April 23rd, 2010 
02:22 am Flowers Can Grow Between the Cracks in the Sidewalk by brandil (PG13)
Fandom: FAST AND THE FURIOUS SERIES
Pairing: Mia/Letty
Length: 4400 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] brandil (but no longer active)
Author Website: LJ Fic Tag
Why this must be read:

(Note: Another Yuletide story for me.)

It's such a simple premise -- Letty moves in with Mia after prison -- but it's so delightfully layered as Letty and Mia struggle to find the ways their lives fit together with all the guys gone. It's down to just them and they are very different people than they were in The Fast and the Furious, but they are also very much the same.

I really enjoy the romance, which is more about two people trying to learn to be friends and Mia trying not to resent all the pieces she's had to pick up for Dom and Letty trying to deal with being free again. I found it lovely and sharp and believable.

Flowers Can Grow Between the Cracks in the Sidewalk by brandil
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10:57 am Wars Not Yet Dreamed Of by Abbybanks (R)
Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski UST, but mostly gen
Length: 2600 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] abbybanks
Author Website: There's a fic index in the side bar of the author's LJ.
Why this must be read: This is an apocalypse story, and it's correspondingly bleak. It's hard for me to say anything about it without revealing too much, but it totally blew me away. It's partly the structure of the story, where everything comes together in the end in a chilling way, and partly the great Fraser POV. Because yes, there's some UST, but this is primarily a Fraser story for me. I didn't think I could love him more, but apparently I could. &hearts

Wars Not Yet Dreamed Of
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06:52 pm Your Comment is Awaiting Moderation by Allison (NC-17)
Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Length: 9,600 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] latentfunction
Author Website: [livejournal.com profile] latentfunction's master fic list

Why this must be read: It'd be a short rec if I just wrote because it's spectacular, but this fic is truly in a league of its own. Try to reconcile a post-season four fic set to the prompt from a contemporary Harlequin? Crack fic? A train wreck? This is neither! Somehow Allison manages a tight story that fits perfectly within the apocalypse story line that is also about Sam exploring sex with men for the first time as he blogs about it, which leads to Dean wondering what's up with Sam - again? The characterization is as good as it gets outside of the writers' room, and coupled with a fresh twist on an old romance genre trope, this fic raises the bar for everyone writing Sam/Dean. It's funny and bittersweet, thread with angst and confusion. One of my absolute favorites in this fandom - hands down and without reservation.

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09:18 pm A Two is a Two is a Two by alissabobissa
Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (NEW)
Pairing: implied Kara/Leoben
Length: oneshot
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] alissabobissa
Author Website: Here
Why this must be read:

This crack fic takes everything that is odd and creepy about Leoben, amps it up to an extreme-yet-logical conclusion...and we have all the Twos in a religion that worships Kara Thrace. It's almost heartwarming, in a psychotic kind of way. The style of the fic is wry, the obsession treated with serious hilarity, and the result is just crazily perfect for BSG crackfic.

Excerpt from fic )

A Two is a Two is a Two
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