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• sud­den­ly, all at once — by xylode­mon — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  Excerpt:
  Dean is sit­ting in his favorite chair, eat­ing his break­fast and frown­ing at Mon­day’s Oma­ha World-Her­ald, try­ing to decide if the unex­plained deaths in Plattsmouth are reg­u­lar unex­plained or unex­plained unex­plained, when Cas wan­ders into the library like a zom­bie, yawn­ing and rub­bing his eyes. He’s wear­ing an old Zep shirt and a pair of hideous­ly orange and blue paja­ma pants; he blinks at Dean for a few sec­onds, silent, then helps him­self to half of Dean’s cof­fee and a tri­an­gle of Dean’s toast, and it hits Dean all at once, like a light­ning bolt out of a clear sky.

  09 Dec: spn fan­f­ic slash nsfw dean_winchester.castiel rec.all_fanfic

• When You’re a Stranger — Chap­ter 1 — by glorious_spoon — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  Excerpt:
  [Demi­an has] read the books, and if even half of what Carv­er Edlund wrote about is real, he knows that it could have been a lot worse. But it’s Barnes, and if he does­n’t get back to nor­mal some­time soon they’re going to shut him up in a psych ward. And there’s only one per­son Damien can think of who’d have a clue what to do.

  [After the events of The Real Ghost­busters, Barnes gets wham­mied and can only speak ancient Greek. The main point of this sto­ry is The Reveal, and it’s a per­fect exam­ple of what I love about The Reveal as a fan­fic­tion device. ‑L]

  09 Dec: spn fan­f­ic slash sfw barnes.demian dean_winchester.castiel rec.all_fanfic

• Good­bye Pic­cadil­ly, Farewell Leices­ter Square — by Sper­an­za — fan­dom Cap­tain Amer­i­ca (Movies), Mar­vel Cin­e­mat­ic Uni­verse [Archive of Our Own]:

  [Semi-acci­den­tal time trav­el! Natasha and Steve encounter past!Bucky while try­ing to pre­vent a hor­rif­ic alter­nate future. ‑L]

  09 Dec: avengers captain_america winter_soldier fan­f­ic slash nsfw steve_rogers.bucky_barnes rec.all_fanfic

• Phys­i­cal Real­i­ty — by 7PhoenixAshes — fan­dom Sword Art Online [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:
  Sword Art Online is tech­ni­cal­ly an all-ages game. Which means engag­ing in cer­tain, *ahem,* aspects of a roman­tic rela­tion­ship can be a bit difficult…

  Author’s Tags: Video Game Mechan­ics, Awk­ward Sex­u­al Sit­u­a­tions, Fail­boats In Love

  [This is a smart lit­tle vignette that hits a cou­ple of my kinks (hair-pulling and world­build­ing). ‑L]

  09 Dec: sword_art_online fan­f­ic het nsfw asuna.kirito rec.all_fanfic

• There’s My Ter­ri­to­ry — by Dira Sud­is (dsud­is) — fan­dom Cap­tain Amer­i­ca (Movies), Mar­vel Cin­e­mat­ic Uni­verse [Archive of Our Own]:

  Excerpt:
  “That’s the beau­ty of this stuff,” the sales­man said, tilt­ing his head toward the dis­play Bucky had been look­ing at. “Nobody knows what you’re keep­ing under your clothes. That’s between you and yourself.”

  Author’s Tags:

  Lin­gerie, Cook­ies, Inter­nal­ized Kink Sham­ing, Dis­or­dered Eating

  09 Dec: captain_america winter_soldier fan­f­ic slash nsfw steve_rogers.bucky_barnes.sam_wilson rec.all_fanfic

• Like­wise, I’m Sure — by lee­stone — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  The penul­ti­mate scene between them in Bela’s hotel room, Bela against the wall with Dean’s gun trained between her eyes, did­n’t end where the show says it did. Maybe Dean’s the one hold­ing the gun, or maybe she tricked it away from him (because she’s awe­some like that), but either way, some­one gets fucked with it. And gets off on it, how­ev­er unwill­ing­ly. Just a shame­less PWP for the above prompt at Round 4 of Blind­fold SPN.

  09 Dec: spn fan­f­ic het nsfw dean_winchester.bela_talbot rec.all_fanfic

• Like a Parched Land — by Las — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Note:
  Writ­ten for the fol­low­ing prompt: “Reverse!verse: Castiel is the Right­eous Man and Dean is the angel who drags his ass out of Hell.” This is an AU ver­sion of episodes 5x01 through 5x03.

  Excerpt:
  A rou­tine devel­ops, as rou­tines must, even at the end of the world.

  Dean would appear out of nowhere with food he picked up from wher­ev­er he just came from — chur­ros from Madrid, fried bananas from Jakar­ta — and he’d shove them under Castiel’s nose and say, “Want some?” Castiel would decline more often than he’d accept, and then they’d get to work, Dean talk­ing with his mouth full all the while.

  One day, Castiel’s cell­phone beeps with a pic­ture mes­sage from Dean, most­ly of his nos­trils, with the mes­sage “holy duck it does pic­tures”. And then Castiel starts receiv­ing the occa­sion­al pic­ture mes­sage of snow-capped peaks and end­less deserts and a food cart in some bustling downtown.

  “noth­in yet,” Dean would text, “but these rice cakes r gr8.”

  Maybe it’s the nature of angels to be so moved by human­i­ty. Maybe it’s just Dean. It’s not that Dean nev­er showed an inter­est in human­i­ty before, but shak­en loose from the bonds of heav­en, he seems deter­mined to embrace the trap­pings of this world. A sort of reverse monas­ti­cism, per­haps. Dean is not of this world, but he is in this world and he throws him­self into it with more enthu­si­asm than Castiel has shown in his entire life.

  09 Dec: spn fan­f­ic slash dean_winchester.castiel nsfw alternate_universe rever­se­verse rec.all_fanfic

• A Room Of One’s Own — Chap­ter 1 — by North­ernSpar­row — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:

  All Dean wants is a lit­tle pri­va­cy. Cas does­n’t understand.

  Author’s Tags:

  Mas­tur­ba­tion, Porn Watch­ing, Anal Play,Shameless Smut, Humor, Bunker, Frot­tage, Bun­ny Ears, Toast, Dis­co, Free Awe­some Blow Jobs And No Emo­tions, Well Maybe Some Emo­tions, Anal Sex, Impala Sex, Blow Jobs, Wing Kink But A Lit­tle Dif­fer­ent, Advanced Cuddling

  09 Dec: spn fan­f­ic slash dean_winchester.castiel nsfw rec.all_fanfic

• Come Tomor­row I’ll Be Gone — by Mis­achan — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  [This broke my heart. Like “The End” itself, this is every­thing I nev­er want­ed. Unfluffi­est kidf­ic in the world. Well done, fan­f­ic author. ‑L]

  Claire shook off the sud­den, cold paral­y­sis, telling her­self she had to be wrong. “Hel­lo?” she said, find­ing a more sol­id patch of ground so she could approach clos­er. Croats did­n’t talk and demons did­n’t get stuck, and if there was some­thing worse down there in that pit, well, she’d just have to deal with it. She final­ly got to the edge of the hole and saw a man sit­ting in the mud about twen­ty feet down. He looked up toward the sound and Claire felt her heart clench tight. This was the clos­est she’d been to Castiel in years and the beard was new and the hair was dif­fer­ent, but the strange­ness of some­thing else look­ing out from her father’s blue eyes was exact­ly the same.

  09 Dec: spn fan­f­ic gen sfw end­verse rec.all_fanfic

• Twen­ty-Year Man — by ellen_fremedon — fan­dom Vorkosi­gan Saga — Lois McMas­ter Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: Lord Ivan Vor­pa­tril and Byer­ly Vor­ru­ty­er, mak­ing Vor­barr Sul­tana safe for (high­ly lim­it­ed exper­i­ments in) democracy.

  [Plot­ty and smart, excel­lent char­ac­ter­i­za­tion. ‑L]

  18 Jan: vorkosi­gan fan­f­ic slash nsfw ivan_vorpatril.byerly_vorrutyer author.ellen_fremedon rec.all_fanfic

• Inter­fer­ence — by tardisy — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  [spoil­ers through 9x04]

  He looked at you strange­ly those first few days, but, hey, you fig­ured he’d just been wor­ried, the per­pet­u­al rest­ing state of your big broth­er. Although, and you won’t tell him this, because it’s noth­ing, prob­a­bly noth­ing, but you’re a lit­tle grate­ful for his pred­i­ca­ble con­cern right now. You feel… you feel good, in a way you haven’t in a very long time. You feel light and full in a way that you can’t put your fin­ger on, and it’s prob­a­bly due to the fresh mem­o­ry of the pain you had to live with dur­ing the tri­als, but this feel­ing is so for­eign it’s mak­ing you a bit unsteady, your head a lit­tle fog­gy. But then he stopped watch­ing you so bla­tant­ly as you both had got­ten dis­tract­ed with Abad­don, and the angels, and Oz, and Cas. Oh, Cas.

   You won­der now if his con­cern for you, and the whole sit­u­a­tion with Cas’ sud­den depar­ture, is just too much for him to deal with, as though he’s an engine that’s been run­ning on fumes for too long. You won­der if he feels like you do, like you’re miss­ing some punch line.

  12 Nov: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic gen sfw author.tardisy rec.all_fanfic

• What Has Eight Ten­ta­cles and Isn’t Allowed to Eat Pie? — by Annie D (scara­mouche) — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  Dean watched an ani­me porn about this once, but real life turns out to be way less interesting.

  Or, the one where Dean gets turned into an octopus.

  Notes:

  Writ­ten for the Mini Bang track of the 2013 Dean/Cas Big Bang.

  This fic was writ­ten dur­ing the hia­tus after the Sea­son 8 finale, and so only con­tains spoil­ers up until then.

  Con­tains: Curse-relat­ed body trans­for­ma­tion, body gross­ness, the eat­ing of raw seafood, ten­ta­cles. (But no ten­ta­cle sex.)

  12 Oct: spn fan­f­ic slash sfw dean_winchester.castiel author:scaramouche rec.all_fanfic

• What Hap­pens Next is Up to You — by win­ter­hill — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011), Ones Who Walk Away from Ome­las — Ursu­la K. Le Guin [Archive of Our Own]:

  Raven’s feet hurt.

  She’d been walk­ing for years, since she had reached her four­teenth sum­mer. She thought that she might be eigh­teen now, or twen­ty. Per­haps thir­ty. She didn’t know for cer­tain — it was hard to tell the time out here on the plains. She’d worn through the bot­tom of her last pair of shoes, right at the ball of her foot, but she felt that she should keep them on; she was, after all, civ­i­lized. Even if the nights were get­ting cold again, even if she was thin­ner than she had been last win­ter, even if she’d been unable to find the gold­en gates of the city again.

  Self­ish­ly, she’d want­ed to. Heavy and tired, her limbs blue and numb with cold, she’d want­ed to find Ome­las again and go home, back to her mother’s arms, and try to for­get that in Ome­las, hap­pi­ness had a price.

  A light shone up ahead — a fire, bright-hot against the night sky. She broke into a run; peo­ple, actu­al peo­ple. The worst they would do was to tell her to keep walk­ing; the peo­ple who walked from Ome­las were not unkind, but they were not kindly.

  06 Oct: xmfc charles/erik fan­f­ic gen author.winterhill rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• the things we did and did­n’t do — by pocky_slash — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  The doc­tors say the best thing for Charles as he learns to cope with his paral­y­sis is pos­i­tiv­i­ty from those around him. Erik is so tired of being pos­i­tive that it’s mak­ing him sick.

  01 Oct: xmfc fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.pocky_slash rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Mas­ter of Real­i­ty — by Pep­per­mintWind — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  [It would be more accu­rate to describe this as a super­hero AU (sans super­pow­ers) than as a high school AU. Plotty.

  Mind the warn­ings. ‑L]

  02 Sep: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic nsfw dean_winchester.castiel dean_winchester.alastair author.PeppermintWind rec.all_fanfic

• Hon­ey — by Any­thing­toast­ed — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  “We’re engaged.” Dean told her, grin­ning in a way that Castiel had nev­er seen before, and the face of the woman at the front desk all but melt­ed into a smile.

  “Oh my gosh, that is so cute.” She cov­ered her mouth with both hands. “When’s the big day?”

  Castiel looked between them in utter con­fu­sion. Dean leaned on the desk, face now melo­dra­mat­i­cal­ly downcast.

  “S’not legal in his home town. His folks, they’re real­ly reli­gious.” He said, and she seemed close to tears, enlight­en­ing Castiel no fur­ther as to what was going on.

  “Oh my god, but you got engaged any­way. That is just-“ She paused, as if fal­ter­ing for the words, and reached over the desk to take Dean’s hand in her own. “I’m gonna make sure you have a good time here, okay? How does the hon­ey­moon suite sound? No extra charge.”

  Dean smiled hes­i­tant­ly at her, almost bash­ful, yet anoth­er expres­sion Castiel had nev­er seen on his face. “That would be so sweet of you.” He squeezed her hand. Castiel stood blankly beside him. Dean added, quick­ly, “Does that come with breakfast?”

  21 Aug: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic sfw dean_winchester.castiel author.Anythingtoasted rec.all_fanfic

Links from last summer.

• ficwriter1966: Chica­go:

  “Please,” he says. “You’re a nurse? Are you a nurse?”

  It’s in his eyes: he wants her to be a nurse as bad­ly as most kids want free tick­ets to Six Flags. She wants to deny it, wants to send him back into the house – but she can’t. A nurse is what she is, not just what she does. And he’s a kid. Scared and des­per­ate. That’s in his eyes, in the pinched look around his mouth. “Yeah,” she says. “I am.”

  “My broth­er’s real­ly sick.”

  [out­sider pov]

  27 Jul: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic gen sfw author.Carol_Davis rec.all_fanfic

• dean­castiel: [FIC] If On a Winter’s Night a Fan­girl (for alek_sandros) 1 of 2:

  Author: trin­i­ty­o­fone
  Recip­i­ent: alek_sandros
  Pair­ings: Dean/Castiel & Chuck/Becky
  Rat­ing: R
  Warn­ings: Crack­ish­ness; about the usu­al amount of blasphemy
  Spoil­ers: Through 5x09
  Word Count: ~12,300 words
  Notes/Prompt(s): I tried to incor­po­rate all of your prompts, although per­haps not in the expect­ed way… In writ­ing this sto­ry I owe many thanks to my betas, and deep apolo­gies to Ita­lo Calvino.

  Sum­ma­ry: “Chuck,” Becky said, slow­ly and care­ful­ly and very, very seri­ous­ly. “I think some­one is try­ing to com­mu­ni­cate with us through the fanfic.”

  14 Jul: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic het slash author.trinityofone rec.all_fanfic

• nilchance: FIC: Gimme Shel­ter (1/1):

  Sum­ma­ry: AU. Gen. If Mike Gun­ther had called Child Pro­tec­tive Services. 

  [Bob­by & Mis­souri pov. This is… hor­rif­ic. The next two recs are a con­tin­u­a­tion. ‑L]

  06 Jul: super­nat­ur­al gen alternate_universe fan­f­ic sfw author.nilchance rec.all_fanfic

• nilchance: FIC: Paint It Black (1/1):

  Sum­ma­ry: AU. Gen. Con­tin­u­a­tion of Gimme Shelter. 

  Excerpt:
  The house creaked soft­ly, a famil­iar song. Mis­souri felt her fin­gers tight­en on the rim of her mug as she heard Sam come down the hall, his bare feet near­ly silent on the car­pet. In a few years, he’d walk with the same preda­tor’s grace as his father. Blood told, even if she did­n’t like its stories.

  06 Jul: super­nat­ur­al gen fan­f­ic alternate_universe sfw author.nilchance rec.all_fanfic

• nilchance: FIC: Rain Fall Down:

  [Con­tin­ues from “Paint It Black”. This AU is nice­ly hyp­not­ic but it feels unfin­ished. ‑L]

  Excerpt:
  There was no sign of Dean in the yard, none at all, and it’d been three days. The kid had to be hun­gry, cold at night, maybe scared, but he had­n’t come when Bob­by left food and blan­kets on the back porch. Too much like John already; 12 and the kid was lined with barbed wire.

  06 Jul: super­nat­ur­al gen fan­f­ic alternate_universe sfw author.nilchance rec.all_fanfic

• poor_choices: A Boy At An Open Door:

  Fan­dom: Super­nat­ur­al RPS
  Pair­ing: Jensen Ackles/Jared Padalec­ki; Jensen Ackles/Tom Welling
  Rat­ing: PG-13.

  [Sum­ma­ry: Jared used to be Jensen’s imag­i­nary friend. This is adorable. ‑L]

  06 Jul: super­nat­ur­al rps fan­f­ic slash sfw jensen_ackles.jared_padalecki author:poor_choices rec.all_fanfic

• i once knew a woman from boobville — Fic: Cast Stones At Drag­ons (PG-13):

  Title: Cast Stones At Dragons
  Author: Troll Princess
  Fan­dom: Supernatural
  Spoil­ers: “All Hell Breaks Loose”
  Sum­ma­ry: It’s been a decade since Dean’s year was up.

  23 Jun: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic gen rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• blueiris08: “A Mat­ter of Prin­ci­ple”:

  Title: A Mat­ter of Principle
  Rat­ing: PG
  Cat­e­go­ry: Gen.
  Char­ac­ters: Sam, Dean, Orig­i­nal Char­ac­ter, and a bit of John.
  Word Count: 5300
  Sum­ma­ry: Where­in a school admin­is­tra­tor from days past near­ly blows Sam and Dean’s cover.
  Author’s Notes: The set­ting is post-‘Nightshifter/‘Folsom Prison Blues.’ Thanks to just_ruth   for super­fast beta and the title idea.

  23 Jun: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic gen author.blueiris08 rec.all_fanfic

• tolakasa: SPN: “That’s My Sto­ry”:

  Sum­ma­ry: Pre-series, Stan­ford. Sam’s dor­m­mates are reliev­ing exam stress by telling their best sto­ries of hor­rif­ic fam­i­ly antics.

  [Cute. ‑L]

  23 Jun: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic gen sfw author.tolakasa rec.all_fanfic

• Defect by Kikki­max:

  Supernatural/Criminal Minds AU

  Dean is final­ly cap­tured by the FBI just as his time runs out. Gen.

  Takes place in the SPN uni­verse at the end of the sec­ond sea­son and goes in a dif­fer­ent direc­tion than sea­son three. 

  Gen, word count 39,686
  Rat­ed PG for lan­guage and adult sit­u­a­tions. Warn­ing for char­ac­ter deaths.

  [You won’t like what this sto­ry does with Hen­rik­son, but it does such a good job han­dling how Dean slow­ly reveals infor­ma­tion to the Crim­i­nal Minds char­ac­ters… and such a good job with the CM char­ac­ters’ reac­tions. ‑L]

  20 Jun: super­nat­ur­al cross­dress­ing fan­f­ic gen sfw author.Kikkimax rec.all_fanfic

Some book­marks from this year’s reading.

• kroki_refur: Proved by Your Con­vic­tion 1/1:

  Sam Win­ches­ter walks out of Mar­tin Wyatt’s class­room one day late in 1997 and nev­er walks back in again.

  That’s not true, though – not the whole truth. Sam does come back, twelve years lat­er. Things haven’t changed – the kids are still wear­ing ridicu­lous clothes, still chew­ing gum and groan­ing at home­work and get­ting through as best they can, and Mar­tin is still grad­ing papers in the same class­room, still fly­ing high on the good days and remind­ing him­self why he want­ed this job in the first place on the bad. Things haven’t changed, but Sam has.

  17 Jun: super­nat­ur­al gen fan­f­ic sfw author.kroki_refur rec.all_fanfic

• The Won­der of Each Hour by Des­ti­na:

  Sum­ma­ry: Five con­tacts in Dean’s phone. (These are actu­al names on his phone in the sea­son 1 episode Scarecrow.)

  16 Jun: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic gen sfw author.destina rec.all_fanfic

• mis­sy­jack: Fail­ure of the heart:

  Sum­ma­ry: Anoth­er miss­ing scene fic from “Faith”.

  Dean knew his heart was dam­aged, but he didn’t feel any pain.

  15 Jun: super­nat­ur­al gen fan­f­ic sfw author.missyjack rec.all_fanfic

• gwen­dolyn­grace: “Pass the Pork-Bar­rel Salt”:

  [A grate­ful sen­a­tor sends Sam and Dean to the White House to ask for aid on Big Block of Cheese Day. ‑L]

  09 Jun: super­nat­ur­al west_wing crossover gen fan­f­ic sfw author.gwendolyngrace rec.all_fanfic

• The Book of Enoch:

  Title: Fan­dom Wank Report: The Book of Enoch
  Author: gigglingkat
  Rat­ing: PG
  Pairing/Characters: The Angel­ic Hosts (Super­nat­ur­al Fandom)
  Author’s Notes: Much of the bible is kin­da wanky.  I noticed.

  [This is a mock­up screen­shot of fandom_wank. ‑L]

  09 Jun: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic gen sfw author.gigglingkat rec.all_fanfic

• iseult_variante: Fic — the gods might offer gifts (Amer­i­can Gods/Supernatural):

  Title: the gods might offer gifts
  Fan­doms: Amer­i­can Gods and Supernatural
  Rating/Pairings: Gen, none
  Sum­ma­ry: Dean remem­bers the week that Sam­my came down with the croup, remem­bers Czer­nobog and the Zorya. 

  Excerpt:
  In the old places, in the old times, when they were turned away from the hearth, heroes could seek the tem­ples and shrines and sacred places, and some­times the gods would come to them. For ser­vice or caprice, the gods might offer gifts – mag­i­cal arms or ani­mal-tongues, prophe­cy or enchant­ed shields. But in a land where the gods are made self­ish by their own wan­ing, what gifts can heroes hope for on the hard road?

  05 Jun: super­nat­ur­al american_gods fan­f­ic gen sfw crossover author.iseult_variante rec.all_fanfic

• thirsty­ro­bot: [SPN] Fic: I’ll Buy You Tall Tall Trees and All the Waters In the Seas:

  Title: I’ll Buy You Tall Tall Trees and All the Waters In the Seas
  Rat­ing: PG for lan­guage and kiss­ing and some very tame sex­u­al references
  Words: ~5500
  Pairing/Characters: Emmanuel!Castiel/Daphne, Dean/Castiel
  Warn­ings: If you hate Daphne and her very exis­tence, you prob­a­bly will not enjoy this. Also, in case you did­n’t get it the first two times, 7x17 SPOILERS!
  Sum­ma­ry: He does­n’t feel cho­sen or gift­ed, and he does­n’t remember.
  Notes: Basi­cal­ly my brain’s ver­sion of 7x17, the super-extend­ed but not-as-porny-as-I-hoped edition.

  31 May: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic het slash sfw dean_winchester.castiel castiel.daphne author:thirstyrobot rec.all_fanfic

• bardicvoice: Ques­tions to ask at con­ven­tions …:

  Okay: the pur­pose of this post is sim­ply to col­lect ques­tions for Super­nat­ur­al folk that I would love to hear answered. Some of these were mine, some I snagged from oth­ers. If you’re going to a con, want to ask a non-stu­pid, non-repet­i­tive ques­tion, and can’t think of one, feel free to snag and ask one of these! The only thing I would ask is, if you do, please come back and let me know the answer. :)

  I’m leav­ing this as a sticky post, so I’ll add to it over time and cross out ones that have been answered.

