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el_stapladorRecs in Izetta: the Last Witch, The Count of Monte Cristo, Sappho RPF, and origfic, over at my journal.
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Oct. 19th, 2018 09:15 pmel_staplador
A few origfic recs
Sep. 7th, 2018 09:31 pmel_stapladorFollowing rachelmanija's example from last week, here are some f/f origfics I've particularly enjoyed. Almost all of them were gifts for me - this is largely because I'm feeling lazy and only looking at my gifts page and my bookmarks.
Two with singers:
J'attendrai (1940s Resistance Fighter/Glamorous Wartime Singer) - a dark, bittersweet piece, heavy with mistrust, and beautifully written.
The sadness of having to wait, the sweetness of having someone to wait for...
The Mystery of the Polyglot Diva by categranger (Opera Singer/Opera Singer) - this is a hilarious and touching story told through online and social media.
When world-renowned soprano Emilia Porter surprises a fan by speaking fluent Russian, the celebrity rumor mill goes into overdrive. Gossip soon settles on her handsome co-star Sasha Lermontov, but there are a few surprises in store for the opera world…
And two with mermaids:
The Color of the Sea by prpl_pen (Artist/Mermaid) - a very sweet little story about a lighthouse keeper's niece and the mermaid who's never seen paint before.
An unusually curious and sociable mermaid finds fascination with art--or perhaps it's the artist herself she's most drawn to.
And this one wasn't written for me, but it was also written to the 'Artist/Mermaid' prompt, so it feels as if it was:
Seascape by MiriamKenneath - Short but breathtakingly good.
She was beautiful, and I liked to imagine she could see me there watching her from beneath the swells of the tides and that she yearned to join me. But she never came into the water.
rachelmanija's example from last week, here are some f/f origfics I've particularly enjoyed. Almost all of them were gifts for me - this is largely because I'm feeling lazy and only looking at my gifts page and my bookmarks.Two with singers:
J'attendrai (1940s Resistance Fighter/Glamorous Wartime Singer) - a dark, bittersweet piece, heavy with mistrust, and beautifully written.
The sadness of having to wait, the sweetness of having someone to wait for...
The Mystery of the Polyglot Diva by categranger (Opera Singer/Opera Singer) - this is a hilarious and touching story told through online and social media.
When world-renowned soprano Emilia Porter surprises a fan by speaking fluent Russian, the celebrity rumor mill goes into overdrive. Gossip soon settles on her handsome co-star Sasha Lermontov, but there are a few surprises in store for the opera world…
And two with mermaids:
The Color of the Sea by prpl_pen (Artist/Mermaid) - a very sweet little story about a lighthouse keeper's niece and the mermaid who's never seen paint before.
An unusually curious and sociable mermaid finds fascination with art--or perhaps it's the artist herself she's most drawn to.
And this one wasn't written for me, but it was also written to the 'Artist/Mermaid' prompt, so it feels as if it was:
Seascape by MiriamKenneath - Short but breathtakingly good.
She was beautiful, and I liked to imagine she could see me there watching her from beneath the swells of the tides and that she yearned to join me. But she never came into the water.
rachelmanijaA novella and two short stories by Ellen Klages reviewed here. Beautifully written, engrossing historical fantasy.
el_stapladorThis was a freebie from the author's site. It's a historical jeu d'esprit featuring Hortense Mancini (apologies to everyone who now has the Charles II rap stuck in their heads), Aphra Behn, and Julie d'Aubigny. There's swashbuckling, kidnapping, highway robbery, and espionage, and much of it (precisely how much is explained in a helpful afterword) is based on real events. Recommended if you're in the mood for some frothy fun.
auroracloudIt's actually Saturday already, but still, here's my first FF Friday entry! Over at my DW, reviewing Heather Rose Jones's Daughter of Mystery and The Mystic Marriage, the first two books of her Alpennia series, which is historical fantasy involving adventures, intrigues, magic and alchemy, women loving women and women loving books, set in an alternate 19th century Europe.
Also in the post, linking to her Lesbian Historic Motif Project and its associated podcast, which are great resources for the history of women loving women.
Also in the post, linking to her Lesbian Historic Motif Project and its associated podcast, which are great resources for the history of women loving women.
patience & sarah by isabel miller
May. 19th, 2018 12:29 ameglantiere
patience & sarah by isabel millerit's a story about two frontier women - an educated, witty painter patience, stifled in her brother's unloving house somewhere in the middle of judgemental, bible-belt-y rural america, and sarah the farmer, raised by her father as something of a honorary boy in duties and responsibilities and juust a bit of freedom. they find each other, and they fall in love - of course - and it's terrifying and hard and at once easier than they expected, and once there's this love, allowed, they can afford to love the rest of the world as well, to watch it for kindness and hope. starts and stops and broken attempts - sarah offers the flight but patience is afraid, sarah returns and is content to deal with breadcrumbs, but patience teaches them to get everything - and growing up, and learning themselves and the others, and the world around them is so wavering and unsettled into itself there's acceptance alongisde with censure, and possibilities, and hope, and hope, and hope.
i loved it so much - i'm startled by this book because i did not expect it, and i kind of fell into it the way you fall asleep in the garden, somewhere - and it's so beautiful, that creating of the language on the fly when your old one doesn't have the words needed, the concepts, the joy. oh, ah, this journey, this home.
So when I let my head fall back under Sarah’s kiss, the frenzy I trembled at just wasn’t there. Instead, comfort and joy and simplicity and order and answers to questions I’d always supposed unanswerable, such as, why was I born? why a woman? why here? why now?
A wonderful glowing spacious peacefulness came to us. There was so much time.
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
May. 18th, 2018 10:23 ammonanotlisaAaand we have come to the end of my catch-up reviews. From here on in, it's new material that I will post. But for today, an actual Friday, we come to the book the community icon is from: I found a high-quality shot of the cover and used it.
Anyway, on to the novel everyone, absolutely everyone needs to read -- it's one of the best to come across my greedy bookbworm hands:
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
Anyway, on to the novel everyone, absolutely everyone needs to read -- it's one of the best to come across my greedy bookbworm hands:
Fingersmith, by Sarah Waters
