a modern Darcy with glases.

That’s all.

All right: Currently you can find one it in Boogima’s Thirteen Days and Karen A’s Creep.

This story had my whole sympathies right from the beginning as it shares the title with my favorite song – Fix you by Coldplay, in my humble opinion the best song in the world (as evidenced by my iTunes counter according to which I had listened to the song arond 800 times in a year… and which is currently playing in the background, yes, you are allowed to call me an addict). But I’m disgressing… yes, I judged the story by it’s title first of all and it didn’t disappoint.

When an unexpected event disrupts the Netherfield ball, Mr. Darcy finds out that leaving Hertfordshire and Elizabeth Bennet behind is more easily said than done.

At the beginning Boogima apologised for having “chosen one of the oldest plots in the JA fanfic book”, but that’s completely unnecessary, because her take on “suddenly after the Netherfield ball, Elizabeth and Darcy have to marry” is ingenious, loveable and portrayed in a perfect way.

Darcy, gosh, he is so perfectly characterized that I didn’t know what I wanted to do with him, slap him (at certain points) for either his arrogance, his mistaken pride or his stupidity or simply hug him. It may have to do with the fact that we get the whole story from his perspective only and his thoughts and musings are so fitting, that I wish I could write them in such a way. It’s – once again – simply perfect.

“Fix you” is complete with 15 chapters and available at AHA and FF.net.

So, with three entries, orchidvines is (currently) the most often mentioned authoress here on this blog. She is the only reason why I plunge into the chaos that it FF.net as her writing leaves me speachless with both awe and envy. She is really extremely talented and simply has a way of pricturing Jane Austen’s characters in a modern setting that feels so natural and so extremely close to canon. And I think that I’ve sung enough praises of her extreme cool style of writing, so I’ll come straight to her story: Red Light, Green Light, which I not only like, because it’s by orchidvines and therefore well-written, but also because it’s a modern take on Emma and a that’s a really nice change among the great variety of P&P-fanfictions (not that I’m complaining about that ). I don’t really know what to write else as the story is extremely close to the original Emma-storyline (I’m a fan of Emma btw., despite all her faults in the original) and to add that you can never do wrong with a story by orchidvines.

Which is why I will also mention that she posted a P&P one-shot called Mercy, Mercy me (modern, non-canon), which I have also come to adore.

Yeah, I guess, we will hear about orchidvines more often on this blog (that is, if she continues writing – and I pray to God that she will!)

That’s because Beth AM’s (enrage_femme) truly marvelous story “Some like it wild” is updated every Tuesday. So, as regards the topic of this story: The reference to the film “Some like it hot” with Marilyn Monroe is totally intentional, because Elizabeth disguises herself as a man following her father’s decision to force her to marry Mr. Collins. And for help she turns to Darcy, who – of course – does help her and together they go on a roadtrip that will lead to many, many, many complications. It’s not over yet, nine chapters have been posted so far, I think there will be ten altogether, but I’m not sure about that.

It’s totally great – Darcy himself questioning his sexual orientation (shortly, I grant you, before he realizes the “young boy” is no-one less than one Elizabeth Bennet) and afterwards fighting his growing attraction towards Elizabeth and other people thinking he has … unnatural preferences (which is a bit dangerous, because this was a hanging offence at that time IIRC).  It’s really funny, totally creative and ingenious. Added to that a great style of writing and you can see why I like this story so much. At the moment I cannot imagine how Beth will lead this tangled web to an ultimately satisfactory ending, but I daresay I can live with this suspense a bit longer.

“Some like it wild” is available at AHA and DWG.