  21 Apr: super­nat­ur­al

• Aaron Bass: Schrödinger’s Gay:

  Through Aaron Bass, Super­nat­ur­al does some­thing that is quite rare in tele­vi­sion or film.  Aaron is a char­ac­ter with ambigu­ous sex­u­al ori­en­ta­tion and, with­out turn­ing him into a joke or requir­ing clar­i­fi­ca­tion of his sex­u­al­i­ty; he is pre­sent­ed as a com­pli­cat­ed human char­ac­ter who ris­es to be a hero.  Addi­tion­al­ly, through his char­ac­ter, het­ero­nor­ma­tive assump­tions are sub­vert­ed, mocked and ren­dered irrelevant.

  [I real­ly, real­ly dis­like the use of “gay” to mean “gay per­son”, and of course ambigu­ous char­ac­ters are not the same thing as unam­bigu­ous queer rep­re­sen­ta­tion, but I think this is an inter­est­ing essay and there is val­ue in hav­ing some char­ac­ters whose sex­u­al­i­ty is not eas­i­ly defined. ‑L]

  18 Apr: super­nat­ur­al meta.any_fandom author.lookatthesefreakinghipsters

• let­tered: The Chuck Writes Sto­ry: An Unatho­rized Fan­dom Biog­ra­phy:

  Excerpt:

  I’m about to link this on bad_penny. 

  Remem­ber chuck_writes? Wank All Star that lord_kripke and the oth­er Super Gnats took down with a wreck­ing ball? That chuck_writes?

  Turns out that chuck_writes was actu­al­ly a sock for Carv­er Edlund (which was actu­al­ly a pseud for his real name, Chuck Shur­ley. No won­der he used a pseud). You read that right. chuck_writes is THE Carv­er Edlund—author of Super­nat­ur­al books, beloved by the mass­es, wor­shipped by lord_kripke and the SPN Super Nats—that Carv­er Edlund.

  Break out the popcorn.gif; here we go:

  [OH MY GOD this is great; also a total mind­fuck. What is real­i­ty, and how can I restore my grip on it, pls? ‑L]

  Alter­nate URL: http://archiveofourown.org/series/14975

  17 Apr: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic gen metafic­tion author.lettered rec.all_fanfic

Links from 2013.

• Hands, From Which All Things Are Built — by MajorEng­lish­Esquire — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  Castiel trav­els with the angel tablet and with­out the Winchesters.
  One day, Dean gets a text from some anony­mous number.
  (They speak in the lan­guage of need.)

  A post-08.17 Good­bye, Stranger story.

  08 Apr: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic slash sfw dean_winchester.castiel author.MajorEnglishEsquire rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• prox­y­di­a­logue: Fic: And the Angel said: “Fuck it.” And All the Bull­shit of Heav­en Could Not Con­vince Him Oth­er­wise:

  The reha­bil­i­ta­tion is designed to put sol­diers back in the war, and it’s coun­ter­pro­duc­tive to break some­thing you plan to use again. So no: they did­n’t break him. 

  [Spoil­ers to the end of sea­son 5. This is beau­ti­ful and dev­as­tat­ing, and it just changed my headcanon.]

  08 Apr: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic slash sfw dean_winchester.castiel author.proxydialogue rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Vena Amor­is and Oth­er Old-Fash­ioned Bull­shit — by pyre­bi — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:
  In which angel­ic mar­riage bonds are appar­ent­ly stu­pid­ly easy to trig­ger, Cas wages mul­ti­di­men­sion­al war in Heav­en, Dean can’t catch a break like ever, Sam rather enjoys being a dick, love saves the day, and nobody con­sum­mates anything.

  Excerpt:
  Dean instant­ly decides that he does­n’t like where this is head­ing, so he decides to nip it in the bud and just say, “Cas, just to check–you and I aren’t mar­ried, right?”

  Castiel goes a bit…shifty. “The first thing to go in any anar­chy state is the civ­il ser­vices. But rest assured, I’ll have it annulled as soon as I’m back in power.”

  “What.”

  And just like that, Castiel vanishes.

  26 Mar: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic slash sfw dean_winchester.castiel author.pyrebi rec.all_fanfic rec.funny rec.flawless

• Fan­dom Wank Report: The Book of Enoch:

  Author: gig­glingkat
  Rat­ing: PG
  Pairing/Characters: The Angel­ic Hosts (Super­nat­ur­al Fandom)
  Author’s Notes: Much of the bible is kin­da wanky. I noticed.

  06 Mar: super­nat­ur­al fandom_wank gen sfw author.gigglingkat

• Bat­ter­ing Ram — by asto­lat — fan­dom Super­nat­ur­al [Archive of Our Own]:

  The Impala goes out in a blaze of glo­ry in 2014, when they’re out of belts and hoses and down to the last three cans of scav­enged gaso­line, and try­ing not to think about what’s com­ing soon. They fin­ish what she’s start­ed, Dean putting two bul­lets into the head of the last of the gang of human jack­als she’d smashed through, and then he stag­gers around back to open the trunk. The two of them wrap their hands in rags and pull out every­thing they can: their one duf­fle, the knives and the guns and ammo. Then they stand back and just watch her burn, thun­der­cloud black smoke ris­ing in a pil­lar straight to heaven.

  28 Feb: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic slash sfw apoc­af­ic wincest dean_winchester.sam_winchester author.astolat rec.all_fanfic rec.style rec.flawless

• peroxide_fic: [FIC] Sam is a Genius (Every­one is Dumb) (for swing_set13):

  That after­noon, they also learn that Castiel doesn’t like nachos (which Sam is kind of relieved about) while he absolute­ly loves hot dogs (which Sam sup­pos­es just fig­ures, all things considered). 

  “The fla­vor com­bi­na­tions are intrigu­ing,” Castiel explains, around a mouth­ful of meat by-prod­uct and mustard.

  Dean grins when he hears that, ruf­fles Castiel’s hair, and even splurges to buy the angel a Roy­als cap on their way out of the sta­di­um. Castiel likes the hat too, but not near­ly as much as the Crack­er Jack ring.

  Based on all empir­i­cal evi­dence col­lect­ed so far, Sam fig­ures that this means they’re engaged now.

  Maybe some­one ought to tell them.

  23 Feb: super­nat­ur­al fan­f­ic slash sfw dean_winchester.castiel destiel author.peroxide_fic rec.all_fanfic rec.funny

• John de Lan­cie Sings About My Lit­tle Pony Bronies | The Mary Sue:

  We’ve seen John de Lan­cie do a lot of ridicu­lous things thanks to his time as Q on Star Trek: The Next Gen­er­a­tion but this…this is some­thing to behold. “Let’s Go and Meet the Bronies” was writ­ten by Lau­ren Faust, Amy Keat­ing Rogers, and Zachary Lober­ti­ni and is part of a larg­er My Lit­tle Pony: Friend­ship is Mag­ic documentary …

  21 Jan: fan­dom

• Nice Work If You Can Get It — by asto­lat — fan­dom Robots — Isaac Asi­mov [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  It was the only the begin­ning of a relent­less cam­paign of ter­ror and romance.

  20 Jan: fan­f­ic slash author.astolat rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• shi­ro­mori: TFLN does XMFC:

  Sum­ma­riz­ing the plot of “X‑men: First Class” using only Texts from Last Night.

  11 Jan: x‑men

Links from 2013.

• Cham­pi­on — by Philomytha — fan­dom Vorkosi­gan Saga — Lois McMas­ter Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:

  “Every­one is say­ing it will be Lord Vorkosi­gan.” Drou spoke qui­et­ly, almost unemo­tion­al­ly, but her eyes were fixed on Kareen. “It’s going around the House­hold very fast.”

  “Yes. I’ve heard. Lord Regent Vorkosi­gan.” Kareen cast a half-invol­un­tary glance at the closed door of the nurs­ery. Gre­gor had fall­en asleep quick­ly after the funer­al ordeal, though he had­n’t cried at all. Kareen was­n’t at all sure how much he under­stood: that his father was dead, that he would nev­er see him again, what ‘war hero’ even meant. That he would be Emper­or soon. 

  [Miss­ing scene from Shards of Honor.]

  09 Jan: vorkosi­gan fan­f­ic gen sfw author.Philomytha rec.all_fanfic

• Incy Win­cy Spi­der — Chap­ter 1 — by Tawabids — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  Erik Lehn­sh­err is a renowned homi­cide detec­tive, with his hus­band Charles at home and his part­ner on the job, Moira Mac­Tag­gert. When a twist­ed ser­i­al killer starts tar­get­ing mutants, Erik and Moira are the per­fect team for the job, espe­cial­ly since Erik him­self is the mutant poster-boy of an NYPD try­ing to improve their image.

  But what they don’t yet know is that the ser­i­al killer is an old soul out of Erik’s past, and his next move is to pull Charles into his web.

  [Vio­lence and seri­ous injury. Grip­ping plot. ‑L]

  09 Jan: x‑men fan­f­ic slash charles/erik author.tawabids rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Made To Be Bro­ken — Chap­ter 1 — by Yahtzee — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011), X‑Men (Movies), X‑Men — All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:
  Charles makes a New Year’s Resolution:

  “No more straight men,” Charles repeat­ed as he began scrolling through the apart­ment direc­to­ry for Emma’s name. “No more futil­i­ty. No more point­less hop­ing and heart­break. In 2013, I nev­er want to hear the words ‘excep­tion,’ ‘exper­i­ment­ing’ or ‘phase.’ If, God for­bid, I hear ‘bicu­ri­ous’ even once, I may take a hostage.”

  Then he goes into the par­ty, and Erik is there.

  09 Jan: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.Yahtzee rec.all_fanfic

• My Body is a Cage — by con­ceptofze­ro — fan­dom Watch­men [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  “Jesus. Rorschach’s a girl.” The sto­ry of Wan­da Kovacs.

  08 Jan: watch­men fan­f­ic gen author.conceptofzero rec.all_fanfic

• Equa­nim­i­ty — by Res­o­nant — fan­dom Sky­fall (2012) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  “As I nev­er know when some­one might try to push my but­tons, I find it use­ful to know where they are.”

  08 Jan: fan­f­ic slash nsfw james_bond.q author.Resonant rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• In Lev­el Six — by fine­sharp — fan­dom Angry Birds (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]:

  In Lev­el Six the bal­loons blow…

  07 Jan: angry_birds fan­f­ic gen poet­ry author.finesharp rec.all_fanfic

• How to Sur­vive on a Desert Plan­et — by exeter­lin­den — fan­dom Ene­my Mine (1985) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  “In this stun­ning sci-fi adven­ture, two war­riors engaged in a sav­age futur­is­tic war between Earth and the plan­et Dra­con crash-land on a des­o­late fiery plan­et. At first the human and his rep­til­ian alien oppo­nent are intent on destroy­ing each oth­er. But after bat­tling the ele­ments and each oth­er, the two strand­ed pilots grad­u­al­ly real­ize that the only way either of them will sur­vive is to over­come their undy­ing hatred.”
   

  … That’s what it says on the back of the DVD. What fol­lows below is an AU take on how that goes…

  05 Jan: enemy_mine fan­f­ic sfw author.exeterlinden rec.all_fanfic

• You Could Turn It On Like A Light — by night­came­down — fan­dom Sports Night [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  In which Dan and Casey are not fraught. Or so they say.

  Excerpt:
  “Have a seat.” Sam closed the door and turned to face Dan.

  Dan looked around. “This is Isaac’s office.”

  “I’m aware of that.”

  “It’s just — I only men­tion it because I thought we were going to your office.” Dan took a seat. “And this is not your office so much as it’s Isaac’s.”

  “When you two are done with your lit­tle skit,” Isaac sighed from behind his desk, “please leave quick­ly and quietly.”

  05 Jan: sports_night fan­f­ic slash sfw casey_mccall.dan_rydell author.nightcamedown rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• On Soli­tude — by Toft — fan­dom Aubrey-Maturin Series — Patrick O’Bri­an [Archive of Our Own]:

  [Crack­tas­tic fan­nish trope + O’Bri­an­ish sen­si­bil­i­ty in plot and nar­ra­tive style. ‑L]

  Excerpt:
  “The doc­tor ‘as tel­ly­pathised ‘im. Which as ‘e ‘as hen­tered into a mens com­mu­nis” — Kil­lick labo­ri­ous­ly pro­nounced the phras­es with absolute incom­pre­hen­sion, the sounds acquired only by dint of the num­ber of times he had heard Stephen repeat them through the door — “in con­se­quence of a wicked fish what they ate in Portsmouth.”

  Bon­den whis­tled. “A bad fish can set you down some­thing cru­el. My cousin Bob Sul­li­van — you remem­ber him, out of the Min­er­va — ate a nasty old plaice in Gibral­ter that had him laid up for a week. Run­ning back and forth to the head on the hour, he was, until the first lieu­tenant, a right hard horse, had him stay there until he did­n’t have noth­ing more left in him to shit out. But you mark my words, the doc­tor will set the cap­tain up with a purge and a draft, and he’ll be bet­ter before you know it.”

  04 Jan: aubrey-maturin slash sfw fan­f­ic author.Toft rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Loy­al­ty, Hon­or, Heart — by leu­pa­gus — fan­dom The Hob­bit (2012), The Hob­bit — All Media Types, The Hob­bit — J. R. R. Tolkien [Archive of Our Own]:

  Last night Bil­bo had been sub­ject­ed to hours upon hours of dis­cus­sion about the pur­pose of their road­trip — “Quest,” Thorin had cor­rect­ed — from Bow­doin to Stan­ford. He’d already heard most of it when Pro­fes­sor Gan­dalf had conned him into com­ing along in exchange for a chance to do an inde­pen­dent study next year on the devel­op­ment of brew­ing as a fac­tor in the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary War: Alpha Tau Kap­pa’s leg­endary shot glass col­lec­tion, put on the line dur­ing an inter­col­le­giate math­lete grudge match in 1952. Saved from the grasp­ing hands of Smaug Uni­ver­si­ty by a sol­id defeat, and then stolen — stolen — the fol­low­ing day. There could be no doubt as to the cul­prit. Thorin found pic­tures on the Smaug Math­lete face­book page of them drink­ing from the glass­es only last year.

  And so the frat decid­ed: Spring Break 2012, they would regain their hon­or and their shot glass­es. Balin made t‑shirts; Thorin was writ­ing the whole thing up as part of his the­sis on the Quest Jour­ney and The Per­for­ma­tive Nature of Amer­i­can Mas­culin­i­ty. Pro­fes­sor Gan­dalf, as far as Bil­bo could tell, was along because he was a freak.

  01 Jan: hob­bit gen fan­f­ic sfw author.leupagus rec.all_fanfic

These are from the great recs back­log of 2012.

• Law of Super­heroes: law-school seen through com­ic-book heroes’ lens — Boing Boing:

  In the The Law of Super­heroes two lawyers called James Dai­ly and Ryan David­son do a mag­nif­i­cent job overview of the US legal sys­tem that man­ages to be extreme­ly infor­ma­tive and incred­i­bly enter­tain­ing, because, as the title implies, they tour the legal sys­tem as it would apply to com­ic-book superheroes.

  This is much bet­ter than most of those “Physics of Sci­ence Fiction”-type books, since the legal hypo­thet­i­cals that super­heroes give rise to, while spec­u­la­tive, are actu­al­ly just extreme macro­cosms for the nor­mal busi­ness of the real-world legal sys­tem. What bet­ter way to illus­trate the rules of evi­dence than to explore whether (and why) things that Pro­fes­sor Xavier read in your mind would be admis­si­ble in court and whether Spi­der Man could tes­ti­fy in his mask?

  27 Dec: none

• The Hired Man — by cop­per­badge — fan­dom White Col­lar [Archive of Our Own]:

  “This job is impor­tant,” Peter said, stand­ing in front of him in the bath­room. “I want you to look the part.”

  “Are you angling for fif­teen per­cent on it?” Neal replied, annoyed by the way Peter was hov­er­ing. If a man could­n’t put on a three-piece suit in the pri­va­cy of his own hotel bath­room with­out his body­guard both­er­ing him, what was left to him?

  Peter took the tie away from him. Neal reached for it, and Peter held it back, out of his grasp.

  “These are big­wigs,” Peter said, as Neal tried to reach around him. He pushed Neal back and Neal rolled his eyes and let his arms fall, pre­sent­ing his throat. “They’ll think you’re a small-time grifter if you don’t do it right.”

  “Peter, I am a small-time grifter,” Neal point­ed out, as Peter began to knot his tie.

  “You’re not. Why would you think that? You’re Neal Caf­frey,” Peter told him. “Cow­boy up, admit your des­tiny is to be the most want­ed art thief in the world, and let me make you look the part.”

  19 Dec: white_collar fan­f­ic sfw het slash peter/neal/elizabeth author.copperbadge rec.all_fanfic

• Eye­lin­er — by Turtle­Totem — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  Charles is a sci­ence nerd. He has no shot with a glam­orous bad-boy like Erik Lehn­sh­err, even if they are both mutants. (Inspired by this picture.)

  [Com­plete­ly adorable. ‑L]

  18 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic sfw charles/erik author.TurtleTotem rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• So, About those Addi­tion­al Tags… | Archive of Our Own:

  Non-canon­i­cal tags with only a few uses put almost no strain on the servers. It’s the pop­u­lar canon­i­cal tags and metatags that put the most strain on the servers.

  14 Dec: archive­o­fourown

• The Troop­er and the Maid — by Philomytha — fan­dom Vorkosi­gan Saga — Lois McMas­ter Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:

  Excerpt:

  Aral snort­ed, then turned it into the appro­pri­ate maid­en­ly gig­gle. “My dear Cap­tain,” he said, “I have longed to learn about the ways of men and women, and in fact I was adjust­ing my garter along­side this busy road–” he ges­tured to the path through the gar­den “–in the hope that a hand­some offi­cer like you might pass by.”

  “You poor thing, you are con­strained by your cul­tur­al bag­gage and are unable to ask for sex when you want it,” Cordelia respond­ed. “Of course I will teach you how it’s done.”

  13 Dec: vorkosi­gan fan­f­ic nsfw aral_vorkosigan.cordelia_naismith author.Philomytha rec.all_fanfic

• Bar­ra­yaran Maid­en — by laleia — fan­dom Vorkosi­gan Saga — Lois McMas­ter Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  Cordelia and Aral try “play­ing” by the rules of Bar­ra­yaran sex.

  12 Dec: vorkosi­gan nsfw aral_vorkosigan.cordelia_naismith author.laleia rec.all_fanfic fan­f­ic het

• tem­ple­mark­er: X‑Men I came out in 2000. God, I feel ancient.:

  Saw X‑Men: First Class. 

  Loved it.

  But there was a part around the time Charles and Erik were epi­cal­ly break­ing up with each oth­er where I just thought, “Shit. There goes ten years of fanon in one beau­ti­ful­ly cast film. Some­where, the fan­girls are keening.”

  So, in homage to the much beloved Charles/Erik spec­u­la­tion from the gen­er­a­tion of the X‑Men Moviev­erse fan­dom (cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly and fun­da­men­tal­ly dif­fer­ent from Mar­vel’s X‑Men Uni­verse), I give you some of my favorite C/E sto­ries from back in the day.

  11 Dec: recs

• Writ­ten Lega­cy — by Rox­ie Ann (pluvial_poetry) — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Excerpt:
  Charles sets his papers against Erik’s back and begins to write, not yet ful­ly formed the­o­ries, still only anoth­er hypoth­e­sis of what the future might hold for mutan­tkind, all the won­der­ful and strange ways that genet­ics will both sep­a­rate and com­bine us as a race. The point­ed steel nib of Charles’ pen must scratch against Erik’s skin, the thin sheaf of papers mea­ger pro­tec­tion as Charles con­tin­ues to use him as an impromp­tu desk, but Charles feels no sense of dis­com­fort from Erik’s mind.

  If any­thing the oppo­site, Charles finds as he skims over the sur­face of Erik’s mind. It takes an effort to block Erik’s thoughts and keep them sep­a­rate from his own at the best of times, as Erik had come to real­ize ear­ly on in their rela­tion­ship. Charles rarely both­ers when they’re togeth­er like this, Erik would­n’t have it any oth­er way. He would not have Charles hide him­self away, not here, in their shared bed.

  06 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic charles/erik author.pluvial_poetry rec.all_fanfic

• Par­a­lyz­er — Chap­ter 1 — by Yahtzee — fan­dom X‑Men — All Media Types, X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:
  In 1965, Erik Lehn­sh­err has infil­trat­ed the NYPD for his own pur­pos­es — but his pow­ers make him a bril­liant detec­tive. Yet that’s not why FBI agent Charles Xavier has sought him out. It’s because the mys­te­ri­ous killer they’re both try­ing to find is mur­der­ing peo­ple like them: oth­er mutants.

  Their search for a mad­man binds them togeth­er. Their inner demons may tear them apart. But the great­est dan­ger comes when the killer they’re look­ing for looks back …

  [This AU is actu­al­ly not very far from the movie XMFC; you can spot the point of diver­gence from canon. Mind the warn­ings. ‑L]

  05 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic nsfw charles/erik slash author.Yahtzee rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• interesting_gin: FIC: The Usu­al Silence:

  Fan­dom: X‑Men
  Characters/Pairing: You, Erik, Charles, Hank, Raven, Kurt
  Rat­ing: PG
  Warn­ings: Heavy ref­er­ences to the Holo­caust. Poten­tial­ly triggering.
  Sum­ma­ry: Take the path of least resis­tance. Stay safe. Don’t speak up, if you’re not one of them. What does it mat­ter to you?

  [Super depress­ing. ‑L]

  29 Nov: x‑men fan­f­ic gen sfw author.interesting_gin rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

*cough* This has been sit­ting in my drafts fold­er since 2011.

• Ornitholo­gies — Chap­ter 1 — by tahariel — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Excerpt:

  It’s bewil­der­ing, this mat­ter of being mor­tal, and mam­malian, and human.

  He had spent the first few days on Earth con­fused and awk­ward as a new­born, this strange new fleshy body mak­ing demands of him he did not know how to inter­pret — that he feed it, water it, emp­ty it of waste (or, as he found to his dis­gust, it would emp­ty itself, as it chose.) His spir­it self had slammed into the ground — into meathood — with the force of Jupiter’s grav­i­ty behind it, like being sucked into a black hole, slow­ly becom­ing heav­ier and thick­er and more sol­id as he fell, comet-like, from the heav­ens. Burnt by the rush­ing wind and stung by the con­temp­tu­ous stars as he passed them.

  25 Nov: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.tahariel rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• The Politician’s Appren­tice — by avanti_90 — fan­dom Vorkosi­gan Saga — Lois McMas­ter Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  In the ear­ly years of Emper­or Aral Vorkosigan’s reign, a young Vor lord faces tri­al for vio­lat­ing Vorloupulous’s Law.

  20 Nov: vorkosi­gan fan­f­ic sfw author.avanti_90 rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• 72-Year-Old Chi­nese Man Mod­els Teen-Girl Clothes:

  “Why [is it] unac­cept­able for some­one like me to wear women’s clothes? Mod­el­ling for the store is help­ing my grand­daugh­ter and I have noth­ing to lose. We were very hap­py on the day of the shoot­ing. I’m very old and all that I care about is to be happy.”

