what a funky lady

The Simpsons
Green-Eyed Homer by Person
Homer and Lisa and fathers and daughters and *oh* I cannot believe this story made me sniffly but it totally did. Sweet and funny and true to the show and the ending is perfect.

Five Things Maggie Simpson Never Said by soundingsea
Very cool Five Things story. The first and last are my favorite ones. Maggie Simpson, and five possible futures for her.

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Pinky and the Brain
Jane Narf by Parhelion
Utterly hilarious and brilliant. "Jane, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "Well, I think so, Mr. Brainchester, but aren't the moors rather chilly this time of year without clothing on?" Awesome.

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she's trying to make a devil out of me

M*A*S*H
the hours between dawn and nothing. by anotherjuxtaposition
BJ, in the aftermath. It was just war. It was just death. It was just Korea. Heartbreaking and true.

Strange Bedfellows by Lyrastar
This was hilarious, and really captured the anarchic humor and the underlying sadness of the show. I think it's weakened by the sex scene – that felt completely unnecessary to me – but overall, a fine story.

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Murphy Brown
but liquor is quicker by cheapmetaphor
All reporters drink. Sharp, prickly, achy, and wry, like Murphy herself. I really liked this story. Especially her interaction with Jim and Frank.

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stop messing round with your tricks

Swordspoint
Letters by Brigdh
Delightful. Captues the characters' voices well, and is just a lovely way to spend more time with Katherine, Alec, and the Black Rose.

Not Less So Here by Brigdh
Wonderful. Richard and Alec. Alec was rarely quiet, even now, so that he hummed and stuttered into Richard's mouth, until it felt like Richard was holding a living firework, crashing forever.

Unveiled by Elysian Stars
Lovely, understated story of Richard and Alec, dealing. Some wonderful imagery.

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ticking away the moments that make up a dull day

Ex Machina
Overheard in New York by Sarah T.
Okay, so I don't even *read* this comic, but I know enough to have read this story, and this story is good. Wonderfully evocative of New York, even down to the machines that inhabit it. Um, spoilers for the latest issue to be safe, so be wary if you're not caught up.

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Fables
Bigby's Sense of Snow by Kevbot
Lovely look at Bigby, his hopes and fears, while he and Snow are in Paris.

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Fray
Stories Darkness Tells You by Thuvia Ptarth
Shivery good story of Melaka and Harth and the darkness that binds them.

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and i begin dreaming

Lucifer
Happy Families by SullenSiren
I really like this. It's everything about the Lucifer-Elaine relationship I find interesting - how they're alike, how they're different, how they're not quite family but almost, and how she amuses and surprises even him. And I really like the musings on godhood.

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Sandman
An Awfully Deep Well by Laura JV
Absolutely love - lyrical piece that gets the essentials of each of the Endless in small sketches. I especially like the Delirium and Death sections.

The Taste of Honey by Edo no Hana
Oh wow. I ... I have no words. This starts as one thing - highly enjoyable, a day with Death and Dream, and they're so in character, and then it becomes something larger and deeper and more painful, and true. Amazing and beautiful.

reflection by vongroovy
Delirium and Delight. Oh, oh, Del... Oh, this breaks my heart and is so perfectly *right*. I can't even articulate how perfect and beautiful and achy and resigned this is, and how much I love it. Absolutely fabulous.

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let me clear this up

The Hunt for Red October
Vera by Dien
Oh, Vasily... This is wonderful - understated, wry, hopeful and poignant, and it makes what happens to him that much sadder.

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Men in Black
Code 69 by thefourthvine
Absolutely hilarious. Jay and Kay tackle an alien that emits the universal pheromone. An instant classic in the aliens-made-them-do-it genre.

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Ocean's 11
All These Things That I've Done by Katie
Rusty meets Basher for the first time, but the story is really about how well Rusty and Danny know each other. I really like the Rusty voice here, and his descriptions of Danny are wonderful. *loves*

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big wheels keep on turning

Say Anything
The Biggest Fool by tiffany rawlins
Oh, *Lloyd*. Grown up and yet not. This is a perfect ten years after look at where he might end up, and it's funny and it hurts because it's true. Wonderful.

Not Quite a Success Story by trakkie
This story nails Lloyd's voice - I could totally hear him in the narration, especially at the beginning. It's a true look at where he could end up, and it's wistful and full of yearning, and it has some really quotable lines, just like the movie.

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Grosse Pointe Blank
Martin Q. Blank, Session Six by pesha
"You were telling me about how you woke up with the urge to kill someone and denying possibly latent homosexual tendencies." Martin Blank and his shrink. Funny and creepy and so in character. Awesome.

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Catcher in the Rye
The Truth the Dead Know by jengrrrl
Holden! All grown up and whoring himself out as a writer in Hollywood. With James Dean. This really nails the voice, I think. You think you lie when you write, you told me so once, but it's the opposite, Holden. The complete, polar opposite.

no, seriously, Holden/Phoebe. I'm not the only one who wants this, right?

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working on a mystery, going wherever it leads

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
A Jianghu Fairytale by das_kabinett
Beautiful, clever, wistful. Restrained, just like the movie. I especially like the thread of telling stories, and how stories become truths and vice versa.

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Fairy Tales
In a Dark Wood by sheldrake
Another take on Beauty and the Beast, beautifully done, full of evocative details and emotions, and spare, lyrical prose. I especially like the uncertainty and surreality of Beauty's time in the enchanted castle, and the surety of the last line.

Rough Diamond by Lyrstzha
"You will marry me," he growled without preamble, looming over her ominously. He added a snarl that showed his wickedly long, sharp teeth.

