recs galore!
I have a load of bookmarks that builds up over time--fics I've read and enjoyed, found intriguing, so forth. So here are some meme fics, FFN fics, and most importantly, YULETIDE fics! 8DDD I promised a Yuletide rec post a while ago, after all.
Recs from naruto_meme: the legend of crossdressing samurai Sakura!, Star Trek Naruto, Kisame and Itachi getting drunk lol, and if the Akatsuki hadn't become missing-nin.
[Harry Potter] As Yet Unwritten by Persepolis130
What does the future hold for a Sirius sorted into Slytherin and Snape recast as his best friend? Follow their adventures in life, love and ferocious Potter hating from 4th year to Voldemort's attack. (Sirius and Snape as BEST FRIENDS. It's like the crackiest thing ever.)
[Bleach] Hammered Down by Tomas the Betrayer
A forbidden encounter, a chance conversation. Rukia Kuchiki is about to discover what some people are willing to do for the good of Soul Society. (a few quibbles with choice of phrasing, but the worldbuilding & backstory is superb.)
AND NOW FOR YULETIDE~
WARNING: There are many recs. And if you're like, "omg no way am I going to read all of these," then at least read the starred ones, which are my personal personal favorites. (ummm and sorry if I starred too many DD:)
[Anastasia] faded from the winter by VegaOfTheLyre
There is a girl behind the curtains, sitting curled up on the windowsill, elbow pressed against the glass. Anya and Dimitri, pre-movie.
[Arthurian legend] Daughter of the Ever-Changing Sea by masterofmidgets
As she rides past the castle gates, Morgan promises herself that if she comes back again, it will be to bury Uther's son.
[Arthurian legend] The Tale of Ragnell by Ankaret
She was always loathly, but she wasn't always a lady.
*[Calvin & Hobbes] Spaceman Spiff Goes to Chirrutzz by Elfwreck
In which Spiff is not slashed with Harkness, Mal, Kirk, or Zapp Brannigan. Nor with anyone else. Because Spiff is really too young for those games. (Yet.) Instead, he's on a mission to a dangerous, distant planet. Which is dangerous. And distant. And mission-y.
[Calvin & Hobbes] The Social Contract (Boys and Tigers Remix) by Senri
Calvin, Hobbes, and various battles lost and won.
[Calvin & Hobbes/Doctor Who] Upholding the Laws of Time by AstroGirl
Calvin encounters the Doctor. (not really Yuletide, but still adorable.)
*[Calvin & Hobbes] Who Is I Am by Nope
If you're looking at it right, there is little difference between a cardboard box and the universe.
*[Dark is Rising] Loving Bonds by edenfalling
There is a fierce long age between Arthur's reign and the final Rising. Any number of things could have broken a chain of descent and prevented the Light from having a Pendragon on their side. Why, then, did the Dark allow Bran to remain in the twentieth century?
*[Dark is Rising] Reservoirs by Gramarye
Friendships, like reservoirs, are often shaped by what lies well below the surface. But even after thirty years of friendship, Will Stanton is not entirely prepared to find some unexpected depths.
[Dark is Rising] Summer Meeting by Rosie_Rue
On a summer's day, Stephen Stanton and his baby brother meet an archaeologist.
*[Discworld] A Day In The by mtgat
This is the first day of the rest of Death's life.
[Discworld] Like Clockwork by halotolerant
'They move on like mechanical figures in an ornamental clock: set on their tracks, ever repeating, ever smooth and ordered, ever prevented from collision.'
*[Eddie Izzard] Delicious by newredshoes
A meditation on trichinosis, the Northwest Passage, build-it-yourself furniture and buried secrets of the Second World War. What? It's true.
[Egyptian mythology] Recreational Activities by Annwyd
This world will run down and run out eventually. In the end, it's left to a god of chaos and destruction to restart creation.
[Emily of New Moon - L.M. Montgomery] A Hundred Visions and Revisions by athousandwinds
Emily made her choice. Now she has to live with it.
*[Emma - Austen] upon what grounds by hele
And this night, I know not upon what ground, the gates of the City [were] ordered to be all shut, and double guards everywhere, and we are going upon making of all ships coming from thence and Hambrough, or any other infected places, to perform their Quarantine (for thirty days as Sir Rd. Browne expressed it in the order of the Council, contrary to the import of the word, though in general acceptation it signifies now the thing, not the time spent in doing it) in Holehaven, a thing never done by us before.
