1 April 2019

beatrice_otter: Jack O'Neill in an alien prison--one of those days. (One of Those Days)
[personal profile] beatrice_otter
Fandom: Stargate: SG-1
Pairing: Jack O'Neill
Length: 73,306
Author Links: [personal profile] rydra_wong 
Theme: novel length, pre-AO3, fandom classic, fork-in-the-road AU, interspecies story, science fiction,

Summary:  Stargate SG-1 season 6 AU. The one where Ba'al's Jaffa got there thirty seconds faster.

There is no "both of you," he wants to say; it doesn't work like that.

Reccer's Notes: This is an awesome, gripping story. Rydra's writing style does an excellent job of complementing the story she is telling and setting the mood, the characters are well-written, the plot is exciting, and it feels plausible, like it really could have happened this way if one thing in canon had gone differently.

Story Links: Walked Right Out Of The Machinery
beatrice_otter: Miss Piggy in a superhero costume: Were you looking for flying pigs? (Were you looking for flying pigs?)
[personal profile] beatrice_otter
Fandom: The Incredibles
Characters/Pairings: Edna Mode
Rating: gen
Length: short
Author Links:  [personal profile] alianora 
Theme: small fandoms, female characters, pre-AO3, fandom classic, superheroes, older characters,

Summary: It's just Edna, darling. When are you coming to see me?

Reccer's Notes: For some reason, Edna Mode is the most popular Incredibles character for ficcing. I would never write an Edna Mode story because this one already took the gold star for awesome, and what could possibly be added? Sharp, witty, and I can hear the character speak the words.

Story Links:  Fabulous
beatrice_otter: Luna Lovegood, Hermione Granger, Cho Chang (Girls of Potter)
[personal profile] beatrice_otter
Fandom:  Harry Potter
Characters: Irma Pince, Dolores Umbridge, the Weasley Twins
Length:  1945 words
Author: Mosylu
Theme:  Female characters, older characters, pre-AO3, minor characters, competence

Summary:  A librarian's job is never done . . . especially not at Hogwarts . . . and especially when a certain toadlike High Inquisitor is nosing around. This story was written prior to the release of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."

Reccer's Notes:   We don't see much of Irma Pince in canon, but oh, she comes to life here!  I love the description of her daily duties (Hogwarts' library being similar to, and yet quite distinct from, libraries with which we may be familiar).  I love her ... discussion with Umbridge.  And I love the end.  Librarians FTW!

Story Links: Desk Duty
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[personal profile] wendelah1
Fandom: The X-Files
Characters/Pairings: Fox Mulder/Dana Scully
Rating: Teen
Length: 17,531 words
Creator Links: Fanfic for the Fearless (waybacked website)
Theme: pre-AO3 fic, casefic, female characters

Summary: None provided by the author.

Reccer's Notes: The idea that Dana Scully is immortal, first advanced in "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," and again in "Tithonus," inspired some of the very best fics in this fandom.

From a great distance, she heard Fox Mulder scream.

Dana Scully jerked awake and in the same second knew Mulder hadn't screamed, wasn't dying, his blood wasn't on her hands. Just a dream, another damned dream.


From the first line, Julie Fortune had me hooked. "Fata Morgana" begins as a crime story, then turns quickly into an X-file, but at its core, this is a portrait of Mulder and Scully's partnership: what they mean to one other and how much they each will risk for the other. It also has one of the most erotic non-sex scenes I have ever read, which I don't want to spoil by saying anything more.

Fanwork Links: Fata Morgana
snickfic: black and white image of Sidney Crosby, text "Crosby" (sid)
[personal profile] snickfic
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Characters/Pairings: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin
Rating: Explicit
Length: 8k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] sevenfists
Theme: xeno/alien biology

Summary:
Sid came over for dinner a few nights later with an unanticipated bouquet of pink roses and hovered by the kitchen island while Zhenya put the flowers in water. Zhenya’s heart pounded in his chest. Flowers were a clutching gift; pink flowers—

“Geno, uh,” Sid said, and Zhenya’s hands trembled slightly as he fussed with the blossoms. “I know it’s way too soon, but. Do you want to?”

Reccer's Notes: This is the sweetest, hottest fic about part-seahorse, part-amphibian people having babies that you will probably ever read. The worldbuilding is neat, the oviposition and belly kink is hot, and best of all, this fic is full of FEELINGS. The "love" tag is extremely appropriate.

Fanwork Links: @ AO3
snickfic: Evgeni Malkin, looking up and grinning (geno happy)
[personal profile] snickfic
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Characters/Pairings: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin
Rating: Explicit
Length: 13k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] Maur
Theme: xeno/alien biology

Summary: Zhenya likes to poke his nose into other people's dreams.

Reccer's Notes: This fic is half fairy-tale-ish, half-Lovecraftian, and the anglerfish people (of which Sid is one) owe a lot to Lovecraft's various monstrous horrors. Dark in places, with a lovely dreamlike feel to the worldbuilding.

Fanwork Links: @ AO3
snickfic: black and white image of Sidney Crosby, text "Crosby" (sid)
[personal profile] snickfic
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Characters/Pairings: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin
Rating: Explicit
Length: 1837 words
Creator Links: [personal profile] siegeofangels
Theme: xeno/alien biology

Summary: Not the usual kind of mpreg story.

Reccer's Notes: This is a very sweet/horrifying (but mostly sweet) story of a romance between two people who reproduce like sand tiger sharks, ie, with sexual clasping and intrauterine cannibalism. It’s DELIGHTFUL. The author packs so much worldbuilding and so much genuine feeling in so few words.

Fanwork Links: @ AO3
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[personal profile] jerakeen
fancake banner for round 101a xeno/alien biology: thematic multifandom recs


After a truly EXCELLENT 100th round, we're here with a delicious new cupcake theme, for one week only: xeno/alien biology.

(I hear they've rebooted Roswell? Perfect timing!)

You have until next Monday to share your recs. AUs are welcome so non-scifi fandoms can also come out to play. As always, I'll be around if you have any questions.

Have fun!

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