Fandom: EVERWOOD
Pairing: Bright/Ephram
Author on LJ: misswindy
Author Website: Fan Fiction by Miss Windy

Why this must be read: This is a fun, easy read. No angst and definitely no drama. Just two wonderful boys and sparkling snarky repartee that is so endearing. I love how Miss Windy takes the spirit of Bright and Ephram's relationship and slashes it, without really gaying it up. There are subtle glimpses of UST throughout the story, but it's not really all about that. This is really about how these two compliment one another -- apparent opposites yet very much fitting together almost pefectly.

I got a kick out of this interesting movie-as-metaphor reference/parallelism. Here, the two are about to watch some DVDs and Ephram asks Bright what they're watching. This is his answer:


"It's about this guy who's this angsty artist. And he's got this cute blonde best friend who's kinda hot in her own way and has this massive thing for him, see, but he only thinks of her as a friend because he's convinced he's fallen madly in love with this really beautiful, glamorous girl he hardly knows and - what? Why are you looking at me like that?"


Simply wonderful.

Say Anything

Fandom: X-MEN MOVIEVERSE
Pairing: Magneto/Pyro
Author on lj: harriet_spy
Author's website: Sometimes You Need a Story
Why this must be read:

Magneto/Pyro is a difficult pairing to handle, with the wide age difference and the need to keep Magneto's relationship with Mystique firmly in mind. Sarah T. pulls it off beautifully in this story set after X2. Pyro's in Berlin with Magneto and Mystique, trying to figure out what being part of the Brotherhood means, and trying to figure out Magneto, who's well-drawn and complicated. This isn't a love story; it's a story about who Pyro's choosing to be.

dragonflies draw flame

Fandom: HOMICIDE:LIFE ON THE STREET/THE X-FILES
Author on lj: Unknown
Author's website: Unknown...I found the story at http://xover.happyfunland.net/categ/homicide.htm
Summary: When a string of serial murders triggers a redball,the Baltimore Homicide squad gets help from the Feds--Agents Mulder and Scully.
Pairing:: None/gen
Why this must be read: Under the patina of questionable sexual sophistication I've acquired in fandom beats the heart of a casefile geek. Shannon gets it all right, the exciting teaser, the quibbling over jurisdiction, the squadroom by-play, Bayliss becoming fascinated by somebody he hardly knows...it's like the best of both series here(Incidentally, only in fandom could wanting to see more of what's on TV be vanilla.)( Excerpt )
Link:http://fluky.gossamer.org/cgi-bin/read.cgi?twilight

Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Author on LJ: agentotter
Author Website: Faded Press
Why this must be read:

Because Otter can write Daniel frightened without writing Poor Defenseless Danny. Because she can write me a picture so sharp that it stays with me for days - and I'm not a very visual reader. Because I didn't get it until I was meant to, although I probably should have.

( Spoilers beyond the cut )

Daniel squints at his friend, but finally lets his eyes fall shut, giving them a moment's rest. He's been in his fair share of cells and dungeons, but they're usually dark, damp, and drab. This one is the opposite: too clean, too bright, every surface relentlessly white and glaring. Even Daniel's own skin looks unnaturally pale and sallow under the lights. The only color is Jack, propped up against the opposite wall, and when Daniel closes his eyes, Jack's silhouette remains, burned into his retinas. The dirty, blood-stained green fatigues look darker than they are against all that brightness, and even the long, grotesque smear of blood that paints the wall above his body looks almost black.

The Wind of the Wing

Previously on Popslash: The whole process really seemed quite anti-climactic; moving was a big deal in the scheme of things, but after all of the excitement of keeping and hunting a zombie, pretty much anything seems small and unimpressive in comparison.

Today on Popslash: Once More With Feeling

Fandom: POPSLASH
Pairing Chris/JC
Author on LJ: visionshadows
Author Website: Last Night
Why this must be read:

( The number of good fucking reasons to drag JC back to Delaware was getting larger and Mr. Kirkpatrick kept each of them in a notebook hidden in the fake bottom of his briefcase. Mr. Kirkpatrick never forgot anything, least of all anything JC had done to him. )

Fandom: THE X FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Author on LJ: mustangsally78 and rivkat
Author Website: http://www.disenchantedkingdom.com

Why this must be read:

The month is half over, so it must be time for me to introduce myself. (Would you believe I just like to start in media res?) Hi, I'm your February reccer for The X Files. I wasn't sure, starting, whether to go for a mixture of genres or just to stick to my favorites, which are mostly MSR; whether to recommend the obscure or rush to get in the classic. But glancing through the recommendations so far indicates that one reader's classic is another reader's undiscovered adventure; so I'm using the excuse to recommend the Ones Everybody's Read in my little corner of Internet fandom -- with some slightly more unusual stories thrown in.

That means I'll be recommending a lot of MSR, tending towards the dark rather than the sweet; a lot of mytharc-inflected casefiles; and mostly seasons 1-7. But maybe a few other things, just for variety.

That brings me to the Iolokus series. It was the first fan fiction I ever read. This was a good thing, more or less. It's an epic four-part series (with a brief epilogue) that goes AU in the fifth season, some time after "Emily," and deals with issues canon never touched: Iolokus is the island on which Medea killed her children, and "Iolokus" starts off as the story of Scully's murderous maternal rage at having her reproductive choices, like so much else of her life, taken out of her control. The story is the dark underbelly of canon, with characters more damaged and more damaging and more full of lust and rage than we ever saw on the screen. It's told in sexy, sardonic, hard-boiled, sometimes purple style, Raymond Chandler with the heat turned up and the imagery and the plot and the sex never-ending. This story parodies every MSR cliché in the book -- and makes a workable serious plot out of them, not to mention roughhousing the mytharc into some semblance of sense.

( Excerpt )

Iolokus

Fandom: EVERWOOD
Pairing: Bright/Ephram
Author on LJ: dammitcarl
Author Website: Young and Sexy

Why this must be read: Two guys kissing on the Fourth of July would raise no comment, if it was in New York or LA. But what if it was in Everwood?

That's what we find Bright and Ephram doing when the story begins. Just by kissing in the middle of the celebration, they have sparked changed. It may not be as loud or attention-getting as a Pride Parade, but it could be just as powerful. The effects may not engender a whole socio-cultural revolution in Everwood but it will surely transform the two participants as well as with those they share a history.

The Quiet Revolution