#rarelywritten

Tomorrow it will be a week since the stories went up, and this is your friendly mod-reminder to leave a comment on the fic that was written for you as a gift.  If there's a reason that you can't/don't want to comment, please, get in touch with the mods and we will do our best to accommodate you.

This is also good preparation for next year, when we will be introducing a new requirement for the challenge:  you'll be required to comment on the fic written for you and failing to comment will be grounds for ineligibility for the following year. 

The only exception to this would be if the fic written for you specifically uses things you outlined as squicks/triggers, or is in another ways racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/etc.    We will also work to accommodate you if you have issues with anxiety re: commenting, and work with you. 

Also LOOK, LOOK AT MY GIFT FIC. (by lastwingedthing)

Fandom: Battlestar Galactica (2003) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gaius Baltar/Caprica Six, D'Anna Biers/Caprica Six Summary:

The future isn't set in stone, but some people know what will happen anyway.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Blade Runner (1982) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Rachael (Blade Runner), Rick Deckard, Eldon Tyrell Summary:

The semblance of honor is the only thing she willingly gives up of her former life. Everything else, they will have to fight her for.

I feel like I hardly read in any fandoms any more, but there was still a lot to enjoy this year! Disclosure: two of these were written for me, and I co-mod the exchange.

Strange Empire

I loved both fics in this fandom! sanguinity has done a great job with character voice, tone, and historical details. I’m always blown away when authors do noticeable research for fics because my own tendencies tend to run so much the other direction (feeling rather than fact). As Safe as Houses has Morgan Finn and his new wife (formerly Miss Logan) taking a balloon ride. Kissing Day is a sweet post-canon moment with the Lovings and Rebecca, shippy with certain goggles.

Orphan Black

Survival Under Extreme Conditions by bookgazing is heartbreaking and still thrilling and reassuring. It looks at Beth and Alison’s toxic relationship, unflinchingly, but still finds hope there for both of them.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Butterfly Knife by inlovewithnight is just exactly the thing I want from this fandom! Young Rosa in dance academy, fighting and forcing her way through. Young QUEER Rosa figuring out her place and who she is and what she likes.

Community

Exit Music (for a Film) by Calliatra is just exquisite. I love Britta. I love the integration of so many of the things that make Britta BRITTA here. There are places where the abuse is hard to read, but I love knowing that Britta gets out alive and well.

The Fall

I still need to finish the season (bad me!) but I really enjoyed this bit of yearning and analysis of Dani and Stella. Binary thinking, indeed! By Her Side by kmo - check it out!

Lost Girl

Fandom: The Fall (TV) Rating: Mature Relationships: Danielle Ferrington/Stella Gibson, Stella Gibson/Reed Smith, Danielle Ferrington & Reed Smith Characters: Stella Gibson, Danielle Ferrington, Reed Smith Additional Tags: s2, Missing Scene Summary: 

“Because Stella needs someone. Someone she can trust. Not one of the men,” Reed says with a quirk of her full lips. “And right now, it can’t be me.”

Between the lines of s2 from Dani's point of view.