Title: Five Places Cinna Came From
Fandom: The Hunger Games
Pairing: Cinna/Finnick, Finnick/Annie, Katniss/Peeta depending on the part you’re reading.
Categories: AU, Romance, Drama, Angst, Dark, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Pre-Canon, Prostitute/Slave, Sad Story
Length: 86,000 words
Warnings: Forced Prostitution, Rape, Mentions Of Child Abuse, Violent Character Death, Mostly Unhappy Endings (Pretty much all of them Canon-compliant)

Author on LJ: aimmyarrowshigh
Author Website: Masterlist on LJ
Summary: Cinna did not come from the Capitol. Five paths he took out of the Districts, and why he set a nation on fire.

Review:
The thing that made the Hunger Games books so very hard for me to put down was that all the characters, whether I liked them or not, felt very, very real in their behaviour and their actions. They were shaped by their Districts and the government-enforced hardships that they encountered in them, or by the Capitol and its fast paced lifestyle that whirled the citizens from one event to the next and made them forget all about the world beyond their clothes and make-up and mindless entertainment. These people were flawed, these people were twisted. They felt real. And aimmyarrowshigh takes that premise and spins five stories that show that no matter where someone grows up, and no matter who or what influences them and conditions them, deep down they’re still the same person. She describes how Cinna could have become the incendiary element that sparked off the revolution in the books.

Five Places Cinna Came From is a collection of beautiful, heartbreaking stories that to be honest made me cry more than pretty much anything I’ve ever read, be it published or fan-written fiction. It’s painful; it’s canon compliant, and of course if you’ve read the books you know how Cinna’s story ends. But in every part of this fic you discover a new thing that you love about him or about his families or about any of the other characters despite the way that Panem has corrupted them and you just won’t want to stop reading.

Each of the stories stands on its own and can be read without any knowledge of the others. You might want to take a break in between them, to make them easier to swallow. Be warned that in each and every one Finnick is a main character, and you should be prepared for disturbing or painful content simply because of that. This is Panem. And, to take it from the fic, not even Panem’s faerytales have very happy endings. But they're so damn worth it to be told.


Five Places Cinna Came From in the order the author means them to be read:

District Four: The Girl In The Water On FF.net | On Livejournal
District One: The Boy With The Trident: On FF.net | On Livejournal
District Five: The Boy On Fire On FF.net | On Livejournal
District Twelve: The Boy With The Girl On FF.net | On Livejournal
District Seven: The Moral in the Story On FF.net | On Livejournal

Title: Truth and Measure
Fandom: The Devil Wears Prada
Pairing: Miranda Priestly/Andy Sachs
Categories: AU, Post-Canon, Romance, Drama, Kids
Length: 273,133 words
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ: somniesperus
Author Website: The Rag and Bone Shop
Summary: Andy doesn't leave Miranda in Paris, and learns that a single decision can change your life. But the main thing about decisions? You don't get to stop with one.

Review: The last thing I ever expected was to read a fic in this fandom and like it. The truth is though, not only did I like it, I adored it, and have up to this day spent many a night up re-reading this. This fic stands for everything that I enjoy in fiction: an interesting plot, perfect characterization and it's paced in a way that will have you at the edge of your seat with that feeling of 'I need to know what happens next, right now'.

Telanu takes characters that were brushed off in canon as two-liners and gives them a depth that is just stunning, and with the main characters she does the same and takes them that step further that makes them practically come to live.

Even if you were not all that thrilled with the movie itself, and if you never even thought about shipping these two characters, you should give Truth and Measure a chance. It deserves it.


Truth and Measure in a single txt file | Truth and Measure in multiple installments on the author's website