*[Eugene Onegin - Pushkin!] All The Wine by bogged
An AU exploring what might have happened had Eugene not killed Lensky in their duel, with activities including but not limited to washing each others' hair, sneaking away from their own parties, and eating lots of jam, as I have been led to believe everyone in Russia did in the early 1800s. Eugene-centric.
[Fairytales - Beauty & the Beast] Shadows in the Forest by Truth
Gaston wasn't always tall, arrogant and handsome. Why, when he was a child, he'd been very short!
[Fairytales - Cinderella] Ash the Stablehand by mithrigil
The story of a stablehand and his cruel stepfamily.
*[Fairytales - EVERYTHING] Lord Wolfe and the Ape-Leader by who_la_hoop
The sensible Flora Pilkington is delighted to be asked to accompany her cousin Emily, a wealthy heiress, on a sojourn to Bath - even if seventeen-year-old Emily is something of a ninny-hammer. However, when the dashing but mysterious Lord Wolfe rescues Emily from Terrible Peril, causing her to fall quite in love with him, Flora becomes deeply suspicious. Just who is this Lord Wolfe? Why does he persist in winking at Flora in such a deeply uncouth manner? Why does he refuse to attend all evening engagements? And what is the insufferable man's dark, awful secret? (For she is quite convinced that he has one.) Flora determines to find out, whatever the danger to her reputation...
*[Fairytales - Rumpelstiltskin] The Queen Sent Messengers by sallyislike
This is the third day since you sent us out to search for a name.
[Fairytales - ugly duckling] Thirteen Way of Looking at a Duckling by innocentsmith
It's her life story, and she has some issues with it.
[Ferris Bueller's Day Off] Pointillism by sophistry
The place is like a museum. It's very beautiful and very cold, and you're not allowed to touch anything. Can you appreciate what it must have been like for Cameron to be in that joint as a baby?
[Gone With the Wind] In Fashion by JaneTurenne
In Scarlett O'Hara's case, it is a truth undeniable that the clothes make the woman. Gone with the Wind retold in the stories of a dozen gowns.
*[Greek/Roman mythology] Doubly Blessed the Night by Assimbya
Dionysus, god of death and rebirth, meets Persephone in many ways.
[Greek/Roman mythology] Spinning Fate by Selena
Arachne strikes back at the gods.
[Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2] And to Tilt with Lips by likeadeuce
Kate Percy married a man who talks too much. And that's just one of the challenges involved in being Lady Hotspur. This story follows Kate and Hotspur's relationship, as Kate tries to figure out her place in the world. Includes Kate/Percy/Hal threesome (though not too explicit).
[Henry VI] Be brave, for your captain is brave by Roz-McClure
Jack Cade's wife narrates how an unlikely soldier joined the rebels' party. "I did not think it sensible to turn to one young Richard son of Plantagenet and say, 'Excuse me, what the bleeding fuck are you doing here and have you brought guns to kill us all?'"
[His Dark Materials] That is where she ought to live, with bears, not with men by lotesse
She stood darkly golden against the permafrost, taller and more world-weary than she'd been when he'd last seen her. Wrapping her into the rough embrace of his fur, he breathed in her heady wild scent, atavistically satisfied by her returned presence.
[Homer - Iliad] Rous'd His Drowsy Blood by lanyon
The relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, after a particularly unwelcome turn of events. Achilles himself might be the love of his own life but it is the death of Patroclus that stirs him into a certain realisation and action. The title is taken from William Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida'.
*[Homer - Odyssey] Telemachies by Lysimache
There are no new stories, only new tellers. (Or: Athena Ballerina!)
***[If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino] Five stories the Reader never began by cosmogyral
You are about to begin reading "Five stories the Reader never began." (omg META THAT WINS THE INTERNETS)
*[Lawrence of Arabia] History in Glass Cases by Gileonnen
"I do not wish to place history in glass cases with explanatory plaques. The past is a living thing."
[Little Mermaid] The Reflection Beneath by Angie13
Ursula has a great deal of things on her mind, the least of which is her opinion of a certain little mermaid. Set during her time as a human, Ursula faces down a visitor.
[LOLcats] Dear Santa by KahtyaSofia
The Kitten writes to Santa.
[LOLcats] In The Beginning by Wallwalker
The beginning of Catkind's greatest blessing... and direst curse.
