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Hello! I'm ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) poisontaster and I'm going to be your Supernatural driver for the month of September! I have been waiting a LONG TIME for this and I plan to take full advantage of my time in the driver's seat. In fact, I am SO EXCITED, I'm posting this on vacation! As you may know, Supernatural fandom contains a lot of incest fic. However, I plan to bring gen and even some het as well as the 'cest. So welcome to my house, buckle up tight! Fandom: SUPERNATURAL Pairing: Dean/Crossroads Demon (het) Author on LJ: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif) untrue_accountsAuthor Website: Inauthentic PrototypeWhy this must be read: This is not really a story for the timid. In addition to a pretty hefty array of kinks (demons don't do vanilla), it's a sharp and somewhat bleak story about a demon with an axe to grind for one Dean Winchester. And like any good villain, she takes her time about it. More than the dark, erotic tone is the way the author looks out through the demon's eyes and vivisects Dean into cold, brutal slices that chill and fascinate while simultaneously making your heart ache. It's a gorgeous creepfest of a story that leaves you reeling and thinking about it for a long time afterward. Check it out: ( Excerpt. )Spider Bites on All Your LoversGo. Read. And please remember to leave the author feedback. | | |
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Hi! I'm Suz, and I'm driving the Queer as Folk: US van this month. I love Brian/Justin and hate any character/pairing bashing of any kind. I'm very happy to be sharing the QAF love - I'm another one who's posting recs while she's on vacation :D Fandom: QUEER AS FOLK: US Pairing: Brian/Justin Author on LJ: bigboobedcanuckAuthor Website: LJ memoriesWhy this must be read: This was one of the first fics I ever read in this fandom, and still remains one of my absolute favourites. I'm not going to quote from it because it's quite short, but it's very powerful and one of the surprisingly few fics that deals with the possible consequences of casual drug use frequently seen in the show and in its fic. That should probably give you some warning about the content of the fic, too. There's nothing graphic, but it is quite shocking. Or I thought it was anyway ;) Highly recommended. Angst. Strong | | |
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Fandom: HARRY POTTER Pairing: none; Harry gen Author on LJ: tkpAuthor Website: Tagged fic on LJWhy this must be read: Time marches on, despite everything, or perhaps because of it, and history goes full circle.
You walk through King’s Cross to see Albus off to Hogwarts for the first time, and your head is crowded with paternal thoughts of loss. You can’t believe you’re here again, how it seems the time has flown. Then through a puff of steam you hazily see your son, and think how he could be you.
Then you wonder how long boys with the same unruly black hair, with the same pale faces, same glasses and same smiles, everything the same, have been boarding this train. Maybe your father looked like his own father, who looked like his own father, and back and back and back. The pattern is comfortably worn, and there is a sense of right to it.
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Fandom: HARRY POTTER Pairing: none; Harry, Draco, gen Author on LJ: mistfulAuthor Website: Maya's websiteWhy this must be read: I suspect many of you have read this story already. If you haven't--it builds on the events of the epilogue, only better. No sentimentality, no romance. This is the finish JKR should have written and didn't, the one in which there are no happy endings or great tragedies, only people growing older, learning to live with who and what they are and what they've done.
“I want to be absolutely clear on this,” Harry said. “You’re telling me that you lost my children in the sewers?”
Professor Araminta von Bosau, headmistress of Durmstrang, looked confused and distressed by how badly Harry was taking this.
“Does this happen often in Durmstrang?” Harry demanded.
“Every now and then,” Professor von Bosau said. She looked up at Harry’s face and added quickly: “It’s very regrettable, of course.”
“They’ve been gone for twenty-four hours and you haven’t sent a search party after them!”
Professor von Bosau gave him a reproachful look. “Be reasonable, Mr Potter. My staff are extremely busy and besides that, what use would they be against giant alligators?”
“Yes, about that,” Harry said between his teeth. “Why does Durmstrang have giant alligators in its sewers?”
“I’m sure I don’t know. Why does Hogwarts have giant spiders in its environs? These things happen.” Professor von Bosau was starting to look distinctly miffed. “Mr Potter, I understand that you’re upset-”Part 2/3, Part 3/3 | | |
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Fandom: HARRY POTTER Pairing: Tonks/ Remus Author on LJ: furiosityAuthor Website: Glass FairytalesWhy this must be read: Tonks goes looking for her husband, and meets her destiny. This is a lovely glimpse at a character who got overlooked, even in canon. It makes her real, makes her a person, someone who died for a reason or at least for a cause. Have you seen Remus?
