Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

Have not been up on #DecRecs this year (I keep meaning to, & even thinking of things to rec and then forgetting 😅) but I do want to take a moment to rec subscribing to things via RSS! I just use dreamwidth.org’s built in reader which is Extremely Minimalist but there are many nice fuller featured rss readers out there (eg. https://netnewswire.com )

Todays #DecRecs is for https://stickerguy.com because i’ve had this glow in the dark sticker from @pagrus up for like two years and, even tho the location means its only getting fairly dim LED light, it somehow still glows bright enough to read from across the room

#DecRecs copperbadge rarely needs introduction, but i’ll attempt to give him one nonetheless—sam does an excellent job blending his own style with more period appropriate language in this, the result of which is a lot of enjoyable wordplay and other turns of phrase without ever distracting from the narrative

inspired by the bit in the cold open where aziraphale and crowley watch a rehearsal of hamlet, though it’d work well enough as a pre-canon interlude for the book instead if you prefer

A Bard In The Hand (12049 words) by copperbadge
Chapters: 4/4
Fandom: Good Omens
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Aziraphale (Good Omens)/William Shakespeare, Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)/William Shakespeare, Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)Additional Tags: Historical, References to Shakespeare, Threesome - M/M/M, Trans Male Character, Twelfth Night - Freeform, References to Hamlet, Comedy, RPF, Mention of COVID-19, mention of pandemic
Summary:

Aziraphale finds a new dinner spot, Crowley invents marketing, and William Shakespeare gets extremely lucky.

#DecRecs if you enjoyed Feathers when i recced it at the beginning of December, you might also enjoy this other f/f fairytale-esque story of a knight who courts the mysterious woman she met in the woods…

The Forest Full of Light (2338 words) by LittleRaven
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Fairy Tale
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Spirit of the Forest/Wandering Knight,
Additional Tags: Character Was Secretly Non-Human This Whole Time, Femslash, Courtly Love, fairy tale, Romance
Summary:

A knight has an encounter in the woods.

#DecRecs set in the kind of ambiguous modern au land where you can definitely get away with not knowing canon lol

Anyway v delightful fic, essentially F/F M/M solidarity in the form of a v platonic threesome in which Jungkook gets pegged. And then finally texts his crush!

Can't Drive (3731 words) by ninamonday
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS, TWICE (Band)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jeon Jungkook/Park Jisoo | Jihyo/Im Nayeon, Im Nayeon/Park Jisoo | Jihyo, Jeon Jungkook/Kim Taehyung | V
Additional Tags: Established Im Nayeon/Park Jisoo | Jihyo, pre-taekook, Threesome - F/F/M, practice sex, Pegging, Spanking, Light Dom/sub, Anal Sex, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot
Summary:

“Well, everyone knows he has a huge dick, and I’ve never been able to take more than a couple of fingers. I’m just… not confident.”

And it seemed totally natural, even obvious, for Jihyo to say in a brisk and businesslike voice, “Well, we can fix that.”

#DecRecs so fun fact despite having almost 3x more guardian fics bookmarked than any other fandom apparently none of them are passing my could plausibly be appreciated by someone unfamiliar with canon test. so instead i'm reccing one of the classic 'please join us in having feelings about these boys' vids:

Augustine by Bonibaru
Fandom: Guardian (2018)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional tags: exquisite pining
Summary:

Shen Wei finds something to believe in.

#DecRecs: I mentioned the other day looking forward to the day when fics set on twitter could be recced as charmingly vintage period pieces so! time to test that by finding out if we've all been off LJ for long enough for that to count as charmingly vintage! this fic was written in 2011 for the kinkme-merlin comm. It's an AU where the characters of BBC Merlin are in the Starz Camelot fandom and is both a loving tribute to internet friendships/romance and a by my memory (admittedly not necessarily reliable, satsuma was a tiny fandom baby in 2011) pretty accurate representation of what LJ fandom was like at the time. Absolutely no knowledge of BBC Merlin necessary

Pairing Pendragon/Merlin (~24,500 words) by Anon
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: BBC Merlin (2008-2012)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur/Merlin
Additional tags: metatextuality, secret identities, fans & fandom
Summary:

Arthur is a BNF and Merlin is his prized beta

#DecRecs: one of the fun thinks about the discworld books is that
pterry would make jokes about some fantasy cliche, follow it to its logical conclusion & somehow end up doing four or five genuinely interesting social commentaries along the way. eg he decided dwarves only had one gender, dwarf, and it was just the humans applying human binary gender standards to them that lead to the assumption of all dwarves being male. which then raises the question of, well, what happens to dwarves conceptualizations of gender when they move out out of the mines & into the cities where there's people doing gender everywhere? Thus, the phenomena in the disc of dwarves deciding they're female dwarves actually, and then having to figure out what the hell that actually means. Modern Love decides to just keep going with that, through a series of OC vignettes

Modern Love (2906 words) by Penknife
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Discworld
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Character/Original Character
Additional Tags: Community: lgbtfest, Gender Issues, Queer Themes, Transgender, Podfic Available
Summary:

It's amazing how the world rarely gets less complicated.