  20 Nov: none

• sineala: Heads up, fan­dom!:

  If you have a Deli­cious account hang­ing around that you haven’t checked in a while, it might be worth it to swing by your user page and check that it’s not dis­play­ing your REAL NAME in GIANT LETTERS right there on the page.

  [OH DEL.ICIO.US NO. ‑L]

  14 Nov: del.icio.us

• Read Ken Liu’s amaz­ing sto­ry that swept the Hugo, Neb­u­la and World Fan­ta­sy Awards — io9:

  Ken Liu’s incred­i­ble sto­ry “Paper Menagerie” just became the first work of fic­tion to win all three of SF’s major awards: the Hugo, the Neb­u­la and the World Fan­ta­sy Award. And we’re proud to be able to reprint the whole sto­ry, right here at io9. Here’s your chance to find out what all the excite­ment is about, and dis­cov­er one of sci­ence fic­tion’s fastest ris­ing stars.

  14 Nov: none

• Fif­teen Deten­tions — by Kaneko — fan­dom Break­fast Club (1985) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  Ver­non stared at him for a long moment. He turned his face up to the ceil­ing. “I count one- two- three-” His mouth moved silent­ly. “Fif­teen more Sat­ur­days. Plus the one you still owe me.”

  Ben­der made a noise that maybe sound­ed like a laugh, and felt like rage. “What­ev­er,” he tried to say.

  [If you are into the kind of sto­ry where the nar­ra­tor’s self-esteem has tak­en such a beat­ing he has no idea oth­er peo­ple care about him even though sev­er­al peo­ple have obvi­ous­ly decid­ed to take action for his sake (and also, the nar­ra­tor is less weepy rag-doll, more spit­fire) then this is the sto­ry for you. ‑L]

  12 Nov: breakfast_club fan­f­ic sfw slash john_bender.brian_johnson author.Kaneko rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• L’oiseau qui vole — by hedda62 — fan­dom Vorkosi­gan Saga — Lois McMas­ter Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  Aral, in a fit of wicked­ness, assigns some­one to fol­low Simon every­where and keep notes, to see how he likes it.

  11 Nov: fan­f­ic slash vorkosi­gan author.hedda62 rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• the mys­tery which binds me still — by pocky_slash — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  It’s been sev­en­teen years since Charles lived at the house in North Salem. It’s big and impos­ing and filled with mem­o­ries he thinks he’s repressed for a rea­son. But after a strange man breaks in dur­ing a storm, demand­ing to see peo­ple Charles is sure died years ago, Charles finds him­self inves­ti­gat­ing his past for the first time, ven­tur­ing into the burnt out cat­a­combs that hold the secret to the child­hood he does­n’t remember.

  04 Nov: fan­f­ic slash sfw x‑men charles/erik author.pocky_slash rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• The Pinoc­chio Fal­la­cy — by Toft — fan­dom Myth­Busters RPF [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  Sci-fi AU. Adam is a sexbot on the lam with a devel­op­ing per­son­al­i­ty. Grant and Tory dreamed of chang­ing the world, but sold out to the man. Kari works in robot rights activism in her off-hours. Jamie spe­cial­izes in mak­ing things do what they weren’t sup­posed to.

  Excerpt:
  “Adam, this is a com­pli­cat­ed sit­u­a­tion, but as it seems that Mr. Demanes has not yet com­plet­ed his pay­ments to Myth Incor­po­rat­ed for you, Myth retains a stake in your own­er­ship, and we have been able to make a deal with him that Dr. Ima­hara will retain you in San Fran­cis­co for three months, at which point we’ll make a fur­ther assess­ment of the pos­si­bil­i­ty of repur­chas­ing you from Mr. Demanes, pend­ing an inter­nal review of the via­bil­i­ty of Dr. Ima­hara’s research.”

  Adam’s face has gone total­ly blank as she talks, which Grant has to remind him­self does­n’t mean he’s mad or upset. It means, prob­a­bly, that he’s try­ing to process what she’s say­ing and has­n’t got the RAM to spare to also decide on an appro­pri­ate facial expres­sion. He can’t blame him; Grant isn’t sure what’s appro­pri­ate either.

  [Bril­liant, bril­liant, bril­liant. ‑L]

  31 Oct: myth­busters fan­f­ic slash author.Toft rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Spe­cial Cir­cum­stances Ques­tion­naire for Sex­u­al Part­ners (Male): Long Form — by cor­uscera (imprac­ti­ca), lin­bot — fan­dom Meta — Fan­dom [Archive of Our Own]:

  Does hav­ing sex with you entail becom­ing mar­ried, whether legal­ly, mag­i­cal­ly, phys­i­o­log­i­cal­ly, or some oth­er de fac­to per­ma­nent rela­tion­ship? Y/N If Yes, please describe our new life together.

  29 Oct: fan­f­ic meta author.coruscera author.linbot rec.all_fanfic

*cough* These recs are actu­al­ly from 2012.

• kalichan: Ficlet: A Faith­ful Nar­ra­tive [Dar­cy, Wick­ham, post-slash]:

  Characters/Pairing: Darcy/Wickham
  Author’s Note: The title is tak­en from a line in Darcy’s let­ter to Eliz­a­beth: “This, madam, is a faith­ful nar­ra­tive of every event in which we have been con­cerned togeth­er; and if you do not absolute­ly reject it as false, you will, I hope, acquit me hence­forth of cru­el­ty towards Mr. Wickham.” 

  [miss­ing scene]

  16 Oct: pride_and_prejudice sfw fan­f­ic slash author.kalichan rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Doc­tor Who: P.S. — Series 7 2012 — BBC One — YouTube:

  An epi­logue con­cern­ing the Ponds and Bri­an Williams, by Chris Chibnall.

  16 Oct: youtube video doctor_who

• ceefax_the_sane: Torch­wood fan­f­ic: Reac­tion:

  Warn­ing: None, actu­al­ly. I’m as sur­prised as you are.
  Word count: 100.

  16 Oct: torch­wood fan­f­ic sfw slash jack_harkness.ianto_jones author.ceefax_the_sane rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Bloody Nature — by Bas­ingstoke — fan­dom Doc­tor Who, Doc­tor Who (2005) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  After the Time War, the recent­ly regen­er­at­ed Doc­tor met anoth­er doc­tor, and they had some adven­tures togeth­er. Then they met the Fam­i­ly of Blood and things went pear-shaped.

  15 Oct: doctor_who fan­f­ic gen sfw alternate_universe author:basingstoke rec.all_fanfic

• Appro­pri­ate Bound­aries — Chap­ter 1 — by Yahtzee — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011), X‑Men (Movies), X‑Men — All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:

  Charles has been hav­ing seri­ous prob­lems with back cramps in the year and a half since he’s been in a wheel­chair. His doc­tor pre­scribes mas­sage ther­a­py. But when Charles meets his masseur, Erik, in some ways they begin to heal each oth­er. So how do you cross the bound­aries between pro­fes­sion­al touch — and the personal?

  14 Oct: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik alternate_universe author.Yahtzee rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Ques­tion­naire — by sto­ries­for­trav­ellers — fan­dom The Avengers (2012) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Some time after the events of the movie, some­body sits the Avengers down togeth­er to go through some stan­dard SHEILD paper­work. Of course, because it’s SHEILD, the stan­dard paper­work goes way beyond list­ing an emer­gency con­tact. To whom would they give prospec­tive con­sent in case of a fuck-or-die/­sex-pollen sit­u­a­tion? Who would want appoint­ed guardian if they’re de-aged? If they’re per­ma­nent­ly trans­formed into a house­pet? And so on.

  14 Oct: avengers crack sfw fan­f­ic author.storiesfortravellers rec.all_fanfic

• The Pho­to­graph — by cop­per­badge — fan­dom The Avengers (2012), Mar­vel Avengers Movies Uni­verse [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:

  Steve had body-mod­esty trained out of him in boot camp, and appar­ent­ly his atti­tude is infectious.

  14 Oct: avengers fan­f­ic gen humor author.copperbadge rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• The King Of Sec­ond Chances — by luni­nos­i­ty — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  The kit­ten, with a tiny wail of protest, land­ed safe­ly in Charles’s hands, and then tried to bite him. Erik tried not to laugh. “Are we done now?”

  11 Oct: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.luninosity rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• The Gun­pow­der Files — Chap­ter 1 — by Tawabids — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  In a 19th cen­tu­ry Britain, the wealthy Xavier-Marko cou­ple pay Erik, a hired killer, to put their dis­abled son Charles “out of his mis­ery”. Instead, Erik saves Charles from deal­ing with those kind of par­ents ever again. Charles fol­lows Erik back to Lon­don and even­tu­al­ly con­vinces the assas­sin to take him under his wing and teach him the trade. When their lives cross paths with a destruc­tive opi­um car­tel led by the shad­owy Sebas­t­ian Shaw, they decide to take down the busi­ness­man down no mat­ter the cost.

  23 Sep: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.tawabids rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• A Riv­er in Win­ter — by arcapela­go (arcanewin­ter) — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  The months crawl one to the next. He no longer remem­bers the feel of the things he’s lost. He no longer remem­bers the absence of anger.

  Win­ter final­ly breaks, but not for him.

  21 Sep: x‑men fan­f­ic sfw author.arcapelago rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• mari­narusal­ka: Thoughts on Black Wid­ow’s char­ac­ter­i­za­tion in Avengers:
  …it’s not at all sur­pris­ing that Natasha’s char­ac­ter­i­za­tion comes in for a lot of scruti­ny. When you have a super­hero team movie with only one woman on the team, that one woman is going to have a whole lot of meta­tex­tu­al bag­gage attached, and peo­ple who care about the por­tray­al of women in super­hero movies are going to feel the impulse to dis­sect every pos­si­ble aspect of her char­ac­ter to inspect for signs of a sex­ist por­tray­al (Here’s a hint for the future, Mar­vel: you can fix that prob­lem, or at least alle­vi­ate it a lot, by hav­ing mul­ti­ple women on the team.)

  What comes up a lot in the dis­sec­tion of Natasha’s char­ac­ter is that she has sev­er­al moments of emo­tion­al vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty dur­ing the movie. And the argu­ment I’m see­ing made is that even though she’s shown skill­ful­ly using that aspect of her­self to manip­u­late bad guys by get­ting them to under­es­ti­mate her, it’s still some­how sex­ist to por­tray her this way, because she’s the only Avenger who shows this “weak­ness.” And hon­est­ly, I think this argu­ment has a lot more to do with peo­ple’s expec­ta­tions of what women in super­hero movies are sup­posed to be than with who Natasha actu­al­ly is.

  First of all, Natasha is nowhere near the only Avenger to show emo­tion­al vulnerability. …

  13 May: meta avengers

• Alphas, Betas, Omegas: A Primer — by nor­abom­bay — fan­dom Mul­ti­fan­dom [Archive of Our Own]:
  A brief primer on the con­cept of Alpha/Beta/Omega Uni­vers­es. aka That thing show­ing up in your fan­dom that does­n’t make any sense.

  13 May: meta rec.funny

• A Man of Light Virtue — by cyg­naut — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  [My sum­ma­ry: Erik has plans. Charles helps.]

  Excerpt:
  Erik stands inde­ci­sive­ly in the street, weigh­ing whether it’s worth his trou­ble to wait. He wants fur­ther con­fir­ma­tion of Schmidt’s loca­tion, but maybe the banker can’t give him that. He has oth­er leads, clues he’s neglect­ing by fol­low­ing the banker here […]

  “There’s no point in hag­gling when I’ve already made up my mind,” Erik answers, his own accent sound­ing harsh in com­par­i­son. “We can flirt on the way to your room if you like.” […]

  “I’m Erik.” He says it too loud­ly and Charles looks over his shoul­der at him, smil­ing like he already knew.

  12 May: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.cygnaut rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Have You Met Uncle Charles? — by win­ter­hill — fan­dom The Avengers (2012), X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Tony Stark has known Charles Xavier since Tony was eight and Xavier was his Uncle Charles. Now that Tony’s all grown up, Charles vets his dates. Well, most of them. Except for the ones where Charles brings some­one who should real­ly be in jail, not a fan­cy restaurant.

  10 May: avengers x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw author.winterhill rec.all_fanfic

• c_elisa: Con­ju­gal Vis­it — 2003-03-28:
  “What sort of visit?”

  “It was the only way they’d let me in to see you,” Xavier explains patient­ly. “By the way, do you remem­ber call­ing me naive for say­ing it might some­day be pos­si­ble to come out?”

  [Snip­pet fic.]

  08 May: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.c_elisa rec.all_fanfic

• Pow­ers and Abil­i­ties — by cas­tles — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Nobody would ever rev­el and take as much inter­est in Erik’s pow­er as Shaw and Charles had. The most obvi­ous qual­i­ta­tive dif­fer­ence in those two men’s inter­ests being that only one of them extend­ed the inter­est to Erik, the person.

  That same day, Charles told Erik about one of his very own tricks. About how he’d bad­ly twist­ed his ankle one win­ter, when he real­ly, real­ly want­ed to skate. So he did. Through anoth­er kid. He had­n’t made the kid skate and then picked up on what the kid was feel­ing, oh no. Charles’ mind was in there, see­ing through the kid’s eyes, dic­tat­ing the action.

  It was a lengthy, awk­ward silence, the one that fell after Charles fin­ished that story.

  “So you can wear peo­ple like suits,” Erik final­ly said.

  [Does­n’t real­ly have an end­ing, but intrigu­ing char­ac­ter­i­za­tion and use of telepa­thy, and it’s short. ‑L]

  08 May: x‑men fan­f­ic charles/erik slash sfw author.castles rec.all_fanfic

• The Edu­ca­tion of Steve Rogers — by sabinela­grande — fan­dom The Avengers (2012) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Author’s Summary:
  How to cor­rupt a super­hero with­out real­ly trying.

  Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers/Thor, Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Steve Rogers/Clint Barton

  06 May: avengers fan­f­ic nsfw het slash author.sabinelagrande rec.all_fanfic

• an odd car­riage — by lalai­etha — fan­dom His­tor­i­cal RPF [Archive of Our Own]:
  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: This is what hap­pens when you read too much Dis­c­world, and then read a cer­tain famous poem. And are me.

  [Emi­ly Dickenson!]

  05 May: fan­f­ic sfw author.lalaietha rec.all_fanfic

• Every­thing About It Is a Love Song — by pocky_slash — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Erik’s spent fifty years being a fig­ure­head and he’s ready to leave that behind. Luck­i­ly, so is Charles.

  (aka Old Retired Dudes in Love)

  05 May: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.pocky_slash rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• stephan­tom: Ocean of Vio­lence (X‑Men vid):
  05 May: x‑men rec.all_vids
• Thanks, Biol­o­gy — by Unfor­got­ten — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Charles snarls, a pri­mal sort of snarl, an I‑mean-busi­ness sort of snarl, a don’t-you-fuck-with-me sort of snarl, the sort of snarl that makes alphas’ blood freeze in their veins.

  Erik sud­den­ly looks from side-to-side, faux casu­al, as though he has­n’t tak­en any inter­est in Charles at all and cer­tain­ly did­n’t hear him snarl.

  18 Jun: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik alternate_universe author.Unforgotten rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless rec.funny

• Zweiun­dachtzig — by Dow — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Mod­ern AU. Erik M. Lehn­sh­err is a pri­vate man, a jew­el­er that’s just look­ing for a stu­dio to work in. But floor­space in New York is lim­it­ed, so he ends up shar­ing a space with a beau­ti­ful mutant painter named Raven. Above them is a huge fur­ry blue physi­cist, i.e. Mad sci­en­tist, and a glass­blow­er that breaks half of what he makes when he starts laughing.

  Drawn into their intri­ca­cies, Erik finds him­self not only with friends but some­thing that’s start­ing to fright­en­ing­ly resem­ble a fam­i­ly. Then enter one, Charles Xavier; geneti­cist, lec­tur­er, telepath, and mutant rights activist. Sud­den­ly Erik is faced with deal­ing with a past he’s try­ing to for­get and feel­ings he’s nev­er had before.

  17 Jun: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.Dow rec.all_fanfic alternate_universe rec.flawless

• the sea, the sea — by dis­en­chant­ed — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  They were in Maine, and the water was cold, and the air was cold, and they raced to the rocks of the win­ter-black coast, and they slowed, then, when the ocean was in sight. They breathed long, and they breathed deep; Erik bent, rest­ed his hands on his knees, and Charles could see the way that his back rose and fell, could see the con­den­sa­tion from his pant­i­ng breaths. Erik lift­ed his head, then, and smiled, and a wave broke behind him—dashed itself against the rock, scat­tered itself into sea-foam and the hush of falling water.

  [Mutant-recruit­ing road trip, told in atmos­pher­ic style.]

  16 Jun: x‑men fan­f­ic nsfw charles/erik author.disenchanted rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Stro­belight Ser­e­nade — by pan­i­can­d­star­tar­i­ot — fan­dom The Avengers (2012) [Archive of Our Own]:
  The Avengers get shang­haied into chap­er­on­ing a high school prom. In Steve’s opin­ion, things go down­hill from there, but Tony’s deter­mined to save the night. With the Macarena.

  16 Jun: avengers fan­f­ic sfw steve_rogers/tony_stark author.panicandstartariot rec.all_fanfic

• 645 River­side Dri­ve — by smile­back­wards — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Erik nev­er leaves so much as a drop of cof­fee behind after­wards. Frankly, he would do a lot more than drink six­teen ounces of dis­gust­ing, hot, burnt-tast­ing liq­uid to have Charles smile at him.

  10 Jun: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.smilebackwards rec.all_fanfic

• Black Wid­ow saved the world. Every­one else was Ewoks | Cesare:
  Hus­band: Hey, the Cracked sum­ma­ry of The Avengers is pret­ty fun­ny, check it out.
  Hus­band: http://www.cracked.com/article_19841_if-avengers-was-10-times-shorter-100-times-more-honest.html
  Me: Ha, this IS pret­ty funny.
  Cracked: “BLACK WIDOW: You’re going to need a strong female char­ac­ter down there. My boobs will hold her posi­tion open until she arrives, and I can use my pis­tol, which will be of absolute­ly no use what­so­ev­er, I don’t even know why I’m bring­ing it.”
  Me: *from zero to FUCK YOU in 6 nanoseconds*
  Me: HATE
  Me: RAGE
  Me: SERIOUSLY
  [spoil­ers snipped]

  And that is the real rea­son Avengers made a bil­lion dol­lars in nine­teen days.

  18 May: none

• livi­a­penn: big list of Avengers reac­tion posts:
  The reviews are most­ly squee/positive, and some squee with a lit­tle bit of crit­i­cism. (Prob­a­bly the peo­ple who were not going to enjoy it so much also haven’t seen it yet, or won’t see it, I guess? Or else the back­lash just has­n’t start­ed yet. *G*) I tried to link most­ly longer posts, but I also linked some short­er ones with lots of dis­cus­sion in the comments.

  13 May: meta avengers

• Glee: Gen­der, per­for­ma­tiv­i­ty and need­i­ness « Let­ters from Titan:
  The oth­er cen­tral tool of gen­der­ing on Glee is about need­i­ness. Nar­ra­tive­ly needy char­ac­ters are fem­i­nine; self-sufi­cient char­ac­ters are mas­cu­line. This is why Blaine’s a girl in Glee‘s lex­i­con, but Kurt hasn’t been for a long time. This is why Rachel is “man hand­s” Berry; San­tana is more tra­di­tion­al­ly-fem­i­nine­ly por­trayed than Brit­tany; and why Quinn nev­er seems to stop being pun­ished for her gen­der. It’s why Puck was fan­tas­tic with Lau­ren; Finn strug­gles con­stant­ly with ideas of lead­er­ship and being a man; Sam’s sex-work stint actu­al­ly earns him the respect of the oth­er dudes; and Artie is often the Glee club’s most clear­ly mas­cu­line mem­ber and Sug­ar Mot­ta is its most fem­i­nine (because, what isn’t she performing?).

  Ulti­mate­ly, as much as Glee‘s struc­ture and unset­tling humor relies on clear gen­der dichotomies, accu­sa­tions and mis­un­der­stand­ings, and as much as Glee is often about ter­ri­ble peo­ple who say ter­ri­ble things in a ter­ri­ble place, the show is, on a sub­tex­tu­al lev­el, deeply gen­er­ous about gen­der in the degree to which it actu­al­ly rejects the stereo­types that dri­ve its set­ting. Glee lets us know peo­ple are com­plex mix­tures of things, not just boys or girls, and not just com­bi­na­tions with stark lines drawn down their cen­ters (as Kurt is in “Le Jazz Hot”).

  But for all that sub­tle pro­gres­sive­ness, Glee is still sure of one thing: that being a girl, regard­less of the gen­der you were assigned at birth, is a ter­ri­ble thing. It will get you beat up, bul­lied, preg­nant, uncer­tain about your future, and nurs­ing a wound­ed heart.

  Peo­ple on Glee talk about becom­ing men, because that’s a pos­i­tive goal, but nev­er about becom­ing women, because that isn’t — at least not in Lima, OH. …

  13 May: meta

• mari­na: So, a while ago I watched the sec­ond X Men movie for Erik/Charles con­ti­nu­ity insights. I am here to bring you my (deli­cious) find­ings!:
  Wow, I have to hand it to First Class, they went ABOVE AND BEYOND in pre­serv­ing the con­ti­nu­ity in this verse in terms of Charles and Erik’s char­ac­ter­i­za­tions. I mean the lat­er movies are a JOY to watch if you’re only there for those two guys and the in jokes and sym­bol­ism and so on of their lat­er relationship.

  -One thing where this is man­i­fest­ed is in how one of Erik’s great­est joys in life is to be a giant troll. No, real­ly, THAT IS WHAT HE DOES FOR FUN. …

  I think chess between two telepaths is the per­fect metaphor and the per­fect teach­ing aid. Because chess is a long, ardu­ous game, where peo­ple are con­stant­ly think­ing up strat­e­gy, and for a telepath to be able to play it and not cheat once takes sta­mi­na and per­se­ver­ance and self con­trol. Because cheat­ing would be easy, but then there’s no point in play­ing the game.

  13 May: x‑men meta

• raven: Rule num­ber one: MASH primer:
  In oth­er news, it has come to my atten­tion that not every­one in the world has seen M*A*S*H. I mean, I knew it was a small fan­dom — okay, I admit that at one point it was a small fan­dom con­sist­ing entire­ly of me and my friends — but I did rather think that every­one had dab­bled, or at least seen a cou­ple of epis­does, or at least under­stood the sig­nif­i­cance of a tongue depressor.

  Appar­ent­ly this isn’t the case. …

  Okay, so. The show is a sit­com set at a field hos­pi­tal a few miles from the front lines of the Kore­an War. The char­ac­ters are the doc­tors, nurs­es and enlist­ed per­son­nel who’ve been draft­ed to work there, most­ly very much against their will. Every day or week or few hours heli­copters come in, bring­ing wound­ed sol­diers from the front, and the unit’s job is to return them to the front, if they can, or send them on to Seoul and onwards to the States, if they can’t. …

  It’s a warm, total­ly hilar­i­ous show in a lot of ways, and very upset­ting in a lot of oth­ers, often in the same minute.

  13 May: meta

• Luceat — by Dira Sud­is (dsud­is) — fan­dom The Avengers (2012) [Archive of Our Own]:
  They were reunit­ed a few days lat­er in a hall­way in SHIELD head­quar­ters, out­side an oth­er­wise non­de­script door that said Philip J. Coulson.

