Fandom: LotRiPS
Pairing: Viggo/Elijah
Author on lj: shaenie
Author website: Mindless Entertainment with Absolutely No Redeeming Features
Why this must be read:

Elijah/Viggo is my super sekrit fic kink. I love the dynamic between the two men, 23 years apart, and the way that they relate to each other on several levels. Shaenie's Elijah is the perfect mixture of innocent and jaded, while her Viggo is (understandably) conflicted and shadowed. Here, Elijah's keen observational skills help him understand things in Viggo that might otherwise go unseen.

Elijah sat on a picnic table behind Orlando's trailer, legs dangling off the side, the legs of his Frodo-trousers rolled up past the knee. He was in full Frodo mode, except for his feet (which they hadn't needed today, hooray for an extra hour and a half of blissful unconsciousness), which were sneaker clad, laces dangling loose and caked in mud. He was drinking chocolate milk through a hot pink straw with three loops and a squiggle. The straw was Dom's idea of a joke. So was the milk, for that matter.

Elijah made a mental note never to ask Dom to 'mix' him up a drink again.

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

Fandom: STAR TREK VOY
Pairing: Janeway/Chakotay
Author on LJ: none
Author Website: Ragpants' Stories
Why this must be read:

This is a gorgeous story in every sense of the word. The romance (this belongs in the 'one time/first time' genre), the character interactions and most of all, the setting. The descriptions will absolutely take your breath away. This story is truly a feast for the senses.

A Place Of Abundance

Fandom: QUEER AS FOLK US
Author on LJ: redbrickrose
Author's Website: link to memories
Pairing: Justin/Daphne, mentions of Brian/Justin
Why this must be read:

It's extremely hard to find any het fic at all in this fandom and harder still to find good het fic. Fortunately, this fits the bill perfectly. I love Daphne here, not just her interaction with Justin, but her take on the Brian/Justin relationship - a perspective that's more objective and honest than you would get from most of the other characters. Justin is spot on here as well, vulnerable but not as weak as many people portray him. An overall lovely and well done rare pairing.

Periphery


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Fandom: POP SLASH
Pairing: Justin/JC
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: bad fiction, indeed
Why this must be read:

Joie is one of those authors who can write exeptionally develeoped characters. And this story is really strong on the details. This is like the ultimate comfort fic for me. It's not schmoopy or anything, just quiet and soft and wanting. It's set during the time Justin is recording his solo album and it's just gorgeously written.

Justin found out years ago that JC knows how to and likes to knit. When JC was in grade school, he wasn't ever afraid of the dark like other kids, he was afraid of the light. JC didn't know he could pee standing up until the fourth grade. And when JC was a toddler, he once peed in the family cat's litter box.

Justin still doesn't understand how JC sleeps twelve hours a night when not on tour, but can survive on four if he needs to. JC needs three cups of coffee on those days.

This

Fandom: SPORTS NIGHT
Pairing: Danny/Casey
Author on LJ: candle_beck
Author Website: lj memories
Why this must be read:

This is a Casey we don't normally see, a Casey who's going quietly crazy inside his own head and who has a "creeping feeling of dread" that there's a bad omen in the sky. "Danny had broken down, he had lost it, worse than he had lost it in years, and in the heartrending chaos of what was happening with Dan, no one had much noticed that Casey wasn't doing so well himself, it was all anger and fear and futility in his mind, and there wasn't a single thing he could do about it." But this is also a Casey who doesn't believe in omens, who believes everything can be explained, and who is struggling to reconcile this feeling of dread with the fact of the "eleventh- hour miracle," the "judgment-day resurrection" which saved the show and saved Danny and which should mean that everything's okay. He's having dreams and flashbacks and doesn't understand what's going on. "No way," he says, "to make sense of it."
The story's lyrical, haunting, very (and appropriately) dreamlike. It weaves in and out of present and past, dreams and reality, echoing Casey's feeling of dizzied lostness till the reader feels it right along with him. It's a gorgeous piece full of gorgeous scenes: Casey, terrified, clutching Dan on the floor of their office; Dan bringing Casey a knock-back of whisky; Dan driving along the open roads of Texas.
In short, this is an incredibly powerful story, and you should all go read it.

Seeing the Future

Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Lucius Malfoy and Hermione Granger appear, no pairing
Author on LJ: Bunney's LJ
Author Website: Pink Bunney
Why this must be read:

Skillful, lyrical style, perfect characterizations, tense and vicious verbal battles, and an unforgettable ending. After Voldemort's victory Lucius comes for Hermione. Both characters seem suspended between opposing emotions - Hermione balanced between hopelessness and determination, Lucius a chilling combination of brutality and emotional detachment. The result is an eerie portrait of dignified defeat.

Warning - Character Death

Chopin's Nocturne

Hi, I'm your truant pusher this month. In a fandom as relentlessly multi-pairing as HP, I'll be providing a bit of gen and a wide variety of pairings from het to slash as well as a few things in between.