This summer I participated in Fandom Giftbox 2016. I kind of forgot about it because there were several months until the reveal, so I was pleasantly surprised when I received two lovely fics.

Title: Fear in a Handful of Dust
Author merryghoul
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 300
Characters: Delgado!Master, River Song
Warnings: None
Summary: River saves the Master, only to hear about his latest plans for conquest.

Title: The Fabled Mind Gem of Trimerigon 6
Author: Annariel
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 1450
Characters/pairings: Missy, Twelfth Doctor/River Song
Warnings: None
Summary: Two weeks into his date with River at the Singing Towers of Darillium, the Doctor wakes up to find himself strapped into a wheelchair. Missy has staged an intervention

I try to get into the habit of making a fanfic rec every Sunday and usually fail miserably. But have decided to call this a honorary Sunday and bring you this:

Title: Feather On the Nile
Author: Glinda
Fandom: The Mummy series
Length: 3324 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Polyamory, period-typical homophobia, canon-typical violence, extortion, protectiveness, curses
Characters/pairing: Ardeth Bay/Evy Carnahan O'Connell/Rick O'Connell
Summary: It’s a nice fantasy but that’s all it is: a fantasy. So he leaves them there, before he can be tempted by things that can never be. (It's a good plan, shame it didn't work.).

Why I rec it: I re-watched The Mummy recently and was reminded of how beautiful and attractive all the main characters in this movie are. So I happily swooned and then went in search for some fanfic. Sometimes, when you are really lucky, you stumble over a fic you have always wanted to read. I like polyamory in fics, but rarely find any I like. Perhaps because it’s so very easy to write something where the third party is in some way described negatively, or as a less meaningful partner. This fic, I love! It’s sweet, funny and sexy. And if the idea that one third of the constellation thinks he isn’t part of an epic love story- well, then that is only in his head.

Excerpt:It’s not until he’s on a boat halfway across the see that it dawns on him that they both said ‘us’. Come back to us. He has a lot of time on the boat to ponder on what they meant by that, what arrangement they have made between themselves about him. It lurks at the back of his mind throughout his adventures, underscoring the near misses along with his eventual success. He arrives back in Egypt no nearer to a conclusion.

So he does the only sensible thing. He takes an extra long rotation on guard duty out in the desert without letting either of them know he’s back.