Arctic Light

A scattering of fic from different fandoms: Torchwood (unsurprisingly heavy on the Owen h/c), Defenders, Detroit: Become Human, Cobra Kai, Expanse (season 4 spoilers; I put it at the end for easy avoidance).

( 9 fic recs under the cut )

I have some things to rec this week! A very mixed assortment, too.

Kinbaku by edenfalling (Daredevil, Elektra, AU, 750 wds)
I really enjoyed this look at an alternate Elektra who took Matt's path rather than Stick's.

Play To Your Strengths (Dark Matter, Three & Five, 1900 wds)
Cute surrogate-sibling-bonding post-ep for 1x11.

Also, I really enjoyed this article from Wired: The Mandalorian Is the Only Smart Soldier in the Star Wars Galaxy. (Written by someone with a grounding in military tactics - apparently the military strategy and tactics in the show is really good, an extreme rarity in Star Wars! Contains spoilers for the whole show.)

Fic for me! :D

Many Happy Returns of the Day by edenfalling for a prompt I left for any Defenders or Iron Fist character having a birthday after they meet their new friends. Delightful fic with Matt + Danny + a Special Surprise Guest. (Also on DW.)

And this goes nicely with the lovely Jessica and Danny birthday fic that kore/actonbell wrote me in the Defenders Prompt Fest! Which is still open, by the way.


MCU Exchange is open with 81 fics! (I wrote 2 things for this fest. Happy hunting.) I got What a Lovely Way to Burn, an Agent Carter OT3 get-together with abundant Jack h/c that hit aaaaaallllll my happy buttons.


And the Escape the Iron Triangle Exchange (multifandom flashfic) had both the writing period and reveals this weekend. I also wrote two (2) things in this, and I got Clouds, a sweet Bucky de-aging fic!

I've just been reading through the Iron Triangle fics (they're all pretty short and the collection isn't that big, so easy enough to go through in an evening). My favorites so far:

Shoot from the Hip - Defenders/MCU. Claire/Valkyrie, PWP. Probably my favorite thing in the collection; it's sweet and hot with A+ characterization.

Gone Away - Captain Marvel. Maria and Monica in the aftermath of Carol's disappearance in 1989.

At the End of the Rainbow - MCU, gen. Three adventures Valkyrie didn't have, and two she did. (The tagged pairings are a bit inaccurate. Maybe the author isn't familiar with Ao3's pairing tagging system ...?)

Change is as good as a holiday - Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley. A+ character voices.

The Deserter - Original F/F. There's a wealth of worldbuilding and characterization in a really short space; feels like fanfic for a canon that doesn't exist, in the best possible way.


Oh, and signups are open 'til July 14 for auexchange! I need to finish getting my signup together ...

Hurt/Comfort Exchange reveals were today, and I am so delighted with my gifts; they are the BEST. ♥ I've spent most of the day happily wallowing in them, and I will be rereading every one of these a bunch.

The Mind is a Monkey (Iron Fist, 3400 wds, Danny & Ward gen)
“Okay,” Ward said. “Great. You have a telepathic fever.”

Danny develops sudden onset telepathy, because of course he does; Ward panics. A delicious many-layered hurt/comfort angstcake, beautifully characterized. ♥

Something we can rely on (Defenders, 5K, team gen)
How did you stop an enemy who knew everything about you: both your weaknesses and how to cancel out your strengths? With great difficulty, it turned out.

TEAMMMM! Danny and Matt are captured by an enemy who knows how to block their powers (in a particularly awful way for Danny); their friends go searching. All my team feels, right here. *love*

Hijacked (Alliance-Union/Hellburner, 13K, Ben & Dekker + ensemble)
They all knew something was up at this lonely nullpoint, but no one on Norway expected to find a Mazianni base.

Plotty post-canon LONG!!! novelette with loads of competence porn and h/c and prickly friendship! SO GOOD.

And there's still the rest of the archive to go through!