Community Recs Post!

[glitteryv]

Every Thursday, we have a community recs post, just like 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 to make posts of your own, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget, you're free to make posts seven days a week! :D)

So what cool fic/vid/art have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

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[beatrice_otter]

The Five Figure Fanwork Exchange is a multifandom ficathon for works over 10k (or you could write 2 5k works), and it has produced some EXCELLENT fic this year.

I'm still working my way through the archive, but everything I've read is worth reccing.

Particular favorites:
A Mirror, Darkly (23008 words)
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Peter Grant & Lesley May, Lesley May & Thomas Nightingale
Characters: Lesley May, Peter Grant (Rivers of London), Thomas Nightingale, Caroline Linden-Limmer, The Faceless Man (Rivers of London), Helena Linden-Limmer
Additional Tags: Rule 63, Dimension Travel, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe, Betrayal, Redemption Arcs, Book 4: Broken Homes
Summary:

Skygarden is Lesley's moment of decision. She never expected to make that decision twice.

River in a Dry Land (12761 words)
Fandom: Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo, Grand Inquisitor (Star Wars), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Force-Sensitive Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo, Thrawn | Mitth'raw'nuruodo Defects to the Rebels, Dehydration, Rebels, Space Battles
Summary:

The Grand Inquisitor visits the Chimaera to test Grand Admiral Thrawn's skills in art analysis. One of the test objects he brings is a Jedi holocron.

When Thrawn wakes up, it's in a prison, and to gloating about exactly what the Empire will do to each and every Force sensitive – the Navigators back in the Ascendancy included.

New Tricks (5533 words)
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Nile Freeman
Characters: Nile Freeman, Andy | Andromache of Scythia
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Immortality, First Time, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, And Some Healthier Ones
Summary:

“I need some time,” Andy says, so they give it to her.

Now Nile has to decide how to spend it.

A Radical Act of Existence (10446 words)
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Dr. Mensah & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Murderbot & SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries), Asshole Research Transport & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
Characters: Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries), Asshole Research Transport (Murderbot Diaries), Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries)
Additional Tags: Post-Book 5: Network Effect, Discussion of Pronouns, Brief sci-fi violence, The Corporation Rim is terrible
Summary:

Murderbot's visit to Preservation isn't going as smoothly as everyone would like, so it's almost a relief when 3 receives a message from another SecUnit looking for assistance. That relief doesn't last long.

'cause i could never hold a perfect thing and not demolish it (16541 words)
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Percy Weasley & Pansy Parkinson, Ginny Weasley & Percy Weasley
Characters: Percy Weasley, Pansy Parkinson, Ginny Weasley
Additional Tags: Post-Second War with Voldemort, Politics
Summary:

After the war, Percy can't help but wait for the next one.

Smooth Water All Our Days (37632 words)
Fandom: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: William Laurence/Tenzing Tharkay
Characters: William Laurence, Tenzing Tharkay, Temeraire (Temeraire), George Laurence, Perscitia (Temeraire), Jane Roland, Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington, minnow
Additional Tags: past Jane/Laurence, aromantic Jane Roland, background canon relationships, Domesticity, Spy Shenanigans, dances and balls and pining oh my!, dubious understanding of 19th century British politics, Blood and Injury, conservative backlash and populism, Historical Figures
Summary:

Laurence desires nothing more than to retire to Tharkay's estate and help Temeraire get to Parliament, for what more could he want than a place in Britain with space enough for a dragon, and the company of a dear friend? But wars rarely end so neatly. Bellicose lords, Bourbon princes, errant heirs and shadowy forces threaten to undermine the very peace that Laurence and Temeraire fought to obtain, and ruin the happiness that Laurence was just beginning to glimpse.

[glitteryv]

Well, look at that: recs inside recs! :)