I haven't had a chance to read much of the femslashex fic yet but I did a Bletchley Circle pinch hit that was a little Millie/Susan fix-it.

Title: The Sheltering Tree
Fandom (pairing/characters): The Bletchley Circle, Millie/Susan
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 2464
Summary: Susan gets an unexpected visitor in Mumbai.

I also posted a little Nashville schmoop while waiting for the new series to get started.

Title: That name, which is no part of thee
Fandom (pairing/characters): Nashville, Deacon/Rayna
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 1622
Summary: Rayna at 16

It was nice to do some writing-y things!!

Yay for Bletchley watching, and icons from 4nn4 and all the general loveliness of that show. Jean is still my favourite ever ex-SOE/Bletchley Matron/Walking Stick Wielder/Librarian but the Susan/Millie something ratcheted right up this series. Hence, fic!

Title: A Tree Called Life
Fandom: The Bletchley Circle
Pairing: Millie/Susan
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 2919
Warnings: Pre-independence Senegalese-setting but no actual Senegalese characters.
Summary: Millie and Susan always planned to get to Saint-Louis, although life gets in the way, eventually they both manage it. Thanks so much to lilithilien  for the indulgent yet handy betaing!

A Tree Called Life on AO3

 femslashex  reveals were this week! I feel so lucky, I got such a wonderful fic, exactly what I was hoping for in fact!! 

Lights Earth With Her Silver is a Bletchley Circle fic by scintilla10 that focuses on Jean just after the conclusion of the season as she goes back to her life after all the excitement of reuniting with the Bletchley girls to solve the case. I love how it starts with that slightly weird city thing where you live intimately with total strangers whose lives you overhear through thin walls. I love how it takes that loneliness, combined with the loneliness of something ending, and secrets you are unable to share, and then gently opens Jean's life back up, showing her how her neighbour could be just as ready to share something new as Jean is. It's truly gorgeous! The OC is beautifully rendered and the tone is just so, so lovely. <333333333333

In return, I wrote Slowly, You Cleave To Her for AO3 user Aoife. It's a Vorkosigan Saga fic about Kareen Vorbarra and Alys Vorpatril. It charts their relationship from Alys's wedding to Gregor's. I had a lot of fun pairing these two up and thinking about how they would support each other and how their friendship could develop into something more.

I plan to give lots more of the femslashex fics a read so I hope I will be back with lots more recs!  

 
A bit behind the times but I just watched The Bletchley Circle and am now watching The Hour, series 1. I loved Bletchley so, so, so much although I had my heart in my mouth the entire time. I'm only on episode 3 of The Hour but Bel and Lix are killing it so far. Romola is so bloody talented I can't deal with it and every time I see Anna Chancellor these days I am filled with the desperate urge to buy tickets to Private Lives that she's in at the moment despite the tickets being stupidly expensive. 

Fic Recs?

Does anyone have any fic recs for either show? I would especially loved some fics about Jean from Bletchley that fills out her back story in some way, we got so little about her. I don't have an overwhelming urge for any particular pairing, all the women had lovely moments and Susan's relationship with her husband was also pretty interesting so really, I'm open to anything that anyone's read that they loved and was well written etc. 

I watched a great film called My Brother The Devil which I heartily recommend to anyone feeling like watching a film about youth gangs in London that doesn't over glamourise the lifestyle and tries to portray the wealth of different issues and personal conflicts that can come up for people in those situations.( cut for length )<33