March 5th, 2007 
10:08 am Shortcuts and Bypasses by Jadeddiva (PG)
Fandom: X-MEN MOVIEVERSE
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] jadeddiva
Why this must be read:

Some mutants' powers awaken with such force and finality that all hope of a normal life is immediatly extinguished. Kitty Pryde's abilities, on the other hand, are so quiet and subtle that her normal life dies a much slower death.

That night, at dinner, they don't talk about it but it's obvious that her father knows as well. They eat dinner in silence and when she gets up to clear the table, her father grabs her hand.

"We don't love you any less, or differently," he tells her. "We love her just the way you are."

Dishes slip out of her grip by accident, not through her hands. She thinks there is something big and metaphorical she may be missing here, but she lets them hug her.

She walks through three more doors that night, because she can and she will.


Shortcuts and Bypasses
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10:20 am Shack #95 by Basingstoke (PG)
Fandom: X-MEN MOVIEVERSE
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] basingstoke
Author Website: land of Basingstoke
Why this must be read:

If you haven't heard of the "101 Ways to End Up in a Canadian Shack" challenge, you're really missing out. Essentially it was a multi-fandom, multi-author crackfic where characters from a multitude of fandoms ended up in a Canadian shack for some reason or other, by themselves or crashing into characters from other fandoms. Here, a Canadian blizzard forces Wolverine to spend the night scant inches from Toad of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Which means listening to some home truths he could usually brush off.

Shack #95
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12:00 pm Rest Ye Merry by brynnmck (PG)
Fandom: due South
Pairing: Fraser& Vecchio, Gen
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] brynnmck
Author Website: http://www.tandtweb.com/brynnhome.html
Why this must be read: It's a Christmas story which I am reccing in March because the good feeling this story gives you is appropriate at any time of year. It's a lovely illustration of Fraser and Ray's friendship at Christmas.

It reads just like it was out at the end of the season 1 Christmas episode Gift of the Wheelman and is a lovely postscript. You can really imagine it hapopening.

It's warm, friendly and has the same humour we see int eh show. It's totally believable with good characterisation and banter. All in all it's just a lovely comforting read.

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Rest Ye Merry
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12:53 pm To sleep, perchance to dream by Esophe (G)
Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: GEN
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] esophe
Author Website: N/A
Why this must be read:

This is an early story, in the sense that the author had only seen a couple of episodes from the first season when she wrote this, and that it's set relatively soon after Jessica's death. What I love about it, though, is how even over a year later, even with everything we've now learned about them, her Sam and her Dean are still very much in character, very plausible interpretations of the boys we see on the show.

Having gone through the trauma of losing Jessica and now battling new demons, Sam watches and realizes things about his brother that he never noticed before, or at least never understood. Through sleep and nightmares and waking up in the middle of the night, Sam discovers a new side to Dean's personality that he wasn't aware of.


To sleep, perchance to dream
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02:32 pm Sentry by zeplum (G)
Fandom: Smallville
Title: Sentry
Pairing: Chloe/Oliver UST
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] zeplum
Author Website: [livejournal.com profile] saintstreet
Why this must be read:

The summary nailed this one for me.

She's a den mother. A den mother to the friggin' Justice League.

It's Chloe in the midst of the Justice League, mother hen to the boys, and totally in her element with them. It's Chloe as she could be in the DCU if they let us get there and she didn't have to die or change her name to do it. She's Chloe in the middle of a maestrom of energy and busy and it is *PERFECT*.

Sentry
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