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Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (tagged as both books and Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: E
Length: 13,317 words
Creator Links: rudbeckia
Theme: Angst with a Happy Ending, courting

Summary: Watson, finally pushed away by Holmes’s lack of regard for his feelings, has left 221B Baker Street and moved into his practice. Holmes is confused—he did nothing wrong! But when Holmes realises (because everyone who gives him advice tells him so) that he is to blame, he knows he has to do something meaningful to win Watson back.

Reccer's Notes: Watson gets tried of Holmes' mistreatment and decides to leave Baker St. Much angst in the beginning, but also a Holmes determined to get his Watson back, cue the wooing! I enjoyed the inclusion of side characters like Mrs Hudson, Mycroft and Lestrade, and there was also an original character, a woman doctor who works with Watson, that I greatly enjoyed. It is tagged as both books and Granada, but I pictured the Granada lads when reading it.

Fanwork Links: AO3

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Fandom: Star Trek AOS
Pairings/Characters: Kirk/Spock
Rating: Teen +
Length: 11,213
Creator Links: BC_Brynn at AO3
Theme: Angst with a happy ending.

Summary: My name is S’chn T’gai Spock, and I am six years old. At the age of twenty-nine, I have been involved in an accident that has reduced my physical age and erased my memories accordingly.

Reccer's Notes: Usually, in stories about aging, one partner/beloved grows old, but in this one, Spock finds himself a child again. Despite losing many memories, he knows and remembers Jim, and he is absolutely determined to get back to him. But he has to grow up first. There are a lot of challenges along the way.

What I admire about this story is that both the author and the narrator (Spock) have such singular focus and total commitment to the project. One of the issues the story takes on--and what sets it apart, IMO--is the way that a slightly different upbringing and life path create a different person. It also addresses the sacrifices one must make to achieve a goal. It's absolutely heartbreaking. But, as this theme specifies, there is a happy ending. Also, of course, it's got big meant-to-be energy!

Fanwork Links: A Guiding Star

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Teen
Length: 617
Content Notes: no AO3-type warnings apply
Creator Links: Auburn on AO3, Auburn's old eternalvox website on Wayback
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Established relationship

Summary: John might walk into the water and disappear like a changeling from some bastard fairy tale; everything rich and strange he’d given Rodney fading like magic without him, lost.

Reccer's Notes: Angst with a happy ending can be compact as well. We start the story with hints of John having been through something traumatic, but we never know what (and given Pegasus, take your pick). Or maybe they've lost Atlantis. It's from Rodney's point of view, his angst, and I love the unknowns here, the lyricism and pain, finally resolved in a storm's wild beauty.

Fanwork Links: Not Near the Sea

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Poll #33132 round 175 theme poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 104

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Female Relationships
54 (51.9%)

Just Like Canon
21 (20.2%)

Sunshine & Grumpy
29 (27.9%)

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A more Beautiful and Terrible History

3/5. A fascinating look at the way civil rights history is used and abused and retold, most often to serve current racial status quo.

I liked this and found it helpful, but hesitate to casually recommend it to people. The problem is that the author occasionally drops a comment that is squarely in my expertise and that she is dead wrong about. Which, people are allowed to be wrong about things not in their wheelhouse, but it makes one wonder about the rest of their thinking.

An example: I don’t have the exact passage bookmarked, but she says something super casual early on about how the 2016 election was stolen and then moves on without addressing that at all. I suspect this is an artifact of that particular 2017 twitter brain rot that infected many people on the left. My problems with this are many. There has been extensive legal and factual investigation of this, and it simply isn’t true. Did we know that in 2017? No, but speaking for myself, I was pretty sure of it at the time and was validated by all the evidence subsequently gathered. Second, gosh, where have we heard this particular bit of red pill thinking before? Or since, I should say? “My guy lost so it had to be illegitimate?” Hmm. This is where all the Jan. 6 defendants started out, mentally. It’s

Look, she could have been saying something more fundamental about the nature of U.S. elections – how structural racism has permeated them to the point that they are not legitimate. I have heard these arguments and yeah, you can get me there. But if so, why is 2016 the one we point to? And why doesn’t she unpack that? Saying an election was “stolen” can mean approximately ten thousand different things, be precise, people! Here, it’s just leftie red pill stuff. And if her thinking is that messed up on that, boy, I don’t know. I don’t love marking a book down hard for throwaway comments, but then again, it’s the throwaways that really tell you how someone thinks, isn’t it?

Content notes: Racism, structural and personal. Historical accounts of civil rights history which, of course, include much racial violence.

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG1
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Elizabeth Weir, Radek Zelenka, Carson Beckett, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, San Carter, Teal'c, Caroline Lam, Hank Landry
Rating: Teen
Length: 20,335
Content Notes: Disability due to aging, anger, grief and loss.
Creator Links: respoftw on AO3
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Established relationship, Hurt/comfort, AU: canon divergence

Summary: A canon divergent AU after 'Common Ground'
“We just don’t have the resources or the facilities to care for him here. I wish that circumstances were different, you have no idea how much I wish that, but the fact remains. My medical recommendation is for us to send him back to Earth.”

