October 21st, 2008 
12:45 am The First Time by Olivia Monteith (NC-17)
Fandom: DEEP SPACE NINE
Pairing: Garak/Bashir
Length: 70k
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: unknown

Why this must be read:

The majority of Garak/Bashir fics portray Garak as the dominant partner, while Bashir is cast as the inexperienced newcomer to hot man-on-man action. The First Time reverses these roles, and creates a very different yet utterly believable version of this pairing. Olivia Monteith also captures all of the overwhelming emotions and physical sensations of a 'first time', and balances them with gentle humour and witty dialogue. The result is a poignant and sexy tale of two very different cultures, species and men colliding behind closed doors.

Have a taste: )

The First Time
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08:28 am Faded Edges by he_dreams_awake (PG-13)
Fandom: HOUSE M.D.
Pairing: House/Cuddy (implied)
Length: 1,228 words
Author on LJ: Author's LJ profile
Author Website: None
Why this must be read: First person House is incredibly difficult to do well. This one does, and it remains pitch-perfect while taking on the emotionally lacerating subject of House’s relationship with his father. The setting of this story from June 2006 is House's father's funeral, and even that emotional event hasn't dulled his keen eye for observation:

Excerpt )

Faded Edges
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01:37 pm Coping Strategies by Minervasolo (PG-13)
Fandom: DC Comics
Pairing: Roy Harper/Owen Mercer
Length: 6,300 for both parts
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] minervasolo
Author Website: Secret Geek
Why this must be read:
Because [livejournal.com profile] minervasolo understands what it's like to be Roy (a man with checkered past who's turned his life around) and what it's like to be Owen (a man with a checkered past who's trying to turn his life around). She gets what life with "the Arrows" is like, but most importantly, she knows the highs and the lows of falling inconveniently in love and being afraid that you'll be perceived as nothing more than an infatuated loser with a stupid hero-worship crush.

Also, it's pretty damn funny throughout.


Snippit: Roy, Owen, and male bonding )

Coping Strategies, pt. 1
Coping Strategies, pt. 2
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02:13 pm Courtship by Pepper (PG)
Fandom: STARSKY AND HUTCH
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Length: One-shot
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] pepper_ckua
Author Website: Kassidy's Slash Starsky and Hutch site
Why this must be read:

If Starsky were a peacock, he’d flex his gluteal muscles to erect and spread the quills of his technicolor tail.

Instead Starsky pours himself into his jeans and wears the jacket he knows makes Hutch look twice.

If Hutch were a bull penguin, he’d lean over and vomit softly into the mouth of his true love.

Instead, Hutch allows Starsky to reach over and grab a fry off his plate, to drink his coffee and to sometimes take the food right out of his own mouth.



Do you really need any further reason to read this lovely one-shot? Really?

Courtship
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05:21 pm I Will Return to You by Poisontaster (PG)
Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: none (gen)
Length: 4400 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] poisontaster
Author Website: Love Is Just a Bloodsport
Why this must be read:

This is a love story, but an unconventional one: it details the coughs and sputters and starts as the Impala reluctantly falls in love with a teenage John Winchester. There's a fair amount of Impala!fic in this fandom, but this is the best one I've read by miles (see what I did there?). A POV that could have very easily been cheesy or overdone, but which is instead charming and funny and sweet and sad and incredibly compelling. And I adore Poisontaster's vision of John here, his dead-on youth and passion and confusion and some gorgeous parallels to various aspects of the series—it's been canon in my head ever since I read it (actual canon notwithstanding *g*). It's fic like this that makes me love this fandom, where so many things are possible.

