Some Fic Recs - Venom, Pride and Prejudice

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:59:30 GMT

Venom:
intra-personal negotiation by Wildehack (tyleet)
Author's Summary: How fucked is that, that a compromise that ended with eating raw shark liver under the Golden Gate Bridge in the dead of night is probably the most interpersonally mature he’s ever been? Intra-personally, Venom corrects, not really paying attention.

Why I love it: I adore stories that are about actually making relationships work, and giving and taking and paying attention. I also love stories in which people try to do this and fail badly, and try again and fail better. And this does all of that, plus Venom eats a shark and makes reference to theories about cultural differences.

Pride and Prejudice:

An Ever-Fixed Markby AMarguerite (This is locked to AO3 users, I have invites if you need an account!)

Author's Summary: One would think that having the name of one's soulmate appear on one's wrist on one's sixteenth birthday would make matrimony much less complicated. It mostly does not. And not at all for Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourne. (A deconstruction of the "soulmate identifying mark" trope, using "Pride and Prejudice." Trigger warnings in the tags.)

Why I love it: This fic takes the idea of visible soulmate marks as trope and then just decides to take it apart and put it back together slantwise. It's also has 'Bisexuals in History: Pretty Normal, Actually', as a minor plot thread about why Colonel Fitzwilliam's family were weird about him for years, beautiful thoughtful romance, considerate and kind reactions to grief, and British politics of the Regency period as a major plot threads.

Content warnings: some non graphic discussion of 19th century battlefield medicine and nursing injured people.

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Some Fic Recs - Venom, Pride and Prejudice