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Alexios goes out to make an offering to the shades of the dead, but he does not go alone.
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28 Dec 2025
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Oh, this is lovely and tender and measured, and has something of Sutcliff in the descriptions. I have long been an Alexios/Cunorix shipper, and for me Alexios/Hilarion only works if they recognize and honor the close friendship between Alexios and Cunorix, before things went bad - and this encapsulates this feeling perfectly. Really well done!
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We Greet the Peoples of the Tower by kalirush for Mousek
Fandoms: Chants of Sennaar (Video Game)
19 Dec 2025
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There are some oddly regular scratch marks on a wall in the Alchemists' level...
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27 Dec 2025
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This is amazing! I'm so impressed how you've both written a moving story that fits very well with the themes of the game, and also written and illustrated it in the style of the game to make its own fangame! The monster asserting that he is a person echoes the serfs asserted that they are people. Then the monster being recognized and aided by each of the peoples of the tower, just as the serfs were. It really emphasizes how each culture first sees the others as other, then, as they communicate, accept them as human and as brother. Really well done!
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Hoar and Hound by CreepingMyrtle for linguamortua
Fandoms: Cadfael Chronicles - Ellis Peters
17 Dec 2025
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On a frigidly cold December night, Cadfael follows a trail through the abbey grounds.
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26 Dec 2025
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What a lovely, thoughtful portrait of the abbey and of Cadfael. The way he quietly assesses the needs of the people (and creatures) around him is perfectly in tune with canon.
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An Offer You Can’t Refuse (Unless You’re Lactose Intolerant) by treewishes for 1candyangle
Fandoms: The Godfather (1972 1974 1990)
22 Dec 2025
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On the day of his daughter’s guinea pig’s wedding, Don Vito Corleone received a request he could not immediately refuse.
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24 Dec 2025
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Crack played perfectly straight - hilarious! Absolutely the best Godfather fic ever.
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Riddles and Affairs of Death by thelittlestbird for Spectrophile0
Fandoms: Macbeth - Shakespeare
18 Dec 2024
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"I tossed the newspaper on the desk, pushed back my chair, and grabbed my coat and hat from where they hung on the hook near the door. Time to go out and find some hard facts about this.
Duncan King had been dead for less than a day, but the whole thing was already starting to stink."
In which Hecate Jones, PI looks into a suspicious death, and grapples with the shadows of her past.
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31 Dec 2024
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I enjoyed this a whole lot! I liked the focus on the witches, on their rules and structures, and the AU works well, of course, because people who seek power and how they do so is a universal, isn't it!
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Change of Scenery by catchmeifyoucreon for ruffledringdove
Fandoms: Mabinogion - Anonymous
25 Dec 2024
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Pwyll is fighting for his life on a disastrous team-bonding trip that he organised. Frustrated by his team and lost in the woods on a rainy winter day, the last thing he expects is to run into a man who claims to be Arawn, the legendary prince of the Welsh otherworld Annwn. Well, actually, maybe the last thing Pwyll expects is to be transported to said otherworld to learn lessons about leadership from Arawn's wife.
Either way, it's shaping up to be a weird day!
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31 Dec 2024
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This was great. I actually know nothing about the Mabinogion (in fact I was expecting something else, because I was confusing it in my mind with Y Gododdin) but I love faerie-world-switcheroos, especially lighthearted ones like this. I grinned at Eluned rescuing Pwyll, and at him trying to explain that he had both men and women on his staff (and one person who's neither), and at Arawn guessing that lack of "phone signal" might be a good excuse. Well done, I enjoyed this a lot!
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Winter is on the horizon.
Winter is a metaphor.
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31 Dec 2024
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Aha, this is great. I love the way you wove the various encryptions (past and present) through the story, like, nothing is ever straightforward with these people. (Though honestly I would drive myself bonkers if I had to figure out anagrams in my head. It still took me a moment to decipher the punchline, and that was short!) I also liked the way things started prosaically and then took a sharp left at Albuquerque with “We staked her through the heart,” she whispered. Lots of fun, well done!
