Talitha Cumi / by Raven (PG-15)

Title: Talitha Cumi
Author: Raven aka singlecrow
Fandom: M*A*S*H, His Dark Materials
Genre: Daemon AU
Length: Short (Words: 6,289)
Note: rec'd on fancake

Author's Summary:
"Don't be afraid," Hawkeye says. "Don't be afraid. Trust the scientific method. They'll slug it out in peer review. I can't wait."
Of daemons, and enduring distance.

Review:
Dark emotional and thought-provoking fic that looks at PTSD and the emotional impact of war through a daemon AU of M*A*S*H.

Talitha Cumi (on AO3)

a spell against the lonely / by Raven (PG-15)

Title: a spell against the lonely
Author: Raven aka singlecrow 
Fandom: Rivers of London
Genre: Character Study
Length: Short (Words: 1,556)

Author's Summary:
Nightingale, a queer life. (Nightingale's very unusual life told in moments that reveal a lot about his character.)

Review:
Nightingale's life has been defined by some serious scars - especially Ettersberg (Buchenwald) which hangs over his life like a dark shadow for a lot of reasons - it's when he lost nearly everyone he knew, almost every wizard he had ever heard of died or was otherwise broken there; it's when he started aging backwards very, very slowly which further cut him off from the lives of normal people who weren't to know about magic and would notice sooner or later; and there's the extra horror that Buchenwald held thousands of Pink Triangle prisoners when fanon generally reads Nightingale as gay (and not for any of the usual slash OTP reasons)... By the time of canon (and, in a lot of ways, because of the events of canon), Nightingale finally starts to come back from some of that and this fic does a good job of studying Nightingale through that character arc.

a spell against the lonely (on AO3)

Plausible Deniability / by mizstorge (PG-15)

Title: Plausible Deniability
Author: mizstorge
Fandom: Rivers of London, Good Omens
Genre: Casefic, Crossover
Pairings: Crowley/Aziraphale
Length: Short (Words: 5,867)

Author's Summary:
In which Inspector Thomas Nightingale pursues stolen books on magic, Aziraphale presides over a book sale, Constable Peter Grant tries to do his job, and Crowley values his domestic tranquility.

Review:
When there aren't any really spectacular supernatural murders on, Peter and Nightingale still have work to do - in this case, tracking down leads on books on real magic that really can't be left to fall into the wrong hands. Good luck getting Aziraphale to part with such a treasure (or any book) though.

Plausible Deniability (on AO3)

If We Haven't Got Nightingales, Glenn Miller Will Suffice / by copperbadge (PG-15)

Title: If We Haven't Got Nightingales, Glenn Miller Will Suffice
Author: copperbadge , copperbadge
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Jack/The Hub (yes, the building)
Genre: General, Character piece
Length: Short (Words: 4,607)

Author's Summary:
In which Gerald Carter is distinctly annoyed, Ianto Jones goes exploring, Lisa Hallet is the cause of a falling-out, Owen Harper contemplates new digs, Jack Harkness has sex (with architecture), Gwen Cooper weds, and Glenn Miller plays.

Review:
Very interesting take on the Hub itself - there's even some of the building's POV (which does manage to make sense once you read the fic). I really like the characterizations in this one.

If We Haven't Got Nightingales, Glenn Miller Will Suffice (on AO3)

In the Future There Is No Coffee / by NancyBrown (R)

Title: In the Future There is No Coffee
Author: NancyBrown
Fandom: Torchwood
Genre: Time Travel
Pairings: Jack/Ianto
Length: Medium (Words: 15,106)
note: rec'd on fancake

Author's Summary:
The team is taken by the Rift and stranded in the future, where they have to adjust to a strange new world.

Review:
Fantastic world-building. The team is taken by the Rift and dropped on Jack's home planet a few years after he originally left to join the Time Agency. The culture shock is really well-done and the way that this affects Jack and his relationship with Ianto is really beautifully done.

In the Future There Is No Cofee (on AO3)