sophia_sol | Entries tagged with fandom: the eagle (of the ninth)

1 TGCF fic

Wear Me Down Slowly, by IneffableDoll

➤ post-canon tgcf fic

➤ yin yu as a ghost fire being protected and cared for by quan yizhen

➤ quanyin learning to see and understand each other a little better

➤ really enjoyed seeing them work towards being able to actually have something good between them again!

➤ 15k words in length

6 SVSSS fics

Shen Qingqiu's Harmony in the Workplace, by raitala

➤ svsss fic wherein sqq is an oblivious aroace who just wants to be left alone to enjoy his disciple's company in peace (binghe even does the voices when he reads aloud!) but other people in his sect keep bothering him by needing things

➤ sqq has no idea that his efforts to get people's problems dealt with results in impressively effective matchmaking

➤ cute and fun!

➤ 6k words in length

i could be your girl, by sixthmoon (seventhstar)

➤ a cute little modern au f/f bingqiu get-together!

➤ lbh comes over to sy's apartment to cook for her on a rainy day

➤ binghe is SO good at working around her yuan-jie's heterosexual hangups 🥰

➤ 2.5k words in length

Territorial, by acernor

➤ a fic that's doing very different things with a/b/o worldbuilding and it's so fun and funny

➤ sqq just wants to be able to talk monster lore with lqg and lbh without those two alphas getting all territorial at each other!

➤ meanwhile lbh and lqg..... figure out a way to resolve their differences

➤ bingliushen is definitely in their future

➤ I love them all

➤ 3.4k words in length

On Paper, by acernor

➤ svsss au fic where as part of peace efforts between the human and demonic realms, marriage has been arranged between lqg and lbh

➤ nobody's pleased with the thought of the marriage actually taking place and everyone expects a duel rather than a completed marriage ceremony

➤ stands alone as a fun glimpse into the world of this story, but author hints at the possibility of it being the first chapter in a longer fic (that would probably end up bingliushen)

➤ 1.7k words in length

somebody told me, by tshirt

➤ svsss fic where sqq transmigrated into one of original lbh's wives

➤ sqq proceeds to go on a gender journey. several gender journeys. it all seems very obvious to sqq!! nobody else gets it!

➤ including liu mingyan, who is honestly TOO supportive for what sqq is looking for!

➤ lbh very willing, meanwhile, to just roll with whatever is going on with his wife a-yuan

➤ I love sqq's baffling little mind. nobody does gender like her!

➤ 4k words in length

The More You Learn, by Neery

➤ svsss canon divergence au, focused on the dynamics between mbj and lbh, with background moshang and bingqiu

➤ I love mbj's pov omg. in his own head he's so straightforward! and just doesn't feel the need to explain himself most of the time

➤ mbj internally: alright sure I'm willing to be allies with this powerful young heavenly demon. mbj out loud to lbh: nothing

➤ also holy shit mbj's pov on sqh!!!

➤ 3k words in length

1 Eagle of the Ninth fic

Where Do You Do Your Research, Wikipedia? by Carmarthen

➤ modern au of the book The Eagle of the Ninth, where they're all in a historical reenactment group together

➤ (yes rereading this was inspired by the recent thought about jgy and the sca drama he'd love to involve himself with)

➤ anyway it's a delightful fic, written by someone who Knows what historical reenactment groups are like. it's exquisitely well drawn and so funny

➤ written entirely in the format of emails on the group's listserv

➤ includes Marcus/Esca but is about the cast as a whole, really, and I love to see all the different characters making an appearance!

➤ 5k words in length

1 Temeraire fic

Forays Into Human Sexuality (or whatever Laurence is doing), by WerewolvesAreReal

➤ delightful post-canon queer gen temeraire fic

➤ ft. Laurence & Tharkay friendship, and Laurence realising some things about himself

➤ I love how much fun Tharkay can have teasing Laurence, and how Laurence despite his excess englishness is still willing to engage with the conversation!

➤ 800 words in length

1 Vorkosigan Saga fic

Re: Re: Must We? We Must. by Lanna Michaels (lannamichaels)

➤ epistolary outside pov vorkosigan saga fic

➤ about someone from another planet who knew Piotr Vorkosigan solely in the context of his interest in horses

➤ very funny to see this pov, where everything Piotr is infamous for is simply irrelevant!

➤ technically a fic in a longer series (that's about Gregor being a fan of underground Komarran radio) but can be read without that knowledge

➤ 700 words in length

2 Mysterious Lotus Casebook fics

What's Sealed Away, by bbcphile

➤ fic for mysterious lotus casebook

➤ hah reading amnesiafic from the pov of the amnesiac character for a fandom about which I know approximately nothing is sure an adventure

➤ especially since I didn't notice the "missing scene" tag on this fic; it ends without the pov character having learned much of anything about himself or his history and relationships, because canon covers it! I'm left as in the dark as I began!

