gensplosion | Entries tagged with found family

FANDOM: Doctor Who
FIC LINK: One of These Mornings
AUTHOR LINK:

cesario
RATING/WARNING(S): PG
WIP?/WORD COUNT: complete | 2200
MAIN CHARACTERS: Donna Noble, Martha Jones, Tenth Doctor

FIC SUMMARY: Donna comes back to herself.

RECCER'S NOTES:

Ahhh, I love doctor!Donna fics! And this one is done so well. I love the descriptions of what is going on in Donna's head, and all the awe and panic displayed by literally everyone. Sweet and fun.

ozqueen

FANDOM: The Avengers
FIC LINK: Imprint
AUTHOR LINK:

hetrez
RATING/WARNING(S): G | none
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 7619
MAIN CHARACTERS: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Nick Fuy, original characters

FIC SUMMARY:

"The next day, Steve and the other Avengers are just settling into a meeting on the flight deck when there's a muffled yell, and Alvarez falls out of the ceiling."

--

Or, Steve builds a training program, a team, and new life for himself.

RECCER'S NOTES:

I had to double check to make sure I hadn't rec'd this one here before! This is one of my favourite team/found family fics. It focuses on Steve training SHIELD recruits, teaching them skills and how to be part of a team, and it makes him focus on himself and his own team too. It's got just the right amount of sad/feels, and it's funny and sweet. All of the character voices are perfect.

ozqueen

FANDOM: Frozen, Tangled
FIC LINK: Elsa of Corona
AUTHOR LINK:

chrysalisdreams
RATING/WARNING(S): Author chose not to use warnings, G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: work in progress | 90,000+ words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Elsa, Rapunzel, Eugene Fitzherbert/Flynn Rider, King of Corona, Queen of Corona, Mother Gothel

FIC SUMMARY:

Instead of being sequestered in her room, Elsa is sent by her parents to her Uncle and Aunt, the King and Queen of Corona. King Thomas and Queen Primrose are thunderstruck at the idea of caring for the girl, since their own daughter, Rapunzel, was kidnapped as a baby and is still missing.

Elsa and Anna write letters to each other while Elsa grows up in Corona and Anna grows up in a castle full of people and life. Away from the anxiety exacerbated by her parents, Elsa has more control of her secret ice powers.

Elsa's fate to become the Snow Queen, however, is not so easily escaped.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This fic isn't finished yet, but we're almost there. The first few chapters have some minor spelling/grammar issues but if you're able to get past that the story is FANTASTIC. The characters are all fully fleshed out and the plot is intense and engaging. I love the relationships woven together in this one, and the found family feels hit all my buttons. As we near the end of the fic there are some references to Rapunzel/Eugene, but the story at heart is about Elsa, sent to live with her aunt and uncle in Corona and doing her best to be a good, dependable person and member of the royal family.

The author has chosen not to use warnings. Just very briefly trying to think back, if you want to be sure before going in, I'd say it could be triggering for depression/anxiety, and there is canon-typical violence.

ozqueen

FANDOM: Marvel/The Avengers
FIC LINK: Steve Rogers Vs. The All-American Feast
AUTHOR LINK:

copperbadge
RATING/WARNING(S): G, with author warning as follows: This story involves several eating competitions and contains some potentially dysfunctional attitudes towards food; people with food-related triggers or issues may wish to skip this one. There is also fairly frequent discussion of puke (no actual puking) so emetophobics should beware.
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 4496
MAIN CHARACTERS: Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanov, Thor

FIC SUMMARY: Steve can't resist a challenge, even when the challenge is a five pound pulled-pork sandwich.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This fic is hilarious and full of team friendship. The Avengers decide to involve Steve in a heap of burger challenges, and sometimes get involved themselves. One of my favourite parts is the description of each t-shirt he wins whenever he's successful.
A really fun, feel good fic, and one that doesn't necessarily require much canon knowledge to enjoy.

thady

FANDOM: Stargate: Atlantis
FIC LINK: Practicing Medicine
AUTHOR LINK:

kristen999
RATING/WARNING(S): PG
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 6,000 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Jennifer Keller; team, cameos of supporting characters

FIC SUMMARY: Jennifer learns that accepting and upholding an oath, requires living it.

