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[st_aurafina]

Wee Linkspam
- via ozqueen, this excellent short story based on the poem Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry] by Christopher Smart. I am going to nominate this as a Yuletide 5 minute fandom, because I want all the fic about Jeoffry and his demon fighting cat friends:
For He Can Creep, by Siobhan Carroll
(The original poem is here: Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry]. You'll want to go and read/re-read it when you're done with the story.)

- via china_shop
AO3 Hugo Award Winner at Redbubble.
Get a T-shirt! Get a mug! Annoy the crap out of the SMOFs who think we're degrading the good name of the Hugos.

- via musesfool and minimcalibre, a new community: hall_no
AKA The Leonard Cohen Title Challenge (Any Freaking Song but Hallelujah) challenge, inspired by this genius tumblr post: Hallelujah titles. Basically, you write a fic with a title from any Leonard Cohen song but that one. And link it there. (And inside that post sabinetzin has put together a list of lyrics that would make great Good Omens titles: good (omens) leonard cohen lyrics.)

- via Facebook, I think, and then onto Twitter:
How do you write an X?
It's an informal poll from a while ago, about how people write the letter x. I'm number seven, because that's how you write it in cursive, which is the joined writing style I learned at school.

- I think Facebook threw this one at me, too:
Good Omens: How Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote a book, by Neil Gaiman.  
"It's Terry," said Terry. "'Ere. That thing you sent me. Are you doing anything with it?"
"Not really."
"Well, I think I know what happens next. Do you want to sell it to me? Or write it together?"
"Write it together," I said, because I was not stupid, and because that was the nearest I was ever going to get to Michaelangelo phoning to ask if I wanted to paint a ceiling with him.
Just a really nice retrospective on how the novel happened, and how close we came to David Tennant playing Crawleigh who drove a Citroen.

- at The Guardian:
'Frozen in time' wreck sheds new light on Franklin's ill-fated 1845 Arctic quest
For fans of The Terror, new ground mapping of the actual shipwreck. (I want to watch it? But also, I'm picky about my cannibalism stories.)

- via me, who wants people to listen to Mission to Zyxx, which is a semi-improvised, high production value sci-fi podcast that is in love with Star Wars, Star Trek and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (you can find the podcast here: Mission to Zyxx), this excellent interview with the cast:
We're Mission To Zyxx, And This Is How We Work
(It's just so funny and easy to listen to. In later seasons, there's a sentient bean!)

- via runpunkrun:
how to make linked footnotes on AO3 by teekettle
(Useful for Good Omens fic writers!)

- via marthawells, The Colony Tree project, carried out at Worldcon in Dublin, a collaborative fibrearts project to make a Colony Tree, the giant tree where the Raksura make their home. I've linked to the earliest page of the blog, so you can follow the development along: The Raksura Colony Tree.


Reccin' Thursday
From auexchange 2019

- The Witch-Wife's Tale by enviropony (Rated Mature, Black Sails, Miranda/Thomas/James)
AU where Miranda learns witchcraft, which saves her life and the lives of the people she loves. A really satisfying fixit, with a happy ending for my favourite threesome of this show. (And isn't it nice to be able to have more than one threesome in a show so I can have a favourite? Black Sails was great that way.)

- Math and Poetry and Gunmanship, by sholio (Rated Teen, Punisher, Frank and Leo Lieberman)
Leo is such a tough little nut in this post-apocalyptic AU, where she asks Frank to help her find her missing parents. It's great. (I would read the crap out of an YA series of this world, with all the weird tech and animal hybrids and monsters. IJS.)

- Flower of Justice by lea_hazel (Rated Teen, Imperial Radch, Breq and Seivarden)
Dragonrider AU, with an amazingly inhuman dragon Justice of Toren dealing with a Seivarden pulled out of a frozen lake. Splendid world building, and really clever translation of the Radch novels to a dragony world.

- even the last of the blue-eyed babies know by lastwingedthing (Rated Teen, GoT/Winter Soldier, Bucky and Shireen Baratheon)
It's a fun amalgam of the two worlds with lots of excellent survival stuff and teamwork, but I'm reccing this for the sheer glory of Bucky rushing Stannis's soldiers with a machine gun as they drag Shireen away to the pyre. The massive overpowering which would normally bug me is incredibly satisfying in this particular case. The best possible revenge for what actually happened to Shireen.

Not from auexchange but it is an AU:
- Cracked by mad_maudlin (Rated Teen, Doctor Who, wee!Amelia & her aunt)
The summary is excellent and spooky as hell: "Something is the matter with Amelia." This is an AU where the Doctor travels with Amelia, told from the POV of the aunt who takes care of her after her parents disappear, and through the events of S5. Creepy as hell. I love that even while we know what's going on, and have a good idea of the Doctor's best intentions, it's all so malevolent from poor Auntie Sharon's perspective.

Comments

[adafrog]

I also draw X like #7.

I watched most of the episodes of The Terror. Stopped watching it because they were flogging a crewman. A lot. With realistic repercussions. Was not pleasant.