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HP: Raven's Honour, by kellychambliss.

FANDOM: Harry Potter
FIC LINK: Raven's Honour (at AO3: Raven's Honour)
AUTHOR LINK:

kellychambliss
RATING/WARNING(S): PG
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 10,800 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Minerva McGonagall, Rolanda Hooch, Pomona Sprout, OFC; assorted HP-Universe cameos

FIC SUMMARY: From the prompt: "In the 1920s, three close friends open a school for girls in the Scottish Highlands. Non-magical AU."

RECCER'S NOTES:

This is a wonderful charming story of friendship and growing up. I really love the OFC here, from whose point we see the other characters. They are all so very well thought up and fleshed out.

The tone is just right, and it fits so well the time and place.

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Sleepy Hollow: Elinor and Marianne, by Yahtzee.

FANDOM: Sleepy Hollow
FIC LINK: Elinor and Marianne
AUTHOR LINK:

Yahtzee
RATING/WARNING(S): PG-13
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 2,500 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Ichabod Crane, Jenny Mills, Abbie Mills, Frank Irving

FIC SUMMARY: “Here’s what I figure,” Abbie said. “You need to catch up to modern culture. But you should catch up in stages. By degrees. Even Mark Twain was a little too far ahead for you, so let’s take it back a step. We’ll start you off with what’s closest to your time period, and move forward a few decades at a time until you’re back in the groove.”
So she starts Ichabod with a novel Corbin gave her long ago: Sense & Sensibility.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This is tagged as pre-het, but I didn't see this here.
At the core of the story is the relationship between the Mills sisters. I love their relationship here. They ring very true to me.

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White Collar / Once Upon a Time - I Never Stick Around

FANDOM: Once Upon a Time/White Collar
FIC LINK: I Never Stick Around
AUTHOR LINK:

ozqueen
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 1236
MAIN CHARACTERS: Sara Ellis, Emma Swan

FIC SUMMARY: Sara stops for coffee in a little diner on the way back to Manhattan and finds a kindred spirit in the local sheriff.

RECCER'S NOTES: Sara Ellis and Emma Swan are two of my favourite characters, so I had high hopes for this fic -- and they were well and truly met, and exceeded! <3 One of my favourite sorts of fic are short little ficlets that manage to slip in a whole lot of character exploration, and everything about this fic makes me so happy. Their interaction is absolutely believable, and I never realised until I read this how badly I want Emma and Sara to team up for some reason.

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Malory Towers: Count As Our Successes

FANDOM: Malory Towers
FIC LINK: Count As Our Successes
AUTHOR LINK:

astralis
RATING/WARNING(S): G / No warnings
WORD COUNT: 2869 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Darrell Rivers, Gwendoline Mary Lacey

FIC SUMMARY: In Cornwall on business, Darrell Rivers is less than thrilled to run into Gwendoline Mary - for more reasons than one.

RECCER'S NOTES: I love so many things about this fic. It feels real, both in the sense that it seems like a conversation these two women could actually have in later years, and in the sense that the author uses turns of phrase that pleasantly echo Blyton's style. (Like… can we have fanfic writers redo those terrible published sequels? Please?).

Anyway, it's fic like this that makes me so happy that Enid Blyton fanfic exists <3 Both girls have grown in maturity and wisdom since their school days, and their conversation feels so natural and right. There are a lot of little touches throughout that really makes it feel like part of the series and, gah, I just love it.

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VM: How to Harden Your Heart in Nineteen Days, by igrockspock.

FANDOM: Veronica Mars
FIC LINK: How to Harden Your Heart in Nineteen Days
AUTHOR LINK:

igrockspock |

igrockspock
RATING/WARNING(S): PG-13 | ( content )
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 5,600 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Veronica Mars; Keith Mars, Lianne Mars, Madison Sinclair, Logan Echolls

FIC SUMMARY:

How does a sweet, naive member of the pep squad transform into the toughest girl in school? It takes a murder, a rape, Logan Echolls, Madison Sinclair, and nineteen days.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This is a great character study of Veronica. I love seeing the transformation of her, and it seems very plausible.
The story hits the tone of the show, and Veronica's voice.

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With Love, Posy, by deepdarkwaters

FANDOM: Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild
FIC LINK: With Love, Posy
AUTHOR LINK: deepdarkwaters
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WORD COUNT: 5203, Complete.
MAIN CHARACTERS: Posy Fossil, Pauline Fossil, Petrova Fossil, Nana,Gum, Sylvia Brown, Manoff

FIC SUMMARY: Posy, studying ballet in Czechoslovakia in the1930s, writes to her family, and especially to her sisters, reflecting on her new life, cut adrift from almost everything and everyone she knows to follow her passionate drive to learn from and dance with the brilliant Manoff.

RECCER'S NOTES: Great evocation of Posy's view of her life and career - and of her sisters' lives and careers - as war descends on Europe. Terrific character studies and exploration of the dynamics of the many cross-cutting relationships.

