Lioness Rampant / by CPatten (G)

Title: Lioness Rampant
Author: CPatten
Fandom: Tortall
Genre: Art (digital painting)

Review:
Beautiful painting of Alanna as the King's Champion. Also check out the artist's gallery - she's done a lot of lovely character illustrations.

Lioness Rampant art (on dA)

Beka Cooper / by CPatten

Title: Beka Cooper
Author: CPatten 
Fandom: Tortall
Genre: Art (digital painting)

Review:
Another CPatten painting, this one of Beka from the Provost's Dog series. Remember, also check out the artist's gallery - she's done a lot of lovely character illustrations.

Beka Cooper art (on dA)

Interbellum / by: Omnicat (PG)

Title: Interbellum
Author: Omnicat
Fandom: Avengers/MCU
Genre: Soulmarks, Meta-ish/Trope Deconstructed
Pairing: Steve/Bucky
Length: Short (1,390 words)

Author's Summary:
Steve’s soulmate’s words form a sentence. That, in itself, is a bad sign.

Review:
I really like the first words variant on the soulmarks trope and while I get the idea that people would, as a result, try to be original in their first words, it doesn't make for a very good story... except when it does, like in this fic where women who lost their husbands in the first world war (the war to end all wars) have babies born with soulmarks that obviously indicate another war and, likely, dying just as they meet the most important person in their life.

Interbellum (on AO3)

Home and Away / by: unknownclone (PG)

Title: Home and Away
Author: unknownclone
Fandom: Farscape
Genre: Post-canon, family, scifi
Pairing: John/Aeryn
Length: Medium (25,162 words)
rec'd on fancake

Author's Summary:
Ten years after the Peacekeeper Wars, Olivia Critchon opens the door to find her brother on her front step.

Review:
An excellent Farscape fic, plotty with good characterization - the kids are especially nice (written as strong and smart but still young kids), fits well with canon, nice family themes.

Home and Away (on AO3)

GNU Terry Pratchett / by various reddit coders (G)

Title: GNU Terry Pratchett
Fandom: Discworld
Genre: Code!, Terry Pratchett Tribute

Author's Summary:
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the clacks are a series of semaphore towers loosely based on the concept of the telegraph. Invented by an artificer named Robert Dearheart, the towers could send messages "at the speed of light" using standardized codes. Three of these codes are of particular import:

G: send the message on
N: do not log the message
U: turn the message around at the end of the line and send it back again

When Dearheart's son John died due to an accident while working on a clacks tower, Dearheart inserted John's name into the overhead of the clacks with a "GNU" in front of it to as a way to memorialize his son forever (or for at least as long as the clacks are standing.)

Review:
Fan code! This is really cool and a lovely tribute. Installing this script automatically places the phrase "GNU Terry Pratchett" in the "overhead" of your blog posts (variants available for tons of different sites) like the GNU John Dearheart in the clacks in Going Postal.

GNU Terry Pratchett (on own site)

Untitled Drabble / by Rabastan (G)

Title: (untitled)
Author: Rabastan aka Eltanin aka sundayswiththeilluminati
Fandom: Discworld
Genre: Terry Pratchett Tribute
Length: Drabble (Very short)

Author's Summary:
none given (Death gets to meet Terry Pratchett, he hopes to get Sir Terry's lifebook autographed)

Review:
One of my favorite Terry Pratchett tributes. This one gets the voice of canon so, so well, especially for such a short drabble.

Untitled (on tumblr)

Solar Plexus / by thetreesgrowodd (R)

Title: Solar Plexus
Author: thetreesgrowodd
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Genre: Horror (Lovecraftian), Urban Fantasy, Mystery
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: Medium (17,895 words)

Author's Summary:
In a rural village, Sherlock and John investigate decades-old murders which blur the line between cold case and folklore. In a cursed place, they search for the past... and the past searches for them.

Slight AU with magical and supernatural elements. Asexual, sensual Sherlock/bisexual John in an established (yet poorly defined) relationship.

Review:
Warning: Abandoned. I really like this fic - it's got some intriguing magical world-building and a delightfully creepy Lovecraftian horror feel. BUT, it's cut off just as the story's getting good!! I want to know what happened! Anyways, if you don't mind abandoned WIPs, this is a great one to check out, but if you need to know how a story ends, this is not the fic for you.

Solar Plexus (on AO3)

art for "The Scheme of Things" / by RomanImp (G)

Title: art for "The Scheme of Things"
Author: RomanImp aka romans-art
Fandom: Agent Carter/MCU
Genre: art, AU

Author's Summary:
grumpy officer Peggy and overexcitable engineer Angie painting based on the fic: 'The Scheme of Things'

Review:
Very nice digital painting for an Agent Carter AU, can be viewed as Peggy/Angie or Peggy&Angie. Check out the artist's other work - there's a lot of great fanart there.

art for "The Scheme of Things" (on tumblr)