➤ if you're familiar with mysterious lotus casebook you may enjoy this fic, and if like me you're not familiar with the canon but you have fun being confused, you also may enjoy this fic!

➤ ft. two men with an ambiguous fraught-yet-intimate history between them, connecting as best they can while one of them doesn't know what's going on because of amnesia. Includes wound tending and bed sharing, and sexual interest that isn't acted upon!

➤ 11k words in length

Three Autumns, by rageprufrock

➤ more mysterious lotus casebook, a fandom which continues to be mysterious to me

➤ this fic I just read is very charming and sweet... and also every time Di Feisheng showed up I was like OK BUT WHY ISN'T HE ONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF THE FIC

➤ but if you want to read about Li Lianhua learning how to get a very nice happily every after with an earnestly lovely Fang Duobing I do recommend this fic

➤ 33k words in length

1 Mr Queen fic

The Raw Ingredients, by stickypearls

➤ post-canon Mr Queen fanfic

➤ wherein Bong-hwan finds a way to return to Joseon, this time by swapping bodies with a maid

➤ just a bunch of charming fun as Bong-hwan navigates a better understanding of herself and her desires, in the context of a role with very little access to power

➤ I love how good-hearted Bong-hwan is, and how comfortably herself she is at all times!

➤ 41k words in length

1 other fanwork

for people who like experimental forms of fiction, a friend of mine put together a combo of css/html that can be used on ao3 to make interactive fiction that mimics a timeloop! You can see his demo work here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55700662

and you can view the source at http://lastonthebo.at/loop.html; just copy and paste the CSS into a workskin and the HTML into the ao3 edit box.

This is my first time rereading the book since falling into Sutcliff fandom - and gosh it's weird to reread after having read SO MUCH movie fic and movie-book fusion fic. I'd forgotten how different the plot is? ( Read more... )

Crossposts: http://sophia-sol.livejournal.com/224930.html

Jack Layton is dead. I can't even.

Other people are saying far more eloquent things than I could, so I will leave it there.

Here, have a recs-set of HAPPY THINGS:

every aching old machine, by

longtime_lurker. Bandom; Pete/Patrick. OLD MEN IN LOVE.

Dolphin-Borne, by

carmarthen. The Eagle/Dinotopia; Esca, Cottia, Marcus. DINOTOPIA FUSION.

The Adventures of Lily and Severus (BEST BUDS), by

theopteryx. Harry Potter; Lily, Severus. ADORBS WEE COMIC.

Public Displays of Affection, by

philomytha. Vorkosigan; Cordelia/Aral, Alys/Simon. MIDDLE-AGED PEOPLE IN LOVE.

untitled, by dakotaaaa. Doctor Who; Amy/Rory. ADORBS DRAWING OF KISSING AND BUNKBEDS.

Choice of Broadsides. NAPOLEONIC WAR CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-ADVENTURE, WHERE BEING QUEER IS AN OPTION. ALSO IT IS RIDICULOUSLY FUN.

Lose My Breath, by

deirdre_c. White Nights; Kolya/Ray. Vid, to a source you don't need to be familiar with (and it's not just me saying this). TWO DUDES. DANCING. IT IS AMAZING.

Crossposts: http://sophia-sol.livejournal.com/116111.html

So. Uh. I wasn’t going to write a sequel to How Far We’ve Come, and then I couldn’t get the opening sentence to leave me alone so I gave up and wrote the dratted thing. In other words: I AM A LIAR SOMETIMES. Also, once again many thanks to Carmarthen for betaing!

(I know LJ's currently having issues so I don't know if this'll succceed in the crosspost or not, but if it doesn't work then once LJ's recovered from the DDoS thing, I'll manually crosspost.)

Title: You'll Never Know Until You're There
Fandom: The Eagle
Pairing: Esca/Marcus
Contains: consensual whipping
Wordcount: ~750
Summary: Now that they've agreed for Marcus to whip Esca, Marcus can't get it out of his head. (sequel to How Far We've Come)

Read it here on AO3

Crossposts: http://sophia-sol.livejournal.com/113195.html

A thousand thanks to

carmarthen, without whom this story would not exist, and whose insight and betaing were invaluable. (in other words, THIS STORY IS ALL YOUR FAULT, Carmarthen! :D)

Second fic for my kink_bingo card, and just as non-sexual a focus as last time! \o/

Title: How Far We’ve Come
Fandom: The Eagle
Pairing: Esca/Marcus
Contains: discussion of kink (whipping). No sex.
Wordcount: ~1000
Summary: “I want you to whip me,” Esca thinks about saying. He thinks this a lot.

Read the fic on AO3!

Crossposts: http://sophia-sol.livejournal.com/112511.html

Apparently I am in a RECCING KIND OF MOOD or something, given the tenor of my last several posts. We'll see how long this lasts.

So! As requested by

carmarthen, here is a rec set of epistolary fic!

