August 19th, 2005 
01:14 am Another Sunrise by Marna (PG-13)
Fandom: HORATIO HORNBLOWER
Pairing: Horatio Hornblower/William Bush
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] commodorified
Author Website: The Scriptorium
Why this must be read:

Taking that final step, crossing the line from interest to action is always a perilous moment. Left to their own devices, it's sometimes uncertain whether or not Horatio and William would ever take that chance. Fortunately, [livejournal.com profile] commodorified knows better then to leave those two to their own devices. An expert blend of prose and epistiolary fic, this is a story about choices, about looking at all the reasons to hold back and then choosing to move forward instead; it's about choosing to embrace life and all the risk and joy that choice entails.

Another Sunrise
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09:20 am Friendly Wager by Dark River (NC-17)
Fandom: X-MEN COMICVERSE
Pairing: Iceman/Beast
Author Website: http://members.tripod.com/mvslash/
Why this must be read:

I love Hank/Bobby. I love the repartee, I love the deep friendship, I love the pranks, but most of all I love the blazing hot sex. Friendly Wager has all these in spades.

Hank gave him a toothy grin. "Quite satisfied. Now, as to the one favor..."

"What?" Bobby snapped peevishly. "I am *not* going to clean up your lab."

"As if I would so foolishly trust my valuable and delicate equipment to your less than adroit handling."

"Then what?"

Hank's grin was very self-satisfied. "You, Mr. Drake, get to be my valet for the afternoon."

"Excuse me?" Bobby asked indignantly.

Hank's eyes sparkled. "A shampoo, condition and brush job. Do you think you can handle that, Mr. Drake?"


Friendly Wager
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09:34 am Myth by Tara O'Shea (G)
Fandom: FIREFLY
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] taraljc
Author Website: http://ljconstantine.com
Why this must be read:

I really see this as the companion piece to Letting Go. Mal's love-at-first-sight relationship to Serenity is well established in canon, but the two people who keep her in the sky, Kaylee and Wash, have their own special relationships with both the ship and the sky she flies through. This is Wash's first love.

When he was eight years old, Wash discovered that he wanted to believe in fairy tales.

Myth
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10:19 am Renewal by tarsh (R)
Fandom: HIGHLANDER
Pairing: Methos/Duncan MacLeod
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] tarshaan
Author Website: Caveat Lector, at the moment; moving to tarsh's cave, as of 09/2005
Why this must be read: Renewal is an achingly lovely piece about where Methos goes when he vanishes, and why he must go from time to time, and how he copes with five thousands years of memories and life while remaining 'just a guy.'


This is how it starts )

Renewal
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04:05 pm Like Follows Like by Audra Rourk McHugh (All Ages)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author website: Unknown
Why this must be read:

Now, the crackwhores in charge of the 1996 TV Movie (which was very very misguided, in case you missed the overview) decided to mention, just in passing, that the Doctor was half-human. On his mother's side. Everyone was all "What the shit is wrong with you people?! You don't just pull something like that out of your ass because you feel like it!" Most people in the fandom decide to ignore this bit of idiocy (and the other bit, where the Eye of Harmony lives in the TARDIS. What were they thinking??) and pretend that it never happened. It's sort of optional canon, with the vast majority of fandom opting out of it because it makes no sense.

This fic decides to run with the idea. His mother, of course being frail and human, dies and, as a young man, he makes an unfortunate attempt to do something about that, informing his attitudes about messing with timelines and all of that. It is about being stuck between worlds and the questions of what family is and what home is. Entierly worth the read.

Like Follows Like
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08:40 pm Assignment in Brentby by Krisser (NC-17)
Fandom: The Professionals
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author website: Unknown
Why this must be read:

This is a very enjoyable long story. I like a lot of Krisser's stories and found it difficult to choose one. Assignment in Brentby is a well told story, with nicely developed other characters besides Bodie and Doyle.

In Brentby a serial killer is active. Targeting homosexual men involved in an established relationship. Bodie and Doyle have to go undercover and establish a homosexual relationship to draw the killer out.
Bodie is a photographer taking up residence in Brentby while Doyle will be a visiting male model.

excerpts )

<Assignment in Brentby
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