Cerulean Blue

Day 2 - Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create

With Thanks to Santayana by fahye - This is THE Jurassic World aftermath story, imho. Canon.  It was a Yuletide 2015 story that wiped the field clean.  It's Claire/Owen in a sweet, aching sort of way.  Claire having coffee with Lex.  A lot of tech-speak that rights wrongs and sets the story firmly in the original Crichton-verse.  I re-read this every so often and it always feels like the first time.

Oft Falling by kylohen and thedevilchicken - Obi-Wan POV. Obi-Wan/Padme.  My favorite non-canon ship in all its doomed and beautifully painful glory.  It's also really hot.  Even if you don't think you ship Obi-Wan and Padme, it's worth a read.

words for empty and words for full by tree - The only other time a fanfiction story turned me on to the original canon, instead of the reverse, was with an old Harry Potter story.  Tree's Walt and Vic are so pitch-perfect they set the standard - no other Walt or Vic could measure up, they are so perfectly themselves.  This story, with a fun alphabet conceit that almost melts away completely to leave the story perfectly exposed, is one of my favorite reads of the last two years.

I got a fantastic gift this year - A Helstone Rose, a Margaret Hale/John Thornton tale from the North and South book and miniseries.  An alternate ending for the miniseries, in which Margaret chooses a slightly different path.  It is exactly what I was hoping for, and it's meaty - long with excellent characterization.  I was really happy to see this and I highly recommend it if you're a North and South fan!

Drive-by recs after my first pass:

Zinc Man, The Americans:  Like the tightest and most tense of any episode of the show.  Really well-researched.  I love the voices in this, too.  The author is clearly a fan!

The Long Dry Road That Lead Me Here, Almost Famous: Oh, Penny.  I wasn't expecting to see any Almost Famous stories in the archive, so this is a pleasant surprise.  And such a good one.  Penny, pre-movie.  The best idea - that it's Penny Lane who is most responsible for getting Stillwater to the point we see them in the movie.

The Good Old Way, True Grit (2010):  Mattie Ross confesses.  It's a perfect internal monologue and then some.  Not really a Mattie/LaBoeuf story, but a shipper like me was more than satisfied anyway.  ;-)

In Stunning Heaps, Dawson's Creek:  Just because I'm still a huge Pacey/Joey fan, and this is a fun slice of life for them post-series.

(Not) Like Uber But For Babysitting, The Babysitters Club:  Yuletide always brings to light the best nostalgia.  This is definitely that, and then some, as the BSC girls, all grown-up, create an app.  Love, love, love it.

The Ones I Used to Know, White Christmas/Agent Carter:  The crossover you never knew you always wanted.  Bob Wallace and Peggy Carter meet, again, after the war.  It captures both sources so well, and I'm seriously sorry Bing Crosby and Hayley Atwell can only meet in fanfiction.  Ah well.  This is great.

Star and Stripes, American Girls: Molly/Agent Carter:  Another great crossover!  Molly is a fan of the Captain America Adventure Hour.  Halloween fun ensues.  I really love this.

I need to watch the trailer the minute I get home, since I got distracted by all the disasters in the news this morning.

Anyway, fic rec!

Here in the Dark by TLynn. Post-"Three Words," kinda angsty but also hopeful.

Enjoy!

And check out two new fanfic stories that hit the airwaves this weekend, both by classic XF authors.

Essential by TLynn - (author website)

This Week in Entertainment, 2112 by ML - author listing at Gossamer)

And you should already be reading everything that onpaperfirst is writing, especially her post-"Hollywood A.D." delight, Maps.

My goodness, y'all are getting downright prolific! I'm sure I'll be back later.