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The Catacombs of the Ulvanensee by Quente for Lavender Threads (lrthreads)
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
11 Mar 2025
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Velhiro Tomasaran needs: better tea, a better salary, and friends.
Velhiro Tomasaran finds: a ghoul, a smuggler, treasures, adventure of the Imperial kind, a prince, three scholars of history, an Imperial secretary…and friends. Eventually, she even finds (and shares) the tea!
This work takes place directly after The Grief of Stones.
A/N: I did not read Tomb of the Dragons before writing this. Shockingly, some parts of this fic are so thematically in tune with TOTD that I was extremely pleased and surprised. Some parts, of course, are no longer canonical. C'est la vie.
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31 Dec 2024
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I never get tired of Tomasaran stories! I really liked seeing her coming into her own and making connections with people, and the casefic part was a lot of fun. The idea of a store-room where "gifts the Emperor dislikes but can't refuse" are kept made me grin. I had somewhat forgotten Rohethar, Ormevar, and Parmorin but they were great supporting characters here.
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That Would Make a Sick Heart Heal by regshoe for tullycat
Fandoms: The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
23 Dec 2024
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Or, Laura Iven Does It Again.
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30 Dec 2024
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I enjoyed this a lot! It draws on Laura's rescue of Freddie, but is its own thing; Pim's madness and despair are not the same as Freddie's (and she takes her own steps toward her rescue!), and of course Laura's feelings for them are different as well. The language is very like that of the book, slow and descriptive but never overwrought, and of course the structure of alternating POVs echoes the book but takes the characters to different places, real and figurative.
(Also I love that Winter is the one to tell Laura she needs to go, and that they both see ghosts but Freddie doesn't, and that of course Faland's hotel isn't in Belgium: “He is bigger than that. Wider. Older—much older. I think it’s everywhere.”)
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Better in the dark by regshoe for tullycat
Fandoms: The Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden
09 Dec 2024
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Sharing their bed at Couthove, Pim and Laura realise a few things.
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30 Dec 2024
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Oh, this was really lovely! The slow, deliberate style is very like canon. And so nice to read Pim's point of view.
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Noodles and Impurities by AthenasLilOwl for DesertScribe
Fandoms: Blue Eye Samurai (Cartoon)
18 Dec 2024
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Mizu ponders why she can't get her steel to melt and stumbles on Ringo fishing in the river.
A canon-compliant missing scene set during Episode 7.
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30 Dec 2024
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This was so delightful! I absolutely heard the characters in my head, the dialogue was spot-on. And Ringo is the best. Yay Ringo!
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Easy as Breathing by Selkit for sorchafyre
Fandoms: NASA "Visions of the Future" Posters
18 Dec 2024
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Earth Times, English edition, June 5, 2327
ON THE FRINGES OF GRANDYOSA, NERVOUS BUT EAGER STAFF AWAIT LIFTOFF
By NewsBot449, JournoAI
It’s a tale as old as humanity itself: young people leaving their homes and families, forging into the unknown in search of themselves, of adventure, of a better life.
Such is the story written on the faces—many of them adolescent—of the veritable army of staffers hired to serve the elite passengers of the Grandyosa, Oxygenysis' massive new space cruiser, which will be making its maiden voyage on the "Grand Tour" of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. There’s a palpable tension in the air as the staffers hurry from one training station to the next, putting the finishing touches on the protocols that have been drilled into their heads for the past six months.
“We have to be flawless,” explains one young woman, Abilene (last name withheld for privacy reasons). “One passenger complaint, and Oxygenysis will put us on the first shuttle home.”
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the massive expedition featuring unprecedented cooperation between multiple countries including India, Texas, Mexico, California, New England, and Oregowashington on Earth, and the countries of Elon and Barron on Mars
I snorted!
