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Theme Prompt: 270 - Pride
Title: Mo Ghile Mear (My Gallant Hero)
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Rating/Warnings: T/PG-13 (Language, Character Death, Mourning and Loss)
Bonus: No
Word Count: 735
Summary: Basch stands vigil with his Princess, and mourns the loss of his Prince. Set in-game during the Prelude.

( Mo Ghile Mear )

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Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fancrafts/fanvids/fics/podfics/fanart/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

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Title: Getting to Ray
Author:

lucy_roman
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: After receiving a threatening letter Fraser has gone to find Ray
Pairing: Fraser/RayK
Word count: 566

( Getting to Ray )

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Challenge 270:
PRIDE

...goes before a fall?

Pride isn’t always a bad thing, of course. Confidence in yourself, satisfaction in a job well-done, open self-acceptance – all of those might fall under the category of being proud, and those are generally good things! But taken too far, pride can make things difficult; too much pride might stop you from accepting help, be off-putting to friends or family, or even turn into dangerous overconfidence.

Are your characters proud, justifiably or otherwise?

Write a story about pride.

BONUS GOAL: “What are you worried about? It’s me.”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, August 11 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 270 – pride
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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Fandom: MCU
Pairings/Characters: Steve/Bucky, Sam/Steve
Rating: explicit
Length: 127k
Creator Links:

ChibiSquirt
Theme: marriage of convenience, pretend couple, happy endings, genderfuck

Summary: Sarah “Gwen” Rogers was nineteen when she married Bucky Barnes, and she knew at the time just how stupid it was: it wasn’t exactly a brilliant move to marry a man who could never love her, even—or especially—when she knew that she was in love with him.

Neither of them could have predicted the war that came, and if they had, then they sure as hell couldn’t have predicted what would happen when Gwen volunteered for Project: Rebirth.

Reccer's Notes: This is one of the more interesting Captain America genderswaps: what would it do to the essential closeness and devotion of Steve and Bucky's relationship if Bucky was 1000% gay, and Steve was a cis woman? But they still cared about each other as much? They decide to get married, to protect Bucky from gossip, and things go from there. This is such an interesting take on their relationship, on how being a cis woman would affect "Sarah" (especially once she wakes up in modern America after being frozen for seventy years), and her relationship with Sam. All while telling the basic events of the movie.

Fanwork Links: You Would Be In Clover

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Title: tethered
Fandom: Thunderbolts* (MCU)
Characters: Robert "Bob" Reynolds & Yelena Belova
Rating: Teen
Length: 200 words
Content notes: hints at mental health issues
Summary: Bob gets lost in the crowd

( tethered )

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Fandom: Star Trek AOS (Reboot)
Pairings/Characters: Kirk/Spock
Rating: Teen
Length: 4,249 words
Creator Links:

waketosleep
Theme: Marriage of convenience

Summary: Kirk nearly turns a simple trade mission into a diplomatic incident. Luckily, Spock will do a lot to cover his captain's ass.

Reccer's Notes: What I love about Kirk and Spock is that there are so many different takes on who they are and how they'd act, and, in the hands of a good writer, every one of those is believable. In this story, Kirk is a totally obnoxious doofus who makes a major diplomatic blunder (as he does) and has to marry Spock to save face and a dilithium trade deal. Spock is tolerant and eye-rolly.

Kirk/Spock is one of my favorite pairings for marriages of convenience because these two are so married already, and they usually have a high degree of love (even if platonic) for one another at the time of the marriage. That quality is on display here.

This is the first story waketosleep wrote in this fandom. It's short and sweet, and worth revisiting even if you read it in 2009 when it was originally posted.

Fanwork Links: Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known

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Theme Prompt: 269 - Self Indulgence
Title: Nails
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Rating/Warnings: G/None.
Bonus: No
Word Count: 147
Summary: Penelo helps Fran with a relaxing little ritual.

( Nails )

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Fandom: Captain America
Pairings/Characters: Bucky/Peggy, Peggy/Steve, Steve/Bucky
Rating: teen
Length: 37k words
Creator Links:

crackdkettle
Theme: marriage of convenience, kidfic (has kids, accidental baby), pretend couple,

Summary: The Commandos find Bucky in a Hydra facility just days after Steve crashes. A few months later, Peggy comes to Bucky for help: she’s pregnant with Steve’s child and she wants him to claim the child as his so the SSR won’t experiment on it to try to crack Erskine’s formula. Over the next several years Bucky slowly learns how to navigate the life that was meant for Steve — as a husband, father, and founding member of SHIELD — while never giving up the search for the man he lost and still loves.

Reccer's Notes: I love the way crackdkettle handles Bucky and Peggy's mutual grief, and the different ways they handle it, and the slow course of their healing.

Fanwork Links: A Better Version of Our Past

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Hello, Pears! Thanks for your nominations. Rare Pair's tag mods and I have been battling "Retry Later" and "You've made too many clicks" while you've been making nominations and we appreciate your patience!

