March 9th, 2008 
04:53 am Alone/Together by HF (PG)
Fandom: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Pairing: Chris/Vin
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] aesc
Author Website: on the qt
Why this must be read: I could have chosen any of HF's stories - she writes brilliantly in everything from angst to crackfic - but this was one of the first C/V fics I ever read and I still think it's one of the best.

The notion that love is something new to Vin and something once had and lost to Chris has been explored a frillion times in fanfic, but HF makes it wonderfully fresh by paring things down to the bare essentials of Chris, Vin and a restless night filled with memories, questions and the promise of Vin figuring out how to be in love and not lose sense of himself - but not having to do it alone.

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Alone/Together
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03:19 pm An Ever-Fixed Mark by Scotty (PG?)
Fandom: POPSLASH
Pairing: JC/Justin
Length: Shortish
Author on LJ: ???????? found it!! [profile] scot_ty
Author Website: The Beautiful Strangers
Why this must be read: Scotty captures how I'd like to believe JC and Justing would have to go back and forth and around before they could really be together. Plus it has Justin reciting Shakespeare! In a totally Justin-like way!

An Ever-Fixed Mark

PS. Sorry to be so slow with the kickoff. No worries, though, I'm all over this as of now.
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06:43 pm Fucking With Sandburg by Arrow (NC-17)
Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Length: 4,361 words
Author on LJ:http://arrow00.livejournal.com/
Author Website:http://arrow00.com/
Why this must be read:

Because Jim is so Jim when he says, "What? I'm working here, Sandburg."

Because Blair is so Blair when he knows just what... ahh... tool they're both looking for.

Fucking With Sandburg
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08:15 pm "Selections From The Personal Journals Of Adam Pierson, Methos Researcher." by lannamichaels (R)
Fandom: HIGHLANDER
Pairing: Duncan/Methos, Methos/Kronos, Methos/Connor, Methos/Byron, Methos/OMC
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] lannamichaels
Author Website: unknown

Why this must be read: Because it's time for a lighter story. Highlander fandom has been around long enough that we have some great humorous fic out there. Well, I mean, there's only so long anyone can take unrelieved angst, isn't there? This story is a fantastic, snarky gem. A series of journal entries from the years immediately preceding Methos's meeting of Macleod, this is a fascinating change in perspective on canon. The Methos voice is dead on. I dare you to read this without laughing out loud. Go on. I'll wait.

Excerpt: I've successfully reconstructed my first five hundred years, the period from 3093 to 4019, and given the Methos Chronicle an encounter with Byron. I put up with his crap for years; I deserve to bask in his brilliance whenever I damn well please. And Markus tells me that Byron has been gnawing at his chains, wanting to reinvent himself once again, and I say let him. His travels might send him my way again and there's a bed with his name on it in a cheap hotel a few miles from here.


"Selections From The Personal Journals Of Adam Pierson, Methos Researcher"
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11:35 pm Word Game by Dana Austin Marsh (NC-17)
Fandom: STARSKY AND HUTCH
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Length: 30k
Author on LJ: None.
Author Website: http://meandthee.shahrazad.net/author.php?authorid=98
Why this must be read:

Dana is one of my most favorite authors. Her story Gentlemen, Start Your Engines has been previously recced here on [livejournal.com profile] crack_van, and it was one of the very first S/H stories I read when I fell into this fandom.

This story is much shorter than Gentlemen, but the impact is still strong. This one is light and funny. Hutch makes his feelings known to Starsky through an ingenious playing of a Scrabble game.

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