July 6th, 2010 
07:19 pm Umad learns Sumerian by Annakovsky (PG)
Fandom: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Pairing: Gen; Dawn Summers
Length: 1,847
Author on LJ: [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]
Author Website: kovsky's Bookmarks
Why this must be read:

Because Dawn's characterization feels so real here, in the aftermath of everything that happened with Willow, just trying to put her mind off the last two years and immersing herself in something true, something solid. The passages of Sumerian throughout the piece are fascinating, and completely satisfied the language geek in me.

She works on translations for hours every day, makes Buffy take her out patrolling at night. She will be ready when they need her.

Everything she does makes her more real, every mark of her pencil on the paper. The monks may have created her old diary and all her baby pictures and school transcripts, but they did not create the pages of parsings and translation scattered over her bedroom floor. They did not create the emails of questions she sends off to Giles, did not create her UCSunnydale library card. They did not create whatever she is going to do next.


Umad learns Sumerian
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07:34 pm Enough to Heal by vega_writes (T)
Fandom: MARVEL COMICS
Pairing: Clint Barton and Kate Bishop.
Length: 1201 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] vega_writes
Author Website: Just the LJ. Has a Masterlist a fic.
Why this must be read: There are two main reasons this fic should be read. One, it fills in the missing pieces of what happened to Kate after she received a pretty major injury in Secret Invasion, something the comics didn't bother to do. Secondly, the characterization in this fic is perfect. Clint is his sarcastic and caring self and Kate returns his concern with the same stubbornness that earned her the name Hawkeye in the first place.

Also, they call each other Hawkeye a lot, which is kind of delicious, but YMMV on that.

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Enough to Heal
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08:30 pm All Things That Move and Breathe by anansie_s (NC-17)
Fandom: HEROES
Pairing: Nathan Petrelli/Peter Petrelli
Length: ~7,500 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] anansie_s
Author Website: Fic tag on LJ
Why this must be read:

I love stories in which introspection and sex intermingle and feed off of each other - character insights through porn, if you will, and this story is a fine example of that. It paints an utterly believable picture of who Nathan and Peter Petrelli are, and what they are to each other, while also being blindingly hot. Oh and it's about watersports. (But you should read it anyway.) -A.

But a tiny, paranoid voice in him wondered if this desire of Peter's – a new one? – was genuine, or just a part of his addiction to challenging his own limits. An addiction that they shared. They'd become used to receiving back-handed compliments about how unlike each other they were, but their similarities ran dark and close to the bone: in the extremist fervour that showed itself in their uncompromising instincts, in their ability to talk anyone into almost anything. An extremism that had been either trained into them or passed down in the blood; it didn't matter which.

All Things That Move and Breathe
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09:41 pm With a Little Illumination by st_aurafina (PG)
Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Characters: Doctor, Master, Jo Grant, Brigadier
Length: 6k words
Author on LJ: [personal profile] st_aurafina
Author Website: Teaspoon page, fic tag, AO3
Why this must be read:

This is a great romp with the Third Doctor, Jo Grant, and the Brigadier battling the Master (Delgado version), who plots to use mind control via opera to take over the world.  Yes, you read that right, the Master is trying to take over the world through opera.  This is a classic melodramatic villain using opera, the epitome of melodrama, to take over the world.  Of course he's foiled in his evil plots, but the humor and irony all through this piece is delicious, and everyone has their own part to play.

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With a Little Illumination
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