The holiday ficcing season is over, and I would like to recommend the various fics I recieved for Christmas presents. I'll just go ahead and do them by fandom, I suppose.

Vorkosigan books
The Rules of Barrayaran Sex, Cordelia/Aral
Oh my god you guys this fic is made of SO MUCH AWESOME, particuarly if you, like me, tend to ship the old-married-couple ships. I asked for Cordelia and Aral being happily married, and my beautiful, amazing, wonderful gift-writer wrote me this... this marvelous work of art. It is full of tiny little touches of joy (Miles' first word being "Dammit", for example, or the entire thing about the socks), and it's SO in-character; it totally feels like scenes exerpted from the books. I just. I cannot. It is so full of joy, you guys. Read it immediately if you have read the Miles Vorkosigan books. If you have not read the Miles Vorkosigan books, read those immediately and THEN read this.

A Safe Bet, also Cordelia/Aral
This is a tag for Memory that I count as mine as well, because it was a deleted scene from Rules originally. It strikes all the same notes as Rules, with some additional emotional notes that don't quite match up. Anyway, it's just as utterly amazing if slightly less funny, and you should go and read it too.

Codex Alera
These aren't fic, but you should go look at them anyway, because they're awesome icons.

Tamora Pierce: Tortall
A Midwinter's Tale. Alanna/George, filled with cuteness and fluff.

Firefly
Christmas on Serenity, genfic set post-Serenity but in denial!verse, which is my personal favorite anyway so. An adorable little slice-of-life family!fic. Has Wash and Zoe, River being River, and Mal getting insulted.

Castle
Christmas Traditions. Genfic, a Castle family Christmas. Includes an awesome nod to the WriteRCastle feed that made me lol.

Stargate SG-1/X-files Crossover
Part one here, part two here. Inspired by the fact that Don S. Davis plays both General Hammond and Scully's dad, written for me by my homie eponymous_rose, made of awesome. Involves Jack being a prankster, jokes about Daniel's approach to aliens, Teal'c having more lines than "indeed," Sam being the responsible adult and slight Mulder/Scully shippiness.


Posts of all the fic I wrote soon to follow.

WARNING: HERE THAR BE SPOILERS for everything under the sun that I write about. Seriously.

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Prompt: Cutting through the Nevernever is not always a good idea, as Harry finds when he meets Clara Godwin. Prompt from Puck last year that I never got around to.
Title: The Policewoman
Fandom: The Dresden Files/Tortall
Spoilers: None.
Characters: Harry, Clary Godwin.
Rating: G

She looked exactly like Murphy. Well, as much as a tall, stonefaced brunette can look exactly like a tiny cute blonde, but you know what I mean.

Besides, it was the expression that really did it. The “I know you’ve done something and I’ll make you suffer if you don’t tell me of your own free will” expression. That, and the cop stance, the wide-legged, “do you feel lucky punk” stance. You know what I’m talking about.

The crossbow pointed at my nose was, admittedly, new.

But she really looked exactly like Murphy.

Which meant that I was so screwed.