pravilabhate (9591 words) by toujours_nigel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mahabharata - Vyasa
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dushala & Yuyutsu (Mahabharata), Dushala & Bhanumati (Mahabharata), Yudhisthira & Yuyutsu (Mahabharata)
Characters: Dushala (Mahabharatha), Yuyutsu (Mahabharata), Yudhisthira (Mahabharata), Uttara (Mahabharatha), Lakshmanaa (Hindu Religions & Lore)
Additional Tags: Sibling Bonding, Post-War, Dysfunctional Family, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
Summary: Yuyutsu comes home to Hastinapuri, in the wake of the war.

mātṛvat (2125 words) by toujours_nigel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mahabharata - Vyasa, Hindu Religions & Lore
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Krishna (Hindu Religions & Lore) & Rohini (Hindu Religions & Lore)
Characters: Krishna (Hindu Religions & Lore), Rohini (Hindu Religions & Lore)
Additional Tags: Step-parents, Children, Mother-Son Relationship
Summary: Her son, Rohini thinks, looking at Krishna sulking in the dimmest corner of her chambers, outside the long reach of questing sunbeams. Her sweet wicked boy whom they have transplanted to such strange soil and bid thrive.

saputra (562 words) by toujours_nigel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mahabharata - Vyasa
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arjuna & Kunti, Arjuna & Pandu, Arjuna/Draupadi (Mahabharata)
Characters: Arjuna (Mahabharatha), Draupadi (Mahabharata)
Summary: Srutakarma is tiny in his arms, perfect and vulnerable. Arjuna wishes he had had time to learn of fatherhood from his own father, long before he became one himself.

mugdhakriti (500 words) by toujours_nigel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mahabharata - Vyasa
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hidimbi/Bheem (Mahabharata)
Characters: Bheem (Mahabharata), Hidimba (Mahabharatha), Hidimbi (Mahabharata)
Summary: Age has only bettered Bhima, broadened his shoulders and strengthened his arms.

dvitiya (500 words) by toujours_nigel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mahabharata - Vyasa
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kunti (Mahabharata) & Madri (Mahabharata)
Characters: Kunti (Mahabharata), Madri (Mahabharata)
Additional Tags: Wives
Summary: She likes Madri better for it, after anger has beaten its way from her mind.

kuhaka (500 words) by toujours_nigel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mahabharata - Vyasa
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shakuni (Mahabharata) & Amba|Shikhandi (Mahabharata)
Characters: Amba | Shikandi (Mahabharata), Shakuni (Mahabharata)
Additional Tags: Reincarnation
Summary: When he is four a mendicant comes to Gandhar through the mountains, up from the fertile plains of the Ganga. A winter crossing, hurriedly undertaken before the passes close.

sukhin (647 words) by toujours_nigel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ramayana - Valmiki
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rama/Sita (Ramayana)
Characters: Rama (Ramayana), Sita (Ramayana)
Additional Tags: Child Marriage
Summary: Rama at seventeen is omnipotent and omniscient, her first shelter in any storm.

yashashvini (789 words) by toujours_nigel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ramayana - Valmiki
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kaikeyi & Manthara (Ramayana)
Characters: Kaikeyi (Ramayana)
Summary: She has only ever been happy as a queen in Ayodhya.

Put this month's drabbles in a single post, just in case anyone's interested.

Mahabharati (3100 words) by toujours_nigel
Chapters: 31/31
Fandom: Mahabharata - Vyasa
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Ila (Hindu Religions & Lore), Urvashi (Hindu Religions & Lore), Shakuntala (Mahabharata), Ganga (Hindu Religions & Lore), Satyavati (Mahabharatha), Amba | Shikandi (Mahabharata), Ambika (Mahabharata), Ambalika (Mahabharata), Kripi (Mahabharata), Gandhari (Mahabharata), Rohini (Hindu Religions & Lore), Yashoda (Hindu Religions & Lore), Devaki, Kunti (Mahabharata), Madri (Mahabharata), Revati (Hindu Religions & Lore), Hidimba (Mahabharatha), Hidimbi (Mahabharata), Satyabhama (Mahabharata), Vrishali (Mahabharat), Draupadi (Mahabharata), Bhanumati (Mahabharat), Dushala (Mahabharatha), Sudeshna (Mahabharata), Uloopi (Mahabharata), Chitrangada (Mahabharatha), Subhadra (Mahabharata), Rukmini (Mahabharata), Lakshmanaa (Hindu Religions & Lore), Lakshmanaa (Mahabharata), Uttaraa (Mahabharata), Upapandavi, Princess of Dasharna
Additional Tags: Women Being Awesome, BAMF Women, Women In Power, POV Female Character, Hindu Character, Female Friendship, Female Protagonist, Female Relationships, Mother-Daughter Relationship

