holy jetlag, batman. a combination of the flight timing + my inability to nap during daylight meant i was awake for a full 24 hours yesterday. (don't worry, once the sun went down i passed out for about 12.) pretty much the only "productive" thing i could manage was formatting half of a dreamwidth post.
here are december's recs! some are from ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
femslashex, others are from yuletide, others just from around ao3.
Beautiful by ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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E, Heathers, Heather/Heather/Heather, 9k
You want to know how wrong you are? You want to know how 1985 it is, to be bunking with muff-divers? My friend Heather Duke has done it.
the heather c pov voice is just bonkers good in this. she's so horrible! the narration bowls you over with so many venom-dripping, charmingly-exaggerated mean girl 80s-isms that for a minute you forget you're reading porn, except when all of a sudden the porn gets blistering and you very much remember that you're reading porn.
in future tense by notkestrel
T, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Sol/Tang, 5k
You’re eight years old, and you think, There will be an answer.
dreamy, beautiful, haunting in sort of a distant way. i don't know if this (vague gesturing, general spoilers) is technically the worst timeline you can get in exocolonist, but it's certainly the worst timeline i got on any of my playthroughs. even when sol and tang are their closest the distance between them seems to span the atlantic. every word settles quietly under the weight of what she's done.
We Should Just Get Married by IncurablePeppermint
G, Suite Life of Zack & Cody, Maddie/London, 1k
London is stuck in an awful speed date for the upteenth time. Maddie is feeding her smart-sounding lines as usual when a better idea pops into London's head. She could marry Maddie instead!
this was so cute! shenanigansy in the same way as canon. had we lived through a nicer version of the 2000s, i feel like they could've started dating on the show exactly like this.
undeserved fragments of time by santanico
E, The Locked Tomb, Camilla/Nona, 4k
Camilla paused and sighed. “Did Pyrrha tell on me?” Not us. Not that Nona wasn’t culpable for her actions. She was. She knew what she was doing. Something in her knew and wanted and took.
not a ship i'd ever thought about before, but the summary intrigued me - very glad i clicked. the way camilla describes herself as a "co-parent" to nona but acquiesces to her sexual advances anyway is so fucky and fascinating, most of all because it doesn't read like exploitation per se; nona is a complicated character, not exactly a child but not exactly a woman, either, at once dependent and accountable, too much a force to really be judged as a human (but still too human to not be curious about these basic pleasures of the flesh).
C. familiaris by friendamedes
E, The Locked Tomb, Harrow/Alecto, 4k
“Yes,” says Alecto. She speaks with a strange cadence, a sort of half-nervousness that sparks somewhere beneath Harrow’s sternum. “I have been an abomination, and I have been a human girl—I would like to be a dog.”
this is just a great prompt executed well. alecto loves dogs. she's always loved dogs.
That's great, it starts with an earthquake by punch_kicker15
NR, The Good Place, Tahani/Eleanor, 1k
The Good Place, Attempt #333, in which Tahani and Eleanor have fallen into bed together and must decide what happens next.
fun dialogue that felt like throwing the ball around in an undergrad philosophy class. eleanor trying to justify her actions using any intellectual means available is cute and in-character, and there is the dramatic irony, of course, that she and tahani aren't really doing anything wrong.
you gave up all the golden factories by evewithanapple
G, Anastasia, Anya/Dimitri, 3k
Two Petersburg childhoods.
a lovely peek into how these two grew up and how it shaped them into the adults that they became.
tell me what the universe knows (or: something to believe in) by Kindness
T, Beetlejuice, Stranger Things, Lydia & Will, 13k
Dad and Delia move Lydia into her dorm in the city on a colorful, windy, foggy Saturday.
i read this when it was still untagged and it was such a fun stealth!crossover experience. i love the idea of these two weird kids finding each other, and i love how slow to trust they are, even as they can recognize each other as kindred spirits.
As Little Irksome As He Can by sanguinity
T, The Flight of the Heron, Ewen/Keith, 4k
In which there is a mishap with a stolen philabeg, and Captains Windham and Cameron have to share a bed after all.
the fact that this is such an excellent pastiche of the novel's style makes it all the funnier how unapologetically tropey the actual story is - like, there was only one bed and that is played very much straight. it made me laugh but there was still plenty of sentiment. keith calling ewen his young achilles will never not make me kick my feet in delight.
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