September 7th, 2011 
01:19 am When You Have to Go There by Sahiya (PG-13)
Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: Eleventh Doctor/Jack Harkness (Nine and Ten also appear)
Length: 7000 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] sahiya
Author Website: Sahiya on AO3
Why this must be read: This fic is very special in many ways. It's wonderfully timey-wimey, heartbreaking, comforting, and partly written from the point of view of a house. All three Doctors are spot-on, and clearly different from each other (as they should be). Jack's life in the house, how it changes him and how he in turn changes the Doctor, is told in beautiful prose and with pitch-perfect pacing. I love many fics by [livejournal.com profile] sahiya, but this is my absolute favorite.

When You Have to Go There
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07:11 am Detente, Bala by tyrannicides (NC-17)
Fandom: FOOTBALL (SOCCER) RPF
Pairing: David Beckham/Iker Casillas
Length: ~4,500 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] tyrannicides
Author Website: football fic tag
Why this must be read: David Beckham - you've heard of him, maybe? - moves to Madrid, learns some Spanish, and learns a little about Iker, too. The language parallels are stunning; the whole fic is just astoundingly good.

Detente, Bala
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05:05 pm This Side of Paradise by Jennifer-Oksana and Ryo Sen (R)
Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Warning: Genderswap, crack!fic
Length: ~8300 words

Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] jennyo
Author Website: Jennifer-Oksana's

Why this must be read:

This is another favorite from Jenny-O, but an utterly different beast from "Drive, He Said." It's the first genderswap I ever read, written way back when the concept was still at least something of a novelty, and although the cause of their dilemma is an X-File that technically is never solved, you'll be laughing too hard to care.

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This Side of Paradise
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07:14 pm And These Are the Quiet Hours by torch (R)

Fandom: STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE
Pairing: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Length: 580 words
Author on LJ:  flambeau
Author Website: star wars
Why this must be read:
After the events of Episode III, Obi-Wan begins his solitude on Tatooine, but is he really alone? This is a beautiful, sensual short piece, and like so many of torch’s stories packs an emotional punch.

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The sand gets everywhere. In his boots, in the creases of his robe. Between his toes and under his fingernails. In the food, sometimes. It's on his sheets, a subtle punishment against his skin. It's on the floor under his feet, slowly scouring the stone down to make more sand.

Sometimes he thinks if he could pick himself up and shake himself out, he'd find sand in the cracks of his soul.    





And these are the quiet hours

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09:43 pm An Indefinite Article by lycoris (NC-17)
An Indefinite Article by lycoris (NC-17)

Fandom: MERLIN
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Length: 13,042
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] lycoris
Author Website: On lj
Why this must be read:

This is yet another fic that has a tendency to punch you straight in the heart. It too is a modern AU with the added staple of being set at a British university and has Merlin and Arthur as students. But these are only the trappings (good trappings though, it's the recognisable and real Lancaster University) because this story is really all about stress and coping strategies and the inevitable breaking point. I think it's an excellent study of someone having a minor nervous breakdown and the beginnings of their recovery. There's also the slightly unusual aspect for Merlin fandom in that both principals believe they are straight. At least at the beginning :) This is a fic that rockets along fueled by desperation and rough sex, but do try it - it's one hell of a ride.

An Indefinite Article
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