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| | So once upon a time I said I was going to give this comm a bit of a reboot, and then I got promoted at work and forgot the internet existed for awhile. Sorry about that. >.>;;; Anyway, I've really been missing having a place to share fic recs, and to get recs from other people, so I figured rather than try to do something elaborate and ceremonial to restart the posting I'd just jump in and throw a few fics your collective way. Then we can sort out who's still paying attention to this, who's still interested in posting, and all that jazz. So here we go!Fandom : X-Men First ClassTitle : fear death by waterAuthor : anonymousRating : hard R / NC-17Characters & Pairings : Charles Xavier / Erik LensherrLength : short-to-mediumWarnings : noneSummary : One of Hank's experiments goes wrong, and Charles and Erik suffer the consequences. (aka, X-Men meets sex pollen.)My Rave Review : So I'm pretty sure that Xavier/Magneto was actually my first slash ship, as a kid not knowing what slash or shipping was, just knowing that these two were definitely in love. So the whole XMFC thing has been great for me to kind of get to see that relationship come to life (and dear god do McAvoy and Fassbender do a fantastic job of it). But anyway-- a lot of what's to love in this ship is the angst, and this fic ratchets it up to eleven. It's not easy to do a tropey fic like this and still make it feel epic and also, you know, contain character development, but whoever this anon is has done just that. This is gorgeously written and just drenched in that rip-your-heart-out kind of angst. So delicious. XDFandom : Game of ThronesTitle : your eyes were december when you had june in your heartAuthor : marycontraireRating : PGCharacters & Pairings : Jon Snow, Robb Stark, slightly shippy if you squint.Length : mediumWarnings : noneSummary : Missing scene from 1x01; after Robb takes Arya to bed, he brings Jon a drink. My Rave Review : Okay I'll admit it, I ship it. I shipped it before the show ever came out. This isn't shippy though, not really, not unless you're looking for the undertones, so if you don't ship it you don't have to see it that way. And it's a really wonderfully written scene, too. Part of what I love about the relationship between Jon and Robb, whether it's shippy or not, is the tension. They're close, but there's always a strain, and neither of them likes it or knows what to do with it. And this fic kind of sums it all up really neatly. Also I got a big lol out of Theon being the horse's ass that he is.Fandom : The EagleTitle : The Blood Knows the PathAuthor : linaerysRating : matureCharacters & Pairings : Marcus/EscaLength : ~9kWarnings : noneSummary : Esca is a bad slave.My Rave Review : This starts out filling in the gaps in the first half of the movie, then moves through the end of the movie and beyond. It's about the destiny and honor and oaths binding Marcus and Esca together, and Esca's curiosity in assuming the gods have brought them together for a reason is quite compelling. I love especially the scene where the seal prince has his knife to Marcus's throat. "If the prince cuts Marcus’s throat then Esca will stay here. He has done what he can, shown his power over Marcus, but it is in the hands of the gods now." and then "The prince and Marcus’s life stood evenly balanced for a moment, but now the gods have favored Marcus, and it is the Seal Prince whose death is coming for him. Esca feels the change in the wind." Gorgeously written and definitely one I love to reread.Fandom : White CollarTitle : Third DateAuthor : lightgetsinRating : explicitCharacters & Pairings : Neal/El, Peter/El, Neal/Peter/El impliedLength : ~3700Warnings : noneSummary : Peter doesn't want to start a relationship with Neal until after the anklet comes off, but that doesn't mean El has to wait.My Rave Review : El came down at seven fifteen looking like a million bucks in a blue and gold dress with her hair up in a complicated twist thing. Peter was ninety percent sure the dress was new, but there was that lingering ten percent uncertainty, so he stuck with a safely neutral, "you look great." This fic is AMAZING. This is Peter's side of Neal and El's first time together, and it is simply brilliant. His state of mind while he's at home waiting, and everything that happens after she comes home... it's beautiful and perfectly written. This is one of the best fics I've read in this fandom, hands down....and with that i bid you all adieu, good night, etc. i'm off to dream of fassbender. 8DTags:!betweenthebliss, game of thrones / asoiaf, marvel, rated e, rated m, rated t, the eagle, white collar, x-men first class Fandom : merlin (bbc)Title : three tasks Author : syllicRating : teenCharacters & Pairings : arthur/merlin. season 1 uther, gaius, morgana, and gwen feature heavily, as well as various suitors.Length : 30,600Warnings : noneSummary : Arthur is the Royal Arbiter for Suitable Suitors' Disputes. He (and his trusty companion, the golden-dragon-tasselled hat) alone can determine who is fit to woo royal servants and other assorted courtiers in Uther's court.My Rave Review : naive manservants, doltish princes, dashing adventures! arthur is the hbic of dealing with the complicated love lives of camelot's court, making sure that an incident like the one involving the goat is never repeated again. okay, i was trying to start this off by saying the premise isn't as cracky as the summary would have you believe, that instead, the fic is darling, this fic is sweet, the fic is everything i want in a courtship fic because the whole premise is courtship and this fic made me realize that i wanted a courtship fic, a want i didn't know i had. this fic also has morgana and gwen being girly friends at the window, uther being a good father (even when he's not there!), and gaius's eyebrows of doom. and i love especially that there's a good amount of pining done. there's also so much heart in this fic, it's breathtaking. for example, arthur's speech as he finishes an arbitration, which stuck in my head for the last, what, two years? since i've read it: “We are all fools for love. And when we love truly, nothing seems too foolish to us, for we are convinced that all foolish things done in the name of love are anything but foolish.