Unfit for Society Recs

Narnia
Knock On All Doors and Enter Nowhere by Signe
Wistful, beautiful meditation on how Narnia changed all four Pevensie children, and how they deal with life back in England again.

Mirth Upon the Silver Horn by lotesseflower
Lovely look at Susan, after everyone else is gone.

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Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Number Twelve by Laura Smith
There are only twelve Cylon models. Kara and Lee deal with meeting Number Twelve. Brilliant, fucked up, hurtful. The show should totally do this.

The Passing of the Queen by hossgal
AU. Laura Roslin's last moments. Lovely.

Ship to Ship by brynnmck
Kara and Lee, after "The Captain's Hand." I love their interplay here, old friends who miss hanging out, who know each other better than anyone else, and miss the ease that brings. (AU in the wake of later episodes)

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Non-remix-related March and April recs. *G*

Firefly
First Kiss by brighidestone
Funny, sweet, sly and smart story in which River buys a dress and steals a kiss.

Happy Endings by bradcpu
Eek! Short, sharp, dark and chilling - two scenes that weren't at the end of the movie, but the possibility explored here will blow your mind and break your heart.

Par For The Course by Voleuse
Simon's never had to think about food before, but in the black, there isn't a lot of green. Lovely look at Simon, learning to adjust to life on Serenity.

Paradise Has a Thousand Doors by tesla321
This starts with a Jayne/Mal thing I'm not sure actually belongs, but once the River POV kicks in, it's gorgeous - wonderfully in character, full of delicious Mal/River UST, with some wonderful exchanges between them.

Pieces on the Ground (Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines) by astralis
Mal and Kaylee survey the damage done. Like a missing scene from the movie. Quiet, understated, heartbreaking, and just a little bit hopeful at the end.

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~victoria

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.

Harry Potter

Black Widow (The Blaise's Mum Has Got It Going On Tango) by Marks
Awesome! Hilarious! Brilliant!

Can't Run But (A Winding River Remix) by Penknife
Snape, dealing with various members of the Black family. I really like how they echo each other - Narcissa and Bellatrix, Sirius and Regulus and Draco, and Snape can't quite escape, though you can tell he kind of really wants to.

Comfort (The Extremely Basic Remix) by Elizabeth Culmer
Aw, James. This is a lovely look at him at the cusp of maturity.

Dancing Shoes (A Music Box You Couldn't Fix Remix) by Riko
Gorgeous, achy-in-the-chestal-area examination of Neville. Utterly wonderful. And the original: Dancing Shoes by Pirate Perian, a lovely slice of Neville and his Gran that made me a little sniffly.

Direction (the Lost and Found Remix) by Bow
Sirius wants Remus and is uncertain how to go about getting him. Pictures and poetry. Lovely.

Dreams May Come (the parenthesis mix) by Maud
Utterly gorgeous prose poem - takes a sweet original Bring Back Black fic and puts it into a tight Sirius POV that not only sounds like Sirius to me but also sounds like the bewildered/edging towards hysterical/deeply sensual narration of someone who's just returned from the dead. Outstanding. Remus is Before and Remus is Then and Remus is Now, an unbroken thread that Sirius could confidently grasp.

The original - Happenings of a Rainy Day by Jenelin - is a lovely, achy, sweet Bring Back Black story from Remus's POV.

Apparition No. 12 (The Scientific Method Remix) by lacylu42 (original story previously recced)
Wonderful remix of a story I love a lot (which was written at my instigation *snerk*) - widely-recced and deservedly so. This remix takes the story from Hermione's POV and is very much about her, and what she knows and how she learns and how knowing and learning help her keep hold of a world that is constantly becoming more dangerous and complicated. Strong crisp prose, well worth reading.

But Professor Lupin was a good man and a good teacher. She had decided to trust him just as she had decided to trust Sirius in the shack. Those were two moments in her own personal history, linked together by a chain of events too tangled even for her to understand, where she had allowed herself to be moved by feeling rather than reason, by her gut rather than by logic. Oh, she had made the case for logic later, but in those moments that mattered, realization had struck her like lightning from the heavens.

