wanderings

Because the Doomsday Clock made that seem like a fitting thing this past week or something. (Also this was way easier than doing that meme without a theme.) These are all PWP or PWP-adjacent fics that I haven't recced before, still exist online, and remembered without rifling through my bookmarks.

Five Days of Dickings by drunktuesdays, mklutz, the_ragnarok
Five Dickings in Five Days was the (hopefully interim) title he’d seen on the contract. More like five days of dickings. Whatever, Stiles was into it. The money is great; the fucking is also great. It’s a win-win way to pay for college.
Teen Wolf | Rating: NC-17 | 17,845 words | Derek/Stiles, Peter/Stiles, Aiden/Ethan/Stiles, Danny/Stiles, Chris/Jordan/Stiles, Boyd/Erica/Stiles, Boyd/Erica, Erica/Stiles, Boyd/Stiles
I remain impressed by the collaborative nature of this piece, appreciate the structure and arc of this story, and its spread of kinks and characters. It's solid.

This Anus Scene, It's An Arms Race by jedusaur
Summary: This is what happened the time Fueled By Semen's main stars decided to compete for a million pageviews.
Bandom | Rating: NC-17 | 2,714 words | William/Gabe, Ryan/Brendon, Frank/Gerard, Patrick/Pete, Gabe/Pete, Brendon/Pete, Gerard/Pete, Gabe/Brendon, Gabe/Gerard, Brendon/Gerard, William/Frank/Ryan/Patrick
Comedy. This is basically the title that I am going to remember forever. That and like, a lingering impression of kazoos and clowns and Amanda Palmer?

How To Succeed In Sex Slavery Without Really Trying by astolat
"You are never getting to plan anything ever again," Rodney said. "What kind of a military strategist are you, anyway?"
Stargate: Atlantis | Rating: NC-17 | 1,719 words | McKay/Sheppard
Noncon and snark. Really tropey. The bit where McKay and Sheppard are physically manipulated to fuck each other may be a bit meta, thinking on it.

Zone Blitz by summerstorm
Summary: from glee_kink: Quinn loves the idea of dressing up in a boy's football uniform, but is embarrassed/ashamed. Rachel proves to her that her fantasy isn't weird, or abnormal.
Glee | Rating: NC-17 | 4,167 words | Rachel/Quinn
I remember this fic in terms of that vulnerability she has exploring that fantasy and the interplay that it has with gender and gender roles.

Till You Make It by lightgetsin
I squirmed, pinned between him and the counter. "It’s not – look, I don’t run to schedule, okay?" I said. "Don’t – I’m not easy."
"You don’t say." Okay, that much sarcasm was uncalled for.
"I mean it," I said doggedly. "I’m not one of those ‘insert coin, pull lever’ girls."
The Dresden Files | Rating: NC-17 | 19,776 words | Harry/Marcone
I pulled up three of lightgetsin's fics when I was making this list and every single one of them I remembered as a line from its summary. But, yeah: gender and elusive orgasms.

that pleases me by mardia
Nightingale actually stopped dead in his tracks as he saw me on the stairs, in my dirty rugby kit, smeared with dirt and grass. I'd left the boots off outside, to avoid risking Molly's wrath. “Good Lord,” he said slowly, his eyes scanning me from head to toe.
Rivers of London | Rating: NC-17 | 2,088 words | Peter/Thomas
Mostly I remember this fic for that moment within it of being completely taken by the sight of someone, that kind of blinding lust. And of course there's follow-through.

Only As Directed by rageprufrock
“Arthur is a bad man,” Roxy had said.
“Fucking tell me about it,” Eggsy had muttered, and gone to put on the tarty trousers Harry had picked out for him like a fucking high-end pimp.
Kingsman | Rating: NC-17 | 12,180 words | Harry/Eggsy
Filth within the framework of a honeypot mission heavily directed by Harry.

Ice (Upon a Summer's Day) by sageness
"You okay there, Frase?" He looks concerned, more so as Fraser takes a deep breath, holds it, and slowly lets his eyes fall shut.
due South | Rating: NC-17 | 2,941 words | Fraser/RayK
Kink discovery with Fraser smelling ice and then devastatingly in character follow-through on the premise with perfect voices.

A Beginner's Guide to Vulcan Sexual Practice, by Captain James T. Kirk by thingswithwings
It is tradition," Spock says blandly. "Surely you would not ask me to abandon Vulcan tradition." "Uh," Jim replies.
Star Trek | Rating: NC-17 | 4,621 words | Kirk/Spock
This fic was written in reaction to an lj comm's rules which were anti-kink; read or reread them first - it makes it better.

