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I have 2 days and 4 recs left. Welcome to Spam-Land. Mind the power-crazed Stykera.Fandom: FARSCAPE Pairing: John/Chiana, Stark/Zhaan Author on LJ: Unknown Author Website: Unknown Why this must be read: From "Five Things" we go to a slightly more conventional AU, which manages to combine two different styles of AU seamlessly: the "change one event" style and the "familiar characters in a completely alternate setting" style. How is this done? By trapping them in an evil virtual reality they were able to escape in canon, of course! I am a hopeless fan of the episode "John Quixote". I find that not nearly enough fic gets written featuring the living personification of Stark's Twisted Core of Evil I refer to as AvaStark. It's Stark as villian without affecting the innate nobility of the character. It's the dark side of someone who is fundamentally a pure if troubled soul. ChiMonkey writes him eerily well. This piece also features a set-up for John/Chiana I can not only stand but find myself liking a great deal: John and Chiana alone in a hostile environment, growing closer because they can't shake the feeling they're the only "real" people in this place. ( Criminally insane. They say she killed her brother. Went totally nutters and stabbed him forty times with a butcher knife. They say that's when her hair turned ) Go, take your meds, and don't forget to tip your orderly. The Snake Pit | | |
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Fandom: FIREFLY Pairing: Inara/Mal Author on LJ: inalasahl Author Website: http://inalasahl.compromisingpositions.net/ Why this must be read: This is a great, plot driven resolution of the underlying tension between Inara and Mal. It starts after Inara has left and continues the chase for Simon and River by the 'hands of blue.' It integrates lots of bits of the series and conveys all of the characters really well. I really liked the way that all of the characters were affected by Inara's presence and absence and the way the whole story existed within a world. This is a great story on its own and a fantastic firefly fic. Fragment of a Lost Poem | | |
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Fandom: YAMI NO MATSUEI Pairing: Tatsumi/Watari Author on LJ: mistressrenetAuthor Website: MistressRenet's House O' InsanityWhy this must be read: When Tatsumi puts Watari's memory to the test, he ends up dredging up a few bittersweet recollections of his own. This is a lovely look at Watari's ability to remember everything that ever happened ever and still forgive. A growing strain of wistfulness runs through the fun, but the end feels hopeful and at least cautiously happy. ( excerpt ) Persistence of Memory | | |
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Fandom: STAR WARS Pairing: Anakin/Obi-Wan Author on LJ: emerald_embersAuthor Website: http://www.sector-7.org/~emerald/Why this must be read:The Anakin and Obi-Wan duel is one of the most striking sequences in RotS. This takes a moment from that fight - where their outstretched hands almost touch - and takes an AU line from there. Writing believable Anakin/Obi-Wan without undermining his feelings for Padme is difficult - but this does it. It is an Anakin who wants the people he cares for to be safe, and an Obi-Wan struggling to reconcile his friend with his actions. It's sad, short and everyone is broken. For these guys, there is no happy ending. ( Excerpt )Never meant to be | | |
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Fandom: due South Pairing: gen. Author on LJ: unknown. Author Website: unknown. Why this must be read:Heeeeeee. Ray talks to Diefenbaker. I *love* Diefenbaker. There's actually a whole series of these, but the only page I can find for this author is through archive.org. Should anyone have updated info, I'll revise this to include that. Talking to the DogThat's it for me this month. Thanks! | | |
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Fandom: STAR WARS Pairing: Luke/Anakin (kinda) Author on LJ: lady_lefayeAuthor Website: Why this must be read:Read this for the laugh value. Written for a 'Luke goes back in time and meets his father and Obi-Wan' request this starts off several years after the events of RotJ. Luke - feeling a little isolated, and in awe of the task of re-establishing the Jedi Order - manipulates the Force to go back in time and get to know Anakin Skywalker, the man behind the machine. Unfortunately nothing quite goes as planned. Luke ends up in a cantina, being flirted with by a young man who thinks he's his mother. Thinks that Luke's his mother. I mean that Luke is Luke's mother. Not that she's his mother at the moment. Or even currently married to his father. Not that he is his father yet. In short, time-travel may do many things. It does not, however, affect the Skywalker clan's tendency to have complicated romantic relationships. With each other. ( Or just read and laugh )Just one of those days | | |
