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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 fics/fanvids/podfics/fanarts have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

sholio

Four Heart Attack Exchange recs at my journal while things are still anon, 3 Falcon & Winter Solder, 1 Dark Matter (TV). In the interests of full disclosure, two of these were written for me, but I would have recced them anyway; they're great!

slightweasel

At my journal, 4 recs for Loki (Loki/Sylvie/Thor and Loki/Sylvie), 1 for Harry Potter (Harry/Draco).

beatrice_otter

Both

startrekholidays and

highadrenalineexchange went live this week, and there are some AMAZING fics in those collections! Star Trek Holidays is a Trek-centered fanworks exchange, and Heart Attack is a multifandom exchange for writing 10k+ words in two weeks. Go check them out for yourself!

I received not one but TWO fanworks for Star Trek Holidays, both excellent:

Growth (343 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Data & Lal (Star Trek)
Characters: Guinan (Star Trek), Data (Star Trek), Lal (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Alternate Universe - Lal Lives, Ten Forward (Star Trek), listening, Art, Fanart
Summary:

Lal invents beverage one thousand, four hundred and thirteen.

Opened Her Arms To Me (1728 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Montgomery "Scotty" Scott/Nyota Uhura
Characters: Nyota Uhura, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov, Christine Chapel
Additional Tags: cameo appearances from Spock and Bones, Minor off screen violence
Summary:

“Word about the ship is that he got a subspace message from Lt. Romaine, she's become engaged to someone else” said Sulu.

“Oh no, poor Scotty.”

Uhura helps Scotty after a break-up

Here are some other excellent fics from the two exchanges:

The Other Evans (13891 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Petunia Evans Dursley & Harry Potter, Dudley Dursley & Petunia Evans Dursley, Dudley Dursley & Harry Potter, Petunia Evans Dursley & Harry Potter & Dudley Dursley, Petunia Evans Dursley & Remus Lupin
Characters: Petunia Evans Dursley, Harry Potter, Dudley Dursley, Remus Lupin
Additional Tags: Good Petunia Evans Dursley, Magical Petunia Evans Dursley, Magical Dudley Dursley
Summary:

When Petunia Evans walked away from the magical world at the age of seventeen, the last thing she ever expected to do was to walk back into it.

wet gray gold-lit street (10272 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fleur Delacour/Nymphadora Tonks
Characters: Fleur Delacour, Nymphadora Tonks, Bill Weasley, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Second Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Espionage, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Book 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Porn With Plot
Summary:

Fleur Delacour returns to Britain after the Triwizard Tournament to work for Gringotts and spy for the Order of the Phoenix. Then she falls in love with her Order contact.

enough contrition to spare (11988 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Regulus Black/Evan Rosier, Regulus Black & Narcissa Black Malfoy, Regulus Black & Sirius Black, Regulus Black & Albus Dumbledore, Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Characters: Regulus Black, Albus Dumbledore, Evan Rosier, Sirius Black, Narcissa Black Malfoy, Minor Characters
Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Pureblood Culture (Harry Potter), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Complicated Relationships, Regulus Black Lives, Regulus Black-centric, Professor Regulus Black, Gay Regulus Black
Summary:

Instead of going to the Lake, Regulus went to Dumbledore. He lives to regret it.

But he does live.

Ways of Dying (10660 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Cho Chang & Percy Weasley
Characters: Cho Chang, Percy Weasley, Amos Diggory, Marietta Edgecombe, Original House-Elf Character(s), Cho Chang's Mother, Dolores Umbridge
Additional Tags: Second Wizarding War with Voldemort (Harry Potter), POV Cho Chang, Cho Chang Needs A Hug, Percy Weasley Needs a Hug, Cho Chang-Centric, Cultural Differences, Trauma that Happens During A War, Male-Female Friendship, Enemies to Friends, Canon Typical Umbridge
Summary:

Cho Chang graduates Hogwarts in the spring of 1997, in the middle of a war that had been going on for at least two years.

And in the corridors of the Ministry, where nothing is right and everyone is afraid, an unlikely partnership is born.

Starwatcher (Bend the Light) (24456 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars (1977)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Anakin Skywalker & His Family, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker & Darth Vader
Characters: Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Compliant with 'Star Wars (1977)' only, Worldbuilding, Master & Padawan Relationship(s), Teaching, Canon-Typical Violence, Clone Wars (Star Wars)
Summary:

The first time Anakin Skywalker saw a Jedi, he was ten years old.

