Subject: Snow Storm by CleverCorgi (Mature/Explicit)
Fandom: Rise of the Guardians
Pairing: Jack/Bunny
Length: 46384
Author Website: AO3

Why this must be read:

Author Summary:

Jack's been a Guardian now for a little over seven months. Things have been pretty awesome so far, in his not-so-humble opinion, but his life is about to take a drastic change and he may not like where it's headed.

This story fleshes out Jack's character and duties (some self-appointed) as a winter sprite, as well as how he spent his 300-odd years alone - learning languages among other things, this Jack's a polyglot. CleverCorgi shows Jack's BAMF side, which he uses in defense of humans against the many more malicious winter spirits out there, all while building a rich world in which the many winter spirits (OCs) have a hierarchy that Jack must slowly and painfully learn his way around. Bunny comes to the rescue of course, with nice fight scenes as well as healing up injured Jack. "The Blizzard of '68" is of course mentioned (as it is in most Jackrabbit fics), and this version fits in nicely with Jack's expanded backstory here. The growth of the relationship between them is a sweet and fluffy thing.

The author, CleverCorgi, rates this work as Mature, but IMO if you know which appendage goes in which orifice it should be Explicit. The sex scenes are hot, though the relationship and world building are the main reasons I recommend this piece. Snow Storm is followed by additional works in the same series.

Snow Storm by CleverCorgi (Mature/Explicit)

Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Ray Doyle
Length: 4626
Author on LJ: http://msmoat.dreamwidth.org/
Author On A03: http://archiveofourown.org/users/msmoat/pseuds/PFL
Why this must be read: I think this is my favorite piece by this author. I love the history that's in between the lines, I love the present the we ferret out and the future that's implied.

( A sample snippet . . . really. )


Burning Bridges

Fandom: BANDOM - ensemble with a focus on MCR
Pairing: Frank/Gerard mostly, but background past!Pete/Mikey, Mikey/Alicia, Branden/Jepha and John/Jesse
Length: No idea, but I'd estimate...15-20k
Author on LJ: iphignia939
Author Website: unknown
Summary: Me: No, seriously, Frank is really fucking pretty. God, *please* tell me someone's done an AU where Gerard and Frank are in a Catholic boarding school and they secretly meet up in the back of the library and make out, hands clutching each other's waists while they kiss softly and talk dirty to each other under the watchful eye of God.
xoverau: It's one thirty in the morning Christmas, and I have to be to work by eight AM, and I wasn't going to even sign in to LJ, but in fact I was hurled there by the desire to go OMGUHWIBBLEDROOLPRETTY over [that] and offer to write you just about anything your heart could desire in exchange for THAT FIC.

Why this must be read: As you can gather from the summary, the concept of this fic is pretty simple. It's a series of shorter stories that create an AU where bandom goes to high school together, alternating stories about Frank and Gerard with stories about various other people. It's a novel concept, but the reason why this story is so brilliant (despite the fact that it doesn't really have much in the way of plot, and it's not technically finished) is the world-building.

Ever read an AU where everything was so amazing and awesome, you really just want to live in it and never leave? Yeah, that's how this one is. Somehow, in the space of 10 individual stories, Iphignia manages to create a world that has pretty much all of bandom in it, has background stories and characterisation for 75% of the guys (and girls) and is enganging and amusing and awesome to boot.

If it was at this school, I might consider going back to high school. Maybe. That's how amazing this story is. (Fair warning: this story has been labelled WIP by the author and hasn't been updated since 2006, so it's unlikely to be finished. But so worth it.)



( How many of these do we have left, anyway? )


There's no single tag or single post on her journal where she links the parts, so I'll round them up for you here:
01. the wonders and undiscovered joys of the Dewey Decimal system
02. try again
03. after-school special
04. word of mouth
05. breathing exercises
06. scenes from an unconvential romance
07. waffle house
08. four days
09. blank canvas
10. ladies' night