March 21st, 2012 
12:21 am Dark Winters Wear You Down by goodbutfallen (R)
Fandom: GENERATION KILL
Pairing: Brad Colbert/Nate Fick
Length: 12,565
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] goodbutfallen
Author Website: AO3
Why this must be read:

This is a post-Iraq Nate!POV that gorgeously portrays him not dealing well. Nate tries so hard to be okay and just...doesn't get there. So he turns to Brad, who gets it, gets him, even as they talk around each other or talk of nothing at all. The voices in this piece are crisp, with well-drawn OCs like Nate's mother and neighbor. And the back-and-forth between Nate and Brad is such fun to read, with their underlying issues laced throughout.

He hasn’t spoken to his mother since before Christmas and he still lets the phone ring because he’s listened to the messages. She believes he is living some new, tidy, safe existence and would like to hear every detail. But he doesn't feel new or tidy or safe or like telling her so.

He would like to watch the cars driving down his street in the dark, eat Thai food from the container, and keep his phone off. Or break it in half. He calls Brad and bemoans Economic Policy instead.

Dark Winters Wear You Down
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04:56 pm Night is the Colour of a Self by Salieri (all ages)
Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Characters: Fraser, Kowalski, Dief
Length: 1000 words + a few pictures
Author on LJ: Salieri/[livejournal.com profile] troyswann
Author Website:
incomplete list here - please let me know if you know where to find more of Salieri's stories! ETA: more due South fic can be found here, but your browser may throw an error the first time you click on the link. Persistence is rewarded, apparently...
Why this must be read: This is one of those stories that really sticks with you. The writing is gorgeous and has a dreamy, ethereal quality to it that's almost haunting. At the same time, the details of the landscape are so richly described that you feel like you are right there with Fraser and Ray and Dief.

excerpt behind the cut... )

Night is the Colour of a Self
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08:16 pm Without my Sinful Touch by Bloodkisses (very NC17)
Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Length: little over 1/700 words
Author on LJ: unknown now(used to be [livejournal.com profile] wickedtruth)
Author Website: Sam/Dean Slash Archive author profile
Why this must be read:

Author's Summary: Sam comes harder than anyone, male or female, that Dean's gone to bed with before.

Now for a bit of relief in the angst and drama department, how about some smut?! Just two guys who love each other getting down to showing each other just how much. I swear Bloodkisses has given us a true masterpiece of porn with vivid imagery and enough heat to melt the snow out some of our windows (like mine). She's managed to hit many of my kinks with this, voyeurism, hard sex.... just too many to count really. Go enjoy the smexiness!

Without my Sinful Touch
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11:21 pm watch your step (you'll need a miracle) by opheliahyde (nc17)
Fandom: The Vampire Diaries
Pairing: Tyler/Katherine, established-Jeremy/Tyler, implied-Jeremy/Katherine.
Length: about 11000 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] opheliahyde
Author Website: [livejournal.com profile] roomwithoutsoul is [livejournal.com profile] opheliahyde's writing journal and here is her tag list

Why this must be read: Well, for starters, it's such a refreshingly original piece. It throws together Tyler and Katherine, two characters who have never really interracted in the show and give such a brutal telling of how they would crash into each other. It pulls absolutely no punches (and please do note the warnings listed at the top of the fic). Katherine is a monster in this, cruel and terrifying and gleeful. And Tyler is... Tyler. He's territorial and determined and fucked up beyond repair. The whole thing is glorious and truly worth the read. (You may have to stretch your mind back a ways since it's set in the beginning of second season, but it just settles into the story so well.)

Excerpt

Tyler can’t help it, he goes over there and interrupts, leaving his post and probably ruining their plan, but he can’t really bring himself to care. He curls his fingers through Jeremy’s, pressing their palms together as he stakes his claim and challenges her to make a move.

Katherine just looks amused, biting her lip and twirling her hair, dark eyes dancing behind her mask. “Down boy,” she says, patting his cheek and ghosting a hand down his arm. “Now’s not the time to get territorial.”



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