The Sky-Walker (10260 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Legends: Knights of the Old Republic (Video Games)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shmi Skywalker & Anakin Skywalker, Shmi Skywalker & Darth Maul & Revan
Characters: Shmi Skywalker, Darth Maul, Female Revan (Star Wars), Anakin Skywalker
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Obscure Force Sects, the Force is a horrible goose and so is Shmi Skywalker
Summary:

Shmi Skywalker wasn't what she appeared to be, but then, the surname should have been a hint.

Don't Let Me Down (10437 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Sarah Wilson (Marvel), Cass Wilson, AJ Wilson, Joaquín Torres
Additional Tags: Mission Fic, Loyalty, Getting Together, Friends to Lovers
Summary:

When Sam and Bucky find that five teenagers have been kidnapped by Hydra they throw everything into finding them.

we borrow our light (like the moon) (2631 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kira Nerys, Julian Bashir
Additional Tags: Episode: s04e25 Body Parts, Canon Compliant, Pregnancy, Surrogacy, Gift Fic
Summary:

“You need a womb for the baby. I have one,” she explains simply. “Can you put it in me?”

Even in the 24th century, transferring a pregnancy from one person to another is no small matter.

Slipped Away (3302 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Saavik & Spock (Star Trek), Saavik & Nyota Uhura, Saavik & Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Leonard "Bones" McCoy & Spock
Characters: Saavik (Star Trek), Spock (Star Trek), Nyota Uhura, Leonard "Bones" McCoy, David Marcus
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, POV Female Character, Character Study, Temporary Character Death, Hurt/Comfort, Missing Scene
Summary:

Trying to understand the loss of Spock and who they had been to each other, Saavik finds questions and answers on the Enterprise.

Desert Garden (1884 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: T'Pring/Nyota Uhura
Characters: Nyota Uhura, T'Pring (Star Trek)
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Post-Episode: s02e05 Amok Time, Mild Sexual Content, very mild
Summary:

Shore leave on Vulcan is rare. Nyota Uhura takes the time to appreciate the beauty of the desert; the sunset, the flora, T'Pring herself.

Live | Destroy (19102 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tenth Doctor & Donna Noble
Characters: Donna Noble, Tenth Doctor, Original Alien Character(s)
Additional Tags: Adventure, Saving the World, Space Flight, Alien Culture, NASA
Summary:

The Doctor tries to plan a nice holiday to watch NASA send its first astronaut into space, but as usual it doesn't work out as planned. Donna and the Doctor must work together to track down the origin of some mysterious energy signatures in time to stop the Earth's destruction.

Vocational Studies (1878 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kira Nerys & Benjamin Sisko
Characters: Kira Nerys, Benjamin Sisko
Additional Tags: Religion, Bajoran Culture, Bajor
Summary:

Kira, Sisko, and learning what you need to know.

glitteryv

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/podfics/fics/fanarts have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

glitteryv

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 podfics/fics/fanarts/fanvids have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

yourlibrarian

DC-SlashCon 2021 Opening Vid by Aaronantium, Kerguelen (Slashmommy). Dozens of slash ships take their bows in a wonderfully edited vid celebrating what brings many fans together.
Merlin and Arthur kissing by Alex the Sapphic. Maybe NSFW? Beautifully done, the pose, the joined hands, the expressive details.
But Now, I Know by IgnatiousTheWarlock. "Post the battle of Camlann, Morgana is approached by a mysterious force who gives her a second chance. Time is rewound. In a world so familiar, but strange, what will Morgana do with her second chance?" I've seen a number of time travel fics featuring either Merlin or Arthur but this is the first I can remember seeing using Morgana. An inventive plot and I like that the path was not smooth.
The Order of the Wakandan Tribes by Petite Madame. Stunning fanart of the Black Panther cast.
to buy my love a sword of steel by athousandvictories. Merlin if it took itself more seriously and actually focused on the traditional battles of Arthur's legendary campaign to unite Albion. Wonderfully done.

glitteryv

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 fics/fanarts/fanvid/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

mythicmistress

Five of them, to be specific. (I hope nobody minds the new tags...)

The Murderbot Diaries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDMSHgQY5rM I'm Not Your Hero by mar
Spoilers for the series through Network Effect. CONTENT WARNINGS: blood, guns, scopophobia, slight body horror and injuries. This sums up the series so far and Murderbot's development very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHXpEEsarDk Ganaka Pit // Relax (Take It Easy) by Kes Beacon
Based on events of Artificial Condition. This was rather chilling.

Ratchet and Clank:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDD8UGdG4_A Kaden’s Letter by KicsterAsh
Spoilers for the Future games. A bittersweet vid focused on Ratchet's father.

RWBY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJSoBUTB-TM I'll be good (Qrow) by Nedzuku
Spoilers through Volume 5. The song was such a good fit for Qrow at that point in the series.

