Thanks for everyone with the vidding advice! As of yesterday I have added one clip to my vid and I'm feeling very accomplished.

Anyway, the weather here has suddenly turned decisively autumnal, which I am enjoying. Have a mini-recs-list of autumnal-feeling fics I felt inspired to reread over the weekend.

Only one of them is actually set in autumn. Apparently what makes a story file as 'autumnal' for me is:

• cool weather
  
• a cozy house set back in the trees
  
• a strong small-town sense of place
  
• soft clothes and warm food
  
• assholes with well-earned trust issues affirmatively deciding to let someone else in for once
  
• ~50000 words

(as always I'm happy for additions in the comments!)

China (53941 words) by torch
Fandom: Highlander: The Series, The X-Files
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Methos/Fox Mulder
Characters: Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, Methos
Additional Tags: Crossover, casefile
Summary: Mulder is looking for witches. Methos is looking for some peace and quiet. Whether they'll find what they're looking for in rural Indiana is anyone's guess.

One of the first fics I read, still one of my favorites, definitely holds up. (I think it helps to know the basics of who Methos is to enjoy this, but if you're reading this you probably already do, right?)


Lee Shore (34795 words) by JumpingJackFlash
Chapters: 19/19
Fandom: Homestuck
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eridan Ampora/Dave Strider
Characters: Eridan Ampora, Dave Strider, Dirk Strider, Equius Zahhak
Additional Tags: Post SBURB, Character Study, Road Trips, Painting, awkward bro moments, awkward eridan moments, awkward dave moments, Xeno, doodlefic
Summary:
In the years after the game, the twelve trolls and eight humans have tried to stick together, because no one else would understand. When Eridan misses one of their yearly reunions, Dave makes an impulsive decision to go find him.

Yes it's Homestuck! But this is probably the top Homestuck fic I'd rec to people who don't know canon. It's set in a softer gentler post-canon and probably the only thing it would help to know going in is that Trolls, while close enough to Humans that it's not obvious, think of interpersonal relationship through very different paradigms, and the MCs here spent their early teen years (among other, more traumatic things) learning how to navigate that cross-culturally.

Give A Dog A Job (63728 words) by bomberqueen17
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Wiedźmin 2: Zabójcy królów | The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (Video Game)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Iorveth/Vernon Roche
Characters: Vernon Roche, Iorveth (The Witcher)
Additional Tags: semi-modern au, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, what if roche was a retired crazy dog guy, and iorveth was a paranoid former political prisoner, and they were neighbors, and there were a whole bunch of dogs there, Past Torture, Past Violence, Flashbacks, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, unhealthy boundaries, realistic dogs, Alternate Universe - Small Town, rural living, romance novel logic, to be clear these are some really unhealthy boundaries, Miscommunication, Chronic Pain, Epilepsy, safe sex, Enthusiastic Consent
Summary: Vernon Roche, forced into retirement by the injuries he got failing to save King Foltest from being assassinated, settles down in the woods with a pile of dogs, maybe to drink himself to death.
One of these dogs retrieves his neighbor, a mysterious one-eyed hermit.

You definitely don't need to know any Witcher canon to read this! It's set in a vaguely modern AU and you can get all you need from the story. Which you should do.