[...] And though we may see, with hindsight, that a foolish thing would not have been so terrible to do after all, when we are ready to love fully, we know at once that we will do what is necessary for the people we love, no matter how foolish, not because we can but because we must." fists in the air, hearts for eyes, seal-clapping, all that.Tags:merlin, rated t So it seems it's time for a bit of a revamp here, eh? :)I've spent the past couple months in real life limbo/hell and am just coming out of it with a few new fandom obsessions and a raring desire to rec things. I hope all of your summers were awesome and that you, too, have some new and exciting recs to share (because damn, after the past few months I could use a stockpile of new reading material, lol). Basically the purpose of this post is to do a bit of a reboot. I'd like to reshuffle this community and make sure everyone is getting the maximum ease and use out of it. So if you still like the idea of being able to contribute to the comm, please leave a comment here stating so, as well as any updated fandoms you'd like to be listed as a reccer of, and anything I can do to make reccing easier for you (an easier format for posting, better tags, etc, whatever you think of). I'll leave this open to comments for two weeks (until September 20th) and comments are screened so go ahead and tell me anything you like. :)♥ emilyTags:-not a rec post . . . and the first theme month here at theflophouse! Thanks to everyone who filled out the poll, and for everyone who didn't, we'll probably do another theme in a couple months, so there'll be voting on that then. :) Anyway, with no more ado:School's Out : A Month of Vacation Fics at the FlophouseIt's the start of summer, and I can't think of a more fitting way to ring it in than with a slew of fics about kicking back, letting go, and getting away from it all. So rec your favorite fics about road trips, shore leave, summer vacation, spring break, Easter hols, Christmas on the Continent, a weekend in the Hamptons-- if it involves vacation, getaways or otherwise leaving behind the grind of daily life, it's in.The template is still the same, but use the "theme: vacation" tag when you post, and at the end of the month we'll have a master list of everything that gets recced. Regular recs are still allowed throughout the month, of course; just don't put the theme tag on unless it applies. :)A note, also; igrockspock noted the verbosity of reviews here is a little intimidating, which I totally understand. I blather, I can't help it. XD But please don't hold off reccing something because you only want to write a sentence or two about why you liked it. Any review is a good review, no matter how long. The comm is here for us to air our loves, and I'm dying to see recs from more of you. :"D The format is just to make it consistent, not to make you guys feel boxed in. And in the same vein, if there's something I or the comm could be doing different to enable or encourage more of you to post more often, drop me a comment. love you guys and looking forward to your vacation recs. ♥!Tags:-not a rec post, theme: vacation so i've been thinking lately about this comm, and how it might be cool to get us all posting stuff by having a theme month every now and then. it wouldn't be restrictive (as in, you could still post recs of whatever you want, whenever you want) but a theme might be a cool way to dig up some recs we might not otherwise have thought of posting.so, with that in mind, i bring you a poll. :D what do you think about having a theme for the month of june? i think it's unnecessary. i'll probably still post whatever i want regardless. what sort of theme or category would you like to see? fandom based (book fandoms, small fandoms, summer fandoms) pairing based (rare pairs, favorite pairings, ot3s) challenge based (favorites from yuletide, big bangs, valentine's day challenges) theme based (fic about werewolves, road trips, science) other (which i will explain in comments) i have suggestions and i will tell you them in the comments. looking forward to your thoughts. <3Tags:-poll because it's hump day, and the internet is for porn. Fandom : FireflyTitle : HypothesisAuthor : recrudescence & nakeno @ AO3Rating : explicitCharacters & Pairings : Jayne/Simon, MalLength : ~8KWarnings : noneSummary : He'll pull Jayne aside later on, give him a very concerned piece of his mind for dragging not just a crew member but a fugitive into bed with him. The man's been known to think with body parts considerably lower than his brain plenty of times in the past, but this is something else.( My Rave Review :Collapse ) Fandom : Star Trek XITitle : Down in the Jungle RoomAuthor : rubynyeRating : explicitCharacters & Pairings : McCoy/always-a-girl!ChekovLength : mediumWarnings : sex pollen, which might count as dubcon?Summary : McCoy. Girl!Chekov. Sex pollen. Why haven't you clicked yet?( My Rave Review :Collapse )Tags:!betweenthebliss, firefly, genderswap, pwp, rated e, star trek xi Fandom : Harry PotterTitle : the ones who were taught petrov's defense Author : two_if_by_sea Rating : GCharacters & Pairings : EnsembleLength : ~1.5K wordsWarnings : NoneSummary : Things are just like they used to be.My Rave Review :I'm not one of those who associate themselves with Slytherin House in the Harry Potter fandom; I figure I'm a Ravenclaw through and through. However, there is one aspect where I really felt like the last couple of the books in the series were lacking: for all the emphasis that was laid on the necessity of interhouse unity at Hogwarts, Slytherin was almost entirely villified and left on the outside as the House of Bad People. I've never thought this was fair; I wouldn't have wanted to be sorted into Slytherin on account of my ambition and cunning and to have ended up branded a Voldemort-supporter for the rest of my life.So this fic was an awesome read for me. It explores life at Hogwarts for Slytherins beyond 1997, beyond the final book in the series, how the rebuilding of the house occurs, how they ended up forced into that proscribed role in the first place. It's thoughtful, almost as much meta as it is fic, and it's well-written enough to give me chills.Here is a snippet for you:In 1998, only a handful of Slytherin students come back: one second year, one third year, and a few fifth years determined to get their O.W.L.s, come hell, high water, or school-wide