Unfit for Society Recs

Avengers

Code of Conduct by tryfanstone
Steve wins Bucky in an auction. Bucky is okay with that. This was fun.

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Lucifer (TV)

I Shelter You by firecat
Trixie helps protect Maze from nightmare monsters. <333

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Sandman

Pieces of Time by scarletts_awry
The scene in Brief Lives where Delirium and Dream visit Destiny, from Del's POV. I like this story a lot - it captures the wayward nature of Delirium's train of thought, how she digresses and digresses back around to the point maybe even she doesn't realize she's making until she's made it. Lovely. Grief is a floodwater, and it cuts deep enough that it belongs to Delirium. Grief is madness. Grief is knowledge.

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Lucifer

Even the Angels by Moontyger
Michael and Lucifer have a conversation. Perfect little snapshot, with one hell of an ending. Short but packs a punch.

Crux by numinicious
While asking for his alliance against the Lilim, Lucifer schools Rudd on a few home truths. I really like Lucifer here. "Are you going to be the pot or the kettle, Morningstar? You, the first among all angels, the cream of the crop, one might say — and you fell. To this pit, to the bottom." Rudd smiles, cruelly. "The metaphor works both ways, Lucifer." "And look at me now." Lucifer matches his smile, kindly. "A Creator. Sometimes you have to fall before you can rise, Rudd."

Gloria In Exelsis Deo (maybe the highest, but not-Heaven) by kassie
I *love* this. I love how it captures Elaine perfectly. I love Duma and his worrying and gardening and his care-taking and his bliss at PIE (I love that there is PIE in a DINER with forward waitresses offering advice). I love grumpy Gabriel and his eons-old feelings of sibling rivalry, and Lucifer's presence at the end, how Elaine still needs his validation, still loves him and how he, in his way, loves her. *heart*


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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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Except for one (Travel Documents), all of these previously appeared in my LJ.

Recs from yuletide:

The Simpsons
The Ballad of Lenny and Carl by Kyra Cullinan
It's Lenny/Carl and it's sweet and poignant and funny and the character voices are dead on.

Peanuts
Every Good Girl Does Fine by kissmeagain
Perfectly Peppermint Patty. And Marcie, too.

Lucifer
Come What May by Catrinella
Excellent look at how Mazikeen can never really escape the tension between love and duty, her loyalty to Lucifer v. her loyalty to the Lilim, even when she's meant to be having a tender interlude with Lucifer rather than a conference of war.

Winnie the Pooh
In Which A New Child Comes To The Forest by loligo
Lovely - Christopher Robin is grown and brings his son to the Hundred Acre Wood.

Fables
Rewrites and Revisions by Sophia Prester
I love how this, much like the source text itself, plays with the narrative conventions of fairytales and stories, and I really like this characterization of Snow.

Calvin & Hobbes
Transmogrification by hyperfocused
While I'm not sold on the epilogue, the rest of this fic is pure brilliance - Calvin (and Hobbes) as he grows up, bored and attitudinal, and then brilliant and freaky. Very cool

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Alias

Have the Lambs Stopped Screaming? by Mala
Sark and Robin Dixon have a conversation on the way to the rendezvous in the episode "Taken. " Short, sharp, brilliant, with a kicker of a last line.

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Firefly

Harbor by Nifra Idril
I’m not a big believer in Mal/Simon, but Nif makes it work here. This story is short and hits you like a kick in the gut.

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L'Engleverse
If I hadn't already written Earthsea fanfic, and recced Narnia porn, I might fear hell for this. But I have, so I don't. *g*

Nine Moments in the Life of an Artist by Amy
Delicate fic where Polyhymnia O'Keefe meets Emily Gregory (the blind pianist of The Young Unicorns) and they hit it off. Just -- pitch-perfect characterizations and a first person narration that really works for me. It reads like L'Engle to me, if, you know, L'Engle were writing tasteful girlslash.

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Lucifer

Set Asunder by Nifra Idril
Lucifer fic! Lucifer/Michael, to be exact, before the world began, and they were the only two, equal, the force and means by which god created the universe. And they loved. And Nifra tells their story here. Beautiful. (and you should all follow her example and write more Lucifer fic.)

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SportsNight

Respice Finem by scrunchy
Absolutely awe-inspiring. Subtitled "Look to the end: 12 Latin Phrases That Aren't Quo Vadimus aka, Some Ways It Didn't End," Scrunchy dreams up twelve different ways SportsNight could have ended, but didn't, each one of them as true as the actual ending (truer in a couple cases, imo). All the main players are here, in various groups and combinations - some of these are sad ((Spero Melior made me sniffle) some are happy (Ecce Homo made me squee like a little fangirl), some are just *true* (Disjecta Membra feels *right*), and one is absolutely gut-wrenching (Pro Memoria gave me chills).

Go. Read. And praise Scrunchy with great praise, for her tang is top notch.

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