More Multi-Fandom Recs

[wendelah1]

It wasn't so hard to find recs for today's theme: Politics. I have one The X-Files vid and three fics to rec: The Americans, The Handmaid's Tale, and The West Week.

"Five Points Down" is a brilliant fic about Elizabeth Jennings's unrelenting commitment to her cause and her country, and the toll that exacts on her and her family.

Five Points Down (23903 words) by Jae Gecko
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Americans (TV 2013)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Jennings, Gregory Thomas
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Canon Backstory
Series: Part 1 of The Cost of Silence trilogy
Summary:

Elizabeth Jennings, both in the early years of that name and before it.

This story has such brilliant world-building. It should have thousands of kudos by now given the popularity of the TV series. Go read it now!

Sisters of Bilhah (7428 words) by throughadoor
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
Summary:

Sisters of Bilhah is the largest registered charitable organisation in the UK working with asylum seekers and refugees who were citizens of the former United States of America.

This is a cute post-series fic for an adorable if improbable pairing. Written for the doomed ship comment ficathon at anythingbutgrey's old LiveJournal.

Red, White, and Blueberry (1123 words) by Lirazel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The West Wing
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ainsley Hayes/Sam Seaborn
Characters: Ainsley Hayes, Sam Seaborn
Summary:

Do you understand me, Sam?"

Sam, Ainsley, and an inevitable conversation.

"No One Would Riot for Less," by freyatlast, The X-Files. This vid is more than ten years old and it still gives me chills. "This is The X-Files to me. War, doom, loss, love."

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