Unfit for Society Recs

Narnia

Keep Calm and Marry On by Syrena_of_the_lake
Who takes the Narnian throne after the Pevensies were pulled back to England? As Edmund might say: if you can't procreate, delegate. This is really lovely.

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Crossovers

Sandman/Raven Cycle

Raised in the Institution of Dreaming by whorseshoecrab
Ronan Lynch is a little boy when he sees him for the first time. There and then gone again, a shock of black and white in the trees.

Ronan sees him in his dreams, of course, in the forest in which he so often ends up. Nicely done Sandman/TRC crossover.

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Crossovers

Indiana Jones/Agent Carter

The King Under the Mountain by rthstewart
At the end of WWII, the Howling Commandos call in expert on the occult Dr. Indiana Jones to help stop a last-ditch Nazi plan. This is a lot of fun.

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Avengers/Narnia

Turn, Archer, and Heed the Wild Hunt by Mhalachai
10yo Clint goes to live with foster mom Susan Pevensie. This was lovely and wistful.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Star Wars

Ahsoka the Vampire Slayer by Redrikki
Exactly what it says on the tin - AU where Ahsoka's the Slayer and Anakin's her watcher, but after she died and came back, there's a new, by the book Slayer, and Ahsoka and Anakin have to mend the strain in their relationship. This does a really great job of translating "Landing at Point Rain" into a Buffy-style monster of the week story. I could have read a few thousand more words of this fusion, but it ends rather abruptly.

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Star Wars/Harry Potter

Dangerous Wizards and Where to Find Them by Syrena_of_the_lake
Rey and Chewie take a wrong turn on the way to Ahch-To and end up at Hogwarts instead, where Rey learns a little bit about magic. This is a delight from start to finish.

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Supernatural/The Punisher

Neighborly by Spooks & thesuninside
Crossover AU where the Weechesters are living next door to Frank Castle when John dies, and he takes them in. The series is ongoing but the first two stories are complete. I enjoyed this a lot. (there has yet to be a Rat Pack joke but I live in hope.)

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DCU

Yesterday's Voices by Lemonade_Garden
Bruce gets amnesia and the post-Jason Batkids get to see what pre-Jason's death Bruce was like. And Bruce and Jason reconcile. Oh my heart. (has some spacing issues and also the baseball stuff in the epilogue is...definitely off, but so many excellent Batfamily feels are worth it.)

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Narnia

Terms and Conditions May Apply by edenfalling
Lovely look at Cor and Aravis during their married life. <3

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Narnia

The Courting Dance by edenfalling
Cor and Aravis have to convince the rest of Archenland that they're fit rulers for the country. Ah, lovely. ♥ARAVIS♥

North and South by Flourish
Lovely story of Aravis's journey away from and then back to Lasaraleen.

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James Bond movies

all you need to make a movie is a gun and a girl by postcardmystery
Q is not a name. Q is a designation, a title, a letter that looks like a codename that looks like a cypher that doesn't tell you anything at all. (Other than 'quartermaster', and even that doesn't tell you all that much.) Q is not a name, but it is all anybody ever calls him. He signs documents with a looping letter, presses one key when he finishes an email, answers the phone not with a greeting but a clipped consonant.

Q is not a name, and it is not a name for a reason. So he's five nine. So he's a hundred and thirty pounds. So he looks like you could knock him over with a feather. He can crash the US State Department's entire computer network in less than three minutes.

Q is not a name, and it is not a number, either. You don't give men like Q numbers. They know what to do with them, you see. really excellent Q/Moneypenny.

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Community

One Day She Will Swim with Dolphins by scioscribe
All Shirley could think was that Andre would never have taken her here. She hadn't had a rocket pop in years. She understood, all at once, that she loved her group more than she loved Andre, and that she would have to end things, because she couldn't breathe in her own house anymore.

She took off her shoes and put her feet into the water.

"It may look like I'm having a nervous breakdown," she said, "but I really do think I'm going to be fine."

"I know," Troy said. He took her hand. "Everybody knows that, Shirley." Excellent story about Shirley, that makes great use of Britta, too.

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The Dark Knight Rises

A beam of sunlight by gorgeousnerd
Bruce & Selina, after the slate's been wiped clean.

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Narnia

rise after a thousand years by ilysia_039
Vivid, fierce story of Susan traveling out into the desert and discovering another source of Deep Magic in the world. Sharp and evocative.

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Crossovers

Discworld/The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Ill-advised Skeletal Exchange Programme by meridian_rose
"So, this Halloween. It involves Otherworldly creatures terrifying normal people while you stand around singing songs about it?"

