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Have some more purimgifts recs, while I'm at it.

My single favorite fic in this year's exchange, other than the ones I received, is this marvelous XMFC Erik/Raven ficlet, "Yahrzeit". Jewish!Mystique!!! A really convincingly written Jewish!Erik, afraid of his heritage and yet willing to let it in in small doses, often at Raven's urging.

Yarzheit (800 words) by scribblemyname
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men: First Class (2011)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Erik Lehnsherr/Raven | Mystique
Characters: Erik Lehnsherr, Raven | Mystique
Additional Tags: Community: purimgifts, Collection: Purimgifts Day 2, Yarzheit, Judaism, Emotional Hurt, Coping, Established Relationship
Summary:

Raven sits up on the bed and sets the report aside, climbs over his lap, and pushes him down to kiss him as though he loves her because he does love her. She cannot be Charles but she is her own kind of beautiful.

I really loved the Sports Night/Brooklyn 9-9 crossover that began with this fic. It was pretty obvious by day 2 that roga had written it, between the sparkling dialogue and the constant hockey jokes, but it's delightful in that way that great roga stories often are.

Overtime (Part 1) (557 words) by Roga
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Sports Night
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dan Rydell, Natalie Hurley, Jeremy Goodwin, Casey McCall
Additional Tags: Collection: Purimgifts Day 1
Series: Part 1 of Overtime
Summary:

Overtime is always unexpected.

I enjoyed this post-movie Veronica Mars fic a lot.

Best Served Cold (1137 words) by igrockspock
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Veronica Mars - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Veronica Mars, Jackie Cook
Additional Tags: Collection: Purimgifts Day 2
Summary:

When a corporate lawyer posts nude pictures of an old friend on the internet, Veronica gets revenge -- the legal way.

I really liked this picture of Julia from Selfie.

Efficient, Androgynous Julia - Have All the Happiness (3 words) by DefinitelyNotScott
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Selfie (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Julia Howser (Selfie TV)
Additional Tags: Digital Art, Collection: Purimgifts Day 2
Summary:

A portrait of Julia Howser.

And I loved this characteristically detailed Vashti-POV version of the Megillah from daegaer. (liv, I was not wrong!)

In the Citadel of Susa, I (1430 words) by Daegaer
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: תנ"ך | Tanakh, Jewish Scripture & Legend, Ancient Persia, Megillat Ester | Book of Esther
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Vashti, Ester | Esther, Artaxerxes, Hegai, Mehuman (Abrahamic Religions)
Additional Tags: Persia, Persian Empire, Eunuchs, Queens, Kings & Queens, courtiers, palace plots, Collection: Purimgifts Day 1
Series: Part 1 of In the Citadel of Susa
Summary:

Artaxerxes, the King of Kings, makes a demand that Vashti his Queen cannot and will not meet.