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James Bond: Protégé, by girl_wonder

FANDOM: James Bond
FIC LINK: Protégé
AUTHOR LINK:

girl_wonder
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 2012
MAIN CHARACTERS: M, Moneypenny, Peggy Carter

FIC SUMMARY: M passes on what she's learned.

RECCER'S NOTES:

Amazing fic featuring three amazing women. I love the idea of M being trained under Peggy, and I love the way it's done - the determination, struggle, rawness.

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Babylon 5: Matters of Faith (The Ouroboros Bridge), by bessemerprocess.

FANDOM: Babylon 5
FIC LINK: Matters of Faith (The Ouroboros Bridge)
AUTHOR LINK:

bessemerprocess
RATING/WARNING(S): PG-13 | ( spoiler )
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 2,530 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Susan Ivanova, Delenn

FIC SUMMARY: The noble Ivanova was known as the Strong, for she was strong in heart and in mind, in body and in faith.

RECCER'S NOTES: This story is a remix of

Beatrice_Otter's Faith in Three Movements, which is a wonderful story too.

Matters of Faith (The Ouroboros Bridge) is a great character study of Susan Ivanova. She is fleshed out here, and when I read the story I could see the Ivanova I saw on the show, and how she grew.
It is also an interesting look at faith and religion, and how she saw it and how it shaped her life.

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DW/TSJA: Du Liebes Kind, Komm, Geh Mit Mir, by Lyricwritesprose.

FANDOM: The Sarah Jane Adventures/Doctor Who
FIC LINK: Du Liebes Kind, Komm, Geh Mit Mir
AUTHOR LINK: Lyricwritesprose /

lyricwrites
RATING/WARNING(S): PG/PG-13
WIP?/WORD COUNT: multi-chaptered | ~ 12,000 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Maria Jackson, Sarah Jane Smith, The Doctor (4th)

FIC SUMMARY: Some time after she moves to America, Maria Jackson gets wrapped up in mysterious temporal events and Sarah Jane's past.

RECCER'S NOTES: This is a great adventure story featuring Maria. I really love her here. Her view on Sarah Jane and the Doctor is very interesting. The story could have easily featured on the show.

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HP: A Time To Act, by mindabbles.

FANDOM: Harry Potter
FIC LINK: A Time To Act
AUTHOR LINK:

mindabbles
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 1,850 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Minerva McGonagall

FIC SUMMARY: Sometimes your power’s not in being able to prevent events, but in how you react. - Minerva McGonagall at Hogwarts during the school year Harry misses.

RECCER'S NOTES: This is a wonderful look at Minerva McGonagall, the characterization is spot-on. The mixture of bravery and pragmatism, how she has to carefully navigate difficult waters. Yet she doesn't give up.

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HP: We Are Tired of Your Discipline, by tosca1390.

FANDOM: Harry Potter
FIC LINK: We Are Tired of Your Discipline
AUTHOR LINK:

tosca1390
RATING/WARNING(S): PG-13
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 2,240 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Ginny Weasley

FIC SUMMARY: The feeling that she’d either kill or be killed at Hogwarts this year hadn’t left her all summer.

RECCER'S NOTES: Ginny during the seventh book. Wonderful character study. I love her strength, her stubbornnes and snarkyness and her vulnerability and her spine.

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Vorkosigan: Kindred Instruments, by Ollipop

FANDOM: Vorkosigan Saga (Lois McMaster Bujold)
FIC LINK: Kindred Instruments
AUTHOR LINK:

ollipop
RATING/WARNING(S): General audiences | No authorial warnings; Jackson Whole ethics
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 4500 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Lotus Durona, Lilly Durona, Vasa Luigi Bharaputra

FIC SUMMARY: They know just as much about Lotus as she knows about herself. They know her aptitudes, her weaknesses. They have tweaked the neurochemical bath on her copies, for maximum effect. They are her, improved. She is them, unedited. She hates them.

Lotus Durona: Nature or nurture?

RECCER'S NOTES: A chilling piece that unpacks Lotus's defection to House Bharaputra. Ollipop skillfully fleshes out the villain PoV to gain the reader's sympathies for Lotus, and the story also explores the complex ethics of Jackson's Whole in a much more nuanced fashion than canon. The canonical pairing of Lotus/Baron Bharaputra forms one strand, but it's not a shippy fic; coming of age as one of a set of clones in the ultimate dysfunctional family is at the heart of the story.

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Doctor Who: Looked Up in Perfect Silence at the Stars, by Doyle

FANDOM: Doctor Who
FIC LINK: Looked Up in Perfect Silence at the Stars
AUTHOR LINK:

doyle_sb4,

Doyle-sb4, Doyle@Teaspoon
RATING/WARNING(S): G | None
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | ~1900 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Sarah Jane Smith, Romana II

FIC SUMMARY: “If he’d left me on Earth,” Sarah said, “if he’d had time to take me home, like he’d meant to, before he got dragged back here... everything would have been different. My whole life.”

