Recs n Links: 12 Mar through 30 Mar


Fanfic recs (and a vid rec)

X-Men meta & art/fanart & picspam

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

Recs n Links: 26 Feb through 11 Mar


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.

Recs n Links: 18 Feb through 26 Feb


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:

Recs n Links: 05 Feb through 14 Feb


Recs n Links: 29 Jan through 04 Feb


  • 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


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.

Recs n Links: 17 Dec through 1 Jan


Backlogged recs are backlogged.

Recs n Links: Oct through Nov


My tags aren’t linking back to del.icio.us this time due to technical snafu. I’m transitioning to pinboard (user: lorem_ipsum).

  • Another One Bites The Dust – gogollescent – Good Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

    [Short and terrifying Good Omens fusion.]

    07 Nov: x-men gen fanfic author.gogollescent rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

  • the free hugs au – Etirabys – X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

    The best part was- well, a lot of them were the best parts. Charles liked hugging people, he found. He hadn't done a whole lot of hugging in his life. It was good. There were all sorts of people. But it was sad when he saw some of them look for a while, and then move on.

    It's free, he thought. But it was always more complex than that. It took as much courage to take as it did to give, he supposed.

    07 Nov: x-men fanfic slash sfw charles/erik author.Etirabys rec.all_fanfic

  • Limited Release – rageprufrock – X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

    [The AU where Erik is an FBI agent and Alex is his informant and seriously I have seen this recced everywhere for good reason. One of the top five stories I've read in this fandom, hands down. Long and plotty. -L.]

    07 Nov: x-men fanfic slash nsfw charles/erik author.rageprufrock rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

  • penknife: Fic: Fear the Rest:

    [The kids become the X-Men. Erik becomes Magneto. Prequel to the first movie and written before XMFC.]

    06 Nov: x-men fanfic nsfw het slash charles/erik erik/raven author.penknife rec.all_fanfic

  • penknife: Ficlet: "Exit Lines," XMM, Charles/Erik:

    If twenty years aren't a reason, there are no reasons.

    06 Nov: x-men slash fanfic sfw charles/erik author.penknife rec.all_fanfic

  • paperclipbitch: “Snakes and Ladders Are Banned In Here”, X-Men: First Class, Charles/Erik:

    Author’s Summary: Set post movie. They never meet in public; not for fear of getting caught, but because they’re too aware of innocent bystanders.

    Excerpt: If no one draws first blood then maybe no one ever has to bleed.

    06 Nov: x-men fanfic slash sfw charles/erik angst author.paperclipbitch rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

  • To be said and said – pearl_o – X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

    Erik laughs, a short dry bark without any humor in it. “You and Charles do have a lot in common,” he says, and Raven flinches even though she doesn’t know why.

    [After the beach, Erik and Raven return to the mansion with the rest, but it's not a happy ending. Could even be a missing scene. -L]

    06 Nov: x-men fanfic slash sfw charles/erik author.pearl_o rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

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

    The mutant called Mobius has been on his radar for some time, though he never thought to seek her services. Her gift is a dangerous one. A desperate measure – one Magneto is increasingly determined to take.

    [Mobius warns him that there will be a price. Erik is willing to pay. He tries to go back in time to say goodbye to Charles, but instead finds himself at the gates of Auschwitz.

    ...This story has set up camp in my brain, seriously, weeks later I still think about it.

    -L]

    06 Nov: x-men fanfic slash sfw charles/erik author.Yahtzee rec.all_fanfic

  • Good Name for a Horse – allfireburns – Doctor Who, Valdemar series – Lackey [Archive of Our Own]:

    “There could be anything on this ship…” The Doctor stalked around the corner, all prepared to start scolding whenever he found Rose and Mickey – and pulled up short as he found a horse standing in the corridor directly ahead of him.

    [Hahahhaha... -L]

    06 Nov: doctor_who valdemar crossover fanfic gen author.allfireburns rec.all_fanfic

  • Kicks and Bucks – pearl_o – X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

    Author’s Summary: Moira has her reasons for this thing with Erik. Erik’s motives are less clear.