"I don't think so," Belle replied pleasantly. "But would you please pass me the potatoes?"

Wonderful retelling of Beauty and the Beast

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The Tempest
Genesis by Fahye
She leaks magic from every pore, and one day either she will master it or it will dissolve her entirely. Ariel, trying to get free, and the languages that entangle him. Shivery good.

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the cat was rough and tough and would strut his stuff

The Thin Man
Christmas in Normandie by Michelle Cristian
Nick and Nora tell a story about how they met. Totally captures the boozy, breezy nature of their relationship.

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The Addams Family
The Bridal Path by Vyola
Joel Glicker courts Wednesday Addams. So perfectly Addams-ish, I can't even tell you. Creepily romantic.

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all along the waterfall with you

Friday Night Lights
Blush and Knock Your Knees by callmesandy
Lovely, in character Matt/Julie, with some wonderful Matt-Landry banter, as well.

I can no more cross this room than Zeno's arrow by oxoniensis
He can't work out if she still believes he's going to walk, still expects him to play again, to be the big star they'd always expected him to be. Or if she's given up hope, and is just smiling to cover up the hurt. Either way is just as bad. Jason, dealing.

It's Not a Silly Little Moment by Tommygirl
Utterly adorable. Landry -with help from Grandma Saracen - convinces Matt he has to do something romantic for Julie on their one-month anniversary. So cute!

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too loose to fake it

Fried Green Tomatoes
Wild Honey by sanj
Wonderful Ruth/Idgie with sparkling, flirty dialogue that's spot on. Warm and lovely.

Obligation by Ion Bond
Idgie and Ruth, after Ruth comes back. Sweet, delicate, true. (from yuletide 2005.)

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Bull Durham by florahart
The Joy as it Flies
I love this story so much. It's just...so TRUE to the movie and to the nature of the characters. Crash and Annie sound so like themselves here, and the touches of baseball make it feel real. Wonderful.

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Little Women
A Stitch In Time by Sternel
Lovely slice of life in with the March sisters and Laurie. Really nails the characters.

Every Evil Its Good: Part I and Part II by mctabby
She is twenty-one when her best friend asks her to be his wife and she refuses him. Twenty-six years will pass before she faces that choice again.
Jo and Laurie, after the series, face the sorrows and joys life brings. So very much in character, and full of love and heartbreak and hope. Part III is on the way, I hope.

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looking for my streetcorner girl

Homicide: Life on the Street
Lilacs and Spring Rain by Azrhiaz
"Who said it had to be original?" Pembleton asked. "Things are the way they are. The world goes round and round, and we keep fucking and killing and starting all over again." Excellent casefile, captures the world-weary air of the show well, and nails the Frankentim dynamic.

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The Wire
Us: Four Moments In Time by Rustler
Family? Avon's the closest thing Stringer's ever had to family. The real kind of family, the family you made. Brilliant look at Stringer, and Avon through him, and all the ways they don't quite mesh, the weight of which finally brings them down. Spoilers for the end of season 3.

Come Correct by tiffany rawlins
Short, sharp, perfect look at the inside of young Stringer Bell's head.

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all the girls call you fatty fat fat fat

Discworld
Death Insurance by nimori
Brilliant, funny, wonderful story of the courtship between Vetinari and DEATH.

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Neverwhere
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective (If Somewhat Unnecessarily Violent) Assassins by Apathy
So much fun and nails Messrs. Croup and Vandemar perfectly. Hehehehehe. Nails. They'd appreciate that.

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love's strange so real in the dark

Earthsea
Lighting the Lamps by solvent90
This story nails Tenar - her steady pride, her fierce joy - and Ged is so very Ged here, and the ending made me sniffly. Short and sharp and beautiful.

The Veins of the Forest by Ellen Fremedon
This reads like it totally could have come right out of canon. The details are beautiful and well-chosen, the prose is light and lyrical, and the whole story is evocative of love, loss and potential. The story of Azver, the Karg who becomes the Master Patterner.

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Narnia
Escape to Freedom by sadisticferret
Marvelous look at Aravis through Hwin's eyes. Lovely.

Lives by Breaking by Lady Sarai
Beautiful and sad, full of yearning. The Pevensies, in Narnia and in England.

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we'll help you party it down

The Epic of Gilgamesh
In the House of Dust by kindkit
Absolutely gorgeous. Beautifully written, haunting story of Gilgamesh in his old age, remembering. It's about love and writing and immortality and grief and stories. Wonderful.

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Mythology
Hyakinthos by Tami
Brilliant. I love the format - I can totally buy this as a fragment of a lost play - and the voices are beautiful - Artemis, sparing no pity for lovelorn Apollo upon the death of Hyakinthos. Beautiful

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The Iliad
Stardust by mistykasumi
They both want to say things that they know the other does not want to hear, and it lies between them like the sea separating Greece and Troy. Achilles does not want Patroclus to touch anyone else when it is all he has. Achy and gorgeous, and the ending, even when you know it's coming, hurts like a kick to the gut. Oh, my stupid, stubborn boys. *smishes them*

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Fire from Heaven
The Wind from the Heights by the anti_chris
Myrtale (who becomes Olympias) before her marriage to Philip. She never gets a fair shake in Alexander's story, but this story is a marvelous evocation of what she must have been like as a girl, strength and will and leashed power. Beautifully written.

Bright Glories Shall Unfold by daegaer
You think I lost, Hephaistion thought, smiling at those they passed. I won. I won. Alexander and Hephaistion paying homage to Achilles and Patroclus at Troy. Wonderfully vivid.

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