January 27th, 2009 
11:23 am In The Pursuit Of Happiness by Queen C (PG-13)
Fandom: SMALLVILLE
Pairing: Chloe/Kal; Chloe/Clark; mentions of Clark/Lana
Length: one-shot
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] all_you_wanted
Author Website: Queen C's Smallville fic tag
Why this must be read:
This is sort of a dark, angsty AU, springing from some point in season 5 before Reckoning. Unable to deal with her one-sided love for Clark, and unable to deny the pull of desire, Chloe does something practically unforgivable to pull him in. The consequences and repercussions of her actions lead her to being alone, and running from anyone and everyone she cares about. Until, one day, he finds her. It's a sad, beautiful story, and though Chloe did something pretty terrible, the pain in Chloe's voice comes out crystal clear. This is honestly, in my opinion, one of Queen C's best works.


An excerpt. )


In The Pursuit Of Happiness
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03:22 pm Spike and Buffy, Lost in Cyber-Space by Anne Rose (R)
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Buffy/Spike
Author on LJ: --
Length: 35,000 words
Author website: Anne's Rose Garden

Why this should be read:
In this season 6 rewrite Willow uses her computer to do a little inter-dimensional hacking. Spike takes her laptop and occasionally connects to our reality and our Internet circa season 6 - full of BtVS spoilers, rants and fanfiction. Intrigued, he starts to investigate and comes to conclusion that fanfics are prophecies and ficwriters are oracles. Spike asks then what he should do to win Buffy's heart and gets a lot of creative advices.
Anne-Rose pulls off the ultimate post-modernist trick - that of a writer inserting herself and her friends into the narrative. Usually the results are embarassing, but here the technique works because the twist is rooted in the very nature of the BtVS fandom - creative, snarky and hungry for spoilers. Anne-Rose' story provides the reader with a unique glimpse at the fandom in 2002 when shipper wars were raging and spoiler whoring reached its peak. Yet the writer manages to to avoid harshness and bashing; she looks at characters and their fans with sympathetic smile.

Excerpt )


Spike and Buffy, Lost in Cyber-Space
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08:59 pm here, where the world is quiet, by busaikko. (NC-17)
Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Remus/Severus
Length: ~ 6,470 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] busaikko
Author Website: http://busaikko.slashcity.org/

Why this must be read:

This is a brilliant story, sad and touching and not without hope. After the war Remus and Severus try to help those children which were bitten by Greyback and infected. It's wonderfully plotted and crafted. Severus changes and grows over the cause of the story, but he still remains very much himself.

There's a intriguing twist revealed at the end of the story which I don't want to reveal, but it is beautifully built up. Re-reading the story makes me appreciate it even more.


here, where the world is quiet.

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10:18 pm Blooded, Bonded, Bound by M. H. E. Priest (R I think)
Fandom: STARSKY & HUTCH
Pairing: none
Length: three parts
Author on LJ: not known
Author Website: HERE
Why this must be read:

They are still young and innocent. In the first story they are not even partners yet. What happened when Hutch had to shoot to kill for the first time? What happened when he had to do it again?

Hutchinson's body shook, eyes misted, fists clenched. It's about faith, isn't it? Faith in me, in you... thee. And forgiveness. And trust and... love. The remaining cold that had seized his being began to melt away at a rapid rate. Smiling timidly, he took a few long steps to return to the bedside.

Almost there, Hutch. Starsky could feel anticipation and hope building deep in his gut. He held out his hand once more. "You with me, partner?"

Partner. The way he's always said it to me. At long last, he could read his friend's expression. He placed his hand into the cradle of Starsky's and squeezed. "Anything you say, partner." The way I say it now.

Starsky grinned euphorically, even through the increasing pain, at the limitless trust and unconditional love in Hutch's simple, honest statement. "Anything?"

"Anything, partner." God, that feels so right!

Man, that sounds great!

Blooded
Bonded
Bound
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11:19 pm Sex Addiction: An Argument from Aetiology, by halotolerant (NC-17)
Fandom: TORCHWOOD
Pairing: Jack/OC
Length: 3,963 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] halotolerant
Author Website: unknown
Why this must be read:

This story’s premise has been contradicted by canon, but it’s such a wonderful character study of an adolescent Jack that I advise you to just roll with it.

So, what if the Time Academy chose its recruits when they were really young — say, less than three years old? What if the students were, until the age of eighteen, kept so strictly segregated by gender that they were unaware of the very concept of gender? And what if there was a mix-up in the sorting...
Jack had been a late-bloomer, sexually ignored, more or less, until he was 16 and finally gained that certain something )

This is a bittersweet story that depicts het sex as a terrifying, exhilarating plunge into alien territory — which, come to think of it, is probably how most of us experience it at first.

Sex Addiction: An Argument from Aetiology
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11:56 pm (You've Got) That Pornstar Flava by Natalie (R-ish)
Fandom: POPSLASH
Pairing: Chris-centric, but features all sparkly boys and several pairings
Length: 33,000
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] etsu_88
Author Website: [livejournal.com profile] ficllusion
Why this must be read: It's a pornstore AU. Need I say more? It will make you laugh and want to buy their videos, and there are all kinds of fun extra things, like bonus features and some cool metafiction. This was written for [livejournal.com profile] bittybang, the popslash big bang, and comes complete with fabulous art by [livejournal.com profile] samibee.

AJ's only been working there a year and a half, give or take, so Chris can see why he doesn't get it. He's still at the stage where porn is shiny and exciting. Thing is, Chris has been a TRANS-PORN employee for almost twice that. After the first twenty thousand tapes, even the weird sex is boring.

(You've Got) That Pornstar Flava
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11:57 pm Lancaster County by raquel-el-pillo
Fandom: BAND OF BROTHERS
Pairing: Winters/Nixon
Length: epic (17 chapters + various extras)
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] raquel_el_pillo
Author Website: -
Why this must be read: because this is an epic AU (that is one of the latest trend of BoB fandom, with modern!AU, sport!AU, etc...), and I love the author, she is very talented (she is also an artist).

Nix is born later. Dick is there.

Lancaster County
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