distaste and discrimination. Astoria and Graham, being the oldest students in the house, automatically become prefects. They're the only two from Slytherin. There aren't enough Slytherins for more.Throughout the year, Hermione chivvies all the Gryffindor prefects to make extra efforts towards school unity, but it's hard when there aren't even enough Slytherins to form a Quidditch Team and for the first time in modern Hogwarts History, the Quidditch Cup isn't converted into house points.None of this is very surprising. The Wizengamot trials of the Death Eaters were covered with an unhealthy relish by the Daily Prophet: full court transcripts included as inserts, photo essays of their lives in Azkaban, endless opinion pieces from noted members of the magical community weighing in on the severity of individual sentences. Simply put, there aren't that many Slytherin pureblood families left in England who could even send their children back to school. The Parkinsons had moved to Italy with the Zabinis before all the causalities of the Battle of Hogwarts were even buried. The Baddocks send Malcolm to Durmstrang.As for the rest, almost overnight, there's a revival of the home tutor market for pureblood families.Enjoy this read.Tags:!vega-ofthe-lyre, harry potter, rated g Fandom : Iron ManTitle : dust is gonna settle Author : gabby_silang Rating : MCharacters & Pairings : Maria/Howard StarkLength : ~4K wordsWarnings : As the author says, it's rated for "sexual content between people of rather different ages" - Maria is 16, Howard is much older.Summary : Her father still isn't home. Her mother is dead, but Maria has her scarlet red lipstick, and her dark, clever eyes. She's made herself a ham and cucumber sandwich; she lies on her bed and takes small bites upside-down, the fission book splayed open across her stomach. She considers the life of the spy Howard thinks she is.My Rave Review :One of the things that has most intrigued me about the Iron Man movieverse are the little snippets we get of Tony's parents' story. Just like in the comicverse, Howard is hugely important in terms of the scientific/engineering history of the Marvel universe - he's the founder of Stark Industries, participant in the Manhattan Project, prolific inventor - and in the sequel John Slattery acted the hell out of his little snippet of a scene and ensured that I'd love him to death.However, we know virtually nothing about Tony's mother, Maria. This story fills in that gaping hole in the history of the Stark family in an inventive, clever way. Here, Maria is the young daughter of one of Howard's co-scientists on the Manhattan Project; she meets Howard when they are both living at Los Alamos, and a romance between them blossoms. It's not a typical love story, but it's sharp-edged and dark and fascinatingly drawn, and fraught with the tensions of those days at Los Alamos. Take a look:"What's all this reading up on chemical engineering, then? Most young ladies don't innocently dabble like that." She opens her mouth but he plunges on, even louder. "Building anything yet? Your old man's so busy, you know, he asked me to keep an eye on you."And she realizes he's laying groundwork. And she wants to crawl into his lap and bite his lip, kiss his eyelids. She wants to give him something in return. She slides her leg against his like it's an accident."I'll tell you all my plans," she says, and he looks at her like he sincerely wants to know them.This is another one of those stories that has snuck its way into my personal canon. Maria is so fierce and smart, and Howard is so dead-on from what we know of him in canon. It's clear to see, from this story, how Tony is the culmination of their intellect. He is very much his father's son - and his mother's.Tags:!vega-ofthe-lyre, iron man, rated m Fandom : The Thief series by Megan Whalen TurnerTitle : The Landscape After Cruelty Author : elanneRating : GCharacters & Pairings : Eugenides/AttoliaLength : ~2k wordsWarnings : NoneSummary : A story, say the people, of the god Eugenides, how he came down from the mountains – not in a blaze of flames, but with an outstretched hand.My Rave Review :Oh, God, this fic. So, the fact of the matter is, I adore Eugenides and Attolia together; I first read the books back in middle school and while I was horrified by the opening events of The Queen of Attolia (which I won't spoil for you if you haven't read the books), Megan Whalen Turner is frankly a master at building unconventional romances and Gen and Attolia? They're one of the greatest love stories of all time. (No, seriously.)This fic is a tribute to that relationship. It doesn't shy away from their bloody and fraught history, or the flaws of the characters; it embraces all of that and in so doing weaves a story in which Eugenides and Attolia start to heal, begin to overcome their past and face the future together. It's also got lovely, lovely prose, and some simply gorgeously sweet little moments between the two of them. I love, love, love this story, and if this hasn't convinced you to read it, here's a quote:Because he did not try to coax, she allowed him to take her by the hand (her right hand, his left, the empty space between them always uncertain). Irene had not moved unnoticed inside her palace since she had been a girl of fourteen, ungainly and unwed. He knew the contours of her palace better than she did, so she allowed him to lead her through the winding passages, equally wary and trusting. It had always been this way with them – they knew the things they ought not know about each other, the secrets which should not be told: her tears on their wedding night, and how he sounds when he is dying. High above the palace, they sat on cold roof tiles and watched the moon turn the leaves of the olive trees into silver.Yeah. Read it.