April 9th, 2010 
01:19 pm What Heaven Will Allow by Joan (NC-17)
Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Length: 22,000 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] joans23
Author Website: [livejournal.com profile] joans23's master fic list at her LJ.

Why this must be read: Last summer, I waited for this big bang with glee after I read the summary and the summary does not even do it justice. It's an AU set in the Delta, and there's an ethereal timeless slow-rolling feel to the story. It's languid, not slowly paced, and very much in the style of Flannery O'Connor's short stories (which should be enough to say that it's amazingly well-written with attention paid to tone, structure, and regionalisms). Although it's an AU, Sam and Dean are not only recognizable characters, they are written as close to canon as one can get without mentioning monsters. Further, the other canon characters used are well-drawn and sympathetic even in their dysfunction, which rings closely to the southern grotesque that is sorely missed in current fiction. The juxtaposition between the events in the AU and canon events are amazing and serve the characterization. I do not want to spoil, as the way the story unfolds is so amazing that I don't want to give any part of it away.

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What Heaven Will Allow

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02:14 pm Isolation, Near Perfect by Greensilver (PG)
Oops, I had a sudden attack of real life. Will do better to keep up with the recs the rest of the month!

Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Characters: Bob Fraser and Buck Frobisher gen
Length: 1100 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] greensilver
Author Website: metatextual
Why this must be read: This story delighted me to no end when I discovered it, because I'd been hankering for stories about Bob and Buck's partnership. I love the familiarity between them. We see them bickering over who's going to catch the poacher they're chasing, and the dialogue is just delightful. There's also a bittersweet note connected to Bob's relationship with his son. Greensilver has written two more stories about Bob and Buck, and I very much recommend them, too.

Isolation, Near Perfect
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05:27 pm Lily Potter and the Worst Holiday by bobsaqqara - T
Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Harry/Hermione, Neville/Ginny, Luna/Ron, James/Lily
Length: 27,894
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: Bobsaqqara's FFN profile; Bobsaqqara's yahoo group
Why this must be read: Yes, I have a thing for dimension travel. This is more along the traditional route of dimension travel fic than yesterday's way, and like yesterday's rec, this is told from the perspective of someone other than the dimension travelers, in this case Lily Potter. Lily hates Halloween as it's a vivid reminder of the son she lost. The war with Voldemort is heating up and the Light doesn't have a prophecy child. And then they get guests. Six of them to be precise. And when some of them resemble people who have died or are at Hogwarts, the staff knows something is up.

This time around, we have powerful metamorphmagus Harry, a group of friends who know what war is like and families that are more than happy to accept their new members - even if there are doubles. Oh, and a war to win. Lily Potter and the Worst Holiday, while full of cliches also has some surprises - including how they arrive to their new dimension. More than that, everything that is revealed is there for a purpose. And yes, in the end, we get a happy ending.

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Lily Potter and the Worst Holiday can be found here

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