“We look forward to working with them further,” said Marcus. “It shouldn’t take long to learn just how advanced their civilization is.”
Now that has the feel of foreshadowing...
...OH.
This was really fabulous - all the pointed satire of corporations and the way the US and the rest of our planet seems to be going, the surprise of the aliens (in a completely different way than I expected!), the triumph of good people (not necessarily human) over evil corporations. Well done, I enjoyed this a lot!
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A to Z (of the Universe) by Nope for hippolytas
Fandoms: NASA "Visions of the Future" Posters
25 Dec 2024
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Selected letters, postcards, data reels, encoded transmissions and other ephemera from the interstellar archives.
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29 Dec 2024
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What a magnificent piece of worlds-building this is, a mash-up of space opera and bodice ripper and arr, SPACE PIRATES! I love the found-document structure; at first I was thinking, "Oh, just scattered bits and pieces from the different worlds depicted on the posters," but the story quickly emerged and riveted me.
I particularly like how elements recur (the fancy menu, and then the handwritten one), and how the theme of the robber-barons exploiting the working class is raised early and - well, not exactly subtly, with that vocabulary choice, but it isn't clear that it's going to be as important as it is until suddenly and literally, BOOM. I also loved Amelia slowly opening her eyes to her place and her fate and her choices, and the adorable courtship (like everyone else, "keeps calling me princess" cracked me up), and yay a happy ending for the people we want a happy ending for! Well done, I really loved this!
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The Broken Fin by AvengingMariner for raspberryhunter
Fandoms: Translation State - Ann Leckie, Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
18 Dec 2024
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27 Dec 2024
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What a great bit of worldbuilding, and it slots so neatly into the weird world of the Presger Translators! I love the slow, gentle way it unfolds, Qven's impatience and curiosity, Teacher's careful explanations amid the matter-of-fact horror that underlies this world. I also love that you've leaned into the absurd humor that's intrinsic to aliens learning how to pretend to be human-ish - Kzane complaining that they have to pretend tea is lovely when it tastes like wet leaves, and they have to wear gloves on their feet, and "We don't eat people here."
“Am I a fish?” you asked, suddenly. “Did you ‘collect’ me?”
“You are more a fish than you are a potato,” we said, deflecting from the directness of the question, but you would not be deterred.
“Am I one of the ones you could save?”
All the aww for this. And all the awe for your skill - you've simultaneously made them very alien, and very human. Well done!
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The Path of Most Resistance by hidden_variable for hamsterwoman
Fandoms: Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh
19 Dec 2024
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Avicenna reads The Lord of the Rings. He has some thoughts.
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27 Dec 2024
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This is magnificent. You've pulled out all the bits of LotR that really would appeal to Avi, all the things that would resonate in this future (his seeing a parallel to the Elves and the Ents slays me - of course the way the kids of Gaea were raised they would expect that everyone would want to take revenge) as well as highlight how Tolkien's words stir something in the minds of all of us, how powerful they are. It's affecting, but also? Hilarious.
The picture was stylized and simplified, but anyone could tell what it was supposed to represent (unlike, say, the icon for Save, which for some reason was a weird little square with one corner cut off and two mysterious smaller rectangles inside).
Ahahaha the enduring mystery! And you slid it in here quite naturally, good job - made me grin!
Seriously, he may as well have pulled a magic sword out of the planetoid’s stone
Another perfect reference, and then: Mightier than the sword Hee!
And then of course Avi imagines his Avi-Sue doing all the things the characters should have done. Relatable! But of course he is more Gollum than Boromir, at least in the first part of the book.
And the ending was perfect - nail, hammer, BANG. Well done!
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I'll drown, you'll take me down by Zdenka for regshoe
Fandoms: Sir Patrick Spens - Anonymous (Song)
22 Dec 2024
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When Sir Patrick Spens saves a life at sea, he gains both a friend and a powerful enemy.
