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  • Vid recs for them what have watched Person of Interest through 2×22

    October 27th, 2017

    1) My previous rec set included one vid which properly belongs with today’s recs: When I Ruled the World by astolat
    This vid vies with the next one for my favorite F/R vid. Do read the lyrics.

    2) Lucky You by sisabet
    The other best F/R vid. This song is… not my favorite song by this band, but sisabet’s interpretation of Reese is painfully accurate.

    3) Lights by talitha78
    This one is about Reese and the mission and F/R. It has a particular F/R moment that makes me giggle and kick my feet.

    4) Some Nights by flummery

    The team, and what they stand for.

    5) Poiesis by lim
    Machine POV. This is a weird weird vid, as Machine POV should be. Link goes to youtube; vid can be downloaded from http://limvids.net/

    6) Follow My Feet by catnap332
    This vidder has chosen a joyful-sounding song to depict Reese’s road to redemption.

    7) God’s Gonna Cut You Down by astolat
    Before seeing this vid, I had enjoyed a Dean Winchester vid to the same song, and because the song works so well for Dean, I can’t quite accept it for John Reese. Despite this reservation, I’m reccing it. I really really like what astolat did with the “talkin to a man from Galilee” verse.

  • Recs n Links: 03 Jan through 15 Oct

    October 15th, 2017
    • Slash Report – 304 Person of Interest with Leupagus:

      15 Oct: podcast person_of_interest

    • The Fractal Geometry of Self – by winterfold – fandom Captain America (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]:

      Author's Summary:
      Getting on his knees for Steve is easy. It’s everything else that’s confusing.

      10 Jan: captain_america steve_rogers.bucky_barnes nsfw fanfic slash rec.all_fanfic alternate_universe bdsm

    • Locked Room Puzzle – by Speranza – fandom due South [Archive of Our Own]:

      Excerpt:
      "Aileen," Musky said finally, with the air of someone imparting great wisdom, "if you ever have a case gives you the stinkeye, one of the finest policemen in all the world lives not twenty miles past Miller's Hill."

      From the author's tags: Established Relationship, Post-Canon, Murder Mystery

      [Outsider POV]

      03 Jan: due_south benton_fraser.ray_kowalski slash fanfic sfw rec.all_fanfic

  • POI recs

    September 29th, 2017

    7 stories for a friend who’s seen Person of Interest up to 2×03, and 1 more because I can’t help it. And at the end, a vid rec.

    7 stories. As usual, these are listed in no particular order:

    1) Catch a Boat to England, Baby (Maybe to Spain) (4343 words) by leupagus
    Chapters: 1/1
    Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
    Rating: Explicit
    Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
    Relationships: Harold Finch/John Reese
    Characters: Harold Finch, Nathan Ingram, John Reese
    Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe: Early Meeting

    Summary:

    The car door opens and one of the soldiers slides in, almost braining Harold with the butt of his gun. “Sorry, sir,” the soldier says, breathless, “I thought you were in the other car — but you weren’t — so I had to jump out and—”

    “Who are you?” Harold says, but the soldier’s familiar; the tall one who’d looked embarrassed.

    And who still looks embarrassed. “Oh. Sorry, sir. Um. John Harris. Private Harris? I’m your um, assigned unit. Sir.” He sticks out a hand.

    *

    2) Truth is in the Eye of the Beholder (1894 words) by infiniteeight
    Chapters: 1/1
    Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
    Rating: General Audiences
    Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
    Relationships: Harold Finch/John Reese
    Characters: Harold Finch, John Reese
    Additional Tags: POV Original Character, Original Female Character – Freeform, POV Third Person, Unreliable Narrator

    Summary:

    Dee Dee has been working at this diner for three years, and she likes to make up little stories about her regulars.

    Alternately, The progression of Reese and Finch’s relationship from the perspective of a waitress at the diner where they meet in “Judgment” (1×05).

