misc fics!

In honor of archive being down for a hot sec this week, here's a handful of recs!

• Chernobyl:
  • Vienna Calling, by Jennytheshipper: AU and fixit: I'm always a sucker for spy stories, so this crossover with Le Carré's works is right up my alley. Also, I know I've pitched myself into a number of awfully sad fandoms, but this gets a happy ending that follows perfectly from the new setup!  
• The Terror:
  • You Are Who You Say You Are, by scioscribe: AU and mild fixit?: Alright, I read this first before watching the series. Is that silly? Ah well! That time, I thought it was good that apparently this character got a chance to be his best self. Hickey, that's an alright guy, then. Buddy, was I wrong in canon! The contrast between this slightly shifty but improving guy and canon cannibal Cornelius is wild. It also well-inclined me towards Goodsir though, and that certainly held. Looking into such diametrically opposed points of view is a blast. 
  • viaticum, by Askance: heartwrenchingly canon: boi this devastated me. Harry's passing, through Jopson, Little, and Crozier's eyes. Bridgens is the constant at his side, of course. With restraint to more melodrama, I just gotta say that the last ounces of dignity and mercy they all show each other here are agonizingly beautiful.
  • Working to Windward, by Gigi_Sinclair: canon compliant alibet with the addition of Little/Jopson: Gibson's take on what he sees fomenting. This poor sad little guy, just what goes on in his head. Principles of class solidarity, apparently, and how on earth to ever look out for each other even when everything else is going out the window. I suppose he's something of a cynic here, but more sad than anything else. 
  • let the river rush in, not wash away, by Kt_fairy: longer; Fitzier AU/postcanon fixit because we need some happiness here gosh darn: time for a (physically and emotionally) healthy and communicative relationship! Jimmy Fitz gets to address gender norms a bit! A fair dose of period-typical anxiety about it all, but we're in happy endings territory for once. 
• Lawrence of Arabia:
  • After the Storm, by anon: postcanon, finally getting together: Yeah I know who the movie's named after, but Ali is absolutely the one who's grabbed me (I'm about three and a half hours in, it's just so hard to drag myself through all the emotions I know are right around the corner). I just need him to be happy again somehow! and lo!
• For old time's sake!
  • A Star to Steer By, by Dogmatix and Nocrumi: crossover/blending/AU: yall I've been reading this for about three years and it completed! Star Wars and Stargate isn't the most common crossover, but they've put so much worldbuilding (there's a whole side series) that everything flows together so satisfyingly. I want to go back and tell elementary school me that my two favorite sci fi stories get to share a story like this. For being so long, it's so easy to re- and reread :D
  • Men of Legend, by hells_half_acre: crossover of Merlin and Supernatural: I heard hha is updating with a third installment of this series, and came back, and you know what, this holds up. I haven't been in either fandom for aaages, but it's good stuff! I probably even like a few characters more here than in canon; folks show up in good faith and it's so easy to engage with sincerity like that. Part 2 is particularly adorable, and part 3 is still coming out and I'm loving the unselfconscious affection everyone gets to toss back and forth. I think we could all do with more interactions written that way! (hha also did the Demented'verse, and I think I'll probably find myself there again soon)

In far other news, this week I found Hansel and Gretel in the friends of the library bookstore for $1 and it's one of those beautiful ancient Schirmer scores; there's no year on the title page but it has $2.50 on the cover and the copyright dates back to 1895 according to the bottom of the prelude, so I'm ballparking this side of but close to the turn of the 1900s?? The cover is coming off but in one whole unit and the pages are all still bound together, and the only markings are red pencil under Hansel's part, so all considered I think it's in great shape! I'll find some time to sit down and read it properly and find some short pieces to work on, and I have my pick of either Hansel or the Witch :D (I know we live in the internet era and IMSLP is a blessing, but I absolutely couldn't pass it up!)