[LOLcats] The Cheezburger Run in the Sky by ChibiRHM
The car came out of nowhere, horn honking and lights bright in Basement Cat's eyes. "O SHIT," said Basement Cat. And then everything went white.
[Lord Peter Wimsey/Doctor Who/Torchwood] No Man's Land by ellen_fremedon
"We're all dead to you, aren't we?" (holy crap. talk about an epic crossover.)
[Men Who Stare At Goats] Goats Who Stare At Men by sparky77
The army has a motto. You've probably heard it before. Be all you can be. No one has ever wondered if the army also believes this motto should apply to goats.
[Metropolis - Janelle Monae] Synthesis Song Soul by etothey
Music is the lens through which we view the soul; music is how we make ourselves whole.
*[Mirrormask] Fevers and Mirrors by tend
"Keep an eye on the sky, Helena."
[Mirrormask] Regarding Helena by dzurlady
Valentine constructs a series of lists.
*[Monster] Schutzwall by Vesper
Weaker men lose themselves in stories. Not Runge.
***[Monty Python's Life of Brian] Four Completely Unconnected Scenes In 1st c. Judea by izzybeth
"Alms for a leper?" (brb lol-ing wayyy too hard. 8D)
[Norse mythology] just a trick of the light by barrowjane
There is a man sitting by himself, at the table by the window. (This is the story of a trick. Now pay attention.)
*[Oregon Trail] And Then We Shot the Ox by coltsbane
Hundreds of thousands of people made the journey to Oregon. A long time later, only a few made their way back. (YES THERE IS OREGON TRAIL FIC. AND IT IS MADE OF WIN.)
[Oresteia - Aeschylus] Last Days by pipedreamer
Clytaemnestra's reign at Argos is disturbed by rows, dreams, and an unexpected visitor.
*[Phantom Tollbooth] Snow Day by incapricious
A brief look at the Lands of Wisdom on a snowy winter's day. (I loved this book when I was young. ;__________;)
[Phantom Tollbooth] The War of Words by foxtwin
King Azaz the Unabridged requires Milo's assistance -- again!
[Princess Tutu] Revisionism by pengiesama
"Rejoice, aficionados, and gather 'round! -- it is with the utmost pleasure that we of the D.D. Drosselmeyer Literary Institute announce the discovery of a new manuscript..." (don't know squat about the canon, but I could pick up enough to enjoy the awesome metafic. :D)
[Romeo and Juliet] As Garlic Cloves and Butter by volta_arovet
Romeo is in love, Benvolio's in denial, and Mercutio is an ass.
[RPF 15th century CE] Il'uomo d'oro by lareinenoire
Five people thought they knew Cesare Borgia. None of them are certain this is true.
*[RPF classical composers] Totentanz by Aja
You decide before the waltz is over that you hate Frederick Chopin. (it was titled after one of my favorite Liszt pieces. that is all.)
***[RPF classical history/literature] De Amicitia by Toft
Atticus and Cicero's friendship in its early years.
***[RPF National Public Radio] Wait Wait Don't Eat Me by Nestra
"We're going to be cutting our show a little short today, because, as you may have heard, there's an apocalypse happening! But we didn't let the election of Barack Obama stop us, and we're not going to let the zombie hordes stop us either." (THESE KINDS OF FICS ARE WHY I LOVE YULETIDE. zombie!NPR fic, for real~)
*[Sandman] Schizophasia by whatimages
schizophasia: "the confused usage of words with no apparent meaning or relationship attached to them, symptomatic of various mental illnesses"
[Sherlock Holmes] The Mechanical Heart by jasmasson
Holmes and Watson discover that the Victorian Age was one of great danger as well as great advancement.
[Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost] The Smallest Chickadee by MissJess
She brings the sharp cold of the darkest night of the year.
[Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage] Lovelace and Babbage vs. The Christmas Death Spider From Beyond The Atlantic by cosmogyral
Title says it all, really.
And finally, not quite a fic, but: The TRUFAX Completely Imaginary List of Reasons Why My Recipient Will Hate My Fic, which amused me to no end.
uggggh it's late. going to bed. Strange, I've been posting so much lately and I can't actually afford to, as psets are now being assigned on top of like 80 pages of reading by Wed. but omg today in tutorial they were talking about the corporation as a "legal person" and how people in the corporation could be considered perfectly moral beings while the corporation carried out immoral actions, and it reminded me of Niebuhr, b/c the book I am reading right now (or trying to at least) is Moral Man and Immoral Society which talks about exactly that! and now I want to read that instead of the readings... ;______;
okay this degeneration of typing indicates I should go to sleep. too much HTML-formatting today, that's why.
