wanderings

I am Acton Bell's Metaphorical Manhood by xenakis
Hark! A Vagrant
Rating: PG; 1,561 words; Focus: Anne Brontë
“Is interpretive dance the new hot thing in Gothic Literature, and nobody told me?”
This work is brilliant. It is hilarious. It's written in Kate Beaton's Brontë 'verse and it fits there perfectly. The tone is fantastic. There are some wonderful, perfect, hilarious lines in this and glorious pop culture references. (A++) You need to read this. (The two relevant strips are linked to in the notes if you're not familiar with the comic.)

a passage that sings by dorkorific
Star Trek RPF
Rating: NC-17, 17,000 words, Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto
Summary: The one where Chris has stupid glasses and a lot of paperbacks, Zach knows too much for his own good, there are at least two lap dances, and everybody wants to sleep with Dorothy Parker.
"Quinto Mad Libs," Cho says. "My date was: mean adjective, meaner adjective, devastating five-syllable mean adjective."
You know how stories become reduced, not to their title, but to "that bandom femslash Eureka AU" or "that one where Gwen and Morgana both get amnesia and it is tragic"? That thing that you call a story in your head? This is "that Star Trek RPF I'm in love with". I fell hard for this story. It's incredibly snarky. It's framed around literature geekery and Zachary Quinto's emotional voyage. (I can not think those last four words without smirking.) The literature jokes are a lot of fun and lit is something that is incredibly well-used in this story. I really love the extent to which Pine and Quinto live in each others heads for this, the way they banter, and the way they're able to construct conversations that feel intensely lived-in; I love how into each other they are. There are some amazing lines in this that are born out of that. There are also just some fantastic lines in general and some really fun characterisation of their cast mates. It's a fun read.

"This Is Tomorrow" by wizzard890
Hetalia
Rating: PG-13, ~2,100 words, Focus: England, France
Summary: 1956, 1972, 1990, 1992, 2001 - England trolls the art world. France watches helplessly.
(You don't need to know Hetalia at all to read this.) It is exactly what it says on the tin, and it is completely delightful. There's some fantastic art criticism in this and I have a lot of love for the fact that there are notes at the end about all the art. England is wonderful in this and the tension of France and England's relationship, and generally just their entire relationship in this, is glee-inducing. They make digs at each others artistic output; it's glorious.