A very small baby strandbeest and the Teeny Little Super Guy from last year's Yuletide wish you a happy James Webb Space Telescope Launch Day! On its way to L2!

Of course it is also Yuletide day! I got two amazing set-during-canon Rick/Ilsa/Victor Casablanca fics that are both exactly what I have wanted since I saw the movie and I'm really impressed that the authors were able to take my vague prompts and put the scenes I wanted right where I wanted them!

As usual I am filled with 'how can I leave a comment that lives up to how good the fic is' anxiety, so I am rec'ing here first in hopes that telling y'all how good they were will help me figure out how to tell the authors.

Tomorrow, on That Plane (2746 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Casablanca (1942)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rick Blaine/Victor Laszlo/Ilsa Lund
Characters: Rick Blaine, Victor Laszlo (Casablanca 1942), Ilsa Lund
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Threesome - F/M/M, Porn with Feelings, Kissing, Handholding, Sex, of various kinds, Love, Jealousy, Tenderness, Mild Blood, During Canon, Canon Dialogue, With Paraphrases, Canon Compliant, If You Squint - Freeform
Summary:

Rick Blaine and Victor Laszlo and Ilsa Lund alone at Rick's before the gendarmes come for them.

This is the mostly-canon-compliant threesome in Casablanca that I asked for that still fixes nothing, except maybe a few hearts (including mine.) Also the sex is really good, so that's a bonus. I am also super impressed that the writer knew exactly what point in canon I was talking about when I said there was a point in canon where it would work. IT DOES.



That Rainbow Lure--Some Day (2083 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Casablanca (1942)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rick Blaine/Victor Laszlo/Ilsa Lund
Characters: Rick Blaine, Victor Laszlo (Casablanca 1942), Ilsa Lund, Louis Renault, Heinrich Strasser
Additional Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort
Summary:

Rick Blaine learned a long time ago to know better than to expect justice or mercy or kindness.

And this is the ending scene AU where Ilsa and Victor and Rick manage to say out loud some of the things they didn't in canon that makes the bittersweet hopefulness of the end just that bit more hopefulness and that bit less bitter. It is lovely (and I also love the visual of Renault just having to stand there awkwardly and watch, okay.)