femslash fic/art recs

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Thanks to stultiloquentia for telling me about this comm! I made a big femslash fic and art recs post recently, so I am dropping a link here.

Recs for Jane Austen, Game of Thrones, Saga, Gilmore Girls, Strange Empire, Original Fic, Dragon Age, Crimson Peak.

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages

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I read this because of a rec in this comm last week, and I really enjoyed it! If you'd like to read another review of it, mine is posted here on DW and also at my Mar Delaney blog.

Fifty Years in the Virtuous City, by Leo Mandel

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"Fifty Years in the Virtuous City" is a short story very loosely based on "The Sultana's Dream," which can be found here. It tells the story of two women, Amrita Karim and Suhela Mullick, who live in a world a couple of steps off from our own, in a matriarchal country which does not exist but could. It tells of their rivalry in academia, their work, their brush with the brutality of war. The relationship itself is understated, an ever-present backdrop to everything Amrita (the narrator) feels, though not acted on till the end of the story. The worldbuilding is fantastic, the characters are three-dimensional, and Amrita's feelings are rendered vibrantly, even (or possibly especially) because they are not always easily quantifiable.

Highly recommended.

From Me To You: love poems (U. A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey)

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A brief recommendation of this collection of love poems by/between U. A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey at my journal.

The Covert Captain, by Jeannelle M. Ferreira

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To my surprise, someone has written a Regency romance that I can get behind.

The Covert Captain, or: A Marriage of Equals pairs a wounded war hero's clever spinster sister with his devoted subordinate. Captain Fleming is a person of many parts, as Harriet eventually discovers.