Where Do You Do Your Research, Wikipedia?, by

carmarthen. The Eagle. Marcus/Esca. Of course this has to be first, the epistolary fic by Carmarthen herself. ♥ WHAT, IT'S WONDERFUL. You can reread and enjoy your own fic, right? :D And for the rest of you who are not Carmarthen: It is a modern AU, in which they are all in a Roman reenactment group. It is obviously written out of a place of love and familiarity with the quirks of reenactors, and it is GREAT. Funny, adorable, spot-on, all that. Recommended even if you are not familiar with The Eagle!

How to Get Your Man, by

misfit_fandoms. Star Trek XI. Chekov/Sulu. In which Chekov courts Sulu, as documented by missives of various sorts, between various people. It is adorable!

Bruno Walton for Student Body President, by

kel and

rageprufrock. Macdonald Hall series. Bruno/Boots. Er, for all, what, one person on my flist who has read the Macdonald Hall books? Or maybe there's more of you! Or maybe you should read this fic even if you're not familiar with the series! Yeah, let's go with that. After all, I did, and clearly I am an excellent example to follow in this regard. So. All you need to know: Bruno and Boots are two boys who went to boarding school together as kids and were totally inseparable and also trouble-makers. Bruno is the ringleader. This fic is futurefic, in which they're at university together, sending emails to each other during class. It is excellent and you totally want to read it even if you've never heard of Macdonald Hall.

Killing Elvis, by

hradzka. Alien. Gen. Um. APPARENTLY there is a second theme here in this rec set, which is, FIC YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW THE CANON FOR. (let me retroactively state that you probs don't need to know Star Trek to enjoy the Chekov/Sulu one either, but hell, you, Dear Reader, are in fandom, and thus I am betting you know at least something about Star Trek. There you go. Now you can read that fic too.) All I knew about Alien before reading this fic: there is an alien. See? You too can read this fic with no outside knowledge! This is a fic about three poor people have to deal with bureaucracy and employee stupidity (and boss stupidity) and a dangerous alien and doing their jobs all at once. It is AWESOME.

Postcards to Jeannie, by

friendshipper. SGA. Gen. Um, actually, now I'm afraid I have to say that I actually don't know how well this one would work if you aren't somewhat familiar with SGA. OH WELL. This is a great fic! It is about the friendship between Teyla and Jeannie, as expressed through postcards, and also about the sibling relationship between Rodney and Jeannie, and the lovely teaminess of the SGA team. It is lovely.

And there you go! I hope you have enjoyed these epistolary fics! (and if you have requests for other rec set themes/tropes/etc, feel free to suggest. I may or may not take you up on them, depending on how well I have that particular thing tagged!)

Crossposts: http://sophia-sol.livejournal.com/105047.html

Just watched The Eagle today, finally! ( Spoilery discussion of movie and book. )

( Random ficlet )

Crossposts: http://sophia-sol.livejournal.com/103627.html

I have a whole big long post about The Eagle and about Eagle of the Ninth that wants to be written. But I keep on trying to write it and just being entirely unable to structure my thoughts into any sort of coherent structure. It is a problem!

And now I've gotten to the point where I've even lost track of what half the points I wanted to make even WERE. So I'll just... do a point form list of stuff until I run out of things to say. Sounds good? Okay!

1. I need to see the movie.
2. The fic for the movie is AMAZING.
3. I love the total history nerdery that seems to go along with this fandom
4. ( okay, starting here my points begin to have spoilers for both the book and the movie. )

Crossposts: http://sophia-sol.livejournal.com/98827.html

Thing One: ( spoilers for Buffy season two. Um, I think the episode is called ) In conclusion: I have been saying this for a while but I totally need a BtVS icon. BUT I CAN'T LOSE ANY OF MY CURRENT ICONS. WOE. This shall require further thought.

Thing Two: So APPARENTLY The Eagle is a recent indifferent-quality-but-super-slashy movie. I had heard this. I went, "meh," and moved on with my life. Then I found out it was about a Roman dude and his Briton slave, and went, hang on, this might be interesting. Then I found out that it's based on Eagle of the Ninth, a book that I read waaaaaay back as a small child and remember none of the details of except that it was awesome, and went, HUH. Then I was alerted to the fact that someone wrote fic for the movie IN LATIN.* Then I started reading fic.

HELLO NEW FANDOM. I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOU. (but the social and sexual mores of Romans vs Britons is so interesting! And the dynamic between the characters is so amazing (and adorable)! And okay I'm kind of a sucker for classical history!)

Thing Three: There is a comment meme for asexual characters over at asexual_fandom! So far ALL the fills are awesome, and I am deeply in love with every single ~~fill~~ PROMPT for all the fandoms I recognize and half the ones for the fandoms I don't recognize. I dunno if there are any interested parties on my flist/rlist who don't already read asexual_fandom, but I felt this should be highlighted anyways. Because it is AWESOME.

*Not that I can read Latin. It's just an excellent sign of a fandom's dedication to history-nerdery.