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Twelfth Night - Unpacking the subtext in the Trevor Nunn movie: Orsino is very queer, but hides it from himself and everybody else by being infatuated with Olivia. Then he starts to fall hard for Cesario -- and is unutterably relieved to find out she's actually a woman. The story begins sometime in the months following their marriage, as the couple struggles hard to deal with their altered relationship and come to terms with themselves and their desires. Orsino is deeply confused, defensive and in favour of Not Dealing; Viola is brave, intellectual and stubborn. Slowly, they discover the ways in which their bedroom need not be conventional, not to mention their interactions in other quarters of the house. This is a story about intimacy.
And dildos.
Fullmetal Alchemist - Post-Shamballa. Ed and Al make their way to Copenhagen, possibly with a Jewish family with government connections. Al is interested in medicine, especially prosthetics; Ed, after a lucky encounter on a train, is on fire about quantum mechanics. Due to their friends, not to mention their own danger-magnet selves, they find their hours increasingly divided between their studies and their involvement in a growing network of anti-Nazi groups, eventually wading right into the thick of the people-smuggling. A Shindler type figure turns out to be Alt!Mustang, with a reality-checked Alt!Hughes still working beneath him. Bonus points for Ed/Roy. In quiet moments, Ed contemplates a theory of infinite worlds, two of which, Amestris and Earth, were locked together by some long-gone mastermind to make alchemy possible. Ed realizes he is just a short step from learning how to cross between worlds at will. Al, meanwhile, is (somewhat masochistically) refining a prosthesis model that, combined with sophisticated alchemy he has only theorized, would give Roy Mustang back his sight.
Fullmetal Alchemist/His Dark Materials - Oh boy, is this crossover material, or what?
Firefly - River at age 30.
BtVS/Harry Potter - In which Harry Potter folks, staggering out for a bit of Life Experience in the post-Voldemort Muggle world, begin to bamboozledly grok that their "wizarding world" is really in fact cultish and elitist, claiming only those with a very specific kind of magical power. They're amazed to discover that some of their so-called Muggles are actually highly knowledgeable, inventive and powerful practitioners. Such as one Willow Rosenberg: "Oh, yeah, the ones who separate themselves, live on unplottable land and pretend we don't exist. Troglodytes!"
Faith and Draco have an interlude (inevitably titled "Bad Faith") in a London genderfuck club.
See Femmenerd's BtVS/HP/SPN crossover 'verse for further details, including Sam Winchester/Hermione Granger completing fellowships at the Watchers' Council, etc etc.
Harry Potter - Seventh year. Neville is himself. Draco, in
need of kindness, falls tail over teakettle. Points for (a) making Draco real
and complex, not a complete woobie, (b) giving Harry a substantial role and
letting him retain the maturity and decency he had in HP:DH, even if he's preoccupied
by other concerns such as godsons and girlfriends.
"The best cure for bone-related curses is sunlight,"
says Lupin, and Draco supposes he would know, so he hefts his cane and a pillow
and hobbles up three flights of stairs to investigate the rooftop.
It isn't much, as wizarding rooftops go, but it's more than Draco expected
of a horrible old shell like 12 Grimmauld. There's a plot of herbs and medicinals,
a small, modern greenhouse and a patch of grass. Draco points his wand at
the door, strips off all his clothes and lets the mild April breeze pet him
to sleep.
He wakes up to the sound of humming and a strange sensation across his thighs.
The sun has shifted to the southwest; its late afternoon beams honey-glaze
the grass blades and glasshouse panes...and the back of Harry Potter's neck.
Draco levers himself onto an elbow.
Potter is not humming; that appears to be Neville Longbottom, whom Draco
can see just inside the greenhouse, shirtsleeves rolled and hands thrust in
potting soil. Potter is propped on the doorframe, waiting for his friend, one
thumb hooked in the pocket of his jeans and the other balancing his Firebolt.
He looks sweaty and unwashed and competent. Looking at him makes Draco feel
vulnerable and irritable.
Draco tilts his gaze down and takes stock of the delicate swath of sun-repellent
gauze that's covering him neck to toe, the source of the tickling. It feels
nice against his skin, catching on his body hair. Whoever transfigured it thankfully
had the sense to leave Draco's clothes alone; they're in the same rumpled heap
where he left them, next to his head.
Any fandom - A romance or friendship-centric story with a "superheroes in training" backdrop: Aurors/Unspeakables, Slayers, Rangers, whatever floats your boat. Half the fun is thinking up cool things for trainees to do, such as spending several weeks blind, to hone the other senses, or practicing rapid visual recognition exercises like those the U.S. Air Force uses to identify fighter plane silhouettes.
Northanger Abbey/BtVS - Henry and Catherine, happily married with several children, run into a Vampire Slayer and become entangled in her adventure. As some point it is revealed that Catherine was a potential, though now years past her sell-by date.
Possession - Snapshots after the end of the book, especially Maud/Roland. Or Cropper. Christabel/Blanche also good.
BtVS - Buffy/Angel pegging fic.
Tolkien - Arwen as politician or diplomat.
Tolkien - Elladan and Elrohir never sailing West.
Tolkien - 4th Age. Annuminas: city beneath the city. The new is built over the ruins of the old, so secret tunnels and buried rooms and mysteries abound. The excavators are in for a surprise: the abandoned capital has acquired a Watcher. Aragorn, at the end: "Not all strange things are sinister."
BtVS - Poetry written in the voices of various unexpected characters: Snyder...Jenny...Oz...
BtVS - Buffy/OMC (an unflappable South Asian medical tech named Bo)/Spike/Angel: Deep roots are not reached by the frost. Angel learns the art of coming home.
Anything from the 101 Fic Kinks List.
- fuzzy socks
- fuzzy pants
- fuzzy pyjamas (amusing good; cartoon animals bad)
- junco candlestick from Amos Pewter (i.e. buddy with tail pointing down)
- $200 laptop screen repair
- handsome food storage jars from The Container Store
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon - The Deluxe Transitive Vampire (0-679-41860-1)
- J.R.R.Tolkien - The Annotated Hobbit
- Pamela Dean - Tam Lin
- Wings of Desire & Far Away, So Close (German w/ English subtitles)
- Twelfth Night (dir. Trevor Nunn)
- Turtle Island String Quartet - Windham Hill Retrospective
- Yo-Yo Ma et al - Silk Road
- Berlioz - Beatrice et Benedict (the Opera de Lyon did a good recording with
Susan Graham)
Updated November 25, 2007
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