We have a few queries. If I do not hear back from the nominators 24 hours after the publishing of this post, I will be rejecting the applicable nominations.

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~~Belongs under Crossover Fandom~~

SK8 the Infinity (Anime)
Nanjo Kojiro | Joe/Shindo Ainosuke | Adam (FE3H)

Please correct this nomination with the accurate disambiguations. The fandom should be "Crossover Fandom", not "SK8 the Infinity (Anime)". If this is not corrected, it will be rejected. Completed and accepted with (SK8) disambiguation.

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Belongs under MCU

Please refer to the nominations guidelines before nominating under a big franchise.

The Marvels (Movie 2023)
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie/Carol Danvers (The Marvels)

Please renominate under "Marvel Cinematic Universe". If this is not corrected, it will be rejected. Completed and accepted.

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Queries

The Magicians (TV)
Quentin Coldwater/The Monster (Magicians TV)
Martin Chatwin/Quentin Coldwater (Magicians TV)

Is the Monster Martin Chatwin? (I'm wondering if these are duplicates.)

わが青春のアルカディア | Waga Seishun no Arcadia | Arcadia of My Youth (1982)
Harlock/Maya (Captain Harlock)

There's the Arcadia of My Youth canon and Captain Haddock — Are they the same canon?

Super Mario & Related Fandoms
Princess Daisy/Princess Peach (Nintendo)

We do not accept "& Related Fandoms". I am happy to hear a case for this to remain as is. Otherwise, pease amend this with the specific canon that you are nominating from. If this is not corrected, it will be rejected.

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Disambiguate your nominations

If the below have not been amended/accepted into the tagset, please edit them to include the disambiguation so they can be accepted. If you are unsure of what disambiguations are, please refer to the nominations guidelines.

光が死んだ夏 | Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu | The Summer Hikaru Died (Anime)
"Hikaru" | Fake Indou Hikaru/Tsujinaka Yoshiki
Original Indou Hikaru/Tsujinaka Yoshiki

僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
Aoyama Yuuga/Midoriya Izuku
Midoriya Izuku/Rody Soul

Gundam 00
Saji Crossroad/Setsuna F. Seiei
Tieria Erde/Setsuna F. Seiei

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
Pegasus J. Crawford | Maximillion Pegasus/Pandora the Conjurer | Arkana
Yami Bakura/Yami Yuugi | Atem

Persona 5
Iwai Munehisa/Persona 5 Protagonist

SK8 the Infinity (Anime)
Nanjo Kojiro | Joe/Shindo Ainosuke | Adam (FE3H)

Please amend the disambiguation to (SK8).

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Rejected nominations

Tennis no Oujisama | Prince of Tennis
Fuji Shuusuke/Tezuka Kunimitsu

This relationship has over 250 works and is thus not eligible for the exchange.

人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Liu Qingge/Shen Jiu | Original Shen Qingqiu

This relationship has over 250 works and is thus not eligible for the exchange.

If you find your nomination is rejected, it is because it does not meet the eligibility of the exchange. Please refer to the nominations guidelines for our eligibility criteria.

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Duplicates and errors in tagset

Please let me know if you see any duplicates or errors in the tagset by replying to this post with the fandom and impacted tags. This will help greatly as we are bound to have duplicates due to the number of nominations that are coming through, and because of the "Retry Later" error we're receiving as we check eligibility and approve nominations.

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Remove accent markers from nominations

Please remove accent markers from nominations as this will help us identify duplicates in the tagset.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to comment on this post. Anon commenting is on.

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Fandom: All About Eve
Pairings/Characters: Addison DeWitt/Eve Harrington
Rating: Gen
Length: 1634 words
Creator Links:

AuKestrel
Theme: marriage of convenience, future fic, kidfic (has kids), small fandom, old fandom, post canon,

Summary: You see, society and theatre (and aren’t they really the same thing? - someone, please, offer Mrs. Albert Knickerbacker her smelling salts) are built on the sand of lies: lies of omission, lies of commission, old-fashioned deceit, dishonesty, and compounded misunderstandings.

It takes only a rudimentary understanding and a halfway-capable grasp of human nature to begin to sift the truth from the lies.

Reccer's Notes: All About Eve is a classic 1950s drama about a young actress (Eve Harrington) who advances her career by playing a sweet innocent, attaching herself to an aging star (Margot Channing, played by Bette Davis), and stabbing her in the back. At the end of the movie, Eve marries a witty, snobbish, and super-queer-coded theater critic (Addison DeWitt). This is his perspective on their marriage and their daughter. The narrative voice is very strong, it feels like the movie.

Fanwork Links: Till I have the possession of everything she touches

Mods, can I get a fandom tag?

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Captain America: You Would Be In Clover by ChibiSquirt

Thunderbolts*: Fanfic: tethered

Star Trek AOS: Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known by waketosleep

[#269] Nails (Final Fantasy XII)

Captain America: A Better Version of Our Past by crackdkettle

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All About Eve: Till I have the possession of everything she touches by AuKestrel

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