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The Tigers Have Spoken by dance_across for likecinnamoninoctober
Fandoms: Aladdin (1992)
25 Dec 2020
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“Jasmine, I’ve been—” The boy stops short when he sees it’s not the princess herself come to greet him, but the princess’s tiger. “Oh. Um. Hi. I was just…”
Rajah plants himself in the middle of the doorway. He is a solid barrier, but he is also ready to move, should the boy decide to try any of his idiot cleverness. He knows the boy can tell.
Rajah is very good at his job.- Language:
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
26 Dec 2020
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It's (relatively) easy to write fic that matches the tone of its source canon - swash for a swashbuckler, slapstick for slapstick, scary for horror. What's distinctive and often difficult is creating fic that flips its source's tone inside out, yet retains the essential flavor of the original. That's what we have here: a moment straight from the throne room of the animated Aladdin that pauses, goes deeply quiet and thoughtful and fierce, and gets very convincingly inside the mind of a tiger who is absolutely no one's pussycat.
This one's a keeper.
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futures found in bookstores by kitsunerei88 for Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Castle (TV 2009), Young Wizards - Diane Duane
23 Aug 2020
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Castles have always found themselves in bookstores, and Alexis is no different.
Or: Alexis Castle finds a book, or maybe the book finds her.
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
30 Aug 2020
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A charming sidewise view of early errantry, with Alexis Castle as centerpiece. Just enough (and the right) detail to set matters in motion; sometimes simply laying the proper groundwork is exactly the right thing to do, and that's what this does, and does well.
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Return Home, Return to Yourself by willhavetheirtrinkets (Musyc) for Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Star Trek: The Original Series, Uhura's Song
17 Dec 2018
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Rushlight has enjoyed his travels, but he misses his world and his people. He's been away from home for too long.
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
25 Dec 2018
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An insightful and sensitive character piece, thoughtfully and wisely integrating Rushlight's journeys and the source novel into the context of the larger Starfleet universe. Very well done indeed.
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Twin Properties by aurilly for Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Oz - L. Frank Baum
17 Dec 2016
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When Polly gets lost in the US, she seeks out her only mortal (actually, only in general) friend.
AKA How Button-Bright ended up in that popcorn snowdrift.
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
25 Dec 2016
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A perfectly delightful and thoughtful extrapolation from what Baum gives us of Button-Bright's history, well-reasoned in detail and well-rendered in tone and style. I think the angle it takes on Button-Bright is exactly on target, Polychrome's difficulties in non-magical America are all too plausible, and the narrative deftly acknowledges some of the more problematic issues without becoming overly risqué. Also, the story fits itself ingeniously into the overall Ozian timeline -- clearly, its author is well and wisely versed in the larger canon.
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Facing the Music [Podfic] by blackglass for Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kim Possible (Cartoon), Smallville, Velveteen - Seanan McGuire, InCryptid - Seanan McGuire, Gargoyles (TV)
16 Mar 2016
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A podfic of "Facing the Music" by Gray Cardinal.
"No, worlds music, with an S."
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
16 Mar 2016
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I honestly didn't realize till I'd heard this just how well it works as an audio piece, most especially with the songs included. I am delighted and honored to have been so well podficced here.
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The Ice Demon and the Hydra by Lizardbeth for Enk
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Thor (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Frozen (2013)
05 Mar 2015
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When Germany invades Arendelle, Loki wants to keep the promise he made to Elsa to protect their people. But these mortals are far more dangerous than those he knew, especially the Red Skull, and Loki can't avenge Arendelle alone-- he needs Captain America and the Howling Commandos.
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- Part 3 of The Ice Demon
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
06 Mar 2015
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Both a worthy successor to the earlier stories in this series and a beautifully executed tale in itself. I think it hangs together reasonably well even if one has yet to read the prior tales -- which is to say, I think MCU fans can easily come in here and then go back and pick up the Frozen arc (though having said that, reading the series in order is probably the best overall experience). What's been built here is a remarkably seamless fusion of the two universes, and that has utterly fascinating implications for the modern-era Avengers continuity when we get there.
