A Woman's Place [...is in the Resistance]

Fandom: Dune
Fanwork type: Fic
Pairings/Characters: Chani Kynes/Paul Atreides
Rating and/or Content Warnings: Explicit
Links: name a thing, and you own a piece of it by Irony_Rocks 
Summary:

The whispers of his name grow into chants. Muad’Dib. Muad'Dib. Muad'Dib. She could kill a thousand men, and still the first one after would utter his name. It is pointless to run from it, to hide from it. She knows this. She does not bother with lying to herself about a truth as fundamental as this. She cannot escape him.

But for a time, life is simple.

And then it is not.

Or — Chani, in the aftermath.

Reccer's Note: The movies really gave Chani more of a personality than in the original books, and this fic builds upon that work. Shows Chani grappling with the fact that the man she loves became the Emperor and promptly started using her people, the Fremen as his own private army in blatant violation of the self-determination that she believes in. I think it does a good job on selling a narrow path to reconciliation between Chani and Paul, where they get back together but on more equal terms. Chani gets to know the types of pressures Paul is working under, and backs him not as an idol who can do no wrong but a man carrying out goals that match hers.

Will note, the Dune movies contain a creepy fetus that can communicate telepathically with the mother while in the womb, and this fic also has uses of that in a more sympathetic way. It's not exactly an anti-abortion screed, but I feel like it's worth noting because of what this comm is for.

Fandom: Harry Potter
Fanwork type: Fic
Pairings/Characters: Ginny Weasley, Ginny/Harry
Rating and/or Content Warnings: Teen
Links: The Changeling by Annerb 
Summary: Ginny is sorted into Slytherin. It takes her seven years to figure out why.

Reccer's Note: This is an AU where Ginny gets sorted into Slytherin, and it follows her journey as she grows up from a young child to a 16 year old trying to organize a resistance in Hogwarts against Death Eater occupation. It feels a lot like the author looked at the canon concept of Ginny and decided, I can do better. And they did! This gives Ginny the driving ambition of wanting to become a professional quidditch player, which makes her feel a lot more like her own person while still being recognizable to canon.

Fandom: Pale
Fanwork type: Fic
Pairings/Characters: Lucy Ellingson
Rating and/or Content Warnings: Teen
Links: fist in the air (and head in the sand) by ClingingBlossoms and Sunlit_skycat 
Summary:
When Lucy is under siege, Martinus stands with her, transforming into something that bristles as much as she cannot and raising all the points she keeps in her head. Strangers mutter about how often Martinus spends as a roaring lion or prickly hedgehog in public, but they don't see the way he spills over Lucy's lap as a prize bunny or prances to experimental music as a goat when alone.

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A Lucy daemon AU.


Reccer's Notes: This is a collab I wrote for the fandom Pale, which is combined magical girl and urban fantasy. Canonically, Lucy ends up with a bad case of activist burnout that makes her feel that she is the only one able to fight when others cannot, which is influenced by how she is the only black girl in a rural Canadian town. My co-author and I decided to explore that for this character study.