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RMSE exchange was a whole lot of fun - so many good fics (there's a few recs in previous posts here and here) and I was extremely lucky to receive two amazing stories, both of them for rare, rare canons - an absolutely windfall, one for The History Boys and one for Equilibrium,

I had the pleasure of writing two stories, both of which were extremely different, but both of which were fun to write. The American Psycho fic was a treat that took over my brain and I can safely say this is the only fic where my historical ~~1989~~ research is accurate. The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood fic is lower key and more romantic, also a change for me.

he's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge (6732 words) by StripySock
Fandom: American Psycho - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Patrick Bateman/Marcus Halberstram
Additional Tags: Treat, Canon-Typical Food Descriptions, Recreational Drug Use, Inappropriate Humor, Violent Thoughts, offscreen murder, Canon-Typical Behavior, Canon-Typical Violence, film canon
Summary:

“You’re buying,” Patrick says, a grudging concession. There’s a neat little flicker and a platinum card in Marcus’s hand.

“Correction. The company is buying. Having Amex on speed is like a direct line to God. Let’s take a little advantage.”

Cinema Paradiso (2765 words) by StripySock
Fandom: Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cliff Booth/Rick Dalton
Additional Tags: Roma | Rome, Missing Scene, First Kiss, movies - Freeform, Rain, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
Summary:

Ultimately making Rick’s six-month Italian sojourn fairly profitable, although his swank Roman apartment ate up a big chunk of his earnings

Cliff does stunts, realtors and Rick.

Still making my way through at the pace of a snail, but here are 4 more recs of things I loved, before creator reveals tonight

on a dime, DCU: E, Harvey/Bruce, This is a really amazing look at Harvey and Bruce, both individually and together. It's definitely readable without comics knowledge - I only really know the Nolan films and it made perfect sense to me. It's an insight into a manipulative Bruce and an already unstable Harvey with the seeds of Twoface already there, lashings of class war, hot sex and a fantastic back and forth between them in terms of who holds the power. Definitely worth a read if only for the knowledge that the best way to irritate Harvey Dent is to order him brunch.

Kings and Desperate Men Henry IV/Hal, E, Henry IV Part 1 Another one where you don't need much more than the basic historical understanding of who Henry and Hal are and their relationship (father/son) though the fic is even better if you do know the canon. This is a bleak semi-medieval look at punishment/penance and self-delusion. The sex is hot and bleak, but the real interest is in Henry's self justification of how he rationalises the use of his son.

The Revelation of Brother Eadwine Scriptorium Monk Drawing Dirty Marginalia/Monk in Charge of Illumination Project E, Original Work. This is a delightful medieval story that is beautifully described and gives little backstories to the marginalia we know from manuscripts. The perspective character is a ton of fun, but there's also a lot of emotion to it. Definitely no knowledge of canon needed of course! There's also links to the marginalia at the bottom for some aid in picturing them.

a hatchet with a handle, The Folly of the World, E, Jan/Sander. I don't even know canon for this (though I plan to pick it up) and while I feel that it's probably even better than it already is with canon knowledge, I still really enjoyed it. This is brutal and vicious and definitely heed the tags because they're very literal (yes, it's swordfucking) but the descriptive, visceral quality of the prose is top notch, and the relationship between the two characters is fascinating.

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There's a glut of good things, enough that I'm not even close to finished reading, but here's a few of the ones I've really enjoyed so far.

( The History Boys, Equilibrium, The Sting, Snowpiercer, Heat, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Dracula )

Pledge, Snowpiercer, Curtis/Edgar, Explicit. Canon divergent Snowpiercer fic that builds on the world of the film into something as cruelly survival driven and even more human. The relationship in this is so sharp, and Curtis's thoughts so perfect, and the fic draws itself together into something completely inevitable.

Heart Attack Man, Heat, Vincent/Neil, Explicit. Another fic I didn't even know I'd been waiting for! It slots neatly into the world of Heat, but more than that, both Neil and Vincent get wonderful character moments, on top of a really hot sex scene that illuminates the potential nature of the relationship between them. Vincent's dialogue in particular was pitch perfect, but the whole fic is a great read.

All In, The Sting, Johnny/Henry, Mature. Two conmen trying to fool each other and themselves, it's a tale as old as The Sting, and this is a superb addition. There's all that history between them, and the author flips expectations so deftly and with such a lot of emotional impact. The tension is really well dealt with in particular, and there's some really lovely period touches especially in the dialogue.

'Tis Well to Be Bereft, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Control/Tony, Teen, as funny as the Control/Tony bits in canon, the speech patterns are perfect, the relationship is perfect, the overdone metaphors are absolutely in keeping with canon - well wroth a read.

( Equilibrium, SPN, History Boys and From Dusk 'Til Dawn )

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