    [Want more, please. -L]

    06 Nov: x-men fanfic het nsfw erik/moira author.pearl_o rec.all_fanfic

  • Close Enough to Start a War – lapetitesinge – X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men – All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]:

    From a prompt at xmen_firstkink: “One mutant Erik and Charles encounter is a precog–a weak precog, in that she can get a vague idea of the future, but not much more. She declines to go with them, but warns Charles that Erik will hurt him in a way that nobody ever has before, that Charles won’t be able to feel afterwards. What she’s talking about is Charles being shot in the spine, of course, but Charles is so wrapped up in his newly-found desire for Erik that he assumes she’s talking about an emotional betrayal, and gets paranoid…”

    [Aaaaangst. Get a box of tissues. Jealousy is an anti-kink for me, but this story handled the jealousy aspect so smoothly I never minded it. -L]

    06 Nov: x-men fanfic slash nsfw charles/erik author.lapetitsinge rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

  • Golden – Andraste – X-Men (Movieverse) [Archive of Our Own]:

    The hours weigh heavy on Xavier tonight, but the years seem as ephemeral as a half-remembered dream. [...]

    If fifty years with and without Erik have taught him anything, it’s to accept what you’re given.

    24 Oct: x-men fanfic charles/erik angst author.Andraste rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

  • lovingthevolume: Fic: The Deepest Secret Nobody Knows (I):

    The real reason Sally Donovan hates Sherlock so much? They have a child he never sees.

    24 Oct: sherlock gen fanfic author.lovingthevolume rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

  • ladylade: The Saga of Anubis (Or, How Daniel Jackson is Followed By a Kitten):

    “I are Goa’uld,” the tiny grey kitten says.

    Daniel stares down at it from his seat on the toilet. If there was ever a time for this, it is definitely not now.

    “Bow before me, cretin human,” it says.

    23 Oct: stargate_sg1 gen fanfic author.ladylade rec.all_fanfic rec.funny

  • dira: X-Men: First Class Fic: Not a Miracle:

    July 20, 1969. The unity of this instant was amazing.

    23 Oct: x-men fanfic gen auth.dsudis rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

  • apolesen: Fic: Love:

    ‘You know, it’s not his fault,’ he said at last. ‘It’s a disorder. He can’t be blamed.’

    [Homophobia and ableism.]

    23 Oct: x-men fanfic slash charles/erik author.apolesen rec.all_fanfic

  • Lion’s Cub Series – hedda62 – Vorkosigan Saga – Lois McMaster Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:

    “All I am saying,” said Gregor patiently, “is that if he’d murdered my father, I would love him no less. Perhaps I’d love him more. And I did love him. Like… a father.”

    “Oh,” said Miles, the utter and complete realization of his stupidity crashing down on him, like a waterfall, like a volcano. “Shit.”

    [Aral meets Cavilo. Gregor visits Ekaterin. Miles, Gregor, and Simon discuss Escobar. -L]

    23 Oct: vorkosigan fanfic gen angst author.hedda62 rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

  • Walking Away From Omelas – Raven (singlecrow) – Vorkosigan Saga – Lois McMaster Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:

    Author’s Summary: Four things Cordelia did for Gregor, and one thing he did for her.

    “Don’t be kind to me, Aral,” Cordelia says, sharply. “I used to imagine taking Gregor and Miles away to Beta Colony with me. Dye their hair, give them different names. I never did it. I’m part of this.”

    “And if you had, Barrayar would be in a bloody civil war.”

    “That doesn’t make hurting a child right, you know,” Cordelia tells him gently. “It’s never right. I feel like I’m forgetting it.”

    09 Oct: vorkosigan gen fanfic author.raven_singlecrow rec.all_fanfic

  • Interlude – BlackEyedGirl – Hunger Games Trilogy – Suzanne Collins [Archive of Our Own]:

    09 Oct: hunger_games fanfic slash pwp katniss_everdeen.johanna_mason author.BlackEyedGirl rec.all_fanfic

  • The Morning After – ambyr – Anthropomorfic – Fandom [Archive of Our Own]:

    It was almost noon when Pinboard stumbled into the office, eyes bleary. His shirt, Delicious noted, was buttoned crooked.

