Queen's Thief Rec: Letting Go by Ghostie

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One yuletide there was a prompt which asked about the implications of the way Eugenides, the God, always catches the thieves when they fall and the fact that Gen's mother fell to her death. It created a lot of fic of which this is one of my favourites.

Letting Go (1022 words) by Ghostie
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Characters: Eugenides the God (Queen's Thief), Eugenides (Queen's Thief), Queen Thief (Queen's Thief), Moira (Queen's Thief)
Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, Pre-Canon, Death
Summary:

The Queen Thief is dancing on the rooftop, calloused toes flipping deftly across the slates. Eugenides stands invisible beside her, watching her spin and twirl against the sky. She’s beautiful like this, he reflects. So graceful, so joyful, so human. So much more than just another mortal tool.

Buffyverse Recs from Previous Journal (for Reference)

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Fandom: Buffy
Rating: U
Characters/Pairings: Tara, Spike
Length: Short Story





What I love about this: This is a well-written little vignette about Spike and Tara shopping for Valentine gifts; beautiful, well-observed and sad.

Shiny Happy People

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Fandom: Angel (Buffyverse)
Rating: No Rating Given (PG-ish)
Characters/Pairings: Cordelia/Angel, Buffy/Angel
Length: Multiple Parts





What is this?: Anyone who has been unfortunate enough to see Barb Wire knows that just because you are taking Casablanca as your starting point things are not necessarily going to go well. Fortunately this Buffyverse Casablanca AU works incredibly well with Casablanca updated to an LA that is under the control of Wolfram and Heart and their allies. Cordelia gets the role of Rick while Angel is Ilsa. If I have one quibble it is that Whedon's dialogue is so distinctive that it's a little too obvious when words are being transferred directly from the original movie into this AU. That quibble aside, however, this is well worth a read.

As Time Goes by by Yahtzee.