bethbethbeth's fic-and-recs journal

Amazing how speedily one can update a recs site when one is in the fanfic-reading honeymoon period of two fandoms and hasn't started teaching for the spring term.

( 30 Recs in the Following Fandoms: Harry Potter (2), Lewis (10), and Sherlock Holmes (18) )

Written as a gift for albalark as part of HoggyWartyXmas

Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth
Title: An Unexpected Gift
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters and/or Pairings: Snape/McGonagall
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2080
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Some briefish and mostly-only-suggestive hetero-sex, and a bit of 'bad language' scattered throughout. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Summary: What they shared that night had been largely unexpected and very sweet, but for Severus, the gift she'd given him the following morning had been even more delicious..

( An Unexpected Gift )

Written as a gift for kangeiko for the 2011 edition of Yuletide.

Title: "Unless I'm very much mistaken..."
Fandom: RPF - Misc (Formula One Grand Prix)
Characters and/or Pairing(s): Julie (OFC)/Richard (OMC), Ayrton Senna/Alain Prost
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2916
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Nothing in particular apart from some teen angst. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Summary: In the middle of the 1986 Formula One season, a sometime romantic - and ridiculously naive - fifteen year old girl believes she has found her soul mate. Now if only she could actually meet him. A mostly unbelievable fable of second love featuring, in a supporting role, the background pairing of Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.)
Author's Notes: Title taken from the much-quoted catchphrase of legendary British race commentator, Murray Walker. With thanks to Malcolm Folley's 2009 book Senna Versus Prost (although very little from the book was actually incorporated in this story), the usual online sources (wikipedia, youtube, etc), and some dimly remembered in-person encounters. (Note: if Julie - i.e., the OFC - were in fandom, she'd probably be wishing her name was "Mary Sue" so that she could have a little more influence on the events taking place around her. With any luck, she'll grow out of this phase. With even more luck, someday she just might be awesome.)


( Unless I'm very much mistaken... )

Please note that some of these story recommendations were made before I reconsidered my warnings policy (i.e., before I decided to include warnings). Generally speaking, there's little of a dark or violent nature to warn for in these stories, but caveat lector.

Special Note about Phantom Recs: For a long time, I was wary of reccing anything in this ff.net-based fandom. Most of the stories I was reading would have benefited from at least a little more proofreading, and more importantly, the majority of my favorite fics seemed...a little over-wrought and melodramatic. But then I realized that the same could be said for the [over-wrought and melodramatic] canon(s)! And so...recs!

( Phantom of the Opera Recs )

I am the slowest reccer in the universe! Okay, so I need to make a vow that from now on I'll (a) not forget to rec the things I want to rec, which...lord knows I've done dozens of times in this past half year, and (b) make a recs post every single month. Can I keep to that vow? Let's see!

( Recs in the following fandoms: Harry Potter, The King's Speech, Shakespeare - Twelfth Night, Sherlock Holmes, True Blood, VORKOSIGAN BOOKS, White Collar )

Some of you may have noticed I completely failed to attend to my usual December rec "duties," but in my defense…um…I was busy? I'm finally reading what I can of the Holiday Exchange fics and I'll be updating my DW Fic and Recs Journal every dozen or so recs, starting with these fifteen stories…

( Recs in the following fandoms: Commercials, Fairy Tales, Frankenstein, Good Omens, Harry Potter, The King's Speech, Merlin, Sherlock Holmes )

Written in for the December 2010 edition of Snapely Holidays - for fanficforensics

Title: The Turning Point
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters and/or Pairings: Snape/Regulus
Rating: R
Word Count: 4950
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip) Alcohol use. Occasional excessive swearing. Consensual underage sex. Implied imminent canon death. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Summary: A tale of divided loyalties, choices made, and choices unmade.

( The Turning Point )

Written in December for the 2010 edition of the go_exchange, who wanted to see a bit of Sherlock (BBC) along with her Good Omens.

Title: The Case of the Missing...
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Fandom: Good Omens / Sherlock (BBC)
Characters: Implied Aziraphale/Crowley, Implied Sherlock/John, Mycroft Holmes, Adam Young.
Rating: PG
Possible warnings and/or enticements - highlight to view (may contain story spoilers): (skip)Nothing in particular. Please leave a comment if you believe anything should be added here
Word Count: 2600
Summary: Crowley has gone missing, and Aziraphale hasn't a clue how to go about finding him. Luckily, help comes from above...or rather, from the side.

( The Case of the Missing.... )