December 18th, 2011 
09:49 am Changing Parameters by janonny (NC17)
Fandom: THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Pairing: Mark/Eduardo
Length: 36,000 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] janonny
Author Website: Masterlist
Why this must be read: This is the second of three 'canon AUs' I'm doing in a row. In this one, everything in canon happens, with the small adjustment that it's a few centuries in the future and Mark is secretly an android. It's a perfect idea (an android! Of course! that explains it!), wonderfully executed.

A few years after the depositions, Mark's secret is about to be revealed, and he and others close to him are in danger. And those who used to be close to him...

“Then why don’t I see Sean Parker here? Or Erica? Aren’t they your past connections?” shoots off Eduardo, displaying the quick thinking Mark used to like in him, though he doesn’t know why he ever did. It’s irritating and distracting.

It’s too good a point, and one that Mark has acknowledged for awhile. The chances of Eduardo getting embroiled in this when he has been out of Mark’s life for the past four years is less than 5%, similar to Sean and Erica’s chances of being pulled into this. But Mark registers a 5% risk of danger as unacceptably high a chance when paired up with the name Eduardo Saverin, a logic that Mark isn’t able to articulate.


It’s strange to think that Eduardo gets along fairly well with Thiel, the man who suggested the dilution when Sean brought up ‘their problematic CFO’. Mark has to call a truce just to keep the last week relatively amiable. For all that Mark is programmed to be human-like, there are some human logic which will allude him.

It’s not like Thiel is a very interesting, intelligent or attractive man. Why does he get a free pass? Business acumen aside, his intelligence is average, and his conversation is proving to be boring. His face is only 70.31% symmetrical, and he has an unattractive weak chin. Mark also finds his ‘hn, hn’ chuckles annoying. These are things he had never noted before, but he’s certainly noting them now. If he didn’t think Eduardo would get angry, he would show him this list later on.
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03:59 pm The Pendragon Job by frantic (NC-17)
Fandom: INCEPTION / MERLIN
Pairing: Arthur/Eames, Arthur Pendragon/Merlin, Ariadne/Cobb (non-explicit)
Length: ~ 18,900 words
Author on LJ: formerly [livejournal.com profile] frantic_allonsy; no current LJ (?)
Author Website: Frantic's Works on AO3
Why this must be read: Robert Fischer has found out about inception and blackmails the team into doing a "small" favor for him: he wants them to incept the King of England (Arthur Pendragon) to abdicate his throne. But how do you get close to a king? Well, as it turns out, Eames went to school with him and Merlin, so a foot in the door is easily done even though it doesn't sit well with Eames to work against a friend.

Through the course of making King Arthur concede that yes, he has feelings for Merlin, Eames and Arthur also admit to their mutual attraction to one another. Ultimately, the story's not so much about inception as it is about pursuing the life you want. It's about love and forgiveness, friendship and trust. It's more than a little bit about believing in magic.

'I have no legal recourse for what you did to me. Yet,' Fischer told him over steak. 'Of course, I'm not entirely unreasonable. I know the circumstances. My life is probably better for it. The world is better for it.' )

On AO3: The Pendragon Job

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07:17 pm Three Things by akamine_chan
Fandom: Wilby Wonderful
Pairing: past Duck/Dan
Length: 140 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] akamine_chan
Author website: AO3

Why this must be read:

For one, you have time, since it's only 140 words.  Also, although I feel guilty about this, I take some comfort in the fact that Duck stoically bears more than his fair share of the world's sorrows, and this snippet captures some of that.  It's also an incredibly sensual story, both visually and tactile-ly.

Three Things
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