  24 Jun: avengers fan­f­ic gen sfw author.dsudis rec.all_fanfic

• Sky High Heels — by toes­taste­good — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Author’s Summary:
  Erik wears a pair of high heels for Charles. Heels and noth­ing else.

  24 Jun: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw pwp charles/erik author.toestastegood rec.all_fanfic

• Don’t Try This At Home — by oliviacirce — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Author’s Note:
  I like to think of this as the sto­ry in which Charles incepts Erik into a supervillain.

  24 Jun: x‑men fan­f­ic nsfw slash charles/erik author.oliviacirce rec.all_fanfic

• Not Prop­er (Chi­nese Box­es remix) — by Penknife — fan­dom Peter Pan — Bar­rie [Archive of Our Own]:
  Once upon a time there was a man named George Dar­ling. He wor­ried a great deal about what the neigh­bors thought of him, but most of them envied him, because he knew such a lot about stocks and shares, and had such a dis­tin­guished pep­per­ing of gray at his tem­ples that it seemed he must have grown it there on pur­pose. He had a beau­ti­ful wife, with a roman­tic mind and a sweet mock­ing mouth and a mind like tiny box­es nest­ing one inside the oth­er, and three fine chil­dren. His own mind was like a bank-vault with a door so stur­dy that it must be filled up with all kinds of respectable things, though to be sure, no one ever saw all the way inside.

  22 Jun: peter_pan fan­f­ic slash author.penknife rec.all_fanfic

• Bells Are Ring­ing — by Bas­ingstoke — fan­dom Sher­lock (TV) [Archive of Our Own]:
  “Oh bloody fuck­ing DAMN!” Sher­lock shout­ed, apro­pos of noth­ing. John near­ly dropped his tea.

  John turned and found Sher­lock shak­ing his pass­port. “Mycroft made me French!”

  22 Jun: sher­lock fan­f­ic slash sfw sherlock_holmes.john_watson author.Basingstoke rec.all_fanfic

• clue­girl: On Sen­ti­ment:
  …upon sec­ond watch­ing, I noticed an even more beau­ti­ful pat­tern to Joss’s use of that word in oth­er places. Sen­ti­ment. It’s not a two dol­lar word, real­ly, is it? You don’t lay even odds on get­ting to hear it on any giv­en day, because it’s not an every­day word, or notion — unless you own or work in a gift shop that spe­cial­izes in engraving.

  But that word is used in the Avengers four times. And each time it’s spo­ken with scorn about some­thing the speak­er is try­ing to disprove…

  22 Jun: avengers meta

• August — Chap­ter 1 — by Red — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  [The one where you will wor­ry about whether Erik will lose the baby. ‑L.]

  21 Jun: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.Red rec.all_fanfic

• Oth­er Crabs Can­not Be Trust­ed — by groovyphil­ia — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Erik is a her­mit crab and proud. He is also stalk­ing a shore crab named Charles.

  In which every­body in XMFC is a crab.

  20 Jun: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw crack­f­ic charles/erik author.groovyphilia rec.all_fanfic

• Curve Fit­ting — by kians­po — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Charles likes to pick up strays. His moth­er cites non-exist­ing aller­gies and nev­er allows him to keep the aban­doned kit­tens or pup­pies, instead mak­ing the ser­vants take them to an ani­mal shel­ter. Charles vis­its them reg­u­lar­ly and is torn between hap­pi­ness and sad­ness when some­one adopts his for­mer charges.

  How­ev­er, one day he drags in not anoth­er street cat, but a shiv­er­ing, fright­ened Raven. She’s dirty and hun­gry and still wear­ing bruis­es her drunk of a father left on her arms and back. Sharon Xavier isn’t thrilled, but then she wasn’t thrilled even when she gave birth to her own child, so it’s not some­thing that can be held against her.

  Raven stays.

  A year lat­er, Charles stum­bles over Erik, who’s try­ing to sur­vive on the street.

  19 Jun: x‑men fan­f­ic slash charles/erik author.kianspo rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Betan Ther­a­py — by avanti_90 — fan­dom Vorkosi­gan Saga — Lois McMas­ter Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:
  On a world that had the dubi­ous dis­tinc­tion of being renowned for its ther­a­pists, Doc­tor Indrani Mehta was the therapist.

  [Bril­liant rein­ter­pre­ta­tion of Shards of Hon­or. ‑L]

  18 Jun: vorko­si­verse fan­f­ic gen sfw author.avanti_90 rec.all_fanfic

• sparky77: Being Human Fic: Self-Empow­er­ment for the Mod­ern Ghost:
  Annie was nev­er one for phi­los­o­phy. She doesn’t care about the sound of one hand clap­ping or a tree falling in the for­est, but she can’t help but won­der: if a ghost haunts a house and nobody sees it, is she still real?

  She hates being needy and she hates being afraid, but she’s not ready to go, and she needs them. But they don’t need her. It’s not fair, but it’s not like there’s a place for ghosts to reg­is­ter com­plaints, and if there was, she’s pos­i­tive it’s no place she wants to go.

  04 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic slash sfw author.sparky77 rec.all_fanfic

• Pass­ing-bells — by Lithi­um­Doll — fan­dom Being Human [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:
  Nina’s impend­ing moth­er­hood has a lot of ques­tion marks over it — some are annoy­ing her more than others.

  [Post-sea­son 3.]

  04 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic sfw author.LithiumDoll rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Stray — by pack­men­tal­i­ty — fan­dom Being Human [Archive of Our Own]:
  There is a cat in the house.

  Not only is there a cat in the house, which is inex­plic­a­ble in itself as both Annie and Mitchell swear up and down they weren’t the one to let it in, but Mitchell seems to find the fact that there is a cat in the house extreme­ly hilarious.

  Or, more like­ly, what Mitchell finds hilar­i­ous is the fact that, while the cat does­n’t seem at all both­ered by the likes of any of them, George is utter­ly terrified.

  04 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic gen sfw author.packmentality rec.all_fanfic

• In Recov­ery — by Wil­iQueen — fan­dom Being Human [Archive of Our Own]:
  He sat down and dug into the cere­al, explain­ing around mouth­fuls, “I tried to learn once, but I maybe pos­si­bly acci­den­tal­ly set fire to Josie’s kitchen.”

  She sus­pect­ed there were any num­ber of things he had tried once. For some­one who was the­o­ret­i­cal­ly going to live for­ev­er, he didn’t have much of an atten­tion span some­times. Still, the one thing he kept try­ing, despite a grow­ing cat­a­log of fail­ures, was the one that real­ly mat­tered. She had to respect that.

  He’d left the news­pa­per she’d bought at the cen­ter of the table, and Nina con­sid­ered a moment before slid­ing it toward him. “There’s a list of names in there. From the train.”

  02 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic gen sfw author.WiliQueen rec.all_fanfic

• beinghuman_fans: Pile o’ meta:
  Mitchell has nev­er been hon­est to the rest of the group about how the vam­pire world real­ly works. …

  Basi­cal­ly, what Michell has is vam­pire priv­i­lege. He’s a mem­ber of the rul­ing class. And he hangs out with a ghost and a were­wolf. This is the equiv­a­lent of a bil­lion­aire hang­ing out with a cou­ple of hobos. Except he’s con­vinced them he’s a hobo too. It’s the three of them against the world!

  02 Jul: being_human meta

• ghostin­sweats: fic: sleep­er, i dream of hous­es in the sky:
  If you want to get poet­ic about it, he comes in killing.

  It’s rather an illog­i­cal notion, a quaint one, that some­how chil­dren kill their moth­ers this way, dur­ing the dif­fi­cult births–if you’d like to regard it as some kind of an omen you’re wel­come to, but it was com­mon back then, espe­cial­ly with the poor and he does­n’t see it that way and he does­n’t see much order in any­thing, anyway.

  They cut her open, even­tu­al­ly, slice through the skin and he comes out scream­ing and the priest is pray­ing for his moth­er’s soul and he is a bless­ing, they tell his father, he is a gift. That he lives is a sign of mercy.

  01 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic nsfw het author.ghostinsweats rec.all_fanfic

• ghostin­sweats: “A real­ly pissed off bad­ger?”:
  For Mitchell, I think, what­ev­er is hap­pen­ing right this moment is indica­tive of every­thing that has ever been or ever will be. In real life terms, he’s the guy who fails a test and con­cludes that he always has been and always will be an idiot. It’s a very young reac­tion, very much like a teenag­er and I’ll admit on some lev­el I find it endear­ing, even. What dis­ap­points me, a lit­tle, about the writ­ers is that they seem to take his myopia at face value.

  01 Jul: being_human meta

• catch­ester: Why Mitchell sucked as a recov­er­ing addict.:
  Mitchell is both a two step­per and a 13th stepper.

  01 Jul: being_human meta

• Snap­shots — by laceym­cbain — fan­dom Being Human [Archive of Our Own]:
  After that, the note­book was always around. It was­n’t that they talked less, but that there were things no one want­ed to say.

  01 Jul: being_human gen fan­f­ic sfw author.laceymcbain rec.all_fanfic

• A Ghost Should Be So Prac­ti­cal — by elise_509 — fan­dom X‑Men (Movies), The Avengers (2012), Cap­tain Amer­i­ca (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:
  Logan doesn’t hear what hap­pened to Steve until they find him in the ice 70 years later.

  By then, Steve’s just Cap­tain Amer­i­ca to him, and Cap­tain Amer­i­ca doesn’t mean a thing to Wolverine.

  30 Jun: avengers x‑men slash nsfw author.elise_509 rec.all_fanfic

• even the cake was in tiers — by kellifer_fic — fan­dom The Avengers (2012) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Tony doesn’t want Steve accus­ing him of hav­ing a con­cus­sion again, so he sits qui­et­ly and watch­es a bizarre meet­ing unfold where the Avengers dis­cuss things that did not happen.

  Tony is start­ing to sus­pect that either;

  A. He’s the vic­tim of a very elab­o­rate prank which involved Steve nudi­ty which, well done guys, did not see that com­ing or
  B. He real­ly does have a concussion.

  30 Jun: avengers fan­f­ic slash sfw author.kellifer_fic rec.all_fanfic

• Film Stud­ies, or, Four Films About Cap­tain Amer­i­ca and One By Him — by cop­per­badge — fan­dom The Avengers (2012), Avengers (Mar­vel) — All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]:
  “So I have to ask,” Tony said, swip­ing at his beard with a nap­kin, catch­ing hum­mus off the edge of his mouth, “did they show you the Cap­tain Amer­i­ca movie yet?”

  They’d been qui­et while they ate, weary from bat­tle (and, for some, absorbed in an excit­ing new food­stuff) but Steve should have known Tony would be the one to start them talk­ing again.

  “I made a cou­ple,” Steve ven­tured. “I saw most of them.”

  “No, the one they made post-Cap­si­cle,” Tony said.

  “1949 or 2008?” Bruce asked.

  Steve had expe­ri­enced a lot of Stop, tell me that again? moments after wak­ing up, but this might be the strangest.

  24 Jun: avengers sfw fan­f­ic author.copperbadge rec.all_fanfic

• lo0o0ony_lauren: climb the wall to make the sun rise in time, but the night had already begun.:
  He won­dered when it was going to be a good time to men­tion that he need­ed glass­es and he’d left them some­where, or that they didn’t know each oth­er, or that he had, in fact, spent the pre­vi­ous night run­ning round in a for­est, maul­ing things, and Mitchell appeared to have for­got­ten that. In fact, he was right in the midst of this thought process when Mitchell said, “I’m a vam­pire, by the way.”

  [Jossed.]

  10 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic slash sfw author.lo0o0ony_lauren rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• lozenger8: watch your life slide out of view:
  “Come on, let’s get groovy,” Mitchell says with a self-mock­ing purr. He stands, grabs hold of George’s shirt­sleeve, ges­tures at Annie, and starts walk­ing to the dancefloor.

  George real­ly can’t dance. He has no co-ordi­na­tion, very lit­tle tim­ing. He feels awk­ward and fool­ish and unde­ni­ably dis­en­fran­chised from the wider club­bing scene. And judg­ing from the way he’s shuf­fling from foot to foot, Mitchell’s much the same.

  10 Jul: being_human gen fan­f­ic sfw author.lozenger8 rec.all_fanfic

• In a Field of Stone — by pearl_o — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author Sum­ma­ry:
  Erik is called to help deal with a changeling, but when things go bad­ly, he makes a harsh realization.

  10 Jul: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.pearl_o rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Hug Ther­a­py — by asto­lat — fan­dom The Avengers (2012), Thor (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Excerpt:

  “I am hug­ging you,” Thor explained. “That you may know I love you, despite your madness.”

  [Seri­ous­ly, fan­dom, stop it, I do not want this pair­ing, but oh the the excel­lent Thor-cen­tric crack­f­ic that y’all are writing…

  Case in point. Here we have non­con hug­ging and dub­con sex. And ALL THE FUNNY. ‑L]

  10 Jul: avengers fan­f­ic slash nsfw crack author.astolat rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless rec.funny

• the bite that binds; the gift that gives — by ozmis­sage — fan­dom Being Human [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:
  He’ll be com­ing for them soon. He’ll be com­ing for George. (AU from 2x07.)

  [Warn­ing: Horror.]

  09 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic author.ozmissage rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Into Your Tar, Hon­ey — Chap­ter 1 — by tomato_greens — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  08 Jul: x‑men fan­f­ic slash het sfw author.tomato_greens rec.all_fanfic
• In the Attic — by sophin­is­ba — fan­dom Being Human, Jew­ish Folk­lore [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author Sum­ma­ry:
  So, are you dead too then? Vam­pire? Were­wolf? It’s all right, you know, noth­ing to be embar­rassed about! Not with this group.

  [Sort of sweet and creepy/haunting? Also, the sequel is a Torch­wood crossover. ‑L]

  05 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic sfw author.sophinisba rec.all_fanfic

• The Con­stant — by token­blk­girl — fan­dom Being Human [Archive of Our Own]:
  Mitchell eyes the DVDs in his hand, going back and forth between Ver­ti­go and My Fair Lady for movie night while let­ting George’s state­ment go unac­knowl­edged. Not because he doesn’t care, he just knows there’s more on the way. George has nev­er been one for brevi­ty or dra­mat­ic pauses.

  “We’ve had every sin­gle com­bi­na­tion of top­pings and sauces known to man deliv­ered to our door—not once, but three times in the past month Mitchell, and I can’t do it any­more, I just can’t. No man should ingest that much cheese in one life­time, it’s not natural.”

  [Annie = awe­some. Also, Audrey Hep­burn. ‑L]

  05 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic het john_mitchell.annie_sawyer author.tokenblkgirl rec.all_fanfic

• Birds of a Feath­er — by Aram­ley — fan­dom Being Human [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author Sum­ma­ry:
  George and Mitchel­l’s first meeting.

  [Some miss­ing scenes. This got jossed, but is basi­cal­ly… no, *exact­ly* what I wish had hap­pened in canon. ‑L]

  05 Jul: being_human gen fan­f­ic author.Aramley rec.all_fanfic

• xahra99: In God’s Coun­try:
  It was six days, two months and twen­ty-two years since Mitchell had died, some nine­ty miles south of the Flan­ders fields in which he now found him­self. The land­scape was far pret­ti­er than he recalled. It was all a world away from the marshy shell-scarred craters of the Somme.

  The war felt the same.

  04 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic gen author.xahra99 rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• distraction16: Fic: The Dam­age Done (Being Human):
  The first time Mitchell tried to go clean, he crawled back to Her­rick after just five days.

  04 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic gen author.distraction16 rec.all_fanfic

• A Very Spe­cial Episode — by win­ter­hill — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Erik Lehn­sh­err is sur­pris­ing­ly ordi­nary when he’s not douch­ing it up at an awards night or spilling spoil­ers to Youtube. He offers me a scotch, and then stretch­es out on the couch to talk. There’s no sign of a PA or hang­ers-on any­where; Lehn­sh­err infa­mous­ly refus­es to employ assis­tants unless he’s on a film set, and even then he does so reluctantly.

  “I pre­fer to do things myself,” he says. “And what I don’t want to do, Emma does.”

  He’s talk­ing about Emma Frost, his agent and long-time friend. Erik and Emma have been roman­ti­cal­ly linked dozens of times across his career, a claim which Lehn­sh­err vehe­ment­ly rejects.

  “I’m gay,” he reminds me. “While I appre­ci­ate that Emma has fan­tas­tic tits, she’s miss­ing oth­er vital parts of anato­my. Total deal-breaker.”

  “You choose very action-ori­ent­ed roles, and you’ve nev­er brought a boyfriend to anything,” I tell him. “Do you think that’s why peo­ple match you with women?”

  “I don’t want to play what Hol­ly­wood thinks is gay,” says Lehn­sh­err. “Then I’d have a choice of dying of AIDS; being ashamed of my sex­u­al­i­ty until I just find the right guy; or being someone’s sassy best friend. I’d pre­fer to shoot aliens and bring down ter­ror­ists. Fuck you. You want me to bring a boyfriend some­where? Fine. You’re my date to the Oscars.”

  “Done,” I reply, hop­ing I won’t have to put out. He looks like a biter.

  “I could,” he says, lean­ing for­ward. “I could do some­thing all about sex­u­al­i­ty, but it would have to be the right thing.”

  “I hear Has­bro is look­ing for guests for their new run of My Lit­tle Pony,” I tell him, most­ly to watch him explode.

  He doesn’t disappoint.

  “Oh for fuck’s sake. I will work for Has­bro the moment the Spark­ly Hooves pony comes out of the clos­et. Until then, give me a break.”

  Hank McCoy, “Fuck You, I’m Erik Lehn­sh­err,” Rolling Stone, Jan­u­ary 2012

  19 Jul: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.winterhill rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Hol­low Minds and Dead Souls — by helens78 — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:
  When Charles and Erik take a portable ver­sion of Cere­bro out to New Mex­i­co as part of their mutant recruit­ing trip, they aren’t expect­ing to find out the town’s falling vic­tim to an epi­dem­ic. But things are far worse than they seem, because this is no ordi­nary virus. Will Charles and Erik find their way home in time to help save the world… from zombies?

  16 Jul: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.helens78 rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Took Me By Sur­prise and Then — by the­hoy­den — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011), The Avengers (2012) [Archive of Our Own]:
  After the sec­ond surgery in New York, Charles doesn’t antic­i­pate any­one keep­ing vig­il by his bed­side. He’s instruct­ed Alex and Sean to stay with Hank in Westch­ester. Erik and Raven are like­ly halfway around the world, and even if they had been near­by, he doesn’t expect either of them to come and hold his hand.

  The only per­son he expects less is the one actu­al­ly there, fold­ed into the hard chair like he’s com­plete­ly com­fort­able, all of his atten­tion on a pad of graph­ing paper propped up against his knee as he sketch­es some­thing with pre­cise strokes of a pen.

  “Tony?” Charles croaks.

  Tony Stark’s eyes flick over, and he smiles at Charles, and oh — it’s the same smile, like they’re still ten and going to sneak off from one of their par­ents’ par­ties to do some­thing phe­nom­e­nal­ly stu­pid that will prob­a­bly result in prop­er­ty dam­age. “Hey there,” Tony says soft­ly. “You don’t call, you don’t write—”

  15 Jul: x‑men avengers crossover fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.thehoyden rec.all_fanfic

• apri­vatelibrary: Fan­f­ic: Once a Year, Every Year — Being Human (PG13):

  Sum­ma­ry: Liv­ing is full of sac­ri­fices for Fleur in the wake of Bernie’s new life; lessons are hard learnt and the most ter­ri­ble acts are those of sur­vival. One-shot, creepy mono­logu­ish POV piece. 1500 words.
  Spoil­ers: Up to 1.04

  15 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic gen author.aprivatelibrary rec.all_fanfic

• lo0o0ony_lauren: some­thing to pon­der.:
  Once, in the late nine­teen-thir­ties, Mitchell expressed to Her­rick his shock that mankind could be so abom­inably stu­pid – so stu­pid, in fact, that the gen­er­a­tion of young men he him­self had been sent to hell and back with could grow up, get old and fat and for­get, and send a whole new gen­er­a­tion of young men to their mud­dy graves. He did so thus­ly: “That fuck­ing idi­ot­ic bunch of cunts!”

  Her­rick was sat across the room, on the oth­er bed; the two of them were, at this time, rent­ing rooms in Maryle­bone, close to the Queen’s Hall. Her­rick liked the music, lis­ten­ing with his eyes closed and a look of intense con­cen­tra­tion on his face, and Mitchell liked the peo­ple. Or some­thing of theirs, any­way. It was about a quar­ter past eleven, they had the cur­tains closed, and the sec­ond world war had just been announced over the wireless.

  Smil­ing his inscrutable smile, Her­rick with­drew a cig­a­rette from the pack­et in his pock­et, lit it, and inhaled. He licked the cor­ner of his mouth. “How charm­ing it is,” he said, voice low, “That you still find their innate dull-mind­ed­ness surprising.”

  15 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic sfw author.lo0o0ony_lauren rec.all_fanfic

• strangeum­brel­la: Fic: Many (Many, Many) Hap­py Returns (George/Mitchell):
  “Relax,” says Mitchell. “Seri­ous­ly. I don’t real­ly like cake.”

  “What is wrong with you?” says George, caught some­where between gen­uine dis­tress and shock.

  “Have you got an hour?”

  15 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic sfw author.strangeumbrella rec.all_fanfic

• angel­gaz­ing: fic: the adven­ture starts here — being human — pg:
  George is always shak­ing the night before; trem­bling, when the moon is loom­ing close, the way addicts do, when the next hit isn’t near enough.

  Mitchel­l’s on the floor, next to him, because George needs room, but he does­n’t need space. Mitchell waves off anoth­er cup of tea for him, but catch­es her sleeve before she can get too far away.

  She’s stopped being sur­prised that they can touch her, but she has­n’t stopped appre­ci­at­ing it.

  [George/Annie/Mitchell]

  15 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic sfw het slash author.angelgazing rec.all_fanfic

• there are no haunt­ed places — by ozmis­sage — fan­dom Being Human [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:
  Each in their own way, they all must begin the slow, unen­vi­able task of mov­ing on.

  [Picks up where sea­son 3 left off. Jossed. ‑L]

  14 Jul: being_human fan­f­ic gen sfw author.ozmissage rec.all_fanfic

• Rule of Three — by valderys — fan­dom Being Human [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author Sum­ma­ry:
  Once upon a time a vam­pire, a were­wolf and a ghost went out into the world to seek their for­tune. Fairy­tales are sim­plis­tic, but it does­n’t make them *wrong*.

  [A bit cracky, but fun.]

  10 Jul: being_human gen fan­f­ic sfw author.valderys rec.all_fanfic

• The Chap­ter In Your Life Enti­tled San Fran­cis­co — Chap­ter 1 — by fengirl88 — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  “You’re out of touch, Charles,” Erik says. “Folk music is the in thing these days. It’s prac­ti­cal­ly groovy.”

  Charles is begin­ning to wish he’d nev­er heard the word.

  “I got a lead on our man,” he says hastily.

  “Good,” Erik says, look­ing shark­ish­ly pleased. “Almost makes the last hour worthwhile.”

  “I thought you fit­ted in rather well.” He knows he sounds jeal­ous and that makes it even worse.

