Weekly Fanfic Post for 11/22/2019

[shy_magpie]

Read any good fanfiction lately? Then please recommend it to us in the
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[suncani]

I've finished all the episodes of the Magnus Archive so am now avidly going through all the fic I avoided for fear of spoilers, so I might be a bit mono-focused for a bit #sorrynotsorry

The Tagalong (44812 words) by Lenny9987
Chapters: 25/25
Fandom: Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Claire Fraser & Fergus Fraser, Fergus Fraser & Roger Wakefield
Characters: Fergus Fraser, Old Alec - Character, Jamie Fraser, Claire Fraser, Frank Randall, Reverend Wakefield, Roger Wakefield, Mrs. Graham - Character
Additional Tags: Fergus through the stones, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Series: Part 5 of Lenny's Imagine Claire and Jamie Prompts
Summary: Prompt: What if Fergus had gone through the Stones after Culloden accidentally or on purpose and found Claire and Bree?

This is an interesting what if. It won't make a lot of sense if you haven't read the first two Outlander books/seen the first two seasons. Feel like it does a good job of capturing Claire's personality.


november, in this house of leaves (11787 words) by Mad_Maudlin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Martin Blackwood, Basira Hussain, Melanie King
Additional Tags: Original Character(s), domestic abuse, Stalking, Bad Parenting, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical spiders, the expected level of slaughter-related intrusive thoughts, martin blackwood is having a bad time, basira crits her deception roll, archival assistants being badass, Peter Lukas being a creepo, but what else is new, Torture, Kidnapping, lug wrenches, Abusive Parents
Summary: Martin nodded quietly. “No. I mean, no, I don’t want him around.” He looked down at his hands again and started picking at the too-short sleeve of his jumper. “He hasn’t been part of my life for twenty years and I’d prefer to keep it that way.”

Spoilers for up to Episode 120, acts almost as a missing scene as doesn't contradict anything canon. Interesting interplay between the entities.

bad time for love (you caught me) (23122 words) by PresAlex
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Georgie Barker & Martin Blackwood, Martin Blackwood & Jonathan Sims, Georgie Barker & Jonathan Sims
Characters: Martin Blackwood, Georgie Barker, Jonathan Sims, Elias Bouchard, Melanie King, Tim Stoker (The Magnus Archives), Basira Hussain, the Admiral
Additional Tags: the love in this is all platonic bc im ace and valid, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Friendship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Unrequited Crush, Miscommunication, Canon Asexual Character, AroAce Jon, Martin needs a hug and a reality check, supernatural sickfic sort of, Season 3 rewrite, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Platonic Love, Platonic Cuddling.
Summary:Season 3 if Martin, Georgie, and Jon were all friends and good things happened sometimes.

As the blurb says. The bad things still happen, but its tempered. I really really love the relationship between the three of them.

[isis]

That Outlander fic looks right up my alley - thanks for reccing!

[suncani]

Hope you enjoy! The whole collection is pretty good, with some interesting what ifs. There's another one that looks at if Frank had come through 6 weeks after Claire and run into Black Jack.

tcon fic

[elasticella]

Noche Oscura Del Alma (975 words) by summoninglupine
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Susan Pevensie
Additional Tags: Fae & Fairies, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary: The door calls to her, wooden vines that seem to move. she will always recognise a door to another realm, can't help the curiosity- the hope- that despite what Aslan said, it may bring her back to Narnia.

I missed reccing this last week, so good news- this fic absolutely stands up to multiple reads \o/

Re: tcon fic

[shy_magpie]

Thanks for the rec!

Re: tcon fic

[sylvaine]

Ooooh, this looks fascinating! Thanks for the rec!

[sylvaine]

I've read barely anything this week but here are two I liked:

Lose A Kraken, Gain An Angel (11622 words) by MistressKat
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Anathema Device, Newton Pulsifer, Kraken (Good Omens), Adam Young (Good Omens), Hastur (Good Omens), Beelzebub (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Footnotes, First Kiss, Pining, Ridiculous, Mythical Beings & Creatures, Flying, Alcohol, Fluff and Humor
Summary:

Hastur needs help. The Kraken is vexed. Crowley would just like to get back home. Erm, the Bookshop.

Utterly bloody delightful. This is very much Ensemble Fic - all the characters really get their moment to shine - and very much in the Pratchettian spirit of things, where a one-sentence footnote tells an entirely separate story sometimes, and can't resist commenting on the POV character other times. I think this probably would require at least some canon knowledge to really enjoy.