The Creepy Cave by wangler
Stiles looks up. Slowly. “Holy shit,” he says. The tentacle is attached to more tentacles which are attached to a giant glowing squid thing. “That is not the droid we were looking for.”
Teen Wolf | Rating: NC-17 | 4,130 words | Derek/Stiles
Sometimes fandom churns out something that's this combination of incredibly sweet and dirtybadwrong, full on lecherous embrace of some taboo kink nestled up to the fluffiest shit imaginable, and my heart grows three sizes.

masters, doms, slaves & subs: mysterious ways by tree
Mysterious Ways (U2 song); Rating: G; Art: cross-stitch
The "on your knees, boy" cross-stitch is such a great kink piece. I love how it lifts that lyric from the song and highlights that kink that wouldn't necessarily be noticed by listeners; I think there's a lot of kink - purposeful and not - in music that not everyone picks up on; it's easy not to think about lyrics, so I love how this puts it on display. Of course, the cross-stitch is also removing the lyric from the context of the song; it's not something that someone's likely to look at and identify as a U2 lyric - it's not something that's unique to being a U2 lyric.
"On your knees, boy" is an order. On your knees is a less defensible, more submissive position. A boy is someone with less authority than an adult. Everything about that phrase is kind of screaming "do as I say"; it's incredibly kinky. The part where it's gilt-framed text makes me think of all the other framed orders I've been around in terms of kink, which is pretty fun.
As a cross-stitch piece it's really great to think of in relation to other word cross-stitch pieces; I'm used to seeing sayings that are valued in that house or things that serve as affirmations or reminders and thinking of tree's piece that way is really wonderful.

A Beginner's Guide to Vulcan Sexual Practice, by Captain James T. Kirk by thingswithwings
Star Trek; Rating: NC-17; 4,621 words; James T. Kirk/Spock
"It is tradition," Spock says blandly. "Surely you would not ask me to abandon Vulcan tradition." "Uh," Jim replies.
This is a fic that was written, as its notes say, in response to a comm that was set up as a place for fic featuring kink-free sex. It had this long list of all of the kinks that weren't welcome in the comm that the Kel-Toth that Spock follows in this fic is based on. The Kel-Toth and how Kirk and Spock interact with it are such excellent manifestations of obedience kink. The Kel-Toth is this long document full of rules, so many rules, about how Vulcans should have sex; it is pretty inherently kinky.
I really like this story for everything that it does with the obedience kink: it's got straight-up obedience, a look at the wrong/forbidden that rules create as well as the opportunity for the perversion of those rules. Spock's adherence to the rules comes with a fair amount of sorting out what he can and can not do; the Kel-Toth highlights kink. Kirk reacts to the rules by diving into the material head on, obeying the rules, and then finding all of the loop-holes and things not forbidden by them. It's fun. The story's an interesting exploration of obedience kink and kink in general.

stones to turn and stare at by summerstorm
Teen Wolf; Rating: NC-17; 4,126 words; Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski
The window clicks shut as Derek turns around and says, "What?" His face is—hilarious, actually, but if Stiles is going to go through with this he can't allow himself to crack this early, let alone crack up. Cracking up is not something you come back from. So he repeats, "Sit down," widening his eyes to let Derek know that this is really freaking easy to figure out if Derek just puts his mind to it.
This is such a wonderful first time obedience kink story. I love that it's Stiles giving the orders in this, and that that's something that Derek wants and has asked for; it's a really interesting and enjoyable story, characterisation-wise. I really love thinking of this story in relationship to Derek's history with Kate; I think that this story is all kinds of hopeful and positive in relation to that.
It's a great expermentation fic. There's conversation and communication; the fic touches on the negotiation and discussion that Derek and Stiles had about this and details all of Stiles' thought processes and strategising as he feels out how to give orders and what sort of orders to give. There's uncertainty and awkwardness in it, which are both pretty fantastic in a first time fic. There's cooperation between the two of them. It's a really great fic about them exploring the kink together.

Pull Your Tangles Out by boweryd
Bandom: Panic at the Disco; Rating: NC-17; 9,000 words; Brendon Urie/Spencer Smith
If this is like a thing you two do.
This is another sort of first time story; it's an accidental kinksters or kink discovery fic, where someone doesn't realise that what they're doing is kinky or kind of falls into a kink. Spencer doesn't realise that the dynamic that he and Brendon have, where Brendon does what Spencer tells him to, is kind of kinky until its pointed out to him and then he thinks about it. Spencer processing, experimenting, and ultimately falling into the kink is all really fantastic; there's this lovely repetition of If this is like a thing you two do with Spencer turning that phrase over and figuring out what it means, what those obedience and submission kinks mean for himself and Brendon. It's a really wonderful progression.

