Sherlock Holmes: Come If Convenient by rudbeckia
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fancakeFandom: Sherlock Holmes (tagged as both books and Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: E
Length: 13,317 words
Creator Links: rudbeckia
Theme: Angst with a Happy Ending, courting
Summary: Watson, finally pushed away by Holmes’s lack of regard for his feelings, has left 221B Baker Street and moved into his practice. Holmes is confused—he did nothing wrong! But when Holmes realises (because everyone who gives him advice tells him so) that he is to blame, he knows he has to do something meaningful to win Watson back.
Reccer's Notes: Watson gets tried of Holmes' mistreatment and decides to leave Baker St. Much angst in the beginning, but also a Holmes determined to get his Watson back, cue the wooing! I enjoyed the inclusion of side characters like Mrs Hudson, Mycroft and Lestrade, and there was also an original character, a woman doctor who works with Watson, that I greatly enjoyed. It is tagged as both books and Granada, but I pictured the Granada lads when reading it.
Fanwork Links: AO3
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: E
Length: 13,317 words
Creator Links: rudbeckia
Theme: Angst with a Happy Ending, courting
Summary: Watson, finally pushed away by Holmes’s lack of regard for his feelings, has left 221B Baker Street and moved into his practice. Holmes is confused—he did nothing wrong! But when Holmes realises (because everyone who gives him advice tells him so) that he is to blame, he knows he has to do something meaningful to win Watson back.
Reccer's Notes: Watson gets tried of Holmes' mistreatment and decides to leave Baker St. Much angst in the beginning, but also a Holmes determined to get his Watson back, cue the wooing! I enjoyed the inclusion of side characters like Mrs Hudson, Mycroft and Lestrade, and there was also an original character, a woman doctor who works with Watson, that I greatly enjoyed. It is tagged as both books and Granada, but I pictured the Granada lads when reading it.
Fanwork Links: AO3
Star Trek AOS: A Guiding Star by BC_Brynn
May. 18th, 2025 11:20 amgarryowen posting in fancakeFandom: Star Trek AOS
Pairings/Characters: Kirk/Spock
Rating: Teen +
Length: 11,213
Creator Links: BC_Brynn at AO3
Theme: Angst with a happy ending.
Summary: My name is S’chn T’gai Spock, and I am six years old. At the age of twenty-nine, I have been involved in an accident that has reduced my physical age and erased my memories accordingly.
Reccer's Notes: Usually, in stories about aging, one partner/beloved grows old, but in this one, Spock finds himself a child again. Despite losing many memories, he knows and remembers Jim, and he is absolutely determined to get back to him. But he has to grow up first. There are a lot of challenges along the way.
What I admire about this story is that both the author and the narrator (Spock) have such singular focus and total commitment to the project. One of the issues the story takes on--and what sets it apart, IMO--is the way that a slightly different upbringing and life path create a different person. It also addresses the sacrifices one must make to achieve a goal. It's absolutely heartbreaking. But, as this theme specifies, there is a happy ending. Also, of course, it's got big meant-to-be energy!
Fanwork Links: A Guiding Star
Pairings/Characters: Kirk/Spock
Rating: Teen +
Length: 11,213
Creator Links: BC_Brynn at AO3
Theme: Angst with a happy ending.
Summary: My name is S’chn T’gai Spock, and I am six years old. At the age of twenty-nine, I have been involved in an accident that has reduced my physical age and erased my memories accordingly.
Reccer's Notes: Usually, in stories about aging, one partner/beloved grows old, but in this one, Spock finds himself a child again. Despite losing many memories, he knows and remembers Jim, and he is absolutely determined to get back to him. But he has to grow up first. There are a lot of challenges along the way.
What I admire about this story is that both the author and the narrator (Spock) have such singular focus and total commitment to the project. One of the issues the story takes on--and what sets it apart, IMO--is the way that a slightly different upbringing and life path create a different person. It also addresses the sacrifices one must make to achieve a goal. It's absolutely heartbreaking. But, as this theme specifies, there is a happy ending. Also, of course, it's got big meant-to-be energy!
Fanwork Links: A Guiding Star
SGA: Not Near the Sea by Auburn
May. 18th, 2025 06:22 pmmific posting in fancakeFandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Teen
Length: 617
Content Notes: no AO3-type warnings apply
Creator Links: Auburn on AO3, Auburn's old eternalvox website on Wayback
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Established relationship
Summary: John might walk into the water and disappear like a changeling from some bastard fairy tale; everything rich and strange he’d given Rodney fading like magic without him, lost.
Reccer's Notes: Angst with a happy ending can be compact as well. We start the story with hints of John having been through something traumatic, but we never know what (and given Pegasus, take your pick). Or maybe they've lost Atlantis. It's from Rodney's point of view, his angst, and I love the unknowns here, the lyricism and pain, finally resolved in a storm's wild beauty.
Fanwork Links: Not Near the Sea
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Teen
Length: 617
Content Notes: no AO3-type warnings apply
Creator Links: Auburn on AO3, Auburn's old eternalvox website on Wayback
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Established relationship
Summary: John might walk into the water and disappear like a changeling from some bastard fairy tale; everything rich and strange he’d given Rodney fading like magic without him, lost.