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27 Dec 2024
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What a wonderful way to flesh out this story! The cadences of language as well as the overall structure are folktale-true. I loved the details like Alessi being cured by having a bucket of seawater poured on him once a day for three days (ah, the magic of threes in folktales!) and the rival sea-rulers' birds doing their bidding, sending messages and beating the storm away.
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The Turning Tide by republic for SpeedOfAges
Fandoms: The Maiden and the Selkie - Heather Dale (Song)
17 Dec 2024
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27 Dec 2024
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What a clever and interesting remix of this song, to consider just where that selkie coat buried under the tree may have come from... The intertwining narratives really work well to define the tragic arc; the ending may be sad from the human point of view, but it's a fitting triumph of revenge for the selkie folk, and a satisfying conclusion.
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beauty in returning by Carmilla for myliobatis
Fandoms: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian
14 Dec 2024
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Diana pays a visit to Ashgrove Cottage. Sophie wonders what she has on her mind.
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26 Dec 2024
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This was lovely. I enjoyed the slow and gentle look at their friendship, the way they still find commonalities despite all their differences. The style and word choice fits right into the books! And the hints at the end of what is to come add depth for the reader who knows.
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Biological Imperative by dome_epais for attheborder
Fandoms: Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian, Star Trek
18 Dec 2024
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“That leaves the one option.”
Stephen, waiting for Jack at the end of his search for a solution, finally met Jack’s eyes. “The biological imperative.”
Despite his best efforts, Jack blushed. Clearing his throat, he asked, “Do you have a candidate in mind?”
“Jack,” Stephen started, voice uncharacteristically low and strained, “I beg you, do not make me the find the words to ask.”
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Fusion with Star Trek: Vulcan Stephen Maturin experiences pon farr and Jack Aubrey pries a few extra confessions from him.
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26 Dec 2024
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This was a lot of fun! Despite the K/S similarities it was very clearly Aubrey and Maturin in the Star Trek setting - wonderful characterization - and I loved the mishmash of the cadences and familiar phrasings O'Brian uses with the vocabulary of space and Star Trek. Well done!
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Ammurapi, King of Ugarit by the_alchemist for Daegaer
Fandoms: Late Bronze Age Collapse RPF, Hamlet - Shakespeare
16 Dec 2024
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The crops are failing. The sea people are invading. Your beloved father’s corpse is barely cold and your mother has swanned off to marry someone else. You are King Ammurapi of Ugarit, and is it any wonder that your mental health is not great right now?
A loose retelling of Hamlet set during the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
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26 Dec 2024
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What a fantastic story! I love the sort of casual character voices, the friendly bickering between Eḫli-Nikkal and Mastigga, the queen's philosophical, "well, last time he called me whore, things are looking up, right?" - there's this "speaking forsoothly" style of historical fiction that always seems a bit much to me, so I always enjoy when ancient kings and queens are depicted as "us, but their problems affect everyone else, too."
Not bothering to call an attendant, she stepped behind the mardatum – an elaborately woven screen
I should have noticed the arras being, uh, hung on the wall, so to speak, but I didn't twig until the Polonius scene, well done! I also smiled at Sleep. Dream. Something with teeth and too many legs floating above his bed. Go away, go away, go away. Aye, there's the rub! Seriously, I really loved that there were obvious parallels and a few call-outs, but nothing too much on the nose (other than Laertes, which, well, having read the notes I see why you did it).
In fact I super enjoyed that you didn't feel obliged to follow the entire arc of Hamlet - that Sardiya only entertained the notion of throwing herself into the river but didn't actually do it (she seems much more grounded than Ophelia!) - and that the treachery of a fickle woman was indeed involved, even if it wasn't the fickle woman we were expecting. I was also tickled by the sword - late Bronze Age, indeed! Really well done, a fabulous and captivating story - I loved it a lot!