RECCER'S NOTES:

I love this story. This is a wonderful character study of Jennifer Keller, interspesed with humour and action scenes. The story manages to balance the action with the quiet scenes, and I love her relationships with the other characters.

akamine_chan

FANDOM: Bandom (MCR)
FIC LINK: Séance Weather
AUTHOR LINK:

dear_monday
RATING/WARNING(S): General Audiences / No content notes
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete at 20,286
MAIN CHARACTERS: Frank Iero, Donna Way, Gerard Way, Mikey Way

FIC SUMMARY: It all begins with the worst storm in fifty years. Or, in other words, how Frank meets the Ways and learns to embrace the dark side. An Addams Family AU.

RECCER'S NOTES:

dear_monday has done an amazing job with this Addams family fusion. Mikey and Gerard are two brothers who live in a haunted house on a hill, and Frank's a kid who likes scary things. Together, they find friendship and adventures together.

This story is perfect in tone, the Way family is so atmospheric and creepy (cobwebs! pet octopi! creepy door knockers!) and Frank just loves it. It's the first time he's fit in anywhere. These kids are so charming and sweet and I heart-eyed my way through this story.

heliopausa

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.

masu_trout

FANDOM: Ace Attorney
FIC LINK: Slow Dance
AUTHOR LINK: pantswarrior
RATING/WARNING(S): None
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete, 18,000 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Apolo Justice, Vera Misham, Trucy Wright, Phoenix Wright, Klavier Gavin

FIC SUMMARY: After Vera's trial comes an even more difficult struggle: trying to figure out what a normal life is and how to live it.

RECCER'S NOTES: This is a sweet, charming, found family about Vera Misham's attempts to learn normal life after her father's death. Her attempts to reach out to others and slowly build her confidence and the size of her world are sometimes sad but always heartwarming, and you just can't help but root for her.

FANDOM: Baccano!/Highlander
FIC LINK: Music for a Solitary Dancer
AUTHOR LINK: icarus_chained
RATING/WARNING(S): M, Violence
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete, 500 Words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Claire Stanfield

FIC SUMMARY: A Highlander-style immortal tries to challenge Claire Stanfield in a train yard, under the mistaken impression that he's another immortal. This goes about as well for said immortal as it has for any other immortal. Or, indeed, anyone else at all.
WARNINGS: Those who know Baccano!, Claire Stanfield. Everyone else, violence.

RECCER'S NOTES: A short but fantastically-written fic, and an excellent look into Claire's psyche.

slr2moons

FANDOM: Baccano!
FIC LINK: Aquisition, Recognition, Affirmation
AUTHOR LINK:

Rhea
RATING/WARNING(S): PG
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot at 5,357 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Luck Gandor, Claire Stanfield

FIC SUMMARY: When Luck buys a bar, he isn't expecting all the repercussions.

RECCER'S NOTES: A wondeful sense of family and friends permeates this fic, and Luck's discovery and slow realization is well-done and leaves us with a sense of hope. It's good to see how Claire and Chane's relationship might work out! And I particularly adore Miria and Isaac's cameo. :3 Post-canon character drama.

espresso_addict

FANDOM: Earthsea (Ursula Le Guin)
FIC LINK: Mother Tongue
AUTHOR LINK:

elle_dritch
RATING/WARNING(S): General | None
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 6,700 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Apple, Tenar, Ged, Spark

FIC SUMMARY: The women of Earthsea: falling, flying, stealing, speaking. Post-Tehanu.

RECCER'S NOTES: Earthsea is a series of fantasy novels by Ursula Le Guin, which introduced the wizarding boarding school a good three decades before Ms Rowling, and made the main characters dark-skinned long before it was fashionable. It's one of the fandoms of my heart, and if you're interested, you can read my fandom summary & find many more recs at the late lamented

crack_van.

