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Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (tagged as both books and Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: E
Length: 13,317 words
Creator Links: rudbeckia
Theme: Angst with a Happy Ending, courting

Summary: Watson, finally pushed away by Holmes’s lack of regard for his feelings, has left 221B Baker Street and moved into his practice. Holmes is confused—he did nothing wrong! But when Holmes realises (because everyone who gives him advice tells him so) that he is to blame, he knows he has to do something meaningful to win Watson back.

Reccer's Notes: Watson gets tried of Holmes' mistreatment and decides to leave Baker St. Much angst in the beginning, but also a Holmes determined to get his Watson back, cue the wooing! I enjoyed the inclusion of side characters like Mrs Hudson, Mycroft and Lestrade, and there was also an original character, a woman doctor who works with Watson, that I greatly enjoyed. It is tagged as both books and Granada, but I pictured the Granada lads when reading it.

Fanwork Links: AO3

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Fandom: Star Trek AOS
Pairings/Characters: Kirk/Spock
Rating: Teen +
Length: 11,213
Creator Links: BC_Brynn at AO3
Theme: Angst with a happy ending.

Summary: My name is S’chn T’gai Spock, and I am six years old. At the age of twenty-nine, I have been involved in an accident that has reduced my physical age and erased my memories accordingly.

Reccer's Notes: Usually, in stories about aging, one partner/beloved grows old, but in this one, Spock finds himself a child again. Despite losing many memories, he knows and remembers Jim, and he is absolutely determined to get back to him. But he has to grow up first. There are a lot of challenges along the way.

What I admire about this story is that both the author and the narrator (Spock) have such singular focus and total commitment to the project. One of the issues the story takes on--and what sets it apart, IMO--is the way that a slightly different upbringing and life path create a different person. It also addresses the sacrifices one must make to achieve a goal. It's absolutely heartbreaking. But, as this theme specifies, there is a happy ending. Also, of course, it's got big meant-to-be energy!

Fanwork Links: A Guiding Star

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Teen
Length: 617
Content Notes: no AO3-type warnings apply
Creator Links: Auburn on AO3, Auburn's old eternalvox website on Wayback
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Established relationship

Summary: John might walk into the water and disappear like a changeling from some bastard fairy tale; everything rich and strange he’d given Rodney fading like magic without him, lost.

Reccer's Notes: Angst with a happy ending can be compact as well. We start the story with hints of John having been through something traumatic, but we never know what (and given Pegasus, take your pick). Or maybe they've lost Atlantis. It's from Rodney's point of view, his angst, and I love the unknowns here, the lyricism and pain, finally resolved in a storm's wild beauty.

Fanwork Links: Not Near the Sea

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Fandom: The Pitt
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Dennis Whitaker
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: mikifoldi on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: a gorgeous portrait of Dennis Whitaker, sad eyes and all.
Link: Gerran Howell digital painting (Whitaker)

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fancake

Poll #33132 round 175 theme poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 101

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Female Relationships
51 (50.5%)

Just Like Canon
21 (20.8%)

Sunshine & Grumpy
29 (28.7%)

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG1
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Elizabeth Weir, Radek Zelenka, Carson Beckett, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, San Carter, Teal'c, Caroline Lam, Hank Landry
Rating: Teen
Length: 20,335
Content Notes: Disability due to aging, anger, grief and loss.
Creator Links: respoftw on AO3
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Established relationship, Hurt/comfort, AU: canon divergence

Summary: A canon divergent AU after 'Common Ground'
“We just don’t have the resources or the facilities to care for him here. I wish that circumstances were different, you have no idea how much I wish that, but the fact remains. My medical recommendation is for us to send him back to Earth.”

Rodney refuses to leave John behind.

Reccer's Notes: In this story, John isn't given back his years after they were taken from him in Common Ground by Todd the Wraith, so he's very old and frail. Elizabeth and the Atlantis expedition are shocked when, after they decide to send John back to Earth for care and treatment (and to die), Rodney resigns and goes with him. However, the first obstacle to that is of course John, who half kills himself angrily rejecting Rodney and telling him he doesn't want him to come. The story is about the struggle they both face with John so frail, scared and ashamed, and Rodney, trying to cope while grieving and exhausted - and not too physically well himself. SG1 rally around to help, as do Teyla and Ronon back in Pegasus, and, well, this is the angst with a happy ending tag, after all. An at-times gruelling, but sometimes funny and overall heartwarming read, with great characterisation.

Fanwork Links: Grow Old Without You

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Fandom: The Pitt
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Dr. Robby
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: traditional art - watercolour and fibre-tips.
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: nacreousor on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: I like the intensity of the colour and texture - it fits his intense feelings. It's also a good likeness.
Link: watercolour and fibre-tip Robby

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Fandom: The Pitt
Characters/Pairing/Other Subject: Trinity Santos, Heather Collins, Victoria Javadi, Dr. Robby, Jack Abbot, Parker Ellis
Content Notes/Warnings: none
Medium: digital art
Artist on DW/LJ: n/a
Artist Website/Gallery: 333ml on tumblr
Why this piece is awesome: Art for The Pitt is exploding right now. To introduce you to some of the characters, these are six excellent digital portraits that each took about 45 min to an hour to paint.
Link: The Pitt has some great faces

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4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
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Just think happy thoughts...

Reading

Sherlock Holmes: Come If Convenient by rudbeckia

Star Trek AOS: A Guiding Star by BC_Brynn

Theme Reminder: Angst (With a Happy Ending)

SGA: Not Near the Sea by Auburn

Gerran Howell digital painting (Whitaker) by mikifoldi (SFW)

Round 175 Theme Poll

SGA/SG1: Grow Old Without You by respoftw

watercolour and fibre-tip Robby by nacreousor (SFW)

The Pitt has some great faces, by 333ml (SFW)

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