A Lightkeeper's Log

Day Two: In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create. See if you can rec fanworks that are less likely to be praised: tiny fandoms, rare pairings, fanworks other than stories, lesser known kinks or tropes. Find fanworks that have few to no comments, or creators new to a particular fandom and maybe aren't well known or appreciated. Appreciate them.

Two Three Four points on this rec list: I didn't rec anyone on my flist; I tried not to rec anything I've recced here before; I'm doing fic because that's what I'm most familiar with and what I have a memory longer than a goldfish for, and a depressing number of fics I wanted to rec have vanished from the face of the Internet :(

Title: To His Image Did I Devotion
Author: kindkit
Fandom: Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
Words: 1000
Rating: Teen
Summary: "His life I gave him, and did thereto add / My love without retention or restraint, / All his in dedication"
Notes: I thought of this fic first, when it came to beautiful, perhaps overlooked fic from small fandoms. This is, I think, the story that I wanted to read since I saw the play, the pull of Antonio, who is left behind in all this. The voice is lyrical and in character without trying to mimic canon, and the author packs a lot into their thousand words.

Title: Taking Down Tinsel Town
Author: frimfram_sauce
Fandom: DC Comics (Justice League International)
Words: 14,500
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Prompt: Boostle, Cyrano style! Booster agrees to help Ted woo the girl of his dreams.
Notes: This is not so much about Booster helping Ted woo an (admittedly awesome) OFC, as it is about Booster facing up to the idea that his life is unsustainable, and trying to cope. In that this is Booster, the coping is more avoided than implemented. Also, this fic has two things I love 1. Completely in character humour, and 2. Grade-A Pining. Seriously, the angsty pining in this fic is amazing. You all should go read it immediately.

Title: Those Poor Suckers
Author: Iambic
Fandom: DC Comics (Booster Gold)
Words: 400
Rating: G
Summary: So who had the stroke of genius to make Booster Gold a father, anyway?
Notes: I just found this yesterday (optimistically hitting AO3's Rip Hunter tag), and I think it's just great. It's been completely Jossed, but I still think it's a brilliantly hurty take on Rip's relationship with Booster. Canon may have gone a different way, but this is a fascinating dynamic and well worth the read.

Title: The Uncommonly Happy Disposition of Kono Kalakaua
Author: Doqz
Fandom: Hawaii Five-0
Words: 1,600
Rating: G
Summary: Life always works out in the end, if you put your mind to it.
Notes: Most Kono fic that I've found is very much in the line of Fuck You, she's awesome. This is pretty much an ode on that theme. I love her relationship with Chin, and with the police force, and how she just does what she wants because that's what she wants to do and the rest of the world can just deal.

Title: The Vorlon Gift
Author: atsammy
Fandom: Babylon 5
Words: 31,000
Rating: Mature
Summary: The Vorlons return something that Susan thought she’d lost forever.
Notes: I think this is something of the way canon would have gone had not various actors moved on. I wish it had worked out like this. It's such a perfect story of love in a time of war, of people finding themselves, and hey, amnesia, yenta!Vorlons, supertelepaths and lesbians! What's not to like?

Title: The Road More Travelled
Author: AraSigyrn
Fandom: DC Comics (Justice League International)
Words: 2,100
Rating: Teen +
Summary: Bea and Tora get another chance at the morning after the night before.
Notes: This is the only Bea/Tora fic that I've ever found. I think this is too bad, as they're adorable and incredibly slashy. However, what a wonderful fic it is. It's morning after, timeloop pining fic. Which is like three of my favourite kinks rolled into one happy, angsty ball.This fic just makes me happy.

In the scheme of things that ought not to be done to King Arthur, the American WWII remake of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is now competing for the top of the list with First Knight and whatever that sequel to Peter David's First Knight was called. Most shameless Marty Sam I've ever heard! For Shame!

Also: Stabbity Stab!

Also: Have these people even heard of the concept of irony?

Slightly modified -g-

List 10 Fictional Couples (or Groups) You Think Need to Get Together (or Stay Together!) and Shag

• House - Cuddy/House/Wilson. They should get together and have babies and raise them in great snark and intelligence.
• Doctor Who - The Doctor/Rose/Jack. The incredibly hot time travelling adventures. I'm pretty sure this is in the stay together category, since, really, it's canon.
• Aubery/Maturin - See title. These two have lasted battle, greivious injury, and marriage, they would and have sailed to the ends of the earth for each other. The end.
• Supernatural - Sam/Sarah. She's one of maybe four women that I've liked in the show. Sam needs to pick someone who can keep up with him and knows what's going on. I have every confidence that this ballsy Jewish art dealer can and would. They had real chemistry, and she didn't take shit from Dean, who liked her. All this would be post killing the demon, of course. The last thing I want is to see her go up in flames.
• Battlestar Galactica - Adama/Roslin. If there is just one thing that this show got right, this is it. I have noted that I'm not exactly thrilled with the way people fall in love on TV, but this one is based on intelligence and respect and devotion and attraction. It was a slow courtship over many trials, but finally made it. It's epic, beautiful and probably going to die next season -sighs-
• Stargate: Atlantis - Team. McKay because of his brilliance and passion. Sheppard because of his determination and curiosity. Teyla because of her generosity and strength. Ronon, because, well, look at the guy, plus he's balance. All together because they each need something that one alone can't give. Not to mention -fans self-
• Ultraviolet - Angie/Vaughan. They would just balance out so nicely, him providing stability and emotional support (in a tall, dark and silent manner), and her bringing passion and vulnerability. They could mother each other, it would be great. She just needs to wake up and smell the roses.
• Sherlock Holmes - Holmes/Watson. The great historical romance.
• Much Ado About Nothing - Beatrice/Benedict. I love how even four hundred years ago, they stood in awe and terror of each other as equals in wit and creativity. They had to get together, as they would have driven any other partner mad. Now they can unite against the world, though an observer might never know it.
• Firefly - Zoe/Wash. -sniff-

I seem to be shipping a lot of het these days, hmmm.