Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before / by Glinda (NC-17)

Title: Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
Author: Glinda 
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Jenny/Vastra
Genre: Minor Character, Adventure, Homophobia
Length:  Short (Words: 2,746)
Warnings: Interspecies Relations (Human/Alien)

Author's Summary:
You know the one about the lizard with the eight-foot tongue? No?

Review:
Another Jenny/Vastra fic so naturally lots of Alien!Sherlock Holmes type of adventures shown in snippets.  But mostly its about the relationship and the challenges an alien faces hiding in plain sight in Victorian society and about dealing with homophobia and crudes jokes.  For such a short fic, I particularly like how it handles the issue of preserving one's own self-esteem and self-image in the face of all so much.

Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before (on AO3)

Motivations / by JenNova (PG-15)

Title: Motivations
Author: JenNova 
Fandom: Person of Interest
Pairing: Finch/Reese
Genre: Friendship, Relationships
Length:  Short (Words: 3,246)
Warnings: slightly graphic references to assassination

Author's Summary:
John never wears gloves. Finch bought John an apartment full of windows. And why.

Review:
A story about love with emotional scars and kind of a lot of baggage.  I appreciate the author's attempts to clear up some Fridge Logic issues with canon too (it will probably turn into everyone's headcanon), but this story is beautiful in its own right. 

Motivations (on AO3)

Real Princesses / by Morbane (G)

Title: Real Princesses
Author: Morbane 
Fandom: Fairy Tales
Pairings: Various canon Prince/Princess pairings
Genre: Friendship, Relationships, Meta
Length:  Short (Words: 1,820)

Author's Summary:
In which the princesses, post-fairy-tale, mix and mingle and sort out their lives. Slight hating on Rapunzel (who is actually a favourite fairy tale character, but in this version she's a little bit of a mess).

Review:
This fic deconstructs the fairy tale princess genre, taking it to task for what it puts princesses through and the kinds of virtues we require of our princesses despite them.  I especially love the part about stories being the only way that the princesses have to relate to people.  I also like the part about Cinderella coaching her prince on how she wants her story to be told.  These are great as deconstructions and the meta aspect - a story about stories and what they do to people - also appeals to the anthropologist in me since I've been working on the roles of stories lately.

Real Princesses (on AO3)