Fic rec a day for the past three days. I'm not GOOD at saying why I like a story, only that I do, so... if you like the fandom, try the fic. Right now you get wizards, because I am in a magic-loving mood.


October 3: Dresden Files (TV canon with bookish influences)
May Winds and Terrors, by beachkid

This fic is entirely made of fragments of memories, not just of Harry Dresden's life but those of his predecessors. Each shard of narrative goes with a fragment of a poem by Sappho. The way beachkid echoes the poetry in the detail-rich, small but vivid moments landed this fic in my favorites-of-ever list.


October 4: The Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
Lips to the Vessels, Throats to the Heavens, by Yuletide Fairy

There's a section of space that's eating wizards and spitting out normal mortals-- if it spits out anything at all. Nita and Kit get sent to investigate, and what Kit finds in that trap is not a wizard... it's a Power. The one you least want to be caught in a trap with. While Nita races to get her partner out of trouble, Kit's figuring out on his own how to escape the Lone Power's prison, and the only viable option is to take the fairest and fallen with him.


October 5: Heroes AU fic
The Foundlings, by doctor_caduceus

I love AUs. I love AUs that let me love the things about a show that remain when the show itself isn't sufficing any more. And I really, REALLY love Doc's AUs, because she's got such a flair for taking the characters I know and putting them in such unlikely times and places and they're still pitch-perfect the characters I know. This is a fairy tale, about an orphan boy taken in by a ruthless king and queen, and about the foreign dragon whose death will determine the heir to the throne. And it's brilliant. (Expect to see a lot more of Doc's work in my recs this month.)


October 6: The Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb
Five Things That Never Happened to FitzChivalry Farseer, by anotherusedpage

This tiny series of AUs gives little yummy bites of ways Fitz's life could have been different, if only... if only he'd not been ashamed to be Witted, if only his father had never abdicated, if only he'd become a dragon, if only. I know only a couple of you have read the series, but if you have you need to read this.


I think I'm going to switch off fic recs with sharing music, so the non-fandom people get something out of this month too. So expect music in the next couple of days.

Disturbing revelation: eyeliner and hair gel can even make Howard Wolowitz kind of hot.

Oh, Big Bang Theory, never leave me. ♥