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Okay, so I had a really lousy couple of days, so I'm gonna try and dance back and do the dropped days of Snowflake and the January Meme later, but I am jumping right into this one first, because recs. I love doing recs so much.

Day 5
In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

The theme for the day is small fandoms, and I only got a little carried away. Six fic and three vids.

Vids

Dead Like Me: There is a Boy Who Never Goes Out by trelkez
But my favorite was yours. [Mason-centric]

Length: 2:19
Content notes: Alcohol, (fairly brief, especially considering the show) death imagery.
Rec notes: MASON. I really love character study vids, especially ones that include how those characters relate to other people, and this one is really all about that aspect of Mason, and it's gorgeous.


Dead Poets Society: Measuring Cups by isagel
Put your backpack on your shoulder, be the good little soldier. [Gen/ensemble]

Length: 2:46
Content notes: "Oppression and abuse of authority in teacher/student and parent/child relationships. Corporeal punishment (caning). Teen suicide by revolver."
Rec notes: This is like watching the movie in under three minutes. It hits all the storylines, all the emotional notes, all the same amount of pain, in one lovely compressed burst. It hurts and I love it. Favorite part: Toss-up between the first chorus and second verse (1:10-1:30) and put your backpack on your shoulder, be the good little soldier; it's no different when you're older, you're predisposed (2:29-2:39).


Eastwick: Touch by kuwdora
[Ensemble, everyone/everyone]

Length: 3:33
Content notes: Multiple but brief flashes of violent imagery, including blood, someone being locked in a trunk, someone getting hit by lightning (...it doesn't look very realistic to me but ymmv on it anyway), and someone trapped in a fire.
Rec notes: ...Look those content notes sound awful but 1) nothing in this show is very graphic which is why 2) this show is my happy place. And this vid reminds me why. The character-per-verse structure for the girls works excellently and it makes me wish there was more of a fandom just so I could get more Kat/Roxie/Joanna, because yes.


Fic:

The Black Donnellys: Ask Me No Questions (I'll Tell You Lies) from fandomfrom3
I always wanted brothers like that. Joey Ice Cream in five hundred words.
PG; 500 words
Content Notes: Mild series spoilers, strange formatting (strikethroughs)
Rec notes: I listed it as a content note because the strikeouts might make it difficult to read for some people but OH MY GOD IT PLAYS WITH FORMATTING AND I LOVE IT. The strikeouts and parenthetical are the most amazing way to play with things and bring up a feeling akin to Joey's many backtrackings in a text format.

Joey will tell you that really, he doesn't know that much about it.

Anyone from the old neighborhood could tell you that's a lie. Joey is everywhere (/everywhen/everywhy); everyone knows Joey Ice Cream worshipped the ground the Donnellys walked on: wanted to be accepted by one of them.

If you ask him, Joey will tell you that he and the brothers Donnelly were like this. They never took a step without him.

That's a lie.

Cracked: After Hours: 9 Strangely Arousing Things in Doctor Who by kaydeefalls
Why (Dan thinks) Doctor Who is super sexy. (In which Dan geeks out, Katie wants a Doctor-shaped boy toy of her very own, Michael should never be allowed anywhere near a sonic screwdriver, and Soren wants nothing to do with your British nerd show.)
Teen And Up; 2638 words
Content notes: Embedded images, including one gif
Rec notes: Hello welcome to my guilty pleasure fandom. I blame this fic. I blame many fics, but in particular this one, because it's so good, and it sounds like an actual episode of the show in so many places.

Soren flagged down their waitress to beg her to add vodka to his glass of orange juice.

"It's like ten in the morning, Soren."

"You don't understand," Soren said in dire tones. "You mentioned Doctor Who. Doctor Who has officially entered this conversation. In all the time we have been meeting up at this or other similar diners, we have successfully managed to avoid discussing Doctor Who and its fifty years of obscenely geeky history, but now you've gone there, and there will be no stopping him. I need alcohol."

"You just ordered a screwdriver," Dan pointed out, nearly vibrating in his excitement. "You do realize that, right?"

"Oh, God."

"You might even say it's...a little bit sonic."

In Plain Sight: Caged Birds and Vagabonds by pipisafoat
"I don't work with submissives."
Marshall looked uneasily at the man in front of him. "Tell me she has an off button somewhere."
Teen And Up; 1856 words; BDSMverse AU
Content notes: ...di...fficult.... Um. See below.
Rec notes: So this is not even close to my fandom, like, I've seen a handful of episodes, so if it's slightly out of character I'm sorry, but it's so well-written and one of my favorite BDSM-verse stories. It does a lot with the prejudice against subs that's kind of background in a lot of BDSMverse works, and it does it in a way that makes me so happy.

