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Adams Family, Cannibal Ants in a Polish Bunker, Disco Elysium, Dragonriders of Pern, Flatland, Florasis "Sapphic Lipstick" Commercial, Fremvandrerne | Beforeigners, Foyle's War, Galaxy Quest, Knitting (anthropomorphic), Kushiel's Legacy, Left Hand of Darkness, Lower Decks, Mercy Thompson series, Rivers of London, Robot series, Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings, A Study in Emerald, xkcd
No Canon Knowledge Needed:
Go Falling One by One (1323 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Cannibal Ants in a Polish Bunker, Undisclosed Fandom
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Original Female Ant
Additional Tags: Cannibalism, Decentralized organization, the canon is the warning, Ants are basically alien, finding meaning in life, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
There is no light and no honeydew here, but there is still the Colony.
Bookmarker's Notes:A dark, creepy, and compelling short story about an ant colony.
In Every Life a Place of Peace (7419 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Clocktaur War Series - T. Kingfisher, The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Zale (The Saint of Steel), Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Animal Death, But the Animals are Possessed by Demons and It's Very Humane Death, Paladins, Digressions, neurodivergent representation
Summary:
Quail ranching outside of Archon's Glory is the quiet routine life that Cai always wanted. But sometimes we have to defend what we want.
Bookmarker's Notes:The charming story of a neurodivergent quail rancher in a low-magic medieval society dealing with a pesky demon.
88 Rhymes about 44 Woolen (586 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Knitting (Anthropomorphic), Fiber Arts (Anthropomorphic)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional Tags: Christmas Poetry, Poetry, Bad Puns
Summary:
Personal stories have us tied up in knots.
Bookmarker's Notes:Hilarious couplets for all the fiber arts!
Curses, foiled again (2877 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Knitting (Anthropomorphic)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Yarn (Anthropomorphic), Malabrigo Sock Yarn (Anthropomorphic), Homespun Yarn (Anthropomorphic), Noro Kureyon Yarn (Anthropomorphic), Red Heart Super Saver Yarn (Anthropomorphic)
Additional Tags: Fluff, Crack, Fluff and Crack, Knitting, Attempt at Humor, Bickering yarns!, Holiday hijinks!
Summary:
The residents of Yarn Stash Cabinet are concerned about their crafter’s holiday knitting plans.
Bookmarker's Notes:Adorable, comforting, and sweet Christmas fic - just the thing to read on a quiet, snowy evening.
Spherical Cows and Other Questions (1426 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: xkcd, xkcd What If 120
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, In-Universe Documents, Mathematics, Physics, Humour and Horror, Alternate Universe - Canon
Summary:
What If? questions and answers from a world that is not our own.
Bookmarker's Notes:The best kind of geeky, as the author uses math to dig deeper into some horrifying Alternate Realities.
Some Canon Knowledge Preferred:
A Discourse on Inversion Among The Inhabitants of Flatland (3164 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: The King of Pointland/A. Square
Characters: A. Square, The King of Pointland
Additional Tags: Solitary Confinement, Geometry, Solipsism, Dreams, Dream Sex, Dubious Consent, Worldbuilding, extremely nonhumanoid sex, Xeno, polygonal sex, Victorian Attitudes, Canon Nonbinary Character, it/its pronouns, sexual inversion, geometric inversion, a center point inverted to the point at infinity, hot vertex-on-vertex action, Sexuality Crisis, Non-Euclidean Geometry, sort of vore but not really it's complicated
Summary:
I should count myself a King of Infinite Space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
Bookmarker's Notes:Our poor narrator, imprisoned for heresy, has nothing to occupy his thoughts but philosophy and sex, with all of its perversion and inversions. A delight!
Memories Of You (3252 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 花西子《【白月光与朱砂痣】穿越千年才找回跟你在一起的回忆》广告片 | Florasis "Sapphic Lipstick" Commercial
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jiu Jingyan/Qi Xiaxia, Unnamed Woman/Unnamed Woman
Characters: Unnamed Woman, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Reincarnation, Established Relationship, Love across time, Past Lives, Romance
Summary:
When Qi Xiaxia touched the stranger's hand, the memories came flooding back.
Bookmarker's Notes:Sensual, sweet and loving - everything I wanted from a fic written for the Sapphic lipstick commercial!
