Dragonfly's Lair

Here's the full-calorie challenge!

Day 4, I will: Leave feedback on a fanwork focusing on a character of color, OR leave feedback on a fanwork focusing on a female character.

So, I left happy praise for thingswithwings's new Leverage vid, "Parachute". It's an OT3 vid Alec/Parker/Elliot, so lots of focus on a female character AND a character of color.

It's an excellent vid. You should go see!

http://thingswithwings.dreamwidth.org/216447.html

As canon_is_relative says, you know how a good fanvid can make you fall in love all over again with something you're already in love with?

Yeah. This.

I haven't been part of much of the Yuletide squee this past week because I got sick (yes, over Christmas ::eyeroll::). So that's where I've been.

However, if you saw Gravity, I have got to make a post to recommend my Yuletide gift this year. It's called Witness, and I honestly think it's the best story I've ever received for Yuletide. It's exactly what I asked for: a continuation of the movie with what happens to Ryan after she's picked up. My author wrote a much more full picture than I imagined--not only does she deal with Ryan's emotional shock but also she takes on the question of what would change for us here on Earth if the entire satellite system went down. I didn't even think that through, but that is what the movie depicted. Debris that could shred the Hubble would shred anything in its path. So this story is about Ryan and the whole planet reeling from the events of the movie, and then my author brilliantly wove Ryan's emotional arc back in to where she decides to get back in the game and help fix it. This story is really good.

Witness

I don't know Walking Dead, though the premise is not exactly hard to get, but it didn't matter in the least. It's amazing how well the Justified crew fit in in a post-apocalyptic zombie hellscape. I thoroughly enjoyed her voices for the Justified characters. She's always so good with voices. I bet she does an awesome job with the Walking Dead characters, too.

Anyway, Justified fans, you'll love reading this. It's so THEM.

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Title: Pillar Spun of Dust and Blood
Fandom: Justified, The Walking Dead (crossover)
Summary: A man in a hat meets a boy in a hat, following the zombie apocalypse.

"Can’t just leave him here,” Loretta says.

“Yes, we can,” Raylan counters. “Our camp has a full count of crazy hillbillies with crossbows.”

Title: Shatter
Author: aria
Fandom: Thor(2011)
Words: 32,209
Rating: NC-17, M/M slash Thor/Loki
Info: AU where Odin banishes Loki instead of Thor. This is an intense Loki-centric story which parallels the movie plot, except Loki gets banished to Midgard instead of Thor, and it is Loki who meets Jane, Darcy and Selvig. Many Loki POV stories make Thor oafish, but this one doesn't, quite. Thor is his earnest self, trying to love a broken ("shattered"), angry, hurt and malicious Loki. Loki's thoughts, meanwhile, are some of the best character introspection for Loki I've read, and the thing I loved most about this story is that by the end I actually understood how Midgardian physics and Asgardian magic could be the same. She does a FANTASTIC job with that. The porn is hot but brief and comes so late in the story I'd honestly forgotten it was going to be a slash fic.

Yeah, this is probably another story I don't really need to rec, since everyone's already found it, but in case you read my journal without surfing around for great Marvel Universe fics on your own, consider this one highly recommended.

It is finished, now!

Culture and Other Balls of Twine
by lithiumdoll
Words: 17,000
Summary: The Avengers go on a road trip.

This last part has Tasha dressed, as Darcy puts it, less as a tourist and more to mock them. It has amateur robbers who picked the wrong diner. It has Fury being dry and crafty, and all the rest of them being so themselves. Oh, and lumberjacks who are okay.

Title: A Widow's Tale
Author: mhalachai
Fandom: Avengers
Rating: PG
Summary: Follows the movie, Natasha deals with some unfinished business. Including making sure she can work with the Hulk.
Warnings: WIP, but the two posted parts are complete, themselves, imo. She has one more part.
Word Count: 4333 so far

I loved mhalachai's works in Blood Ties fandom. Gakked this rec from devohoneybee.

AWidow's Tale

::wiping tears from eyes:: Oh God, you guys, this is hilarious! If you're an Avengers fan and you're not subscribed to vain_glorious, you should probably get on that. *g*

The Amazing Naked Avengers
Gen *snerk*
2500 words
Summary: There were Avenger-sized mouse traps all over the damn bunker. All about as effective. Meaning no one got killed, but everyone is naked and bleeding a little.


And why do I have no Avengers icons? *sulk*

She's done it again! Hilarious and in-character and I don't know what to tell you without spoiling. Here's her own teaser:

"Someone just reported to SHIELD that whatever was stolen produced “viable offspring,” and we’re hoping that doesn’t mean what we think it does,” Bruce says, evidently deciding to take over for Tony after only one masturbation joke.

Without the Usual Cost of Labor by vain_glorious
Gen

It seems in White Collar, I mostly write missing scenes or tag scenes to episodes. A lot of other people write them, too. So, I have arranged my fics by what episode they are related to, and I've thrown in fics I've recced, if they are episode-related. (I may add more of those.)( Read more... )