  “I’m sure you could pass for a hep cat,” Erik teas­es him, “especially if you keep steal­ing my clothes.”

  “That won’t hap­pen again,” Charles says stiffly. He can feel that he’s blush­ing again, which is seri­ous­ly annoy­ing. This is offi­cial­ly the worst recruit­ing expe­di­tion ever.

  10 Jul: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.fengirl88 rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• not lan­guage but a map: why i want bisex­u­al stiles (in 4,000 words or less):
  There is some stuff going on in the dis­cus­sion about the poten­tial of Stiles being bi that is…unsettling me, let’s say. Mak­ing me wor­ry that we may, as fans, be los­ing the for­est for the trees. So what I’m going to talk about below, in a handy-dandy list­ed for­mat, is some stuff I’ve seen in the ongo­ing dis­cus­sion about the whole the-peo­ple-run­ning-Teen-Wolf-are-vis­i­bly-flirt­ing-with-this-con­cept thing, and why that stuff is mak­ing me ner­vous. Okay? Okay. …

  If you’re argu­ing that they should make Stiles bi because of Sterek ship­ping rea­sons, I don’t blame you and I don’t judge you but I encour­age you to step back and look at the big­ger issue. If you’re argu­ing that they shouldn’t make Stiles bi because of Sterek ship­ping rea­sons, I don’t blame you and I don’t judge you but I encour­age you to step back and look at the big­ger issue. Because the big­ger issue is a LOT BIGGER, guys. Like, a lot big­ger. Like, so much big­ger that it’s kind of stag­ger­ing, honestly.

  Mak­ing Stiles bi isn’t about Sterek. Mak­ing Stiles bi is about bi rep­re­sen­ta­tion in media, rep­re­sen­ta­tion in media in gen­er­al, and the pow­er that we, as view­ers dis­con­tent with the large­ly unfair and non-rep­re­sen­ta­tive media cur­rent­ly being pro­duced, have to affect change. …the fact that this dis­cus­sion is being framed as a Sterek argu­ment first and a bi-Stiles argu­ment sec­ond scares me. …

  See, okay, here’s the thing is about rep­re­sen­ta­tion in media: it’s a fight for pow­er hap­pen­ing between the group of peo­ple who cur­rent­ly con­trol the deci­sions, and thus have the pow­er, and the group of peo­ple dis­sat­is­fied with their use of that con­trol, who want to rede­fine that pow­er and how its used. It’s a pow­er strug­gle between two big-ass groups of humans: uh, guys? That’s a war. It’s a war for the sta­tus quo, or, to be more accu­rate, for what the aver­age depic­tion of the sta­tus quo should look like, and it’s being pas­sive­ly won by peo­ple who believe in the very idea of the sta­tus quo they are being fed. Like, for real, you guys: the war for fair rep­re­sen­ta­tion in media is cur­rent­ly being won for the Pow­ers That Be by the fright­en­ing­ly large part of their audi­ence that has nooooo idea this war is going down. By the fright­en­ing large part of their audi­ence that’s still watch­ing the same sto­ries about the same peo­ple because those are the only kinds of sto­ries they’ve ever been exposed to. Because they’ve got lit­er­al­ly no clue that there are alter­na­tive options, or because, when pre­sent­ed with alter­na­tive options, they recoil and react like hor­ri­bly wads of dick because that sta­tus quo has taught them to fear the unfa­mil­iar. Chew on that for a sec­ond; it’s okay. I know. It sucks a lot.

  But! In a lucky break! It’s not actu­al­ly a hope­less war, because we have, uh, real­i­ty on our side. The world doesn’t look the way main­stream media would have us believe, at all, and, in the most glob­al­ized age in the his­to­ry of this plan­et, that is becom­ing more appar­ent to more peo­ple all the time.

  02 Aug: meta

• Dis­ney Princess­es Re-imag­ined As Women Of Col­or | The Mary Sue:
  30 Jul: none
• Adorable Chil­dren Cos­play At Com­ic-Con 2012 | The Mary Sue:
  30 Jul: none
• Gen­der­swap And Oth­er Alter­na­tive Cos­play From Com­ic-Con 2012 | The Mary Sue:
  30 Jul: none
• Bifur­ca­tion — Chap­ter 1 — by spiced­pi­ano — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  [Erik is a pathol­o­gist who destroys dan­ger­ous­ly slop­py doc­tors. Charles is a heart sur­geon with a dead patient.

  This sto­ry con­vinced me (incor­rect­ly) that the author actu­al­ly is a med­ical doctor.]

  29 Jul: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik alternate_universe author.spiecedpiano rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless rec.detail

• ::: grammarie.net ::::
  Avengers Kinkmeme Summaries
  Thor Kinkmeme Summaries
  X‑Men: First Class Kinkmeme Summaries
  Eleven-Era Doc­tor Who Kinkmeme Summaries
  Super­nat­ur­al Kinkmeme Summaries
  A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones Kinkmeme Summaries
  Incep­tion Kinkmeme Summaries
  Het­alia Kinkmeme Summaries
  Teen Wolf Kinkmeme Summaries
  Leg­end of Kor­ra (Ficbend­ing) Kinkmeme Summaries
  The Social Net­work Kinkmeme Summaries
  Mer­lin BBC Kinkmeme Summaries
  Phoenix Wright Kinkmeme Summaries
  Durarara!! Kinkmeme Summaries

  28 Jul: none

• it’s like one of us woke up — by kay­deefalls — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011), X‑Men — All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]:
  [Charles and Erik find Shaw in Rus­sia. Longish and plot­ty. Includes a bril­liant (and chill­ing) expla­na­tion of where Shaw’s hel­met came from. ‑L]

  28 Jul: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik alternate_universe author.kaydeefalls rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Review: Amaz­ing Adven­tures #1–8 — Fuck Yeah, Black Wid­ow:
  Natasha’s Amaz­ing Adven­tures fea­ture takes place in the ear­li­est gasps of the Bronze Age, an era that brought Social Rel­e­van­cy to the fun­ny pages. Har­ry Osborn on drugs! Roy Harp­er on drugs! Lois Lane: Black Lady! All this, and a new breed of super­heroine trot­ting out some fun­ny Women’s Lib busi­ness. But unlike her lat­er appear­ances in Dare­dev­il, in Amaz­ing Adven­tures, Black Widow’s cen­tral the­sis wasn’t her gen­der. It was class.
  Black Wid­ow was, briefly, the Mar­vel flip­side of Green Arrow, a super-rich per­son punch­ing oth­er rich peo­ple on behalf of the poor. She had her Rolls dri­ven down to Span­ish Harlem and she did not for­get about the for­got­ten and the down­trod­den. Natasha fought cor­rupt politi­cians tax­ing the poor to the hilt, or cultish gang lead­ers draw­ing impov­er­ished youths into lives they did not want. And more than that, she act­ed as a facil­i­ta­tor— using her wealth and con­nec­tions to give a voice to the peo­ple she still employed as ser­vants. The com­ic was not sophis­ti­cat­ed enough to be aware of its hypocrisies, to real­ly mine the irony of a for­mer Sovi­et (shh!) celebu­tante buy­ing her way out of oth­er people’s pover­ty. But it had a tone, and a mes­sage, and when Gene Colan came on with issue #3, an artist unique­ly suit­ed to depict­ing urban splendor.

  22 Jul: meta

• halcyon_shift: Vid: Home:
  Pray for tomor­row, but for today, all I want is to be home
  Music: “Home” — Foo Fighters
  Char­ac­ters: George, Annie & Mitchell-centric
  Warn­ing: All three sea­sons, so spoi­lerif­ic if you’re not up to date :)

  22 Jul: fan­vid being_human rec.all_vids

• Despi­ca­bly Yours — by Cesare, majo­r­ange­cat — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  [Rival supervillains.]

  22 Jul: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.Cesare author.majorangecat rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• the­fourthvine: Fan­nish Psy­cho­log­i­cal Test­ing:
  I’m sor­ry, but peo­ple who already have prob­lems should not be sub­ject­ed to lengthy tests that are rough­ly as inter­est­ing as an eight-part doc­u­men­tary on dry­er lint. I could not help it; I was com­pelled to write some more fan­nish­ly ori­ent­ed ques­tions. So, here you go:

  The Fan­nish Rela­tion­ship Survey
  If I were trans­port­ed to anoth­er uni­verse, I would imme­di­ate­ly try to find my part­ner’s ana­logue. (T/F)

  If it was an evil mir­ror uni­verse, I would still try to find my part­ner’s ana­logue. (T/F)

  I would also expect my part­ner’s ana­logue to find me, even if said ana­logue had no way of know­ing I was there. (T/F)

  My part­ner and I are capa­ble of hav­ing com­plete con­ver­sa­tions using only eye­brows, shoul­der punch­es, or awk­ward, shuf­fling silences. (T/F) …

  03 Sep: fun­ny

• Amne­sia Does­n’t Make You Gay — by Grey_Bard, jmtor­res — fan­dom Sher­lock (TV) [Archive of Our Own]:
  “If it could be eas­i­ly induced and tem­po­rary, I might quite like hav­ing amne­sia,” Sher­lock mused. “What a chal­lenge! What a mys­tery! Pity it’s wast­ed on you, John.”

  (Con­tains absolute­ly no dub-con)

  02 Sep: sher­lock fan­f­ic sfw fun­ny sherlock_holmes.john_watson author.Grey_Bard author.jmtorres rec.all_fanfic

• my heart pumps yet the poi­son — by col­oredink — fan­dom Sher­lock (TV), Sher­lock Holmes & Relat­ed Fan­doms [Archive of Our Own]:
  “Hit me.” Sher­lock cocked his head at John and gave him a thin, dev­il­ish smile. “We’ve been through this once already. Don’t tell me you don’t want to.”

  02 Sep: sher­lock fan­f­ic bdsm author.coloredink rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• indeed­sir: It’s a gay, gay, gay New York:
  …an unre­served rec­om­men­da­tion for the book Gay New York by George Chauncey to any­one inter­est­ed in what the gay scene would’ve been like in the 1920s and 1930s (which is, hap­pi­ly, the era the book spends the most time on).

  Before read­ing it, I had a vague idea that any­one who was gay before Stonewall had to live in secre­cy and fear. I was wrong. Total­ly wrong. I was floored to find an era where gay men would car­ry around things like this: …

  [More infor­ma­tion from the book in the comments.]

  24 Aug: his­to­ry

• Con­fes­sions of an Unfor­tu­nate Fan:
  I have mixed feel­ings about the sto­ry over­all, though. It was fun to write this Charles, but I also con­sid­er him the most bro­ken out of all the ones I’ve writ­ten — this Charles has no moral com­pass, and he doesn’t care about mak­ing his kills messy (the blood-splat­tered jeans) and spec­tac­u­lar. Also, I have become… quite uncom­fort­able, I guess, with fandom’s val­ori­sa­tion of cer­tain, tra­di­tion­al­ly “masculine” qual­i­ties. A char­ac­ter is con­sid­ered BAMF when they punch some­one in the face or shoot guns, but not when they put in the hard work to build a school, or choose the hard way so they could live with them­selves and their principles.

  17 Aug: meta

• Han­dle with Care — by pocky_slash — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:
  Moira thinks Erik Lehn­sh­err is a lia­bil­i­ty despite his skills and knowl­edge, but she’s not above using Charles Xavier to keep him in check.

  [Miss­ing scene.]

  06 Aug: x‑men fan­f­ic sfw slash charles/erik author.pocky_slash rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• For­tu­nate Son — by beard­s­ley — fan­dom Cap­tain Amer­i­ca (2011), The Avengers (2012) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:
  Bucky wakes up in the future to a world that needs Cap­tain Amer­i­ca; mean­while, a Cold War-era super­sol­dier assas­sin emerges.

  05 Aug: avengers sfw slash steve_rogers.bucky_barnes author.beardsley rec.all_fanfic alternate_universe

• Ash­es, Ash­es — by win­ter­hill — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:
  Post-apoc­a­lyp­tic AU — When the bombs fall, and mutu­al­ly assured destruc­tion occurs, it turns out that Shaw was right and radi­a­tion does enhance mutant pow­ers. Snap­shots of the XMFC main ensem­ble in the time after the bombs: Erik decides to stay, Moira thinks she might be the only human left, Raven is hav­ing trou­ble sleep­ing, and Charles is los­ing his mind.

  05 Aug: x‑men fan­f­ic sfw charles/erik author.winterhill rec.all_fanfic

• you’re my only home — by pocky_slash — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:
  It’s not love. It’s fas­ci­na­tion, maybe, and respect. Erik’s done noth­ing to earn love from Oro­ro; she does­n’t know him near­ly well enough to give him that.

  (Or, four times Oro­ro hugged Erik and one time Erik hugged Ororo.)

  05 Aug: x‑men fan­f­ic sfw charles/erik author.pocky_slash rec.all_fanfic

• First Aid — by Philomytha — fan­dom Vorkosi­gan Saga — Lois McMas­ter Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:
  “He’s been there almost five hours, sir,” Brig­gs said. “He refus­es to move, he refus­es to let my men take him any­where else, he won’t even accept a coat and it’s been rain­ing all night. The last time I tried to talk to him, he pulled out a nerve dis­rup­tor and said he’d shoot the next ImpSec bas­tard who both­ered him. And I know we’re not sup­posed to upset him, but that was an hour and a half ago, sir. We can’t go on like this.”

  Simon could pic­ture it all too clear­ly. “And where are you?” he asked.

  “Well, that’s the thing. We’re in Turn­pike Street, just past the mono­rail bridge.”

  A five-minute walk from Simon’s apart­ment. He could see where this was going.

  “And you want me to come and see if I can talk some sense into him?”

  “Well, sir…” Brig­gs sound­ed timid, as if ask­ing a tremen­dous favour. But then, he could have no way of know­ing that it was­n’t even a ques­tion: when Aral need­ed him, Simon would go, day or night, on duty or off.

  05 Aug: vorkosi­gan fan­f­ic slash nsfw aral_vorkosigan.simon_illyan author.Philomytha rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Piece­work — by Lin­den­sphinx — fan­dom Hunger Games Tril­o­gy — Suzanne Collins [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author Sum­ma­ry:
  Cin­na makes the best deci­sion of his career. Or the worst, if you ask Pres­i­dent Snow.

  01 Apr: hunger_games book_canon fan­f­ic author.Lindensphinx rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Once More, With Mutants — by so_shhy — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Raven: Every sin­gle day, the same position,
  Fight­ing for supremacy.
  Thought that I could say I’d found my mission,
  And I would be free,
  But this isn’t me.
  I thought leav­ing home would make me grown up
  But I should have known
  That it would still be a deception
  My life’s a façade,
  Home­sick­ness keeps catch­ing me off-guard.

  [In the back­ground Erik tap-dances across the shot. Raven jerks a thumb gloomi­ly towards him.]

  Raven: Once I used to think that his magnetic
  Pow­ers made him just my type,
  Now I kin­da feel he’s just pathetic,
  Not worth all the hype,
  Angel: All he does is gripe,
  Raven: Wan­na take a swipe.

  31 Mar: x‑men fan­f­ic author.so_shhy rec.all_fanfic

• Wise­ly, I Say, I Am A Bach­e­lor — by Mith­rig­il — fan­dom Hunger Games Tril­o­gy — Suzanne Collins [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:
  How Cin­na became a rev­o­lu­tion­ary, and oth­er sto­ries; most notably, how he decon­struct­ed Finnick Odair.

  02 Apr: hunger_games fan­f­ic slash nsfw author.Mithrigil rec.all_fanfic

• post­card­mys­tery: that ever i was born to set it right:
  Oliv­er blinks and a truck roars past him; Geof­frey gets arrest­ed again when the cops come after a noise com­plaint; Ellen goes home and cries.

  In anoth­er world, Geof­frey Ten­nant is a man haunt­ed. No, wait. In anoth­er world, Geof­frey Ten­nant is haunt­ed by a very spe­cif­ic ghost.

  This Geof­frey Ten­nant sticks to gen­er­al­i­ties, thanks.

  01 Apr: slings_and_arrows fan­f­ic slash nsfw author.postcardmystery rec.all_fanfic

• Tigers Need Pock­ets Too — by Prag­mati­cHo­minid — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011), X‑Men (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Alter­na­tive Title: Raven’s Breasts Destroy Mutant Society.

  The one where life in the Broth­er­hood becomes basi­cal­ly one end­less naked orgy, and Erik is just in the cor­ner feel­ing real­ly uncom­fort­able and won­der­ing what he did to deserve all this.

  His solu­tion? Talk Raven back into wear­ing cloth­ing, so the Broth­er­hood can get back to the seri­ous busi­ness of Mutant liberation.

  07 Apr: x‑men fan­f­ic sfw author.PragmaticHominid rec.all_fanfic

• cop­per­badge: 1602:
  …here’s what you need to know about 1602.

  So, Mar­vel 1602 was basi­cal­ly an alter­nate uni­verse where a bunch of Mar­vel char­ac­ters were plopped down in the late Eliz­a­bethan era; it is real­ly most famous for being writ­ten by Neil Gaiman. Nick Fury is a spy for the Queen, along with his appren­tice Peter Par­quagh­hack­gh­ha­hak — sorry.

  09 Apr: none

• Nick­el Con­tent — by Unfor­got­ten — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  He’s not expect­ing any­one else to still be up, so it’s a sur­prise in more ways than one when he stum­bles into what he expects to be an emp­ty room to find that Erik is already — or is it still? — there, with a most­ly emp­ty tum­bler in his hand and sev­er­al rather large and decid­ed­ly emp­ty bot­tles on the end table next to him.

  There’s some­thing dan­ger­ous in the atmos­phere here, and Charles has just decid­ed to leave Erik to it when he’s spotted.

  [Chill­ing. ‑L]

  09 Apr: x‑men fan­f­ic gen sfw author.Unforgotten rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Wak­ing. — by quigone­jinn — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:Sum­ma­ry:

  Ques­tion: how many peo­ple did you kill to get to Shaw? Answer: you don’t know, because you did­n’t see fit to count.

  08 Apr: x‑men fan­f­ic gen sfw author.quigonejinn rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless pov.2nd

• Lion Eyes. — by quigone­jinn — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Raven is sort­ed into Hufflepuff.

  08 Apr: x‑men harry_potter crossover fan­f­ic gen author.quigonejinn rec.all_fanfic

• glockart: TUTORIAL: Draw­ing Char­ac­ters of Colour:
  FYI #1: there is no quick fix when it comes to any char­ac­ter design/visualization This is not a how-to.

  FYI #2: you must want to want to draw char­ac­ters of colour. No oblig­a­tion, no desul­to­ry “oh right, diver­si­ty quo­tient fill”, no after­thought (unless that after­thought then takes time, of course! :D). This is not a rep­ri­mand that YOU MUST DRAW CHARACTERS OF COLOUR ALL THE TIME, I WILL BE MONITORING YOUR ART OUTPUT. You do what you want. If you want to draw char­ac­ters of colour with­out feel­ing guilt-rid­den or like this is a chal­lenge or judge­ment on your art, then please read on.

  08 Apr: none

• zom­bieboy­band: the piano’s been drink­ing, not me:
  The con­ver­sa­tion of their days echoed their night­time strug­gle, all push-pull-chal­lenge-desire, disguised–shallowly–in teas­ing smiles and some­times sting­ing banter.

  They have been equals, always, and that inflames Erik yet shocks him still.

  [In which Erik has some sex­ist notions. ‑L]

  08 Apr: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.zombieboyband rec.all_fanfic

• crack_van: Fan­dom Overview: Mar­vel Comics Update Decem­ber 2011 (XM: FC, The Avengers):
  08 Apr: x‑men avengers
• A Mea­sure of Peace — by arcapela­go (arcanewin­ter) — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Erik’s night­mares are for­mi­da­ble, and Charles’ prox­im­i­ty is the only appar­ent cure.

  08 Apr: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.arcapelago rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• I’ll Do Any­thing — by helens78 — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Sum­ma­ry:
  Charles has been in this col­lar ever since Kurt got Charles’s sta­tus changed from “free” to “slave”. He’d do any­thing to get out of it, includ­ing being sold to the high­est bidder.

  08 Apr: x‑men fan­f­ic sfw charles/erik alternate_universe author.helens78 rec.all_fanfic

• The Waste Land — Chap­ter 1 — by nekos­muse — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011), X‑Men (Comic­verse) [Archive of Our Own]:
  [In a post-apoc­a­lyp­tic land­scape, two mutant nations have bat­tled for years. On one side, the Shad­ow King and Emma Frost. On the oth­er, the telepaths of Genosha. In a final ploy, the Genoshans send Charles Xavier to breach the Shad­ow King’s defenses.

  Long, well-plot­ted, and tense. ‑L]

  08 Apr: x‑men fan­f­ic sfw charles/erik author.nekosmuse rec.all_fanfic

• Irene Adler (Des­tiny) | Dime­store Dames:
  There are a lot of things I find awk­ward about Des­tiny. Like her soul-crush­ing­ly creepy alien-head mask, for one. And the fact that X‑Men writ­ers have nev­er tried to smooth out her time­line, so she still offi­cial­ly met Mys­tique as an adult in the late nine­teenth cen­tu­ry, mak­ing her at least over a cen­tu­ry old when she died in bat­tle in 1989. Major props for being one of the only elder­ly women supervil­lains, though. …

  What’s not awk­ward: that Irene serves as half of one of the longest last­ing cou­ples in the Mar­vel uni­verse. The fact she and Raven are both women makes their deep, emo­tion­al­ly intense romance all the more poignant, con­sid­er­ing the lengths it took to estab­lish them as lovers. At the time, the Com­ic Code Author­i­ty didn’t allow overt ref­er­ences to homo­sex­u­al­i­ty, and in response edi­tor-in-chief Jim Shoot­er became a homo­pho­bic Scar­let Witch, whis­per­ing, “No more gay peo­ple” and mak­ing them all dis­ap­pear from Mar­vel. Chris Clare­mont went to a lot of effort to hint at the romance at just the right pitch that read­ers might tilt their head a lit­tle but an edi­tor wouldn’t imme­di­ate­ly red-pen the lines. By the time they could be offi­cial­ly deemed a cou­ple, it was con­sid­ered one of the worst kept secrets in comics.

  …one of the coolest things about Des­tiny is that she was tech­ni­cal­ly only alive and active in comics for about a decade, but she’s one of the most impor­tant mutants to ever live.

  05 May: x‑men

• MEANWHILE IN AUSTRALIA (wacky ani­mal pics):
  03 May: none
• Not Ready For Prime Time (Fan­doms): Fre­quent­ly Asked Ques­tions — Updat­ed 1/1/12:
  …oth­er­wise known as Not Prime Time, is a gen, het, fem­slash, and slash mul­ti­fan­dom secret fic­tion exchange for medi­um sized fan­doms. … Basi­cal­ly? This is for the fan­doms that are no longer eli­gi­ble for Yule­tide but are not megafandoms.

  Not Prime Time was inspired by Yule­tide (the obscure or rarely writ­ten fan­doms project) and much of the for­mat and rules are based off that exchange. …

  Any­one who has an Archive of Our Own (oth­er­wise known as AO3) account can sign up. If you don’t have an AO3 account, please let us know ahead of time so we can get you an invite. There will be a post in npt_admin offer­ing AO3 invites as well. …

  01 May: none

• pyrrhic­com­e­dy: Morn­ing­ton Cres­cent:
  Amer­i­ca could not remem­ber the last time he had want­ed to bomb some­thing this much.