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To Grandmother's Secret Lab We Go by StringedVictory for MiraMira
Fandoms: Narbonic, Skin Horse (Webcomic)
21 Dec 2014
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While playing host to the Narbons, Mell gets tracked down by a relative... of sorts. But hers isn't the only unexpected family reunion in store, and soon the whole crew is on a cross-country Narbon-vs.-Narbon chase. Blood may be thicker than water, but are nanites thicker than blood?
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
29 Dec 2014
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For some reason, I didn't move on to Skin Horse after encountering and falling in love with Narbonic two-thirds or so of the way in. Now I may have to change that, because this is at once a totally spectacular post-canon Narbonic adventure and a dropped-in-at-the-deep-end Skin Horse caper, and while I haven't read the latter strip at all, the story is hyperactively madcap enough that it holds up regardless. Also, if I didn't know better, I'd seriously think I'd written this myself, because its style and structure remind me of my own Kim Possible/Narbonic crossover from some years back. (I emphasize that this is a reminds-me-in-a-good-way note, not a criticism or complaint.) Mad science has never been more fun than these characters make it, whether in Shaenon Garrity's hands or those of the present fanwriter.
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Sayvil experiences Choosing from a new perspective.
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
29 Dec 2014
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Noteworthy both for the direct look at Companion life from backstage and for the neatly executed reverse spin on Kerowyn's moment of Choice from By the Sword.
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From Here to Eternity by rabidsamfan for hydrangea
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
23 Dec 2014
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Guarding the border has its moments. And sometimes it doesn't.
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- Part 43 of 100 words in 100(+) fandoms
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- 100
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
29 Dec 2014
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A brief, amusing look at afterlife in the Forest of Sorrows. And possibly an argument for either Vanyel or Stefan being a distant ancestor of Calvin's -- and, as the obvious corollary, Hobbes being a Firecat. (This story is not that fusion, but it might well lay the groundwork for such....)
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“The heart has its reasons whereof reason knows nothing.”
--Blaise Pascal- Language:
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
29 Dec 2014
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A lovely, leisurely depiction of the evolution of a found family, perceptive and sensitive but not at all saccharine, invoking just the right touch of tension without devolving into angst. Very canon-aware, and yet I think it holds up independent of canon; this is first-class writing whether or not you know the series.
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And Wings made of Air by Ione for Jenn_Calaelen
Fandoms: Dobrenica Series - Sherwood Smith
21 Dec 2014
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Marius Alexander Ysvorod, crown prince of Dobrenica, the day after his wedding . . .
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
29 Dec 2014
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Thoughtful and funny and sweet and wondrous (in the old-fashioned sense-of-wonder sense) in all the right places. For me, the voice here catches precisely the echo I've noted in canon between this series and Elizabeth Peters' Vicky Bliss novels; the relationship between Alec and Kim has much the same texture as that between John and Vicky, though with something of a reversal of roles.
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Anno Domini 1915 by thegirlwiththemouseyhair for spiderfire
Fandoms: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
18 Dec 2014
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
29 Dec 2014
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Not too grim at all in my book, though it's not perhaps a tale for the squeamish -- a fascinating, unusual pre-canon snapshot of Merriman and Miss Greythorne (one of my favorite characters, too), and the consequences of the choices one makes as an Old One.
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Marley's haunting was all that saved Scrooge from eternal damnation. Years have passed and it is time to repay the favor.
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
29 Dec 2014
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A very interesting take on Scrooge's arrival in the hereafter. On the one hand, this plays very straight with its Dickens; on another, though, there's a faint and fascinating resonance here between this piece and The Muppet Christmas Carol's choice to cast Statler and Waldorf as "Marley and Marley".
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No Law Against Looking by rabidsamfan for Gray_Cardinal
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (Cartoon), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
23 Dec 2014
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The rules of relationship can get tangled after two hundred years.