Recs from naruto_meme: the legend of crossdressing samurai Sakura!, Star Trek Naruto, Kisame and Itachi getting drunk lol, and if the Akatsuki hadn't become missing-nin.
[Harry Potter] As Yet Unwritten by Persepolis130
What does the future hold for a Sirius sorted into Slytherin and Snape recast as his best friend? Follow their adventures in life, love and ferocious Potter hating from 4th year to Voldemort's attack. (Sirius and Snape as BEST FRIENDS. It's like the crackiest thing ever.)
[Bleach] Hammered Down by Tomas the Betrayer
A forbidden encounter, a chance conversation. Rukia Kuchiki is about to discover what some people are willing to do for the good of Soul Society. (a few quibbles with choice of phrasing, but the worldbuilding & backstory is superb.)
AND NOW FOR YULETIDE~
WARNING: There are many recs. And if you're like, "omg no way am I going to read all of these," then at least read the starred ones, which are my personal personal favorites. (ummm and sorry if I starred too many DD:)
[Anastasia] faded from the winter by VegaOfTheLyre
There is a girl behind the curtains, sitting curled up on the windowsill, elbow pressed against the glass. Anya and Dimitri, pre-movie.
[Arthurian legend] Daughter of the Ever-Changing Sea by masterofmidgets
As she rides past the castle gates, Morgan promises herself that if she comes back again, it will be to bury Uther's son.
[Arthurian legend] The Tale of Ragnell by Ankaret
She was always loathly, but she wasn't always a lady.
*[Calvin & Hobbes] Spaceman Spiff Goes to Chirrutzz by Elfwreck
In which Spiff is not slashed with Harkness, Mal, Kirk, or Zapp Brannigan. Nor with anyone else. Because Spiff is really too young for those games. (Yet.) Instead, he's on a mission to a dangerous, distant planet. Which is dangerous. And distant. And mission-y.
[Calvin & Hobbes] The Social Contract (Boys and Tigers Remix) by Senri
Calvin, Hobbes, and various battles lost and won.
[Calvin & Hobbes/Doctor Who] Upholding the Laws of Time by AstroGirl
Calvin encounters the Doctor. (not really Yuletide, but still adorable.)
*[Calvin & Hobbes] Who Is I Am by Nope
If you're looking at it right, there is little difference between a cardboard box and the universe.
*[Dark is Rising] Loving Bonds by edenfalling
There is a fierce long age between Arthur's reign and the final Rising. Any number of things could have broken a chain of descent and prevented the Light from having a Pendragon on their side. Why, then, did the Dark allow Bran to remain in the twentieth century?
*[Dark is Rising] Reservoirs by Gramarye
Friendships, like reservoirs, are often shaped by what lies well below the surface. But even after thirty years of friendship, Will Stanton is not entirely prepared to find some unexpected depths.
[Dark is Rising] Summer Meeting by Rosie_Rue
On a summer's day, Stephen Stanton and his baby brother meet an archaeologist.
*[Discworld] A Day In The by mtgat
This is the first day of the rest of Death's life.
[Discworld] Like Clockwork by halotolerant
'They move on like mechanical figures in an ornamental clock: set on their tracks, ever repeating, ever smooth and ordered, ever prevented from collision.'
*[Eddie Izzard] Delicious by newredshoes
A meditation on trichinosis, the Northwest Passage, build-it-yourself furniture and buried secrets of the Second World War. What? It's true.
[Egyptian mythology] Recreational Activities by Annwyd
This world will run down and run out eventually. In the end, it's left to a god of chaos and destruction to restart creation.
[Emily of New Moon - L.M. Montgomery] A Hundred Visions and Revisions by athousandwinds
Emily made her choice. Now she has to live with it.
*[Emma - Austen] upon what grounds by hele
And this night, I know not upon what ground, the gates of the City [were] ordered to be all shut, and double guards everywhere, and we are going upon making of all ships coming from thence and Hambrough, or any other infected places, to perform their Quarantine (for thirty days as Sir Rd. Browne expressed it in the order of the Council, contrary to the import of the word, though in general acceptation it signifies now the thing, not the time spent in doing it) in Holehaven, a thing never done by us before.
