Drive-by recs
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selenakCitizen Kane:
The Hay Scale: a glimpse at young Charlie Kane and Jed Leland, which manages to capture so much about the relationship and about Kane, and does so in an elegant subtle way. It's one of those "you can imagine the actors saying those lines" cases.
Buffy:
Ophelia's Reconstruction, set during the summer between season 5 and 6, this is a Tara point of view. I loved Tara pretty much from the moment she showed up in Hush, and this story is a good demonstration of why. It also does justice to the reality of grief, and offers great glimpses at Xander and Dawn. (The Xander scenes in particular made me wish we'd have gotten more interaction between him and Tara on screen.)
The Three Musketeers:
Some day, I'm going to write my own Dumas meta. Meanwhile, I'm glad when other people do. This post takes on one of my pet peeves* - Milady de Winter (one of my favourite villainesses), the backstory which is supposed to make us feel sorry for Athos but even when I was a teenager made me feel sorry for Milady instead, and the general rendition of her fate.
The Hay Scale: a glimpse at young Charlie Kane and Jed Leland, which manages to capture so much about the relationship and about Kane, and does so in an elegant subtle way. It's one of those "you can imagine the actors saying those lines" cases.
Buffy:
Ophelia's Reconstruction, set during the summer between season 5 and 6, this is a Tara point of view. I loved Tara pretty much from the moment she showed up in Hush, and this story is a good demonstration of why. It also does justice to the reality of grief, and offers great glimpses at Xander and Dawn. (The Xander scenes in particular made me wish we'd have gotten more interaction between him and Tara on screen.)
The Three Musketeers:
Some day, I'm going to write my own Dumas meta. Meanwhile, I'm glad when other people do. This post takes on one of my pet peeves* - Milady de Winter (one of my favourite villainesses), the backstory which is supposed to make us feel sorry for Athos but even when I was a teenager made me feel sorry for Milady instead, and the general rendition of her fate.
