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Fandom: GLEE Pairing: Rachel Berry/Quinn Fabray Length: 6000 Author on LJ: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) anomalousalanna Author Website: Not found Why this must be read: Quinn and Rachel fit so wonderfully together in this fic. Their explosive personalities make for so much hilariousness, it's heart warming to see the entire club get together to care for Quinn and the baby - and Rachel's dads are there! And they're awesome! Also the way she writes the pregnancy is just beautiful. ( Tiny excerpt ) Wonderwall | | |
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Fandom: FOREVER KNIGHT Pairing: none Length: one-shot Author on LJ: not applicable Author Website: Fiction by Kathy WheltonWhy this must be read: I adore stories that take place before the series premiere, particularly those that deal with the Nick and Natalie dynamic. In this story, author Kathy Whelton peels back the layers to Nick and Natalie's "rocky" first encounters and explores the characters' insecurities and hopes. We are treated to a Nick who wields the persona of a cold, emotionless vampire to protect himself from false promises and a Natalie who tries to balance her desire to rise up to a scientific challenge with her inherent curiosity. The story setup is simple but it packs an emotional punch. Nick and Nat's very proper and detached early forays into finding a cure to Nick's vampirism get derailed by a medical emergency. Pre-series stories are all special and unique but this one stands out as wonderful introduction to the genre. ( Excerpt )A Crack in the Wall by Kathy Whelton | | |
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Fandom: GLEE Pairing: Noah Puckerman, Kurt Hummel (gen) Length: 1200 Author on LJ: smilebackwards Author Website: Fic List Why this must be read: Honestly, it's a story about Puck in a dress. Remember how he said "I'm a stud, dude. I could wear a dress to school and people would think it's cool." Yeah:D It's funny and sad in parts and Kurt's great... and in some ways it has that same quality that the show has: it shows us a person who's having a really hard time in that humiliating way you can only experience in high school - and then it turns everything upsidedown. It's my feel good fic because of that - and because of Puck in a dress. Vera Wang | | |
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Fandom: AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 8 Pairing: Adam Lambert/Kris Allen Length: 4,500 words Author on LJ: cathalinAuthor Website: cathalin's LJWhy this must be read: It’s such a classic for this fandom. Written in late June, which is a lifetime ago for Kradam, but it still feels fresh. You do need to know that the author wrote it after reading Adam’s Rolling Stone interview, where he talks about how cute and perfect Kris is, but then says of course “Kris is 100% straight, and married.” ( Excerpt )Percentages | | |
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Fandom: FAIRLY ODDPARENTS Pairing: Timmy/Crocker preslash Length: short oneshot
Author on LJ: Unknown Author Website: Tavalya_Ra@InsaneJournalWhy this must be read:The characterization of Crocker and older!Timmy is brilliant, and so is the reflection on the depressing undertones of Fairly OddParents' premise. ( Excerpt )Spent | | |
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Fandom: EUREKA Pairing: Adult!Zoe Carter/Jo Lupo Length: Approx. 1,700 words Author on LJ: jennyoAuthor Website: Jennifer-Oksana'sWhy this must be read: Jo comes to terms with being gay. At first, she's annoyed, because she can't believe she's a walking "butch lesbian cop" cliche. However, time (and Zoe) help her accept who she is. Crush With Eyeliner | | |
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Fandom: LORD PETER WIMSEY Pairing: Peter/Harriet, Charles/Mary Length: 1,000 Author: rabidsamfan Author Website: rabidsamfan at ff.net Why this must be read:Having dipped our toes in the dangerous waters of "more than" fanfiction – and don't worry, thrill-seekers, we will wade in more deeply on future occasions – I now return you to the safer shores of "more of", specifically more of Charles Parker. Charles gets a bit of a rough deal in canon, developing from confidante of his lordship, a good foil and a good friend - if a bit of a plodder - to largely off-stage brother-in-law. The reason is presumably Harriet – it is, after all, hard to over-estimate the social awkwardness of having tried to hang one's best friend's wife for a crime she didn't commit – but Sayers never discusses the issue explicitly, she simply allows poor Charles to fade away. This series of ten drabbles restores Charles Parker to centre stage, charting with humour and sensitivity the progression of his relationship with Peter, from their first meeting to the birth of Peter's first son, and filling in the gaps in their friendship that Sayers leaves in canon. The first time that Charles Parker ever saw Lord Peter Wimsey, he admitted much later, he thought the man was an idiot. An interfering, overbred, impossibly privileged idiot, to be sure, but an idiot. This impression was not dispelled by the plaintive way in which the amateur insisted upon being provided with a glass of water in the middle of the investigation, but it did rather suffer when the amateur used the water to find the outline of the trapdoor laid into the elaborate parquet floor. Never let it be said that Scotland Yard had learned nothing since Sherlock Holmes.10 x 100 | | |
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Fandom: PRIMEVAL Pairing: Claudia/Helen Length: 1900 words Author on LJ: cordeliadelayneAuthor Website: None – check LJ masterlist for stories Why this must be read:Primeval should be fair game for femmeslash, give the strong female characters we see on-screen. But as yet there's not much around outside of drabbles and shorter fic. cordeliadelayne has remedied this with a seriously hot Claudia/Helen story – as she says, why should the boys have all the fun? *g* And she nails controlling!Helen, who gets all the best lines . . . His Type | | |
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Fandom: THE AVENGERS Character: Steed (some Steed/OFC) Length: 15,835 words Author on LJ: unknown Author Website: his FF.net profileWhy this must be read:At first, I wasn't sure about reccing this -- it's dark, dark, dark. This is an origin story of sorts for Steed, and at many points, you will not recognize him, not even as his less likeable earlier incarnation...and that is the whole point. This is one theory on how an ordinary spy could become the person that Steed is. Also, it's exceedingly well-written. Not for the faint of heart -- as the author warns in the summary, it's graphically violent -- but utterly fascinating. ( Excerpt )Mirrors in Belfast | | |
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Vidder: thedothatgirl Musical artist: The Pussycat Dolls Pairing: Sugar Kane/Osgood Fielding III, Daphne/Osgood Fielding III Vidder on LJ: thedothatgirlVidder's website: Buffy and Angel ArtWhy this vid kicks ass: I never realised that I had a burning desire to watch Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe going head-to-head in a fight over their man until I saw this songvid; but now that I have, thanks to the glorious constructed reality thedothatgirl has created, I can't imagine a world in which it isn't so. Also, there's dancing and maracas. It just doesn't get any better than that! Don't Cha | | |
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