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Another fic in French!

Titre : Une revenante
Auteur : Nelja
Fandom : Black Sails
Persos/Couples : Max/Eleanor
Genre : Angst, surnaturel
Résumé : Eleanor est défiante jusqu'au bout face à la mort.
Rating : PG-13
Disclaimer : Rien ne m'appartient.
Nombre de mots : ~1300
Avertissements : Ecrit sur le thème "Une touche de surnaturel", avertissement pour mort de personnage canon, et fantôme qui ne l'est pas.

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Another fanvid rec!

Fandom: Steven Universe
Characters/ships: Pearl/Rose
Song: "Renegades" by X ambassadors
Where: on tumblr

Fic recs today! Some of my fave femslash fics read last year!



dead flowers in the sand by glasslilies (Gideon the Ninth, Cytherea/Loveday, T, 2721 words)

Driven to insanity after trying to plant a bomb on a Resurrection Beast, Cytherea recovers on the Mithraeum and reminisces about Loveday.
Cytherea Loveday was retrieved from her deep-space shuttle and asked if she would need the mercy of a rapier’s point and a body bag.
She was babbling incoherently in an unholy tongue when they freed her from her coffin of metal and plex, squalling like an infant that had intuitively decided that it wanted to inflict permanent ear damage on everybody within a ten kilometre radius—but she supposed that she must have answered in the firm negative, because the next time Cytherea woke up, she was safely ensconced in blankets and bound to her bed while a dark figure with a smattering of rust on his scalp and jaw presided over her indisposed form.

Very poetic writing, very detailed analysis with the little we had, very touching.



the executioner's within me (sword in hand) by inkpoisonblood (Demon Slayer, Shinobu/Tamayo, T, 1270 words)

There is a calendar in the corner counting down days.
There is a time limit. There is a deadline. There is an Insect Hashira with poison for blood and wreckage for a heart, and eyes like moonlight on wisteria in full bloom. Killing herself slowly, but Tamayo cannot fault her for her rage when it’s something they both share.
She is ready to die.
or
the parallels between kochou shinobu and lady tamayo.

The ladies had a mad-scientists-forced-to-work-together arc and it was all offscreen, while it was exactly my thing, and I was dying to find a good fic for it, and I did! It's here!



Careful What You Wish For by Omnicat (Darker than Black, Amber/Pai and Amber/Hei, not rated)

A magical girl going only by ‘Amber’ saves Li Xing from a Witch. The human race is never the same afterwards.
a Puella Magi Madoka Magica fusion

This starts like an interesting and fun AU for someone who knows both fandoms (like I do). Amber/Pai is a really rare ship and my fave.
And it ends with a twist that I very much loved.



A Fall in Three Parts by RussetFiredrake (Cristabel (Coleridge), Christabel/Geraldine, Explicit noncon, 5355 words)

When Geraldine rides away, Christabel thinks perhaps she has escaped her thrall. Her hope only rises when her fiancé comes to marry her.
But she has not escaped. She may have never even come close.

You know the poem is unfinished? Someone wrote me an ending! It's dark, it's poetic, it's sensual, it's evil, it plays with mind control and the ambiguity of memories exactly how I love!

A French lesbian song!
TW for mentions of lesbians going to hell, it's dark, I love it though, as an expression of love being stronger than internalized prejudice.

An animated short again!

Titre : La danse des heures
Auteur : Nelja
Fandom : Dungeon Meshi / Gloutons et dragons
Persos/Couples : Falin/Marcille
Genre : Fluff et humour et angst
Résumé : Falin et Marcille, de la musique et une danse.
Rating : PG
Disclaimer : Tout appartient à Kui Ryoko.
Nombre de mots : ~700
Avertissements : Vague mention de mort
Notes : Remplit le thème "Interspecies" de ladiesbingo

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Hello! Today I will rec the Baru Cormorant series. I have already reviewed it in French, but it was volume by volume, never as a whole.

So, Baru Cormorant is a series by Seth Dickinson, of three volumes right now, but it's not finished and we're hoping for volume 4 one day.

It's set in another world, though with cultures that are reminiscent of some Earth ones. Baru Cormorant has seen, when he was a kid, her island colonized by the Masquerade. It seemed to have good things; she was brilliant at their school, offered her a great future accessible despite her low birth, just for her skills.
But they are also stifling her culture, igniting the internal wars, and pushing a very homophobic agenda.