"It froze again," Mary cut in. "Right before shutting off and probably losing all of my data in the process." Her fist clenched by her side; Marshall tensed automatically, but it flew into the filing cabinet instead. "Don't just stand there," she ordered, the anger in her voice mixing with a calm control. "Fix it."

Marshall slid quickly to his knees and ducked his head. "Yes, ma'am."

"Inspector Shannon!" Stan barked. "In my office. NOW!"

Marshall focused on the computer, but he couldn't avoid hearing bits and pieces of their argument even through the closed door. Phrases like keep it in the playroom and submissive or not, he outranks you filtered into his awareness, and he felt a sudden rush of sympathy for all the subs out there who didn't have bosses like Stan McQueen.

Newsflesh: Shadows Thrown By Lightning by umadoshi
Maggie has a 'ship. Buffy writes her some stories that should never see the light of day...and has a change in perspective.
Mature; 8622 words
Content notes: Incest, in-universe RPF? does that need a warning?, graphic sexual discussion/writing (as writing, in universe)
Rec notes: This is one of those fics I didn't know I needed but I definitely needed it. It's got Buffy/Maggie, it's got fictionals being fictionals, it's got outside POV on the Masons, it's all these things I love wrapped up in a gorgeously written package and I adore it.

"See, that's not-- Wait. You've watched enough of their footage to have an impression of Georgia?" Buffy sat back, eyes widening. "These days she's only been doing enough video work for proof of life. That exposé series has been keeping her busy since--" She ticked months off on her fingers. "--June. She's barely been out with Shaun at all."

Maggie nodded. "I know. I've spent some time in their archives." Genuinely surprised, Buffy only blinked, and Maggie laughed. "They're your friends, Buffy. Of course I've been checking them out. That doesn't mean I have a burning need to meet them yet." Maggie's voice dropped to a conspiratorial softness--for effect, since they were alone in the house with the dogs. Her security staff rarely came inside. "Want to know a deep, dark secret?"

"Oooh." Buffy perked up exaggeratedly. "You have to ask?"

"I'm kind of shipping them."

Sanctuary: The Great Game by Ankaret
While Tesla is in self-imposed exile in the catacombs of Rome, he and Watson exchange letters.
G; 3154 words
Content notes: Canon character death (Griffin)
Rec notes: If all I ever read in Sanctuary fandom is various members of the Five sending letters to each other, saying certain things pointedly and pointedly not saying other things, I would be the happiest fan in the world. (I admit it, I don't even watch Sanctuary, I watch The Five Show with occasional guest appearances by Henry. I'm okay with that.) Also Nikola and James playing a decades-long game of chess by mail makes me ridiculously happy for absolutely no logical reason.

London, 1944
Pawn to queen's bishop 5

Of course I didn't send Druitt. No one sends Druitt. He turns up all on his own, wreaks whatever mayhem he chooses, and vanishes leaving only his grin behind like the Cheshire Cat. Have you gone quite insane down there in the catacombs?

I am delighted at your empirical disproof of the myth that vampires prefer dark and airless places. Have you considered a series of scientific experiments to test the matter?

Stick It: Can't Feel the Ground by pene
Haley always loved falling.
Teen and Up; 2019 words
Content notes: Homophobia, internalized and otherwise; shitty, overbearing parents, but nothing that's really worse than the movie
Rec notes: Eventually-happy queer gymnast ladies! I could read another twenty thousand words of this, but this is such a sweet little one-shot; it makes me glee, and is exactly how I want to believe thing could go after the movie.

Haley doesn't tell her mom the queer thing for a few months. But as she's getting her shit sorted to head for college she figures the time has come.

Of course, her mom hasn't had a malice-ectomy. "Finding another way to rebel, Haley?" she asks cattily. It doesn't matter. Haley's mom has always said the worst thing when it counts.

Anyway, the whole thing's not Shakespeare - Vick's still her coach, her friends are still her friends, her parents are still her parents. She's starting college in Atlanta and she's training her ass off aiming for the London world championships. Everything's tight.

When Haley falls for Tricia Skilken it's like falling off the high bar. Head first. Onto concrete.

... and now that I've spent way, way too much time on that, uh, I'm gonna go do something else, but if you want to eventually watch me ramble more about fannish media, I have a rec blog, if I ever manage to get that off the ground.