Rec the Thing

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.