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Contents: 1010 recs in 235 fandoms; 65 links

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Actor fiction (2)

Agatha Christie (3)

Aladdin (1)

Alice in Wonderland (2)

Alien films (1)

Amιlie (1)

American Psycho (1)

Angel (28) [ch]

Arsenic and Old Lace (1)

Arthurian legends (8) [ch]

Artworks (6)

AS Byatt (3)

Aubrey–Maturin series (1)

Batman films (4)

Beauty and the Beast (2)

Beauty and the Beast (Disney) (2)

Bible (5)

Blackadder (2)

Blade Runner (2)

Blake's 7 (29) [ch]

Bluebeard (1)

Bones (1)

Breakfast Club (1)

Brokeback Mountain (1)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (33) [ch]

Cadfael (1)

Calvin & Hobbes (3)

Charles Dickens (2)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (3)

Charlotte Brontλ (3)

Chaucer (1)

China Miιville (1)

Chinese poetry (1)

Classical music RPF (1)

Classical mythology (9) [ch]

Comics (2)

Coriolanus (1)

Coupling (1)

Dark is Rising (7) [ch]

Das Leben der Anderen (1)

Diana Wynne Jones – Chrestomanci (2)

Diana Wynne Jones – Dalemark (3)

Diana Wynne Jones – Dogsbody (1)

Diana Wynne Jones – Eight Days of Luke (1)

Diana Wynne Jones – Howl's Moving Castle (2)

Diana Wynne Jones – Power of Three (2)

Discworld (15) [ch]

Disney cartoons (1)

Doctor Who (21) [ch]

Dogma (2)

Dracula (3)

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Dylan Thomas (1)

East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1)

EM Forster (4)

Exeter Book (1)

Fairy tales – Various (5)

Finnish mythology (2)

Firefly (2)

Frances Hodgson Burnett (3)

Frankenstein (1)

Galaxy Quest (5) [ch]

Georgette Heyer – Cotillion (1)

Georgette Heyer – Regency Buck (1)

Georgette Heyer – The Convenient Marriage (1)

Georgette Heyer – Sylvester (1)

Georgette Heyer – The Black Moth (1)

Georgette Heyer – The Unknown Ajax (1)

Georgette Heyer – These Old Shades (2)

Georgette Heyer – Venetia (1)

Goblin Market (3)

Good Life (1)

Good Omens (16) [ch]

Gormenghast (1)

Gosford Park (2)

Grand Budapest Hotel (1)

Hadestown (1)

Hamlet (6) [ch]

Handmaid's Tale (3)

Harry Potter (80) [ch]

Hav (1)

Hinterland (1)

Historical RPF (4)

History Boys (1)

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (5) [ch]

Hot Fuzz (1)

House, MD (6) [ch]

How to Train Your Dragon (1)

HP Lovecraft (4)

I, Claudius (1)

Indiana Jones (1)

Interview with the Vampire (1)

Into the Woods (1)

Irish mythology (1)

Isaac Asimov (6) [ch]

Jack and the Beanstalk (1)

James Bond (1)

James Tiptree Jr (1)

Jane Austen – Emma (1)

Jane Austen – Mansfield Park (7) [ch]

Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey (1)

Jane Austen – Persuasion (1)

Jane Austen – Pride & Prejudice (4)

Jane Austen – Sense & Sensibility (1)

Jeeves & Wooster (6) [ch]

Jesus Christ Superstar (1)

John le Carrι (1)

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (1)

Jorinde and Joringel (1)

JRR Tolkien – Smith of Wootton Major (1)

JRR Tolkien – Lord of the Rings (66) [ch]

JRR Tolkien – The Hobbit (5) [ch]

JRR Tolkien – The Silmarillion (48) [ch]

Julius Caesar (1)

Juno (1)

Labyrinth (6) [ch]

Ladies' Guide to Collecting Mermaid Love Songs (2)

Le Petit Prince (1)

