Candy Hearts recs
Feb. 18th, 2023 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eccentric_hatI've been having a lot of fun with Candy Hearts, the exchange that took the place of Chocolate Box this year. I wrote three whole stories, which I look forward to announcing, and I've been taking time to read the collection in a way that I didn't really manage with Yuletide. So here are some recs! The minimum wordcount was just 300; some of these are longer than that, but I don't think any of them are longer than 5k or so.
Dimension 20
Effervescent: This is my gift! It's Misty Moore/Josefina Gatsby, which is a ship I nominated entirely because, when I had my cursor hovering over the Relationships field in nominations, this ship appeared in the drop-down options and I thought, hey, they did know each other didn't they? And Misty said Josefina was a lot of fun, and there must have been some wild times in the Unsleeping City in the 1920s. I'm so glad I did. This is rhythmic and sweet and flirtatious and gets the mood just right.
Sweeter Than Before is a lovely and, yeah, sweet post-canon Fantasy High story about Aelwyn and Adaine and their attempts to be sisters to each other.
Frasier
Crafty Beer: Frasier and Niles get into craft beer in the most obnoxious way possible.
Gong Show Robbed: it's a crossover with Goncharov, go go go!
Ghosts BBC
Check and Mates: Mike takes up a new hobby.
Valentine's Day: The ghosts help Mike do something nice for Alison. Both this one and the above have perfect character voices.
Historical RPF
She blinded me with science: An absolutely gorgeous tribute to Émilie du Châtelet, including her long love affair with Voltaire but also the work that she dedicated her life to.
Original Works
Spectre: a mundane detective and a supernatural one share details of a case; lovely quick character dynamics.
The Orchard: a farmer gets some much-needed help; sweet and slow-paced.
No Lack of Caring: one of two great fics I've read with the pairing "Superhero Who Works in a Coffee Shop/Tired Supervillain Customer." This one is from the hero's perspective...
Double Shot of Sunshine:...and this one is from the villain's. They're both delightful.
Interrupted Heists, Dentist Visits, and Other Romantic Dates For Your Fake Husband is on a similar theme, a henchman/sidekick fake marriage story that locks the characters in fast and hits a note of labor solidarity along the way.
Ted Lasso
Everybody Wants to Love You: Ted/Trent, meandering their way to getting together over a little bit of jealousy here and there.
Dimension 20
Effervescent: This is my gift! It's Misty Moore/Josefina Gatsby, which is a ship I nominated entirely because, when I had my cursor hovering over the Relationships field in nominations, this ship appeared in the drop-down options and I thought, hey, they did know each other didn't they? And Misty said Josefina was a lot of fun, and there must have been some wild times in the Unsleeping City in the 1920s. I'm so glad I did. This is rhythmic and sweet and flirtatious and gets the mood just right.
Sweeter Than Before is a lovely and, yeah, sweet post-canon Fantasy High story about Aelwyn and Adaine and their attempts to be sisters to each other.
Frasier
Crafty Beer: Frasier and Niles get into craft beer in the most obnoxious way possible.
Gong Show Robbed: it's a crossover with Goncharov, go go go!
Ghosts BBC
Check and Mates: Mike takes up a new hobby.
Valentine's Day: The ghosts help Mike do something nice for Alison. Both this one and the above have perfect character voices.
Historical RPF
She blinded me with science: An absolutely gorgeous tribute to Émilie du Châtelet, including her long love affair with Voltaire but also the work that she dedicated her life to.
Original Works
Spectre: a mundane detective and a supernatural one share details of a case; lovely quick character dynamics.
The Orchard: a farmer gets some much-needed help; sweet and slow-paced.
No Lack of Caring: one of two great fics I've read with the pairing "Superhero Who Works in a Coffee Shop/Tired Supervillain Customer." This one is from the hero's perspective...
Double Shot of Sunshine:...and this one is from the villain's. They're both delightful.
Interrupted Heists, Dentist Visits, and Other Romantic Dates For Your Fake Husband is on a similar theme, a henchman/sidekick fake marriage story that locks the characters in fast and hits a note of labor solidarity along the way.
Ted Lasso
Everybody Wants to Love You: Ted/Trent, meandering their way to getting together over a little bit of jealousy here and there.
