May 13th, 2006 
12:51 pm My Rhade and My Tyr by jmtorres (PG)
Fandom: ANDROMEDA
Pairing: gen (with references to Rhade/Dylan, Rhade/Beka, Rhade/Harper, Beka/Trance and Tyr/Harper)
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] jmtorres
Author Website: The Fannish Things of JMTorres
Why this must be read: [livejournal.com profile] jmtorres wrote both of these for a meme that goes through fandom every once in a while, where the point is to explain and describe your own personal reading of a character.

her Rhade description traces the way he changes from the pilot through into the canon AU of "The Unconquerable Man."

her Tyr description captures the ways he reconciles his loyalties to his shipmates with his Nietzschean sensibilities.

My Rhade and My Tyr
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07:57 pm Boy From the County Hell by Maya Tawi (PG-13)
Fandom: ANDROMEDA
Pairing: Harper, Beka/Bobby
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] mayatawi
Author Website: zippos and safety pins
Why this must be read: Harper & Beka first meetings are something of a genre unto themselves in Andromeda fandom, despite (or possibly because of) the show giving us its own canon version of how things went down.

Boy From the County Hell focuses on Harper's side of the story, and on the stark reality of his life on Earth before he meets Beka. Maya Tawi's first person Harper voice is spot on, a bit younger and rougher than the Harper we know on the show, but still as sarcastic and brilliant and lovable as ever. His interactions with Beka ring with the beginnings of something great, and the subtle detail of the decaying world around them is enough to pull even the most distant reader into Harper's world.

Boy From the County Hell
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10:15 pm Clarity by DarkEmerald (G)
Fandom: FIREFLY
Pairing: River/Simon
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] emeraldsedai
Author Website: unknown

Why this must be read: Actually, this story is the closest to a crossover that I'm going to come to reccing this month...It's another AU and almost crossover-ish, but not quite. The challenge was to write a character waking up as a vampire, and Dark Emerald nailed it. River stays River, but eerily so. She'd be very comfortable sitting down with Spike and Angelus in her new state. It's short, to the point, and not a word wasted.

Clarity
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11:34 pm One Knight's Stand by Heuradys (G)
Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: none, gen
Author on LJ: [personal profile] heuradys
Author Website: Heuradys Collected
Why this must be read: Because it's a terrific character piece featuring Turnbull, one of the most beloved of the minor characters. Turnbull's a strange bird. He's an adult child, a dim but pleasant and thoroughly unthreatening man. Where does his desire to serve come from? And his cheefully blank demeanor? Perhaps the answer lies in his relationship with his mother. In this fic, we see a young Turnbull dealing with his mother's decline. He wants desperately to do the right thing, but he's ill-equipped for the sudden onset of adult responsibilites. What will happen to this gentle soul? 

Excerpt )

One Knight's Stand

I also highly reccomend the sequel, Happiness Is Haunted, which is Fraser/Kowalski implied and Turnbull/OMC pre-slash.

 

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11:47 pm Two of Us by Selena (G)
Fandom: STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE 9
Pairing: Quark/Dax unrequited, Dax/Worf in the background
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] selenak
Author Website: Selena's Profile at fanfiction.net
Why this must be read:

Quark is a character who sneaks up on you. I certainly wasn't prepared to like him, but somehow I came to love the little capitalist and I wanted to rec at least one story with him this month. While my favorite of Selena's stories starring Quark has already been rec'ed, I searched through her other stories and found this wonderful gem to talk about instead.

Two of Us looks at the relationship between Quark and Dax over the years. It's a great look at both characters. Seeing Jadzia through Quark's eyes provides a nice exploration of her character, while Quark's feelings for Dax ring wonderfully true.

Two of Us by Selena
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