  “Look,” Aus­tria sighed, “I thought we had agreed to pre-1908 Tot­ten­ham Court Road Rules.”

  “What did I do now?” he asked war­i­ly. A print­ed out map of the Lon­don Under­ground was splayed across his knees, cov­ered in dense annotations.

  29 Apr: fan­f­ic gen het­alia author.pyrrhiccomedy rec.all_fanfic

• pyrrhic­com­e­dy: How You Say: some thoughts on find­ing a char­ac­ter’s voice.:
  Here’s the rule I made for myself as a writer: You should be able to tell which of your char­ac­ters is speak­ing just from read­ing a few lines of their dialogue…even if you strip out all their ver­bal tics, and make them all talk about the same thing.

  Just like artists, who want to give their char­ac­ters dif­fer­ent heights, weights, builds, mus­cu­la­ture, skele­tal struc­tures, and so on in order to make them visu­al­ly dis­tinct and inter­est­ing, we want to make the under­ly­ing struc­ture of how our char­ac­ters speak dis­tinc­tive and com­pelling. I’ve cat­e­go­rized a bunch of dif­fer­ent struc­tur­al dis­tinc­tions below…

  CASUAL —— FORMAL
  INELOQUENT —— ELOQUENT
  HAPHAZARD —– STRUCTURED
  LACONIC —– LOQUACIOUS
  VULGAR —– CLEAN

  29 Apr: writ­ing

• pyrrhic­com­e­dy: Noth­ing Seemed To Stop Them (World War I):
  I’d like to say that Villers-Bre­ton­neux held out under siege under impos­si­ble odds and remained free thanks to the fight­ing pluck of the Entente and pure-heart­ed der­ring-do, but nope. It fell into Ger­man hands on April 24th. The Ger­mans broke through the 8th Divi­sion, mak­ing a three mile wide gap in the British lines. British High Com­mand was like “oh balls, balls balls balls balls balls balls, fuck the Amer­i­cans, fuck the French, fuck the Ger­mans twice before break­fast, can some­body hike up that fuck­ing hill and retake that rat­spit vil­lage before we are all punked to Betsy.”

  Were you aware that there were Aus­tralians in France?

  There were Aus­tralians in France. And the Aus­tralian attack to recap­ture Villers-Bre­ton­neux was quite pos­si­bly the great­est indi­vid­ual feat of the war.

  29 Apr: his­to­ry

• pyrrhic­com­e­dy: Dieu T’Aidera:
  [Characters/Pairings: France/muddy ditch OTP. Also, Joan of Arc.]

  This ditch is like me, France reflect­ed. Shal­low, and full of trash.

  He lay on his back, in the mud, beside a road that hur­ried through an emp­ty lit­tle blight of nowhere. There were trees, and trav­el­ers, some­times. Eng­land had­n’t burned this bit down, which told France that there was noth­ing impor­tant in it. So it was a good place for a ditch, and a good place for France to be. Cold slur­ry ran off the cob­bles and splashed over his leg when­ev­er a horse trun­dled by. Some­times, the hors­es stopped, and what splashed over him was warm, not cold, and he thought: yes. This is my life.

  29 Apr: fan­f­ic gen het­alia author.pyrrhiccomedy rec.all_fanfic

• If You Liked The Book, You’ll Hate The Movie — Chap­ter 1 — by paper­clip­bitch — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  “What have you done this week?” Mr Lehn­sh­err asks, look­ing bored. The desk is cov­ered in sta­ples today; Hank doesn’t ask. “Decided to devel­op a cocaine habit?”

  “No, sir,” Hank tells him. “I’ve done noth­ing this week.”

  Mr Lehn­sh­err nods; Hank can’t work out if this is good or bad, but he sus­pects that Mr Lehn­sh­err enjoys keep­ing his stu­dents guessing.

  “Well then,” he says, reach­ing for a box file and look­ing inside, “I can give you a ques­tion­naire on self-harm­ing, or a quiz to test your drug knowl­edge while sub­tly try­ing to brain­wash you into believ­ing that all drugs will lead you to die home­less and celi­bate under a bridge.”

  Hank con­sid­ers his options and then says: “you’re men­tor­ing Alex Summers.”

  [No pow­ers, high school AU, Erik is a guid­ance coun­selor. Every­one is hor­ri­bly dys­func­tion­al and it’s played for LOLs; I enjoyed it a lot but ymmv. Five chap­ters, five dif­fer­ent view­point char­ac­ters. ‑L]

  15 Apr: x‑men fan­f­ic slash het author.paperclipbitch rec.all_fanfic

• arduin­na: Fan­dom 1994–2000-ish, part 1:
  Archives were a spot­ty propo­si­tion in the very ear­ly days. The ear­li­est archives were FTP sites, where sto­ries sent to Usenet or mail­ing lists would get stored for peo­ple to down­load. You’d get the login infor­ma­tion from your list infor­ma­tion mes­sage, and use your FTP client to go to the ftp site and grab as much fic­tion as you could at a time — com­plete­ly blind. You had no idea what you were get­ting. (You could also get to the ftp site via your brows­er, but you still did­n’t know what you were get­ting, and you would have to down­load sto­ries one by one by click­ing links, rather than grab­bing a bunch at a time.)

  11 Apr: fan­dom

• franzes­ka: The Usenet Gen­er­a­tion:
  …asked a ques­tion about gen­er­a­tion gaps in fan­dom, and every­one agreed that they aren’t usu­al­ly pri­mar­i­ly based on age. Years in fan­dom and what part of online or offline fan­dom you joined first have a much more sig­nif­i­cant effect. A num­ber of oth­er peo­ple men­tioned usenet; it prompt­ed me to think again about my own entry into fandom.

  I still remem­ber the title of the first fan­f­ic I read. It was Mason, a casef­ic about Mul­der and Scul­ly hav­ing to go under­cov­er as the par­ents of a child wit­ness who looked like both of them. The sec­ond fic I read, I did­n’t remem­ber the title of, but I remem­bered it being some mad­cap adven­ture on Hal­loween that end­ed with Mulder/Scully porn. More recent­ly, I looked up Mason on Gos­samer and found it was list­ed as 1997 or some­thing, which felt far too late. Google groups is a bitch to search, but new­ly inspired, I decid­ed to track down some actu­al dates to back up my hazy memories.

  Why would I do this? (Aside from being an obses­sive nerd, I mean.) Because I’ve recent­ly got­ten into zines, and the dom­i­nant nar­ra­tive in zine fan­dom of how fan­dom tran­si­tioned from offline to online spaces just does­n’t match my expe­ri­ences. It’s so far off that I have trou­ble even form­ing a coher­ent objec­tion. Peo­ple are describ­ing real expe­ri­ences, and I don’t think they have their facts or dates wrong, but some­thing just does­n’t feel right in the dis­cus­sions I see on Zinelist or the quotes I read on Fan­lore. I’d like to have a more use­ful response than “BUT BUT BUT!” This paean to usenet is it.

  11 Apr: fan­dom

Fan­f­ic recs (and a vid rec)

• obsessive24: new vid — “No, I Don’t Remem­ber” — X‑Men — Charles/Erik:
  No, I don’t remem­ber what brought us to this
  What places we blind­ly passed, what turns we missed…

  26 Mar: fan­vid author.obsessive24 rec.all_vids

• etirabys: Sharp Teeth Pret­ty Teeth [1/1]:
  “I promise I don’t want it,” Charles said. “Of course I want you to be free.”

  The selkie looked hell­ish­ly frus­trat­ed. He kept hold­ing out his pelt, mak­ing lit­tle faces at Charles.

  He looked all of eigh­teen years old. He was adorable. Just as adorable as he’d been yes­ter­day, when Charles had thrown him the lit­tle fish he’d caught with­out know­ing he was the nine-cen­tu­ry old leg­end you got told about as soon as your stepped into the vil­lage and saw all the seal-themed restau­rants. You got pam­phlets stuffed in your duf­fel bag. Got invit­ed to the Seal Express. Was told about the envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion con­ven­tions that were tak­ing place. Hawai­ian monk seals and whales, that sort of thing. Was fed the local leg­end five times a day from dif­fer­ent peo­ple who want­ed to squeeze more mon­ey out of a tourist. It might have worked if Charles had been look­ing to enter­tain a small gag­gle of chil­dren that he did not have.

  Any­way. The point was- leg­end. It was­n’t sup­posed to bark at you and roll over in the sand‑ adorable adorable adorable‑ and then come up to the front door of your rent­ed cot­tage the next day and try to seduce you. Ham-handedly.

  [Author takes a rather free approach to punc­tu­a­tion and syn­tax in this fic, but the nar­ra­tive is full of ener­gy and charm. ‑L]

  30 Mar: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw alternate_universe charles/erik author.Etirabys rec.all_fanfic

• Spit and Pol­ish — by sabinela­grande — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  The first time Erik saw her in them, he looked at her like his brain had just shut down entire­ly, cir­cuits com­plete­ly over­loaded. “What are you try­ing to do, Raven?” he asked; it looked like he was try­ing to be accusato­ry, but it end­ed up com­ing out plaintive.

  She looked at him in con­fu­sion. “Am I doing something?”

  He licked his lips. “Those shoes have met­al heels.”

  30 Mar: x‑men fan­f­ic het nsfw erik/raven pwp author.sabinelagrande rec.all_fanfic

• To the Vic­tor, The Spoil — by Annakovsky — fan­dom Hunger Games Tril­o­gy — Suzanne Collins [Archive of Our Own]:
  He drinks his way through the year, like every oth­er year, but the dif­fer­ence is that this time he has to go on the fuck­ing Vic­to­ry Tour. Watch Kat­niss look old­er every day, the cir­cles under her eyes get­ting dark­er. He thought watch­ing his trib­utes die every year was bad — he did­n’t think watch­ing them sur­vive would be worse. Well, live and learn.

  […] The after­noon sun is falling on her face, mak­ing her look as bright and shin­ing as the city out­side the win­dow. “Stop act­ing like I’m some inno­cent lit­tle girl,” she says, des­per­ate and furi­ous both, that flash back in her gray eyes. “I’m not. I’m a mur­der­er. You can’t cor­rupt me, because they already did. It was­n’t even hard.”

  [Mind the warnings.]

  29 Mar: hunger_games fan­f­ic nsfw het katniss/haymitch author.Annakovsky angst alternate_universe rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Stars Hide Your Fires — by ariadnes_string — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Summary/Excerpt:
  Sud­den­ly, Charles seemed to notice what Erik was hold­ing. He came near­er, put his left hand between Erik’s on the birch rod. Time to let go, Erik told him­self. But he didn’t. And so they stayed like that, both hold­ing it, so close Erik could feel the iron eddy­ing in Charles’s blood. The thing that was always between them snapped and quiv­ered like a ban­ner in a gale.

  28 Mar: x‑men slash fan­f­ic nsfw charles/erik author.ariadnes_string rec.all_fanfic

• From West­min­ster With Love — by the­hoy­den — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011), Sher­lock (TV) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:
  NATO intel­li­gence says there’s an omega-class telepath who sleeps under West­min­ster. Major Erik Lehn­sh­err is about to find out the truth for himself.

  Excerpt:
  The good humour drained off Xavier’s face in a flash, leav­ing his coun­te­nance hag­gard. “Someone is hunt­ing us, Major Lehnsherr,” he said, voice low.

  Erik leaned for­ward just a bit. “Why call on NATO?” he asked, well aware that M was watch­ing him care­ful­ly. “If you have — what, a ser­i­al killer tar­get­ing mutants? — then sure­ly it’s a domes­tic matter.”

  “Not ser­i­al killing,” Xavier said, and his knuck­les were white where they gripped cup and saucer. “Trafficking. Who­ev­er this is, he wants them alive. He moves them across Europe. He makes use of them.”

  24 Mar: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.thehoyden rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• The Salmon, Down­stream — by Cesare — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011), Thor (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  So Charles has a thing for pick­ing up strays, right?

  Strays like one tall, lean, sharp-eyed, dan­ger­ous­ly dri­ven young man on a quest for vengeance against the cru­el sadis­tic son of a bitch who tore him away from his nat­ur­al fam­i­ly and turned him into a liv­ing weapon with the aim of hav­ing his pro­tege destroy the world…

  I’m talk­ing about Loki, of course.

  [Charles’s char­ac­ter­i­za­tion in this vignette is fas­ci­nat­ing. ‑L]

  20 Mar: x‑men avengers fan­f­ic slash sfw author.cesare rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• A Decent Bold­ness — by pearl_o — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Author’s Summary:
  Raven meets Charles’s con­quest in the kitchen the morn­ing after. This has nev­er hap­pened before. Fea­tur­ing promis­cu­ity (no slut-sham­ing), fer­al polyamory, and sib­lings with odd boundaries.

  [Mod­ern no-pow­ers AU]

  20 Mar: x‑men fan­f­ic slash het sfw charles/erik author.pearl_o rec.all_fanfic alternate_universe

• A Woman Unscorned — by misura — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  [This ficlet is less than 200 words, but packs in a whole uni­verse of fix­it. ‑L]

  20 Mar: x‑men fan­f­ic sfw het charles/moira author.misura rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Cir­cles on the Grass — by pearl_o — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  Author’s Summary:
  While on their mutant recruit­ment trip, Erik and Charles find an aban­doned baby.

  Excerpt:
  Erik had occa­sion to see Charles’s bril­liance, com­pe­tence, and self-con­fi­dence at so many things in the short peri­od of time they had known each oth­er. It was unfath­omable to him how com­plete­ly and utter­ly all three traits seemed to desert him when faced with an infant. If he did­n’t know bet­ter, he would think Charles was almost ter­ri­fied of the kid.

  “Just fin­ish your break­fast,” Erik said. “I’m fine.”

  18 Mar: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.pearl_o kidf­ic rec.all_fanfic

• Stand Down — by Turtle­Totem — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  18 Mar: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.TurtleTotem deathf­ic rec.all_fanfic

X‑Men meta & art/fanart & picspam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Moira in XMFC:
  This is why I have headcanon.

  It’s one of the rea­sons, anyway.

  30 Mar: x‑men meta

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Ian McKel­lan:
  I know Mag­ne­to is drawn dif­fer­ent­ly in comics canon, and of course Fass­ne­to is deli­cious, but in my head this will always be his real face.

  30 Mar: x‑men pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: JLaw’s exer­cise rou­tine:
  Fuck it, I’m going to reblog all of the Jen­nifer Lawrence, but I’ll space them out on the queue so no one will notice I’ve gone com­plete­ly insane. That will work, right? Right?

  30 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: McAvoy look­ing pret­ty and stern:
  It’s good that I will nev­er meet this man in per­son, because I would cling to him like a koala to a tree.

  30 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Mag­ne­to vs. his clone (cov­er art):
  This art would be so awe­some if they weren’t wear­ing giant pur­ple diapers.

  30 Mar: x‑men pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Jen­nifer Lawrence:
  TOP RIGHT, OMGOMG, *hands over mouth*

  30 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Jen­nifer Lawrence:
  O.O

  30 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: 7x7x7 writ­ing meme:
  1. Go to page 7 of your most recent WiP
  2. Count sev­en lines down
  3. Copy and paste the next sev­en lines of text

  Okay, my most recent WIP isn’t going to be sev­en pages long even when it’s fin­ished, so I scrolled down to the epic 1949 AU. Charles, who’s the speak­er in the first para­graph, is an Army cap­tain. Erik has been with the French For­eign Legion since 1939-ish. His fam­i­ly moved to France before the war, but some of them were killed for being Jew­ish any­way (I haven’t worked out the details, but it’s some­thing to do with Vel d’Hiv and the Dran­cy intern­ment camp). Any­way, the lines from my WIP: …

  30 Mar: x‑men

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Jen­nifer Lawrence and first impres­sions:
  So, I might be ship­ping Jennifer/Woody/swing now. As well as Jennifer/Zoë/shower. Or Jennifer/Zoë/swing and Jennifer/Woody/shower.
  …Josh can watch it all and be adorably boggled.

  28 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: The McAvoy pho­to­shoot that shall hence­forth be known as This Is Not A Pho­to Oppor­tu­ni­ty:
  Every time I think I can cope, there’s anoth­er close­up, and bam! I’m all out of cope again. *sur­ren­der­hands*

  28 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Sir Ian:
  I don’t regret Fassbender!Erik at all, but, man, now I’m going to lose many hours to imag­in­ing McAvoy!Charles oppo­site young!McKellan!Erik. And pos­si­bly McAvoy/young!McKellan.

  …Mmmmm. Yeah.

  28 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: X‑Men cov­er art — Rogue:
  I could stare at this all. day.

  28 Mar: pic­spam x‑men

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: “Just the bill, please.”:
  Bot­tom left, the shoul­der move­ment. That’s the moment that melts me.

  28 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Do you have any hid­den tal­ent?:
  I just, I love her. How did this hap­pen? How are you so charm­ing, Ms. Lawrence?

  28 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: A col­lar-shaped neck­lace…:
  Rel­e­vant, I say.

  It’s made of met­al. Prob­a­bly not mag­net­ic met­al, but X‑Men canon laughs at your science.

  28 Mar: pic­spam

• thoughtsnotunveiled.tumblr.com:
  “an inti­ma­cy from which they nev­er recovered”

  28 Mar: x‑men meta

• fuckyeahmagnus.tumblr.com: quote:
  “Mag­ne­to rep­re­sents strength and chal­lenges the neg­a­tive stereo­type of weak-bod­ied and small Jew­ish men. Large and mus­cu­lar, he gen­er­al­ly stands above oth­er characters…”

  27 Mar: x‑men meta

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Oro­ro & Jean fanart:
  Hearts in my eyes.

  27 Mar: x‑men fanart

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: McAvoy pics:
  ALL OF THE FRECKLES. WET HAIR AND SKIN. AND ALL OF THE FRECKLES.

  27 Mar: pic­spam

• fassbender-mcavoyobsessed.tumblr.com: McAvoy at the Empire awards:
  Ques­tion: Extra­or­di­nary chem­istry between you and Michael, can you talk a lit­tle bit about how you devel­oped that on screen and what it’s like to work with him?

  Answer: We had sex every morn­ing and that helps, you know, to make the chemistry.

  [video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yL6Ja-E11A&feature=player_embedded

  and addi­tion­al fan­nish com­men­tary: http://codenamecesare.tumblr.com/post/19973334271/lostwiginity-one-story-two-versions-you-can ]

  26 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Jen­nifer Lawrence pulling faces:
  I love her face THIS MUCH.

  26 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Caleb Landry Jones in L’Uomo:
  PRETTY HAIR AND POSTURE IS PRETTY.

  26 Mar: pic­spam

• theempressoftheuniverse.tumblr.com: Mag­ne­to’s her­itage:
  And as such, it’s my per­son­al head­canon that Erik came from a mixed Ger­man-Pol­ish family.

  25 Mar: x‑men meta

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Hunger Games, non-spoil­ery review:
  Went Fri­day night on an unex­pect­ed out­ing with folks who had not read the books. If I’d known this before the movie start­ed, I might have warned them that the premise is appalling and violent.

  Dur­ing the chariot/parade scene:

  Friend on my left: (whis­pers) They’re team­mates, right?

  26 Mar: hunger_games

• fanofthefass.tumblr.com: Mag­ne­to’s her­itage:
  Uh, let me cor­rect you on your his­to­ry there. Not all the camps were out­side Ger­many, and don’t for­get that near the end of the war when Ger­many start­ed los­ing, they tried to move the pris­on­ers to Germany…

  25 Mar: x‑men meta

• hymntothesun.tumblr.com: Mag­ne­to’s her­itage:
  In addi­tion, The Nazis weren’t all that wor­ried about deni­a­bil­i­ty con­sid­er­ing how ded­i­cat­ed they were to metic­u­lous­ly doc­u­ment­ing every­thing that went on inside and out­side of the camps.

  25 Mar: x‑men meta

• experimentalmadness.tumblr.com: Mag­ne­to’s her­itage:
  “The canon in the comics has been all over the place…”

  But rock on with clar­i­fy­ing his­tor­i­cal inac­cu­ra­cies, secret, rock on.

  25 Mar: x‑men meta

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: McAvoy pics:
  Top left: YOUNG MAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING THAT IS NOT FAIR STOP IT THIS INSANT NEVER STOP

  25 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Nar­nia gifs:
  Okay, fine, fuck you, Mr. Tum­nus, I admit it! YOU ARE CUTE. NOW GET OUT OF MY LIFE.

  25 Mar: pic­spam

• helens78.tumblr.com: Hay­wire:
  I also LOVE LOVE LOVE what this scene means in the movie.  This is the only instance of gra­tu­itous nudi­ty in Haywire.

  Let me say that again.

  A gor­geous man in a tow­el is the only instance of gra­tu­itous nudi­ty in Haywire.

  It’s an action movie with a female lead, and the “femme fatale” part is played by Michael Fass­ben­der, who has the only instance of gra­tu­itous nudi­ty in the film.

  22 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: From X‑Men: Super­novas, part 5. [page scan & tran­script]:
  [top pan­el, long shot of Xavier mansion]

  Uniden­ti­fied Speaker: The ver­dict of his­to­ry? What do you mean by that exactly?

  [sec­ond panel]

  Mystique: Pre­cise­ly what I say, Cable. How does the future remem­ber us?

  22 Mar: x‑men pic­spam

• ded­kake: Fan­f­ic: We’ll Be Just Fine:
  Author’s Summary:
  Hunger Games AU. Erik has sur­vived his final reap­ing, but Charles and Raven are still eligible.

  20 Mar: x‑men hunger_games crossover slash sfw charles/erik author.dedkake rec.all_fanfic

• demoiselledefortune.tumblr.com: prag­mati­cho­minid: Okay, this is pret­ty dif­fi­cult…:
  pragmatichominid:
  …I don’t think there are any fans of Erik (Or Mys­tique, or the Broth­er­hood in gen­er­al­ly, or what­ev­er) who DON’T acknowl­edge that the things he does are often prob­lem­at­ic as hell. He’s tak­en a fly­ing leap off the slip­pery slope more times than once, and as a result of that done shit that’s entire­ly inex­cus­able. If  you don’t own up to that then you aren’t engag­ing with the char­ac­ter honestly.

  But the prob­lem with the series is the framing. …

  demoi­sellede­for­tune:
  …the result is, for me, a char­ac­ter that is extreme­ly intrigu­ing, inter­est­ing and awe­some and at the same time often very winces induc­ing because the nar­ra­tive lends itself to the sort of tropes (in the text and from fan­nish com­men­tary) that make me want to throw my com­put­er against a wall.

  20 Mar: x‑men meta

• wondygirl.tumblr.com: scans from The X‑Men vs The Avengers #4:
  But this rais­es an inter­est­ing issue, should Mag­ne­to have used the hel­met and save a lot of mutants from being future vic­tims to big­ots despite Steve and the X‑Men’s moral objections?

  20 Mar: x‑men meta

• marvelbenders.tumblr.com: Nit­picky and slight­ly fem­i­nist XMFC post.:
  The thing that both­ers me the most about Charles being often slut-shamed in fic is that he is also the char­ac­ter who is most often por­trayed as being feminine. …

  20 Mar: x‑men meta

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Fass­ben­der gifs:
  That awk­ward moment when George Clooney prais­es your genitalia.

  18 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Prometheus gif:
  Who gave Mag­ne­to a palan­tir and what will he do with it?! This explains so much.