When one of her fathers is killed and it's meant to be an accident, she understands what happens better, and decides she will destroy the empire instead, from the inside.

As she's sent in another province as a top accountant, she'll have to decide whether she will help the local rebellion actions, that remind her of her home, or whether she wants to help the empire to win more power and get closer to her destruction goals. It's a series about hard moral choices, about compromising, with an heroine with high ideals and low empathy, who had part of her model of the world, at a vulnerable age, molded by her enemies, who's terrified of it and of serving them unwillingly, but still admires the beauty of numbers and hard science. (I also love her math metaphors, very well done, ring very true).
Also, she's a lesbian in an empire that's very, very homophobic, and she has UST with one of the rebel duchesses, Tain Hu. Spoilers : it's a tragedy. I think no one should go here unspoiled. Still, I enjoyed every line of it.
I love her, and watching her cut and lose parts of herself for her goal is awful and fascinating and heart-rendering.

I really love the universe. It's not exactly fantasy, though it's low tech. Some people believe in magic, and they can't be proved wrong, Baru, who regrets having forgotten even the name of her gods, still has the reflex to explain things by science, and sometimes she gets it almost right and sometimes it's different science, because nature evolved differently in a different universe. The evil empire didn't get theur equivalents of Darwin, Mendel and Rosalind Franklin, but they're still unparalleled at practical eugenism on humans. They also do mental conditioning, and on this point, it's almost science-fiction. Sometimes it's more like fantasy or magical realism. It's hard to categorize, but it works very well to me.

It's also, of course, a strongly political series. The author, every time he gets told "your villains are caricaturally evil", is able to point quite a few points in our history where these techniques were actually used in colonization. It gets very dark. It gets very dark in the resistance actions too, and the other cultures aren't written as black-and-white good.

I love the writing style. It's sometimes precise as a math equation, and sometimes epic, and sometimes tragic and grandiose.

Basically it's a huge rec but only for people with specific tastes. ^^

Have some homoerotic poetry about ghosts by Renée Vivien!

Les revenants

Dans les miroirs j’ai vu des reflets de visages,
Un vent mystérieux a gonflé les rideaux,
Le soir frémit encor de tragiques passages,
L’horreur de l’Invisible a pénétré mes os.

La mémoire de l’ombre évoque une Étranglée
Aux yeux d’effroi, qui porte, ainsi que des rougeurs
De baisers trop fervents sur la chair martelée,
L’empreinte sans pitié de cruels doigts vengeurs.

Une Noyée attend le reflux, et j’écoute,
Tandis que se prolonge un patient travail
De remous, l’eau de mer qui pleure goutte à goutte
De ses cheveux mêlés d’écume et de corail.

Oh ! la beauté funèbre aux visages des Mortes !
Elles glissent, ainsi qu’un rayon nébuleux,
Sous leurs voiles légers, laissant au seuil des portes
D’irréelles lueurs de clairs de lune bleus.

L’heure des Revenants fait tressaillir les cloches.
Ils songent tristement, leurs sanglots ont le bruit
D’une vague tardive expirant sur les roches.
Ils souffrent de passer inconnus dans la nuit.

Leurs impuissantes mains ont de vaines caresses.
À travers l’Autrefois, ils reviennent, liés
Par le ressouvenir des anciennes tendresses,
Et frôlent les vivants qui les ont oubliés.



Sorry for the lack of translation, I didn't find one on the Internet and I felt I would ruin it...

Another AMV/fanvid rec!

Fandom: Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Characters/ships: Homura/Madoka
Song: "Howl" by Florence and the Machine
Where: YouTube

This night I dreamed I was talking with a friend and she was like "you should talk about homosexuality in animals", so I'm gonna do just this.

But, you'll say, everyone has heard about the lesbian lizards of New Mexico? Probably. But you never know :D

So these cuties, whiptail lizards:

Are actually all females who reproduce asexually, by parthenogenesis. Not very lesbian of them, you'll say. Except that they form couples, have courtship rituals, and lizards with partners lay far more eggs than lizards without partners (and even more if they're in a phase where they're playing the female role in the courtship).

Also, for sexual lesbian behaviour in another species.
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