    *

    3) Penetration Testing (8886 words) by Toft
    Chapters: 1/1
    Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
    Rating: Explicit
    Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
    Relationships: Harold Finch/John Reese
    Characters: John Reese, Harold Finch, Kara Stanton, Mark Snow
    Additional Tags: Seduction, Undercover, Suicidal Thoughts, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, abusive working environment

    Summary:

    The CIA wants to know what Harold Wren is building for Nathan Ingram, so they set a honey trap. They bait it with John Reese.

    Recommender’s Note: I would have also tagged this as Alternate Universe

    *

    4) on admin error {execute contingency plan} (3200 words) by Jedi Buttercup
    Chapters: 1/1
    Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
    Rating: General Audiences
    Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
    Characters: Joss Carter, The Machine (Person of Interest), Lionel Fusco
    Additional Tags: Yuletide 2012, Implied Character Death, Character of Color, Artificial Intelligence, Wordcount: 1.000-5.000

    Summary:

    Joss had always known, since the very first time she’d engaged with the Man in the Suit instead of just chasing him, how things would eventually come to an end.

    Recommender’s Note: The future, as imagined in the early seasons of the show.

    *

    5) Flock Together (1153 words) by galaxysoup
    Chapters: 1/1
    Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
    Rating: General Audiences
    Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
    Characters: John Reese, Harold Finch, Bear (Person of Interest), Joss Carter, Lionel Fusco
    Additional Tags: Crack, Humor, Fluff, Podfic Available

    Summary:

    Reese has Finch. It’s only fair that Bear gets someone too.

    Recommender’s Note: This is cuteness.

    *

    6) Chapter Six: Harold Helps Out (1043 words) by leupagus
    Chapters: 1/1
    Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
    Rating: General Audiences
    Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
    Relationships: Harold Finch/John Reese
    Characters: Bear (Person of Interest), Harold Finch, John Reese
    Additional Tags: Reading Aloud, Comfort Reading, Insomnia, Late at Night, Late Night Conversations

    Summary:

    John takes walks, and Harold does the voices.

    Recommender’s Note: This is also cuteness.

    *

    7) Technical Support (13651 words) by astolat
    Chapters: 1/1
    Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
    Rating: Explicit
    Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
    Relationships: Harold Finch/John Reese
    Characters: Harold Finch, John Reese, Joss Carter
    Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, IT Guy, First Time, Office Romance, Meme of Interest

    Summary:

    The IFT Plaza security team wasn’t what John would have called the brightest stars in the firmament. (Written for the tech support AU prompt.)

    *

    And one story that I’m reccing even though it requires an AO3 login:

    Losing Control (7052 words) (author name not included in this rec bc fic is locked)
    Chapters: 1/1
    Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
    Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
    Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Canon-Typical Violence, Dubcon kissing
    Characters: Harold Finch, John Rees
    Additional Tags: Non-Consensual Drug Use, Sex Pollen

    Summary:

    “It’s got to be some messed-up new designer drug,” Carter said.

    Recommender’s Note: So there’s a sort of near-miss sex pollen incident, but that’s not the entire story. I have a soft spot for the bit where Finch mentors the young software dudes. (This story isn’t any more spoilery than the stories above.)

    [VID] When I Ruled The World (415 words) by astolat
    Chapters: 1/1
    Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
    Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
    Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
    Relationships: Harold Finch/John Reese
    Characters: Harold Finch, John Reese, Nathan Ingram, Kara Stanton, Jessica Arndt
    Additional Tags: Video, Fanvids, Artist: Coldplay, Viva La Vida, Vividcon, Vividcon Premieres 2013

    Summary:

    Be my mirror, my sword and shield.

    Recommender’s Note: A bit more spoilery than the stories above.

  • Recs n Links: 21 Aug through 09 Dec

    February 21st, 2015
    • 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 5×01 through 5×03.