Literal Curtain Fic (1136 words) by ermengarde
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bandom, My Chemical Romance
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ray Toro, Gerard Way
Summary:

Gerard's place is freezing, Ray wants to fix it. No one has any money.

This is just lovely and sweet and warm. Especially the last one, cold as it is at the moment in the northern hemisphere! No canon knowledge needed.

[shy_magpie]

Thanks for the recs!

[shy_magpie]

Let's start with a couple RQG fics, one shippy one not:
Thinking of You (7792 words) by Aces_and_Roses
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan/Zolf Smith
Characters: Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan, Zolf Smith, Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Grizzop drik Acht Amsterdam
Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Miscommunication, Near Death Experiences, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Torture, Hurt/Comfort, this was supposed to be short and fluffy, i don't know what happened
Summary:

Zolf didn’t even know why he had agreed to go out on this godsforsaken shopping trip in the first place.

Well, that wasn’t precisely true. He knew damn well that the reason was standing right next to him in the form of a halfling who was far more persuasive than he had any right to be. A halfling who was currently excitedly explaining to Zolf the difference between eyeliner and eyeshadow, and whose words Zolf should probably be paying a bit more attention to right now. He probably would be if he didn’t keep getting distracted by the way Hamid’s eyes were lighting up.

lilac, violet, lavender (623 words) by DrowningInStarlight
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan & Sasha Rackett
Characters: Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan, Sasha Rackett
Additional Tags: Fluff, Friendship, Nail Polish
Summary:

Hamid's painting his nails.

Bookmarker's Notes:

I love quiet moments with the team

a Magnus archives fic to ease the hiatus
Tea for the Heart (511 words) by ComposerEgg
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Martin Blackwood/Jonathan Sims
Characters: Jonathan Sims, Martin Blackwood
Additional Tags: Light Angst, Prompt Fic
Summary:

“There’s still time to be saved.” Jon says, to the empty office air. “You don’t have to do this alone.”

There’s no response. Of course there isn’t. Martin isn’t here. Sure, this is his office, and that chair is swaying slightly, but he’s not really here. He’s there. Away.

Isolated by the Lonely, wrapped in the concealing fog that blinds Jon’s Eye.

But he speaks anyway, and hopes that Martin hears.

A Good Omens fic since I might be fixated on Rusty Quill but I will always have room in my harbor for this ship
it's the light (it's the obstacle that casts it) (5783 words) by Handful_of_Silence
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens)
Additional Tags: Gay Subcultures, 1950's London, Period-Typical Homophobia, A Gently Bastardised Attempt at Historical Accuracy, Mutual Pining, Queer Themes, Queer History, Emotionally Repressed, Aziraphale loves Crowley, Aziraphale has also sort of adopted most of the Soho gays by accident
Summary:

It's like having a curtain pulled back on something he wasn't expecting to see. A surprise punch-and-judy at an up-scale restaurant, a lobster thermidor when he's ordered an ale.

Crowley's gleefully trying to wrap his head around the fact that Aziraphale is speaking Polari. Because of course he is.

Or: The Patron Saint of London's LGBT Community is real, and he lives in Soho.

Bookmarker's Notes:

No translation of the polari but context makes things clear enough. Character uses historically accurate pronouns, so please bite me but leave them alone if Aziraphale being called Auntie or she while presenting male is a problem. Police attempt to harass ocs for being gay but Aziraphale hides them, reference is made to how bad they would be treated if they were caught.

and lets finish with a nice Jeeves & Wooster
Fairies Aren't Gentlemen (12166 words) by AMarguerite
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster, Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram Wooster
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram Wooster, Bobbie Wickham, Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, Daphne Braithwaite, Stephen Black, Emma Pole, The Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair, Dahlia Travers
Additional Tags: Crossover, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Gratuitous Oscar Wilde References, Fae & Fairies, 1920s
Summary:

Or, "The Other Club Book." Bertie Wooster accidentally attends a party hosted by the Chappie with Thistledown Hair in the Faerie kingdom of Lost-Hope, and finds it dashed difficult to get out of another invitation. How can Jeeves possibly get him out of the soup when Bertie can't describe his rummy circs?

[suncani]

Thank you for these! I loved the tea fic - showing love through tea is definitely my jam.

The GO fic is perfect in a heavy way, but I can definitely see it.