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5 fic recs in a real grab-bag of fandoms here: ( Discworld, The Princess Bride, The Last Unicorn, Takin' Over the Asylum, Harry Potter )

Half-Blood Heir by polkadotsingray
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing/Characters: Severus/Sirius, Salazar Slytherin
Rating: Teen
Words: 6119

Author's summary: Severus ends up being swallowed up by Hogwarts in the process of escaping Sirius Black and discovers within the depths of the castle something hard to believe.
Author's notes: I finished reading Lily's Boy and my life was consumed by the genius idea of having the Salazar Slytherin painting in the Chamber of Secrets and that Hogwarts would choose its heirs. The rest is just my mind conjuring ways to make Sirius and Severus co-dependent on each other.
Author's warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Not Canon Compliant, Young Severus Snape, Young Sirius Black, Good Slytherins, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Good Salazar Slytherin, Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets, Good Severus Snape, severus and sirius are not dating or anything but they are really co depedent, like they think they hate each other but can only care that much about each other, Teenage Drama, Angst, Pureblood Culture (Harry Potter), Pureblood Politics (Harry Potter), Not Beta Read, The Author Regrets Nothing, no bullying, they bicker a lot but sirius doesnt bully sev like canon

My comment: "I like the pacing of the narrative. It's hard to skim: I have to actually read all the words. That probably sounds weird to put it that way, lol. But what I mean is each sentence builds on the previous and unfolds something. If I skip ahead then I've missed something. I have to let myself be led by your prose."

Quote:
Usually Severus wouldn't hesitate at the chance to take all his frustrations out on Sirius, but that day— that day wasn't about being frustrated, or about feeling too much anger, or about being jealous of people with better lives, with more friends, with parents who love and care for their children, it wasn't about being wronged all the time— it was about that empty sadness, that growing hollow inside Severus, the despair of being alone everywhere in the world, even the places with more people than an eye can see, it was that— that little thing inside him that was hungry and wanted to be wanted, that silly little thing that he didn't think would bother him again after he found a little attention at Hogwarts.

The Next Doctor's Face by sunflowerz0219
Fandom: Takin' Over the Asylum, Doctor Who (2005)
Pairing/Characters: Ninth Doctor, Campbell Bain, Rose Tyler
Rating: General
Words: 5298

Author's summary: When the Doctor regenerates, his new faces tend to come from somewhere. Maybe to send a message, like the twelfth. Maybe because the Doctor just liked it. But what about his tenth face? Well, that one came from a little psychiatric hospital in Glasgow, from a rather enthusiastic patient there named Campbell Bain.
Author's notes: This does take place in the hospital and there is discussion of mental illness, often a bit bluntly, as Campbell tends to speak about it. Just a warning if that makes you uncomfortable! And feel free to interpret anything as romantic or platonic, your choice! :) Enjoy!
Author's warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional tags: Aliens at the hospital, The Doctor and Rose become friends with Campbell, mostly good vibes, Only a little bit of sad, Psychiatric Hospitals, Rose is initially frightened, but she gets better

Quote:
“Rosalie’s gonna have a meltdown,” Campbell commented in awe. That was one of the patient’s they’d seen earlier, currently unconscious. Germaphobic.
In all the chaos, something very important was missing: the alien. Perhaps they could blend in, or manipulate the light like they did with the window. The Doctor could feel that they were probably in that room. He focused, slowly looking around…
“Are you the alien?” asked Campbell, directing the question under the desk in a surprisingly friendly tone. “Why are you hiding under there?”

^ What it says on the tin. I think this was probably karios's doing, since I had a brief conversation with them in the brainstorming thread. Here's hoping it actually turns up some fic this year!

Yuletide nominations are soon. I don't know whether to hope that someone nominates Takin' Over the Asylum again or not. I mean, I would love for there to be Yuletide fic for it, but all that's materialized the past couple of years is frustrated hopes.

Results of the 15 characters thing I posted a few days ago.

The characters I chose were: ( Read more... )

If you are interested in Takin' Over the Asylum, I have posted some exciting news over in my lonely little community weareloonies.

eeeee elf nominated Takin' Over the Asylum for Yuletide! Maybe it will actually result in some fic being generated?

I had a dream late this morning, about 30m - an hour before getting up for work, that I was writing/had written (the dream jumped sometimes between process and holding the finished thing in my hands) a book about Takin' Over the Asylum. It was a 20th anniversary thing (whoops, brain, couple years late there) and of fairly large format, though not quite a "coffee table" book. The thing I remember most vividly was a b&w picture of David Tennant dressed as Campbell reviewing a script in between scenes, sitting on the floor in a doorway with his back against one side of the doorframe, knees bent and feet up on the opposite side, which totally sounds like something he'd do but I doubt such a photo exists.

The book was basically the whole shit-a-ree (as my dad would say) for anyone really interested in the show: an episode guide with color stills; archival photos; "where are they now" features about the actors (like anyone who'd be interested in this book in the first place needs assistance on where DT is now?); a side by side song list showing the differences between the two soundtrack versions*; stuff about Gartloch Hospital (which played St Jude's); a "transcript"**, except in the dream it was not a script but rather somehow formatted like prose -- but OTOH I don't think it was actually prose narrative, like, it wasn't a short story/novelization or anything, more like run-together dialogue? idk, whatever that was, it was also written in something more like actual Scots dialect than the canon actually is. I distinctly remember the "grungy" typewriter font used for that part.

I said "jumped sometimes between process" above but several hours later the only bit of "process" I can remember was something about contacting David's agent to try to arrange an interview.

Now that I describe all that, I think my brain was modelling it on the 50th anniversary Doctor Who book we've got. Not that TOtA was anywhere near the hit it would need to have been to merit such a book being written; hell, to my knowledge there was never a North American DVD release, although I have a vague recollection of reading that it was broadcast in Canada way back in the day. (I should really get a copy of the UK DVD before it doesn't exist anymore. Region 2 and PAL format are surmountable; being out of print when it was fairly rare in the first place could be a more difficult problem.)


* Something I've actually been working on, on and off; I got started last May not long after I fell in love with TOtA but for some reason it's been sitting idle for a long time.

** Something else I've done/been doing. I spent a good number of hours over several months earlier this year doing my own transcription because I wasn't able to find such a thing out on the internet. (The script of the 2013 stage play that is available is considerably changed, so while it's an interesting read, you can't substitute one for the other.) I keep tweaking it, telling myself I want it to be as perfect as I can reasonably make it before I post it anywhere, but really I'm letting the (not quite) perfect be the enemy of the good and keep it from the light of day at least partly because I'm afraid of offending because I'm an American and have probably Done It Wrong.