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Fandom: Smallville Pairing: Withheld Author on LJ: rivkatAuthor Website: RivkaT's SiteWhy this must be read: I like the rec that I wrote for this story when it first came out, so I'm going to use it again. Your reaction to this one generally would go something like this.... Oooh, that’s hot. Hey. Wait. That’s the wrong pairi--*narrows eyes*--but! Bruce! Eeeeeee, he knows! He knows! Lex *warned* you, buddy. But—but—Lex—and—what? Wait. No, what? NOOOOOOOO! I don’t *believe* you, Rivka! *cries* BATARANG YAY! And then *stifled voice* and there, so you see how that happened, OMFG! ....this story has some twisted, explicit scenes, and you'll wince. There's also great sex, cool Bruce Wayne, Clark and Lex characterizations, deft handling of multiple p.o.v.'s and so much obsession and gamesmanship. Love this story muchly. No Darker Than Yours | | |
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Fandom: YAMI NO MATSUEI Pairing: Hisoka/Tsuzuki Author on LJ: wordsofastoryAuthor Website: nextdooruniverseWhy this must be read: Normally I'm a bit iffy about first person narrative, but Bridgh has safe hands; she loves Hisoka, but more importantly, she gets him. For all his (perfectly understandable) maladjustment, Hisoka truly tries to do his best by Tsuzuki, but sex is messy and they're both messed up, and intimacy's just not as easy to achieve as he might hope. Of course that makes the victories - awkward, unpracticed, and tender - all the better. ( excerpt ) A Better Fate Than Wisdom | | |
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Fandom: BLAKE'S 7 Pairing: none Author on LJ: entropy_houseAuthor Website: links to her sites are hereWhy this must be read: This is a clever and funny look at what happens when rebels mistake Vila for Blake during a raid on a Federation outpost. As a result of the confusion, Blake is forced to masquerade as Avon and Avon as Vila. The results are hilarious. Grab a cup of coffee, sit down and enjoy this delightful one-shot, written for blakefancier's Blake fiacthon - but keep your wits about you, because you'll need them. Enjoy! Three-Way Switch | | |
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Fandom: FARSCAPE Pairing: None. Gen featuring Stark and Harvey, references to Stark/Zhaan Author on LJ: ianmcinAuthor Website: Unknown Why this must be read: Because it's Stark! And Harvey! In John's Brain! Wait, you need more that that? Fine. Last year's Stark-a-thon produced some of the very best Stark-centric fics ever written, around some pretty strange requests. On of these was neuralclone's desire to have Stark and Harvey interact. While this has been done before (in astrogirl2's brilliant A Meeting of Minds and kernezelda's deft remix of it, for example) Ian managed what no-one else has before - fit such an improbable meeting seamlessly into canon. Moreover he does it in such away that explains a great deal about Stark's slightly regained calm when he reappears in “La Bomba” and “Bad Timing”. But I'm getting ahead of myself and giving the game away. If for no other reason, this has to be read because Ian takes two wonderful, multifaceted characters and plays them off of each other against the shifting surreal backdrop of John's mind, resulting in what is sometimes buddy movie, sometimes cat-and-mouse thriller, and sometimes just frelling odd. And to top it off, the dialog shines with Pygram and Goddard inspired intensity. ( Please Stay ) Go dumpster diving, and give John nice dreams of feedback. Cul-de-Sac | | |
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Fandom: OZ Pairing: Beecher/Keller Author on LJ: rileycAuthor Website: Riley Cannon's FictionWhy this must be read:June is almost over, and I realized I still had a couple of recs in reserve... My last two recs are stories very much opposite of each another. One long, one short. One written in the middle of the whole "Oz" series; the other written after the full run, with the foreboding that comes with total knowledge of the horrors that play out. The fic in this entry is -- according to the author's notes -- "post-You Bet Your Life, and totally AU with regard to the new season." It was written in the middle of Season 4, before a lot of pesky complications. When there was hope. It has drama, humor ( Nope, you couldn't pay for entertainment this good, Vern Schillinger was thinking as he sat in the cafeteria and watched the latest installment of "Days Of Our Prags" play out.), back story, introspection, an original character, and -- of course -- angst, love and sex. Breaking up is Hard to Do | | |
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Fandom: OZ Pairing: Beecher/Keller Author on LJ: alinewritesAuthor Website: Aline's Oz FictionWhy this must be read:Because it's filled with vitality and yearning and sex and darkness. It's hot and chilling at the same time. There | | |
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