      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 9×04]

      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

  • Recs n Links: 20 Jun through 27 Jul

    January 26th, 2015

    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 5×09
      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

  • Recs n Links: 17 Apr through 17 Jun

    January 12th, 2015

    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, 7×17 SPOILERS!
      Summary: He doesn't feel chosen or gifted, and he doesn't remember.
      Notes: Basically my brain's version of 7×17, 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

  • Recs n Links: 11 Jan through 08 Apr

    January 2nd, 2015

    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

  • Recs n Links: 01 Jan through 09 Jan

    December 28th, 2014

    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

  • Recs n Links: 29 Nov through 27 Dec

    December 22nd, 2014

    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

  • Recs n Links: 29 Oct through 25 Nov

    December 12th, 2014

    *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

  • Recs n Links: 21 Sep through 16 Oct

    December 5th, 2014

    *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

  • Recs n Links: 05 May through 03 Sep

    September 16th, 2012
    • 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 2×07.)

      [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 ::::
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      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

  • Recs n Links: 31 Mar through 05 May

    September 16th, 2012
    • 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

  • Recs n Links: 12 Mar through 30 Mar

    April 1st, 2012

    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
  • Recs n Links: 26 Feb through 11 Mar

    March 11th, 2012

    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

  • Recs n Links: 18 Feb through 26 Feb

    February 26th, 2012

    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

  • Recs n Links: 05 Feb through 14 Feb

    February 14th, 2012
    • 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

  • Recs n Links: 29 Jan through 04 Feb

    February 4th, 2012
    • 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

  • Recs n Links: 01 Jan through 26 Jan

    January 27th, 2012

    Oh, and I got a tumbler, but I’m not posting anything there; it’s just for liking stuff and for stalking helens78 and Cesare’s Bound & Determined ‘verse.

    • jouissance – by hauntologie – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

      When the gun touched against Erik’s forehead, Charles felt his mind flare, sharp and hot like the metal was conducting electricity, passing sensation from Erik’s brain into Charles’s. He knew it was nothing of the sort, knew that his powers didn’t work that way, but the intensity of it nearly floored him. It felt like an endless now, perfect, self-contained and annihilating…

      [Gun kink.]

      26 Jan: x-men fanfic nsfw slash charles/erik author.hauntologie rec.all_fanfic

    • sophia_sol: Ficlet: A Physics Carol:

      Schrodinger’s cat was dead, to begin with.

      26 Jan: fanfic gen sfw author.sophia_sol rec.all_fanfic

    • jedusaur: Why porn is simultaneously the entire point of fandom and not the point of fandom at all:

      I’d like you to think back to college, if you’ve been there, and consider these questions: How many times did you see a flyer or e-mail announcement about some talk or extracurricular seminar that sounded nifty, and then miss it because you just didn’t feel like putting on shoes and walking over to the auditorium? And how many times did you see a flyer or e-mail announcement about some talk or extracurricular seminar that sounded nifty and also promised free pizza, and end up putting on your damn shoes and tromping across campus because dude, free pizza?

      Because everybody likes pizza. And even if you knew you’d probably be glad that you went anyway, even if the topic of discussion was something you were interested in and the effort would almost certainly pay off… if there’s pizza, then you know for sure that if you don’t end up enjoying yourself, then at least you still get pizza.

      26 Jan: meta

    • Cant – by sabinelagrande – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

      “Give us a bijou buvare, my love,” Charles says, holding out one of the tumblers from the set he keeps on his credenza; Erik stops, standing in the shadows outside the door, because watching and listening is suddenly more interesting than joining them.

      She laughs. “If you’re talking like that, then you’ve had enough,” she says, but she takes it from him, pouring a little liquor into it.

      “I have to be so serious all the time,” he complains. “I just want to cackle.”

      25 Jan: x-men fanfic slash sfw charles/erik author.sabinelagrande rec.all_fanfic

    • astrogirl2: Five Times the Doctor Encountered a Planet Express Employee:

      24 Jan: doctor_who futurama gen fanfic sfw author.astrogirl2 rec.all_fanfic

    • Sacrament – by Yahtzee – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men – All Media Types, X-Men (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]:

      From the author’s summary:
      It’s still the early 1960s. Charles grew up devoutly religious, went to seminary and took orders.

