gensplosion | Entries tagged with mothers and daughters

FANDOM: The Americans (TV)
FIC LINK: One day in the life
AUTHOR LINK:

gorseflower
RATING/WARNING(S): Not Rated/Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
WIP?/WORD COUNT: No/2630
MAIN CHARACTERS: Elizabeth Jennings, Elizabeth's Mother

FIC SUMMARY: Nadya's mother is sick, her classmates lack revolutionary commitment and the Communist future is still far from being built. But she struggles on.

RECCER'S NOTES: A glimpse at Elizabeth's life before she was a spy back in Russia, and how crapsack her life could have been at that time with an ailing mother, an awful neighbor, and no time to spend time as a child. (Although the fic is a pre-season fic, there is information revealed from the latest season of the show.)

thady

FANDOM: The Secret Garden
FIC LINK: A Garden in the Punjab.
AUTHOR LINK:

Rosie_Rues
RATING/WARNING(S): PG-13
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 8,300 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Mary Lennox, OFC, Ayah

FIC SUMMARY: There is another garden, in India. These are the women of that garden, over two generations, Mary's mother and ayah, and both their two daughters. In the end, I'm afraid, this is only where the story begins, but I hope it opens up the original story and takes us out into the world beyond the secret gardens.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This is such a lovely story. I love how this unfolds, the strands of the story parting and coming back together. I love the original characters here, and the background characters. They really come to life here.

thady

FANDOM: Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika | Puella Magi Madoka Magica
FIC LINK: the edges of Eternity
AUTHOR LINK:

SaRart
RATING/WARNING(S): R
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 3,200 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Homura Akemi

FIC SUMMARY: Immortality, she had long since realized, was not so glorious a thing; Insanity, she knew, was not so elusive a creature as she had once thought. And the two of them were her signposts, her sole company, the sharpened edges of the narrow path - until Eternity. Oneshot. Pre- and post-series.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This is a harrowing look at Homura during her time-travels. I love how she grows and changes. I really love her characterization here.

ozqueen

FANDOM: Harry Potter
FIC LINK: A Time to Fall
AUTHOR LINK:

elanne
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: complete | 1529
MAIN CHARACTERS: The Weasleys

FIC SUMMARY: Molly lost two boys in the first war. She doesn't think she can bear to lose another.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This is heartbreakingly beautiful. It's a short read but it packs a real punch, as Molly counts through her children and the weight of the war upon them all. I love the way each of the Weasley children are described. ♥

ozqueen

FANDOM: The Incredibles
FIC LINK: The Greater Good
AUTHOR LINK:

dudski
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: complete | 2425
MAIN CHARACTERS: Helen "Elastigirl" Parr, Bob "Mr. Incredible" Parr, Dash Parr, Violet Parr

FIC SUMMARY: God must have one hell of a sense of humor, her mother says, to give the gift of elasticity to someone so stubborn.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This is completely beautiful and heart-wrenching in all the right ways. It's such a great exploration of the rules and boundaries of the Superhero World; what having to hide their powers was like. I love fics that build up beautiful details of a fictional world in such a subtle and clever way.

espresso_addict

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.

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.

isabelquinn

FANDOM: Gilmore Girls
FIC LINK: A Study of Motherhood in Black and Grey
AUTHOR LINK:

furies
RATING/WARNING(S): G / No warnings apply
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete / 2069 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Emily Gilmore

FIC SUMMARY: Her daughter would be able to do this.

RECCER'S NOTES: So now that Autumn is finally underway, I've broken out my Gilmore Girls dvds (it just feels like such an autumnal show, idk) and I'm in the mood for some Gilmore Girls fic. And so, I found this one <3 As time goes by, one of the things I notice and love more and more in this show is just how damn much Emily really loves Lorelai. It's sort of heartbreaking how lost in translation that love gets, and this Emily-centric character study does an amazing job of exploring and capturing that.

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Entries tagged with mothers and daughters

One day in the life by gorseflower

Secret Garden: A Garden in the Punjab, by rosemaryandrue (Rosie_Rues).

Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika: the edges of Eternity, by SaRart.

harry potter: a time to fall, by elanne

the incredibles: the greatest good, by dudski

Vorkosigan: Kindred Instruments, by Ollipop

Earthsea: Mother Tongue, by elle_dritch

Gilmore Girls: A Study of Motherhood in Black and Grey

The Espresso Addict