"Yes! Only you make it sound so wrong," Jack complained. "And I just don't stand around." He puffed up and posed dramatically. "I am the Pumpkin King!"

Susan wasn't impressed. Jack visibly deflated. Hee! This is delightful.

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The Good Wife/White Collar

A Lady and a Gentleman In Black by hederahelix
Sharp, well-observed story of the time Kalinda assisted Special Agents Burke and Barrigan on an investigation, with lots of nice UST simmering between Kalinda and Diana.

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Indiana Jones/Casablanca

Indiana Jones and the Standard of Dishonour by vomit_bunny
Indy gets stuck in Casablanca. Really fun crossover.

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Narnia/No Reservations

No Reservations: Narnia by Edonohana
Recced everywhere, and for good reason. Perfectly nails both canons with wit and sharp-eyed detail. I'm crammed into a burrow so small that my knees are up around my ears and the boom mike keeps slamming into my head, inhaling the potent scent of toffee-apple brandy and trying to drink a talking mouse under the table. But is it really the boom mike that's making my head pound? I know for sure that my camera man doesn't usually have two heads. I have to face facts. The mouse is winning.

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Life

The Collarbone Press by piecesofalice
Short, sharp look at Crews and Reese's partnership. "I don't want secrets from you, Reese."

His index finger slides up her neck, slightly, and she's suddenly so confused by the linking words underneath the spoken ones because it all seems to reaffirm that this man could be the most honest one she knows.

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Narnia

Little Sister by edenfalling
Fascinating, chilling look at Jadis. "All the world was under me," she said again in the speech of Charn, and laughed bitterly. She almost -- but only almost -- wished she had not spoken the Deplorable Word. It was ironic: to speak once and render herself unintelligible forever after, unless she spoke in a foreign tongue.

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Crossovers

Narnia/Lord of the Rings

Ere Yet We Loose the Legions by bedlamsbard
Highly enjoyable and workable LotR/Narnia crossover. The Uruk-hai pursue Eomer's eored into Narnia. High King Peter is not pleased.

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Firefly/Supernatural

Time When . . . by tassosss
Wonderfully warm and hopeful story of how Zoe gets knocked up (by Dean Winchester!), and how that changes everything. There's some minor Zoe/Dean (obviously), but it's not about that at all. More of a Firefly story than a Supernatural one, could be read without knowing SPN canon, really. Lovely. (Could use another beta pass.)

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Leverage/Supernatural

Love Bipolar by nilchance
Young Parker meets the Winchesters. I really enjoyed this.

The Zuul Job by harriet_spy
Adorable snip of a Leverage/SPN crossover - Bela and Parker are after the same artifact. It goes about as well as you'd expect.

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Supernatural/The Graveyard Book

They are not all saints by ultraviolet9a
Fantastic crossover with Ihe Graveyard Book, gets Silas's voice just right.

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Supernatural/The Time Traveler's Wife

Barefoot Girl by kalquessa
Lovely, delicate, moving crossover with The Time Traveler's Wife, which I haven't read, but this worked for me anyway. Dean and Alba's many meetings.

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Firefly

And all I ask (is a tall ship and a star to steer her by) by merle_p
Lovely look at the friendship between Wash and Kaylee, full of the quiet strength both bring to the crew, and which the others probably don't even notice until it's gone. Wah! Wash! *sniffle*

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Homicide: Life on the Street

Five Finger Discount by Laura Smith
Awesome Frankentim ficlet written for *me* that sounds JUST LIKE THEM circa season 4. *heart*

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Chronicles of Narnia

and sometimes you hear the silence speak. by lassiterfics
"Do you ever change an ending to please the audience?" Edmund asks. "Of course," Shativa answers. Her long hair tumbles down her back as she sifts through her clothes for a dress to wear. "A pleased audience pays better. Mama Biguda doesn't like to, but I convince her." "How do you do that?" "I remind her endings are illusions anyway. In a story, there are a thousand endings and a thousand beginnings between the first word spoken and the last word said." Beautiful look at Edmund and Susan, at magic and love and storytelling.

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Narnia

Queen of Morning by Sister Coyote
Lovely, lyrical look at Susan. "King Peter's courage and King Edmund's wisdom and Queen Lucy's boldness I would have," Reepicheep said, "but for a keen eye and a graceful hand, I could find no better, my archer queen."