    “And where have YOU been all morning?” Delicious asked. The split-second glance away from the computer had been a bad idea; there was already a full screen of new complaints in his inbox.

    09 Oct: fanfic author.ambyr rec.all_fanfic

  • fanficforensics: [fanstuff, random] No, wait. I really do want a bookmarking service of our own now:

    …let’s call this what it is: silencing, perhaps just as unintended as the kind of silencing that happened during strikethrough, but just as wrong, and just as symptomatic of the ills of corporate-controlled web services that resort to censorship the second someone complains about seeing a boob. This is exactly why it’s not unrealistic or unnecessary to talk about a dedicated fannish bookmarking service.

    09 Oct: diigo

  • His Terrible Swift Sword – Chapter 1 – Yahtzee – X-Men (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]:

    Author’s Summary: Written in 2003, after “X2″ was released: In the past, a young Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr struggle to discover their powers — and in the near future (the then unimaginably distant year of 2006), humanity is waging war on Magneto’s Brotherhood and losing. The ensuing battle scatters the X-Men across the globe, but brings Rogue closer to Logan than she ever dreamed possible.

    09 Oct: x-men fanfic het slash author.Yahtzee rec.all_fanfic

  • And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Catnip – cm (mumblemutter) – X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

    The first sign that The New Administration is not going to be exactly the same as The Old Administration is when they’re standing outside the CIA building, waiting for Erik to decide what to do next.

    A kitten comes running out from underneath a small car.

    09 Oct: x-men gen fanfic author.cm rec.all_fanfic

  • The Masked Man (Who Has Everything) – Traincat – X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

    “Oh, it’s Batman,” Charles said, grinning at him. “Hello, Batman!”Erik frowned. He tipped Charles’ head back, towards the warehouse’s grimy lights; his face was flushed and his pupils were blown wide.“I think he’s been drugged,” he called to Alex.

    “What gave it away?” Alex asked, sitting on top of their criminal.

    08 Oct: x-men batman fusion fanfic slash charles/erik author.Traincat rec.all_fanfic

  • The Life in Words – zeldadestry – V for Vendetta (comic) [Archive of Our Own]:

    But don’t ever think, even for a moment, that just because you have read the poem you understand it.

    [Reads like a missing page from Valerie's last message. -L]

    07 Oct: v_for_vendetta gen fanfic author.zeldadestry rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless rec.could_be_canon

  • Stretching – Cesare – X-Men: First Class (2011) [Archive of Our Own]:

    “Well,” Angel says, “it’s not bad,” but her expression is critical.

    “I haven’t seen that many in real life,” says Raven, defensive.

    07 Oct: x-men fanfic slash raven/angel author.cesare rec.all_fanfic rec.sweet

  • Five Times Adrian Veidt Surprises Dan Dreiberg – spuffyduds – Watchmen [Archive of Our Own]:

    Dan turns around and goes back in the meeting hall, because it’s just rude to leave your host with a mess. It’s more usual for the mess to consist of dirty plates and beer glasses than carefully-drawn charts set on fire by a vigilante, but you deal with what you’ve got.

    07 Oct: watchmen fanfic gen author.spuffyduds rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

  • jedusaur: When Bookmarks Were In Mustache Land:

    SCENE I
    (The members of the GEEK CHORUS are happily going about their usual Monday night business, reading and sharing fic, when suddenly all activity grinds to a halt. Eyes narrow. Eyebrows furrow. Hands are abruptly removed from pants.)

    GEEK CHORUS
    Huh? What’s going on with delicious?

    DELICIOUS
    We’ve redesigned! Check out our new look!

    GEEK CHORUS
    Um, okay, sure. Whatcha got for us?

    DELICIOUS
    Mustaches!