The Woman of Mists Unravels the Tangled Skein (6135 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Fremvandrerne | Beforeigners (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Alfhildr Enginnsdóttir, Urðr Sighvatsdóttir, Tommy | Tore Hund
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Modern Era
Summary:
Drowned and reborn, Alfhildr insists she's a farmer. It's not clear that anyone believes her, even herself.
Bookmarker's Notes:This show is set in Norway, where 'refugees' from the past are appearing in the present day. The author's deep expertise in Old Norse culture and exquisite descriptions bring you into the POV of a shield-maiden as she adapts to the modern world.
Five Times Laliari Stayed Quiet, and One Time She Didn't (4764 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Galaxy Quest (1999)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fred Kwan/Laliari
Characters: Laliari (Galaxy Quest), Fred Kwan, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Jason Nesmith, Tommy Webber, Guy Fleegman
Additional Tags: Backstory, Canon Compliant
Bookmarker's Notes:
A truly uplifting story as Laliari stays on Earth with Fred and learns about the transformative power of fiction.
What happens in the loop stays in the loop (6264 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 6/6
Fandom: Star Trek: Lower Decks (Cartoon)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Brad Boimler, Beckett Mariner, D'Vana Tendi, Sam Rutherford
Additional Tags: Time Loop
Summary:
It's the Time Loop Code.
[set mid-S1, specifically between "Terminal Provocations" and "Much Ado about Boimler"]
Bookmarker's Notes:Handles the classic time loop shenanigans with perfectly in-character banter and that Lower Decks blend of practicality and self-aware absurdity. A delight!
Canon Knowledge Required:
And I Have Seen Evil (1276 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Addams Family (Movies - Sonnenfeld)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Wednesday Addams, Original College Student Characters
Additional Tags: Horror Movies, Literary Theory, Film criticism, College, Gen or Pre-Slash, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
Wednesday Addams discovers her college's Horror Club.
Bookmarker's Notes:Wednesday goes to college and does her best to blend in.
The entire set of YT Disco Elysium fics was exceptional this year! I picked three to rec that showcase very different aspects of the fandom.
Polyhedrons (2405 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Disco Elysium (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Novelty Dicemaker (Disco Elysium)
Additional Tags: doomed commercial area, Inanimate Objects, ways of going on
Summary:
How do you go on in a world where every new endeavor is doomed to fail?
There. At her left. The finished sets of dice as she completes them. Each offers a set of possibilities, new worlds and new endings to ignite or foreclose. Stop here and look at the dice she tumbles, and ask. How do they go on?
Bookmarker's Notes:Poetic and profound, just like the game itself.
The Smallest Church in Jamrock (6078 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Disco Elysium (Video Game)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi
Characters: Harry Du Bois, Kim Kitsuragi
Additional Tags: Dom/sub, Cock Warming, Kneeling, Blow Jobs, Handcuffs, Developing Relationship, POV Second Person
Summary:
He is not a figure in stained glass, but you get on your knees for him just the same.
Bookmarker's Notes:Blazingly hot D/s wherein Kim takes care of the paperwork and Harry ... helps.
A Smoker on a Balcony (1058 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Disco Elysium (Video Game)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi
Characters: Harry Du Bois, Kim Kitsuragi
Additional Tags: The Pale (Disco Elysium), Entropolism, POV Second Person, Smoking, allusions to past Harry/Dora, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
The night after the church. There's a hole in the heart of the world and Harry kind of wants to be swallowed whole - by the pale or by Kim, he's not sure which.
Bookmarker's Notes:A dreamy, lyrical version of Harry, half-mad and lost, finding his way to Kim.
Like a green rider (1587 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alemi/Elgion (Dragonriders of Pern)
Characters: Alemi (Dragonriders of Pern), Elgion (Dragonriders of Pern)
Additional Tags: First Kiss, First Time, Sea Hold sexual mores, Oral Sex
Summary:
“Are spring gales always like this?”
“Often.”
//
It took Alemi some time — an embarrassingly long time, really — to realize exactly what it is he feels.
Bookmarker's Notes:Sweet Alemi/Elgion with an interesting worldbuilding twist!
To Victory (2907 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Foyle's War
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Christopher Foyle & Sam Stewart
Characters: Sam Stewart, Christopher Foyle, Paul Milner
Additional Tags: Bad Cooking, sleuthing, rationing, Sam does her bit
Summary:
"Come on now, Sam,” said Foyle. “Aren’t you always keen to be in the thick of it?"
"Yes, but I was thinking more along the lines of chasing criminals and whacking them over the head with a bit of pipe, not making pies."
Or, Sam enters a cooking contest.