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- Part 80 of 100 words in 100(+) fandoms
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- 100
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
29 Dec 2014
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Heh. Yes, they do, and here Lestrade is looking at Holmes from a doubly unique perspective. Very well done indeed, and a worthy gift.
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The Usual Arrangements by Kastaka for Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: The Lastborn of Elvinwood - Linda Haldeman
21 Dec 2014
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We're told that 'he told a tale well', but how would the Vicar spin Ian's first meeting with the little folk to his master?
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
29 Dec 2014
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I have been waiting for *years* for this story (and it was a pure and utter surprise when I found I'd gotten it). A clever and amusing spin on a key encounter between various principal characters. Best. Yuletide. Ever. (Also, now that I think of it, actually, fairly comprehensible -- and possibly funny -- even if you haven't read the novel.)
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Dancing Refutes Entropy by Framlingem for NightsMistress
Fandoms: Young Wizards - Diane Duane
04 Jul 2014
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After everything, Carmela decides that what Ronan needs is some R&R at a nightclub at the Crossings. None of their friends can come, but everybody else is there.
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
09 Jul 2014
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Heh. As usual, Carmela wins going away, although Ronan is perhaps ahead in the learning-something-from-the-evening department. A perceptive and well-played scene (and the cameos, especially the second duo, are especially entertaining).
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Rebuilding by kalisgirl for Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)
04 Jul 2014
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Four Times Melinda Didn't Mean to Hurt Phil Coulson (and One Time She Sort of Did)
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
09 Jul 2014
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A well-imagined piece that definitely captures the texture of the Coulson/May relationship -- prickly and yet persistent on both sides, but especially so for Melinda. Secondary characters are well-drawn, too; it would have been easy to introduce Maria Hill as a mediating force, but here she's squarely on May's side...and in context, it's a convincing and well-executed choice.
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Enchanted Wonderland by hhertzof for Twilight2000
Fandoms: Warehouse 13, Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne, New York Public Library (Fandom)
05 May 2014
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Pete's dealt with this artifact before...if only he could remember how he escaped the first time.
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
11 May 2014
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This piece neatly encapsulates both the Poohniverse's innate sense of wonder and the genre-bending aspects of the Warehouse 13 premise, and the blending with real-world developments at NYPL appeals to my sense of fannish mischief. Full marks for sharp execution and sensitive characterization; color me a very happy reader.
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Artifacts by aldanise for Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
Fandoms: Stealing the Elf-King's Roses - Diane Duane
22 Dec 2013
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Some of the qualities of matter have changed now, sure, but a lot of investigating remains the same.
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
28 Dec 2013
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Our Heroes are consulting crime-scene investigators in one of the next universes over from ours, who use technical sorcery the way CSIs in our world use traditional science. Also, Gelert is essentially a very large shaggy dog.
This is a snapshot of a case that comes up after the events of the novel, but it's sufficiently self-contained that you don't strictly need the novel to understand the world. And reading this should not spoil you for any of the major twists and turns in the novel proper, which is a definite bonus. The author nails Duane's narrative voice and shows an excellent understanding of the magical system; I am very, very pleased indeed to have had this written for me, and if the scene you see here draws you in, I highly recommend the book, which is available in an author's preferred e-book edition direct from Diane Duane's Web site.
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Diego is looking for a way for Zorro to help a local family, and Alejandro might just be able to provide him with the clue he needs.
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Bookmarked by Gray Cardinal (Gray_Cardinal)
28 Dec 2013
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I'm a longtime Zorro fan but a latecomer to the lure of the 1990 series starring Duncan Regehr. This story, though, very much fits the particular atmosphere of that incarnation of Zorro, in which sleight of hand and clever misdirection were as important as inspired swordplay. Another highlight is Don Alejandro's contribution to driving the plot forward. Alert readers may also spot a shoutout to yet another masked swashbuckler....