May 9th, 2005 
06:11 pm Sweetness by debchan (NC-17)
Fandom: OZ
Pairing: Tobias Beecher/Andrew Schillinger
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] debchan
Author's website: debchan.com

(Hey, look, I got the 100th Oz rec! Woot!)

Why this must be read:

Ah, vengeance. In Oz, it's the cycle, the "code," and even our resident good-boy Beecher isn't immune. Set during Season Three, during Operation Andy, this fic gives us one night in Beecher and Andrew Schillinger's pod -- but don't let that pairing fool you. There are an awful lot of people in that bed, at least in spirit, and [livejournal.com profile] debchan invokes them all with a soft-spoken, subtle vignette that could have been lifted right out of an episode script. Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but it tastes even better served up like this.

Go read Sweetness
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06:39 pm Time and Time Again by BarBieBoy (R)
Fandom: GUNDAM WING
Pairing: Heero/Duo (1+2), side Quatre/Trowa (3+4)
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: N/A
Why this must be read: I'm trying to rec a lighter fic than my last one, and I think I'm failing. This story is from years ago. It was added at Gundam Wing Addiction (one of the largest fanfiction archives) in 2001. But despite it being a bit outdated, I love this fanfic. It has a few fanon clichés (Duo's a little more hyper, for some reason the boys are all attending the same school undercover), but the story is good enough that it can pull through them. I guess you might call it a classic. The plot may seem a bit similar to a certain movie, but that's only surface level.

The reason that this became such a great story, is that you can see the characters change.  Too many stories feature characters that, for better or worse, remain static throughout the entire plot.  In this one, which is more or less told from Heero's perspective, you can see him grow because of the situations he finds himself in.  That kind of character development is always worth a read.

Time and Time Again

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