Slash, het, and gen fanfiction recommendations // 929 stories in 44+ fandoms.
For those of you who don’t know it, or for those who, like me, keep forgetting it, www.archive.org is the home of the Internet Archive, which has a very special and wonderful tool called the Wayback Machine.
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
The Wayback Machine allows you to search for archived copies of particular pages; it’s kind of like the google cache, but without a time limit.
It means that I can post links to stories that have disappeared without warning, but I’m not going to do this if it’s clear that the author has removed the story herself and doesn’t want it to be available anymore.
So, if you read a rec that has a broken link, look for the link to the Wayback Machine for an old, archived copy of the story.
If any authors have taken their stories offline on purpose, let me know and I’ll take down the link.
I’ll have to be quick, since I’m supposed to be leaving for the weekend in 20 minutes. As you may have noticed, I’ve moved the site (again). Sorry for the inconvenience. Please remember to change your bookmarks.
I’m gradually moving everything I host over to BlueHost, which offers excellent service for blogs, something I had a little trouble with over at SimpleNet. The site should be working as well as usual; if it’s not, please drop me a line.
Have a great weekend, everyone.
I went through the site this evening and fixed a bunch of broken or missing links that I or others had found. There were fourteen, which I thought was pretty high. Anyway, thanks to everyone who emailed me about the broken links. I really appreciate it!
Unfortunately, one story has been removed entirely and three are currently MIA. I hope to find new links for the latter eventually; for now they’re filed under Broken Link.
As always, if you spot a broken link, or just have a question or a comment, email me at bellona_3@yahoo.ca or leave a comment on any post. I reply to everything I get, usually within a day or two.
Oh, and a happy belated Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians. I hope your weekend was as good as mine.
The Iliad
Achilles can almost imagine they’re home. “I miss Phthia,” he says softly, pressing his lips to Patroclus’ neck. “The green fields, the fine women–”
“You were the finest woman Phthia ever produced,” Patroclus answers, and Achilles shoves him down into the sand, laughing.
Short and sweet.
Most people would have called this an epiphany, Wilson knew, and some of them went to ridiculous lengths to have one, including embracing strange religions, climbing strange mountains, and taking strange drugs. House, judging by the easy and casual way he seemed to get bolts of revelation, probably called it a Thursday afternoon, if even that. Wilson didn’t know what to call it, except ‘epiphany’ felt like too exciting a word for something that left him feeling like an extraordinarily dense idiot.
The plot doesn’t work for me as well as I would like it to, but there’s so little good Sherlock Holmes fanfic out there that I’m going to rec this anyway.
Watson comes face to face with his own prejudices.
Historical // NC-17 // PWP // Romance
Jane was quiet for a minute. “You mean, you don’t really mind it when I point my glue gun at you?”
Femmeslash // Humour // PG // Romance
Daria has fantasies she doesn’t act on.
Femmeslash // Het // PG // Romance
“Won’t kill you to look sexy for a few hours,” Jane said, pulling on leather pants.
“How do you know?”
“Take a chance, Daria.”
“Fine. But if I end up on a Pride float in leather chaps, you get to tell my mother it was all your fault.”
Femmeslash // PG // Romance
He paused, and now he was gazing up at Giles instead of down, with a sudden smile that was wry and breathtaking. “It’s like hearing the humpback whales start singing Die Fledermaus, isn’t it?”
Giles sat down beside him, carefully staring directly ahead. “What’s that?”
“Hearing me talk.”
“Nothing at all like,” Giles said, with the certainty of pure truth. “I always knew you were more than capable of talking, while I seriously doubt the physical ability of marine mammals to perform Mozart.”
Oz nodded, apparently satisfied. “It wigs some people.”
Oz and philosophy together; it makes me very happy.
“Charges all set?” Duo asked. Heero nodded. “Okay, then. We detonate in ten … nine … eight … seven …”
Heero reached over and pressed the trigger. Duo threw up his arm to shield his face from the sudden bright light. The sound wave threw him back off his feet. “God damn it, Heero,” he said. “I wasn’t ready.”
“I waited long enough,” Heero said. He gave Duo a hand up, then turned to leave. Duo grabbed the rest of their equipment and hurried to catch up. His ears were still ringing.
NC-17 // PWP // Underage Sex
Gosford Park
She’s going to be an actress and it’s certainly not what she’d expected. Morris sent Henry to get her to work with him, because he think she has ‘flair’ and Elsie could feel the slippery weight of his gaze even without him there, but she’s willing to make sacrifices for a new shade of life. It won’t be the first time.
“What will he be like now?” whispers her brother maliciously. “Will he remember you?” Commodus’s pale eyes bore into her and his voice is like a snake’s. But she can shake off the immediate terror, for there, they come: Aurelius and his Praetorian Guard, the soldiers that protect his body in battle. The Emperor’s banner ripples over their heads, and she keeps herself straight as a spear and replies to her brother: “If not, I shall remind him.”
Commodus laughs, and she hears the jealousy in it. “Who could forget you, dear sister?”
“Yes, but what could Ms. Lee possibly have that the Martians would want?”
Femmeslash // Humour // PG // Romance
Follow-up to my recommendation of The Administration.
The following is part of another Administration novel, Good Citizens. This is set in the Administration, but has an entirely new cast of characters, taking the spotlight away from the corporate world, and the offices and I&I, and turning it onto citizens at the other end of the Administration’s social scale. There is no guarantee it will be finished, and may be revised or removed at any time—read at your own risk. At the moment I’m not working on any Administration stories, so Good Citizens is unlikely to be finished in the forseeable future.
Even though it isn’t and may never be finished, Good Citizens is an incredible read. When I read The Administration, I had a hard time really feeling the resister point of view. I understood it intellectually, but not viscerally.
But now I get it.
I fervently wish to see this story finished, although I’m afraid it probably won’t be. It hasn’t been updated since late 2003, anyway, so don’t look forward to new material anytime soon.
ETA: Seems to have been removed from Manna’s site, although I couldn’t find anything there saying why.
ETA: Good Citizens is no longer available online. Manna has said that she’s done some work on it lately, so it may eventually be finished, and possibly published, along with the main Administration series.
Broken Link // Future Dystopia // Het // Mystery // NC-17 // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Torture // WIP
(1945)
Anyone who has ever heard that Wodehouse was a traitor or a Nazi sympathiser during the War ought to read this essay. It offers not only an excellent analysis of Wodehouse’s actions during World War II, but also some interesting ideas about his supposed indictment of the British class system.
G // Non-fiction