Le Guin revisited the rather masculine world of her original trilogy in Tehanu, a novel about the heroine, Tenar, after (most of) the adventure's over, and how to find the magic in everyday life. A lot of more recent fanfiction is set around this novel and embraces its female-centric vision of Earthsea. 'Mother Tongue' is a good example, a quiet coda that reads like the novel's missing final chapter. It focuses on Tenar's adult daughter Apple, a very minor character in the original, and brings her to life as she tries to understand her mother's unusual choices. Apple makes a wonderful outside PoV on the main characters, and elle_dritch gives her interesting thoughts on chosen vs birth families and the nature of manhood.

100demons

FANDOM: Harry Potter
FIC LINK: Down to Earth
AUTHOR LINK:

roberval
RATING/WARNING(S): Teen and Up
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 1878
MAIN CHARACTERS: Joey Jenkins

FIC SUMMARY: When Joey Jenkins was picked for the 1994 English national Quidditch team, he felt like his heart was taking flight.

RECCER'S NOTES: This is the kind of thing fanfiction was made for. To fill in and enrich what already exists in canon and to discover even greater depths in even the smallest things. All we know about the Chudley Cannons from the books is that they are orange, terrible, Ron's favorite team, and on the cover of his book is pictured beater Joey Jenkins. But Roberval takes those tiny details and gives us a team that breaks your heart with its heartfelt warmth.

Best enjoyed with a warm glass of honeyed milk.

thady

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.

ozqueen

FANDOM: Doctor Who, Firefly
FIC LINK: The Man With No Name (ffn) | The Man With No Name (whofic.com)
AUTHOR LINK:

frostfyre7 | frostfyre
RATING/WARNING(S): Teen | Canon level violence, spoilers for both canons up to and including Serenity and The Runaway Bride.
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 106,000 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Tenth Doctor, Malcolm Reynolds, River Tam, Kaylee Frye, Jayne Cobb, Zoe Washburne, Simon Tam, Inara Serra

FIC SUMMARY: He hadn't really counted on getting into a pub brawl over the color of his coat on some speck of a planet, or signing up with a crew of petty criminals. Still, he'd always wondered what really happened to those Lost Colonists from Earth...

RECCER'S NOTES:

I will admit it took me some time to agree with the Doctor's voice in this one, but the further I read, the more right it became, and the more I realised just how very broken he is in canon at this point. He is also Rude and Not Ginger.

The Serenity crew are also broken after the events of The Big Damn Movie, and together they and the Doctor begin to rebuild themselves, putting together the pieces of their existence, fighting common enemies and forging wonderful bonds.

This is a great, lengthy fic that hits my 'found family' buttons in all the right ways. I especially love the way Mal reacts to the Doctor, and the slow, steady build of trust and respect between them (after a bit of a rocky start).

ozqueen

FANDOM: Community
FIC LINK: Course History
AUTHOR LINK:

iamtheenemy
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 4081
MAIN CHARACTERS: Annie Edison, Troy Barnes, Abed Adir

FIC SUMMARY: “Damn it!” Troy shouted. He pushed out of his chair and slammed the mouse down on the desk, attracting the attention of the rest of the class. “I don’t even know what ‘dysentery’ is!”
Some of the classes that Annie, Abed and Troy have taken together at Greendale over the years.

RECCER'S NOTES:

Amazing fic that really captures the feeling and tone of the show, and the friendship between Annie, Abed and Troy is fantastic. The classes crack me up too, as do some of the original characters teaching them.

( Miss Fisher: Staying Afloat in the Tunnel of Love, by st_aurafina )

(Also I know for a fact some of you are hoarding recs for your own gensploder of the month sprees, but don't forget anyone can rec at any time. I'm sorry it's just me choking the the comm at the moment hehe - I'll try to rec something a bit different each time!)

sixbeforelunch

FANDOM: Burn Notice
FIC LINK: Lessons
AUTHOR LINK:

ollipop
RATING/WARNING(S): General Audiences. Possible trigger warnings for allusions to domestic violence.
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 1,193 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Madeline Westen. Fiona Glenanne.

FIC SUMMARY: "You clean the weapon, I’ll fix us some tea."

