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Hermione Granger's Hogwarts Crammer for Delinquents on the Run by waspabi
Harry Potter | PG-13 | 93,391 words | Draco/Harry, Hermione/Ron
Summary: 'You're a wizard, Harry' is easier to hear from a half-giant when you're eleven, rather than from some kids on a tube platform when you're seventeen and late for work.
+ A really thorough what if AU. I love the title to pieces and this whole voyage.

Every Story is a Love Story by lady_ragnell
Merlin | NC-17 | 24,639 words | Arthur/Merlin
Summary: Camelot Publishing publishes romance novels, and when Arthur founds a new imprint of gay romance and invites his best friend and pet writer Merlin to write for it, it's a bit too easy to miss the fact that apparently he's living in one.
+ Gloriously fluffy writer/editor AU with Morgana and Uther being kind of magnificent. There's some nice obliviousness and pining in this.

infinitesimal being by sarahyyy
Yuri!!! on Ice | PG-13 | 9,816 words | Yuri/Otabek
Yuri snorts, and pushes his glass of ice tea away. “Alright, it’s been fun listening to your story, but I actually do have other more important things to do than to listen to you telling me that I’m destined to be your bride.”
He stands, and Otabek follows suit. “If it’s the terminology you have an issue with-”
“It’s not,” Yuri assures him. “It’s more of the fact that everything you’ve told me so far sounds like a goddamn fairytale that only children believe in.”
+ The shape of this is really wonderful. Irreverent manservants, epic prophesied love, and sniping?

Landsailor by raven
Multifandom | 3:46
Music: Landsailor by Vienna Teng feat. Glen Phillips
We're gonna need a bigger boat.
+ Humans and technology and cooperation and dreaming, math-ing, and science-ing. Soaring.

Council Estate by danegan
Attack the Block | 2:21
Music: Council Estate by Tricky
Summary: Can't take what you are
+ This is a really great kind of encapsulation of the film and one of its main themes. It's what made me go and sit down and watch the film, and, after having watched it, reminds me of why I liked it so much.

You Got The Love by shinyjenni
Hidden Figures | G | 2:48
Music: You Got the Love by Florence + The Machine
You got the love I need to see me through.
+ I love this. The love is love and friendship and camaraderie and science and determination and family and belief. Florence has a good voice for this kind of story, and I love this story, this film.

Born to Fight by AurumCalendula
Hidden Figures | G | 2:45
Music: Born to Fight by Tracy Chapman
I ain’t been knocked down yet
+ I love the structure of this and, again, I love this film and the narrative that this vidder has weaved with it.

Dear Fellow Traveller by absinthespoons
Due South | 3:36 | Fraser/Kowalski
Summary: Fraser & Kowalski are a beautiful fairytale romance filled with heroics and insecurity and a bajillion campfires, fight me.
+ Yeah, this is Fraser and Kowalski, alright.

Out Here by heresluck
Due South | PG-13 | 3:30 | Fraser/Kowalski
Music: Out There by Peter Mulvey
Summary: I swear that I am working on what keeps me miles away
+ Angst with a happy ending, I think. There's vid commentaries available, also, which I should check out at some point.

Live in This City by heresluck
Ghostbusters | PG-13 | 2:42 | Ensemble
Music: Live in this City by Dragonette
Summary: This city can't live without me us.
+ This vid is a party, with explosions, and all of the ladies being awesome. ♥

Speak Your Heart by Josette_Arnauld
Moonlight | PG-13 | 3:40 | Chiron/Kevin
Music: Speak Your Heart by Lizz Wright
I see the words behind your eyes.
+ Feelings and longing looks. The eyes. This is, like, beautiful gentle swaying longing and- my heart, basically.

Drought by kaydeefalls
Mad Max | R | 3:37 | Furiosa
Music:Drought by Vienna Teng
and the taste of dried-up hopes in my mouth
+ Still processing this, but- Furiosa and her battles to the rough arc of the film, I think.

Got Her Own bu bingeling
Black Sails | PG-13 | | Eleanor Guthrie/Max, Anne Bonny/Max
Music: Got Her Own by Syd
Summary: I think Max is the best. So I made a vid about how Max is the best.
+ I do not know this fandom but I love this.

Take my Heart by lilly_the_kid
The Color Purple | G | 3:04 | Celie/Shug Avery
Music: Take my Heart by Soko
Summary: if I take your heart, I will heal these old wounds
+ Sweet and heart-wrenching.

I Took a Pill in Ibiza by beerbad
Wynonna Earp | 3:16 | Wynonna
Music: I Took a Pill in Ibiza (Seeb Remix) by Mike Posner
Summary: A family curse, a magic gun, some demons, and a whole lotta feelings. (a S1 character study of Wynonna)
+ I don't know this fandom at all, and this vid is such a pull into the world of the show. Engrossing.

We Built This City by Kurukami
The Expanse | PG-13 | 4:58
Music: We Built This City by Starship
Summary: A common Belter saying is "The more you share, the more your bowl will be plentiful." We all know life isn't always dat simple out in the Big Empty, true. Dere will always be arguments an' disagreements -- Belters got no sense of humor about anyone who screws with water an' air, sa sa que? -- but exploration, pioneering, finding new places to build community?
Dese t'ings are de future.
We are de Belt. Dis is our story, and dese are de cities we have built.
+ This is great, like a love letter to places and ships and maybe the show, and such a good sci-fi thing.

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.

In celebration of and for readbystarlight, because part of the wonder of knowing readbystarlight is that I have someone to talk to about fandom, someone who will sometimes wander with me into new places, and also someone who can lead me there.

Practical Diplomacy by mrsronweasley
Rating: NC-17
Fraser is Fraser, and he is going to make the world a better place. Fraser's internalised his father wonderfully, even when he's not haunting him. (Of course, when Fraser Sr. is haunting him this is most excellent) Fraser is Ray's grad student; he finds himself in a most unusual situation.

Academic Punk by thehoyden
Rating: NC-17
They're both English teachers, Kowalski a winner of the Pinsent Award* and rebellious tenured professor, and Fraser as a junior faculty member, taken on reluctantly due to extraordinary circumstances. I really like this fic, because it is full of wonderful things, like literary discussions, and Ray.

*If this is an actual award I am going to be terribly disappointed, because as things stand this is made of awesomeness. Gordon Pinsent, people. Gordon Pinsent, especially because I'm envisioning him as his The Red Green Show character here. It's pretty fabulous.

Above and Beyond by custardpringle
Rating: PG-13
Fraser is a campus librarian. That alone fills me with a wonderful glee. There's Fraser's wonderful knowledge of ridiculous things applied to books, and some mild book abuse. It's very cute.

Do-Right by sprat
Rating: NC-17
A bit darker than the rest of these, Fraser gets put on duty lecturing on the history of the R.C.M.P. to ambivalent students. Different.