Fandom: STAR WARS
Length: 2975 words
Genre: Drama, angst, non-con
Pairing: Anakin Skywalker/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Author on LJ: ani_coolgirl
Author Website: Master Ficlist
Why this must be read:


For any of us who have wondered about the Master/Padawan bond's substance, this story describes it as ranging from subtle to overwhelming. Guess which kind that Anakin feels? Ani_Coolgirl writes a non-con story, very hot and satisfying. Obi-Wan's response to being invaded in his very own bedroom ranges from trusting to cranky to overwhelmed, too. This author writes an unusual tone for a PWP, suggesting that Anakin moved beyond the canon Attack-of-the-Clones Padawan and is nearing the Revenge-of-the-Sith meltdown. Watch out, GFFA.

Lucrece, or Won't You Say My Name?

Fandom: THE MUMMY
Pairing: gen
Length: 2,600 words
Author on LJ: glitterburn
Author Website: Malicious West @ ff.net
Why this must be read: A day in the life of Jonathan. Cards, gin, women, debts, lots of bragging and antagonism with Rick. I love how each bit has a timestamp on it, love the first person, she's got Jonathan's voice and behavior down perfectly. Very funny piece.

You have quite an unusual-tasting lipstick, if you don't mind me saying. Not that I go around kissing ladies very often. No, it's a lonely life, being a scholar and an archaeologist-adventurer. You should see my brother-in-law. Why, he'd have been alone, quite alone, if it hadn't been for my intervention. I'm a secret romantic at heart, as I'm sure you've realised. I quickly came to the conclusion that Evie - whose greatest ambition it was to join the Bembridge Scholars - well, she'd be wasted on a gentleman of good character and noble upbringing and gentle breeding. So when I met Rick O'Connell, I thought, Jonathan, here's the man for your sister!

Useless at Scrabble

Fandom: THE MUMMY
Pairing: Rick/Evie/Ardeth
Length: 5,400 words
Author on LJ: yahtzee63
Author Website: yahtzee!
Why this must be read: If you're looking for good smutty Mummy fic, you'll have to look really, really hard. Even harder to find threesome fic. Fortunately, I came across this one. Well written, hot and mmmm, gotta love sexy curses.

The Jealous Pharaoh's Sigh

Fandom: TORCHWOOD
Pairing: Gwen, Jack, Ianto, Owen, Tosh, Rhys, Megan and Trina (bridesmaids from “Something Borrowed”)
Length: ~5600 (one-shot)
Author on LJ: blue_fjords
Author Website: Fic Tag
Why this must be read:

blue_fjords is a fairly recent addition to the Torchwood fandom and I am so glad that s/he joined up. The writing in all of blue_fjords' stories is wonderful and I encourage everyone to check out the above tag for wonderful fic.

I Loved a Woman with a Heart of Amber is post-Cyberwoman and it is focused on how Gwen reacts to the events in that episode. It seems like an odd focus to take on an episode that is so steeped in Jack and Ianto, but it works so well. This is Gwen soon after joining Torchwood faced with the fact she killed a human being. This is Gwen trying to work out how to not let it drift while still unable to talk about what she does day in day out. This is Gwen trying to understand - Ianto, Jack, Torchwood, everything - and coming up with answers that are never quite good enough.

The story moves through four weeks of Ianto's suspension and how all of them heal day by day when he is gone. Ianto is in one section of the story, but the whole piece is steeped with his presence just because of what the focus is.

I highly recommend this story and wish I could do a better job of explaining just why it is so good.

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I Loved a Woman with a Heart of Amber

Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: Jared/Jensen RPS
Length: ~42, 500
Author on LJ: veronamay
Author Website: Fic tag
Why this must be read: Summary: Matthew 26:41—"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
So true! Priest!Jensen is awesome, the smut is scorching hot, and the voices are written extremely well. It's pretty long, but it's SO worth it. And the angst...oooh, the angst. The whole thing is just SO good. Plus, there's music at the end!