Reccer's Notes: Angst with a happy ending can be compact as well. We start the story with hints of John having been through something traumatic, but we never know what (and given Pegasus, take your pick). Or maybe they've lost Atlantis. It's from Rodney's point of view, his angst, and I love the unknowns here, the lyricism and pain, finally resolved in a storm's wild beauty.
Fanwork Links: Not Near the Sea
Round 175 Theme Poll
May. 17th, 2025 09:06 amrunpunkrun posting in fancakePoll #33132 round 175 theme poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 106
Pick the next theme of fancake:
Female Relationships
55 (51.9%)
Just Like Canon
22 (20.8%)
Sunshine & Grumpy
29 (27.4%)
SGA/SG1: Grow Old Without You by respoftw
May. 16th, 2025 12:34 ammific posting in fancakeFandom: Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG1
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Elizabeth Weir, Radek Zelenka, Carson Beckett, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, San Carter, Teal'c, Caroline Lam, Hank Landry
Rating: Teen
Length: 20,335
Content Notes: Disability due to aging, anger, grief and loss.
Creator Links: respoftw on AO3
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Established relationship, Hurt/comfort, AU: canon divergence
Summary: A canon divergent AU after 'Common Ground'
“We just don’t have the resources or the facilities to care for him here. I wish that circumstances were different, you have no idea how much I wish that, but the fact remains. My medical recommendation is for us to send him back to Earth.”
Rodney refuses to leave John behind.
Reccer's Notes: In this story, John isn't given back his years after they were taken from him in Common Ground by Todd the Wraith, so he's very old and frail. Elizabeth and the Atlantis expedition are shocked when, after they decide to send John back to Earth for care and treatment (and to die), Rodney resigns and goes with him. However, the first obstacle to that is of course John, who half kills himself angrily rejecting Rodney and telling him he doesn't want him to come. The story is about the struggle they both face with John so frail, scared and ashamed, and Rodney, trying to cope while grieving and exhausted - and not too physically well himself. SG1 rally around to help, as do Teyla and Ronon back in Pegasus, and, well, this is the angst with a happy ending tag, after all. An at-times gruelling, but sometimes funny and overall heartwarming read, with great characterisation.
Fanwork Links: Grow Old Without You
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ronon Dex, Elizabeth Weir, Radek Zelenka, Carson Beckett, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, San Carter, Teal'c, Caroline Lam, Hank Landry
Rating: Teen
Length: 20,335
Content Notes: Disability due to aging, anger, grief and loss.
Creator Links: respoftw on AO3
Themes: Angst with a happy ending, Established relationship, Hurt/comfort, AU: canon divergence
Summary: A canon divergent AU after 'Common Ground'
“We just don’t have the resources or the facilities to care for him here. I wish that circumstances were different, you have no idea how much I wish that, but the fact remains. My medical recommendation is for us to send him back to Earth.”
Rodney refuses to leave John behind.
Reccer's Notes: In this story, John isn't given back his years after they were taken from him in Common Ground by Todd the Wraith, so he's very old and frail. Elizabeth and the Atlantis expedition are shocked when, after they decide to send John back to Earth for care and treatment (and to die), Rodney resigns and goes with him. However, the first obstacle to that is of course John, who half kills himself angrily rejecting Rodney and telling him he doesn't want him to come. The story is about the struggle they both face with John so frail, scared and ashamed, and Rodney, trying to cope while grieving and exhausted - and not too physically well himself. SG1 rally around to help, as do Teyla and Ronon back in Pegasus, and, well, this is the angst with a happy ending tag, after all. An at-times gruelling, but sometimes funny and overall heartwarming read, with great characterisation.
Fanwork Links: Grow Old Without You
Nonfiction
May. 9th, 2025 08:09 amrivkatIvan Ermakoff, Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications: ( how do democracies die? )
James Tejani, A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America: ( land grabs )
Henry Jenkins, Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America: ( boyhood, media, and race )
James Tejani, A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America: ( land grabs )
Henry Jenkins, Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America: ( boyhood, media, and race )
Nonfiction
May. 8th, 2025 07:00 pmrivkatAthena Aktipis, A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times: ( cursing and prepping )
Sarah Hook, Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law: The Death of the Transformative Author: ( a non-American against moral rights )
Andrea Long Chu, Authority: Essays: ( not here to make friends )
Tom Segev, 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East: ( tragedy )
Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918: ( also tragedy )
Jordan S. Carroll, Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right: ( alt-right sf readers )
Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form: ( what's a gimmick for? )
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism: ( the book Meta didn't want you to read )
William Neuman, Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela: ( where we might be heading )
Omar el Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: ( justified rage and walking away )
Sarah Hook, Moral Rights, Creativity, and Copyright Law: The Death of the Transformative Author: ( a non-American against moral rights )
Andrea Long Chu, Authority: Essays: ( not here to make friends )
Tom Segev, 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East: ( tragedy )
Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918: ( also tragedy )
Jordan S. Carroll, Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right: ( alt-right sf readers )
Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form: ( what's a gimmick for? )
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism: ( the book Meta didn't want you to read )
William Neuman, Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela: ( where we might be heading )
Omar el Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: ( justified rage and walking away )