      And for the few years he’s been a priest, he’s been a good one. He coordinates volunteering and assistance for several charities in New York City, where his parish is, and doesn’t mind the life of poverty he leads …

      Then he meets Erik Lehnsherr, the devout Jew and Holocaust survivor who runs that other charity, who is so fiercely protective of his charges that it moves Charles’ heart …

      Charles has powers – he just doesn’t know it.

      [You might assume this is fetish fuel, but no. It’s a tender, thoughtful story of love and faith. Bittersweet but not tragic. -L]

      23 Jan: x-men fanfic slash nsfw charles/erik author.Yahtzee rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless rec.insightful

    • James McAvoy with Sloths:

      [Aw, cuddly! -L]

      19 Jan: none

    • After the War, Before the War – by kindkit – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

      From one camp to another, that’s liberation. In this camp Erik still has a number, but he’s not tortured. There are no crematoria. He’s called a displaced person, not a filthy Jew.

      [triple drabble]

      19 Jan: x-men fanfic gen author.kindkit rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

    • harriet_spy: Okay, one *tiny* post-X3 fic:
      [Untitled, dated 2006-05-27]

      He wakes in the night with the sudden, absolute conviction that he is still on a different train, and has been all this time, his life nothing but a child’s futile dreams of escape and power. He can’t move, but after an agonizingly slow moment, he recognizes the feel of the pillow under his head, the plasticky Amtrak blankets. Charles, he thinks, reaching out automatically, Charles…But there is no answer. The world is silent, and will be from now on.

      He opens his eyes, and Pyro is leaning against the door, watching him, passing lights throwing his face in and out of shadow. This is something Erik had always taken care not to let him see.

      19 Jan: x-men fanfic slash sfw magneto/pyro author.harriet_spy rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

    • alara_r: You know, I just realized something.:

      Don’t get me wrong, I still totally love the movie to death. But I just realized that the lack of female characters in X-Men First Class is UTTER BULLSHIT.

      See, I was thinking, but there aren’t that many female characters who are of the right age to have joined a team when Xavier and Magneto were in their early 30’s. Mystique and Emma Frost, right? And they’re covered.

      Well, bullshit. Firstly, Destiny is Mystique’s age. …

      18 Jan: x-men

    • thedogstar: Author + Stories:
      Part 1 – a list of highly acclaimed authors, all who have written 3+ XMFC fics
      Part 2 – If you were only going to read fifteen fics in this fandom, here are the ones you should read…
      [Sort of a literary canon. -L]

      17 Jan: x-men recs

    • more first than sun, more last than star – by Etirabys – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

      [Author’s Summary: A war ends, and Queen Raven calls her best knight for one final request. She wants him to bring back her brother, who the Snow Queen took as tribute so many years ago. Getting him back is just half the battle, Erik will find.]

      “By one reckoning, I’ve kept him eleventy years,” the Snow Queen says. “And by another I’ve kept him for three. And by another, a thousand. Isn’t that what you say, you humans- that your heart keeps the time. But we have no hearts, Knight.”

      “Charles did,” Erik says steadily. A hush falls in the hall, as if he’s said something unimaginably filthy. “Where did you put it?”

      The Snow Queen looks at Charles, who rises to his feet as if he’d been prompted. Steady. Graceful. Inhuman.

      There is nothing at all in his eyes when he looks at Erik, and replies:

      “I tore it out myself.”

