August 4th, 2013 
08:10 am Dinner and Convserations (of This Old House) by Duckgomery (G)
Subject: Dinner and Conversations (of This Old House) by Duckgomery (G)
Fandom: Rise of the Guardians
Pairing: mostly none, a bit of Jack/Jamie
Author Website: AO3

Why this must be read:

Author Summary:

Sometimes it's nice to know that someone will be there, waiting for you at the end of the day.

A human AU in which the main RotG characters are roommates in one large house. Jack is a college student, Tooth a teacher, Bunny runs a flowershop, Sandy is a painter, North is a carpenter, and Pitch is a writer. The particular story linked is one of many in the This Old House series (15 parts), and while each story can stand alone, they do better together. Each story is a cute little drabble, usually under 1,000 words each, telling cute little roommate stories such as Movie Nights, the origins of carb-free Wednesdays, pranking Bunny by rearranging his garden, or the time when Pitch got a cat named Mary Elizabeth Katherine. After a while the drabbles blossom into a more serious picture of some issues that Jack's having and how Pitch is the only one Jack trusts enough to help him get through them. (There's also a "follow-up" series in-progress with more drabbles too, though I'm not entirely sure why Duckgomery separated them out b/c they're set within the same period of time.)

Dinner and Conversations (of This Old House) by Duckgomery (G)
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11:52 am Tour de Force by thehoyden (Explicit)
Fandom: HOCKEY RPF
Pairing: Patrick Kane/Jonathan Toews
Length: 24,000 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] thehoyden
Author Website: thehoyden's hockey fic at AO3
Why this must be read:

So I considered hiding this rec a little further down the list to sort of disguise the fact that in my 12 or so recs 2 were by the same author by not doing them together, but then I reread this when I recced my first fic by [livejournal.com profile] thehoyden a few days ago and couldn't wait to share my squee.

It is fair to say Patrick Kane has had a few ~issues of the ice. BTW, my favorite primer for Kane/Toews is here. Check it out, despite it being so old a few pics links are broken, it still makes me giggle and will no doubt hook you in as much as it did me.

Anyway, this fic suggests that to keep himself out of trouble, Patrick Kane should take up a nice, healthful hobby such as knittingwriting a novel. He's surprisingly good at it. He writes what he knows - hockey and Tazer - and writing it makes him have to consider what he knows in a slightly different light:

“I don’t—” Patrick starts, and then sits down on his bed. “Maybe we should — okay, hold up. Where are you getting this?”

Maryam is quiet for a minute. “Maybe you should tell me where
you’re getting this. How do West and Sazonov feel about each other? The best of friends don’t act like they do.”

“Yes, they do,” Patrick insists, because okay, he’s been
writing what he knows, and what he knows is him and Johnny.

“They really don’t, Patrick,” Maryam says gently.


Tour de Force
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09:21 pm C2H5OH + 1 by casspeach
Fandom: Avengers 2012
Pairing: background Clint/Coulson
Length: ~10k
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] casspeach
Author Website: AO3 dash
Why this must be read:

Partially because you really should read everything Cass has ever written, ever.

But more because this fic has a fantastic Steve POV on his developing friendship with Clint, and, at times, with the others on the team. Cass does a really good job of fleshing out what the movies have given us, and writing a very quiet fic about a team leader learning to understand one of the men under his command, someone who is becoming more than just another soldier.

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C2H5OH + 1
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