  (We all know what Bran­don Sul­li­van would do with a palan­tir. Now go wash your hands.)

  18 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Erik’s smile:
  …said, “Can you blame me? I’m too cute for you to blame me.” He’s still a troll, though.

  18 Mar: x‑men meta

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Raven in XMFC:
  Giv­en what Raven’s doing in X1, I under­stand why she was writ­ten this way, but now I real­ly want the movie about Mys­tique fuck­ing off and doing her own thing for a few years or twen­ty, and then even­tu­al­ly com­ing back to Mag­ne­to at least as much for strategic/ideological rea­sons as for need­ing per­son­al validation. …

  18 Mar: x‑men meta

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: re recent effort of jamesm­cavoy­with sloths:
  You have man­aged to make this pic look less ridicu­lous. I am AMAZED.
  18 Mar: none
• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Charles and Raven’s rela­tion­ship is envi­able:
  Except for the part where they were glo­ri­ous­ly code­pen­dent until he used her to… oh, wait, that’s the AU in my head. Nev­er mind, car­ry on.
  16 Mar: x‑men
• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Ship­ping:
  In any uni­verse where he non-con­sen­su­al­ly wipes her mem­o­ry, I can’t ship Charles/Moira. It’s too gross a betray­al. If canon com­pli­ance isn’t an option? Then go for it.
  16 Mar: x‑men
• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Jen­nifer Lawrence @ the Hunger Games Pre­miere…:
  The actress who was on fire. (Hunger Games pub­lic­i­ty: It metas itself.)
  13 Mar: none

Hunger Games & Catch­ing Fire book recaps — I’ve decid­ed that moviev­erse Hunger Games stuff falls into “six degrees of X‑Men” but book­verse does not.

• gyzym.tumblr.com: What…Just Hap­pened: An After­noon With The Hunger Games:
  Me, 11:15 AM: Oh, I’ll just read a cou­ple pages.
  Me, 11:35 AM: Oh, I’ll just read a cou­ple more pages.
  Me, 11:57 AM: God­damn it I, I have shit to do today. I’ll go buy cof­fee. I will put this book down. My resolve is strong.
  Me, 12:15 PM: My resolve is so not strong. My resolve is the oppo­site of strong. What is resolve? Do they have it in Panem?
  Me, 12:16 PM to 3:00 PM: NOTHING ON EARTH MATTERS EXCEPTING FINISHING THIS FUCKING BOOK

  So join me, tum­blr, on an ~excit­ing recap~ of my jour­ney through this life-killer of a nov­el. You will laugh! You will…no, you’ll prob­a­bly just laugh. At me. I don’t care; I must get it out of my brain before I like, break from san­i­ty and buy the next two on my com­put­er and end up bleed­ing out my eyes try­ing to fin­ish them as rapid­ly as pos­si­ble. I just. Hunger Games, what even are you.

  16 Mar: hunger_games

• gyzym.tumblr.com: Dear God, Why: An Evening With Catch­ing Fire:
  Me: Okay, I fin­ished The Hunger Games, and now I’m going to go about my busi­ness like a nor­mal per­son and pick up the next book when I have time.
  Catch­ing Fire: ~Wel­come to the Hotel California~
  Me: What?
  Catch­ing Fire: ~Last thing I remem­ber, I was run­ning for the door~
  Me: Dude, what the hell. You skipped the rest of the chorus.
  Catch­ing Fire: ~I had to find the pas­sage to the place I was before~
  Me: Okay, I get it. You’re real­ly cute. Shut up now.
  Catch­ing Fire: ~Relax, said the night­man, we are pro­grammed to receive~
  Me: STOP SINGING
  Catch­ing Fire: ~You can check out any time you like, but you can nev­er leaaaaaaaaave~
  Me: If you weren’t an ebook, I would set you on fire.
  Catch­ing Fire: Speak­ing of which, Ray Brad­bury called. He wants his dystopi­an future back.A word of advice, guys: any book whose siren song is Hotel Cal­i­for­nia is a book you want to avoid. These nov­els aren’t Tiffany twist­ed; they’re just twist­ed. TWISTED AND EVIL AND AFTER MY SOUL. With that said, please feel free to enjoy the fol­low-up to my Hunger Games recap…
  16 Mar: hunger_games

Oth­er stuff

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Myr­na Loy in fedo­ra and suit:
  Dooo iiiiiiit!

  I have two–one blue, one pink. I regret nothing.

  30 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Fass­ben­der in boots:
  It took me about ten refresh­es to get this pic­ture to load, but SO WORTH IT. *drool*

  30 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Black Wid­ow:
  My inter­est in the Avengers is near­ly zero, and yet every time she appears on my dash I get stuck.

  30 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Black Wid­ow:
  …She’s in Iron Man 2?? Maybe I will have to watch that some time.

  30 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: fuck­yeah­fan­ficflamin­go: EVERY WAKING MOMENT SPENT ON ELABORATE AU WORLDBUILD…:
  WAIT I DON’T REMEMBER SUBMITTING THIS.

  25 Mar: meta

• greekedtext.tumblr.com::
  I don’t know who this is, but I now declare him RELEVANT.

  25 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Catchy sum­maries:
  Sum­maries *are* hard! I want to play match­mak­er to the good writ­ers with ter­ri­ble sum­maries and the good sum­ma­riz­ers with the ter­ri­ble fics. Com­ple­men­tary skills ftw! Alas, I don’t know how to make that hap­pen with­out hurt­ing anyone’s feelings.

  25 Mar: meta

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: so I went to won­der­con:
  I didn’t see Fass­ben­der because I didn’t know he was going to be there. (Big con sched­ules con­fuse and demor­al­ize me.) OTOH, I attend­ed a fun pan­el on sci­ence in sci­ence fic­tion by Kurpin­s­ki & John­son, the bio­engi­neer­ing dudes who wrote How to Defeat Your Own Clone: And Oth­er Tips for Sur­viv­ing the Biotech Revolution.

  John­son was cos­play­ing the Eleventh Doc­tor. Best line came after they brought up the scene in The Matrix where Keanu down­loads all of the kung fu skillz. …

  22 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Faster ways to get an AO3 invite:
  20 Mar: none
• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Megan Fox, by Craig McDean, from Inter­view June/July 2010.:
  o.O <— dis­turbed, baf­fled, aroused

  20 Mar: pic­spam

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: helens78: fuck­yeah­fan­ficflamin­go: Fic sum­m­maries:
  “In a world where” is cliched and unnec­es­sary ver­biage = not a good sign. But I would drop every­thing to read a fic whose sum­ma­ry start­ed, “Aliens have—” Sci­ence fic­tion for the win.

  19 Mar: meta

• eggplantavenger.tumblr.com: Bane was giv­ing out free shrugs…:
  [I laughed and laughed. ‑L]

  18 Mar: won­der­con pic­spam

• keaneoncomics.tumblr.com: adorable tintin cos­play:
  18 Mar: pic­spam won­der­con
• greekedtext.tumblr.com: trololol:
  It’s all fun and games until some­one gets arrested.

  18 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Jen­nifer Mor­ri­son in a suit and tie:
  18 Mar: pic­spam
• greekedtext.tumblr.com: RTMI:
  Katharine Hep­burn as Ama­zon war­rior princess Antiope & Col­in Kei­th-John­ston as The­seus in stage pro­duc­tion of The Warrior’s Hus­band (1932)18 Mar: none
• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Offi­cial Rules for Spoil­ers (video):
  1) Reblog­ging for the part after the—well, this isn’t real­ly a spoil­er, but—damn.
  2) My sis­ter is still unspoiled for the series finale of Buffy. I deserve a god­damn prize.
  12 Mar: none

Far more X‑Men meta than fic recs in this linkspam, y’all. If you haven’t seen it yet, do not miss the one about the Ori­gins: Mag­ne­to script! Also, inter­est­ing Sher­lock meta.

I haven’t been pin­board-ing all of the posts that I “liked” on tum­blr, but if you’re inter­est­ed in screen­caps and fanart most­ly of a Fas­savoy nature, there’s the link.

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: On whether Mag­ne­to keeps kosher:

  …They were fire and steel, his parents.

  11 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Raven & Charles:

  Raven NEVER calls him her broth­er. He only says she’s his sis­ter ONCE—when he’s flirt­ing with some­one else. When they’re in pri­vate, the word they use for each oth­er is “friend”.

  I don’t think she’s in love with him… 

  11 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: If the sequel is going to be “Mag­ne­to cen­tric”…:

  Most­ly I want the sequel to be an enter­tain­ing movie with plot and char­ac­ter­i­za­tion that make some kind of vague sense*. That cos­tume at the end of XMFC? Utter madness. …

  11 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: My new band name:

  Cam­ou­flage Cof­fee Days

  11 Mar: none

• brown­bet­ty: It’s like play­ing cliff/cliff/cliff:

  As you may be aware, a prob­lem with Tony Stark, specif­i­cal­ly, pair­ing Tony Stark, is who do you want to inflict him on? I was dis­cussing this with Em, and told her that this was not actu­al­ly a prob­lem; you just import ass­holes from oth­er canons. I think this is a very promis­ing approach!

  09 Mar: meta bat­man lever­age smal­l­ville x‑men

• euphorbic.tumblr.com: So, when I was a lit­tle kid, read­ing X‑Men comics,…:

  So, mag­ne­tos. There are sev­er­al dif­fer­ent kinds, but on the whole they boil down to this: gen­er­a­tors of elec­tric­i­ty through mag­net­ic fields by way of per­ma­nent magnets. 

  His­tor­i­cal­ly speak­ing, they’re pret­ty inef­fi­cient and weak. Their weak­ness makes them a poor choice for mod­ern land-bound vehi­cles, but the reli­a­bil­i­ty (and long-last­ing) natures makes them excel­lent for use in dis­as­ter situations. 

  The elec­tri­cal dia­gram above (snagged from Wikipedia) shows a sim­ple igni­tion mag­ne­to elec­tri­cal cir­cuit to the spark plugs. …

  09 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Brandon/Wesley gif:

  I would like to see the crossover where Bran­don and Wes­ley are acquaint­ed as cowork­ers before Wesley’s recruit­ment into the Fraternity.

  09 Mar: shame want­ed

• A Soft­er First Class: Glimps­ing the future:

  09 Mar: x‑men

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Dear­est wish­es for the sequel…:

  Mine is for Charles to get cap­tured and tak­en to a Facil­i­ty of Evil Sci­ence, where he is fit­ted with some kind of telepa­thy-sup­press­ing device (of course he’s trau­ma­tized by the sud­den silence in his head). His cap­tors don’t both­er to cage him like they have the oth­er cap­tive mutants; they just take his chair away and lock him in a lab.

  And then he escapes by drag­ging him­self through an air duct and then, IDK, he uses a Clever Ruse to dis­tract most of the guards. …

  09 Mar: x‑men

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: On the per­ils of writ­ing sex:

  Obvi­ous solu­tions are god­damned obvi­ous. If you can’t fig­ure out any, then you don’t know enough about sex and you aren’t a good enough nar­ra­tive styl­ist to pro­duce a hot gay sex scene, any­way. /BOFQ

  06 Mar: none

• when the road bends — by sabinela­grande — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  “That’s life around here,” Raven says, swirling her glass slow­ly to watch the last drops roll around the sides. “One day you’re a wait­ress, a year lat­er, you’re halfway around the world, fuck­ing a guy who wears a cape.” 

  It says some­thing that Angel does­n’t even laugh, just makes a noise of com­mis­er­a­tion. “You need anoth­er,” Emma says, stand­ing up and tak­ing Raven’s glass, even though Raven’s not entire­ly sure that she does.

  05 Mar: x‑men fan­f­ic het nsfw erik/raven author.sabinelagrande rec.all_fanfic

• codenamecesare.tumblr.com: Quot­ing McAvoy on Atone­ment:

  So not only does McAvoy ship him­self with Fass­ben­der for us, he’s also a fan of whump and angst.

  05 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Head­canon for Charles and Erik’s body­types -> Charles and Raven:

  Not only did Charles box in school, he also taught Raven to box. 

  (In my head­canon, that is.) 

  Aside from the telepa­thy and the shapeshift­ing, he always just assumed she could learn to do every­thing he could, and vice ver­sa. Some­times this end­ed in tears and acri­mo­ny, but most of the time it worked out well, and they both became more than they ever imag­ined they could be.

  05 Mar: none

• With Love, S.H. » Time­line: A Layman’s Guide to the Holmes/Watson Rela­tion­ship:

  …a more or less chrono­log­i­cal (hard to do as not all the sto­ries are dat­ed, or dat­ed cor­rect­ly) sum­ma­ry of their rela­tion­ship, along with the key Holmes/Watson sto­ries all new­com­ers to the pair­ing should read.

  03 Mar: sher­lock

• Tab­u­la Rasa — by o2doko — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  [Explo­ration of telepathy–Erik learns to speak Charles’s lan­guage. Implied asexuality.]

  03 Mar: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.o2doko rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Not ducks:

  What­ev­er they are, I think they’re cos­play­ing Fan­f­ic Flamingo.

  03 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: The kilt makes James McAvoy look even short­er…:

  …This thought pleas­es me.

  02 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Grimm gifs:

  Am sud­den­ly feel­ing less meh about Grimm. How did the Blut­bad get cus­tody of Cap­tain America’s shield?

  02 Mar: none

• Sarah Rees Bren­nan — Thinkin’ About Adap­ta­tions:

  A rule of good adap­ta­tions for me… do some­thing new, do some­thing cool, do some­thing dif­fer­ent because you are work­ing in a dif­fer­ent space/time/medium/philosophy from the orig­i­nal. Make peo­ple have fun and make them think. 

  [On Lucy Liu as Watson.]

  01 Mar: sher­lock meta

• Mon­sters — by Ser­mocinare — fan­dom Watch­men — All Media Types, X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: While going after one of Shaw’s asso­ciates, Erik reveals the truth about Adri­an’s father, forc­ing a teenage Adri­an to deal with what he has learned. 

  [Wow. I would like to see more about how this plays into Adri­an’s even­tu­al trans­for­ma­tion into Ozy­man­dias. ‑L]

  01 Mar: x‑men watch­men fan­f­ic gen sfw author.Sermocinare rec.all_fanfic

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: Teacher and Vice Prin­ci­pal ignore harass­ment of gay teen, say it’s his fault for com­ing out:

  Click through to read the sto­ry and get email address­es to write to. Here’s the text of a good let­ter some­one wrote. And some­one dug up the school’s mis­sion state­ment, which may also help you to artic­u­late what’s wrong with this situation. 

  If you know of a sit­u­a­tion like this, want to do some­thing about it and don’t know where to start, I sug­gest start­ing a peti­tion on Change.org, and check out their Tips & Guides.

  01 Mar: none

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: man there’s a rea­son peo­ple write speech­es:

  [San­to­rum gifs and quote. I make a fun­ny. ‑L]

  01 Mar: none

• emotionallyunavailableunicorn.tumblr.com: Storm­ne­to:

  Triv­ia: Chris Clare­mont actu­al­ly planned for Erik/Ororo to be a canon ship in the 80s and as such, it was heav­i­ly hint­ed at through­out his run. 

  [Com­ic pan­els pro­vid­ed as evi­dence. ‑L]

  01 Mar: x‑men

• gyzym.tumblr.com: Super­nat­ur­al, As Explained By Tum­blr:

  Alright, cards on the table: guys, I have nev­er seen an episode of Super­nat­ur­al, and don’t real­ly intend to! But, despite this, I kind of feel like I know what’s going on, because I, er, have a tum­blr, and tum­blr seems to enjoy Super­nat­ur­al. So this is a sum­ma­ry of the show …

  29 Feb: none

• brown­bet­ty: Erik Lehn­sh­err, camp coun­cil­lor would be like my birth­day:

  A thing I have recent­ly real­ized is that, although the “trans­plant­ed cast” AU is not gen­er­al­ly my thing, any sto­ry that puts Erik Lehn­sh­err in the posi­tion of pro­vid­ing moral guid­ance, or as an author­i­ty fig­ure to teenagers (or just adults younger than him) is auto­mat­i­cal­ly* awe­some. Some exam­ples, so you can see what I mean: …

  28 Feb: x‑men recs

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: first­class­con­fes­sions:

  …cheers for Lau­rence Belch­er, who is adorable not only as wee Charles but also as wee Kazran in Doc­tor Who: A Christ­mas Carol. 

  But now I want the X‑Men movie of wee Charles and wee Raven’s adven­tures. Using their pow­ers to play pranks on adults, falling out of trees, etc. 

  28 Feb: x‑men

• Cyg: Mean­while, in 1941:

  Rex Stout was busy trolling the Bak­er Street Irreg­u­lars with his “Wat­son was a Woman” theory: 

  “…Change the dic­tion, and it is prac­ti­cal­ly a love sto­ry by Ring Lardner.”

  28 Feb: sher­lock meta

• greekedtext.tumblr.com: GIFs from Shame­less:

  In Fiona’s place, I would accept this apol­o­gy, too.

  27 Feb: none

• ofunicorndust.tumblr.com: CBS has cast Lucy Liu as Wat­son in Ele­men­tary.  …:

  Going through the ele­men­tary tag is like mac­ing myself; bla­tant inter­nal­ized misog­y­ny and mis­placed con­cern over the cast­ing all over the place! 

  There are some valid con­cerns list­ed in this post (legit­i­mate, well-rea­soned con­cerns!) but the fact that a lot of peo­ple are imme­di­ate­ly jump­ing over the ‘het­ero­sex­u­al­iza­tion’ of the Holmes/Watson rela­tion­ship and dis­miss the pro­gres­sive act of cast­ing Lucy Liu, an Asian-Amer­i­can actress and woman of col­or, in the role of a main­stream white male pop­u­lar icon as ‘not real­ly pro­gres­sive’ real­ly bugs me. …

  27 Feb: meta

• spiftynifty.tumblr.com: Leaked X‑Men Ori­gins: Mag­ne­to script (sum­ma­rized by Meg):

  As you may know, the script for the once-planned Mag­ne­to Ori­gins has been leaked. You can get it here. 

  It’s like 115 pages long and I don’t have the patience. Luck­i­ly my friend Meg actu­al­ly did read the whole thing! And was super help­ful and pro­vid­ed me with these fan­tas­tic sum­maries of it. The short one is fun­ny but the longer one BLOWS MY MIND. Seri­ous­ly Meg, you win all the awards. Best sum­maries ever below: …

  27 Feb: x‑men

• Our Doors are now Open­ing! | Orga­ni­za­tion for Trans­for­ma­tive Works:

  Our Open Doors are now open­ing wide to at-risk archives! The first gen­er­a­tion mass archive importer is now ready for test­ing: this importer will allow us to import archives built on the pop­u­lar ‘Auto­mat­ed Archive’ soft­ware into the Archive of Our Own. … 

  Our test case for the importer will be the Smal­l­ville Slash Archive, which was host­ed by fan­nish leg­end Mino­taur. Mino­taur sad­ly passed away in 2009, and his fan­nish execu­tors approached us to see whether we would be able to help ensure the site he sup­port­ed did not dis­ap­pear with him. … 

  If you have work on an archive which is sched­uled for import, or you are just gen­er­al­ly inter­est­ed in how this will work, check out the Open Doors FAQ. 

  …Our sec­ond test case will be the Yule­tide archive, one of the newest and most com­plex iter­a­tions of the Auto­mat­ed Archive code. Once we’ve done these two archives and fig­ured out any bugs, we’ll be look­ing to import more at-risk archives…

  26 Feb: none

So it turns out I lied about not post­ing to Tum­blr… but for the con­ve­nience of non-Tum­blr­ers, I’ll bring stuff back here via Pinboard.

Things I said on Tumblr:

• McAvoy pic and Charles/Erik snip­pet:
  While this is indeed quite hot and RTMI, for me this pic is all about Steve McBride. In my head­canon for his adven­tures after series 2 of Shame­less, he still some­times puts on respectable mid­dle-class drag and tells peo­ple he’s a salesman.
  24 Feb: x‑men shame­less meta
• Fash­ion-inspired X‑Men plot bun­nies:
  26 Feb: none
• James McAvoy pic:
  Steve McBride, post-canon. Am I the only one ship­ping him with Bran­don Sullivan?
  25 Feb: shame shame­less
• [X‑Men vol. 2 #96] Mag­ne­to is will­ing to kill eleven mutants…:
  Jack Hark­ness has done worse.
  24 Feb: x‑men torch­wood
• Meta: I, too, want angry-rugby-bamf!Charles…:
  But X‑Men: Sec­ond Class would be an excel­lent time to have Charles & co res­cue the Broth­er­hood. It’s not easy, but under­neath the veneer of opti­mism Charles has a bit­ter streak and he’s going to show up his ex-boyfriend if it’s the last thing he does. End the sec­ond movie with the two teams as uneasy allies.

  X‑Men: Third Class starts with Charles and Erik both teach­ing at the school and work­ing togeth­er on var­i­ous projects. But their dif­fer­ences have been tak­ing a slow toll, and Erik still secret­ly resents Charles’s high-hand­ed deci­sions in XM2C. When they face the new cri­sis (I’m sure the third movie will have to have some plot oth­er than Charles and Erik’s rela­tion­ship, but what­ev­er), all the sup­pressed con­flicts come boil­ing out. Ulti­mate­ly, it ends in anoth­er trag­ic divorce, set­ting things up to lead into the orig­i­nal X‑Men movie.

  And then maybe they can do the post-orig­i­nal-tril­o­gy movie in which it becomes canon that the Scar­let Witch was respon­si­ble for the events of The Last Stand.

  24 Feb: x‑men meta

And now some recs and oth­er links:

• Grace — Chap­ter 1 — by Yahtzee — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011), X‑Men — All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]:
  [Sum­ma­ry: A few years after Charles leaves the priest­hood to be with Erik, their rela­tion­ship faces a crisis.

  Uh, you know how in comics canon Mag­ne­to had a small daugh­ter who died in a fire? This sto­ry is relat­ed to that painful his­to­ry in a way that… well, there was some uncon­trol­lable sob­bing on my part.

  This sto­ry is dev­as­tat­ing and bit­ter­sweet, a per­fect fol­lowup to Yahtzee’s “Sacra­ment”, and like “Sacra­ment” it con­cludes with a sense of love and ten­der­ness and hope glow­ing through the whole world.

  But it goes beyond “Sacra­ment”, achiev­ing a com­bi­na­tion of suf­fer­ing and hope that reminds me of synec­dochic’s “Free­dom’s Just Anoth­er Word For Noth­ing Left To Lose”. And that’s your warn­ing. ‑L]

  26 Feb: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik angst author.Yahtzee rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• my bat­tles, tooth and nail — by tomato_greens — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:
  [Under 250 words, Sharon Xavier pov, with a sur­pris­ing amount of sto­ry. Mind the warn­ings. ‑L]
  26 Feb: x‑men fan­f­ic sfw author.tomato_greens rec.all_fanfic
• How Are You I’m Fine Thanks:
  Oh look Pal­pa­tine ordered two strip­pers dressed like Jedi.
  22 Feb: none
• Hels Yeah: pic and meta re Shame:
  A still shot that last­ed for­ev­er in the movie, but I was still riv­et­ed every sec­ond. I must admit: if it’d been a guy less good-look­ing than Fass­ben­der, I might have found the length of that……… shot…….. tedious.
  22 Feb: meta.any_fandom
• Read­ing the X‑Men: uncan­ny x‑men 375:
  [Where­in Pro­fes­sor X is a dick. ‑L]
  20 Feb: x‑men
• Hels Yeah::
  I actu­al­ly have a dif­fer­ent rea­son for not writ­ing Erik-speak­ing-Ger­man into fic, which is that (at least in my hazy mem­o­ries) we sim­ply didn’t see it in the comics very often.