Bookmarker's Notes:Perfectly spot-on character voices make this little case fic a delight from start to finish.
No One is Ever Told What Might Have Happened (3244 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Phèdre nó Delaunay/Melisande Shahrizai, Phèdre nó Delaunay/others
Characters: Phèdre nó Delaunay, Melisande Shahrizai, Marmion Shahrizai, Persia Shahrizai, Fanchone Shahrizai, Didier Vascon
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, BDSM, canon-typical sex work, Vaginal Fingering, Cunnilingus, Memoirs, First Meetings, First Time, Complicated Relationships, Impact Play
Summary:
How would it have been, I wonder, had Didier Vascon, second of Valerian House, not been on errand to Cereus House, on the day I discovered pain? Would anyone have seen me true - have known me for what I was, what I am? Perhaps - perhaps I might have found another life, still in service to my Lord Kushiel, my beloved Elua and Naamah...but I can scarcely compass it.
Phèdre muses on the threads of her life - in particular, the night she met the future Queen of Terre d'Ange.
Bookmarker's Notes:Hot as the sun as Phedre joins Valerian and lives a darker timeline.
dawn (2956 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Genly Ai/Therem Harth rem ir Estraven, Arek Harth rem ir Estraven/Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
Characters: Genly Ai, Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
Additional Tags: Gender-Neutral Pronouns, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, POV First Person
Summary:
“I won’t leave you alone, Lord Estraven,” Genly said. “I’m afraid you’re stuck with me. In exile or at home. On the Ice or at the hearth.”
Bookmarker's Notes:A LHoD fix-it with plenty of hurt/comfort, but it's also so much more. This is a breathtakingly intimate story, capturing the painful beauty of Genly and Therem's time together on the ice.
Only one question that can be answered (3548 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Genly Ai, Therem Harth rem ir Estraven
Summary:
Genly Ai retires to Gethen.
Bookmarker's Notes:A beautiful and bittersweet resolution to Genly Ai's tale as he retires on Winter, many years later.
tell me everything (2716 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mercy Thompson Series - Patricia Briggs
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kyle Brooks/Warren Smith
Characters: Warren Smith (Mercy Thompson), Kyle Brooks
Additional Tags: Post-Book 1: Moon Called (Mercy Thompson Series), Book 2: Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson Series), Missing Scene, POV Alternating, Breaking Up & Making Up, Yuletide 2021
Summary:
Kyle stared at him with a raised eyebrow. “So, werewolves.”
Warren nodded. “Werewolves.”
“I thought it might have been drugs,” Kyle told him. “Or the mafia. I guess I wasn’t that far off on the mafia part.”
Bookmarker's Notes:Warren and Kyle slowly. slowly try to rebuild their relationship after Kyle finds out he's a werewolf.
Gothic Revival (10806 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peter Grant (Rivers of London), Sahra Guleed, Jennifer Vaughan, Miriam Stephanopoulos, Thomas Nightingale, Kimberley Reynolds
Additional Tags: Case Fic, architecture, gothic architecture, Gargoyles
Summary:
Peter is called to a break-in at just about the last place he expects, and soon discovers that the intruder's identity is even less expected.
Bookmarker's Notes:A fun RoL casefic that captures everything I love about this canon - action, banter, architectural history, and Peter's deep compassion.
Training Data (3156 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Robot Series - Isaac Asimov
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Susan Calvin, Original Characters, Original Robot Character(s)
Summary:
CSNDR-4 didn’t work.
Bookmarker's Notes:A sharply written piece that, like all the best sci-fi, holds up a mirror to our society.
put a shirt on (or so help me) (1265 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Katy Chen/Shang-Chi
Characters: Katy Chen, Shang-Chi (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, First Kiss, Post-Canon, Yuletide Treat
Summary:
The entire ten years Katy has known Shaun, she’s thought he was a never-nude.
But now Shaun is Shang-Chi, and Shang-Chi is allergic to shirts.
Bookmarker's Notes:Exactly what it says on the tin, with a perfect Katy internal monologue.
The Endgame Gambit (3043 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: A Study in Emerald - Neil Gaiman
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sebastian Moran, James Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Summary:
"I have no desire to remember or write down these events, but I know no other way to honor my friend's memory than by imitating, however poorly, his commitment to exactitude in observation and report."
Bookmarker's Notes:The long struggle between our narrator, his friend, and the genius nemesis seeking the Restoration comes to its inevitable end. Perfect touches of Lovecraftian horror!
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