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Hello i love your blog soo much!! I just finished to read your fics recommendations. And everyone of it were so good and well written i can't even start describing it!!?? I almost had a heart attack half way through them 💛 I wanna ask you if you can give us more suggestions. You 👏have 👏such 👏a 👏good 👏taste.

All right. So. Sorry to leave this unanswered for like three weeks, but I had many thoughts to think on it! Thank you so much for your kind words about my blog; they mean a lot. So much, that I’ll destroy any pretense on Tumblr that I don’t read fan fiction, just for you. See what I do for you? :)

If anyone reads my blog at all, I think I’m pretty clearly biased toward Bones (“What?! No way!” says everyone, extremely sarcastically), so all these fics are Bones-centric. Sorry, that’s just what you’re going to get with me, but if you like my blog, chances are you have a soft spot for Bones as well.

I think you have already seen my post where I recommended, along with Equilibrium (#1 and still champion) and everything else PSW has written for TOS, some other gen TOS fics with Triumvirate feels, but here they are again for everyone else:

Hope, Logic and Other Wastes of Time by pantswarrior (the return of Xenopolycythemia, with fantastic characterization)

Watching the Watcher by stillwaters01 (and everything else by her as well): Great for Bones and Chapel, very medically detailed, hugely introspective.

Mudd in Your Eye and The Vestorian Quandary by Avirra (who also has some excellent series work; these have really interesting plots and Bones badassery)

Now, here are some more recommendations. This is by no means a comprehensive list of everything, only my thoughts at the current moment. One writer I was going to recommend deleted everything from AO3, alas. I might add on to it later, as I am absolutely sure I’ve forgotten things. To try to narrow this down, I’m going to try to steer clear of complete AUs. Mostly.

As is my wont, I am also largely going to recommend non-explicit or only briefly-explicit stuff, as I try to keep this blog on the PG side. I can’t remember all the details about everything, so check the tags before you decide to read, and make the decision that’s best for you.

Gen TOS recommendations:

Through a Mirror Darkly by GenuineSnoof is new; it’s a TOS/AOS crossover with Prime Spock and Bones (both Boneses, in different times) dealing with the Mirror, Mirror mind meld.

Other Gen stuff dealing with the Mirror, Mirror mind meld includes

Memories From A Past Not My Own by PSW

Of Mirrors by EmRose92

Bad Luck and Broken Soul by @apathetic-revenant

The Wicked and Divine by Danzinora Switch (also try by this writer: Peace and Long Life, where Spock and McCoy accidentally transport themselves to Vulcan’s far past; Silence is Key, McCoy vs. Romulans; and Project Memory, one of few worthwhile codas to Spock’s Brain)

ThatSassyCaptain writes some good stuff. Weight is a nice shortish character study off some canon episodes. The Dog Days Are Most Certainly Not Over features McCoy and giant doglike creatures. It’s very silly, and very enjoyable. Also, its sequel just happened to update yesterday for the first time in something like a year.

I remember KCS being a good writer. Try Watching the Watchman, but look around at other stuff, too.

Incubation by Swiss Army Knife: Bones comes back from City on the Edge of Forever with smallpox and has to find a cure before he and everyone on the ship dies. Kirk is a jerk (okay, he’s still traumatized over Edith, but still). Spock is awesome. #ProtectHim

icarus_chained writes some great short character studies.

There are some very long works by Mary R. and Lynn S., which are older pieces but luckily online; try Unspoken Truths, which deals with The Enterprise Incident, and Betrayed (So. Much. Angst. So much. This one is really well-written, but also a really hard read.)

I haven’t read The Dorian Solution in a long time (it’s novel-length, as I remember), but it’s a very interesting premise: McCoy and Kirk accidentally partake in a planet’s ritual that allows one person to take on all the other person’s subsequent injuries. Guess who gets the short end of the stick on this one?)

Imperfections by Amatara: Canon expansion: episode/movie scene additions from The Man Trap to Generations. Fantastic characterizations and UGH MY HEART at that ending.

