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I was delighted to see TWO Armadale fics in the Candy Hearts collection! They are both Allan/Ozias, both really good, and both—to judge by the kudos/comment lists—probably by people (or the same person?...) who haven't written for the fandom before, so yay for all that :D

I like Pedgift Junior and his relationship with Allan, and I love this story in which he saves the day! It's all very funny and cute, as well as being a neat canon divergence:

Pedgift's Remedy (6166 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Armadale - Wilkie Collins
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Main Allan Armadale/Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale
Characters: Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale, Main Allan Armadale, Augustus Pedgift
Additional Tags: Victorian, Swooning, POV Outsider, First Time, First Time Blow Jobs, Poison
Summary:

Mr Pedgift Jnr believed very much in securing happiness and contentment for all his clients. And Mr Pedgift Jnr had observed that what brought Mr Allan Armadale the most happiness and contentment was Ozias Midwinter. That neither of them had yet realised this was a state of affairs that Pedgift hope to gently apprise them of.

And this is a lovely post-canon established relationship fic; both I and Allan are very happy to see Ozias so happy:

Midsummer (1712 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Armadale - Wilkie Collins
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Main Allan Armadale/Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale
Characters: Ozias Midwinter | Allan Armadale, Main Allan Armadale
Additional Tags: Victorian, Outdoor Sex, Established Relationship, Treat
Summary:

It is Midsummer at Thorpe Ambrose, but Allan is much more interested in Midwinter.

I predictably didn't have the energy to sign up for rarefemslashex, but I did nominate for it, and I'm very pleased to see a fic for the genderswapped version of the poem 'The Highwayman', which I nominated. This is a lovely, romantic first meeting fic about Bess and the highwaywoman:

First Meeting in the Moonlight (600 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bess/Highwayman (The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes)
Characters: Bess (The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes), Highwayman (The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes)
Additional Tags: Gen or Pre-Slash, Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, F!Highwayman, First Meetings, Triple Drabble, Drabble Sequence, POV Alternating
Summary:

On an isolated stretch of road, surrounded by pines and heather, an introduction is made.