Today's rec is Susan being a chameleon.

Adaptive Coloration: Four Identities that Susan Pevensie Never Had To Assume, and One She Might Have Chosen (6670 words) by cofax
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Susan Pevensie, Jadis, Corin, Aslan
Additional Tags: 5 Things, The Problem of Susan

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Today's drabble is for ( Uttaraa )

Today's rec is Azula after the war, picking up the pieces and rooting herself in an ignored ancestry

水火 (20041 words) by trascendenza
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Characters: Azula (Avatar), Ensemble
Additional Tags: Community: ladiesbigbang, Female Protagonist, Post-Canon, Female-Centric, POV Female Character, Family, Grandmothers, ancestry, Backstory, Character Study, Female Friendship, female mentoring, Women Being Awesome, Asian Character, chromatic protagonist, POV Character of Color, layers, Personal Favorite, Firebending & Firebenders, Healing, Meditation, Friendship, Ancestor Worship

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Today's drabble is for
( Uma )

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And now I'm all caught up with the recs and drabbles. Spent about a week with bee_muse and fell behind to about the same extent, though I did get about half my current chapter written, and an inordinate amount of cuddling. I miss her to pieces.

Today's rec is Lardo letting herself take help when she needs it. (and this rec may or may not be influenced by the fact that I love the betaing process from both sides.)

Dibs and the Art of the Subordinating Conjunction (4182 words) by Stultiloquentia
Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic)
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Larissa "Lardo" Duan, Derek "Nursey" Nurse
Additional Tags: Friendship, Academia

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Today's drabble is for
( Subhadra )

Today's rec is Lady Alys Vorpatril and her women serving Barrayar.

The Committee To Prepare The Ground (8580 words) by Raven
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Characters: Alys Vorpatril, Simon Illyan, Miles Vorkosigan, Helen Vorthys, Ekaterin Vorsoisson Vorkosigan, Gregor Vorbarra
Additional Tags: Women Being Awesome, Spies & Secret Agents
Summary: They were there all along: a secret history of women in Imperial Security.

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Today's drabble is for
( Ulupi )

Today's rec is the elegant and empathetic Jingmum, our Slytherin queen-mother.

To Preserve the Life of Others (7612 words) by romantic_drift
Fandom: 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Consort Jing & Family, (maybe Consort Jing / Lin Xie / Princess Jinyang if you squint), (or Consort Jing / Consort Chen if you squint again), (there is a lot of unexamined idolation okay), (also Jingyan/Lin Shu but what else is new)
Characters: Consort Jing, Lin Xie, Yan Que, Princess Jinyang, Consort Chen, Xiao Xuan, Princess Liyang, the entire first gen, and cameos by the second

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Today's drabble is for
( Dushala )

Today's rec is Elena Alvarez and her Syd-nificant Other standing up to her hostile father. ♥

we'll be like spies (2186 words) by TheSubtextMachine
Fandom: One Day at a Time (TV 2017)
Relationships: Elena Alvarez/Syd
Characters: Elena Alvarez, Syd (One Day at a Time)

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Today's drabble is for
( Draupadi )

Today's rec is Josie Brooke learning the value of cooperation and a perspective shift.

Each Word Made True And Good (4383 words) by thelittlestbird
Fandom: Little Women Series - Louisa May Alcott
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Josie Brooke/Original Female Character

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Today's drabble is for ( Satyabhama )