July 2017

Fanfiction

Works I recommend will now be bolded, and I’ve gone back to all other Monthly Updates to highlight recommendations there, too.

• {HP/Thor/Dr Who} Of Wizards and Heroes.

  This was great! Perfectly suited to a fresh start in fanfic after three weeks not reading anything new. Humour and epic battle, with a last-minute third crossover adding yet another dimension to an already bendingly-parallel-worlds story. {94k words}

• {HP} Whispers in Corners. {64k words}

• {HP/Merlin} Emrys Ascending. {111k words}

• {HP/Thor} Spellist. {2k words}

• {HP} Don’t Fuck With Florists (They’ll Fuck You Up).

  Not usually a genre of fanfic I read, but in some ways it works? A flurry of others like it below, before I went back to more class stuff. {14k words}

• {HP} no place like home. {13k words}

• {HP} love is touching souls (surely you touched mine). {34k words}

• {HP} Newts. {14k words}

• {HP} Temptation on the Warfront. {180k words}

• {HP} Reparatio. {17k words}

• {HP} Stealing Harry.

  Good and sweet. Very old fic, early 2000s according to the notes, but it survived this long, hmm? Some sequels below. {100k words}

• {HP} Russian Literature. {3k words}

• {HP} Fever Dream. {3k words}

• {HP} The Birds, The Bees, And The Snakes. {3k words}

• {HP} A Lesson In Hiding. {2k words}

• {HP} Bullfinch’s Mythology. {4k words}

• {HP} Laocoon’s Children Year One: The Philosopher’s Stone. {88k words}

• {HP} Caramel. {1k words}

• {HP} Laocoon’s Children Year Two: Secret Tongues. {104k words}

• {HP} Of a Linear Circle - Part I and Part II.

  That was delightful. While the disappearance of Harry isn’t yet resolved, and honestly at this point feels a bit too much like a convenient way to get the main plot out of the way so we can explore Nizar’s in peace, I really don’t mind. Nizar — and the story — is sweet and quietly humourous. Heartily recommended. {107k + 23k words atow}

• {HP} Harry Potter and the Stone of Life. {7k words atow}

• {HP} Third Life. {49k words atow}

• {Naruto/HP} Curses of Interest. {53k words atow}

• {HP} The Little Lion Cub Who Could. {8k words atow}

• {HP} Eclipse. {4k words}

• {HP} The Alexandra Quick series: Thorn Circle, Lands Below, Deathly Regiment, Stars Above.

  Set in the Harry Potter verse, but ten years after Voldie’s death, and set in America. Does not really mention Britain or Harry or any of them. Besides the story itself, which is excellent, the context of wizarding prejudices and house-elves within the wider context of America’s deep history and current affairs with racism, corruption, police/authority violence and routine violation of the very laws they are supposed to defend, paints a chilling universe that left me uneasy throughout my read. On top of that, the quiet horror of schooling practices that reflects, no doubt, their non-magical counterparts in our reality only serves to reinforce the idea that there is something fundamentally wrong with that country, and magic does not help. A recommended read, albeit with warnings. {166k + 235k + 204k + 262k words}