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Sandman

The Taste of Desire by curry_fish
Desire does not want. Really sharp look at Desire, making it almost sympathetic, yet still retaining that razor edge that makes it so dangerous.

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The Bourne Trilogy

all this history is just a mystery to me by Amatia
"Knowing it isn't the same as remembering it." Bourne searches for his past, with some help from Nicky. Lovely.

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Narnia

No Story But Our Own by miladygrey
Lovely bit of Cor/Aravis that captures his diffidence and bravery, and her prickly sweetness, perfectly.

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The Sound and the Fury

Enough Water by Helarctos
Quentin tangles everybody up in his story, sweeps Shreve along and then leaves him to deal with the consequences. Fantastic and heartbreaking and true to the source.

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Battlestar Galactica
Kara Studies by dionusia
Short, powerful, heartbreaking look at Kara, through her painting. Jagged and full of unexpected gracenotes, like Kara herself. Lovely.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
Five Places Buffy Summers Never Met Nina Ash by carlyinrome
Exactly what the title says. Sharp look at Buffy, wistful and funny at the same time.

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Narnia
Susan's Charge by carlanime_bligh
Growing up is a duty and a blessing, not a fault. Yes. This. Wonderful reframing of Susan's survival as a mission, not a punishment.

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Narnia

Little by Little by chaos_pockets
"...And a Queen cannot be a Witch? ...I don't think it would be difficult for any woman to become a Witch...little by little...over years...without even realizing it."

Chilling look at Lucy. Sharp and hard like shards of glass.

And the companion piece, from Susan's POV: Something Practical also by chaos_pockets

there are two names for women who see things that aren't there.

One's prophet.

The other's witch.

Beautiful.

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Narnia
Almost Was Good Enough by maddeinin
This story does a wonderful job of exploring what it must have been like for Susan. They are back in Narnia, and for a moment everything inside her loosens and hums with pleasure, but then she realizes she's still a child and everyone she knew here is dead.

Between Sunset and Sunrise by K. M. Petravich
Lovely, delicate story of Lucy and Edmund growing up back in England. "And you're my brother. Isn't that enough?"

Bound By What You Are by Claira
Deft, smart story of Susan actually being queen, and doing what needs to be done.

For Thine Is the Kingdom by ame1ie
Father Casey is wrong, Susan knows. God does not want her back. He told her himself. Sharp, painful look at Susan back in England, trying not to want what she can't have anymore.

Four Quarters by aishuu and baine
Four Pevensies, four elements. Sharp character sketches of each. Nicely done.

high time (try to feel okay) by Pen
High King Peter will never let Queen Susan leave Narnia. In England, things don't work quite the same way. Sharp, understated, sad.

the mercy of the frozen ground by Pen
Tumnus, on meeting Lucy. Creepy and sad.

The Nature of Time by Ria
In England, time passes for the Pevensies, and they learn to cope. Poignant and insightful. She misses them terribly, now that they are no longer with her.

And she is so very, very alone.

Once and Always by Schala
Susan, after the last battle, has two daughters of her own. Sad and beautiful and not without hope.

Queen of Narnia by kaydeefalls
Susan, in a series of drabbles. Spare, lyrical, poignant and lovely. This is who I am, she tells herself. This is who I always will be.

To Build a Golden Age by chaos_pockets
Edmund does what needs doing, so the others don't have to. Short, sharp, and smart.

An Upside-Down Vision by Pen
Subtle, sharp look at Edmund. He is Just, and he must believe that.

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Good Omens

Apple (The Divine Intervention Remix) by Xellas
Utterly adorable. Crowley and Aziraphale are called upon to explain their... actions from the original story (Apple by MadScienceChick, in which Adam gives Crowley and Aziraphale a present for his wedding. While they enjoy the, er, fruits of the gift at first, they don't respond well in the afterglow, and which is adorable in its own right).

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Narnia

Always Spring and Never Summer (Once a King, Always, Immortal Remix) by Aldalindil
This is so gorgeous, so achy and sad and perfect and oh, the pain of losing Narnia - twice for poor Susan - is palpable in this story. Brilliantly done. The original story - Once a King by Rynne – is worth reading too. The remix expands beyond Peter and Edmund and considers all four Pevensies, and Professor Kirke, too.

Stages of Age and Youth (The I Dreamt a Dream Remix) by Rynne
This was no Golden Age. This was growing pains. Lucy, growing up again, aboard the Dawn Treader. Stunning. Just gorgeous.
The original - The Wastelands by Mirkat - takes on all four Pevensies as they grow up, and learn of love and loss, and is also beautifully done.