RECCER'S NOTES: I fell down the Burn Notice rabbit hole last week. Fanworks are thin on the ground, but tonight I was craving Madeline & Fiona and came across this little gem. Madeline is probably my favorite thing about Burn Notice (aside from Jeffrey Donovan's forearms, but this is a gen community, so we won't go there). Women over a certain age don't show up much on television, certainly not in the form of opinionated, complex characters. This is a short story, more character study than anything else. It highlights her relationship with Fiona, and touches on the contradictions and regrets that Madeline has to live with. If you're familiar with the source, it's worth taking a minute to read this one.

sixbeforelunch

FANDOM: Disney Princesses
FIC LINK: Four Things that Weren't Adequately Covered in Mulan's R.A. Training
AUTHOR LINK:

NaomiK
RATING/WARNING(S): General audiences, possible trigger warning for stalking, kidnapping, and really bad parenting.
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 4,541 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Fa Mulan, Aurora, Snow White, Ariel, Tiana, Rapunzel, Belle, Merida, Cinderella, Jasmine

FIC SUMMARY: Mulan is a Resident Assistant on a dormitory floor at a college. Gosh, some of the students on her floor come from really screwed-up families.

RECCER'S NOTES: I had to double check the tags on this community to make sure that I hadn't rec'ed this before, because I intended to the moment I read it, and I was almost positive I had. Oh well, that means I get to do it now.

So, first off, please don't be put off by the fandom. If Disney Princesses aren't your thing, there is still a very good chance that you'll like this. I very much suggest giving it a shot, even if Disney gives you hives. Because these? These are not the princesses you're expecting. These princesses attend an all-girls liberal arts college with Mulan as their R.A. They're smart and funny and highly pragmatic, and not a single one of them has a woodland creature entourage.

Instead, Mulan is attending college after a stint in the army, Belle is dealing with her stalker by educating herself about rape culture, and the young women from truly messed up homes are creating a found family in each other.

It's a fantastic deconstruction of the Disney movies, but not a cruel one. It's just great satire, and also flat-out funny while being terribly sweet as well.

ozqueen

FANDOM: Doctor Who | Community
FIC LINK: Tea Time and Time Lords: A Primer
AUTHOR LINK:

blithers
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 4789
MAIN CHARACTERS: Tenth Doctor, Jeff Winger, Annie Edison, Shirley Bennett, Pierce Hawthorne, Abed Nadir, Troy Barnes, Britta Perry

FIC SUMMARY: The study group travels through space and time.

RECCER'S NOTES: LOL I'M NOT EVEN SORRY ABOUT REC'ING ANOTHER DOCTOR WHO CROSSOVER, YOU GUYS. This is amazing! There are so, so many little Community jokes hidden in it - paintball! Troy and Abed in the morning! And the magic of the Doctor's life (and the sadness of it) is beautifully touched upon too. Everyone is wonderfully in character, and it's the sort of fic you absolutely hope for when both fandoms and the word "crossover" are mentioned. Go and read it!

sixbeforelunch

FANDOM: Marvel Cinematic Universe
FIC LINK: Four Life-Affirming Meals and Assorted Inevitable Disasters
AUTHOR LINK:

nwhepcat
RATING/WARNING(S): rated "T", presumably for language
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 6,810 words, complete
MAIN CHARACTERS: Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Thor, Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers
JARVIS

FIC SUMMARY: Tony has opinions about the non-life-affirming qualities of packaged ramen on any but the grad-school population. Bruce really wishes he would piss off with his opinions, but finds himself struck with the urge to cook.

RECCER'S NOTES: This story has been the treat of my day. It's a brilliant little character study in which Bruce learns to cook and takes care of his teammates at the same time. There's not too much in the way of plot, but the character moments are sublime. It has my favorite type of Bruce characterization: tough, sarcastic, and prickly, with a tread of sadness running through him (BBY! *sniff*) but with underlying gentleness and a heart of gold.

chordatesrock

FANDOM: Marvel Cinematic Universe
FIC LINK: Love Is For Children (link goes to the AO3 series main page; see also the Dreamwidth version, because the comment discussions there have turned interesting lately)
AUTHOR LINK:

ysabetwordsmith
RATING/WARNING(S): There are warnings and other content notes in the tags on AO3 and the headers on DW. The entire series is rated G but contains occasional possibly-disturbing material of a nonsexual nature that doesn't usually have to do with violence or other standard warnings.
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Nine completed works, one WiP (apparently completed and being updated three times per week). The completed works together total over 156,000 words.
MAIN CHARACTERS: Phil Coulson, Tony Stark, Clint Barton, Natasha Romanova, Bruce Banner, and Steve Rogers at first. Later on, Betty Ross, Hulk and Bucky Barnes.