      [An uncomfortable and haunting fairy tale. Mind the warnings. -L]

      17 Jan: x-men fanfic nsfw charles/erik alternate_universe angst author.Etirabys rec.all_fanfic

    • Sitz! – by Unforgotten – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]:

      [The Brotherhood decide to turn Erik into a Doberman. This story vaults into awesomesauce when the Scrabble tiles appear. -L]

      16 Jan: x-men fanfic slash charles/erik author.Unforgotten crack rec.all_fanfic rec.funny

    • kindkit: The Death of Arthur:
      [Post-X3]

      This is the first lesson of Moise’s new life: invisibility doesn’t need a mutation. Getting old will do it. Being harmless–neutered, normal, nothing–will do it.

      Of all the dead people he’s been, Magneto is the deadest of all.

      16 Jan: x-men fanfic slash sfw charles/erik author:kindkit rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

    • We Discovered The Clitoris In 2009? Heyyy, Wait A Minute… | The Mary Sue:

      16 Jan: none

    • Michael Fassbender: Slipping quietly into global stardom – Films – ShortList Magazine:

      At this point — just so we’re 100 per cent clear — it’s pertinent to mention that there’s nothing untoward going on. When we started the interview, Fassbender was in his chair, in a conventional sitting position. Then, with no warning, he slowly moved forward and slid on to the floor. But instead of repositioning himself on the couch, he’s still happily kneeling on the carpet and talking enthusiastically…

      16 Jan: none

    • The Emperor’s Man – by Philomytha – fandom Vorkosigan Saga – Lois McMaster Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:

      “How can you even… oh, I don’t care. If you can make it stop… I Request and Require you to make it quiet here, Miles,” Gregor finished. “Please,” he added.

      “Yes, Sire,” Miles said, beginning to bubble over with excitement. “I won’t fail you, Sire.”

      He dashed out of the bedroom. Lord Vorthalia the Bold had travelled day and night across Barrayar, fighting bandits and monsters, to find a rare medicine to cure his Emperor from a deadly sickness. Miles had loved that episode. And now it was his turn to save the Emperor.

      [Adorable. -L]

      15 Jan: vorkosigan fanfic gen author.Philomytha rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

    • Late Night Conversation [X-men fic by listerinezero, on AO3]:

      Author’s Summary: Marie runs into Professor Lehnsherr in the kitchen one night during her first week as a student at the Xavier Institute.

      [Plot-free snippet. Nothing hurts. -L]

      13 Jan: x-men fanfic gen sfw via:sumeria author.listerinezero rec.all_fanfic via:blueMeridian

    • baker street tinies « Antemortem Arts | Fine Art & Custom Paintings:

      S is for Sherlock who died of ennui.

      Adorable!

      13 Jan: sherlock edward_gorey fusion fanart gen sfw via:talitha78

    • Wear Sunlight – by Etirabys – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

      Being Charles’ dirty little secret definitely had its perks.

      [Erik gave up on the mutant rights movement and now lives in a villa in France as Charles’s kept man. Charles is a super-hot dominant bottom. (This is not a BDSM AU.) I was skeptical at first–surely the characterization would fail–but am happy to report I was wrong. Also, I love this take on mutant politics. More porn than plot. -L]

      13 Jan: x-men fanfic slash nsfw alternate_universe charles/erik author.Etirabys rec.all_fanfic

    • I Ain’t Scared of Lightning – by kaydeefalls – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]:

      “I don’t need your help,” Erik said harshly, as though saying it aloud would make it so.

      “Perhaps I need yours.” Charles caught Erik’s wrist, his eyes intent on Erik’s. “Shaw has someone very dear to me,” he said in a low tone. “You’re not the only one playing for keeps, Erik.”

      [Intriguing, but I want more. -L]

      08 Jan: x-men fanfic slash sfw alternate_universe charles/erik author.kaydeefalls rec.all_fanfic

    • 72 Hours – by unveiled – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

      [Magneto evaluates the school as a possible home for several children. Absolutely do read the sequel, linked at the bottom. -L]

      Excerpt:
      Erik took the ultimatum as well as can be expected: badly. Charles watched the tectonic plates of Erik’s face shifting, rearranging his handsome countenance into the very personification of rage. Spoons rattled against saucers, the fire grate moaned in its hearth. Once upon a time, Charles thought, he would’ve tried to assuage Erik’s anger, persuade Erik to come around to his point of view with carefully-honed words.

