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Hearing Light, by tree On the face of it, Hearing Light is another first-kiss story, of which there are many. First, there are tons and tons of stories that involve a (generally earth-shattering) first kiss. For many of the AU ones, the kiss is the AU, and for the canon-compliant ones, it’s often the first…
Some Small Tokens of Her Affection by sixbeforelunch Small Tokens is an adorable little story about Henry Tilney getting sick before his marriage to Catherine Morland and her reaction to that. Why you should read it: It’s Northanger Abbey fic. It’s delightful. It’s well-written Why you might not like it: You’re allergic to too much…
Some of my favorite things in the world and, not coincidentally, in fiction, are sneakiness and banter. It’s no surprise, then, that I was delighted with More Coffee, Mr. Darcy. It’s a tiny little story that can be read in about as much time as it takes an average person to drink a cuppa. (Unless,…
A Most Determined Flirt by lemposoi Written as part of kink_bingo, for the “uniforms/military fetish” kink, A Most Determined Flirt is hot like burning. As clever readers may have already guessed, this is a Lydia/Wickham story. Lydia is, indeed, most determined, and gets just what she asks (practically begs) for. This is a hot, kinky…
Lady Catherine is not often the focus of fanfiction. Really, who cares? She’s old! She’s annoying! She has an ugly house and a plain daughter she can’t marry off! Actually, that last is a bit sad really. Anyway, she’s not considered to be of much interest. Which is why A Dreadful Bitterness of Spirit is…
It would be interesting to do an experiment whereby someone with no knowledge of Jane Austen’s work was sent into Austen fandom and asked to write up what they thought Austen’s books were like. I suspect that the report would start out “Jane Austen wrote a book called Pride and Prejudice…” If my theoretical fannish…