*[Eugene Onegin - Pushkin!] All The Wine by bogged
An AU exploring what might have happened had Eugene not killed Lensky in their duel, with activities including but not limited to washing each others' hair, sneaking away from their own parties, and eating lots of jam, as I have been led to believe everyone in Russia did in the early 1800s. Eugene-centric.
[Fairytales - Beauty & the Beast] Shadows in the Forest by Truth
Gaston wasn't always tall, arrogant and handsome. Why, when he was a child, he'd been very short!
[Fairytales - Cinderella] Ash the Stablehand by mithrigil
The story of a stablehand and his cruel stepfamily.
*[Fairytales - EVERYTHING] Lord Wolfe and the Ape-Leader by who_la_hoop
The sensible Flora Pilkington is delighted to be asked to accompany her cousin Emily, a wealthy heiress, on a sojourn to Bath - even if seventeen-year-old Emily is something of a ninny-hammer. However, when the dashing but mysterious Lord Wolfe rescues Emily from Terrible Peril, causing her to fall quite in love with him, Flora becomes deeply suspicious. Just who is this Lord Wolfe? Why does he persist in winking at Flora in such a deeply uncouth manner? Why does he refuse to attend all evening engagements? And what is the insufferable man's dark, awful secret? (For she is quite convinced that he has one.) Flora determines to find out, whatever the danger to her reputation...
*[Fairytales - Rumpelstiltskin] The Queen Sent Messengers by sallyislike
This is the third day since you sent us out to search for a name.
[Fairytales - ugly duckling] Thirteen Way of Looking at a Duckling by innocentsmith
It's her life story, and she has some issues with it.
[Ferris Bueller's Day Off] Pointillism by sophistry
The place is like a museum. It's very beautiful and very cold, and you're not allowed to touch anything. Can you appreciate what it must have been like for Cameron to be in that joint as a baby?
[Gone With the Wind] In Fashion by JaneTurenne
In Scarlett O'Hara's case, it is a truth undeniable that the clothes make the woman. Gone with the Wind retold in the stories of a dozen gowns.
*[Greek/Roman mythology] Doubly Blessed the Night by Assimbya
Dionysus, god of death and rebirth, meets Persephone in many ways.
[Greek/Roman mythology] Spinning Fate by Selena
Arachne strikes back at the gods.
[Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2] And to Tilt with Lips by likeadeuce
Kate Percy married a man who talks too much. And that's just one of the challenges involved in being Lady Hotspur. This story follows Kate and Hotspur's relationship, as Kate tries to figure out her place in the world. Includes Kate/Percy/Hal threesome (though not too explicit).
[Henry VI] Be brave, for your captain is brave by Roz-McClure
Jack Cade's wife narrates how an unlikely soldier joined the rebels' party. "I did not think it sensible to turn to one young Richard son of Plantagenet and say, 'Excuse me, what the bleeding fuck are you doing here and have you brought guns to kill us all?'"
[His Dark Materials] That is where she ought to live, with bears, not with men by lotesse
She stood darkly golden against the permafrost, taller and more world-weary than she'd been when he'd last seen her. Wrapping her into the rough embrace of his fur, he breathed in her heady wild scent, atavistically satisfied by her returned presence.
[Homer - Iliad] Rous'd His Drowsy Blood by lanyon
The relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, after a particularly unwelcome turn of events. Achilles himself might be the love of his own life but it is the death of Patroclus that stirs him into a certain realisation and action. The title is taken from William Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida'.
*[Homer - Odyssey] Telemachies by Lysimache
There are no new stories, only new tellers. (Or: Athena Ballerina!)
***[If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino] Five stories the Reader never began by cosmogyral
You are about to begin reading "Five stories the Reader never began." (omg META THAT WINS THE INTERNETS)
*[Lawrence of Arabia] History in Glass Cases by Gileonnen
"I do not wish to place history in glass cases with explanatory plaques. The past is a living thing."
[Little Mermaid] The Reflection Beneath by Angie13
Ursula has a great deal of things on her mind, the least of which is her opinion of a certain little mermaid. Set during her time as a human, Ursula faces down a visitor.
[LOLcats] Dear Santa by KahtyaSofia
The Kitten writes to Santa.
[LOLcats] In The Beginning by Wallwalker
The beginning of Catkind's greatest blessing... and direst curse.
[LOLcats] The Cheezburger Run in the Sky by ChibiRHM
The car came out of nowhere, horn honking and lights bright in Basement Cat's eyes. "O SHIT," said Basement Cat. And then everything went white.