Rodney refuses to leave John behind.

Reccer's Notes: In this story, John isn't given back his years after they were taken from him in Common Ground by Todd the Wraith, so he's very old and frail. Elizabeth and the Atlantis expedition are shocked when, after they decide to send John back to Earth for care and treatment (and to die), Rodney resigns and goes with him. However, the first obstacle to that is of course John, who half kills himself angrily rejecting Rodney and telling him he doesn't want him to come. The story is about the struggle they both face with John so frail, scared and ashamed, and Rodney, trying to cope while grieving and exhausted - and not too physically well himself. SG1 rally around to help, as do Teyla and Ronon back in Pegasus, and, well, this is the angst with a happy ending tag, after all. An at-times gruelling, but sometimes funny and overall heartwarming read, with great characterisation.

Fanwork Links: Grow Old Without You

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The perspective I offer here is from that of the courtyard. To the left is the north end of the residence; to the right is the south end.

Like the Golden Courtyard, the royal residence is built with golden stone from the main cavern of Capital Mountain. It is the oldest surviving building in the southern peninsula, having retained its ancient walls. Its interior, however, has changed over the centuries.

Originally, the royal residence was a single hall for the King, his warriors, and their families. As time went on, the hall became a residence for the King and his council. These days, only the Jackal, his High Lord, and the High Lord's family live there. The council has grown large enough that it meets elsewhere in the palace.

As recently as half a century ago, however, Koretia's council held its meetings in the royal residence. Many stirring events took place there, including duels and assassinations; Koretia has a sorry history of bloody disputes. The former council chamber is the red-framed window on the upper floor.

To the right of it is the former bedchamber of the King, which has since been divided into separate chambers for the High Lord and his family. None of the ornate bedchamber furniture from earlier periods have survived.

To the left of the former council chamber is the former bedchamber of the King's heir. The last heir to die did so within living memory; his life is still celebrated at the nearby town of Valouse, where he served as baron.

To the left of the heir's bedchamber is the High Lord's receiving chamber. The most memorable event to occur there is the death of the Baron of Blackpass, under sinister circumstances. Visitors who plan to continue their tour in the borderland, where Blackpass is located, may wish to pause in this room, in order to pay their respects to the memory of the baron.

The final room on this side of the upper floor of the royal residence is the former dining chamber of the High Lord, which now serves as the Jackal's bedchamber.

I can tell you this without endangering the ruler because it is a very, very bad idea to enter a god-man's bedchamber unannounced.

[Translator's note: Just how bad an idea it is to enter that bedchamber unannounced can be seen in Bard of Pain.]

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The Tomb of Dragons

4/5. Third book in this series about a – call him a cleric, I guess -- who can speak to the dead.

This series continues to grow on me. Our protagonist is deeply wounded before we ever meet him, and his glacial progress is not so much towards healing as simply acknowledging the pain he is in. These books resist catharsis almost entirely, which I appreciate. Also recommended if you enjoy the trope of ‘rather darling protagonist does not know he is darling, goes around being confused when people like him.’

I do continue to be confused by many of her pacing choices. These books are often of the ‘and then the thing, and then the other thing’ style where there aren’t A and B plots so much as six largely unrelated things rattling around at the same time. I am fine with this until I’m not. See me going oh, come on! when we had a side quest at 95% of the way into this book.

On the plus, Maia cameo! If you know you know.

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Letters to Half Moon Street

3/5. Short epistolary queer norm historical romance with fantasy elements, about the shy (and possibly demi) younger son in London for the first time catching the eye of a society gentleman.

A charming frip of a book with good epistolary. This has all the trappings of an early nineteenth century historical romance, except it’s queer norm. The worldbuilding is paper thin – that’s not the point, I realize – but I’m the sort of person who asks too many questions of a book like this. Like okay, you’ve replaced heterosexism with a model that relies even more heavily on birth order, and yet that seems to have changed the way that class and inheritance and power work in this setting not at all or very little? How is that possible? Yes, I am interrogating the text from the wrong direction, I acknowledge I am the problem here. The author’s note is like “I wanted to write queer norm historical so I did and I stuck fantasy magic in it, so there,” and like, sure, I respect it. I’m just not the best at reading it.

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Sherlock Holmes: Come If Convenient by rudbeckia

Star Trek AOS: A Guiding Star by BC_Brynn

Theme Reminder: Angst (With a Happy Ending)

SGA: Not Near the Sea by Auburn

Round 175 Theme Poll

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

SGA/SG1: Grow Old Without You by respoftw

FIC: The upper floor of the royal residence

The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison

Letters to Half Moon Street by Sarah Wallace

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