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Fandom: Star Trek AOS
Pairings/Characters: Kirk/Spock
Rating: Teen +
Length: 11,213
Creator Links: BC_Brynn at AO3
Theme: Angst with a happy ending.

Summary: My name is S’chn T’gai Spock, and I am six years old. At the age of twenty-nine, I have been involved in an accident that has reduced my physical age and erased my memories accordingly.

Reccer's Notes: Usually, in stories about aging, one partner/beloved grows old, but in this one, Spock finds himself a child again. Despite losing many memories, he knows and remembers Jim, and he is absolutely determined to get back to him. But he has to grow up first. There are a lot of challenges along the way.

What I admire about this story is that both the author and the narrator (Spock) have such singular focus and total commitment to the project. One of the issues the story takes on--and what sets it apart, IMO--is the way that a slightly different upbringing and life path create a different person. It also addresses the sacrifices one must make to achieve a goal. It's absolutely heartbreaking. But, as this theme specifies, there is a happy ending. Also, of course, it's got big meant-to-be energy!

Fanwork Links: A Guiding Star

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Teen
Length: 617
Content Notes: no AO3-type warnings apply
Creator Links: Auburn on AO3, Auburn's old eternalvox website on Wayback
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Established relationship

Summary: John might walk into the water and disappear like a changeling from some bastard fairy tale; everything rich and strange he’d given Rodney fading like magic without him, lost.

Reccer's Notes: Angst with a happy ending can be compact as well. We start the story with hints of John having been through something traumatic, but we never know what (and given Pegasus, take your pick). Or maybe they've lost Atlantis. It's from Rodney's point of view, his angst, and I love the unknowns here, the lyricism and pain, finally resolved in a storm's wild beauty.

Fanwork Links: Not Near the Sea

runpunkrun posting in

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Poll #33132 round 175 theme poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 88

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Female Relationships
45 (51.1%)

Just Like Canon
15 (17.0%)

Sunshine & Grumpy
28 (31.8%)

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If you've been looking for a series that combines old magic and modern day situations, if you've been looking for nuanced characters that have depth and the worst kind of luck, if you've been craving for a love triangle to get resolved the right way (with polyamory) then I have the perfect series for you.

The Bastard Son and The Devil Himself is a very short series, only 8 episodes, that will make you despise Netflix execs while making you sit down and take matters into your own hands. While this is based of a book series, I 100% recommend keeping the two separate as the show has a very different vibe from the books.

This series follows Nathan Byrne, the son of a notorious witch responsible for a deadly massacre, as he tries to find his place in the world and find out what his powers are. As the conflict between the Blood Witches and the Fairborn Witches escalates, Nathan finds himself the target of a modern-day witch hunt. He begins a life-or-death quest, building alliances with fellow witches Annalise and Gabriel, while learning about himself along the way. More below the cut.

A gif from The Bastard Son and The Devil Himself episode 4. From left to right: Nathan, Gabriel and Annalise.

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mific posting in

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG1
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Elizabeth Weir, Radek Zelenka, Carson Beckett, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, San Carter, Teal'c, Caroline Lam, Hank Landry
Rating: Teen
Length: 20,335
Content Notes: Disability due to aging, anger, grief and loss.
Creator Links: respoftw on AO3
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Established relationship, Hurt/comfort, AU: canon divergence

Summary: A canon divergent AU after 'Common Ground'
“We just don’t have the resources or the facilities to care for him here. I wish that circumstances were different, you have no idea how much I wish that, but the fact remains. My medical recommendation is for us to send him back to Earth.”

Rodney refuses to leave John behind.

Reccer's Notes: In this story, John isn't given back his years after they were taken from him in Common Ground by Todd the Wraith, so he's very old and frail. Elizabeth and the Atlantis expedition are shocked when, after they decide to send John back to Earth for care and treatment (and to die), Rodney resigns and goes with him. However, the first obstacle to that is of course John, who half kills himself angrily rejecting Rodney and telling him he doesn't want him to come. The story is about the struggle they both face with John so frail, scared and ashamed, and Rodney, trying to cope while grieving and exhausted - and not too physically well himself. SG1 rally around to help, as do Teyla and Ronon back in Pegasus, and, well, this is the angst with a happy ending tag, after all. An at-times gruelling, but sometimes funny and overall heartwarming read, with great characterisation.

Fanwork Links: Grow Old Without You

embraceyourinnerdork posting in

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You ever think the Olympics could use some giant robots? Well, this beauty from 1994 has that plus beautiful athletes in latex, wuxia magic, and all the hot-blooded emotional moments you could ask for! Welcome to G Gundam, the first alternate universe in the Gundam franchise.

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maevedarcy posting in

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Have you been looking for a series that combines modern sci-fi with mystic experiences and happens to have some of the best LGBTQ rep of the last decade?

Do you usually find yourself drawn to tropes where characters share emotions and physical sensations because they're bonded in some way?

Do you love great cinematography and practical effects and the craft of storytelling?

Boy do I have the perfect series for you! Sense8 is a series created by The Wachowski sisters and J. Michael Straczynski for Netflix where eight strangers around the globe find themselves connected -- first by a violent vision, then by their shared ability to connect with one another's thoughts and actions, and finally by the urgent need to find out what happened and why. Here's why you should totally give it a try.

Warning for mentions of suicide that happen to be central to the plot. I'm also really sorry for the amount of babbling you will see from now on.

A gif from "Amor Vincit Omnia" with the cluster in the convertible, sharing the experience of music.

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Our fourteenth round at

smallfandombang has come to an end! I’d like to thank everyone who participated this year and helped make this round a huge success. Whether you were an author or an artist, a beta or a cheerleader, or a someone who left a comment, your participation is appreciated.

In particular I’d like to thank the several artists who stepped up and took on the task of creating artwork for more than one story, and especially those artists who took chances on fandoms they weren’t familiar with. You have my heartfelt thanks.

For those keeping track, we had 25 stories and/or art created in 25 different fandoms this round! Beneath the cut you’ll find links to all the stories and accompanying artwork. If you haven’t already checked them out, enjoy! *g*

( Master List: )

We’ll be holding our fifteenth round in the fall, so please continue to watch the community or check back for more information. Thanks again!

In other news, our sister community

smallfandomfest has opened its thirty-seventh round with a call for prompt submissions! If you want to write more in your favorite small fandoms (but maybe not 10,000+ words *g*), check it out!

theladyram posting in

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Title:Pink Pony Club
Author: theladyram
Artist: pattrose
Fandom: The Closer
Characters/Pairings: Brenda Leigh Johnson/Sharon Raydor
Rating/Category: NC17
Genre: Romance
Word Count: 133k
Warnings:
Summary: 25 years before the events of “Red Tape”, Brenda Leigh Johnson and Sharon Raydor met under very different circumstances: Brenda an adventurous young musician from Georgia looking for love and acceptance in the City of Angels, and Sharon, a young cop and mother that dreams of making a difference in the world and living life on her own terms. What ensued was a whirlwind romance turned heartbreak, and a wound that would take 25 years to heal

Link to fic master post: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65351275/chapters/168154225
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Pimp: The Bastard Son and The Devil Himself by maevedarcy

SGA/SG1: Grow Old Without You by respoftw

Pimp: G Gundam by embraceyourinnerdork

Pimp: Sense8 by maevedarcy

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