Sly Cooper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESD-qhVsXFQ Flawed Design by AlfaFilly
Spoilers for Sly 2: Band of Thieves. This is an AMAZING look at Arpeggio.

saiditallbefore

I've really been enjoying the Wheel of Time show, and here are some fics I've found that I've liked so far!

These are all codas to episode 1x04, so spoilers ahead!

Beside a Fire by

kaasknot
Nynaeve/Lan, rated G, 3.9k words
“The camp was quiet with shock. Warder and Aes Sedai alike walked softly, their eyes turning and returning to the Greens’ tent, where Moiraine had sequestered herself and the wilder in Kerene’s old quarters.”

Corruption by

daydreamer0083
Rand/Mat, rated T, 4.5k words
Mat falls ill while grappling with the aftermath of their stay at the farm. Rand worries about him.

Gratia by Moiraine (atarynnosaurus)
Nynaeve/Moraine, rated T, 3.3k words
After what happened in the cavern, and the way the Aes Sedai camp starts acting around her, Nynaeve retreats for some much needed solitude. Moiraine interrupts, but the two manage to find an unexpected common ground, and share some open honest conversation about what happened.

kiss it better by

jessicawhitly
Moraine/Lan, rated M, 543 words
The scar is fresh and pink, and his fingers brush it gently.
"A new mark," she murmurs, and he hums as his fingers brush over the round of her shoulder.
"You seem to collect them these days."

schneefink

7 recs from this year's Nirvana in Fire Exchange (5 fics and 2 vids) at my journal.

doranwen

All of these are fics I read in the past month and enjoyed or found interesting enough to add to my database. I finally caught up to the end of the fics on Fanfiction.net but was only able to enter a few of them so far; the rest will come next time, most likely.

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

( Ships )

Below are the recs:

( Alphas )

( Speed (1994) )

( The Matrix )

If any of the links above no longer work (and are inaccessible via the Wayback Machine), please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

reeby10

When Your First Four Dates Are in a Convenience Store, It Might Be Destiny by florahart
Fandom: MCU
Pairing: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Rating: E
Summary: Clint Barton, one time carnie, is halfway to a college degree and working nights to pay for it when Phil Coulson shows up in his life and orders a burrito.

Full rec at my journal.

glitteryv

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 fanarts/fanvid/podfic/fics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

* Yes, your eyes do not deceive you: this is up a whole day earlier, haha. I'll be afk for the next two days, so I thought it'd be better to post this up now vs. potentially being unable to do so tomorrow. ;)

fiachairecht

Five horror recs at my journal. Fandoms are:
• Call of Cthulhu: Shadows of the Crystal Palace
• Changeling: The Lost
• Crimson Peak
• Fringe
• Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

reeby10

the space between insane and insecure by sumomomochi
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Pairing: Armitage Hux/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren
Rating: E
Summary: Kylo is so different from Armitage it’s not even funny. It’s not just that Kylo’s parents are okay with him being queer (though the vlogs of him and his mom are always hilarious, sound effects covering the single syllable of his real name as they give each other shit). It’s not just that Kylo is so sure of himself (though the aggressive confidence he has is inspiring). It’s not that he’s glamourous with his involved looks, or that he’s so outspoken against queerphobia, or that he’s fucking beautiful.

It’s that Kylo is real and Armitage is not.

Full rec at my journal.

beatrice_otter

My Fic In A Box recs are here, 22 fics in 11 fandoms. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Vorkosigan, DCEU, Marvel, Persuasion, Hunger Games, Blade Runner, Sherlock Holmes, Much Ado About Nothing, and Star Trek TOS.

glitteryv

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 fanvid/podfic/fic/fanarts have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled

snickfic

This is just a reminder that we're always glad to have people rec works from exchanges that go live. Fic in a Box revealed a few days ago, so if anyone has recs, please do post them to the comm! One rec or lots of recs, all are welcome. :) You can also rec your gifts, if you did the exam yourself.

And to help you find things to rec, the FIAB mod is doing a super cool thing where they're posting reading lists every day of the various works. They plan to include every work in a reading at least once. Today's reading list is of works greater than 20k and "in-universe documents," a very cool category of fanwork you should definitely check out if you're not familiar.

Happy reccing! Feel free to comment below with questions. :)

sholio

Fic in a Box released this past week!

Recs post for fics and art at my journal here.

Fandoms: Falcon & Winter Soldier, Benjamin January Mysteries, Dark Matter, Justified, Persuasion, Captain Marvel, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Vorkosigan Saga, original work.

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