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(ETA: The post that was here yesterday and consisted of a first set of recs plus, basically, several paragraphs of me gushing about - well, silly things? I just went and deleted the bit that was me being a drama queen. (Which I probably should have flocked in the first place, but I forgot.) Thanks to those who read and commented, and apologies to those who actually have serious things to worry about this Christmas period and who witnessed me in that state. I was tired, and not very rational, and probably a bit desperate for company; I'm sorry. Have now had a good night's sleep, which helps significantly in the 'putting things into perspective' department.)

Have some more recs from the Yuletide front:

Like Water Flowing Underground - Back to the Future
Characters: Marty McFly, Emmett Brown, George McFly
Summary: Marty struggles to fit in with his new reality, but is any other world a better fit?

Waiting - Back to the Future
Characters: Doc Brown, Lorraine McFly, George McFly
Summary: Sometimes it felt like Doc had spent thirty years waiting. Waiting for the time when he could build his greatest invention, and waiting for the day when his best friend would be born.

Academe: Four Conversations the Jones Boys Had about Education and One They Didn’t - Indiana Jones Series
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Henry Jones Sr, Henry "Indiana" Jones, Mutt Williams, Short Round
Summary: I think the title pretty much says it all.

One Ordinary Week, with Party Hats - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak, Jadzia Dax/Worf
Characters: Kira Nerys, Odo, Jadzia Dax, Benjamin Sisko, Jake Sisko, Worf (Star Trek:TNG/DS9), Miles O'Brien, Elim Garak
Summary: Life goes on as usual for the inhabitants of DS9. With the exception of Julian Bashir, who has a Plan.

All is Cracked and Confusion - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Kira Nerys, Benjamin Sisko, Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Odo (Star Trek), Quark (Star Trek), Miles O'Brien, Jadzia Dax
Summary: The Obsidian Order attempt to change history using the Orb of Time. It doesn't go quite according to plan.

Blackadder's Fifth Column - Blackadder
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Edmund Blackadder, Baldrick (Blackadder), Bob (Blackadder), Flasheart (Blackadder)
Summary: The Occupy London site was small, but growing. Ed Blackadder had a salaried personal assistant; a job as a financial consultant for several major banks in the EC postcodes; and an eviction notice from his Clerkenwell flat (bloody squatters).

The Lost Boy - Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Peter Pan, James Hook, George Darling, The Crocodile (Peter Pan), Original Characters
Summary: Being an account of the early life of Jas Hook (né Darling) esq.: his arrival in Neverland, and how he brought Christmas thereto; the beginning of his contention with Peter Pan; and divers other happenings, culminating in the tragic loss of his right hand.

Firstly, a rec: the marvelous nemo_everbeing, whom I've been lucky enough to have as my Yuletide Santa for two years in a row, has written another Twin Peaks story to complete the two Yuletide pieces she wrote. From What I've Tasted of Desire is a gorgeous coda to what came before, effectively turning this into a three-part series about the evolution of the relationship between Dale Cooper and Albert Rosenfield. This makes for over 30,000 words of fantastic Twin Peaks prose, which can be found on AO3 as the Some Say the World Will End in Fire series. Without it, chances are I might never have gotten into writing Twin Peaks fic myself, and I really can't praise it highly enough. 


As for myself, it's been some time since I wrote any gen in the Twin Peaks 'verse, and what rolled out this time is basically a mirror piece to Five Times Albert Rosenfield Lied - the fic where apart from exploring some of Albert's backstory I also went for a very sad resolution to Cooper's possession storyarc. This new story has a far more hopeful ending, but it is also a story about death, specifically how Albert, being a pathologist and therefore used to experiencing death on an everyday basis, deals with it on those few occasions where it's personal to him. Most of all, it's a story about motivations, choices, and the events that influence them.

Hope you'll enjoy - as always, any feedback is welcomed!

Title: In the Wake
Summary: Death is nothing if not also an incentive to live. Six deaths that shaped Albert Rosenfield's life, and one that he prevented.
Rating: Gen, PG-13
Characters: Albert Rosenfield, Dale Cooper, Harry Truman, Diane, and various others.
Word Count: ~8000
Thanks to: nemo_everbeing, for the beta and discussions that made this story so much more than it would have been otherwise.


( Fic: In the Wake )

So Twin Peaks is not a huge fandom, at least not where fanfic is concerned. This is, admittedly, a little sad. And my favorite corner of it, being everything that involves both Dale Cooper and Albert Rosenfield, is even smaller. (Though, really, not quite as small as you’d think. I haven’t done the math, but I strongly suspect that if you count both the gen and the slash, Coop/Albert might well be the fandom’s pairing that’s inspired the most fanfic so far – more than, say, Cooper/Audrey or Cooper/Truman, both of which could be considered more ‘likely’ pairings.)

In any case, fic about these guys isn’t that easy to find, which is why I think it’s high time to compile a little rec list – both for my own convenience, and for that of anyone else interested. Because, you know, the beautiful thing about Twin Peaks fic being so rare, is that nearly everything that gets written is good, even great… which is worth a lot to me, as well! So here are my favorite Cooper/Albert stories, both gen and slash, as well as a number of Twin Peaks fics centered around other characters. The former list is pretty well-researched, the latter’s just a random collection of fics that stuck in my mind, not meant in any way to be complete. I sorted them chronologically, and marked my absolute personal favorites with an asterisk, but really, imho these are all good.

My main resources are The Bookhouse Boys slash archive, the Twin Peaks tags on the Archive Of Our Own (AO3) and FanFiction.net (which contain a slightly different selection), as well as the assorted Yuletide (a yearly rare-fandom fic exchange) archive. If there’s another, please, tell me. :) And naturally, if I left out any fics that you think deserve a mention here, or that I might have missed altogether, I’d be a very happy camper if you’d point them out to me!


Cooper/Albert recs:

( Long rec list here... )

Other characters and pairings:

( A somewhat shorter, but pretty varied, list... )


Enjoy the prettiness! And as I mentioned, any recs to fics that I'd missed before will be received with much squee!