Rectober.... the finale!

[birdsofshore]

This is the last day of Rectober! Do jump in if you want to participate; even one good rec is a fabulous thing  ♥

I am so happy I managed to complete my own challenge which was to post recs twice a week for the whole month. Some weeks it was hard, and personally I would struggle to fit that in every month, but I enjoyed it, and I'd definitely like to rec regularly again, perhaps monthly rather than weekly, I'm not sure.

Anyway just one final rec as I am short of time today, but it's a corker:

Title: Sparks From the Fox's Tale
Author: anonymous
Rating: PG-13 (romance, not explicit)
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Summary: Draco is frustrated with his career as a travel writer, when a mini-tirade from Mrs. Weasley and an encounter with the portrait of an intrepid great-great-great-aunt lead him to Finland to study wandless magic. Harry is – just being contrary and following his sweet-tooth, or taking the subtle route to saving the world?
Warnings/Content Notes: No deliberate violence, but an accident involving heavy bleeding.
Word Count: 17,000

Why I loved it: This is such a beautiful, fascinating tale. Draco is able to find a kind of fresh start in Finland, and then some bloke called Harry Potter turns up... Their developing relationship is wonderfully real, gradual, romantic and delicious. There's nakedness in saunas, Draco chopping wood, gorgeous magical songs, a cast of delightful OCs, folklore, Finnish culture, and the story of lovers reunited. I feel like I can't really do it justice in a rec, but please believe me, it's absolutely lovely: gentle, original, charming.

A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS PARTICIPATED IN RECTOBER! I'll post something wrapping it up in the next few days, but it's been great to see so many recs flying around during the month, and I have discovered some new favourite fics and made some new LJ friends, as well. \o/

Comments

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

YAY rectober!!

I'm always self concious when I write recs. I never feel like I'm doing the fics justice. But I'm glad I took part. I found some jems! :P

[capitu]

What! You've written some awesome recs. I've read them and go... I wanna rec like that. ^^ :D

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

Lol. I read your recs and think the same thing! haha

[birdsofshore]

Another one here who thinks your recs are brilliant. They always seem very heartfelt.

Really glad you enjoyed the reccing and the reading, it was a fun month!

[capitu]

It's been a wonderful month. :)

[birdsofshore]

Well, you are on top reccing form every single month, but it was great to feel like I did my bit to add to the love :DD

[sdkshelly.livejournal.com]

Oh, I haven't read this. Thanks!!

And Rectober has been awesome. Really kicked my butt into gear with regards to getting back to reccing and I've really enjoyed reading everyone's recs as well. Thank you for putting it together!

[birdsofshore]

I really love this story. I hope you get a chance to read it - so fabulous.

I'm glad you enjoyed Rectober! Thank you for all your recs. I personally needed the structure of it and I'm glad other people liked that too.

[altri-uccelli.livejournal.com]

Seconding this rec so hard! I was lucky enough to have beta'd it, and there's so much to the story and its rich and loving level of detail that it rewards reread after reread.

Rectober was an awesome thing for you to have conceived and done. It felt like it re-energized fandom and our connections to each other and to fanworks we've loved.

[birdsofshore]

Such a wonderful story. I agree that I will reread again, it's one of those stories that stays with you and you just want to revisit that world. Her writing is deceptively simple but there's so much going on under the surface, if that makes sense.

Rectober really ran itself! I'm so happy people liked the idea. I agree it did feel like there was a lot of energy buzzing around, and I love that feeling, and the sense of community, it's a large part of what I enjoy about fandom.

♥

[awickedmemory.livejournal.com]

Adding to my to-read list. ♥ Which is like 50 fics long now, omg, but that's okay. :D Thank you! ^o^

[birdsofshore]

Put this one near the top :DDD It's such a treat and the words just fly by!

I can't not see that emoji as a Snitch, LOL!

[lijahlover.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh thanks for this :)))

[birdsofshore]

You're welcome! It's a really beautiful, romantic story with lots of heart.

[hd-fanfair-mod.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the rec. And for initiating Rectober, which brought H/D Book Fair so many wonderful recs. *smooches*

[birdsofshore]

You're very welcome. It was most thoughtful of you to organise the book fair to co-incide, so that we would have nice things to rec all month ;-)

[mab.livejournal.com]

Happy Samhain

[birdsofshore]

Bizarrely I think that is the video that started it all. I sent that link to who_la_hoop and then we discussed a game of trying to get one another to click on terrible Nic Cage links. The rest is history :DD

[mab.livejournal.com]

lmao!

Awesome