Here I am doing femslash fic rec again! So as I mentioned in my previous rec, tomorrow, 17th Feb, the @hpwlwbigbang starts writers sign up!!!In order to give more visibility to this amazing fest and wonderful stories of women who love women, I'm doing a few recs of my favourite wlw big bang fics from the previous years. Welcome to Rec 2!

Poppyseed by Hippocrates460

Summary: Hermione is about to finish her Unspeakable training, she’s ended things with Ron, and the world feels wide and open. Things that seemed inevitable are no longer true, and the unthinkable has happened more than once.

Okay, we need to talk about Poppyseed. Honestly, I read this amazing fic for the first time last year, and since then it lives in my heart.

If you don't fall in love with Millie while reading, well, you are made of ice! She is sharp, smart, funny, sexy, cute, caring, love of my life, marry me, Millie.

The way Hermione and Millie develop a great friendship that turns into falling in love with each other, while working/studying together, is so sweet and realistic that made me feel like I was there, falling for Millie myself.

@hippocrates460 has this amazing way with words and a great grasp on describing very realistic bits of a developing relationship. It's impossible not to get sucked into the vibe and universe that is explored in this fic.

We get to know Millie's life outside work and her family. I'm a sucker for everything that develops pureblood families and dynamics, so I was delighted to get to know Mrs. Bulstrode 😍

And there's sex: real, unabashed, top notch quality! The kind of sex that moves you. There's such a depth to the reality of the scenes that it took my breath away.

I dunno, I'd say @hippocrates460 writes real life stories. They feel real, not too romantic or epic, more like the real life love, the real life sex. There's such a beauty in realism omg 💜

Bloody hell, here it is. I hope I managed to make you all curious about this wonderful 26k story of Hermione and Millicent. If it wasn't enough, I'd like to add, that as a die hard pansmione fan, I didn't miss Pansy at all. I would, actually, pretty much turn her down for this burly Millie anytime. (🙊😱🤫)

Check out the amazing arts by @impasse-trash and @ravenclawkward-art for this fic 💜❤

Read on AO3

[Previous WLW Rec]

Huldrekall by @lavenderandvanilla

The life of a charcoal burner is quiet and lonely, unless you happen to attract the attention of the Huldrefolk. In which case, life could get very dangerous, very fast.

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a tale none lives to tell by @hippocrates460

Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other.”

- Virginia Woolf

Word count: 8091 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Additional Tags: There's a case, Sherlock Holmes doesn't much believe in the supernatural, (there is also only one bed), halloween fic Summary:

When Sherlock Holmes is called out to a small town by the promise of a mystery involving the summoning of the devil, missing girls and things that go bump in the night, he takes Dr Watson with him to investigate. They find examples of human cruelty and kindness rather than evidence of the supernatural, and perhaps just a little bit more.

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Rec: A good old-fashioned casefic that immediately drew me in and kept me hanging on every word. In narrative style, setting, subject matter, and characterization, it feels just like one of the original ACD stories.

Nostos, by @hippocrates460

(Cover by @e-to-the-i-pi-plus-one)

ὢ πόποι ἦ ῥά τις ἐστὶ καὶ εἰν Ἀΐδαο δόμοισι ψυχὴ καὶ εἴδωλον

(and so, oh wonder, there is, even in the house of Hades, some soul and image)

- Homer (The Odyssey)

‘Why, yes,’ he said, ‘I know of a cure for everything: salt water.’

‘Salt water?’ I asked him.

‘Yes,’ he said, ‘in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.’

- Karen Blixen (The Deluge at Norderney)

Nostos, the oft used theme in Ancient Greek literature which includes an epic hero returning home, doesn't involve the sea, or a shipwreck, or even fang-toothed sirens for Greg. Plenty of frustration and heartache, however. And who could help?

Discussions on Sunday 7 June.

Someone to last your whole life, by @hippocrates460

"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend..." E.M. Forster

Discussions on Discord on 8 March.