June 3rd, 2011 
01:24 am Deadly Masquerade by rhymer (PG-13)
Hi! I'm [livejournal.com profile] turlough and I'll be driving the van for bandom this month. I read almost exclusively in the My Chemical Romance part of the fandom so that is what I will rec most of.

Fandom: BANDOM
Pairing: Frank/Gerard UST
Length: 41,400 words
Author on DW: [personal profile] rhymer
Author Website: -
Why this must be read: In 1792 the Black Parade has become famous for saving people from the guillotine. Frank, an idealistic revolutionary, has been recruited by Korse to uncover their secret. What he discovers will change his life.

This story is absolutely superb, one of the best I've read in a long while. I love the atmosphere and mood and the way it blends the serious and thoughtful with outright humour and silliness without either feeling out of place. The Frank characterisation is first class and the way the real world of the French Revolution has been woven together with the Black Parade and Killjoys universes is absolutely fabulous. And the faux historical note at the end is total gold!

Excerpt from the story... )

Deadly Masquerade
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07:22 am Exit Wound by Brighid (PG-13)
Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Length: ~5.000
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] mz_bstone
Author Website: Brighid at 852 Prospect
Why this must be read:

This is NOT a happy story, I warn you all right from the beginning. But it's so beautiful, in its own, heart-wrenching way...
And the metaphor she choose here not only works, it's simply mind-blowing.
But I can't say a lot here without spoil it for you, so here, instead of more me blabbing, have a little taste )

Give a chance to this fic, really, you'll not regret it. Go here Exit Wound by Brighid, cry a little bit and later, let Birghid know how much you like it :D
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08:47 am Her Cloudy Trophies (The 'Go Not to Lethe' Remix) by munditia (Teen)
Good morning! I'm [livejournal.com profile] lls_mutant, and I'll be your driver pilot on the BSG van Raptor this month. I'm a fan of fic about the secondary characters, especially the bridge bunnies and the knuckledraggers.

Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (NEW)
Character/Pairing: Anastasia Dualla, Dee/Lee
Length: 6560
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] munditia
Author Website: At Livejournal|At AO3
Why this must be read:

Dee is a sadly underused character, especially by the show. Usually the focus in the Season 2/3 love quadrangle ends up on Kara and Lee, but this is a fantastic, in depth look at Dee during that time, and her thoughts and feelings and her motivations and insights. The prose is lovely and the emotions are true, and it really is a fantastic story.

Her Cloudy Trophies (The 'Go Not to Lethe' Remix) on AO3
Her Cloudy Trophies (The 'Go Not to Lethe' Remix) on LiveJournal
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06:05 pm Charming Manslut's by [personal profile] giselleslash, NC-17
Hi, my name is [personal profile] soranetto and I will be your driver for Knights of the Hot Table Merlin this month.
Fandom: MERLIN
Pairing: Gwaine/Arthur, Merlin, Leon, Lance, and mentions of Merlin/Freya, Leon/Morgana
Length: 9K
Author on LJ: [personal profile] giselleslash
Author Website: Master List
Why this must be read:
This is kind of a new pairing to the Merlin fandom and [personal profile] giselleslash took over the reins and tamed this baby with this fic. Totally hot and totally believable. One of the many things that makes this work is excellent dialogue and a happy Merlin.

Author's summary:
Gwaine and Arthur have a night of drunken escapades that could possibly lead to more despite their best efforts to be dumb guys about it all. They also do their best to gross Merlin out along the way.

Charming Mansluts
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06:52 pm Sing Ourselves to Sleep by Dira (PG-ish)
Fandom: BANDOM
Pairing: Gerard/Patrick
Length: 4,030 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] dsudis
Author Website: Words Words Words & on AO3
Why this must be read: Being exhausted is nothing like being drunk, but some nights Gerard gets too tired to remember that. The one about Gerard and Patrick during the Summer of Like.

I can't believe no-one hasn't recced this story here before. It's a minor classic in the fandom and one of the first Gerard/Patrick stories I read back when I was new. I love this Gerard and his efforts to cope with being on Warped sober and his and Patrick's lowkey and awkward courting in the shadow of their bandmates' flamboyance is geeky and sweet and lovely. A story that never fails to make me feel quietly happy.

Excerpt from the story... )

Sing Ourselves to Sleep (or here or here)
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07:32 pm One by One By Kastaka (R)
Fandom: WATCHMEN
Pairing: (Gen) Rorschach, Silk Spectre II
Length: ~1300 words
Author on LJ: Author is on AO3
Author Website: http://archiveofourown.org/users/Kastaka/

Why this must be read:
We see Laurie partnered with a post-Roche Rorschach, as he behaves the way a post-Roche Rorschach does. The author gives us his broken yet alarmingly logical world-view, and Laurie's unwilling fascination with it as she follows him in spite of her horror. I was in love with this one from the beginning:

"I know you're in there."

From anybody else, it would be a taunt. It would rise and fall in a sing-song fashion, tempting the person who is supposedly in there to come out and face the music.

In Rorshach's voice, it is flat. It is a statement of fact. He does, in fact, know you are in there.


One By One


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11:20 pm White Rabbit by irony_rocks (PG-13)
Hi, I'm [livejournal.com profile] streussal and I'll be reccing Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles this month. There should be a reasonable variety of fic. :)

Fandom: TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES/TERMINATOR (movie-verse)
Characters/Pairing: Sarah-centric, mostly gen (some Sarah/Derek).
Length: 5400 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] irony_rocks
Author Website: Fic Masterlist
Why this must be read:
This is a post-finale fic where, in John's absence, Sarah rises to leadership in humanity's fight for survival. The author has a fantastic grasp on Sarah's character, and how she is basically already a leader, already that person who maintains emotional distance from others. The fic seamlessly blends in movie-verse characters (Kate Brewster), and characters younger than the age we see them at in the series (Derek, Kyle, Allison).

White Rabbit
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