An excerpt: )

Find the story here:

I Will Return to You
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05:30 pm Drinking with a Child by nostalgia and kbk (PG-13)
Fandom: DEEP SPACE NINE
Pairing: Bashir/O'Brien
Length: 11k
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] nostalgia_lj and [livejournal.com profile] kbk
Author Website: kbk's Resting Place of a Fannish Butterfly and nostalgia's Fic by teh nos' (when the site works -- in the meantime, remember the wayback machine is your friend)

Why this must be read:

Drinking with a Child is a multi-layered story that lays bare the complexity of Miles O'Brien's relationships with his best friend, his wife, and himself. Drunk and lonely, O'Brien's thoughts take him dangerously close to self-awareness before veering back into self-deception, only to swerve back again. Told in a fluid stream of consciousness style, the authors never once allow their subject to become maudlin or trite. Instead, they successfully combine a moving character piece with a titillating peak into the sexy shenanigans that ensue when the wife's away.

Have a sip: )

Drinking with a Child
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08:58 pm A Five-Point Tour of the Alpha Quadrant by Mosca (R)
Fandom: DEEP SPACE NINE
Pairing: O'Brien/Keiko O'Brien, O'Brien/Bashir, Kira/O'Brien, etc.
Length: 13k
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] mosca
Author Website: There's a comprehensive Fic Index on her lj

Why this must be read:

Mosca takes us on tour of five different places O'Brien might have ended up after the series ended. Each compelling vignette can be read as a stand alone destination or as a step in a single journey. Whether O'Brien finds heartbreak or happiness, each scenario feels like a genuine possible future for O'Brien and his family. What's more, each new setting also reveals an essential aspect of his character. So, by the end of the tour, you will have gained a deeper understanding of who Miles O'Brien really is.

Take a whirl: )

A Five-Point Tour of the Alpha Quadrant
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10:06 pm A Question of Etiquette by swtalmnd (NC-17)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry Potter/Severus Snape, others
Length: 153.620 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] swtalmnd (not active), swtalmnd at Insanejournal
Author Website: The Bunny Farm
Why this must be read: Is it actually a very interesting idea of how lessons about a certain kind of Etiquette would go.
Say that homosexuality was not an out and about thing in the Wizarding world and someone doesn't know how to actually, you know, show interest or not, how to be picked up. Normal stuff *g*

The writing is amazing, Snape is "oscillating" between being the good guy, the horny guy and his usual snarky bastard self. Poor Harry is nothing but a bundle of sex starved teen. But he wants Snape or nothing. Other people help. Snape gets off and Harry does, occasionally. The twins help. A LOT :)

Special note: Please pay attention to the warnings.

Excerpt )

Read the story here
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11:02 pm Decision by Telanu (NC-17)
Fandom: PET SHOP OF HORRORS
Pairing: D/Leon
Length: oneshot
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] somniesperus 
Author Website: http://telanu.thirteenblackbirds.net/
Why this must be read:

Very nice, very hot and very entertaining. And woot, look at the author.

Decision
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11:02 pm Escaping the paradox by Meri (NC-17)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry Potter/Severus Snape
Length: 35,706 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] meri_oddities and meri-oddities on Insanejournal
Author Website: Other Oddities of Fiction
Why this must be read: It's a Paradox story!
Quite honestly am addicted to AU's and time travel and what have you, but a good Alternate Reality/Parallel Universe/Paradox story still makes me go back to it again and again. So Harry goes back to 1971 or so he thinks. Cause really he doesn't turn a teenager, so he needs to work and oh wait is this the past? Or is it something else entirely? And is that his father? And Severus Snape as a first year? Oh my.
As usual I love Meri's stories to the point of being distracted, she delivers her tales without meandering, basically it's like a lean, mean fic machine *g* I followed her writing through other fandoms before reading her Snarry and I've always loved it.
It retells the story that we all know, allowing for changes and characters to "survive" the last book and her Dumbledore is just bloody amazing! (and still colour blind).

I figure that I don't need to say any more on this story, mostly cause I consider them spoilers, so go, read!

Excerpt )

Read the story here! or at the Snarry Games
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11:06 pm Distant by jmtorres (R)
Fandom: PET SHOP OF HORRORS
Pairing: D/Leon
Length: oneshot
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] jmtorres
Author Website: unknown
Why this must be read:

Lovely story, most of the stories development takes place over letters which can be a hit or a miss, in this case it's a hit.

Distant
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