(Me reccing this fic may, parenthetically, be part of my dastardly campaign to get more people to read this series. READ 'EM, FOLKS. They're some of my favourite books of all time; you won't regret it.)Tags:!vega-ofthe-lyre, rated g, the thief series Fandom : Romeo + Juliet (specifically Baz Luhrman's version)Title : Mourning SunAuthor : elke_tanzer @ AO3Rating : matureCharacters & Pairings : Benvolio/MercutioLength : ~1100Warnings : noneSummary : This day, Benvolio plays alone.My Rave Review : this was another one i found while randomly clicking around AO3. i have a ridiculous weakness for shakespeare slash, romeo and juliet slash in particular, and i absolutely love this solitary, lonely reflection of benvolio's after the end of the play. the whole city is in mourning for the doomed lovers, but benvolio is grief-stricken for mercutio and reminiscing on his memories of him. what i love best about this fic is the imagery and flow-- the author writes with a rhythm that kept me in mind of shakespeare the entire time, and i loved the way she played with words. it's so vivid, in my head it plays like a missing scene from the movie; i can see the colors and the camera angles and it's just beautiful. Differences were not so different after all, and sameness had its own nectared sweetness. Scarce-concealed glances, glittering glances, 'neath the glaring neon and jangling bell-toll of Apples' Orchard arcade... rough and tumbled and sequined and sparkled and naked and wrestling in the sand of the Sycamore Grove... it was all the sun, and it warmed him when he hadn't before felt any chill of cold. grief is always a hard emotion to write, in my experience anyway, if only because it's easy to tip the scale toward melodramatic wallowing if you do it wrong. and given that the source play is so full of people losing their shit over the deaths of their loved ones, it would be even easier to go the ostentatiously tragic route with the fic. but it's fitting to benvolio's character, as the one who is caught up in the battles in the play and yet never takes an active part in causing them, that his grief is understated and introspective. this fic hits just the right note of hurt, longing and sorrow, so i was feeling for benvolio and also feeling with him. it's a great little character piece that puts me severely in mind of the movie (and in the mood to go watch it when i get home tonight).Tags:!betweenthebliss, rated m, romeo and juliet, shakespeare sorry for the spam you guys, i'm emoting like two months' worth of recs over here. ;)Fandom : Stephen King's The StandTitle : Running with the DevilAuthor : fantasticpants @ AO3Rating : explicitCharacters & Pairings : Randall Flagg/Lloyd Henreid and assorted minor book charactersLength : ~4800Warnings : some description of dead bodiesSummary : It's not easy, being the devil's right-hand guy.My Rave Review : this was my friend peregrina's yuletide gift, the lucky bitch, and i actually can't believe it's taken me this long to rec the shit out of it here. if you've read the stand, you remember lloyd henreid, the hapless stoner who went to jail for shooting up a gas station and was rescued from starvation after the superflu by good old mr. flagg. by the book's standards lloyd is a relatively minor character, but an interesting one, and ms. fantasticpants has done a ridiculously awesome job not only fleshing out his character but telling his whole story from start to finish, referencing all the pieces we saw in the book and filling in all the pieces we didn't. it's an amazing study of lloyd as a character, and a fairly creepy insight into how flagg works his dark magic on people. Lloyd's never been a big guy, but now he's a skinny wreck, and the fresh clothes don't sit right on him. He feels small and insignificant standing there next to his savior, the one everybody's eyes are on, but then Flagg places a warm hand on his back, and all of the sudden, Lloyd feels taller. He remembers the stone in his pocket, and the promise Flagg gave him: Going to put you right up there with Saint Peter; slip the keys to the kingdom right into your hand. What a deal, right? It is a hell of a deal. Some of the gazes are directed at him now, respectful and expectant. When he gave Flagg his word, Lloyd only had the fuzziest of ideas of what it actually meant. Maybe even less than that. He thinks he sort of understands, now. the coolest part about this is all the different threads of lloyd's character that get teased out, and yet he never strays into gary stu territory, or even comes off as slightly deviated from the character stephen king wrote. i also have to say i love how she's written flagg here. he's famous to stephen king fans, and it would be really easy to make him too much of one thing and not enough of another. but flagg is both lloyd's hero and his villain; he saved lloyd's life and damned him in the process, and while he wants flagg he also hates him, knowing there's no hope for him to end any way than he ultimately does. and did i mention how amazing the writing is? the words are put together so carefully, yet it reads without a hiccup, and every sentence strings into the next so there's a constant build from start to finish. it feels like reading an appendix to the book, which is pretty much the highest compliment i know how to give someone who writes fic for book fandoms, and i can't think of a fic that deserves it more. No, Flagg is no Wizard of Oz, thinks Lloyd, because all that guy ever did was pretend to give you something you already had. The scam Flagg runs is much nastier than that. He gives you what you want, but afterwards, you realize that maybe you didn't want it as badly as you thought, and that what you gave in exchange -- even if it seemed like nothing at the time -- was worth a whole lot more. Be careful what you wish for, right? i think what stuck with me after reading (and rereading and rereading) this fic is the satisfaction and completeness it left me with. i knew how the book ends, i didn't ever have hope that anything was going to go differently for lloyd, but i couldn't help wishing it had, even as i was loving reading about how his experiences with the dark man made him aware of himself and his world in a way he never had been before. by the end of the fic i was pretty awed by how much i sympathized with lloyd. there's always something else to discover in this fic, always a different word or sentence that jumps out at me differently than it did the last time i read it. if you like stephen king and if you like character studies, don't let this fic pass you by. (and be sure to leave her lots of awesome feedback if you enjoy it as much as i did. ;))Tags:!betweenthebliss, rated e, stephen king, the stand Fandom : Remember the TitansTitle : Sunny DaysAuthor : eatsscissors @ AO3Rating : matureCharacters & Pairings : Gerry/JuliusLength : ~6700Warnings : none; spoilers for the movie, obviously.Summary : A collection of missing scenes, telling how Julius and Gerry went from enemies to friends to Julius standing beside Gerry's mother and wearing no ring.My Rave Review : there's just something about this movie, am i right? you'd think a story about an integrated football team working its way toward simultaneous racial cooperation and a state championship in the 70s sounds too predictable for words, and yet, if you've seen it, you know that's not the case. right from the beginning it reaches in and grabs onto your heart, and then spends the next two hours yanking for all it's worth. i think the best thing about the movie, the thing that makes me love it, is that it's irrepressibly hopeful without being clunky or trite about it-- and the same is true of this fic. i just stumbled across this while surfing AO3 at work last week, and god, am i glad i did. i've always shipped gerry and julius, but never to a degree where i wanted to see the ship take precedence over the awesomeness of their friendship, and this fic gives me just the right balance. the romance enters in pretty quickly, but the author never gives the impression that it's separate from them becoming closer, stronger as teammates and friends, and using that closeness to drive what happens in the movie. it's not easy-- the same conflicts crop up, with an edge to them borne of knowing there's not one but two dangerous sides to what's between them. "Look, like I said, I knew you weren't ever going to show your face around someplace like the 'burg, just like you know damned good and well that I'm never going to meet your mama for dinner, and it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that we're--" Julius makes a gesture between the two of them that seems helpless, confused, and entirely mirrors what Gerry is thinking. They're fucking, and it ought to be pretty clear by now that they're not just fucking, but they're fools if they think that they're dating, either. Gerry tries to imagine which one Mama would be able to get over faster, the fact that he's seeing another boy or that he's seeing a black boy, and decides that he had probably resign himself to being an orphan before he ever mans up enough to actually tell her. i love the narrative from gerry's point of view (and her voice for him is spot-on, just the right touch of country hick without overdoing it), i love how it shifts as his relationship with julius opens his eyes to the world being bigger than himself, and after the car accident it shifts again. gerry's character has always really fascinated me, and i love this fic for giving me more of it. it's not full of revelations or surprises about him, or about julius either, but really rounds out his transformation from small-town kid to becoming a man, and puts it in the context of his life. it also fills in the gaps in the movie with a really sweet, funny and touching love story, which i can't resist either.Tags:!betweenthebliss, rated m, remember the titans Fandom : Inglourious BasterdsTitle : The Fate You've Carved On MeAuthor : lonelywalkerRating : NC-17Characters & Pairings : Hans Landa/OMCLength : ~8300Warnings : descriptions of violence similar to what happened in the movieSummary : Villains never get happy endings, but Nantucket's only gay Nazi is damn well going to try.My Rave Review : when i rented inglourious basterds i expected to be wowed, but i didn't expect to love it. besides making me cry like a baby, i adored it, and while i haven't read much fic in the fandom, i'm always on the lookout for fic that continues exploring the characters that tarantino created which are, for me at least, the reason the movie tore my insides to confetti. i'm often prone to liking well-constructed and three-dimensional villains, but hans landa was more than even my black little heart could handle. i wanted to know all about how he became so deliciously evil, and what he did with all of it after the movie ended. this fic answers that question while also showing that there was so much more to landa than we got to see in the movie.He feels a little like a victim, standing naked with the water beginning to chill. Looking in the eyes of someone who sees him, who sees him, this scarred old man, hardly the pinnacle of physical perfection even without the wounds or the weight of the years… He misses the uniform in that instant, the stiff leather of his boots, the coat that had felt as though it could stop bullets. They'd all looked at him and seen the Reich, seen blond hair and blue eyes though his had tended to grey and green. In the days when he'd not only been uninterested in love, but actively hiding from any hint of affection, it had served him well. And now he's lost without it.lonelywalker's writing style is perfect for the story she's telling here-- a military man who's masquerading as an academic, a former SS officer pretending he ran to america from persecution by the nazis, she gives landa's personal background and paints the picture of germany during hitler's rise to power with a clear informative voice that, while it's not in first person, sounds to me like the way landa might tell the story to a listener if he had one. austere but beautiful, the story takes the reader through snippets of landa's life before, during and after the movie, and manages to humanize him without forgiving him for anything he's done....and, oh, the European war and what had followed had been quite a distraction. Blood and death and the loss of a generation of idealistic young men. And for what? For a humiliating defeat and the economic destruction that had followed. It had been easy to lose himself in grief and fury from a hospital bed, returning to his home town in a torn and bloody uniform to count off the names of his friends and lovers in hurried dispatches from the front: the dead and dying, those lost in action who would never be found, buried still beneath French farmland. And to think that he had once been eager to fight... Had he ever been as young, as innocent, as wide-eyed and naïve as Caleb Cooper? On reflection, he'd been even younger.the chance for redemption and a fresh start for someone with a dark past is a theme that's easy to do wrong in both literature and fic, easy to make trite or predictable. this fic is neither predictable nor easy. landa and his companion (who, by the way, is a great OC i can actually picture having been in the movie) share something that changes both of them, i suspect irrevocably, and yet it's not simple and certainly not tied up at the end. there's a sense of inevitability-- one commenter described it as "it can't end like this warring with it has to end like this", and that's exactly how it does feel. landa doesn't deserve redemption-- but doesn't he? doesn't everyone who learns to regret their mistakes? but has he really learned to regret them? and what will happen to caleb now? you're left with a lot of questions at the end, but it's still a completely satisfying read, and i actually sighed out loud at the last line. i will reread this again and again, and i dare you to read it and not feel the same.Tags:!betweenthebliss, inglourious basterds, rated e Fandom : star trekTitle : twice shyAuthor : sarkasticficsRating : explicitCharacters & Pairings : kirk/mccoy, spock/uhura, sulu/chekovLength : 20,000 words, split into four partsWarnings : violence. i'm also iffy that kirk sleeps around with his subordinates but not bugged too much.Summary : Bones is a werewolf.The moment he meant James Kirk, got a good whiff of his scent, he knew he was fucked.He had thought those stories about werewolves scenting their mate were all bullshit.But the stories about mating for life have got to be fake, right? Right?( My Rave ReviewCollapse )Tags:!vellum, rated e, star trek xi Fandom : RPFTitle : Kinda BusyAuthor : yeatsRating : MCharacters & Pairings : Lady Gaga/Beyonce (Gaga/Honey B)Length : ~600 wordsWarnings : noneSummary : I left my head and my heart on the dance floor.( My Rave Review . . .Collapse ) Fandom : Harry PotterTitle : ShatteredAuthor : femmequixoticRating : ECharacters & Pairings : Harry/Draco, Luna, HermioneLength : ~7500 wordsWarnings : some blood and paint playSummary : One damned accident involving one too-lucky curse, and suddenly you'd think he was five again, with their Harry, be careful_s and their quick Levitating charms ready the instant the potion gives way and his rebelling hands lose hold of whatever's in their grasp.( My Rave Review . . .Collapse ) Fandom : Sherlock HolmesTitle : These Things Were PromisesAuthor : paperclipbitchRating : ECharacters & Pairings : Holmes/WatsonLength : 10,000Warnings : drug use (more intense and explicitly described than in canon)Summary : Watson has had to take a brutal course in being honest with himself so nothing Holmes says will ever be a surprise.( My Rave Review . . .Collapse )and just a quick reminder to new watchers, don't try to join the comm, that's just for the reccers. all the posts are public so just watch it and you won't miss anything. <3!Tags:!betweenthebliss, harry potter, rated e, rated m, rpf, sherlock holmes Fandom : greek and roman mythologyTitle : this is not a chick flickAuthor : bookesque (not sure if s/he has an lj)Rating : teen for non-explicit sexual tonesCharacters & Pairings : hades/persephoneLength : medium-to-long-ish? yuletide-length?Warnings : kidnapped feminists. horny gods. endearing idiots.Summary : This is not a romantic story. But it is a story of love, nonetheless.( My Rave ReviewCollapse )Tags:!vellum, mythology, rated t, yuletide Fandom : Star Trek XITitle : War GamesAuthor : seperisRating : explicitCharacters & Pairings : Kirk/SpockLength : 110,000 wordsWarnings : sex and violenceSummary : The Federation and the Romulan Empire have been on the verge of war for what sometimes feels like forever; this is the place where what passes for peace might end.My Rave Review :I feel a bit like I'm stepping on toes, recing Star Trek fic in this community, where there are so many awesome Star Trek recers! But I can't hold it in! It took me all week to read this story, and I am so, so glad that I took the time to read it slowly. War Games is the sequel to the Kirk/Spock Reboot-verse pon farr story of my heart: You'll Get There in the End (It Just Takes a While). That story is wonderful; in addition to being a great pon farr story, it fills in the gaps in the movie between Nero, and Kirk ending up as actual, non-field-promotion, Captain of the Enterprise. It's a great story, and I highly recommend it; this one is better. Read them both!The thing about this story is that in addition to the epic, complicated, incredibly interesting action-adventure plot, and the phenomenal characterization, and the brilliantly-written original characters, and the Federation politics, and the Vulcans, and the Romulans, and the Orion Syndicate, and the telepathy -- all of which are wonderful -- it's really the story of how very different this universe is from the TOS universe we know and love. In being the story of that difference, it made me love these versions of Kirk and Spock and Uhura and the Enterprise that much more. This universe is wonderful, too, but it's harder, and it's damaged, and that's important; these characters are up to the challenge of making it better. Jim really doesn't want to go there. "Rayiyah, what the hell did you think I could do?""Stop this war, of course." Rayiyah looks at him in genuine surprise. "That is why I came to you. Was I incorrect?"Jim licks his lips, feeling the warmth of T'Prina against his shoulder, the cool of the table beneath his hands, and thinks of the thousand times he'd stood on the bridge of the Enterprise, feeling the hum of potential in the tips of his fingers in every Romulan engagement, every time he'd felt himself hover on the edge of giving an order that would change the shape of their galaxy, and every time that he let the moment pass.What Nero had done to them can never be forgiven or forgotten; the Federation was wounded in a way that can never fully heal, a scar that cuts through what they are and all they will ever be. Jim knows, perhaps better than even the Ambassador, the true scope of what was taken from them; they learned too early to be afraid, and if Jim's an explorer now, he was a soldier first and he always will be. Every cadet who watched Vulcan die knows that to their bones.He doesn't see, may never see, what Pike sees when he looks at the Federation; that doesn't mean he will ever stop trying. "No," he answers, voice rough. "You weren't."Honestly? I'm not even sure I can do this story justice in a rec. It is really, really good.Tags:!olivia-circe, rated e, star trek xi All of these are ficlets from where_no_woman's latest drabble