#DecRecs another Star Trek fic, though a different branch of the franchise! Lunch takes two characters we know very little about in the AOS universe & fleshes them out in a nice exploration of the difficulties of cross-cultural friendships. can pretty easily be read as generic space college scifi, if you're so inclined

Lunch and Other Obscenities (9717 words) by Rheanna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek AOS
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Galia & Uhura, Spock/Uhura
Additional Tags: Humor, Female Friendship, Female Protagonist, Character of Color, culture clash, Wordcount: 5.000-10.000, Women Being Awesome
Summary:

Nyota liked her roommate just fine until she met her.

#DecRecs: this is tagged alternate universe but its more of a different first meeting style canon divergence — everyone still has the same skillsets and life circumstances you’d expect for something set shortly pre-canon (which is to say, Eliot doesn’t have Stockholm syndrome, he’s just unexpectedly charmed by the full force of Hardison and Parker’s Hardison and Parker-ness)

If you haven’t watched Leverage, its a show about a bunch of thieves deciding to run ridiculous heists to get back at capitalists on behalf of the people screwed over by capitalism. its a little dated at this point (it ran like 2008-2012) but v fun & one takes ones very nearly canon poly triads where one can them

Lucky numbers (10745 words) by Silence89
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Leverage
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alec Hardison/Parker, Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Wrong Number AU, First Meetings, Fluff, Mild Hurt/Comfort
Summary:

“You got a wrong number, so you went to the park in the middle of the night, found a guy in a pool of blood, and brought him to your apartment,” Eliot says, filling in the blanks. Maybe, he considers, he’s still hallucinating. Or just delirious.

In which Hardison can't resist a stray, Eliot has Stockholm syndrome, and Parker is Parker.

#DecRecs: a slightly introspective? look at Chihiro’s life after the end of Spirited Away & how her experiences might shape the way she looks at the world. softly domestic 💛

The Rock and The River (17441 words) by Pi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi | Spirited Away
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Haku | Nigihayami Kohakunushi/Ogino Chihiro
Additional Tags: Future Fic, Post-Canon, College, food service, bartending, Magic places, Parent Death
Summary:

Chihiro takes magic and bends it around herself to make a place in the world.

#DecRecs i've generally been aiming towards the 'low knowledge of canon necessary' side of things with these recs but with this one i can cheerfully assert that it's easy enough to follow without having ever seen Strange New Worlds at all because that's how i read it -- time travel, psychic bonds, and wildly divergent cultural understandings of romance make polyamory negotiations either much simpler or more complicated than they would usually be but everyone manages a charming amount of adult communication in between the usual day to day shenanigans of a starfleet ship

Look me in the eyes (50090 words) by marcicat
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Spock/T'Pring (Star Trek), Christine Chapel/Spock/T'Pring, Christine Chapel/Spock/T'Pring/James T. Kirk
Additional Tags: Crew as Family, Crew Before HQ, vulcan bonding, Family is complicated, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hemmer Lives, conversations in space
Summary:

AU. What if Christine and T’Pring had started talking after the katra-swap episode?

An extremely on brand for me #DecRecs: a murder mystery with a side of court politics & secret identity shenanigans

The Fox's Grief (38617 words) by nirejseki
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beautiful Detective With Peerless Martial Arts/Frail Secret Spymaster He‘s Trying To Seduce
Additional Tags: Mystery/Procedural, vaguely ancient China, Secret Identity, Politics, Age Difference, Royalty, Murder, Bureaucracy, Asthma, Rescue
Summary:

No one in their right mind would ever seriously try to woo Lin Ronghu, the Emperor's infamously ruthless (if unofficial) spymaster.

Not that that's stopped the local legend, a (self-described) beautiful detective with peerless martial arts. His crush is a major inconvenience - at least until there's a murder that puts Lin Ronghu's most hated political nemesis straight in the frame. Since Lin Ronghu can't believe that anyone would be that stupid, he decides that maybe having a private detective around might be good for something after all...

#DecRecs: Namjoon-centric in honor of Indigo? Not actually the namgi fic I was failing to find a few weeks ago but it does contain a similar understanding of the importance of avoiding eye contact lmao

The Thirst Trap (16616 words) by sequoiasem
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kim Namjoon | RM/Min Yoongi | Suga
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Adjacent, oblivious namgi, Friends to Lovers, Feelings Realization, Love Confessions, sending each other hot pictures for educational purposes
Summary:

Namjoon wants to learn to take hotter selfies. Who better to teach him than Yoongi?

For #DecRecs a super gorgeous F/F epistolary comic:

Feathers by angelandfaith
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Wandering Lady Knight/Far-Away Princess she writes letters to
Additional Tags: Fantasy, Quests, Amazon Rainforest, Wings, Art, Comic, Epistolary
Summary:

My dearest Renata,
It has been a long voyage to the jungle.