wanderings

You know it's going to have been ten years since SGA started airing, as of July of this year? I just started reading that Derek/Stiles Practical Magic AU, and, have some really haphazard recs. Happy Birthday, I am sorry these are not pierogies.

Thou and You by pentapus and twentysomething
Hockey RPF
Rating: NC-17 | 61,262 words | Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin
There's no way to tell just by looking at someone whether or not they are a magician. Some are more obvious than others, but Evgeni has been introduced to thousands of people since coming to London and he has never been absolutely certain before.
But when Lady Everly says, "Oh, Your Highness, this is Mr. Crosby," Evgeni knows the man in front of him is a magician.
So, this basically hits the same place as Austen or Young Victoria, and then there's magic and pentapus' art is great, as usual. It's a historical fantasy AU with royalty and a bit of academia and my memory of this fic is basically a sense of contentment.

don't look up, down, or to the side by hazel
Hockey RPF
Rating: R | 8,282 words | Patrick Kane/Jonathan Toews
His mom had told him not to fall in love with houses; so had his dad, made some crack about them being worse than women, son, while his mom fake-punched him in the arm and then added, "and like people, it's what's underneath that matters, Johnny." But this is the first house he's looked at that he's liked, though he doesn't know why: it's got narrow, pointy windows with stone pieces on the tops like eyebrows, and it sits between its larger, tidier, neighbours like a poor cousin. Johnny thinks it maybe just needs someone to love it; and then he thinks: fuck.
I think I mentioned this one to you back in November or something, and, yeah, it's the last hockey fic for now, I swear. It's the one with the extensive home renovations. It might be accurately described as several thousand words of nesting? And there's domesticity and... it's curtain fic? There are curtains in this fic and fabric samples and other things! (But also fabric samples and contractors and throw blankets.) The other things are feelings and they're really good and a little angsty in places, and have I ever told you how much I love paint samples? I really love paint samples.

Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine by Starlingfool
Calvin and Hobbes
Rating: PG-13 | 3,066 words | Susie Derkins
The lesson here, Susie thinks, is that tricking Death is tricky business. How do you outwit the personification of oblivion? Chess, obviously, won’t be the answer. Or: Susie plays Calvinball with Death.
It's from this past year's yuletide. I remember it as dark and strange and lovely.

2am Christmas Eve by rascalParadyne
The Avengers
SFW | Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
It's a comic. It's pretty. It is so pretty. You should go look at it. It's also a little funny and kind of adorable.

Hawkguy fancomic: Afternoon Stroll by AsridV, neveralarch
Hawkeye
Rating: PG-13 | Clint Barton & Kate Bishop
If you haven't seen this comic I'm not really sure how you've managed that and I'm pretty sure you're going to love it to pieces. The art and the storyline and just the whole tone of this is great and it's sort of the perfect Hawkeye fanwork.

Feels by thingswithwings
Multifandom
Rating: PG-13 | 11:16
A reading of all of the tags synned to the feels tag on the AO3. It's sort of unexpectedly awesome. thingswithwings' performance really captures the dialogue aspect of how some users use the tags on AO3 and, it's fandom, you know? So it's basically about feels, and there's this wonderful sort of diversity in how people feel and THERE ARE JUST ALL OF THESE EMOTIONS IN THIS, but not in an overbearing way, and it's just really wonderful.

All Along by softlyforgotten
Bandom
Rating: G | 2,533 words | Brendon Urie/Ryan Ross | Warning: ableist language
"I left my book in here," Ryan Ross said, hanging in the doorway, eyes huge and fixed on Brendon. "Um. Before lunch."
"Of course you did," Brendon said. Probably Ryan left stacks of personal belongings all around the school, just ready to be picked up as soon as Brendon was doing something particularly embarrassing in the vicinity.
I feel like I've recced this at you before, but it is entirely possible that that is not a thing that has actually happened and that in my head I just went starwire! Flaily high school boys, so adorable. It's cute and funny in a way not dissimilar to a lot of Andrew Garfield/Jesse Eisenberg fic. I really feel like I should confess (in case it is somehow not glaringly obvious) at this point that I am not re-reading these things as I rec them (These are the most haphazard recs.) and also that the thing I just wrote about TSN RPF is probably totally a lie in that it is probably more accurate to say that there is a similarity here because Brendon is an awkward kid with some self-esteem issues who is oblivious to the part where Ryan is into him. (Brendon and Ryan are basically... not at all like Jesse and Andrew, really, no.)

Turn to Stone by barkley
The Bletchley Circle
Summary: "Not bad for a few ordinary girls in a tin hut." "You couldn't be ordinary if you tried." "When this is over, we will have to be, won't we." "I won't let you."
Ladies and yearning and desperation and magnificence. You remember The Bletchley Circle. I do not feel like I really need to sell this, here, but, no, the vid is great. It's beautiful and watching it is like this, this, this, this is why I loved this thing. It's really powerful emotionally, the song choice is great, and it's just this steady lovely thing full of feelings.
(Song: Turn to Stone by Ingrid Michaelson)

...and now I am going to bed. ♥

(I feel like this post is maybe slightly weird for people who aren't starwire. I didn't do the love letter day of snowflake_challenge and this post being public and not an e-mail or something is sort of that. It's also my lack of February posts and a desire to shake up my reccing style, which I totally just wrote out as "wrecking", which I am going to opt not to analyse in favour of sleep.)