RECCER'S NOTES: Doyle's one of my favourite DW writers; I think this brief conversation piece is one of her best. It centres around the Time War, with a clever, disturbing look at the fallout that will send you back to the start as soon as you've finished the final paragraphs. The characters, all women, leap off the page, and their humour, bravery & pragmatism lighten what might otherwise be a very dark piece. Set on Gallifrey, it's also imbued with a lovely wistful sense of place.

I'm tagging this for author rec as I've never encountered a story of Doyle's that wasn't worth reading, and many of her works are gen. She also writes in the Buffyverse.

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Spirited Away: Tales of the Bathhouse, by Littlerhymes

FANDOM: Spirited Away
FIC LINK: Tales of the Bathhouse
AUTHOR LINK:

Littlerhymes
RATING/WARNING(S): General | None
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 4000 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Lin, Kamaji, Yubaba, OCs

FIC SUMMARY: Three stories of the bathhouse and its inhabitants.

RECCER'S NOTES: Spirited Away is an anime film by Hayao Miyazaki which inspires some wonderful fanfiction, but nearly all of it homes in on the major ship. This charming story instead focuses on minor & original characters and uses a set of tales within a tale to give a fuller picture of life in the bathhouse as well as the backstory of some of its inhabitants. As it's set after the film, there's a hint of Haku's future, too.

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HP: Cho Chang & the Jasmine Code, by xenokattz.

FANDOM: Harry Potter
FIC LINK: Cho Chang & the Jasmine Code
AUTHOR LINK:

xenokattz
RATING/WARNING(S): PG-13 (for strong language & violence)
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 5,400 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Cho Chang

FIC SUMMARY: (Set between Half-Blood Prince & Deathly Hallows) Before returning to help her former schoolmates in the Battle of Hogwarts, Cho Chang fought against Voldemort & his follows in a more covert manner.

RECCER'S NOTES: Cho doesn't get much love in the books or in fandom, so it's always a great treat to find a Cho-centric story. Especially when it's so interesting and well-written as this one is.

I love the glimpse we're allowed into her life during the seventh book. She's fully fledged out here, and I'd just love to meet this Cho.

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DS: Words on Paper Spill Into the Air, by HSavinien.

FANDOM: due South
FIC LINK: Words on Paper Spill Into the Air
AUTHOR LINK:

HSavinien
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WORD COUNT: ~ 2,800 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Francesca Vecchio, Maggie MacKenzie

FIC SUMMARY: Frannie's taking a vacation. In Canada. Hey, nobody ever said she wasn't a little bit adventurous.

RECCER'S NOTES: I really love Frannie and Maggie being friends. They work really well together.

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SG-1: Begin at the Beginning, by rachel500.

FANDOM: Stargate SG-1
FIC LINK: Begin at the Beginning
AUTHOR LINK:

Rachel500
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: ~ 4,400 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Catherine Langford, Sha're (SG-1), Sam Carter, Janet Fraiser, Cassandra Fraiser, Elizabeth Weir, Carolyn Lam, Vala Mal Doran

FIC SUMMARY: How it all began for the ladies of SG1...written for the WOTG January Challenge.

RECCER'S NOTES: These are wonderful character snippets. I love how clearly I can recognize each character. I love seeing where they came from.

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Southland: No Disney Story, By Shell.

FANDOM: Southland
FIC LINK: No Disney Story
AUTHOR LINK:

shell
RATING/WARNING(S): PG
WIP?/WORD COUNT: ~ 3,400 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Lydia Adams, Mrs. Miller

FIC SUMMARY: Lydia and Mrs. Miller.

RECCER'S NOTES: Oh, I love Lydia. Wonderful character piece, it really captures her spirit.

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Iron Man-Movies: Chloe Liked Olivia, by marinarusalka.

FANDOM: Iron Man - movierverse
FIC LINK: Chloe Liked Olivia
AUTHOR LINK:

marinarusalka
RATING/WARNING(S): PG
WIP?/WORD COUNT: ~ 6,400 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Pepper Potts, Christine Everhart

FIC SUMMARY: One is the personal assistant to a billionaire-playboy-turned-superhero. The other is an ambitious journalist with a political conscience. Together, they fight crime!

RECCER'S NOTES: This was such a great idea to let the characters meet again like they did here. Love how Pepper and Christine become friends, and how they bond over something other than men or their jobs.

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the baby-sitters club/white collar: bullseye, by isquinnabel

FANDOM: The Baby-sitters Club, White Collar
FIC LINK: Bullseye
AUTHOR LINK:

isquinnabel
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 2004
MAIN CHARACTERS: Kristy Thomas, Jessi Ramsey, Elizabeth Burke

FIC SUMMARY: If you ask Jessi, Kristy may have a lot of strengths but relinquishing control is not one of them -- especially when event planners get involved.

RECCER'S NOTES:

Disclaimer: This rec comes with heavy bias, because it was written for me! And I love it. For those of you looking at the fandoms, I will lean towards the belief that you're better off being familiar with The Baby-Sitters Club characters, as you'll definitely get more out of it if you know what sort of a person Kristy Thomas is. BUT, even if you're not familiar with these characters, this is still a fun read, and it has three of my favourite female characters being flawless.