Gen AOS recommendations:

anonymous - The One Who Is Fire. Bones screws up a First Contact by being emotional. Gets whumped. Much action; much angst. Very Triumvirate. Just on this side of overwrought, but very satisfying and full of the feels.

rustingroses - That Which We Find In Others. Spock and Bones. Earthquake. Trapped. Long talk. Fascinating.

Hollow Earth by beamirang (yes, another xenopolycythemia fic. Whatever. Everyone bands together to find a cure. Many feels.)

Aini_NuFire - Do No Harm: Short adventure with more Bones badassery

Now, various slash-type-things.

TOS/Both TOS and AOS

@klmeri is the reigning champion of McSpirk fic, is all-around stellar, and has even written a couple of stories based on my overly-detailed prompts: Grave or Gone and In Winter Snow Angels Sacrifice. My favourite, though, is Younger than Stars, which has a great, conspiracy-filled plot, and feels aplenty. But just read starting anywhere, honestly. Read them all.

TheRev - Lovely writing. Spones. Try This Must Be the Place (AOS with Spock Prime/McCoy Prime; you will cry) or Nothing By Halves (TOS)

Eddaic - The Wind Here Sings: TOS Spones. Canon-adjacent. Very poetic.

AOS

I’ve already recommended @fireinmywoods’ sneaky, intricately-plotted and swoonworthy Palimpsest and other writing (McKirk), but for comprehensiveness’ sake, here she is as well (she’s also one of my favourite humans on Tumblr). Sometimes explicit.

Mardia - Fortunate Son: AU where Kirk wasn’t on Tarsus IV, but Bones was, as a 19-year-old doctor under the supervision of Dr. Philomena Boyce. The writing on this one is phenomenal, and the use of interwoven flashbacks with the present is stunning. Even explains why Kirk and McCoy’s eye colours switch in AOS. This is a must-read. One sex scene; can be skipped. McKirk.

laughter_now writes some great stuff. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder is also a must-read. So much suspense, featuring Bones being a righteous self-sacrificing badass and awesome doctor. For sheer h/c angst and suspense with a happy ending and a description of drowning that literally made my lungs hurt in sympathy, go for Hold on Tight, I’ll Hold My Breath. McKirk.

Zauzat’s Honourable Enemies is also a must; it has one of the most satisfyingly-crafted plot resolutions I’ve seen in fic. Everything from the beginning pays off at the end. Everything. It’s pretty much movie-ready, except it’s Spones, and I think Beyond is about the Sponesiest they’d ever be willing to go. https://archiveofourown.org/works/225404/chapters/341313

PrairieDawn’s A Matter of Trust strung me out for the past 24 agonizing weeks, but just finished; lucky you. Spones AU with Kirk and McCoy on a medical ship captained by Pike. Joanna was injured in the Vengeance incident and has telepathy issues. Spock is a healer. Makes good use of the Operation: Annihilate! premise. Crisp, evocative, compelling writing.

JoulesMer does a bunch of effective McKirk stuff with Pike and Boyce. Try The Red Wheelbarrow, Xenopolycythemia, or S.O.S. Great for angst and feels and happiness, romance and self-sacrificing idiots. Some stuff is rather explicit.

Gammadolphin is another very entertaining writer who does a lot of McKirk/McSpirk and AUs. It’s all pretty worthwhile, even the incomplete ones. Try A Wish in the Dark for a Bulletproof Heart (similar premise to The Dorian Solution, actually). Also has a range of stuff from non-explicit to explicit.

The Time and Space Are Not Conditions By Which We Live Series by ijen: McSpirky mission moments.

…okay, I’m going to cut it here for my own sanity. Aren’t you sorry you asked?

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fly-pow-bye · 5 years ago

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DuckTales 2017 - “What Ever Happened To Donald Duck?!”

Story by: Francisco Angones, Madison Bateman, Colleen Evanson, Christian Magalhaes, Bob Snow

Written by: Colleen Evanson

Storyboarded by: Sam King, Tory Harris, Sebastien Duclos, Jason Reicher

Directed by: Jason Zurek, Jason Reicher

Mysteries will be solved...in more ways than one!

After a long hiatus, we're back to the moon plotline. I kind of left out a few things that would be very important to know before going into this episode, and I have promised that I would clear those up. Here's at least part of what I left out, starting with the end of "The Golden Spear!".

While Della successfully managed to get back to her family, something had to go terribly wrong, and that something happened to our bastion of bad luck, Donald Duck. While he was preparing for his much-needed vacation on a boat filled with hammocks, Donald noticed a ship in the sky making a landing. He knew it had to be Della. While going into the ship to find his long-lost sister, who already left the ship before he arrived, he accidentally pressed that same emergency launch button, which caused the rocket to launch right back into space, with Donald screaming for help.

Just after we got the answer to what ever happened to Della Duck, we were wondering what ever happened to Donald Duck. We did get an answer to that in the next episode, "Nothing Can Stop Della Duck!", where we see him flying into space, ending up on the very same place that Della landed on years ago. Coincidence? I have a theory on that.

He ends up meeting the Moonlanders, who are preparing to invade the Earth because they believe he's a spy from the Earth that will thwart the upcoming Moonvasion. To make a long story short, Lunaris shot himself in the arm, told the Moonlanders that Della intentionally left the moon to tell the Earth people how weak they are, and declared war on the Earth. There is a major implied reason for all of this, in the episodes before it and in this one, but everything all boils down to "Lunaris is a jerk." That's putting it pretty lightly, actually.

This episode begins with General Lunaris, who, in the opening of this episode, is showing his troops that he has captured the brother of the traitorous Della Duck. Lunaris is lucky enough to capture the one Duck with a speech impediment, so a "what's the big idea" from him can be interpreted as "death to the Moon." With his cries that the Moon is mighty, and that they are the Moon, the general of this "mighty planet" brings together his troops in a call to arms. He certainly does not believe he's just on a satellite of that horrible blue orb, and he will make anyone who claims otherwise know this.

He forces a beak guard on Donald, has him taken away to a jail cell that proudly shows a "There Is No Way Out" poster with his mug on it, and promotes the lieutenant that supposedly discovered Della's evil plan to Captain. The newly promoted captain is not glad about this.

In her first appearance, the then Lieutenant Penumbra was seemingly trying to kill Della moreso than help her. She hated Della, they had what could be described as a life-changing adventure, and then, boom, while Penumbra won't admit it, she became kind-of sort-of Della's friend. At the very least, she is against this invasion. The now Captain Penumbra whispers to Lunaris that he's lying, but Lunaris shoots her down saying that the people do not know that. Besides...

General Lunaris: You’re a hero again. Isn’t that what you wanted?

While Penumbra does nod slightly at this, it is clear from her facial expression that this manipulation based on the crowd chanting her name is not working.

Unlike "What Ever Happened To Della Duck?", they decided to do a B plot back on Earth with this one. If anything, this episode is more like "The Golden Spear!", but they could not avoid the obvious way to title this episode.

After solving the Della mystery, Dewey and Webby are on the hunt for another adventure, and come up to Scrooge with various mysteries, distracting him from making a Money Bin in a Bottle. Dewey tries to pass off a mustard stain as the long lost Phooey Duck, an obscure reference to the comics, while Webby wants to find the Silver Sporran of Clan McDuck, which Scrooge already found years ago. Scrooge tells the nephew and honorary niece that an adventure has to call to them.

As Scrooge tells them that, Huey walks by, saying that his letters to his Uncle Donald keep getting returned. They take this as their Uncle Donald being missing, and take this as Scrooge's fated call to adventure. Uncle Donald being missing is technically true, but there is no way they would know about their Uncle's adventure on the moon.

Speaking of Uncle Donald, he's busy trying to headbutt the walls of his prison to disprove that smug poster. Unfortunately for him, Lunaris and Penumbra come in to talk about their opinions on how prepared those originally peaceful Moonlanders could be. It's funny to see Donald's attempts to hide the crack in the wall he made while this scene is happening.

Lunaris was not entirely ignorant at this, but is also ignorant of Captain Penumbra's "not-his-side"-turn and orders his Captain to take that vile Earth creature to the gold mines.

She's not going to take him to those gold mines, but it's not like she's completely friendly now. Introducing herself as Della's "ugh, friend", she tells Donald that she's against the invasion and wants to help him out. In her own way, of course. She asks Donald if he can find a weakness to the Spear of Selene if she can find the stolen blueprints for it, since his "stupid family" built the rocket.

Donald Duck: (shakes head)

Penumbra: I'll take that neck spasm as an Earth "yes." Let's go! (grabs Donald by the beak)

Penumbra was just nodding a few scenes ago; it's not like shaking and nodding are Earth-specific. I get the joke, but that's a bit inconsistent. That's a nitpick; I had to find at least one minor problem here.

Back on that Earth where "neck-spasms" mean "no", the other sibling that’s allowed to exist in this episode is invited to be a guest on the new spinoff of Dewey Dew-Night, Dew-Dective Dewey Dew-Night, with both Dewey and Webby playing the role as the bad cop. I was a little worried this was going to turn into Dewey and Webby essentially being the same character for this episode, but they find different roles eventually.

Huey does have his own explanation of the returned mail: he's on a boat. It would be difficult to get mail to a boat. "Mystery solved.", he says right after in a "" way. It is logically sound for Huey to come to this conclusion; even if Donald really is missing, as said before, there is no way anyone would know about their Uncle's adventure on the moon.

Huey’s explanation didn’t stop Dewey and Webby’s investigation, so they try a plan: infiltrate the mail by hiding in a box. While this doesn’t work because Dewey forgot to tape the bottom of the box, the mail carrier does tell them that Donald Duck didn't tell them to send his mail to the McDuck Manor, and drops off all of his mail. Dewey picks up one of the envelopes, and, by sheer chance, finds a clue!

Dewey: "Your life is a nonstop deluge of pain. If you want it to stop, pay up. Dash, Jones."

Webby: Is your Uncle getting blackmailed?!

They come to the conclusion that Donald Duck isn't missing, he's on the run! Also technically true, but not in the way they are thinking. They got to save Donald from a tight spot he can't get out of!

Cut to a scene where Donald is getting himself out of a tight vent. This is the only time they do this with a line of dialogue, and this makes this joke stand out more. I approve. Suddenly, a glowing moon scorpion shows up, and Donald scurries away into another tight vent.

You can guess what happens next.

...the scorpion crawls up his shirt and makes him do a "get this scorpion off of me" dance. What did you think was going to happen? This is Disney.

Eventually, he falls into the Moonlander's sleeping quarters, and ends up in a few hijinks. A highlight is this scene where that glowing scorpion shows up, and Donald desperately tries to rock-a-bye all of the soldiers it wakes up. I can just imagine this being one of those flash games that Disney used to have. This shot makes me imagine the mouse cursor and a score on the top. Eventually, Donald gets attacked by the scorpion, causing him to make as much noise as that beak guard could allow, waking everyone up.

Donald Duck: (The most he can say it with a beak cover) Aw, phooey.

After so many months, he finally got to say his own catchphrase.

The scorpion helps him out of this situation indirectly, as it turns out that "get this scorpion off of me" dance from earlier turns out to be a great method for defeating these soldiers. Penumbra was right, these soldiers who used to be peaceful for most of their lives really weren't prepared for this.

Captain Penumbra shows up to see this carnage, and she pays it no mind. Maybe she does see this as proof that the Moonlanders really aren't that good at fighting, but she does praise Donald's fighting ability nonetheless. The scorpion just kind of disappears after this, but that will be a good thing considering it would be a distraction from what they're going to run into next.

We cut back and forth between the Moon adventures and the Dewey and Webby plot of them and their mystery on why Donald Duck's mail keeps getting returned. They end up at an unmarked building where this Jones character's address is, and, while sneaking around, Dewey manages to find a folder with every misfortune his uncle Donald has ever faced. Could it be that Donald's bad luck comes from more than just his misfortune this whole time?

There's a lot of jokes I'm leaving out here. One joke is that Webby is constantly saying that Jones must be an evil land developer that wants to shut down a summer camp, and even when Dewey gives her a simpler plan of just selling Junior Woodchuck cookies, she still manages to shove in her idea of asking that evil man if he has the missing half of a locket. Dewey just shrugs his head at this, but he also thinks he has the "spy skills", using the best of his abilities by not-singing his own name while sneaking around. Oh no, not "not singing", but singing "not dew-dew-dew-dewey!" It's all in good fun, and a good way to do breaks from the more serious plot with Donald.

Definitely not in good fun, for the characters, that is, is Penumbra, who is telling Donald not to mess around in an observatory-esque area. While she's searching for those blueprints, Donald, with his bad luck, leans against a wall and ends up accidentally revealing a secret war room. Penumbra yells at him for his, only to realize she didn't even know about this.

It's revealed that he's been spying on the Earth for quite some time, and he was really taking some notes on people who could stop his invasion. Namely, anyone who is remotely related to, or interacted with, Scrooge McDuck. Captain Penumbra also makes this quip about what she's seeing.

Captain Penumbra: He's been doing this before Della even got here!

She doesn't elaborate on this; does she mean before Della met Lunaris and Penumbra, or before Della even crash landed on the Moon? I am going to assume the former, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lunaris was waiting for the opportunity to invade the Earth for a long time. Maybe they'll elaborate on this when we get back to this arc.

We also learn that he's been making experimental rockets by himself with a series of videos showing himself testing them out. With each one, Lunaris gets more and more bandages on him, until he decides to use a test crash dummy. The current version of this rocket is right in the middle of what looked like an observatory, which looks more like a cannon that will just shoot a bullet-shaped rocket right into the Earth. "Nobody could survive that", Captain Penumbra admits.

She also finds out he's been getting transmissions from the Earth, and Donald finds something that looks like a walkie talkie. Penumbra gives him a plan: send a message to the Earth warning them about the invasion, and...

...she doesn't get to finish that plan, as Penumbra falls over, that badge Lunaris gave her turning out to be some sort of electrocution device. Lunaris ends up being right behind them, and he decides to fill in for Donald's speech, as that beak guard isn't helping his speech impediment:

General Lunaris: I believe the words you’re looking for are "aw, phooey".

He even knows his catchphrase; he really was planning this for a while. Because he's a villain, he decides to describe his plan in more detail. He knew that Scrooge would be a major threat to his invasion, and he says that most people would just target him directly. Instead, he's going to target his next of kin instead, including Hubert, Dewey, and Louie. He even shows, right to Donald's face, their faces covered with Xs, telling him to say goodbye to them. Donald is not too thrilled about this, needless to say.

Going back to one of those nephews, the B plot ends with a satisfying conclusion. Jones, this reboot's version of Neighbor Jones from the comics, ends up getting an entirely different role from the role he had in the comics or the role they had in either Dewey or Webby's noggins. I'm not going to spoil it here, but considering the clue of him having a folder of every bad thing that's happened to him, I can not say it came out of nowhere.

I will say the B plot's ending does do something that ties in perfectly with Lunaris's consequence of threatening Donald's nephews right to his face from the A plot, where Donald breaks open that beak guard with rage and goes into his classic fighting pose. Sadly, him curb stomping this guy was not an option. After all, we have a "Moonvasion!" to get to, and fisticuffs solving the problem without much in the way of wit would go against the spirit of the Disney Ducks anyway.

I will spoil that he does manage to get into that experimental rocket and hit the launch button. General Lunaris just jumps to the conclusion that he cannot survive that, echoing Penumbra's statement from earlier. As for the message, watch the episode to find out what happens with that. I will say at least this much: it's fitting for Donald.

How does it stack up?

This is mostly build up to the upcoming Moonvasion, but it's really exciting build up nonetheless. A funny B plot, and an A plot with some twists and turns. This was a great episode overall.

Next, we get to find out what Goldie and Louie are up to. Oh, and Doofus shows up. Oh, boy.

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