Yuletide recs #5 (miscellany)

[cimorene]

Before bed, here is a mixed bag of my last Yuletide recs of this year, right before the name reveal!

• Pursuit. The Fast and the Furious. Brian/Dom, a great sequel - original, plotty, engaging, lovable and very much in the style of the films, with a lot of UST full of manly repressed emotions.



• This Is Not a Chick Flick. Greek mythology, Hades/Persephone. An irreverent, witty and meta-on-many-levels romcom take on my favourite myth with many memorably hysterical cameos from other deities.



• Acknowledgement. Merlin/Arthur, with Arthur being manipulative and clever - which, I gather, is perhaps a bit unusual? A charming, funny story.



• And This Time I'll Remember. Hot Fuzz, Danny/Nick. What I love most about this is the premise (not that anything's wrong with the execution!): that Nick wakes up with a dead body and no memory, and nobly resigns from the investigation because he is afraid that (dun dun) WHAT IF HE DID IT? It's so delightfully classic cop-show, and so delightfully contrasts with the utterly non-classic world of Hot Fuzz's cops.



• A Meeting of Equals. Coupling UK, gen, and obviously, humour. Jane at a party. JANE. ♥♥

And hey, happy new year, everybody.