[Lord Peter Wimsey/Doctor Who/Torchwood] No Man's Land by ellen_fremedon
"We're all dead to you, aren't we?" (holy crap. talk about an epic crossover.)
[Men Who Stare At Goats] Goats Who Stare At Men by sparky77
The army has a motto. You've probably heard it before. Be all you can be. No one has ever wondered if the army also believes this motto should apply to goats.
[Metropolis - Janelle Monae] Synthesis Song Soul by etothey
Music is the lens through which we view the soul; music is how we make ourselves whole.
*[Mirrormask] Fevers and Mirrors by tend
"Keep an eye on the sky, Helena."
[Mirrormask] Regarding Helena by dzurlady
Valentine constructs a series of lists.
*[Monster] Schutzwall by Vesper
Weaker men lose themselves in stories. Not Runge.
***[Monty Python's Life of Brian] Four Completely Unconnected Scenes In 1st c. Judea by izzybeth
"Alms for a leper?" (brb lol-ing wayyy too hard. 8D)
[Norse mythology] just a trick of the light by barrowjane
There is a man sitting by himself, at the table by the window. (This is the story of a trick. Now pay attention.)
*[Oregon Trail] And Then We Shot the Ox by coltsbane
Hundreds of thousands of people made the journey to Oregon. A long time later, only a few made their way back. (YES THERE IS OREGON TRAIL FIC. AND IT IS MADE OF WIN.)
[Oresteia - Aeschylus] Last Days by pipedreamer
Clytaemnestra's reign at Argos is disturbed by rows, dreams, and an unexpected visitor.
*[Phantom Tollbooth] Snow Day by incapricious
A brief look at the Lands of Wisdom on a snowy winter's day. (I loved this book when I was young. ;__________;)
[Phantom Tollbooth] The War of Words by foxtwin
King Azaz the Unabridged requires Milo's assistance -- again!
[Princess Tutu] Revisionism by pengiesama
"Rejoice, aficionados, and gather 'round! -- it is with the utmost pleasure that we of the D.D. Drosselmeyer Literary Institute announce the discovery of a new manuscript..." (don't know squat about the canon, but I could pick up enough to enjoy the awesome metafic. :D)
[Romeo and Juliet] As Garlic Cloves and Butter by volta_arovet
Romeo is in love, Benvolio's in denial, and Mercutio is an ass.
[RPF 15th century CE] Il'uomo d'oro by lareinenoire
Five people thought they knew Cesare Borgia. None of them are certain this is true.
*[RPF classical composers] Totentanz by Aja
You decide before the waltz is over that you hate Frederick Chopin. (it was titled after one of my favorite Liszt pieces. that is all.)
***[RPF classical history/literature] De Amicitia by Toft
Atticus and Cicero's friendship in its early years.
***[RPF National Public Radio] Wait Wait Don't Eat Me by Nestra
"We're going to be cutting our show a little short today, because, as you may have heard, there's an apocalypse happening! But we didn't let the election of Barack Obama stop us, and we're not going to let the zombie hordes stop us either." (THESE KINDS OF FICS ARE WHY I LOVE YULETIDE. zombie!NPR fic, for real~)
*[Sandman] Schizophasia by whatimages
schizophasia: "the confused usage of words with no apparent meaning or relationship attached to them, symptomatic of various mental illnesses"
[Sherlock Holmes] The Mechanical Heart by jasmasson
Holmes and Watson discover that the Victorian Age was one of great danger as well as great advancement.
[Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost] The Smallest Chickadee by MissJess
She brings the sharp cold of the darkest night of the year.
[Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage] Lovelace and Babbage vs. The Christmas Death Spider From Beyond The Atlantic by cosmogyral
Title says it all, really.
And finally, not quite a fic, but: The TRUFAX Completely Imaginary List of Reasons Why My Recipient Will Hate My Fic, which amused me to no end.
uggggh it's late. going to bed. Strange, I've been posting so much lately and I can't actually afford to, as psets are now being assigned on top of like 80 pages of reading by Wed. but omg today in tutorial they were talking about the corporation as a "legal person" and how people in the corporation could be considered perfectly moral beings while the corporation carried out immoral actions, and it reminded me of Niebuhr, b/c the book I am reading right now (or trying to at least) is Moral Man and Immoral Society which talks about exactly that! and now I want to read that instead of the readings... ;______;
okay this degeneration of typing indicates I should go to sleep. too much HTML-formatting today, that's why.