Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

I've missed a bunch of reccing Thursdays, and the recs are building up. A couple of these came from musesfool's reccing comm, unfitforsociety which I'd also rec, because there's always great stuff there. (I heard you like recs, so I recced a recs comm in my recs post so you can get recs while you're getting recs...)

I started this post on SUNDAY, omg. And still totally missed reccing Thursday (on my end of the world, at least.)


Good Omens
A Nightingale Sang in Russell Square by melannen (Rated General, Rivers of London/Good Omens)
What happened at the end of the world, from Peter Grant and Thomas Nightingale's perspective. So many lovely canon details overlap in this, it's wonderful.

So You Need To Get Into A.Z. Fell & Co.; Now What? (A Guide For Unfortunate Bookworms) by arkhamcycle (Rated General, Aziraphale/Crowley)
An amazing collection of hints, tips and timetables to assist you in achieving your book purchases. Hilarious and adorable. I love all the little allusions to Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship in the background.

sign my name across your heart by sabinelagrande (Rated Explicit, Aziraphale/Crowley)
Crowley tries a few nicknames for his angel; it doesn't go well. Sweet and hot and beautifully written.

Are You There, God? It's Me, Crowley by marginalia (Rated Teen, Aziraphale/Crowley)
Five times Crowley prayed - lovely and gentle, and also there's a prize winning potato.


Leverage
Three Things Nate Made Parker Give Back When The Job Was Over (Because He's A Spoilsport) by penknife (Rated General, Leverage/MCU)
I think I like Parker's adventure with Stephen Strange best of all - she would get along very well with the cloak.

Five times the Leverage Crew was not in Gotham, no, really, they weren't, no by noelia_g (Unrated though I'd rate it General, Leverage/Nolan Batman movies)
Excellent flashbacks - I love that everyone except Nathan has a healthy fear of Gotham, and then Nathan has to go *poke* at it.

your body is a war zone but you are not a ruin by postcardmystery (Rated Explicit, Hardison/Parker/Eliot)
Eliot POV, hot and sweet and full of Eliot-style introspection.

I Lie, I Cheat, I Steal (and I Just Don't Get Any Respect) by fierclydreamed (Leverage/White Collar, Rated Teen, Gen)
Really good amalgam of the two show. The thing I like with crossovers of ensemble shows is finding out who has crossed paths with who, and this is one where there are several areas of overlap all handled in a clever and satisfying way.


Miscellaneous
I Can Go Twice As High by anonymous. (Rated G, Temeraire, f!Will Laurence.)
Lovely Temeraire art for rule63exchange. F!Will is so dapper in Regency menswear, I love it. Worth clicking through to the large size to see the beautiful detail in this drawing.

Anything Goes by anonymous (Rated Teen, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, m!Willie Scott/Indiana Jones)
Eeee, drag performer Willie is amazing, and this fic is glorious. Another one from rule63exchange

Bruise by misbegotten (Rated Mature, Craig!Bond Movies/DCU, James Bond/Bruce Wayne)
Short, punchy and super hot, and all in 100 words. It's exactly what a drabble is meant to be.

don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo by firstaudrina (Rated General, Stranger Things, Eleven/Max Mayfield)
Apart from having the perfect title, this is a sweet teenage penpal romance set after S3. (Which I haven't watched yet - I am just really enjoying the f/f shipping that is happening all over Tumblr. I'm sure the reality of canon will be much less satisfying.)


And that is me caught up on recs, yay! Now I can eat this mandarin, though it be full of pips.

Talk to us about how amazing it would be if Alec Hardison was stuck in Sleepy Hollow where he would join forces with Abbie as they had to save the world together (Requested by lyssie.)


It would be so amazing.

It would be so not amazing. Because even though there's Abbie (hot! smart! tough! It's like the universe knows Hardison has a type!) and a walking time capsule with this weird, honest humanity that makes you feel like your twenty-first century life is basically built of cynicism and synthetic food, there's also a dead guy living in the sewers who really wants to help but he's tied into this literal contract with the devil, and oh, yeah HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE. Hardison is guiltily relieved that the Horseman has a weird boner for Ichabod, because he knows that if the axemen cometh for Hardison, Hardison's gonna trip over his feet and wind up getting a little more off the top than he asked for. Ichabod seems to roll natural twenties every time he has to face the Horseman down, and Hardison doesn't know why, but he's not going to argue.

On the other hand, Hardison can see a place for him in this team. Jenny (is this the most awesome spook squad family ever, or what?) has got the historical stuff down - she's been all over the world tracking down myths and artifacts. Ichabod was there, way back when, so he's got first hand knowledge you can't find in library archives, even if some of the things he says about Jefferson and Paul Revere blow Hardison's mind. You get used to that, though. And then there's Abbie, with beautiful, clean, legal access to so many things, better than Hardison can fake. But Hardison? He's the one who can pull it all together - chemistry and history and logic and heart. It was all about pattern recognition. Honestly, he's kind of relieved that even in the realm of the supernatural, (The realm of the supernatural? Does he have the coolest job or what?) there are predictable models of behaviour. Demons want stuff, the way greedy humans want stuff. Just, bigger. And with more brimstone. (Speaking of which, how weird is it that sulfur looks like blood when it melts? Freakish.)

So, on the whole, fighting the undead is pretty damn awesome, when you have a team like this. Hardison could do worse than Sleepy Hollow, and maybe he'll be the difference between peace on Earth or a big sucky apocalypse.