Unfit for Society Recs

Fairy Tales

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Duckling by innocentsmith
Do you ever feel as though you're putting you're putting certain things about you together in pieces? And then every now and again you look at a piece and you say, "Dammit, you don't go there after all!" (This particular piece needing to be transferred to the "dust I crush beneath my feet" pile, obvs.) But you know, I always wanted to devise colorful deaths for anyone who suggested I was incomplete. You are, but only because you're alive, writes Jordan. Absolutely brilliant retelling of The Ugly Duckling that turns the story inside out and shakes real, heartbreaking truth from it.

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The Handmaid's Tale

Sisters of Bilhah by kel
Amazing and terrifying - fills in all the stuff the novel didn't - couldn't - in a horrifyingly plausible way that never ever goes over the top. Really well done.

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Inspector Chen series - Williams

This Sweet and Bitter Orange Mood by Tevere
This is wonderful. Vivid and evocative in a quiet, intense way. I love seeing Inari get herself settled in her skin. Lovely.

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Roman Holiday

would still rejoice by solvent
"Rome is always the same," she said at last. "The world has changed so much. But Rome - I have always felt young in Rome." *sniffle* The end of Roman Holiday makes me ache and cry (and cry), and to think they might get a second chance is absolutely wonderful. ♥

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