#published 2014

[fuckyeah-beringandwellsfics]

the role she was cast.

submitted by: anonymous

the role she was cast. (3721 words) by ellabell / @ellabellbee Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Warehouse 13 Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Pete Lattimer Summary: Takes place as if written between S4 and S5. Cancer arc. Helena returns to the Warehouse to help, but doesn't quite know how to talk to Myka. Pete entertains a recovering Myka by being silly. (This was supposed to be a one-shot, but I've added a second chapter.)

Please tell us why you like this fic so much!

The psychology, Helena's twisted reasoning in this makes so much sense. It is heart wrenching because it is so realistic. All the characters are! But all the heart ache gets soothed so well and soon, so this one is healing.

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[lunaticbookblog]

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Light and fun with some unexpectedly heart wrenching moments. The variety of species, all distinct, is done very well and is enjoyable. The crew were fun and easy to get attached to individually and together. The plot is engaging without being overly complicated, so this is a good book for decompressing after reading something with intense world building.

My only “complaint” is just a personal issue I often have in sci-fi - that there are time skips based on a made up date system. I find this really difficult to follow since I can’t conceptualize how much time has passed.

This doesn’t rank as highly for me as Psalm For The Wild=Built, but that’s just a matter of personal preference. I’ll definitely end up reading the next book in this series eventually.

“In many ways, the idea of a shared stock of genes drifting through the galaxy is far easier to accept than the daunting notion that none of us may ever have the intellectual capacity to understand how life truly works.”

[septembriseur]

Truly there is nothing like rolling along through a perfectly entertaining mystery series and running headfirst into the sturdy brick wall of an installment in which:

- the author states that all Pashtun women have light eyes (later she backtracks to say that light green eyes are “common”). The plot ends up revolving around Pashtuns being essentially white.

- the author refers to “the traditional Muslim shalwar kameez”

- the author thinks that there are areas of London in which there are so many women running around in burkas that you could lose a burka-clad woman in a crowd— I would think that she’s confusing burka and niqab, since that is true of niqab, except she describes the mesh of the burka, so she must know the difference? Except she also describes the burka as “black”! So maybe she doesn’t?

- A Pashtun woman from rural Takhar Province is named “Maya.” (Most of the names are dodgy; I will give the author “Pari” because it could be short for “Parisa.”)

- Illegal immigrants are coming up the Thames in small boats… I’m very tired.

- The murderer is a sworn virgin (called “narkhazak” here, not “bache posh,” a term that the author got from the single book she read, and which I have never seen associated with the bache posh tradition elsewhere), which psychologically damaged her so badly (because, you see, GENDER) that she ends up murdering beautiful young fertile Afghan women. The other suspect is an Afghan trans woman who became trans because she was born with physical disabilities, which psychologically damaged HER, I guess. I GUESS!!!! Because, guys, the thing is that these orientals, with their defective ideas about gender. If they could just UNDERSTAND gender like WE do. That’s basically the thing.

- I’m sure it will astonish you to learn that no Afghan people are mentioned in the acknowledgements.

In conclusion, I am once again begging Western people who write about Afghanistan to talk to just one (1) Afghan person.

[roboticdreamz]

Some old traditional art I made 10 years ago when I got obsessed with Monsters University. It also had me rewatching Monsters Inc. as well.

[try-and-try-and-try-again]

Is it weird that I find the smell of old books really horrible? Everyone seems to romanticise the smell. But I’m reading an old book right now and I feel like I can hardly breathe…

[haveyoureadthisdcfic]

Authour: @whetstonefires (Kieron_ODuibhir)

Subfandom: Batman

Media: Comics

Relationships: Gen (Dick Grayson & Amy Rohrbach)

Year: 2014

Summary:

In which Officer Grayson expresses some opinions. His partner is amused, the paperwork is eternal, and Dick Grayson's secrets have nothing to do with Internal Affairs.

Submitted by @kiragecko

Submitter's comment:

I love Dick's Blüdhaven police partner, and her damaged, but still barely alive, sense of hope and ethics. I love how Dick challenged her, and she rose to the challenge. I love how she supported Dick during a time when he DESPERATELY needed it. And I love how even during the periods where it seemed every female in Blüdhaven needed to flirt with Dick, their relationship was utterly platonic. This story is a beautiful depiction of all the things I love about these two.

[kasielovestacos]

[mewharley]

it's here!!!! ( @frankenfossil look what I got~ :3)

I've been reading this comic for years, YEARS, and it's wonderful

I can't recommend it enough

please check it out

https://www.thebrightsidecomic.com/archive/

I love it so much...

[vg-music-i-like]

Obsidian Mansion // Rune Factory 4

[fuckyeah-beringandwellsfics]

Murmuration

submitted by: anonymous

Link and AO3 details: Murmuration (28090 words) by @roadien60

Chapters: 5/5

Fandom: Warehouse 13

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Myka Bering/Helena "H. G." Wells

Characters: Myka Bering, Helena "H. G." Wells, Tracy Bering, Christina Wells, Warren Bering, Jeannie Bering, William Wolcott, Pete Lattimer

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Science Fiction

Series: Part 1 of Seven Worlds

Summary:

Myka Bering has spent her entire life falling in love with Helena Wells. It took Helena much less time than that to fall in love with Myka. It's all relative, you see.

Please tell us why you like this fic so much!

It's an incredibly compelling AU that uses the time dilation of space travel to amazing effect. One of my favorite Bering and Wells AUs!

[lunaticbookblog]

Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

Book 2 of the Stormlight Archive. This book takes the momentum of the end of The Way of Kings and does not waste it. Started it and could not put it down. So many intense moments. So many funny moments. So much second hand embarrassment.

“Expectation wasn’t just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.”

[agentravensong]

was just reading about the history of physics for my postmodern literature class (don't ask), and the first chapter of this book called "the quantum moment" talks about how issac newton's work led to a fundamental shift in how most people of his time saw and related to the world, allowing them to understand it as an ordered system where everything that happens is caused by forces that obey unified and consistent laws, with those underlying laws being something people could learn and grasp rather than chalking it up to the world working in "mysterious ways"

and my rotted, poisoned brain went, oh. that's why they gave rosencrantz those newton moments in the movie version of r&g are dead*. to coincide with his and guil's dawning realization that they live in a world where fate is (seemingly) fixed, and their attempts to figure out their world's rules and limits.

i could throw screenshots from the script of the play here to draw the comparison, from any of guil's monologues where he philosophizes and tries to make sense of the situation/setting they've found themselves in, but i need to be getting to bed. y'all get it though, right?

*while the apple falling on ros's end is arguably the only direct newton moment, i'm also lumping in some of his inventions, because of this bit from the same chapter of the book:

[kommabortsig]

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[dapperdragon-ao3]

Henry begged, “I told you, Jo. Now that my secret is out, every single moment is a moment I must seize if I can.”

“So you lied to me. You gave me your word, and you broke it, after everything we’ve done together.”

Henry winced. “Jo-“

“Don’t give me an excuse.” The pain of his betrayal came out in waves, her neck heating up, chest roiling. “I agreed to keep your secret, even though I don’t believe you, because you’re my partner. You’re my friend. Nobody gets close to me anymore, not since Sean. Not even Mike. Nobody except you, Henry. You’re the only person I would ever have made that promise to, because I trust you, and you turned around and spat in my face and circumvented the law for the matter of eight hours. Is that what I mean to you, Henry? Just an eight hour headstart?”

Henry withered under the glare of her flashlight, but movement from Abe made her flinch. She illuminated him instead, and was surprised at the anger in his eyes.

“That’s what I mean to him,” Abe said intensely, hunting for her past the glare of the light. “Eight extra hours that I get to spend with him before he either runs away or gets captured by some government goon. That’s what Mom means to him; eight extra hours to spend figuring out what happened to her in her final hours—what happened to her that she was left to rot out here all alone, in this cold, quiet forest, miles away from anyone who loved her. For his own good he should be gone by now, because the NYPD apparently has it on a damn tape, but instead he’s devoting eight extra hours to the woman he married, the woman who raised me, the woman who never deserved this disrespectful, insulting unmarked grave by the side of some God-forsaken road in the middle of nowhere. I love ya, Jo, you’ve got a good head on your shoulders, and funny enough I was actually kind of thinking you and my pops would go along together pretty well, but this is not about you. It’s about us. It’s about our family. And until you start understanding and respecting and accepting what Henry’s told you, I don’t want you anywhere near that.”

[gregdotorg]

It's Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair this weekend, so I've decided to publish a new project, Untitled (Grave Matters), which is a set of screenshots of art historian Anna C. Chave's devastating lecture on Carl Andre, which she delivered at the symposium linked to Dia's 2014 Andre retrospective.

Though she discussed them at length, Andre refused to let Chave publish images of two macabre works he made after he was acquitted for the murder of his wife Ana Mendieta. Untitled (Grave Matters) fixes that.

During NYABF, drop me an email, and I'll send you a signed and stamped edition. After that, we'll see.

[haveyoureadthisdcfic]

Authour: @incogneat-oh (incogneat_oh)

Subfandom: Batman

Media: Comics

Relationships: Ensemble (Bruce Wayne & Tim Drake, Dick Grayson & Tim Drake)

Year: 2011

Summary:

Robin nearly kills a man on patrol. This is a story about repercussions.

Submitted by anon

Submitter's comment:

This fic analyzes some of the mind-games Bruce played with Tim when he was just getting confident being Robin. It has an extremely well-done conflict, as well as great family dynamics between Tim, Dick, and Bruce. All around 10/10. I once forgot the title and the memory of Tim staying at Dick's apartment haunted me for over a year until I found it again -- now I want others to be able to read it and enjoy!