fest, whose responses I have here in this post. Please forgive the lack of this community's traditional headers; since these fics are on the short side, the header would actually be longer than they are! All fics are rated PG, save for one, and relevant warnings are included in its description.It Could Have Happened. It Had to Happen. by captaincadet for the tactical offier on the Kelvin. I think this amazing line sums it up: "The most important thing she learned [from Starfleet] was how to die."It Could Have Happened... by marymac featuring Uhura. A brief and beautiful look at Nyota Uhura in two universes, how they stayed the same and how different timelines created different lives.The Dance by taraljc featuring Gaila and not!Gaila. This is the story of the four Orion women in Starfleet, how their lives were defined by stereotypes and the Syndicate, and how they worked their way around that.Our bodies are not so much immortal as expendable by tinocka featuring Gaila. A small but powerful snapshot of Gaila's life before Starfleet and how she survived by learning to live outside her body. Warning for references to sexual slavery.This fest has no time limit, so if you spot a prompt that intrigues you, feel free to write a response!Tags:!igrockspock, rated t, star trek xi Fandom : SupernaturalTitle : Bat CountryAuthor : ishafelRating : MCharacters & Pairings : Ellen Harvelle; Ellen/Bill Harvelle/John WinchesterLength : shortWarnings : noneSummary : Billy was always the one in the middle.( My Rave Review . . .Collapse ) Fandom : White CollarTitle : Slash Cliche series : Devil in a Blue Dress, Confidence Man, Just Like In the Movies, Pay Grade and Blind/Dates.Author : captanddeastarRating : t through eCharacters & Pairings : Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke; all five are Neal/PeterLength : all are about medium lengthWarnings : noneSummary : five fics based on classic slash cliches : cross-dressing, sex pollen, stuck together, undercover gay and matchmaking.( My Rave Review . . .Collapse ) Fandom : White CollarTitle : Jack of DiamondsAuthor : captanddeastarRating : MCharacters & Pairings : Neal Caffrey, Peter and Elizabeth Burke; Neal/PeterLength : 8500 wordsWarnings : off-screen non-con as a major focus of story, may be triggerySummary : Neal goes back to prison for two weeks following a shooting at the scene of a crime. When he comes home, Peter and Elizabeth help put him back together.( My Rave Review . . .Collapse ) Fandom : Supernatural / American Gods crossoverTitle : Dust in the WindAuthor : lyra_wingRating : TCharacters & Pairings : Sam & Dean Winchester, Shadow, Anansi/Mr. NancyLength : mediumWarnings : noneSummary : Everything around them was changing, but they weren't. ( My Rave Review . . .Collapse )Tags:!betweenthebliss, american gods, cliche, crossover, gaiman, rated m, rated t, supernatural, white collar Fandom : harry potterTitle : The Death of Narcissa Black Author : massicotRating : mature Characters & Pairings : the blacks, narcissa/luciusLength : 168 pagesWarnings : language, nudity, self-sterilizationSummary : Narcissa never intended to marry, but circumstances change and needs must. My Rave Review : this is a comic that you click through, and it doesn't seem like 168 pages (unless you have a trackpad that doesn't respond), and it's gorgeously done in watercolor with a wonderful sense of negative space. and it's got a fabulous, fabulous story. i was asked a long time ago why people liked harry potter so much (and me and my friend couldn't give a definitive answer) but what i had been trying to convey, what i liked best, was the sense of history that follows harry and how it all led down to a point, not just james and lily and dumbledore, but the black family as well, and this gives a whole new facet of narcissa that i had never considered before. for me, the part that really connected was the idea that women give, constantly, silently, wholly, to the point of destroying themselves in the process, that they're the caretakers of their families, and narcissa was so close to reaching her career goal but then she realized there was no point in a career, not with everything that had happened to her family. and as you go through the chapters, which follow canon, you realize, no, narcissa couldn't have done anything else, everything that had happened was going to lead to only one outcome, and that was her marriage to lucius. she didn't want to, but she knew she had to, and that was that. ! not sure if this should have gone other illustrated, fanart, comic, or what.Tags:!vellum, comic/graphic, harry potter, rated m I have about a million Doctor Who recs that I want desperately for everyone to read, but I'll limit myself to two for now - one Classic, one New.Fandom : Doctor WhoTitle : Threads Author : Vali/violetisblue Rating : TCharacters & Pairings : The Fourth Doctor/Romana ILength : ~13/14KWarnings : NoneSummary : Romana finds that her tastes have begun to change.My Rave Review : ( ...Collapse ) Fandom : Doctor WhoTitle : But Broken Lights Author : rosa_acicularis Rating : TCharacters & Pairings : The Tenth Doctor and RoseLength : Longish - 11 chaptersWarnings : The characters are put through the wringer emotionally and physically, but there's nothing too extreme.Summary : She brushed her hands across the console, then leaned into it and sighed. Home, finally, she thought, then snapped her hands back as if the TARDIS had burned her._ “For now,” she reminded herself firmly, out loud. “Home, for now.” Rose and the Doctor after The Age of Steel. My Rave Review : ( ...Collapse )Tags:!vega-ofthe-lyre, doctor who, rated t Fandom : A Knight's TaleTitle : By The Hideyn Scrybe YwritAuthor : apiphile / derek des angesRating : TCharacters & Pairings : Chaucer, Roland, Wat, Kate; a bit of Wat/ChaucerLength : 10625 wordsWarnings : guns, bad language and drunken snoggingSummary : Geoffrey Chaucer, undercover journalist in 2009 London gangland.My Rave Review :okay, this fic? is amazing. as laulan will attest, i am weak for a good AU, and this one presses all the correct buttons in my brain that make me jump for joy. the characters are instantly recognizeable, each one, and the way the author has translated them into this gang is just perfect. of course kate would be the bookkeeper and weapons mistress. of course william is an ex-pro-footballer turned club