Modern Reworkings
Well written stories that do not simply place the characters in the modern world, but actively and creatively rework the backgrounds, plot lines, and conflicts into a modern setting.
(Open, Unmoderated)
Recent works
-
Little Swan Lost by ISeeFire
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
16 Mar 2022
Tags
Summary
Bilba has grown up the unwanted granddaughter of the Thain of the Kingdom of Shire but, as she rarely visits the palace, the relationship holds little meaning to her. Instead she focuses on her second year of college, her ballet career and her slowly burgeoning romance with Bofur, a crew member with her ballet company.
The same day Bilba is set to preform on stage for the first time with her company, the kingdom of Shire is anticipating another event. That very evening will oversee the political, arranged marriage between Thorin Durin, Crown Prince of Erebor, and an unnamed Princess of Shire (so unnamed because Bilba's grandfather is a paranoid bastard).
Bilba doesn't care about any of this, she hasn't been invited and has no interest in other countries, politics or other such machinations.
Just before she's set to preform, however, Bilba suddenly finds herself dragged from the theater and taken to appear before her grandfather at the palace.
There she is informed she WILL be participating in the wedding after all.
As the bride.
Whether she likes it or not.
-
Tags
Summary
Rey and Finn go out on a cold night to participate in the grand New York Jewish tradition of Banging These Bastards A Kettle About It, and the police, they don't like it so much. Caught with a fake ID and no residency papers, Rey is dragged into a scheme to infiltrate and spy on activist groups. Detective Kyle O'Ryan, who would very much prefer you didn't inquire too closely about his legal name or his family background or why he never seems to mind working on Christmas, is supposed to be her police liaison, but his badge is getting heavier every day.
The righteous and the wicked, they will be judged together.
Series
- Part 1 of Ketuvim
-
She Walks In Beauty by Bead
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
14 Aug 2017
Tags
Summary
Thorin Durinson, head of Durinson & Company, an architectural firm specializing in environmentally responsible design and restoration, focuses all his creative abilities on his work and his affection on his family and old friends. And then one grey day, a woman in a red coat literally walks into his life, and just like that, everything changes.
Inspired by a prompt from lostunderthemountain on Oct. 11th, based on this gorgeous photoset.
ME: Mmm, rolled up sleeves, and who are you looking at, dearie, in that last frame?
lostunderthemountain: OH! Modern AU in New York: Thorin Durinson is the is the Head of a global company that is continually under threat from Smaug’s (cause like they differ on many opinions or something….).
Anyway, one morning he’s getting out of a taxi outside of the company’s building when he catches sight of one Miss Bella Baggins (not that he knows her name) and instantly his world freezes…until Fili shoves him to try to get him to move…
Title from Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty"
Series
- Part 1 of She Walks In Beauty
-
Tags
Summary
Bilbo Baggins led a rather peaceful life, thank you very much, until an old acquaintance decided to turn it upside down, and he found himself agreeing to take a job that’s… let’s say not exactly up his alley, and might eventually cost him a little more than his treasured cozy lifestyle. Who would have thought tutoring a slightly menacing monarch’s more than slightly overbearing nephew could prove to be such an adventure?
Series
- Part 1 of Nothing Gold Can Stay
-
Tags
Summary
The problem, Bilbo would later tell Gandalf in aggrieved irritation, was not so much the unannounced visitors, oh no, but the fact that due to the lateness of the hour and sheer merciless fate, it came to be that at the respectable age of forty, Bilbo was being introduced to a real, live king while wearing striped pyjamas and fluffy slippers.
Recent bookmarks
-
pounce by foxphoenixnine (cyborgharpy)
Fandoms: 三生三世枕上书 | Eternal Love of Dream (TV), 三生三世十里桃花 | Three Lives Three Worlds; Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms | Eternal Love (TV 2017)
14 Jun 2021
Tags
Summary
Bai Fengjiu has spent most of her young life circling the orbit of the much older, mysterious presence of restaurateur Donghua. Her teen crush has faded, overtaken by her work as a gourmet food blogger, line work at his restaurant Ninth Sky, and university student life. When he shows up on her spring break and blackmails her into being his personal chef she's forced to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, her feelings for him are still there.
Or also the author read the 三生三世枕上书 translation enough times to memorize it fully, and watched Eternal Love of Dream multiple times, and made a promise to my fellow fans that I would find a way to write the things missing from both the show and the original novel: 1) Bai Qian and Yehua's wedding, and 2) the steamy parts
Bookmarked by Lalaith_Yamainu
28 Aug 2020
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
Pounce; modern au of eternal love of dream
-
Tags
Summary
Oz's summer road trip takes him to a sleepy little town in Nevada- one that just woke up with a big new problem, and the local sheriff and citizens may have to face a reality they never expected before the closing credits.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 38,713
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 50
- Kudos:
- 59
- Bookmarks:
- 26
- Hits:
- 1,045
Bookmarked by Lalaith_Yamainu
22 May 2017
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
Serenity, Nevada. Oz visits.
-
Life and Death in Limbo by seren_ccd for SkySamuelle
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types
31 Aug 2015
Tags
Summary
"I never sent one back," Bella said. "Which is what you want. I'm no use to you if I just talk to them. They want to be sent back. I don't do that. I can't do that." She put her hands on her hips. “And to be perfectly honest, I don't know that I could even talk to them anymore. Even if I wanted to." She took a deep breath. "Which I don't. Want to."
Bella Baggins inherited her mother's spirit medium abilities, but she hasn't used them since she was a child. Therefore when Professor Gandalf drops in with a group of people, including one Captain Thorin Durin, who plan to reclaim their manor in the most haunted region of Scotland, she is not exactly prepared. All human!AU set post World War II
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 47,286
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 112
- Kudos:
- 876
- Bookmarks:
- 359
- Hits:
- 11,596
Bookmarked by Lalaith_Yamainu
02 Mar 2017
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
Life and death in limbo; Bella is a psychic hired by Thorin.
-
Tags
Summary
Bella Baggins thought she had everything she needed in the Shire. But then Dís Durin offered her a position with her dance company and before she knew it she was living in Erebor, miles and miles away from everything she had ever known, miles and miles away from home.
In which Thorin has trouble expressing his feelings in a mature manner, Fili and Kili like to play dress up with Bella, Dís stands back and watches, and Bella tries to figure out what in her life has lead to THIS fiasco.
(The Bagginshield North & South AU)
Series
- Part 1 of Bella Baggins Gets Stuff Done
Bookmarked by Lalaith_Yamainu
05 Nov 2016
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
We Found it in the Hedgerow; modern au bagginshield, Bella is a ballerina.