    07 Oct: fanfic meta.fandom rec.funny rec.all_fanfic

  • The Fans Are All Right (Pinboard Blog):

    For any bookmarking site, the fan subculture is valuable because it makes such heavy and creative use of tagging, and because they are great collaborators. I can’t think of a better way to stress-test a site then to get people filling it with Inception fanfic. You will get thoughtful, carefully-formatted bug reports; and if you actually fix something someone might knit you a sweater. [...]

    In the long run it’s healthier for the site to have a more varied user base, and this is a group of users with a terrific track record of constructive feedback on other sites (notably LiveJournal) and a committment to privacy and non-commercialism that I think a lot of our original users share.

    07 Oct: meta.fandom

  • luninosity: fic: If Ever:

    The mission was going well so far, if the term well could be stretched to cover champagne and laughter and shared beds at an entirely unsubtle strip club. Angel had agreed to come along with them; Charles, radiating glee at this initial success, went off to make a call to the CIA, and probably put two dozen passersby into a better mood along the way.

    Erik waited until he was distracted, and then snuck around the corner and caught up to Angel before she left. He had a question for her.

    07 Oct: x-men fanfic slash charles/erik author.luninosity rec.all_fanfic

  • Offerings – Raven (singlecrow) – Vorkosigan Saga – Lois McMaster Bujold [Archive of Our Own]:

    Author’s Summary: Some things, animal, vegetable, mineral, embarrassing, intangible, literary, priceless, that Gregor received as gifts while Emperor of Barrayar.

    03 Oct: vorkosigan fanfic gen author.raven rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless rec.insightful

Recs n Links: 11 Sep through 01 Oct


Recs n Links: 01 Sep through 09 Sep


Recs n Links: 30 Aug through 1 Sep


Recs n Links: 14 Aug through 27 Aug


  • hey_legousa: Magneto: Gangster Rapper:So most of this stems from my pet interest in the formation of masculine identities within oppressed communities. Also I’ve been mulling over the many and different ways the X-Men universe multiverse would be different if it didn’t just pay lip-service to progressivism and Did The Research(TM)[1] so that the text could intelligently engage in dialogue with the real-life histories and social movements that it’s supposed to be emulating and honoring.[2]

    Anyway, the Brotherhood. It’s great! And it’s such an awesome way to talk about intersectionality. It puts me in the mind of nationalistic phrases like the French motto “liberté, égalité, fraternité”.

    18 Aug: x-men meta.any_fandom

  • PragmaticHominid: Just Like Him – X-Men: First Class (2011), X-Men (Movies) [Archive of Our Own]:Erik would learn very quickly that there was no course of action he could take that would not be seen as an invitation to the human-run media to compare him to that vile little Austrian with the absurd facial-hair. It was like a compulsion with them. They could think within no other framework.

    [This builds on the icky implications of X2.]

    15 Aug: x-men gen fanfic racism genocide author.PragmaticHominid rec.all_fanfic

  • smilebackwards: Humane Society [X-men: First Class fic]:Fuck it, Erik thinks, Maybe he’ll feed me. [...]

    Erik finds this whole situation rather shaming and would like to go back to being a mutant rights activist in a world that mostly doesn’t yet know mutants exist. He doesn’t care how blue Charles’ eyes are or how good the Gravy Lovers™ Ocean Whitefish & Tuna Feast In Sautéed Seafood Flavor Gravy smells.

    [In which Erik gets turned into a kitten and is adopted by an entirely human Charles.]

    14 Aug: x-men fanfic slash charles/erik crackfic author.smilebackwards rec.all_fanfic rec.flawless

Recs n Links: 07 Aug through 13 Aug


Recs n Links: 31 Jul through 07 Aug


Recs n Links: 20 Jul through 30 Jul


Recs n Links: 04 Jun through 28 Jun


Recs & links (ooooold ones)


Flashback time! Totally random selection of links & recs from 2008:

Recs n Links: 02 Jun through 02 Jun


Recs n Links: 30 Apr through 31 May


Recs n Links: 29 Apr through 30 Apr