Link to the Master Post

Fandom: THE MUMMY
Pairing: gen
Length: 4,600 words
Author on LJ: mekosuchinae
Author Website: PallaPlease @ ff.net, fic tags list
Why this must be read: Alex thinks about his family on a dark and stormy night, when he and Jonathan are home alone and kinda scared about it. Downright adorable, sweet and well written. Love the relationship between Alex and Jonathan, and Alex's perceptions of his parents. They're just such an awesome family, gah. And Jonathan will always be like twelve years old lol.

"She wanted me to have something I could do when I had to stay in camp and tried solitaire, which is ab-so-lute-ly mind-numbing. I was bored out of my head!" Old indignation surfaced in the seven-year old's face, and Jonathan snorted, clearly recalling his own encounters with the demon of solitaire, maybe from the mystic days before Mum had met Dad. "So she taught me poker and gin rummy and canasta, which Dad said were only good if you could win the pants off some bloke's ass." He immediately cringed, expecting mother or father to descend on his being with reprimands and painfully disappointed looks exaggerated for effect; fortunately, he only had Jonathan. "So Dad showed me how to glare people down, just like he can, and," his pale granite gaze, blue flecked with grey like his father's, switched to the slant-eyed man, "I learned how to cheat watching you, Uncle Jon."

Family

WARNING FOR REAL PERSON SLASH

Fandom: THE MIGHTY BOOSH
Pairing: Julian Barratt/Noel Fielding (REAL PERSON SLASH)
Length: approx. 40,000 words (novella)
Author on LJ: trickpie

Why this must be read:
This is almost certainly the definitive piece of Real Person Slash in The Mighty Boosh fandom. Nothing else exists that has the same audacity (and I mean this in a good way). The segues where Noel exists in some Booshy-half-world are particularly effective. The world of Noel and Julian is the Boosh and sometimes there is the sense that it is the 'real world' that is mad, not them. So, although it is an RPS story it is also in its own fashion about the Boosh world and about Vince and Howard.

This story charts a certain part (time?) of their relationship, or to be more precise, the bits that "aren't in between" as Noel comes to refer to them.

The dialogue is also perfect. They talk in riddles just how I would expect them to:

“The, uh. The kites are all snagged up. I don’t have the – I don’t know. I’m too impatient for them. I can’t untangle them.”
“So you came here.”
“Yeah.”
“Not my place.”
“Noel…”

Here's my third recommendation, split over five parts. I recommend reading it with a box of jaffa cakes in one hand and a bottle of red wine in the other.

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five

Fandom: MARVEL COMICS
Pairing: Irene Merryweather/Domino (plus Deadpool)
Length: 4,000 words
Author on LJ: likeadeuce
Author Website: Likeadeuce's Fanfic Index
Why this must be read:

This is, without exaggeration, the best fic ever to come out of Cable/Deadpool fandom. A full and wonderfully accurate pastiche of the delightfully insane style of Fabian Nicieza's late, lamented comic, this fic perfectly captures what was so great about that universe, and those characters. It breaks the fourth wall. It includes a Weasel cameo. It's meta and hilarious and, in its own strange way, it thoughtfully illuminates the characters. Plus, it shines a spotlight on Irene and Domino, the oft-forgotten awesome female backbone of the story. It is also probably the only femslash in existence that is narrated by Deadpool.

In order to truly give justice to this fic, I'd probably have to write this recommendation in-character as Deadpool, and I don't possess likeadeuce's gifts in that department. So I'm just going to include an excerpt, which speaks for itself.

DEADPOOL: Wade Wilson here, the Merc with the Mouth, known worldwide -- and in all thirty-seven states -- as Deadpool. (Okay, nearly all thirty-seven. For your information, Indiana, I'm not returning your phone calls either).

Before you get too excited, ladies, I'll let you down easy: I'm not in this issue. And do you want to know why? Because it's not an issue! It's a FANFICTION! That's right, fangirls, take your hands away from your ladyparts and your eyes off your Hugh Jackman bobble-head dolls long enough to look back up where it says "Disclaimer." These characters are not mine, and I am making no money from this. Well, Wade Wilson is many things but he is not a whore!. He doesn't do the work if he can't cash the checks!

WEASEL: That's what a whore is, Deadpool.

Three Things that Never Happened Between Irene and Domino