Lemony Snicket (1)

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (1)

Lewis (3)

Like Water For Chocolate (1)

Literary RPF (6)

Little House on the Prairie (2)

Little Red Riding Hood (1)

Little Women (1)

LM Bujold – Chalion series (6) [ch]

LM Bujold – Sharing Knife series (1)

LM Bujold – Vorkosigan series (24) [ch]

Lord Peter Wimsey (12) [ch]

Lost in Translation (1)

Love Actually (2)

M*A*S*H (2)

Macbeth (3)

Maltese Falcon (1)

Mary Renault (1)

Mary Russell series (1)

Matrix trilogy (1)

Midsummer Night's Dream (3)

Moby Dick (2)

Much Ado About Nothing (2)

Name of the Rose (1)

Narnian Chronicles (30) [ch]

Neil Gaiman – American Gods (6) [ch]

Neil Gaiman – Graveyard Book (2)

Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere (5) [ch]

Neil Gaiman – Study in Emerald (2)

Neuromancer (1)

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1)

Norse mythology (8) [ch]

North and South (2)

Othello (1)

Pan's Labyrinth (1)

Peter Pan (4)

Pirates of the Caribbean (17) [ch]

Princess Bride (2)

Puss in Boots (1)

Ray Bradbury (1)

Raymond Chandler (4)

Rear Window (1)

Rebecca (1)

Red Dwarf (1)

Regeneration trilogy (1)

Remington Steele (4)

Reservoir Dogs (1)

Rivers of London series (3)

Robin Hood (BBC) (2)

Rocky Horror Picture Show (1)

Romeo and Juliet (3)

Rosemary Sutcliff – Blood Feud (4)

Rosemary Sutcliff – Eagle of the Ninth (4)

Rosemary Sutcliff – Frontier Wolf (3)

Rosemary Sutcliff – Knight's Fee (1)

Rosemary Sutcliff – Lantern Bearers (3)

Rosemary Sutcliff – Outcast (3)

Rosemary Sutcliff – Silver Branch (1)

Rosemary Sutcliff – Sword at Sunset (1)

Rosemary Sutcliff – Warrior Scarlet (1)

Rosemary Sutcliff – Witch's Brat (1)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (3)

Rudyard Kipling – Just So stories (1)

Rudyard Kipling – Jungle Book (2)

Scarlet Pimpernel (1)

Science RPF (2)

Sesame Street (1)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1)

Sex and the City (1)

Shakespeare Retold (1)

Shakespeare's histories (2)

Sherlock (9) [ch]

Sherlock Holmes (6) [ch]

Singin' in the Rain (1)

Sleeping Beauty (1)

Sleepy Hollow (1)

Smallville (8) [ch]

Snow White (1)

Songs (5)

Sound of Music (1)

Spirited Away (7) [ch]

Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (46) [ch]

Star Trek: The Next Generation (17) [ch]

Star Trek: TOS/AOS (13) [ch]

Star Trek: Voyager (3)

Stephen King (4)

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (2)

Sunset Boulevard (1)

Tam Lin (1)

The Buried Moon (1)

The Highwayman (1)

The Hour (1)

The Incredibles (1)

The Little Mermaid (3)

The Mentalist (2)

The Tempest (5) [ch]

The Threepenny Opera (1)

The Wild Swans (2)

Thursday Next series (1)

Tipping the Velvet (1)

Torchwood (1)

Twelfth Night (4) [ch]

Twelve Dancing Princesses (1)

Twelve Kingdoms (1)

Twin Peaks (9) [ch]

Ursula Le Guin – Hainish Cycle (5)

Ursula Le Guin – Earthsea (25) [ch]

Wagner Ring Cycle (2)

Walter de la Mare (1)

War for the Oaks (1)

Watership Down (11) [ch]

Welsh mythology (2)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1)

Wilkie Collins (1)

Winnie the Pooh (1)

Wire in the Blood (1)

Yes, Minister (1)