The Evidence of Things Not Seen (The Substance of Things Hoped For Remix) by krabapple
This made me weepy when I read it during uploading. I love Lily's faith and James's faith in her, and their faith in Sirius. Lovely. Especially Lily's memories intertwined, and her determination to keep Harry safe by any means.

Game (Eye of the Storm Remix) by Sanj
Remus and Ron are holed up after a Death Eater raid, and Ron's suffering from a priapism curse. Strip chess is involved. Sweet, hot, wistful and a little funny.

North (Gather Me Up Remix) by k.
Ron, for one, couldn't think past Harry and Hermione, he didn't want to. Wonderful Ron voice in a lovely trio fic. It's so very Ron, and so very them, with Harry thinking himself into himself and Ron just knowing, instinctually, when Harry and Hermione don't.

Not Quite the End of the World (The Change to Color Remix) by Sullen Siren
The Trio, in the aftermath of the war. I really like Ron's thought proceses here, and the way he holds Harry and Hermione together when everything feels like it might fall apart. (non-HBP-compliant)

The same way home (a symphony in seven movements) by Esinde Nayrall
This is absolutely stunning - long, absorbing, sad, smart, funny, and hot in turn, and just a really sharp look at both Remus and Sirius and their lives together. Highly recommended.

Sleeping with Ghosts (The I'll Have What He's Having Remix) by Lady Goodman
This hurts a lot. There's so much truth here about what it must be like to be Tonks, to be able to be anyone and to fear that you're no one, that no one will ever see the real you, and of course, Remus can't see beyond his own personal tragedy to understand that, and he's not strong enough to tell her no, the bastard. This has stayed with me since I first read it, and in reading it again it hurts even more.

The older Tonks gets the more she realises that she will never change, and no one will ever know her. She keeps waiting for someone to discover her where she's hiding, to frame her face and say, "That's it, you're the girl I've been looking for." For someone to say, "Don't change. I like you as you are."

actually, what this makes me want is for Tonks to meet up with Dawn and River, two other girls who know a little something about being not-there.

valley of dry bones (the fever dream cut) by Sinope
As much as I'm not a fan of Snape/Lupin, I do like this slow unfolding, the gradual easing of tension between two old rivals who could have been friends maybe, once. I especially appreciate the acknowledgement of Sirius's place in Remus's life, in his past, and what that means for both him and Snape.

What he means, Remus thinks, is that if anyone could find a traitor and murderer on their doorstep and greet him with a glass of water instead of a hex, it would be Remus. Then he opens the door, because he doesn't have the strength to prove Snape wrong.

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BtVS/Angel

The Ballad of Charles Whitman (Apocalypse Remix) by nwhepcat
This is really well done, taut, absorbing, suspenseful, sad. Xander's not the same after he saves the world. One man's apocalypse, and living in the aftermath is harder than he ever dreamed.

Indelible by nwhepcat
Long, absorbing story about Xander and Dawn and Oz and the nature of memory and identity. And the remix: The Past Is a Different Country (The Jumping Off Remix) by livii, in which Oz ruminates on what he knows and what he's willing to live with knowing -- and not knowing -- and it's oh so very Oz.

Sun Worshippers by karabair
Cordelia, Wesley, Fred and Gunn have a moment of fun in the sun. Except, not so much fun for Wes, who's pining for Fred, and Cordelia, who's trying to help him. And in the remix: Refugees on Sunset Boulevard (The Our Town/Twilight Zone Mash-Up Remix) by Lizbeth Marcs, in which they do it all again, and Cordelia tries to change the outcome.

Sweet, Sour, and Sweet Again (The Monster at the End of this Book Remix) by Ari
I really like this, especially how well the omniscient narration works, how it makes the reader complicit in their deaths. Very cool.

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