      Not now, possibly not again for a long time, not since he failed when it mattered most.

      08 Jan: x-men fanfic slash sfw charles/erik author.unveiled rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

    • Still Life with Cookies – by stlkrchck – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

      [Erik gets stalked by a model who keeps giving him cookies. This story is as sweet and ridiculous as you’d expect. -L]

      08 Jan: x-men fanfic slash nsfw charles/erik alternate_universe author.slkrchck rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

    • ratcreature: a brief intro to swearing in German:

      However, please keep in mind that for fiction this can’t replace language betas, and personally I think that in many cases actually the better choice is not to litter your story with foreign language fragments to begin with.

      08 Jan: none

    • Little Birds – by winterhill – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

      Charles was delighted to show Erik his nests the following day. It was sickening. Charles the magic dove looked after a colony of sparrows that lived right where the humans could get them; they begged for scraps from humans […]

      “So pigeons,” said Darwin. “You’re going to do what, exactly, with the pigeons?”

      [Charming. Fable, not crack. -L]

      08 Jan: x-men fanfic slash charles/erik alternate_universe author.winterhill rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless via:blueMeridian

    • Charles & Raven’s Drunk Kitchen – by Cesare – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011), My Drunk Kitchen [Archive of Our Own]:

      Charles wobbled over to the oven and looked inside. “No pie,” he said sadly.

      “That’s my contribution,” Raven said. “I need to sit down.”

      “No! Raven, you have to help. I don’t know how to use American stoves anymore. Are the degrees in Fahrenheit?” Charles grabbed her shoulders and looked at her intently. “Are we in Fahrenheit right now?”

      “They’re just numbers, Charles!” said Raven. “We’ll just set the oven to the number it says in the recipe.”

      “We don’t have a recipe.”

      “Oh my God,” said Raven, “we’re going to die.”

      08 Jan: x-men fanfic sfw charles/erik author.Cesare rec.all_fanfic

    • Always Starts the Same, with a Boy and a Girl – by lightgetsin – fandom White Collar [Archive of Our Own]:

      Author’s Summary: Summer, 1998. Neal Caffrey robs the gallery where Elizabeth O’Dell is working late, and comes away with a lot more than art. Agent Burke has no idea what’s about to hit him.

      Excerpt:
      Most of the heist wasn’t on film. They clearly knew exactly where the cameras were, which still needed an explanation. There was half an hour of them mingling downstairs; Caffrey’s hand rested low on her back, and they launched a double blue-eyed charm offensive at everyone who came within range. Then Elizabeth excused herself to the ladies’ room, Caffrey went to fetch her a fresh glass of champagne, and they vanished for seventeen-and-a-half minutes, just long enough to get by the motion detectors, the alarms, and the guards.

      They met up in a second-floor reception room. Did they not know about that camera, or did they just not care?

      08 Jan: white_collar fanfic nsfw het slash threesome peter/neal/elizabeth author.lightgetsin rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

    • flummery: the making of Handlebars:

      …one of the more nerve-wracking things about vidding this was that for once we couldn’t actually do all of our capturing up front: fourth season was airing as we vidded. In fact, the schedule was so tight that we don’t have any clips of the very final episode in there because it aired after our Vividcon deadline. We’ve never vidded a show that live before; usually we have at least a month of completed footage for the season before a deadline, so we can make considered choices. For Handlebars, though, after we clipped through the first two seasons and got caught up to live, every flipping weekend we’d vid for a while, watch the new ep, capture off the new ep, and vid more.

      So as we went along, there were spots left empty that we just crossed our fingers and hoped we’d get footage for, and other spots that were solid that we wound up ripping apart because we liked newer footage better. Seriously nerve-wracking – we still had a couple of empty spots going into the deadline weekend, hoping for footage from the penultimate ep while scrambling for emergency backup existing footage just in case.

