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blacksheep91 asked me for my top five Princess Tutu fics. Normally I would do this in a comment rather than a whole post, but sneakily I am also hoping to get some recs out of it for myself.
En Pointe, bydictator_duck
Fakir falters, uncertain. The books with their endings finished but destroyed, what happens to the people? Do their characters end like Kinkan town, stuck without any means of recourse?
The short answer is: No.
The long answer is: Kind of.
A prince and princess look for their people. Full disclosure: this was sort-of written for me so I'm a bit biased. But that aside, I love this story and what it does with the ending so much, even though every time I reread it I have to clutch my heart and go "Ruuuuuuuuuuuue" for a while. This happens to me more than you'd think. (Cheating, and slipping another rec in here: for an alternate and also lovely complicating look at Rue and Mytho postcanon, go readlacewood's beautiful fic ETA: that actually has a title! It is called And They Lived.)
From the Ashes, bygenarti
I see Fakir. I see Charon. I bang my drum for Mytho: zura zura for his heart, zura zura for the way everybody else watched him. Zura zura zura. Sometimes I see Mytho and Rue. Their hearts beat in their chests, but I bang my drum anyway. They smile at me. Mytho smiles more.
I see Duck.
Uzura, unhappy with the ending as it stands, takes matters into her own hands. Gen likes to blame me for this one, but I can't actually take any credit for the pure awesomeness of it. One of the very few postcanon fix-it fics I can actually believe in.
Revisionism, bypengiesama
Rejoice, aficionados, and gather 'round! -- it is with the utmost pleasure that we of the D.D. Drosselmeyer Literary Institute announce the discovery of a new manuscript.
This year's Yuletide as usual was a Princess Tutu treasure trove, but my favorite was this glorious, hilarious metafictional literary analysis of The Prince and the Raven. Worth it for the delighted scholars of feminist literature alone.
Rosemary, bydark_therapy
It was her own fault for letting those minor faults shake her too badly and ruin her poise and control for the rest of the solo, but she was sick of failure, of not getting it when it should've been so much easier, and of not living up to her own expectations when she knew she could do better. But again and again, Giselle eluded her. The happy girl in love never stayed in her dance very long.
I have to confess to bias here again - this time because episode four is one of my all-time favorites for what it shows about Rue, and this fic is a really detailed and thoughtful look at her at this stage in canon as she struggles to master Giselle and her own fears.
30 Kisses (drabble set), byelektra3
He wears guilt like most people would wear an extra coat: An extra insulating layer to keep unpleasant things out. Most people wouldn't find the belief that everything is ultimately their fault to be comforting, but Fakir isn't most people.
The only Princess Tutu postcanon stories I can ever actually buy are the bittersweet ones, but sometimes you really do just want fluff - and anyway, the 'Fakir writes Ahiru back to being a girl' is a flourishing genre of Princess Tutu fanfic that really should be represented here. Anyway, this was the first one I came across in the first flush of mad passion for the show of my heart, and I will always love it for that and for the excellent character voices. And for the drabble where Pique and Lilie tackle Fakir and demand to know his intentions.
Cheating special bonus feature:
With No Companion, bygaisce
“That is something a witch would say. All stories know that the prince belongs to the world, and it’s his love that makes girls princesses.”
“I’m not a witch. Witches don’t love anything but themselves. They steal princes away and eat their hearts to live a little longer,” she said and drew the boy to her possessively. “But I love him. More than anyone else could ever love him! And I will not let you take him from me.”
I'm slipping this in because it's a crossover - Princess Tutu/Revolutionary Girl Utena, which are two canons that are pretty much made to be crossed over in my opinion - and one hundred percent excellent.
So guys, if you wanted to toss me your favorite Princess Tutu fic that I tragically left off this list, that is something I would definitely appreciate!
Also, while on the topic of fic - sjk;djfdsa okay so, as of a week in, we have 24 signups for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fma_ladyfest (not counting ourselves, since . . . we're not actually sure that we count, in this case). I am kind of unreasonably excited about this, given that when we first came up with the idea genarti and I were fully prepared to be exchanging stories for a two-person ficathon.
You can also consider this your mid-signups reminder that there's one week left before signups close. The post to sign up is over here, and while Gen and I may not be doing any more dances together due to being in different cities, I can assure you guys that I at least will continue to chairdance in a highly undignified fashion for every new person who joins.
blacksheep91 asked me for my top five Princess Tutu fics. Normally I would do this in a comment rather than a whole post, but sneakily I am also hoping to get some recs out of it for myself. En Pointe, by
dictator_duckFakir falters, uncertain. The books with their endings finished but destroyed, what happens to the people? Do their characters end like Kinkan town, stuck without any means of recourse?
The short answer is: No.
The long answer is: Kind of.
A prince and princess look for their people. Full disclosure: this was sort-of written for me so I'm a bit biased. But that aside, I love this story and what it does with the ending so much, even though every time I reread it I have to clutch my heart and go "Ruuuuuuuuuuuue" for a while. This happens to me more than you'd think. (Cheating, and slipping another rec in here: for an alternate and also lovely complicating look at Rue and Mytho postcanon, go read
lacewood's beautiful fic ETA: that actually has a title! It is called And They Lived.)From the Ashes, by
genartiI see Fakir. I see Charon. I bang my drum for Mytho: zura zura for his heart, zura zura for the way everybody else watched him. Zura zura zura. Sometimes I see Mytho and Rue. Their hearts beat in their chests, but I bang my drum anyway. They smile at me. Mytho smiles more.
