I am bad at reading, but my house is quite a bit cleaner!

[healingmirth]

porcupineology (loveology) (562 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Breakfast Club (1985)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: John Bender/Claire Standish
Characters: Claire Standish, Allison Reynolds, Andrew Clark
Summary:

Allison, Jell-O cup in hand, poses a salient question.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Very much Claire in 500-something words. Excellent.

If We Dare Expose Our Hearts (3222 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Breakfast Club (1985)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: John Bender/Brian Johnson
Characters: Allison Reynolds, John Bender, Brian Johnson
Summary:

Ten years later, Brian walks into a bar.

Bookmarker's Notes:

New Brian/Bender fic is my guaranteed yuletide happy place to begin with, but I love all the choices that our mystery author made about where everyone is ten years along.

These Mortal Lullabies (6744 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dead Poets Society (1989)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Todd Anderson/Neil Perry
Characters: Todd Anderson, Neil Perry
Additional Tags: Orpheus and Eurydice Myth
Summary:

A grief-stricken Todd is offered the opportunity to descend into the underworld and bring Neil back to the land of the living.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Beautiful, and full of poetry both literally (recited in service of the plot) and metaphorically. And who doesn't love a healthy dose of quiet longing and fix-it in their fic?

Carpe Noctem (9458 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dead Poets Society (1989)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Neil Perry, Todd Anderson, Steven Meeks, Gerard Pitts, Charlie Dalton, Richard Cameron, Knox Overstreet
Additional Tags: Mild Language, Poetry
Summary:

On a night in November the powerful play goes on and seven Dead Poets contribute a verse.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Absolutely beautifully written - an evening full of adventures of varying scale, told from each of the boys' points of view, heartbreaking and funny and sweet by turns.

Five Scenes from the Life of a Father (1878 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Heard on the Subway: Talking About Your Gay Son (blog post)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Charlie & Pat (Talking About Your Gay Son), implied John/Patrick Jr. (Talking About Your Gay Son), Charlie/Mary Ann (Talking About Your Gay Son)
Characters: Charlie (Talking About Your Gay Son), Pat (Talking About Your Gay Son), John (Talking About Your Gay Son), Patrick Jr. (Talking About Your Gay Son), Mary Ann (Talking About Your Gay Son)
Additional Tags: Family, Male Friendship, Father-Son Dynamics, LGBTQ Themes, LGBTQ Characters, Supportive Parenting, mentions of college, mentions of baseball
Summary:

Charlie doesn't always completely understand, but he tries.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Because supportive parents are the best, and supportive parents who manage it because they have to pay attention and ask questions and figure out what their kid actually wants and needs are better.

So I made it from T back around through H before reveals, but not even because I bookmarked most of the longer fic to come back to, like Annum Novum" and some other stuff that seems really promising.

I sort of want to read more, or do some 2013 meme, or just do the general AO3 meme because I haven't yet, but the. there's snowflake_challenge and some fandom-stocking stuff I still hope to write. And all the stuff that I didn't have time to sort before I had people over last night, so I piled it up and stashed it behind things...

Happy New Year!