June 9th, 2009 
02:52 pm Slow Convergence by Iteration by dracofiend (PG-13)
Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Length: ~9,000
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] dracofiend
Author Website: Walking the Plank
Why this must be read:
For the lyrical, intensely physical language. For the UST. For the sensual, claustrophobic descriptions of what it might actually feel like to have a Legilimens rifling through your mind. For the first half, with the rhythm which builds and recedes like dub con but isn't actually sexual. For the sense that Snape's going to burst out of his buttoned-down, snarling self-control at any moment. For the second half, with its wonderfully awkward, funny, tongue-tied conversations between them. For the flash of surprising tenderness.

Harry is dorky and endearing and determined. Snape is enigmatic and tight-lipped to an infuriating degree. You will ache for them both, because [livejournal.com profile] dracofiend is such an incredibly artful and astute writer, a master of poetic intensity and emotional undercurrents.

The first encounter )

Slow Convergence by Iteration
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05:22 pm Exit by Adrienne
Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Length: short (one-shot)
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] icedteainthebag
Author Website: her fanfic tag
Why this must be read:

I have a fondness for missing scene fics. These fics fill in gaps that the show writer(s) left. This fic is a missing scene fic for "Requiem". Well, to be completely accurate, it's several missing scenes. It's beautiful and sad and just tone-perfect. I like the way Adrienne paints Mulder and Scully; her Scully in particular is very nice. I don't want to say too much because it's not a long fic and if you know Requiem you know what this fic is likely about. It just fills in realistically what Scully might have been going through in the time after Mulder has announced he's going to go to Oregon without her to the moment he does depart, and that makes it a great little fic to read. It will break your heart because you know what's going to happen.

Exit
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08:35 pm Safety Zone by Swellison (G)
Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: none
Length:  38K
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] swellison 
Author Website:http://www.100megsfree3.com/fauxpaws08/swellison.html

Why this must be read:  Because it’s an enjoyable story that showcases Blair hard at work trying to be the “guide”. 

Set just after Rogue, Blair worries that zone-outs like the ones at Rainier and on the bridge pose a continuing danger to Jim’s life.  When he admits that he is “winging it” when he finds solutions to sentinel problems, Jim agrees to run some tests to analyze the zone phenomenon.  Nice story that explores in detail what the show didn’t have time to do – show Blair the Observer studying and testing Jim. The ending provides a smooth segue into another episode.


Safety Zone

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