September 9th, 2011 
08:23 am Lambs to the Slaughter by Dark Nascent (R)
Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully friendship/UST
Length: ~5000 words
Warning: Character death. Lots of it. And how.

Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Flywoman and Nascent Fanfiction (please scroll down)

Why this must be read:

Nascent was one of my first friends in the fandom, and quickly became my mutual beta, collaborator, and even roommate on Geocities. She is justly famed for her novel-length casefics, including Theory and Practice, which has already been recced here on [livejournal.com profile] crack_van. But this piece, "Lambs to the Slaughter," is the first in her Barnyard series, a hilarious mixture of philosophy, black humor, and Mulder/Scully UST, appropriately penned under the "Dark Nascent" moniker. Read it and weep. Or laugh. Whatever.

Lambs to the Slaughter
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09:45 am Drug of Choice by MerrySchainblatt (R)
Fandom:STARSKY AND HUTCH
Pairing:none
Length:Novel
Author on LJ:unknown
Author Website:http://www.starskyhutcharchive.net/viewstory.php?sid=187&chapter=1
Why this must be read:This is an amazing novel written by MerrySchainblatt. Hutch is kidnapped and Starsky trys to find him. I know you've read this scenario before, but not one like this. Forest is involved, you know the bad guy from the fix, well he's a sore looser and he's out for revenge on Detective Hutchinson.

Merry first wrote and published this story for a small fan convention, and then sent it to fans by email. In 1998 the novel was published for wide-spread release by Intertwined, in That's What Friends Are For volume 7, as a stand alone novel. The editor was Nanci Folsom Casad. Merry added a major scene for this version, and at the editor's request removed several words although she didn't want to remove them....

Drug of Choice
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11:34 am How to Survive Anfield with Your Sexuality Intact by conspiire (PG)
Fandom: FOOTBALL (SOCCER) RPF
Pairing: Steven Gerrard/Xabi Alonso, Steven Gerrard/Fernando Torres
Length: ~9000 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] synaesthetical
Author Website: football fic tag
Why this must be read: crack has never tasted so delicious. You may find yourself crying with laughter more than once.

How to Survive Anfield with Your Sexuality Intact: The (Rare!) Straight Man’s Edition
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12:39 pm Well, You know by Roachpatrol (PG-13)
Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler/Jack Harkness
Length: 5000 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] roachpatrol
Author Website: Roachpatrol on AO3
Roachpatrol on Teaspoon
Author's Summary:It is July in New New York, 099: the dawning of the latest and greatest era of beauty, freedom, truth and love, but mostly love. And when it comes to Rose Tyler and Jack Harkness, a lot of beauty. John Smith is so hopelessly in love with his two best friends that sometimes he thinks he could just about explode. But he's no one special. Not really.
Why this must be read: This is one of the best fics in the fandom. It's also damn hard to describe. It is told in a surreal, sometimes fragmented style that nevertheless manages to create and incredibly dense and detailed world. The prose is sharp – sometimes so sharp it cuts. The characters and their emotions are so alive and so real that I can't help getting completely sucked in every time I read it. And the ending is at once hopeful and heartbreaking.

Well, You Know

P.S.: As an added point of interest, the author posted a short prequel and two mini-sequels in this meme response. (None of them will make sense unless you read the fic first.)
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