owner. of course the black prince is a mob boss. the fic is peppered with utterly hilarious references to the canon that had me constantly grinning (including a paraphrase of kate's "sometimes both" line that made me chortle out loud). but the best thing about it is the best thing about the movie in my opinion; the feeling of camaraderie and fly-by-the-seat-of-your-trousers companionship between these four, the way they're like the marauders crossed with ocean's eleven. "Wat, sit the fuck down," Kate complains. She's cleaning a gun. Yes, that is why my shoulders are hunched up somewhere around my ears. I do not like the presence of firearms in my flat, because, even more so than the forgeries – which I can at least burn in short order – they will bring the weighty arm of the law around my neck like the hangman's noose. No amount of "I'm researching a book" would save my bacon, and … well. I doubt things would go well for Roland, Kate, and Wat, either.After a minute or two of glaring and spluttering and threats to do terrible things to Roland and Kate and I (I have looked up the verb "fong", which he uses with bewildering frequency in his threats, and the only reference I can find is that it's from Old English and means "to kick"; quite where Wat came across any Old English and quite why he decided to adopt this particular verb is beyond me), Wat settles as best he can with the tabloid and starts swearing at the contents of this instead.Peace and quiet in these circumstances is probably less helpful than Wat's usual brand of disruption, because without him growling and glaring and carrying on like a bear with a sore head, my mind is free to wander.God preserve those prone to introspection.it doesn't hurt that her writing is phenomenal, either. i can hear the entire fic read in paul bettany's (guh-guh-glorious) voice, and every scene was vividly visible in my mind. wat and chaucer drunkenly making out is nine kinds of win, hilarious and sexy and then hilarious again, and the heist/caper they're working on throughout the fic is interesting without derailing the character focus of the story. this is an awesome read, if you've ever pondered the existence of AKT fic, read this. XDTags:!betweenthebliss, a knight's tale, au, rated t, yuletide Fandom : White CollarTitle : Boundary ConditionsAuthor : fahye, art by lizardspotsRating : M / E (depending on your porn thermostat, as the author says ;))Characters & Pairings : Neal/Peter/ElizabethLength : 6342 wordsWarnings : light D/s and bondage kinkSummary : Peter knows how to set his hands against Neal's boundaries and see how far they'll move. **My Rave Review :**i know i'm not alone in noticing the D/s overtones in neal and peter's relationship-- at least, if you've ever seen even half an episode of white collar, i better not be alone-- and while i'm not always in the mood for that to be the focus of a story, i am unfailingly interested in stories that deal with how peter being a control freak about neal affects his relationship with both neal and elle. this fic is brilliant because it's many things: first off, and the part that hooked me in-- it's quite a telling look at peter, how he deals with the world and with people, where neal fits into that picture, and what peter's had to do to make neal fit into it.If he bothered to analyse it, Peter would say that it's less about controlling action and more about security of knowledge. A crime has motive and method, but a crime has already been committed by the time it falls across his desk and demands his attention, and Peter Burke considers himself an expert in what happens next.it's also a great peek into peter and elle's marriage. it's rare that i find an OT3 that i ship just as hard as one of the pairings therein (or put differently, a ship where the addition of a third person doesn't change the intensity of the ship dynamic) but seriously, elle is amazing and she and peter make an awesomely adorably sexy couple. i love how well they know each other, i love how sassy and adventurous she is, and i love how open she is to actually bringing neal into their life-- i wouldn't be able to buy that from a lot of characters, which is why long-term poly relationships are hard to get right, but it's done perfectly here, and elle is a big part of the reason why."Oh, sweetie." Her smile goes wicked. "Seven years of Neal Caffrey's ghost hanging around our house, six months of the two of you living in each other's pockets, and you only now think to bring up the subject of jealousy?"and of course, the neal/peter is perfect. perfect, i say! the story is told from peter's point of view, and you really feel the depth of his feelings for neal, frustration and admiration and affection and desire. the contrast between their familiarity and the unspoken tension between them is gorgeous; the author does a great job of showing why peter has no qualms about poking and prodding neal into a shape that allows him to fit into peter's life. the author transitions seamlessly between the power play that goes on between them on the surface and the way peter takes that dynamic to an intimate level-- it's stunning.Neal sits, as casually and flirtatiously as he ever does anything; crosses his legs and makes himself comfortable and keeps looking, looking, always looking at Peter with that breathless question written plain across his face. So many things are possible in the potential space of what-happens-next, a multitude of orders blossoming frantically into a tree of choices. Peter considers them: Come here. Hold out your wrists. Kneel down. Tell me the truth, the whole truth.and then peter brings neal home as a birthday present for elle. XDDDDDDD there is also bonus fanart by the inestimable lizardspots, and you should click the above link for that alone. BUT if you are even a little bit into this fandom, you should read this story, because it is brilliant.[a modly note to reccers : if there are ever any extraneous tags (genre, kink type, etc) that you want added to a post, just use the "!need a tag" tag and put a note at the bottom for what you want added. and if you haven't gone and done the introduction post, please do, when you get a chance. <3!]Tags:!betweenthebliss, bondage, illustrated, kink, ot3, rated e, rated m, white collar Previous 25 EntriesTop of Page | | 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