I see Duck.
Uzura, unhappy with the ending as it stands, takes matters into her own hands. Gen likes to blame me for this one, but I can't actually take any credit for the pure awesomeness of it. One of the very few postcanon fix-it fics I can actually believe in.
Revisionism, by
pengiesamaRejoice, aficionados, and gather 'round! -- it is with the utmost pleasure that we of the D.D. Drosselmeyer Literary Institute announce the discovery of a new manuscript.
This year's Yuletide as usual was a Princess Tutu treasure trove, but my favorite was this glorious, hilarious metafictional literary analysis of The Prince and the Raven. Worth it for the delighted scholars of feminist literature alone.
Rosemary, by
dark_therapyIt was her own fault for letting those minor faults shake her too badly and ruin her poise and control for the rest of the solo, but she was sick of failure, of not getting it when it should've been so much easier, and of not living up to her own expectations when she knew she could do better. But again and again, Giselle eluded her. The happy girl in love never stayed in her dance very long.
I have to confess to bias here again - this time because episode four is one of my all-time favorites for what it shows about Rue, and this fic is a really detailed and thoughtful look at her at this stage in canon as she struggles to master Giselle and her own fears.
30 Kisses (drabble set), by
elektra3He wears guilt like most people would wear an extra coat: An extra insulating layer to keep unpleasant things out. Most people wouldn't find the belief that everything is ultimately their fault to be comforting, but Fakir isn't most people.
The only Princess Tutu postcanon stories I can ever actually buy are the bittersweet ones, but sometimes you really do just want fluff - and anyway, the 'Fakir writes Ahiru back to being a girl' is a flourishing genre of Princess Tutu fanfic that really should be represented here. Anyway, this was the first one I came across in the first flush of mad passion for the show of my heart, and I will always love it for that and for the excellent character voices. And for the drabble where Pique and Lilie tackle Fakir and demand to know his intentions.
Cheating special bonus feature:
With No Companion, by
gaisce“That is something a witch would say. All stories know that the prince belongs to the world, and it’s his love that makes girls princesses.”
“I’m not a witch. Witches don’t love anything but themselves. They steal princes away and eat their hearts to live a little longer,” she said and drew the boy to her possessively. “But I love him. More than anyone else could ever love him! And I will not let you take him from me.”
I'm slipping this in because it's a crossover - Princess Tutu/Revolutionary Girl Utena, which are two canons that are pretty much made to be crossed over in my opinion - and one hundred percent excellent.
So guys, if you wanted to toss me your favorite Princess Tutu fic that I tragically left off this list, that is something I would definitely appreciate!
Also, while on the topic of fic - sjk;djfdsa okay so, as of a week in, we have 24 signups for
fma_ladyfest (not counting ourselves, since . . . we're not actually sure that we count, in this case). I am kind of unreasonably excited about this, given that when we first came up with the idea genarti and I were fully prepared to be exchanging stories for a two-person ficathon. You can also consider this your mid-signups reminder that there's one week left before signups close. The post to sign up is over here, and while Gen and I may not be doing any more dances together due to being in different cities, I can assure you guys that I at least will continue to chairdance in a highly undignified fashion for every new person who joins.
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Date: 2010-08-19 06:57 am (UTC)Still Life with Duck
Only Seven Stories
OH MY GOD I'd totally forgotten about this until I was digging through my Tutu tag, but someone once wrote a Tutu/cyberpunk AU drabble! HERE
There's some amazing fix-it fic out there for Tutu and I love it but for some reason I secretly wish that fandom would write more stories about Fakir's adventures travelling across Europe with Ahiru-the-duck. Sadly no one has
(Also, thank you very much for the rec! I titled it "And They Lived" in the end, because I couldn't think of anything else to call it XD;)
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Date: 2010-08-19 11:40 am (UTC)Thank you for the recs! I too wish for more stories about traveling across Europe with Ahiru-the-duck. (Did you read the Tutu/Last Unicorn crossover that had some Travels With Ducks?)
And you are welcome, it was an excellent fic! I will edit my post to incorporate the proper title. :D
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Date: 2010-08-27 04:40 am (UTC)I also have to second your recommendation of "And They Lived" and "With No Companion" to anyone reading this. Brilliant choices! Both are wonderful, as well as two of the very best and most inspiring Mytho/Rue fanfics I've ever read.
And if I can, I'd really like to recommend to you my all-time favourite Mytho/Rue fic: heart's desire (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2566770/1/hearts_desire). I fell in love with this story when I first read it over a year ago - although it's very brief and minimal, it's so haunting and captures their relationship at its darkest point, and portrays it to perfection. I love it, and highly recommend it.
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Date: 2010-08-27 04:52 am (UTC)And more recommendations of awesome fic are always a thing I encourage. :D Thanks so much - I'll go check it out immediately!
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Date: 2010-08-27 03:41 pm (UTC)I hope you enjoyed my rec! :) This thread is seriously tempting me to begin a fanfic-recommendation topic at the PT comm now! XD I think it'd be wonderful if everyone could get together and recommend their five favourite PT fanfics where the entire comm could see... *wheels turning*
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Date: 2010-08-27 03:57 pm (UTC)I did enjoy your rec; the raven aspects of the Rue-Mytho relationship are always really fascinating to see played with. :) And I think that would be an excellent enterprise, personally. More recs are always a plus!