September 5th, 2012 
03:55 am Solo's Heart by glennagirl (Rated K)
Fandom: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Pairing: None
Length: approx 800 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] glennagirl
Author Website: http://glennagirl.livejournal.com/
Why this must be read:

Why is it that women are so drawn to liaisons with Napoleon? It's something that keeps Illya wondering. Until a bit of internal insight makes it all make sense.

Solo's Heart [here on LJ]
...or...
Solo's Heart [on fanfiction dot net]
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01:12 pm don't bogart the Bat logo, dude by irrelevant (NC-17)
Fandom: DC Comics (Teen Titans - comics universe version)
Pairing: Tim Drake/Kon-El (AKA - Red Robin/Superboy)
Length: 4,800 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] sans_pertinence
Author Website: on Dreamwidth
Why this must be read:
Actually, you really need to just mosey on over to Dreamwidth and read EVERYTHING that irrelevant has written, because it is all fantastic. Now, that said, read this story in particular because Kon being hit over the head by a sudden, lusty clue-by-four because Tim was wearing his boxers is just too perfect. The dialogue and characterization is EXCELLENT. This story had me giggling and d'awwwing and smiling for awhile after the fact.

Sample of the awesome. )

don't bogart the Bat logo, dude by irrelevant
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01:13 pm Runaway Royalty by leavesfallingup (PG)
Fandom: SKIP BEAT!
Pairing: Kanae/Hio
Length: 33 chapters, 79,362 words
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: FF.net profile page
Why this must be read: Set in Australia, Kanae and Hio are co-stars in a period film on location in Australia. This fic runs parallel with the fic I recced previously, Always With You, and is noteworthy for being a Kanae/Hio fic! The author does an admirable job of working with the age gap between the two characters. This author is also talented at making solid OCs with unique personalities. Like its companion fic, this one has the usual amount of errors, but again the story overshadows them. The author does let the movie being filmed take over on several occasions, but those parts are easy to skim. I think the only canon-hinted pairing that's rarer than Kanae/Hio is Kyoko/Hikaru. (No, there isn't any of the latter here. Sorry!) [Companion fic to Always With You, but enjoyable on its own. Set after volume 24.]

Runaway Royalty
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02:36 pm The Proper Care and Feeding of Indefinable Things (R) by websandwhiskers
Fandom: THE AVENGERS
Pairing: Bruce Banner/Natasha Romanov
Length: 60,042
Author on LJ:[livejournal.com profile] websandwhiskers
Author Website: AO3

Why this must be read: This series is just absolutely beautiful. The slow burn with which Bruce and Natasha get together is sweet. They navigate their way through both their issues with intelligence and care. This series really makes me wish more people wrote this couple.

The Proper Care and Feeding of Indefinable Things
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03:41 pm Yadda Yadda by museofspeed (Explicit)
Fandom: DC Comics/Marvel Comics
Pairing: Nightwing/Deadpool
Length: 1,103 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] museofspeed
Author Website: on AO3, fic masterlist
Why this must be read:
Two masters of mid-fight banter meet! There's really only one way to shut either of them up, right? Fun little fic involving two of my favorite characters.

Yadda Yadda by museofspeed
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07:52 pm Barrow Wight by Pretty Arbitrary (PG)
Fandom: SHERLOCK
Pairing: John Watson & Sherlock Holmes
Length: 5177 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] arbitrary_fic
Author Website: A03
Why this must be read:

There is something slightly off - alien, unsettling - about Sherlock Holmes. People often remark that he doesn't seem quite human. Maybe they're right.

"Barrow Wight" evokes the moors of Baskerville in my mind (with maybe a touch of LOTR). A glowing hound wouldn't seem out of place. I love the frisson of strangeness it sends up my back.

Dig into the story... )
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08:05 pm In My Next Life, a Workhorse by estei (R).
Hi guys, I will be reccing bandom fics this month.

Fandom: BANDOM
Pairing: Spencer/Ryan(/Maja)
Length: 3k
Author on LJ: LJ AO3
Why this must be read: This is such a beautiful written piece - when I first read it, it felt like a sucker punch to the heart. In it, Ryan and Spencer are in a long term relationship but have long since started to drift apart. It is the entrance of Maja into Spencer's workplace that changes everything. She and Spencer share this feeling of unacknowledged loneliness, and their tentative friendship forces Spencer - how doesn't let himself want anything, let alone ask for it - to articulate what he wants.

In My Next Life, a Workhorse
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