      08 Jan: vidding author.flummery doctor_who

    • squee!Book (beta):
      [Make an eBook]
      You can upload a file, copy your story from URL(s) or paste the text directly into the wysiwyg below.

      07 Jan: none

    • ristrettoette: The Rest (X-Men: First Class, 1/1):

      Erik sleeps on Charles’ sofa, and soon in Charles’ bed. This is what happens when someone saves you from drowning. He hasn’t anywhere to go, any life to return to. “Erik, what on earth did you do before I found you?” Charles says.He finds it difficult to explain, not least of all in a foreign language. He wasn’t Erik. He was an arrow then. […]

      He doesn’t speak German anymore, if he can help it. Everything he wants to say, he says in English. He made the decision a long time ago. English is like a second layer of skin, separating him from the force of the words.

      07 Jan: x-men fanfic slash sfw charles/erik author.ristrettoette rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless rec.style

    • metisket: beautiful ideas:

      Author’s Note: So it cracks me up that the entire plot is pretty much Mike Stamford’s fault, and yet he manages to completely dodge the fallout. SIR, I SALUTE YOU.

      07 Jan: sherlock fanfic gen author.metisket rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

    • see with clear eyes – by stickmarionette – fandom Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]:

      Charles was getting very good – it had been the work of a moment to understand Howard’s internal filing system, and then finding what he’d been looking for became a matter of yanking the right strings.

      [I want more. -L]

      06 Jan: x-men fanfic gen sfw author.stickmarionette rec.all_fanfic

    • A Promise – by dairyme – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

      She supposed this was a kind of acceptance. But it was a cold, lonely kind, joined to these people by what she was and not, perhaps, by who she was, though it was only now that she was beginning to suspect the two were separate things.

      He was never Erik here. Most of the others didn’t know better, but even Angel, who had known him by his proper name, only ever called him Magneto. Raven didn’t call him anything at all.

      05 Jan: x-men fanfic het slash nsfw charles/erik erik/raven author.dairyme rec.all_fanfic

    • A Veritable Menagerie – by lonelywalker – fandom Ladyhawke (1985) [Archive of Our Own]:

      Navarre plants a gloved hand across his mouth. “We’ve missed you. Isabeau has been worried.” He hesitates for barely a moment. “I have been worried. So no more, understand? You’ll stay with us, and sleep in a real bed. Now, when did you last eat?”

      Many things have changed in the days since sun and moon shone brightly together, and God has not set foot in Aquila for months.

      04 Jan: ladyhawke fanfic sfw het slash author.lonelywalker via:blueMeridian rec.all_fanfic

    • Replay – by Unforgotten – fandom X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]:

      Author’s Summary: After Magneto of an X2-ish future succeeds in the unthinkable, Charles sends his consciousness back to 1962 to guide Erik away from the path that will lead to the genocide of the human race forty years hence.

      Charles knows that Erik has always loved him, and intends to use this knowledge + sex to seduce Erik away from his ideals in his youth.

      There’s no way this well-thought-out, sensible, debugged and 100% bulletproof plan can possibly go wrong.

      02 Jan: x-men fanfic slash nsfw charles/erik timey-wimey author.Unforgotten rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless rec.funny

    • Approval – by Sanj – fandom Vorkosigan Saga – Lois McMaster Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:

      “The jig is up, Lord Mark,” the Emperor said quietly. “We know you’re ready.”

      01 Jan: vorkosigan fanfic gen author.Sanj rec.all_fanfic

    • penknife: Closer:

      Jean wishes sometimes that she could just have sex with Scott without having him in her head.

      [Short and to the point.]

      01 Jan: fanfic scott_summers.jean_grey x-men charles/erik sfw author.penknife rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless rec.insightful

  • Recs n Links: 17 Dec through 1 Jan

    January 26th, 2012

    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

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