Multi fandom recs

[selenak]

I just saw that TV Tropes also does fanfic recs, and was both pleased and amused that a story of mine made the cut, to wit, In the Pale Moonlight, which got recced in the Babylon 5 section, subsection shipper fic. (Um, I suppose you could call it that? In a unrequited type mindmessing type of way? Since it's about Cartagia and Londo.) The reccer spotted my shameless theft of one of Oscar Wilde's aphorisms for Londo's dialogue, and gratifyingly declares this to be IC for Londo.

Anyway, the great thing about discovering a whole new set of fanfic recs is of course following said recs, which is how I found a short, intense and sublime Once Upon A Time story about what it was like for Henry to grow up in Storybrooke:

Growing Pains (1152 words) by Malteaser
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Henry Mills, Evil Queen | Regina Mills, Jiminy Cricket | Archibald 'Archie' Hopper
Additional Tags: Family, Dysfunctional Family, Family Secrets, Angst, Growing Up
Summary:

Henry Mills grows up in Storybrooke. He's the only one.

Comes in particularly handy when you think, as I admit I sometimes did during originally watching s1 (but not upon rewatching with the whole of canon in mind!) that Henry gives Regina a hard time during the first season. He had reason. Did he ever.


Not courtesy of TV Tropes but spotted by yours truly on the net yesterday were these two gems:


X-Men Movieverse:

Repentance (4526 words) by zandperl
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Movies), X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr
Additional Tags: Introspection
Summary:

Post-Cure Erik Lehnsherr alternates days playing chess in Central Park and doing chores, except for on the Sabbath. When he makes a new friend who reminds him of an old friend, he realizes the meaning of the Ten Days.

XMFC brought an onslaught of new Charles/Erik stories, but not only did these tend to be more and more AUs with ever more unrecognizable characterisation, they made me miss stories about the older versions of these characters, the Stewart and McKellen shaped ones who first won my heart. So I was very happy to find this one, which manages to use all the movieverse canon and also explores Erik Lehnsherr's Jewish heritage beyond the Holocaust.

Babylon 5:

Drink Deep (3194 words) by Amatara
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: G'Kar/Londo Mollari
Characters: Londo Mollari, G'Kar, Vir Cotto
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Drunkenness, Awkward Conversations
Summary:

G'Kar struggles with his sudden status as a religious icon, and Londo realizes he can take some lessons from Vir in how to handle melancholy drunks. Missing scene for the season 5 episode "The Ragged Edge".

There are too few stories exploring G'Kar dealing with both the realisation his religous icon status separated him from his people, the long term effects of the Centauri Occuspation and with what happened to Na'Toth, not to mention what his relationship with Londo turned into. This story tackles it in a short but poignant manner.