FIC SUMMARY: The Avengers pretend to be kids and play kiddie games as a way to learn to trust each other and work through their super-sized (pun intended) baggage. Later on, they also take care of each other in other ways. It's very much a series about fixing things.

RECCER'S NOTES: The characters cry a bit more than I find plausible, but no, no one's utterly woobified. Certainly they're more IC than the premise would seem to suggest, and no, no one lisps. At most, there's the very occasional "'kay" instead of "okay". The strengths of this series are in showcasing care, how needs are met, and how to deal with problems constructively. The series's main theme is probably psychological healing. It probably sounds like it's not your thing. Try it anyway. Read the first fic, Love Is For Children, and see if the rest of the series appeals to you. My personal favorite is Splash. Birthday Girl is the one where Natasha Romanova has a birthday party, and there's so much buildup that it's actually plausible. Also, Fury is a dick in this fic. Note that Guys and Dolls does contain minimal mostly-implied romance (nothing that actually happens on-screen couldn't be platonic, though). Heads-up that Hide and Seek is very YMMV in terms of quality, and Eggshells might hit some squicks even if you like the rest of the series.

ozqueen

FANDOM: Captain America/The Avengers
FIC LINK: Selective Service
AUTHOR LINK:

Kroki_Refur
RATING/WARNING(S): No rating provided, I'd call it G/PG
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 10,935
MAIN CHARACTERS: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Thor, Natasha Romanova, Clint Barton

FIC SUMMARY: The serum's given Steve a lot, but it hasn't taken anything away from him. Not even the things he never wanted in the first place.

RECCER'S NOTES:

I can't explain why, but for some reason, the idea of Steve not being 100% cured of all his ailments after the serum is one I really like. This fic is fantastic - some lovely hurt/comfort, great humour, and fantastic team dynamics. Steve's voice is wonderful, and Tony is definitely a star here too.

When Steve comes round, the first thing he realises is that he isn't dead. The second is that the bone-deep cold he'd felt before is now just a slight chill in his extremities, and his breath is moving easily in and out of his lungs, although his throat feels a little sore. For a second, he's reminded of waking up in a fake recovery room in New York, the same disorientation, the same sense memory of having recently been so cold.

Then he opens his eyes to find Stark glaring at him from way too close.

“You know that was a dick move, right?” says Stark. “Do you know how many extra bodyguards I would've had to hire before telling Fury I killed Captain America? I'm not talking for, like, a day, either. That guy plays the long game.”

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Entries tagged with found family

doctor who: one of these mornings, by cesario

the avengers: imprint, by hetrez

frozen/tangled: elsa of corona, by chrysalisdreams

marvel/the avengers: steve rogers vs the all-american feast, by copperbadge

SGA: Practicing Medicine, by kristen999.

Bandom (MCR) : Séance Weather by dear_monday

With Love, Posy, by deepdarkwaters

Baccano!/Highlander fic by icarus_chained & Ace Attorney fic by pantswarrior

Baccano!: Aquisition, Recognition, Affirmation; by Rhea

Earthsea: Mother Tongue, by elle_dritch

Harry Potter: Down to Earth, by roberval

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

firefly/doctor who: the man with no name, by frostfyre7

two recs: community & miss fisher's murder mysteries

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disney princesses: Four Things that Weren't Adequately Covered in Mulan's R.A. Training by NaomiK

doctor who/community: tea time and time lords: a primer, by blithers

marvel cinematic universe: Four Life-Affirming Meals and Assorted Inevitable Disasters by nwhepcat

Marvel Movieverse: Love Is For Children

Captain America/Avengers/Marvel: Selective Service, by Kroki_Refur

The Espresso Addict