Twice Tonks had asked, but she had yet to see him.
Her mind wanted to believe Harry and Aberforth; it told her to Apparate back to Teddy. In her heart, Tonks knew that she would not rest until she saw Remus for herself, saw him safe and warm.
He was duelling Dolohov, Aberforth had shouted. Out on the grounds, Harry had said.
Tonks ran through the dust, across the castle, down into the creeping summer darkness of the grounds. She sped past a Death Eater, flung a curse over her shoulder, pausing only long enough to see him fall. She had missed this, her work, blood throbbing in her temples as she became a weapon against the Dark -- Moody's best and favourite girl. | | |
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Fandom: HARRY POTTER Pairing: Snape/Draco, Harry/Draco Author on LJ: femmequixoticAuthor Website: Femme's fic on SkyehawkeWhy this must be read: This is the world, after the war has ended; this is a generation learning to live with love, and loss, and the world moving on. It's beautifully written, and even more beautifully paced, and it feels very natural, very real. "He's dead," Narcissa says quietly, touching his arm, and Draco's throat tightens. He stops in the middle of the Hogwarts corridor, just outside the Headmaster's office, and he looks at her. He won't believe Potter, would never believe Potter because Potter can't know—would never know—but Mother--
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Fandom: HARRY POTTER Pairing: gen; canon pairings Author on LJ: virginia_bellAuthor Website: Tagged fic on LJWhy this must be read: Sometimes the hardest thing you can do is forgive--and it stands to reason that the Black sisters would find it particularly difficult. This is a lovely look at Narcissa and Andromeda after the war, learning to make the best of things-- and of Draco, again caught in the middle and struggling to choose. August 9, 1998
Dear Andromeda,
I can't imagine that you were expecting any correspondence from me any more than I expected to ever write to you again. But here I am, penning a letter to a sister who I have not spoken to since we were at Hogwarts together. What year was that, Andromeda -- 1971, if I remember correctly? Merlin, has it almost been thirty years? There is not enough paper in the world to tell you what has transpired since then, but I do not write to you simply to catch up on old times. Instead, I write to you out of a situation of dire urgency and hope that you will listen -- or, to be more exact, that you will read my plea.
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My last rec for the month. Thank you, all of you, for reading. Fandom: HARRY POTTER Pairing: mostly gen (post-epilogue generation) Author on LJ: scoradhAuthor Website: Fic on LJWhy this must be read: This is kid-fic, and I never meant to read it. My taste runs to grownups, and to drama, and to tragedy. And yet. This story is pretty irresistible. It's reminiscent of the books in the way that few fanfics are; it actually reads like a children's story, which is a pretty amazing accomplishment. It's well written, it's engaging, it's long and plotty and the characters in it are real kids who act like real kids. The long squeal of the train's whistle jerked Albus out of his reverie. He'd been standing on one of the toilets, trying to peer through the two-inch square window for a last glimpse of his parents and little sister. His eyes felt hot and prickly, but he was determined not to cry. James could spot red-rimmed eyes from a mile off, and no sliver of sympathy for his brother's plight would stop him teasing Albus for the next month and a half.All Parts, by Tag | | |
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Hi everyone! I'm severuslovesme, your Battlestar Galactica reccer for the month of September. I like a wide variety of pairings and genres, so hopefully I'll rec some things that y'all will enjoy! Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Pairing: Kara/Lee Author on LJ: brynnmckAuthor Website: Brynn's Home PageWhy this must be read:This story is from mid-Season 2, so it's a little out-of-date canon wise, but I think the themes of friendship and love are entirely relevant even now. Ship to Ship was one of the first fics I read in BSG fandom, and it's still one of my favorites. It's humorous and light without being too fluffy. If you like pilots at all, definitely check it out! ( Excerpt )Ship to Ship | | |
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Hi, I’m Penknife and I’ll be driving the Pirates of the Caribbean van for September. I'll be focusing on some of the fabulous stories that have been written in the wake of AWE, although I may throw some older work into the mix as well. Fandom: PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN Pairing: Will Turner/James Norrington Author on LJ: termagantwritesAuthor Website: termagantWhy this must be read:This is a lovely take on a scenario that's been itching to be written in the wake of AWE, in which Will takes James aboard the Flying Dutchman and James decides he's in no hurry to leave. The quiet, unhurried way that James feels his way back to himself in this story is really well-done, and it's entirely believable when he and Will eventually drift closer. ( excerpt )ways and means (of picking up the pieces) | | |
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