times really difficult to read.

However, also amazing.

Accordingly Adorned (The BFF Remix) (1253 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Baby-Sitters Club - Ann M. Martin
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Claudia Kishi, Stacey McGill
Summary:

Good fashion sense is gender-neutral. So is friendship.

I love the original a lot, and this is an excellent complement to it.

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.

"What Friends Are For (Flow My Tears Remix)"

Summary: Xander takes steps to make sure he remembers what he needs to.

The original story is heartbreaking and a good read. The remix is absolutely horrifying. I am still chilled by it.

"Plate Tectonics (The Truth From Fiction Remix)"

Summary: Lorna talks to Rachel while she waits to see how her world will end.

This is amazing, and a fantastic twist on the original story. The ending of this one was like a gut punch, a line which encompasses exactly how it feels to have something slightly crazy and uncontrollable beneath your skin. (At least, that's my reading into it, for my own, personal reasons, but it was an incredible story which hit me hard. How do you tell fact from fiction? How do you tell which monsters are real? It's amazing.)

"Protective Urges (The Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon Remix)"

Summary: Mal had always been there to protect his Kaylee, and he always would be.

The end here is particularly effective, again, with a good conversation between characters and a believable, if painful, decision.

"Holy Night" by musesfool is a terrible, wonderful, painful story about Zoe, almost broken, and Mal, never knowing just the right thing to say. It's short, but so much is packed into each word it is absolutely unbelievable.

"The Likes of Which You Ain't Ever Seen" by musesfool is a cute, funny story in which Jayne gets arrested and Kaylee and River must ride to the rescue.

"Looking For Normal" by inlovewithnight is a sad, beautiful story about Scott Summers and his friendship with Reed Richards (of Fantastic Four fame) in the aftermath of X2.

"Stolen Waters" by fabu is a painful, wonderful short story about Elizabeth and Will after PotC:Dead Man's Chest, which incorporates that worry about what's to come very well.

"Her Daddy Was" by moony is a slow story filled with hurting set a long time after Brokeback Mountain and narrated by Alma Del Mar Junior. It's lovely.

carlyinrome wrote "She Says" which is a beautiful, painful, touching Firefly story about Inara leaving after "Heart of Gold" and how she and the crew react to each other in the wake of that decision.

quirkybird posted, in pantsketch, a fantastic drawing mixing The Simpsons and Battlestar Galactica, Six and Gaius. I love it.

"Get There Faster" by Jintian, a nasty, painful Harry/Ron story set after Order of the Phoenix. It's a dark, disturbing, wonderful glimpse into one way Harry might have responded to the end of OotP, and how he thinks he should prepare himself for the future.

"Prophecies and Prejudice: the Aurora Summers Diaries, April 1814-June 1815" by twinkledru, which is, so far, a crossover which includes: Buffy, Angel, Sharpe, Sorcery and Cecelia, A Great and Terrible Beauty, and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Of those, I have no experienced with Sharpe, Sorcery and Cecelia, or Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, but I still love this story, and Aurora's voice, and the footnotes (footnote LOVE), and--just go read it. It's a work in progress, but I am willing to wait for more.
Foreword and Chapter One, Chapter Two, Chapter Three, and Chapter Four

"Feeling Lucky" by karabair, a hot, funny, and wonderful Cordelia/Gunn story set early in season two. I love this, the references to the way Cordelia's life was in high school and how it has changed, and the problems of having sex with a friend and the sex itself was fabulous and imperfect.

Transmutation" by kurukami, a Pitch Black/Firefly crossover story which works very well in a strange, wonderful way. It's about Riddick and what he gives up to be able to see, but it's about so much more as well.

"Can't Stand the Waiting" by velvetandlace is a story about Mary Anne, from the Baby-Sitters Club, early in the series, when she was shy and lonely and so afraid of everything. It's Mary Anne, feeling like she hasn't got a friend in the world, and it's beautiful.

musesfool wrote Love Is a Fool Star, a five-things story about Mal and the five ways he did not have sex with his crew. I'm fond of a well-written five things story anyway, and Victoria's Mal voice is fantastic, and some of these scenes (most of them, I have to admit) are heartbreaking.

I kind of love heartbreaking, in the way where kind of means more than life and love means adore and can't stop reading. Except in a way that would make sense if actually substituted in the sentence.

twinkledru wrote light that lingers in a quiet room, a post-Serenity Zoe gen fic about how various crew members see her and try to help and mostly fail a lot. It made me sigh and sniffle and love on it a lot.

lostgirlslair wrote To London We Will Go, a Faith/Dawn story for me! It's fantastic, with spazzy, self-conscious Dawn and Faith being Faith (which is to say hot and sexy and amazing and dirty and layered) and I was so pleased to receive it in the femslash_santa ficathon.