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Trick or treat recs
Nov. 1st, 2023 10:04 amA selection of stories which caught my eye last night:
Der Erlkönig (the Goethe poem and the Schubert song): Our Father, which is another creepy, awesome ballad. Poetry fanfiction in both senses! It's fabulous, and should be comprehensible even if you don't know the original poem. (BTW, if you don't, but want to know, here is a rendition in German subtitled in English and made specifically for people learning German. And if you are German, here's the flippant short version my Dad cracked me up with in my long ago school days: Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind/ Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind/ Kommt böser Mann, quatscht Papi an, ob er Bubi haben kann/ Papi verneint, Bubi weint, am nächsten Tag ist große Not/ Papi lebendig, Bubi tot.)
Labyrinth: Strangers till now: in which an older Sarah is stuck with a powerless Jareth for a day due to a plot MacGuffin, and it's funny and full of verbal sparring and subtext, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
Star Trek: DS9 Crash Landings: in which, en route back from saving Ishka in The Magnificent Ferengi, Quark gets stuck with Brunt of all the people in an archetypical fanfic trope. Extremely well written, and given I have a soft spot for the Ferengi in general and Quark in particular, which isn't a majority opinion in fandom, I am always over the moon when finding Ferengi starring fanfiction of this quality. Quark, Brunt and Ishka are all given terrific dialogue.
Good Omens (TV): Standing right here: which gives us a look as to how the angel Muriel is doing after the end of s2 and lets her befriend Nina in the most adorable way. I'm not wild about Good Omens the way many of my friends are, but I like it, and was charmed by this vignette inspired by the new canon.
Der Erlkönig (the Goethe poem and the Schubert song): Our Father, which is another creepy, awesome ballad. Poetry fanfiction in both senses! It's fabulous, and should be comprehensible even if you don't know the original poem. (BTW, if you don't, but want to know, here is a rendition in German subtitled in English and made specifically for people learning German. And if you are German, here's the flippant short version my Dad cracked me up with in my long ago school days: Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind/ Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind/ Kommt böser Mann, quatscht Papi an, ob er Bubi haben kann/ Papi verneint, Bubi weint, am nächsten Tag ist große Not/ Papi lebendig, Bubi tot.)
Labyrinth: Strangers till now: in which an older Sarah is stuck with a powerless Jareth for a day due to a plot MacGuffin, and it's funny and full of verbal sparring and subtext, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
Star Trek: DS9 Crash Landings: in which, en route back from saving Ishka in The Magnificent Ferengi, Quark gets stuck with Brunt of all the people in an archetypical fanfic trope. Extremely well written, and given I have a soft spot for the Ferengi in general and Quark in particular, which isn't a majority opinion in fandom, I am always over the moon when finding Ferengi starring fanfiction of this quality. Quark, Brunt and Ishka are all given terrific dialogue.
Good Omens (TV): Standing right here: which gives us a look as to how the angel Muriel is doing after the end of s2 and lets her befriend Nina in the most adorable way. I'm not wild about Good Omens the way many of my friends are, but I like it, and was charmed by this vignette inspired by the new canon.