New Message by jedusaur
Bandom: Fall Out Boy/My Chemical Romance; Rating: PG; 1,320 words; Pete Wentz/Mikey Way
Mikey's ringtone is a single half-second chime, because if it were anything more obnoxious than that, no one would spend any amount of time with Pete without throwing his phone out a window.
This fic contains an incredibly interesting expression of non-sexual obedience kink. Mikey takes on making a lot of the small decisions in Pete's life for him, making those orders. The way those little decisions tie them together and the level of knowledge and involvement that Mikey has with the minutiae of Pete's life because of them is neat. The orders are pretty simple on the surface, but what they mean isn't. There's that level of knowledge, to start with. There's also how connected Mikey and Pete are and the way they carry each other around and interact via text all day; they're very much a part of each other's lives. The way that chime is a connection and something grounding for Pete is very powerful. I love the way it's a kind of Hey, I'm here. Here's this little thing that you don't have to worry about anymore.
The obedience kink is this fic is really interesting to me in how firmly it's rooted in care-taking on Mikey's part. I think that care-taking in fic with a D/s slant shows up more commonly as aftercare or an aspect of play, so the amount focus there is on it here is remarkable.

This rec set was made for the obedience square of my kink_bingo card. It is more than 500 words long. :)

Mockingbird by waldorph
Rating: PG-13; 4,640 words; Focus: Number One
It starts "She is born Idri3." and is this really compelling character study coupled with some breathtaking world-building. waldorph sketches out the person Number One is, this strong and pragmatic individual, and frames it all in relation to her culture, its history and current political situation. Number One and her people are humanoid but not human, familiar but unfamiliar. The style of writing is very much in synch with the world it depicts. It's stark and beautiful, a fascinating story.

Sing Me the Ages by tassosss
Rating: PG; 6,200 words; Focus: Nyota Uhura
This is a story about music. It's an interesting exploration of Nyota and to some extent the Federation. I really like the discussion of language and music as they relate to culture in this. It chronicles the expansion of Nyota's language set and the summary does a really good job of setting up the story and being reflective of its tone - "Nyota Uhura fell in love with music, poetry, and language all at the same time." It's what I call a "quiet" story, sedate.

Graduate Vulcan for Fun and Profit by lazulisong
Rating: PG-13; 15,600 words; Focus: James T. Kirk
Jim accidentally becomes a graduate student in Vulcan Studies. There's this really awesome Vulcan original character who is rather dry and brilliant. There's exploration of Jim's role as George Kirk's son in relation to the survivors of the Kelvin and it has the secretly smart trope in it, though with Jim it's more a case of secret layers of smart. It's sweet, and a little sad, and funny. This is a story that I really ought not to read publicly - I grin and make gleefully amused noises. It's filled with wonderful details and is an excellent read.

(This post is for china_shop's Fandom Appreciation Challenge, which "is about giving feedback, reccing and interacting with other fen." - details here.)

(ETA: Unrelated: Vote of Non-Confidence - Canadian Federal Election Imminent)

In Truth by mint_amaretto
Rating: NC-17
It's the Kirk/McCoy Dollhouse AU, and oh, it is brilliant and hard edged - and so much more interesting in many ways than the Dollhouse episodes I've seen so far. There's darkness in it, and truth. It's well-crafted and fascinating.

Five Times Jim Kirk Turned Down Propositions and Once When He Didn't by blcwriter
Rating: R
There's the evolution of Jim Kirk in here to Captain, about how he and his relationships change. I love this fic for it's strong female characters, and there's a lot of awesomeness and grace in the characters fleshed out in this. It's a little bit grandiose, and fun for that. (Kirk/McCoy)

Lunch and Other Obscenities by rheanna27
Rating: PG-13
There's some absolutely glorious fanart that has been made for this story, and it's amusing to boot, but doesn't make all that much sense without reading the story; I think that's a mark of something really good, that there's enough detail and originality in the story that the artwork (a mark itself) has that ability to confound. Nyota Uhura is the central character in this and it's largely about her relationship with Gaila. Spock's here too, and there's some really fascinating exploration of cultures and cross-cultural interaction in this. It is also delightfully amusing - an all-around joy to read.

Kevet Dutar by mytsie
Rating: PG
This is fun and adorable. The story was written as a result of the prompter's musings on the dynamic and character(s) of Spock's parents, and a lovely quirk of the mind that turned this into something very 1950s. There are a few great nods in that direction in the fic and it reads something like a sublime romantic comedy. It's about how they met.

Reading Against/Reading With: Mastering the Oppositional Discourse in Textual Healing by emeraldwoman
Rating: NC-17
This is smutty and hilarious. It's, um, porn, and literary criticism. I find literary criticism a source of great fun and amusement on it's own, so this is something that resulted in a lot of sniggering and snorting and assorted guffawing.

Star Trek Parody by sarahtales
There are lines in this that were popping into my head weeks after reading this, lines which I felt the need to share with other people, regardless of their lack of context. This is a thing of massive joy. I am told that it does well delivered by means of dramatic reading. (Interestingly, there is also some reference made to literary analysis in here.)