Community Recs Post!

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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanvids/fics/fanarts/fancrafts/podfics/some other kind of fanwork have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

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Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes (Endeavour, Morse/DeBryn)

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Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes by TakePenAndInk (formerly Kate_Lear) [archive locked]

Since the final series of Endeavour is airing, I want to recommend this excellent series. It's Morse/DeBryn, and is basically character study of DeBryn as a gay man in the 1960s, sliding into a full retelling of the first three series from his POV as he and Morse fall in love (slowly, and with many stops and starts; it's Morse, after all). DeBryn is very much himself: smart, sarcastic, not prone to taking any shit, while Morse is inscrutable and brilliant as always. I really enjoy the way canon events are woven into the relationship narrative, especially the end of season 2 (Morse is arrested and spends several weeks in jail because of corruption; DeBryn comes to a very wrong but extremely logical conclusion, and then quietly angsts about it).

Content warning for a very unflinching depiction of societal and systemic homophobia in 1960s Britain, and the way that affects the main characters. It's not misery porn by any means--DeBryn actually has a lot less internalized homophobia than you might expect from the setting--but it also doesn't sugarcoat it.

Re: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes (Endeavour, Morse/DeBryn)

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Thanks for reccing this fic. :D