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This month, I'm signed up to recommend Dungeons & Dragons cartoon fanart on fanart_recs. The other signed-up monthly reccer (doing Baldur's Gate 3) already posted today, so I'll wait until at least tomorrow to post my first rec (min 4, max 8, in a month; I have 6 planned).

If you're interested in D&DC and/or fanart, come play!

(Of course I'll post a round-up here when it's done, too.)

Addendum, Thursday morning: My first rec for this project is up.

As you know, the everywoman exchange released this past week. Visit the collection by fandom.

I can't well list recommendations until the stories de-anonymize, because that would process-of-elimination reveal which I wrote to those who know my fandom scope. :-) But I have now read every story in the exchange in fandoms I know that doesn't have a personal DNW in the tags, and there are several gems!

One is the BSG78 story written for my request (G, gen; ~3K words), which poses an exciting scenario that could easily have been the B plot of a canon episode: a clunky civilian shuttle is caught in transit between bigger ships during a Cylon attack on the fleet.

The 15 new stories in this year's hlh_shortcuts will surely all be someone's favorites! For example, I must admit that, after a few paragraphs, I backed out and chose not to read Killa's no doubt outstanding "Pleased to Meet You" because it's a crossover with Lucifer, with which I'm personally not super comfortable. We all like different things!

Here are a few stories that appealed to me, myself:

"The Jaded Journalist" by Hafital
(G, gen, ~10K words) (Randi, Duncan, Tessa, Amanda, the De Valincourts, Methos)
I already recommended this while it was anonymous. Read my recommendation. This is the "What happened to Randi?" that I've been waiting for. It starts with a missing scene from "Band of Brothers" and then runs forward, always intertwining with canon yet never changing it, with the focus always on Randi and her career. Well-written, canon-rich, unique, perfectly voiced. Fantastic!

"A Credit To Her Teacher" by Malinaldarose
(G, gen, ~5K words) (Amanda, Michelle, Duncan, Joe)
I love "What happened with Michelle?" takes, and this one is the first I recall wholly from Amanda's perspective. It explores how taking on Michelle as a student connects to Amanda's memories of Rebecca and Kenny and ensures that Amanda succeeds -- that her canonical return with no on-screen mention of Michelle just means that Michelle is doing fine and Duncan knows all about it. Rebecca would be proud.

"To Be Useful" by Adabsolutely
(G, gen, ~3K words) (Methos, Duncan, Joe, Amanda, Amy)
The main appeal in this dialogue-heavy approach is the charming conversations in familiar voices. There's also a charming throughline of helping a very confused, homeless, new immortal, and other side-quests of helping various people in various ways. Lovely theming.

"Wintersong" by Black_Dwarf
(G, gen, ~2K words) (Amanda, Methos)
If Amanda is a favorite, maybe check this out. It's an on-point Amanda voice blending flippancy and insight. Methos takes time to miss who he was when he was with Alexa and Amanda pulls him back to the present.

"The Crane and the Pine" by Mackiedockie
(unrated, gen, 13K words) (Duncan, Methos, Amanda, Joe, Mai-Ling, Connor, others)
A pleasantly sprawling modern western fully of that comfortably familiar genre, with some action, some history, and a lot of connecting. It's a crossover with Longmire, but, not knowing that series, I still had no problem reading it as pure HL.

I think that I've read all the Yuletide '22 stories that I'll read on my own; from here on, I'll be following others' recs. Share 'em if you've got 'em!

Here are mine: ( 2 A Christmas Carol, 2 Dracula, 3 Quantum Leap, 1 Scarlet Pimpernel, 1 Equalizer )

Around the edges of doodling on my story notes and otherwise procrastinating writing my '22 fkficfest entry, I'm reading/re-reading FK fanfic set during first season and the hiatus (that is, the 18 months between first and second season).

Any recommendations for favorite FK stories set after "Dark Knight" and before "Killer Instinct"? Bonus points if the story was also written before second season!