  [Meta on Erik’s eth­nic­i­ty and lan­guage use. It’s my head­canon that Erik’s fam­i­ly is actu­al­ly Ger­man *and* Pol­ish. ‑L]

  20 Feb: x‑men meta.any_fandom

• Toller­an­za — by Res­o­nant — fan­dom Cap­tain Amer­i­ca (2011), Mar­vel Avengers Movies Uni­verse [Archive of Our Own]:
  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: Com­man­dos era. Steve goes to a broth­el and learns something.

  19 Feb: avengers captain_america fan­f­ic nsfw het slash author.Resonant rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• daas­gr­rl: Vid: Cat’s in the Cra­dle (House/Sherlock/Fortysomething crossover):
  Sum­ma­ry: In the begin­ning, there was Sher­lock Holmes. And Holmes brought forth the bril­liant doc­tor House, embod­ied by the love­ly Hugh Lau­rie. Who pri­or to that in Fortysome­thing played a slight­ly less bril­liant doc­tor, Paul Slip­pery, who begat three sons, the eldest of whom was played by the equal­ly-love­ly-if-some­what-pecu­liar­ly-named Bene­dict Cum­ber­batch. Who of course grew up to play Sher­lock. And the Uni­verse looked upon its work and pro­nounced it good. And then my head exploded.
  19 Feb: fan­vid sher­lock house alternate_universe rec.all_vids
• alara_works: X‑Men Moviev­erse: Who Pays, When The Price of Self Is Soul? (today):
  She was sell­ing her­self to buy her­self back. Trad­ing her soul for her identity.

  [Writ­ten 2007-04-16, post-X3
  Warn­ing: some non-explic­it but still gross dub­con in the first two scenes. ‑L]

  18 Feb: x‑men fan­f­ic sfw mys­tique mag­ne­to nathaniel_essex author.alara_works rec.all_fanfic

• jamesfuckingmcavoy.tumblr.com: boykiss­ing:

  [What is this I approve of this can there be more? ‑L]

  14 Feb: none

• mcavoystummy.tumblr.com: hap­py valentine’s day charles/erik ship­pers!…:

  hap­py valentine’s mag­ne­to baby

  [I can­not believe this song is so awe­some. ‑L]

  13 Feb: x‑men slash sfw music

• A Slay­er’s Work Is Nev­er Done — by Gryphon­rhi — fan­dom due South, Buffy the Vam­pire Slay­er [Archive of Our Own]:

  “So I dove into that riv­er, boots and all, with the ice chunks still going down­stream and Buck hold­ing onto the rope because he always was big­ger than I was– Am I bor­ing you?”

  Buffy nev­er looked up from the axe she was hon­ing, her hands remark­ably steady con­sid­er­ing how cold she was. Her leather armor was intact, but it was cov­ered with a bor­rowed, out­sized, par­tial­ly holed sweater and too-large wool pants that she’d final­ly rolled up and tied to her boots. She real­ly was­n’t sure when they’d find her, and trip­ping over her own (bor­rowed) pants would just be bad. “Nope. Riv­er, boots, is Buck still alive?”

  “Of course he is,” the ghost said indig­nant­ly, hands on his leather and fur-cov­ered hips.

  13 Feb: due_south btvs crossover fan­f­ic gen author.Gryphonrhi rec.all_fanfic

• What The Pig’s Heart Wants — by helens78 — fan­dom The Mup­pets (2011), Mup­pet Show, X‑Men: First Class (2011) RPF [Archive of Our Own] :

  The frog’s nose scrunched up as he watched the inter­view footage roll in.  “Just going to the BAF­TAs,” he mut­tered, “all I want to do is con­grat­u­late the nom­i­nees and look at the dress­es,” he mut­tered, “I promise, the teen­sy-ween­sy liai­son avec Brad is over and done with, noth­ing to wor­ry about,” he muttered.

  But there was Pig­gy, resplen­dent in her mauve Louis Vuit­ton gown, trad­ing quips and teas­es and jokes with Best Actor nom­i­nee Michael Fass­ben­der, even going so far as to declare the ris­ing young star “naughty”.

  13 Feb: fan­f­ic sfw mup­pets rpf crossover crack­f­ic author.helens78 rec.all_fanfic

• anony­mous: Not so good advice (warn­ings for past child abuse/neglect):

  The prompt: One day when Charles isn’t real­ly think­ing (or maybe he is and he is gen­uine­ly con­fused over why every­one else thinks its not so great advice because thats what he was taught) about it he gives hor­ri­ble advice or does some­thing that makes it painful­ly obvi­ous how wrong his child­hood was.

  13 Feb: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik rec.all_fanfic

• engelen.tumblr.com: hap­py valen­tine’s day, com­mu­ni­ty!:

  [Com­mu­ni­ty-themed cards. ‑L]

  13 Feb: fanart

• jamesfuckingmcavoy.tumblr.com: Sex­i­ness:

  [It’s just one pic­ture, but I felt it was impor­tant to share with you this com­pelling evi­dence that his pho­to­genic qual­i­ties actu­al­ly warp space and time. ‑L]

  12 Feb: none

• James McAvoy with Sloths:

  [weep­ing with laughter]

  11 Feb: none

• elbrujo421.tumblr.com: Rub a dub:

  [McAvoy’s mutant pow­er. I can’t decide if this is cute or creepy. Cru­pey? ‑L]

  08 Feb: x‑men

• tawabids: The Dynamo in Win­ter:

  If they did­n’t have the plant — and the four oth­ers like it, plus sev­en more in con­struc­tion, each dras­ti­cal­ly dif­fer­ent designs to take advan­tage of a dif­fer­ent mutan­t’s pow­ers — they would prob­a­bly be back in the dark ages by now. As it is, elec­tric­i­ty rations and sky­rock­et­ing pri­vate prices are already mak­ing life hell for most peo­ple – but not the mutants still fight­ing against Shaw’s futur­ists. They are pro­vid­ed with every­thing they could desire, in return for every­thing they can give.

  [Oh, god, my heart, please stop break­ing. ‑L]

  08 Feb: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik alternate_universe angst author.tawabids rec.all_fanfic

• It Is What It Always Is — by helens78 — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Charles knows what Erik is and what he needs.

  07 Feb: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik pwp author.helens78 rec.all_fanfic

• alias_sqbr: The strange appeal of hate­ship­ping:

  [Meta with vid & fic recs]

  07 Feb: none

• etirabys: Nanda­go Da Senya [1/1]:

  His hatred is being starved of fuel, and at the same time he is being weaned off it.

  [Kinky, trip­py, and extra­or­di­nary. ‑L]

  05 Feb: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.Etirabys rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless via:ratcreature

• X‑Men Reverse Bang:

  This is the X‑Men Reverse Bang Com­mu­ni­ty, a chal­lenge where artists make art that author’s then claim to write a sto­ry off.

  05 Feb: none

• Enjoy­ing an Indif­fer­ent Domes­tic­i­ty — by sinuous_curve — fan­dom X‑Men — All Media Types, X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Erik touch­es the tips of his fin­gers to his bot­tom lip. “Would you have me as your lit­tle wife, Charles?” he asks, in that decep­tive­ly light tone that shat­ters Charles. It’s so care­less, and he only uses it when they’re caught up in moments where they are so deeply clawed into each oth­er that sep­a­ra­tion seems like a night­mare. “I’m not par­tic­u­lar­ly obedient.”

  “I don’t want obedience.”

  “Liar,” Erik says, lean­ing for­ward in his chair. He rests his elbows on his knees and looks at Charles with the fond­ness of a preda­tor cir­cling in for the kill.

  04 Feb: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik author.sinuous_curve rec.all_fanfic

• Live Life Like I Bleed (Too Much) — by lady_krysis — fan­dom X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry:
  Alex is nev­er sent to prison, so instead, he finds a fight club. Mod­ern-day AU.

  Excerpt:
  He’d done some time but not near­ly enough, and he’d stayed too low key in the joint and earned an ear­ly release.

  His face is throb­bing, and the room upstairs feels like a maze he has to nav­i­gate just to find a door and even­tu­al­ly, some fresh air. It’s still dark out, which Alex takes as anoth­er good sign as he looks left and right. His vision’s blurred, but he can see well enough to watch the row of street lights that aren’t bust­ed flick­er. The crap light­ing isn’t a sur­prise. It’s not like the city’s going to put mon­ey into a dive.

  Alex turns his head and spits to add to the run­down atmos­phere. It’s not enough mois­ture to get rid of the cot­ton-dry feel­ing in his mouth or the taste of blood when he licks his lips. He can feel the blood crust­ed on his face, and he uses the back of his hand to half-heart­ed­ly make him­self appear decent enough to catch a cab, maybe the bus if he can man­age to walk that far.

  “Name’s Dar­win,” some­one says to his left.

  [I don’t even read this pair­ing, but… ‑L]

  02 Feb: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw darwin/havok author.lady_krysis rec.all_fanfic

• seuss­ian: Gen­der­swap Project #3: X‑Men: First Class!:

  31 Jan: pic­spam

• seuss­ian: Gen­der­swap Project #6: The Avengers!:

  31 Jan: pic­spam

• Many Kinds Of Man, Many Kinds Of Body Wash — by helens78 — fan­dom Old Spice Com­mer­i­cals [Archive of Our Own]:

  Cer­tain­ly the scent of Old Spice body wash waft­ing past my nose calls to a cer­tain ide­al­ized image of man, but in fact there are many ladies out there whose noses might ask, nay, demand Old Spice body wash to call their very own.

  And I see no rea­son those women should­n’t have what they ask for. Some ladies have been known to walk past me, scent of Old Spice tan­ta­liz­ing each and every iota of my being, and when they find me near a dark alley, sud­den­ly I’m not on my horse, I’m under their spell, moved by strong hands and strong arms and pushed against a brick wall. The brick wall shat­ters beneath the pow­er of the lady’s inten­tions and desire, and we tum­ble past it into a bed of flower petals, strewn there in hopes of pleas­ing her. 

  [Peg­ging with D/s over­tones. ‑L]

  31 Jan: fan­f­ic het nsfw author.helens78 rec.all_fanfic rec.funny

• cesare: in re the telepa­thy of charles fran­cis xavier, phd phd phd phd phd:

  …whether Charles Xavier should be pitied because he’s asked not to read the minds of the peo­ple close to him. Turtle­totem makes the point that this depends a lot on how you per­ceive the nature of Charles’s abil­i­ty. Is his telepa­thy a “sixth sense” that’s always active unless he works to block out oth­ers’ thoughts? Or is it a pow­er that he has to exert in order to per­ceive oth­ers’ thoughts?

  …The peo­ple around him aren’t oblig­at­ed to sac­ri­fice their pri­va­cy for Charles’s com­fort. But Raven is angry that Charles fails to hear her after she told him to cov­er his ears.

  29 Jan: x‑men meta

Back­logged recs are backlogged.

• win­ter­hill — Owned — Michael Fass­ben­der with Pugs (Tum­blr) [Archive of Our Own]:

  It was quite unusu­al, real­ly, that Pugs­ley had made a Tum­blr in the first place. What came after that was just down­right weird.

  01 Jan: fan­f­ic gen author.winterhill rec.all_fanfic rec.funny

• Name­less — C. Elisa — Novem­ber 17, 2003:

  She was sup­posed to have anoth­er name but no one gave it to her yet.

  [The gram­mar there looks a bit odd, but it’s cor­rect in con­text. ‑L]

  26 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.C_Elisa rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• gyzym: avengers fic: ready, fire, aim (steve/tony, nc-17) [1/3]:

  It turns out that, while Steve does­n’t like Tony, Cap­tain Amer­i­ca gets on great with Iron Man. Tony should prob­a­bly have seen that one com­ing; one of the prob­lems with hav­ing a sec­ond iden­ti­ty, regard­less of said iden­ti­ty’s utter lack of secre­cy, is that it makes it easy for peo­ple to draw a divid­ing line. Nick Fury had done it–“Iron Man yes, Tony Stark not rec­om­mend­ed,” god, that was nev­er going to stop rub­bing him the wrong way–and Steve is clear­ly, vis­i­bly, doing it too. Nev­er mind that all the good Iron Man does is because Tony is, you know, run­ning the show; Iron Man gets smiles and cama­raderie and “Nice work, bud­dy,” and Tony gets flat looks and care­ful­ly main­tained distance.

  Which is fine, real­ly. Two can absolute­ly play at that game.

  26 Dec: avengers fan­f­ic slash steve_rogers/tony_stark author.gyzym rec.all_fanfic nsfw

• flam­beau: SGA: Over the hills and far away:

  [A sub­tle and dis­turb­ing take on the “Shep is a fairy” con­cept. ‑L]

  26 Dec: stargate_atlantis fan­f­ic gen author.flambeau rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• trin­i­ty­o­fone: X by trin­i­ty­o­fone (Super­pow­er Chal­lenge):

  “You know why they’re send­ing you.”

  Eliz­a­beth nod­ded. “Of course. It’s an explorato­ry mission—”

  “No.” The coin spun in Gen­er­al O’Neill’s hand, beside Gen­er­al O’Neill’s hand. “You know why they’re send­ing you.”

  Eliz­a­beth took a breath. She longed to reach out and—but no. She’d been warned; Gen­er­al O’Neill would not, did not react favor­ably to that.

  26 Dec: stargate_atlantis x‑men fusion fan­f­ic gen sfw author.trinityofone rec.all_fanfic

• mad_maudlin: SGA: The Surly Bonds of Earth (PG-13):

  In the fourth month, John put the Plan into action. He would not actu­al­ly call it a whis­per cam­paign or a seces­sion­ist plot, because while he thought of it as “the Plan” the first steps were real­ly just long con­ver­sa­tions and ram­bling emails with ques­tions like “Would­n’t it be great if…?” or “You know, I kin­da miss…”

  26 Dec: stargate_atlantis fan­f­ic gen sfw author.mad_maudlin rec.all_fanfic

• cher­ryfeath­er — Dia­mag­net­ism — X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Alex looked extreme­ly dubi­ous. “Erik, are you sure about this?”

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: Erik dis­cov­ers a new pow­er dur­ing a train­ing accident.

  26 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw charles/erik author.cherryfeather rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• intro­duc­to­ry: fic: x‑men: first class — “body next to anoth­er”:

  It occurs to Erik in the mid­dle of nego­ti­at­ing Charles’s dai­ly sleep­ing sched­ule that this was­n’t remote­ly what he had expect­ed when Charles first leaned in and kissed him.

  It occurs to him, too, that, despite every­thing, this works for him.

  26 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic het slash charles/erik charles/moira author.introductory rec.all_fanfic

• aes­theti­cized: (fic) nar­cis­sus // raven/charles, raven/various:

  raven/charles, raven/erik, raven/azazel, raven/angel, raven/destiny | r | 2860 words

  [sex, vague allu­sion to intol­er­ance (homophobia/sexism), non-main char­ac­ter death, sort-of incest]

  Raven doesn’t have a type, but she knows how to be one. Or: Raven is pan­sex­u­al, polyamorous, gen­der­flu­id, and blue. It’s difficult.

  26 Dec: fan­f­ic het slash author.aestheticized rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Cesare — What The Knife Wants — X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: Erik and Charles each keep one thing secret from the other.

  25 Dec: fan­f­ic gen sfw author.Cesare angst rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• smile­back­wards: Shared Cus­tody [X‑Men: First Class fic]:

  “Are those from Charles?” Raven asks, when Azazel sets sev­er­al box­es of tup­per­ware down on the counter of the hotel suite they’re all cur­rent­ly liv­ing out of.

  Azazel bare­ly has time to nod before she’s ripped open the clos­est box and inhaled three of the choco­late chip cook­ies from the batch Charles sent back with him after what was quick­ly becom­ing a tra­di­tion­al week­ly phi­los­o­phy dis­cus­sion at the Xavier mansion.

  “I baked far too many,” Charles had said, wav­ing off Azazel’s protests air­i­ly before his hand drooped depres­sive­ly and he’d added, “I keep for­get­ting to halve the recipe now that there’s few­er of us in the house.” He’d smiled brave­ly and boxed up anoth­er dozen.

  As Azazel had been turn­ing to leave, Charles had made a faint, embar­rassed throat clear­ing noise and said, soft­ly, “Do make sure there are a few left for Erik. If he wants them.”

  Erik is going to eat at least one of the cook­ies if Azazel has to shove it down his throat.

  24 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic slash het sfw charles/erik raven/azazel author.smilebackwards rec.all_fanfic

• stew­ardess — A Cure Through Love — A Dan­ger­ous Method (2011), The Last Sta­tion (2009), X‑Men: First Class (2011) RPF [Archive of Our Own]:

  Case Notes of Carl Jung

  Valentin weighs on my mind. Dur­ing our ses­sion yes­ter­day, the boy became dis­traught and broke down in tears. I’ve had him moved from the hos­pi­tal to more home­like accom­mo­da­tions a short dis­tance away. His trip to Zurich is his first out­side his coun­try; I believe he suf­fers from loneliness.

  Lone­li­ness, how­ev­er, was not the rea­son for his col­lapse: Valentin has formed the belief I intend to stop him from being an adher­ent of Tol­stoy by tear­ing down his idol.

  24 Dec: fan­f­ic slash nsfw author.stewardess epis­to­lary rec.all_fanfic

• Signe (oxonien­sis) — A Bet­ter Sto­ry — X‑Men: First Class (2011), X‑Men (Movies), Mar­vel (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: Some­times hap­py end­ings aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

  23 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic author.Signe rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• igrock­spock — No One’s Bait — Sher­lock (TV) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Mori­ar­ty takes Anthea hostage, and it does­n’t go as planned.

  18 Dec: sher­lock fan­f­ic gen sfw author.igrockspock rec.all_fanfic

• Nan­cy­Brown — Digita1 Gir1 — Torch­wood [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: AU. Lisa is human. Mostly.

  18 Dec: torch­wood fan­f­ic sfw ianto_jones.lisa_hallet jack_harkness.ianto_jones author.NancyBrown rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Dira Sud­is (dsud­is) — And All Its Clear Rela­tions — Vorkosi­gan Saga — Lois McMas­ter Bujold, Doc­tor Who [Archive of Our Own]:

  “Aral,” Simon said, “Your per­son­al secu­ri­ty is–”

  “I know what the blue box is, Simon.” It was stretch­ing, but Aral knew he was going to have to push hard to keep Simon from doing things for Aral’s own good. “It does­n’t con­sti­tute a threat, except per­haps to my hon­or, if I for­swear myself by being rude to the man it belongs to.”

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: In which the Doc­tor takes Amy on a hol­i­day to Bar­ra­yar and hard­ly any­thing goes wrong at all.

  17 Dec: doctor_who vorkosi­gan fan­f­ic crossover gen sfw author.dsudis rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• toes­taste­good — Urban Leg­end — X‑Men: First Class (2011), X‑Men (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]:

  For all that he claims not to believe in super­sti­tions, there is not a sin­gle mir­ror in Charles’s apart­ment. He keeps any­thing with a reflec­tion out of the flat, and fix­es his hair by touch instead of sight. Raven says it’s pos­si­ble to tell just by look­ing at him that he does­n’t own a mir­ror. “No one would go out dressed like that con­scious­ly,” she says — but her eyes are soft even as she teas­es him.

  Some­times, when he catch­es sight of him­self in the reflec­tion of a clean win­dow or a still pond, there is an extra shad­ow behind him.

  [Hor­ror.]

  17 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw charles/erik au author.toestastegood rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Croik — So Real­ly, Only One Thing’s Changed — X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: Post-movie: Charles strug­gles in the after­math. Warn­ings for ableism.

  17 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic gen sfw author.Croik rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• cyg­naut — Blessed is the Match Con­sumed — X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  “This isn’t a con­cen­tra­tion camp,” Delta says, calm, like he’s been rehears­ing it. Erik looks at the gun on his hip, the guards behind him in the cor­ri­dor, the bars between them.

  He smiles with a lot of teeth. “I think I’d know that bet­ter than you.”

  [Erik is stuck in a cell with li’l Jean and li’l Ororo.]

  17 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic gen author.cygnaut rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• lis­ter­ineze­ro — Big Gay Mutant Mir­a­cle Baby — X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  “I only found out yes­ter­day,” Charles lied — for world peace, not because he want­ed Erik to get him a gin­ger ale.

  17 Dec: x‑men slash fan­f­ic charles/erik author.listerinezero rec.all_fanfic

• Yahtzee — The Attempt — Chap­ter 1 — X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  [Charles is straight, but for Erik he’s will­ing to try. It works for a while.]

  17 Dec: x‑men slash nsfw charles/erik author.Yahtzee rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• st_aurafina — The Per­sis­tence of Mem­o­ry — X‑Men: First Class (2011), X‑Men (Comic­verse) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: After Cuba, Moira is left with no mem­o­ries and a career in tat­ters. She should know bet­ter than to engage with anoth­er telepath, but the oppor­tu­ni­ty to reclaim her life is too great a temptation.

  Excerpt:

  “ ‘Spy­ing is bet­ter with telepa­thy,’ you said.” Moira kept one eye on the sin­gle head­light of the motor­cy­cle as it dart­ed between cars behind them. “ ‘I’ll just read his mind,’ you said.”

  There was a crack — gun­shot! The rear win­dow shat­tered and Emma shim­mered into dia­mond form. “What can I say? You’re the spy here, you’re the one with all the espi­onage skills. I’m just the one with the handy con­jur­ing trick.”

  [Plot and awe­some­sauce. ‑L]

  17 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic slash sfw moira_mactaggert.emma_frost author.st_aurafina challenge.big_bang rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Nan­cy­Brown — Tues­day’s Dead — Torch­wood [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: Cut­ting a möbius strip is hard­er than it looks.

  [Ground­hog Day, but not from the pov of the per­son who’s trapped in the loop.]

  17 Dec: torch­wood fan­f­ic slash sfw jack_harkness.ianto_jones author.NancyBrown rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• Etirabys — A Deep­er Sea­son — X‑Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

  Author’s Sum­ma­ry: (non­mu­tant AU) Charles Xavier- rich, intro­vert­ed, and aca­d­e­m­ic- begins his senior year of high school in 1962. Erik Lehn­sh­err, despite his own efforts, is the first per­son to prop­er­ly reach out to him. Both are aston­ished to find a human being on the oth­er side.

  [Teacher/student]

  17 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic nsfw au charles/erik author.Etirabys challenge.big_bang rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

• the­hoy­den — X Marks the Spot — X‑Men: First Class (2011), Indi­ana Jones Series [Archive of Our Own]:

  Truth­ful­ly, Charles liked it bet­ter when the lec­ture hall was most­ly full of stu­dents who were half-asleep. Teach­ing was eas­i­er with­out all of those feel­ings bat­ter­ing him while he was try­ing very earnest­ly to con­vey his excite­ment over lith­o­graph­ic surveys.

  [Plot­ty Indi­ana Jones fusion. ‑L]

  17 Dec: x‑men fan­f­ic slash nsfw au charles/erik author.thehoyden rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless