kiki_eng | Entries tagged with teen wolf: rec

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Boy Meets World/Girl Meets World | 5,585 words | G | Shawn/Topanga/Cory
“I hate school I hate school I hate school,” Maya chanted as she ran into her room and slammed the door.
“It’s a necessary evil and I’m sorry you can’t appreciate that right now!” Shawn called back.
Their shitty home printer jammed twice and there was a vertical line running down each page of Maya’s English essay, but hopefully that wouldn’t matter—it was done, it was printed, there was a neat staple in the top left corner and everything was formatted according to the very detailed 8th grade essay guidelines. They would have breakfast downstairs and it would all be okay.
+ OT3 domesticity, a strong Maya & Shawn relationship developing, emotional vulnerability, and love. Excellent show vibes.

that first, initial feeling by

varnes
Buzzfeed RPF | 21,276 words | NC-17 | Ryan/Shane
Summary: “You’re called the Treasure Chest,” Shane says blankly to the man behind the counter, who is looking at him with a completely neutral expression. His name tag suggests that he is called Ryan. “It’s -- literally every sex shop in the history of sex shops was called The Treasure Chest. I’m pretty sure it’s in the by-laws.
“The by-laws ... for sex shops?” Ryan asks.
Shane fixes him with a look. He sells crystals, which means he’s a con man, which means he’s a deviant of at least some kind, which means he’s been to a sex shop and he knows exactly what Shane means. “Listen,” Shane says, and then nothing else, because Ryan The Counter Man pulls an arm behind his head to stretch and the sight of his surprisingly beefy arms short-circuits Shane’s brain.
The man blinks patiently at him. “I’m listening,” he says, encouragingly.
OR: An AU in which Ryan runs a crystals store, and Shane is beguiled by him anyway.
+ One of those if-they-hadn't-met-the-way-they-did-they-would-have-ended-up-in-exactly-the-same-place-anyway AUs. They're just so delighted by each other. The banter in this is great and there's a good amount of feelings, no in this. ♥

Everything by

Trelkez
Buzzfeed RPF | 2:09 | PG | Ryan/Shane
Music: Everything by Scruffy the Cat
Summary: Did you just call the demon a motherfucker?
+ This is fun. There's smiling and laughing at each other and Ryan getting freaked out by stuff, a bit. Charming.

Hot Scary Summer by

thewindupbird
Buzzfeed RPF | 11,627 words | NC-17 | Ryan/Shane
Summary: The boys hunt some ghosts, make some impulsive choices, and try their best to sort out what it means to get to the heart of this thing.
+ Navigating America, the supernatural, and their own relationship. There's a kiss and then a whole lot of processing.

Begin the Begin, Over and Over by

beethechange
Buzzfeed RPF | 33,398 words | NC-17 | Ryan/Shane
Summary: Shane only agrees to be handcuffed to Ryan for a video because he can put up with anything for twenty-four hours. That’s the funny thing about time loops, though—they don’t always adhere to the parameters set by clickbait videos.
+ Groundhog Day, and the thing about the set-up is that he's basically dating Ryan, taking Ryan on all the dates. (This thing reminds me of hockey fic, with the way it ties up the personal and the professional; it feels like cup fic.)

Etta Candy's Last Stand by

sanguinity
DCU | 1,788 words | PG-13 | Etta/Diana
This is the way Etta is going to die: trapped between a bed and Diana Prince’s breasts.
+ Funny and adorable. Spot-on voices.

Scandal by

Gwen77
Game of Thrones | 21,652 words | NC-17 | Brienne/Jaime
Summary: This is a quasi-Victorian AU, set in a nineteenth century version of Westeros.
+ It's a romance novel (like, there are some strong genre ties happening here) and Brienne's a journalist.

lazaefair recced this on

fancake and sold me on it.

the unlocking and the lift away by

beyond_belief
Generation Kill | 59,262 words | NC-17 | Brad/Ray
Summary: You can't not build a life just because things might change.
Or, Ray gets an MBA.
+ Ray runs away to Brad's/college with a cat, and then they're roommates. Ray makes friends with his classmates and he and Brad fall in love. There's also some stuff with Ray's family.

家教 - or - Domestic Education by

rageprufrock
Guardian | 9,034 words | PG-13 | Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Summary: Shen Wei is the Ghost King, born out of the unyielding chaos of entropy that had consumed the underworld before the creation of the wheel of reincarnation. He's the cosmic guardian of death and all her darlings, and the universe through the lens of his eye is rife with demons, hungry ghosts, and shadows creeping out of their places. So there is absolutely no way he is getting sick.
+ He is getting sick and Zhao Yunlan and his take care of him. I love the mundane and domesticity and family-ness of this, and the contrast of that and what Shen Wei is is kind of perfect.

Without A Net Upon The Wire by

torakowalski
Marvel | 41,982 words | NC-17 | Clint/Phil
Summary: Since he was abandoned by his brother and then the circus, Clint Barton has resigned himself to making his own way in the world. So when he ends up living on the streets of New York in the middle of winter, he’s not expecting to be taken in by injured army veteran, Phil Coulson, or accidentally involved in an escalating war against the Russian mafia.
+ The one where Coulson lives in the tracksuit mafia building and takes a young Clint in and they are both very stubborn about accepting each other's help and liking each other. (Also features Nick, Barney, and Natasha.)

Counterfeit and Counterpart by

Frea_O
Marvel | 28,013 words | PG-13 | Maria & Natasha
Summary: Five times Maria Hill doesn’t understand Natasha Romanoff, and why she might be better off that way.
+ Maria-centric, and awesome. There's a road trip in here, and also their beginnings at SHIELD and it does not read like a five times fic, because it's so fluid and you get swept up in their relationship.

love is for children and other lies by

Fahye
Marvel | 30,095 words | PG-13 | Natasha
Summary: War is the child's emptiness, the surrender of identity, the transformation into a simple system: purpose goes in, action comes out. (Natalia Alianovna Romanova, and everything that she became.)
+ Natasha's history and her friendship with Clint. She's asexual in this, though that's not a word that's anywhere but the tags.

Citation Flirtation by

scioscribe
Marvel | 3,166 words | PG-13 | Shuri/OFC
Summary: Shuri's paper is refuted in a subclause of a footnote. This means war. (And somehow eventually takeout and fully-funded projects and kissing.)
+ This is so good. Crushes and posturing.

Good Lives by

jibrailis
Naruto | 7,637 words | PG-13 | Gai/Kakashi
Summary: Gai accidentally becomes first lady of Konoha.
+ Gai is fantastic. Kakashi starts getting him to do ceremonial stuff and *points at summary*.

cultivating in themselves something by

thingswithwings
Schitt's Creek | 5,090 words | NC-17 | David/Patrick
Patrick shrugs with one shoulder. “I just―it’s a nice fantasy. I thought you might like to play with it."
“And the fantasy is . . . ?” David lets his hands roam over Patrick’s sides and back, stroking slowly.
“Hot, repressed gay guy comes into the store,” Patrick says, beginning the scene.
+ God, they're so in love, and there's so much communication in this, and it feels celebratory, of fantasy and sexuality and sex; it's great.

Watching Through Windows by

helvetica_upstart
Schitt's Creek | 38,537 words | NC-17 | David/Patrick
Summary: David gapes at the man calling himself David’s husband. “You think I’m falling for the married amnesiac trap? Yeah, no, my sister has been-there done-that and sent me the Embassy’s postcards.”
Or, David falls off a ladder and can’t remember Schitt’s Creek. Things fall apart and come back together.
+ I love how complicated this is, detailed and thought out. This is incredibly rich and full of feelings.

do u expect me, a gay, to remember everything i write by

lazulisong
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System | 3,973 words | PG-13 | Mòběi-jūn/Shàng Qīnghuá
"What?" says Shang Qinghua. "No, he's not. Why would he court me? He thinks I'm like, a hamster.
"Okay, then why is he dropping like, monsters and shit at your door?" says Cucumber-bro. "That's how they like, show people they can provide for them or whatever."
"Why would they do that!" shrieks Shang Qinghua. "I never --"
"It was a plot point, dude," says Cucumber-bro, in the slow, patient voice of someone speaking to a stupid dog. "It was an actual, literal plot point you typed in with your own like, sinful hands."
"No it wasn't," says Shang Qinghua immediately. "I think I would like, fucking remember writing a scene where some chick gets an actual fucking dragon corpse dropped on her door and immediately gives it up for the person who brought it!"
+ I do not know this fandom, but this is very fun and has some entertaining trope takes.

The Rose of Terok Nor by

cicak
Star Trek | 12,167 words | PG-13 | Bashir/Garak
Summary: It's five years after the war and everyone's talking about the hottest new publishing sensation out of Cardassia, The Rose of Terok Nor.
In which roses don't shine, spelling over instant messenger is still fraught, limited edition art books are acquired, and it's all true, especially the lies.
+ After he returns to Cardassia Garak rewrites his past as a soppy love story starring serial-numbers-filed-off versions of himself and Julian; a teenaged Cardassian female gets Julian to read it.

A Brief Introduction to Live Action Roleplaying by

wldnst
Teen Wolf | 28,171 words | PG-13 | Danny/Stiles
Summary: Jackson tells Danny he's a werewolf. Danny gets werewolf advice from a stranger on the internet. Things escalate from there.
+ Identity porn and teenaged romance. Sweet.

A Fever Moon by

morphosyntactic
Teen Wolf | 4,649 words | NC-17 | Danny/Stiles
Summary: Danny has only ever been human, and he’s pretty sure there’s meant to be some kind of rule, an unwritten moral code of the gay scene: you are not obligated to be every straight boy’s experiment, you should leave them to work through their confusion alone. The thing is, though, Danny is one of just two guys who are out and proud in the whole school. Beacon Hills is a small town.
+ Danny and Stiles get drunk and fool around. It's a good thing.

For

sinesofinsanity, who didn't ask for this.

Shadowplay by

Medie
PG-13 | 1,576 words | Stiles Stilinski
August 13, 2012
Since the day of his birth, the shadows have loved him.

+ Stiles, magic, and figuring things out. This is one of those works that does a great job of evoking the senses and is very immersive because of that - there's an atmosphere and texture to this.

and oh! i am glad that nobody knew by

ohladybegood
PG-13 | 1,782 words | Stiles Stilinski
October 11, 2012
Summary: “My first name,” Stiles repeats. “Guess it.”
Or, the one where Stiles is actually Rumplestiltskin.

+ This is kind of glorious nonsense - part shitty high school English paper and part guessing game. It's fun, basically ridiculous, and kind of sketchy in that way Teen Wolf does so well.

like clouds across oceans by

afterism
PG-13 | 3,046 words | Allison Argent/Lydia Martin
November 30, 2012
Summary: In all the possible universes, three lives that Allison and Lydia are living.

+ Each of these starts with a Katniss reference, which is a solid connecting thread for Allison, and they're all very different takes - a spy AU that's a Clint/Natasha type thing, a slightly surly bakery AU, and a derby AU. They've all got good bones to them.

tween wolf by

verity
mostly G | incomplete series: 52,809 words, 50 works | Gen
March 27 - May 10, 2013
Summary: The day before sixth grade starts, Scott gets bitten by a werewolf.

+ :D I feel like Teen Wolf is strongly improved by setting it a bit after the Hale house fire burned down in middle school. There's a lot of charm and joy in the pre-teen thing and it's very pure.

I've been slowly clearing out my published future-dated private entry drafts over the past, er- while. When the month rolled around with this entry at this date it felt like its number had come up, and not like it needed re-dating like the last however many times. So: accomplishment.

We Are Floating in Space by

steammmpunk
Merlin
April 10, 2009: art | G | Merlin/Arthur

+
I think this art is why this rec set exists. It's beautiful - ink work over a colour-gradient like twilight coming out and studded with stars, a spaceship in the back and a single splash of other colour in the Pendragon emblem, Merlin and Arthur's eyes locked on each others. It feels quiet and full of magic. It's compelling. I've spent a fair amount of time thinking of that moment it captures and the possible implications of the colouring choices. It's one of my favourite AUs.

Apple Candy by

talitha78
Star Trek
Summary: James T. Kirk believes in having it all.
October 4, 2009: vid | 3:23 | PG | Apple Candy by Ben Lee | Kirk/Uhura/Spock

+
OT3 vid of my heart. This was probably the first OT3 vid I ever saw and it's gorgeous, full of light and lens flare and yearning and ship feels and adventure and all possible character subsets. It's them wrapped in the Enterprise, and I didn't ship it until I saw this vid and it did that thing that the best shippy songvids do where it reaches into your chest and claws out your feelings and you're taken in by this luminous thesis of their love, clutching at the lyrics like they're the cord of an AED and that's somehow going to help you and grasping desperately at terrible overblown metaphors* and then forever after whenever you hear that song it is this vid.

*clearly I brought my own; this isn't a lord king bad vid, it just inspires that same genre of desperate feeling within me

We understand the lights above the Arby’s. We understand so much. by

scaryliterary
Welcome to Night Vale
n.d.: art | G | Carlos/Cecil

+
This is so soft - the lines in this, and the lettering on the Arby's sign and how comfortable Carlos and Cecil look. I love the cactus and the lights and the sky and the effect that zooming in has. It feels like a roadtrip, that sense of adventure that the foreign mundane brings, and like they're in love.

Fever by

sweetestdrain
Twilight
Oh Bella honey, no.
July 18, 2009: vid | 3:01 | PG | Fever by Neko Case | Bella

+
Slick and creepy. This uses its music like a horror film and it makes my skin crawl. Delicate and beautiful and full of teeth. The whole vid makes my heart hurt and the ending is devastating. This felt like water, after the first film came out, seeing it edited into this thing that felt true.

Scarlet Ribbons by

aycheb
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Your faces, O my sisters! Your faces filled of light!
August 16, 2008: vid | 3:32 | PG-13 | Scarlet Ribbons by Sinead O'Connor | slayers

+
How becoming a slayer turns you into a sacrificial lamb and robs you of the last of your childhood and fills your world with death and traps you, but you're not alone and you can fight back. Haunting and full of imagery, this vid is probably going to make you cry.

Stiles and Kira chilling after a fight. by

geeky-sova
Teen Wolf
November 9, 2017: art | G | Stiles & Kira

+
I love how subdued the colours are and how still Stiles and Kira feel - that sky and field and the suggestion of it being this quiet moment, and they still have their weapons in hand, juice boxes in another. It's a great contrast and they feel very like themselves with that and posture and colours and expressions that fit characterisation; it feels inhabited and right.

I got rid of my tabs and then somehow had the same amount of tabs a couple weeks later.

The Bad Touch by

sweetestdrain
Buzzfeed RPF | 4:21 | PG | Gen/GSF
Music: The Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang
Summary: "Let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel." Or: What WILL they try next?
+ [The Try Guys are independent of Buzzfeed now, but a lot of the footage from this is from there (all of it, maybe?) and I am going to tag them as Buzzfeed (forever, probably).] They're fun, and always so enthusiastic and silly and this More Joy Day vid captures that perfectly, and is a joy. Dancing, costumes, comedy, nudity, animals (fuzzy and otherwise), eroticism, and general shenanigans.

Let's Get Into The Theories by

bessyboo
Buzzfeed RPF | 2:28 | G | Ryan & Shane
Music: I've Got A Theory/Bunnies/If We're Together from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Summary: I've got a theory.
+ This vid is perfect - A+ usage of semi-unusual audio. Adorable light comedy.

even the stars hide away by

thingswithwings
Community | 3,346 words | PG-13 | Troy/Abed
Summary: Troy and Abed meet the in-laws.
+ This feels very real, how young they are in some ways, the difficulty of navigating relationships with family, the way you compartmentalise bits of yourself. Abed and Troy are so supportive of each other and growing great. It's wonderful.

my words will be your light by

dollsome
Game of Thrones | 1,473 words | G | Sansa/Tyrion
Summary: Sansa and Tyrion have another conversation. Set after 8x01.
+ I have not watched this show but I ship it. This is very much post-episode shipping fic with (I think at the time?) canon-compliant relationship development, talking things out on the way to moving forward together. Quiet.

meditations ex post facto by

singlecrow
Guardian | 9,253 words | PG | Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Summary: "It is very tedious,” Professor Shen agrees, setting down his cup of tea. “I admire your forbearance.”
“I have no forbearance,” Zhao Yunlan assures him. “I get drunk a lot and throw things.”
or, the lawyers AU that no one asked for.
+ This is one of my favourite things I've read in years. It's this beautiful unfurling of things; it feels like spring. The structure of the AU is great - the role transfer from SI to municipal legal counsel is stellar, the characterisation is spot-on all around and there's taking care of each other and backing each other up, and dealing with West Wing-type problems and the Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan dynamic is keyboard smash levels of perfect. There's identity stuff in this and hjfkhlgdjkgkkjlfdjl;gada.

Ordinary Numbers by

BootsnBlossoms and

Kryptaria
James Bond | 44,168 words | PG-13 | James/Q
Summary: More than anything, Mike Taylor wanted to be ordinary. Being a genius, he learned early in life, meant people expected too much. A career at the MI6 Help Desk seemed the perfect way to guarantee a lifetime of obscurity, until he got a very unusual tech support call.
+ Q is hyper-competent in spite of himself and a tech snafu leads to Bond adopting him as his personal mission tech support; they basically accidentally fall in love with each other over a series of phone calls and woo the shit out of each other, like, this is kind of curtain!fic where they haven't met and then they figure out and deal with the fact that they're in a relationship at the end. Office fic with a tiny bit of identity porn en route to a more canon compliant ending, includes action sequences and peril.

I Did Something Bad by

jarrow
Killing Eve | 3:46 | R | Eve/Villanelle
Music: I Did Something Bad by Taylor Swift
Summary: It just felt so good.
+ Source material I haven't seen. Revelatory and progressively darker narrative. Blood and knives, guns and poison, violence and unravelling.

Little bit more by

blithesea
Killing Eve | 2:25 | R | Eve/Villanelle
Music: Little Bit More by Tony C. And The Truth
Summary: Villanelle being gleefully psychopathic. Sandra Oh's face.
+ Violent lesbians to bad-ass country. The treatment of murder in this vid reminds me of the Dexter aesthetic.

Still The One (That's In Love With You) by

lilly_the_kid
Marvel | 1:57 | PG | Eddie/Venom
Music: Still The One by Ingrid Michaelson
you saved my life, I'll save yours too
+ this has some really great characterisation bits while also simultaneously being fluffy tentacle monster goo

Melodrama by

mithborien
Marvel | 2:52 | PG | Gamora & Nebula
Music: Melodrama by Lorde
Summary: "You were the one who wanted to win. I just wanted a sister!"
A Gamora & Nebula fanvid during GOTG2.
+ Fraught, full of feelings, very pretty.

the family brooklyn by

tactfulGnostalgic
Marvel | 12,874 | PG-13 | Miles Morales
Summary: New York is notoriously protective of its superheroes.
+ This made me cry, almost - dry ugly sobs - they just love him so much and want to take care of him. ...and it's also slice of life about Miles figuring out how to be a superhero - stuff about copyright law and other practical stuff, and Brooklyn is tagged as a character and this is like John/Atlantis fic; it's Miles/Brooklyn and it's beautiful. The feels snuck up on me and punched me in the gut.

The Fifties by

speranza
Marvel | 28,185 words | NC-17 | Bucky/Steve/Peggy
Summary: "Because everything's all right, isn't it?" Bucky said. "Everything's great. I'm so happy; I never thought I could be this happy. You're happy, too, aren't you, Peg?"
+ Poly fic with relationship and career discussion and development along with some great sci-fi.

Bad Girls by

elipie
Ocean's 8 | 3:41 | PG | Lou/Debbie
Music: Bad Girls by M.I.A.
Summary: If you're going to have a problem with stealing, then you're not going to like the rest of this conversation.
+ Excellent recruiter vid, solid vibe and femslash. Stylishly bad-ass lady criminals getting what they want.

a country you remember by

waspabi
Rivers of London | 1,355 words | G | Molly
Summary: When a girl goes into service, people like to think she pledges fealty to the family, but that isn’t true. She serves the house.
+ when I make that home rec set, this is meant to be in it. Molly finding a home and being part of it - excellent character study and house spirit fic, basically.

The Rock and The River by

Rhea
Spirited Away | 17,442 | PG-13 | Chihiro/Haku
Summary: Chihiro takes magic and bends it around herself to make a place in the world.
+ I think there's a few errant SPAG issues with this but I don't quite remember and sort of don't give a shit because this fic is awesome. College and part time jobs and finding and building your place in the world and magic and living. Food porn and long-distance relationships, also.

What Buddies Know About Love by

busaikko
Stargate: Atlantis | 5,432 words | G | John/Ronon
Summary: Ronon's making his own future; John's there for him. Ronon thinks it's time to take the next step in their relationship; John has reservations. Neither of them wants to talk about it, but they do anyway. (Contains canon pairings).
+ Language and culture and finding your person. John is ace in this and Ronon essentially proposes and I love them. Domesticity and therapy and taking care of each other and tattoos, also. Funny and sweet.

Your First Time Should Be Special by

Helenish
Star Trek | 6,650 words | NC-17 | Kirk/Spock
The thing about being a captain of a starship is that you forget how to break up with people; the starship is a gigantic, unmistakable clue that you're probably not sticking around.
+ Relationship development with Jim taking it slow for Spock and having a bunch of self-worth issues that he's unable to express. There's some offscreen Bones and Spock friendship stuff that I really enjoyed, also, along with the Bones and Kirk stuff.

Somewhere to Start by

lissadiane
Teen Wolf | 33,552 | PG-13 | Derek/Stiles
Summary: Stiles has always known that he isn't quite human - the plant life that tends to sprout around him whenever he gets upset or excited gives it away. He's never really fit in among the regular people in Beacon Hills and is determined to wait it out, go to college, and find somewhere to belong. He's forced to abandon those plans, however, after he desperately agrees to enter into an arranged marriage to save his father's life.
An arranged marriage with an angry, sometimes furry dude with trust issues. It's all very Beauty and the Beast, without the singing candlesticks.
+ Enforced captivity, supernatural politics, and kids are key parts of this. It's an alive Hale family fic, Stiles has been cut off from the supernatural his whole life and then gets plunged into it and used as a pawn, Derek is surly and the whole thing is kind of fandom-takes-on-fairy-tales/magical-realism at its best. Solid long!fic.

Would You Be Mine, Could You Be Mine by

lady_ragnell
Merlin | 23,456 words | 2018 | PG-13 | Arthur/Merlin
Summary: Merlin does not want to invite the Prime Minister's son onto his show, even if he is an environmental scientist. Arthur does not want to admit that he has a crush on the star of Merlin's Castle, the most popular children's show in the nation.
In which Merlin is Mr. Rogers, there is a bouquet of finger puppets, Freya and Gwaine hooked up years ago and neither of them wants to talk about it, and eventually everything turns out okay.
+Merlin is an excellent Mr. Rogers and he and Arthur have just a bit of believable friction before getting themselves sorted. Charming.

This is How We Go by

skoosiepants
Teen Wolf | 5,745 words | 2012 | PG-13 | Derek/Stiles
Summary: Scott and Stiles go on the Warped Tour with Allison’s band.
“I think we need to bring more joy to the children,” Stiles says. “I think we need to dress as pirates and do the Scott is a Terrible Pirate skit, because *you are a terrible pirate*,” and when Stiles says pirate, Stiles means friend. Scott is a terrible, horrible friend, and Stiles hates him.
+Pining, ridiculousness, and dreams. Scott and Stiles feels like a show homesick college kids might watch at two in the morning, snacking on brownies and popcorn.

Catalysis for Dummies by

crysothemis
Stargate: Atlantis | 2,233 words | 2009 | G | John/Rodney
Summary: Rodney finally discovers the truth about the boots
+Snark, John irritating Rodney, and a crowd of children shouting on command.

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snowflake_challenge. Details about the first day are here.

You Told the Drunks I Knew Karate by

settiai
Doctor Who | PG | 2:48 | Rory/Amy
Summary: "I do the dumbest things for you." Oh, Rory. No, scratch that. Oh, Ponds. ♥
Music: You Told the Drunks I Knew Karate by Zoey Van Goey

+
The song that this is set to is so much fun and also a perfect choice that

settiai uses to lay out this descriptive exploratory piece on Rory and his relationship with Amy and their relationship with the Doctor - and it's a romp. It's their loyalty and playfulness and striving and everything that makes them Ponds and made that part of the show a delight even when it was heart-wrenching- and it's *chinhands*ing and hearteyes and grin-inducing.

In the Mirror by

heresluck
Due South | PG-13 | 2:40 | Fraser/Ray K
Summary: I need a reminder of what I'm doing.
Music: In the Mirror by Nada Surf

+
A yearning, hopeful punch in the feels about kinship with great timing - I have spent so much time just watching how these two move in this and how the song falls around that; it's really lovely. It's also this perfect treatise on how life can feel and why people relationship. There's humour and this quiet sedateness and a steadiness to it and joy.

Moves by

sisabet
Teen Wolf | PG-13 | 3:15 | Stiles
These things get louder.
Music: Moves by The New Pornographers

+
Stiles' descent into the supernatural and just- him; it's a really great character piece, full of flailing and frustration and straining and tiny victories. There's Danny classed alongside Lydia, which I really appreciate, and all of the sides of the supernatural world that try to take a piece out of him. There's his relationship with Scott and with his father, really great facial expressions, fumbles and fist-pumps.

Take Your Guess by

bingeling
Sports Night | PG | 2:15 | Dan
Summary: It's all just chaos. And that's fine.
Music: Take Your Guess by Tom Rosenthal

+
Dan Rydell and his relationships, the things that didn't go his way, the battered bits, and everyone he loves. Found family, team, and, yeah, chaos. Feelings, how the people around you matter, and keeping on. Part character study, part ensemble vid, part partnership; I have a lot of feelings about Dan Rydell's eyes now and his relationship with Casey.

Current Mood: hot

Since I'm still social bookmarking site-less, this is a bit of a link dump of things I don't want to lose rather than anything themed or structured - recent-ish reads.

Well Kept by

coloredink
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | Rating: G | 2,651 words | Phrynne/Jack
"Just a little something, a token of my appreciation for all your hard work," Miss Fisher chirped, already halfway out of his office.
"But--"
"Goodbye, Inspector!" She wiggled her fingers at him and was gone.
+There's some really great tension in this and I love the kind of subversion of traditionally gendered power dynamics within very rigidly gendered environments. I am about Jack wearing Phyrnne's presents at work.

Old Dog by

thingswithwings
Leverage | Rating: NC-17 | 16,332 words | Eliot/Hardison/Parker
Eliot's their hitter, and taking on any physical threats to the team is his job, but there's something beyond professionalism – even beyond the obvious fact that Eliot relishes the fight itself – in the way he puts his body between Parker or Alec and any potential threat. Alec has a good view of Eliot's back on a lot of jobs, and he reads something in the tight line of Eliot's shoulder, in the slow turn of his foot as he steps into a fighting stance.
Something possessive.
+More kink! A really great fic about Eliot growing to let himself be loved and cared for and see himself as more than one thing and Alec and Parker being patient and demonstrative.

Longevity by

lightgetsin
Rivers of London | Rating: NC-17 | 16,569 words | Peter/Nightingale
I glanced in the mirror on my way out, and blanched a little. That guy looked like he'd gotten less than three hours of shitty sleep on his dad's shitty sofa, and then had only the latest in a long, shitty line of long, shitty days.
"Yeah," I said to my reflection, "I'd hit that."
+Slice of life about aging and acceptance, kind of - well-titled.

The Lion by the Tail by

manic_intent
Game of Thrones | Rating: NC-17 | 3,959 words | Olenna/Tywin
"Marry a Targaryen?" Olenna hisses at Lucan. "What nonsense."
Sadly, Cousin Lucan Redwyne was a knight newly minted, and he only stares at Olenna with a certain genteel and spineless horror. "Olenna," Lucan hisses, looking around hurriedly. "You are talking about the royal House!"
"Royal House, pah," Olenna rolls her eyes. "They're more inbred than usual for us noblefolk, I suppose that does rather make them more royal. A royal pack of madmen, that's what they are."
+I've never been exposed to any of the source material, but these are some enjoyable shenanigans.

How Else Would Sailing Ships Ever Have Navigated? by

scioscribe
Jeeves & Wooster | Rating: G | 2,328 words | Madeline/Honoria
“Do you think,” Madeline said to Honoria as the more impressive parts of nature gradually crept up upon them, “that all daffodils are the daughters of sunlight?”
+Marvelous.

Chanel by

scioscribe
Clouds of Sils Maria | Rating: R | 3,108 words | Maria/Valentine
“You should try to think that someone might like to see Helena in you,” Valentine said.
+This fic is what I wanted from the film and perfectly within that tone.

she knows her way around by

lavendersgreen
Les Miserables | Rating: R | 18,081 words | Cosette/Éponine
“I could find out for you.” Éponine volunteers before she altogether consents to herself to volunteer, and Marius' gaze fixes bright on her. She lets herself tremble a little.
“You would?” He sits up to look more closely at her; he is unrelenting.
“Yeah, Marius,” she says. “I’ll—I’ll talk to her for you.”
+Great college art student AU.

get your fancy pants on by

stepquietly
Devil Wears Prada | Rating: NC-17 | 11,773 words | Andrea/Emily
Summary: And here's a terrible truth that everyone knows: we all grow up, and no one stays the same bougie hipster they were when they graduated college.
+

glitteryv recced this to me when I did a dwp post and was so right about this fic - it's perfect futurefic, basically, and lovely.

On the Proper Treatment of Rakes by

bigsunglasses
Original Work | Rating: G | 7,496 words | OFC/OFC
Summary: Ever since being presented to Society, it had been Diana's custom to avoid rakes.
+Fun regency adventure.

The Bond by

WhatIfImaMermaid
Star Trek | Rating: NC-17 | 21,678 words | Jim/Spock
Summary: In which:
-Spock gets amnesia.
-Spock is convinced that he and Jim are a thing.
-Jim doesn’t exactly disabuse him of the notion.
He slips in love with Spock inconspicuously, during an uneventful afternoon, on an unnamed planet destined to become little more than a Greek letter and a Roman numeral on Starfleet’s chart of the Beta Cygni system.
+Amnesia, accidental bonding, and Nyota and Jim being friends. Ridiculous.

Tore a Line in the Sun by

stilinski
Teen Wolf | Rating: PG-13 | 44,929 words | Derek/Stiles
"If you're watching this, you're probably some kind of sentient life form responding to my distress call – well, it's not really an official distress call because, well, the hardware for that is kind of crushed, but I'm definitely in distress, so that should probably count for something."
The young man on the screen sighs and rubs his face, jerking his hand away with a hiss. He's bleeding, Derek realises: there's a gash across his brow and the knuckles of both hands are bruised and bloody, and that's only what he can make out between the cracks in the glass and the frame of the camera.
+Space rescues and world-building and a plot like a really good fusion.

starwire will probably want to read this.

Better Fortunes by

SmallBirds
Teen Wolf | Rating: PG-13 | 39,622 words | Derek/Stiles
Summary: When a group of sinister men attempt to kidnap Stiles Stilinski from the Brooklyn apartment he shares with his stepsister, Lydia, Stiles is forced to activate a spell that translocates him to where he'll be safest.
Derek Hale isn't sure what to do about the soaking wet young man he finds wandering down a Beacon County roadside during the middle of a thunderstorm, but he feels compelled to help him. There's something about Stiles that Derek finds fascinating, and before long the two become embroiled in each other's lives.
Despite the threat to his life and the sudden upheaval of everything he's ever known, Stiles is having a hard time feeling too upset about that.
+I want Derek to be a gardener always. Plot and magic and danger.

Feel Like I'm Fixin to Die by

codswallop
Generation Kill | Rating: R | 14,638 words | Brad/Ray
Summary: Ray is slightly psychic. It's not super fun.
+I love how Ray handles being psychic and how he interacts with the world in response to that - this is a great take on that super power. I really like his relationship with Brad, too, and how that changes in response to events and Ray protects himself.

the king of oak by

saltpans
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them | Rating: R | 38,585 words | Credence/Percival
The first thing Percival Graves does after being released back into the world is buy a new wand. He's at Greymalkin's for ten minutes and the only wand that works for him is raw aspen, whiter than bone and so rough that Graves gives himself a splinter conjuring a storm of birds. The wand—dragon heartstring, a most unusual wand for an American wizard, according to a flustered Greymalkin—feels wild, and Graves empties half his wallet on the counter and keeps his hand on his new wand all the way home.
The second thing he does is quit his job, because honestly.
("Grindelwald did his research before he put on your face," Seraphina says reasonably. "And it's not like you're open with your personal life. He has us all fooled."
"He wore scorpion stickpins!" Graves shoots back, somewhat less reasonably.
Seraphina looks at Graves, his pressed creases, his immaculate shirt, the red ruby cufflinks he's wearing to hide the starved brittleness of his wrists. "I'm sorry," she says. It is not enough to make him stay.)
The third thing he does is get jumped by Credence Barebone in an alley.
+I haven't seen the film but this reads like a really cool expansion on its world and has some really great depths and shadows and character interactions - snappy and pulpy and tropey. I was a big fan of the magic and world in this and its plottiness. There's also tentative domesticity and recovery in this - it's pretty great.

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.

I am returning to my social bookmarking-less past until Maciej sorts it so that exports are functional and I can actually move to pinboard (yes, I was still with delicious, yes, I should have moved years ago) - for now, a link dump wherein I reread nothing while releasing a bunch of fandom tabs I have on my browser:

Boom Clap (The Sound of My Heart) by

femmequixotic and

noe
Harry Potter | Rating: NC-17 | 39, 547 words | Harry/Draco
Summary: Post-war Hogwarts has been energized by its new teaching fellows program. Where once bitter enmity divided the wizarding community, Malfoy and Potter chummily patrol hallways together whilst Granger and Zabini seek lost parts of the castle at McGonagall’s behest and Chang supervises Quidditch when not lecturing in Charms. It’s a veritable wizarding utopia and life is predictable for the first time in years. Which is, of course, when everything blows apart as the result of a drunken dare and Malfoy’s life is ruined beyond his capacity to repair it. Ever. In a million years.
One of my joys this past year has been a slight resurgence in Harry/Draco works - they weren't one of my pairings in the sort of height or golden age of that fandom and pairing, but it was a lot of fun to be discovering the dynamic through new works something like a decade later. I have zero memory of this fic scanning through it, but that means nothing - I often have to get, like, a page into a work before I can tell whether or not I've read it before.

A better man might by

lowriseflare and

threeguesses
Pitch | Rating: NC-17 | 9,397 words | Ginny/Mike
Summary: The day Mike realizes he’s actively looking for Baker’s ass in the dugout is the day he decides he should probably stop slapping it.
This is like, age gap, and sports culture and gender, and sex and kink, a little. (I think a lot of shit is inherently kinky - from G to NC-17 - and am not using that word as code for BDSM; I can't remember the specifics of any sex scenes in this but I do know that I really liked this fic and I think the sex is pretty integral.)

places to be by

Sixthlight
Rivers of London | Rating: PG-13 | 6,314 words | Beverley/Peter, Beverley/Peter/Thomas
Summary: Tolstoy was wrong: every happy family is happy in its own way.
Accidental co-parenting and kidfic with a poly bent. Sixthlight tends to write themes that I care about and write really well; I remember this fic as a delight.

the slow pace of geologic time by

westerrnredcedar
Check Please! | Rating: PG-13 | 4,258 words | Alicia, Bitty
Jack looks at her and then puts her luggage down and leans in, grabs her into a full-body hug, right there on the sidewalk, holding her so close. She can’t remember when he last hugged her this hard. “He told his parents. About being gay. About us,” he says into her shoulder. “They were awful.”
It's about that, about Jack calling his mom for help, after, and her supporting her son and his partner, being there for Bitty, physically, and her reflecting on parenthood and time, a bit. It's pretty great.

Pants on Fire by

Helenish
Inception | Rating: NC-17 | 15,169 words | Arthur/Eames
"Ah," Yusuf says, lifting a reproving hand, "are we calling less than 24 hours of memory loss amnesia now?"
Excellent use of tropes - there's almost a secret identity component with the amnesia - and character and relationship exploration.

Easy Open by

Helenish
Mission Impossible | Rating: R | 6,262 words | Benji/Ethan
"So you and Hunt are a package deal these days,” Bryson says.
“Uh,” Benji says, jerking his head up from his computer, ballpoint in his mouth.
I did not expect to like this and buy this pairing but this story was compelling for me.

Desperado by

fightingarrival
Star Wars | 3:06 | Poe/Finn/Rey
Summary: There ain’t nothing here for me anymore, but I don’t want to be alone. (A WisCon 41 premiere)
I'm not anywhere near finished processing this vid, so I have nothing on this.

Of Hangovers and Coffee by

Madlyie
Les Miserables | Rating: G | 1,514 words | Enjorlas/Grantaire
Summary: prompt: “accidentally broke into your apartment because i was drunk AU”; You would actually expect Grantaire to wake up in an unknown apartment but things don’t always happen like expected.
I don't know that I actually finished reading this, I think I got about a paragraph in and went No! This is not the BNL song AU that I need in my heart of hearts and kind of want to write now and I need to hold onto this fic because it has inspired me.

be yourself my ally by

imperfectcircle
Wonder Woman | Rating: G | 15,531 words | Etta/Diana
Summary: “That’s all very flattering,” Etta says when Diana has finally run out of steam, “but surely you have more qualified candidates than me?”
“You are of the world of men.” Diana looks a little embarrassed. “But not a man.”
-- Diana and Etta go back to Themyscira.
I think there's a thing, sort of, where we are, all of us, Darcy Lewis. I think we are also all Etta Candy, and, you know, that's a pretty fantastic vicarious experience in this fic. There's a a fake relationship in this fic. There are rituals and festivities. A+ I mean, there's also some world building if you're into that kind of thing, but I am basically entirely *chinhands* about Etta and Diana dating and the tropes here. (There are kittens in this! There are, like, alien shenanigans. It is fantastic.)

Resource Sharing by

rsadelle
James Bond | Rating: NC-17 | 3,476 words | Q/Alec/James, Q/Alec, Q/James
Summary: Q experiences what it means when James says he and Alec share everything.
I remember this basically as filthy porn. Tags include d/s and double penetration.

World Ain't Ready by

idiopathicsmile
Les Miserables | Rating: PG-13 | 185,796 words | Enjorlas/Grantaire
Summary: Enjolras presses his lips together. He already looks pained, and Grantaire hasn't even opened his mouth yet. That's got to be a record, even for them.
"I need a favor," he says at last.
"With what?" says Grantaire. "Ooh, are you forming a cult? Can I join? I'd be awesome at cults, I just know it." He ticks off his qualifications on his fingers. "I love chanting, I look great in robes—"
(High school AU. Grantaire the disaffected stoner is pulled into a cause bigger than himself. Or: in which there are pretend boyfriends for great justice.)
Yeah. It's exactly what it sounds like. The really long high school fake dating AU with pining and miscommunication and all of the teenaged things, basically. Solid supporting cast business with other story lines.

Penetration Testing by

Toft
Person of Interest | Rating: NC-17 | 8,886 words | Harold/John
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.
God, this fic is basically what I love about John Reese as a character, and makes me want to write meta about kink, and here I definitely mean with reference to d/s. He's like the murder sub? And he just wants to be taken care of and loved and challenged?

The Real Thing by

sevenfists
Hockey RPF | Rating: NC-17 | 34,892 words | Evgeni/Sid
Sitting at the table was Sid: Sid as Zhenya had first known him, almost a decade before: dorky, long-haired Sid, his cheeks round with baby fat. He couldn’t have been older than twenty, and even that was generous.
“Wow,” baby Sid said. “Are you Evgeni Malkin?”
I think the thing that got me with this fic - it's a pretty typical set-up and hockeyrpf loves themselves some age-regression - was the relationships that the present day Sid and Geno have with the time traveler. There's some tension, and a very real vulnerability that the younger Sid has because of his age that's I think really present in his relationship with Geno at this time and adds another layer to their interactions, as well as the interactions that Sid has with his younger self; I think it's a really interesting exploration of the sort of vulnerability of youth in this fic, and also power dynamics in relationships to some extent, and the dynamics of relationships in general and the tensions that exist in them, even when you are on even footing.

Under Yellow Moons by

skoosiepants
Teen Wolf | Rating: PG-13 | 17,127 words | Derek/Stiles
Summary: They stare at each other, half-grinning, and Derek knows it’s definitely the absolute wrong time for this, but he wants. He wants to grin at Stiles over dinner every day for the rest of his life, baffled over yams and Moon Pie Day, and, god, crap, goddamn, when the fuck did he have time to fall in love?
Or
The life and times of Deputy Stiles and Supernatural Foster Dad Derek Hale
Some day I need to talk about how much I love skoosiepants, like, coding those italics just then made me so happy, and there's a kind of bandom style to her work, which is just fun - I've been enjoying this adult human Stilinski-Hale business she's been getting up to lately.

So that's my tabs cleared out, and, like step one in catch-up - I owe a few people some things I need to finish sorting.

Current Mood: tired

the moon's my teacher by

driedvoices
Summary: Lydia resurrects another dead werewolf. At least this one buys her dinner.
Rating: PG-13 | 11,462 words | Erica/Lydia

I love Lydia in this. I love how strong she is in the face of feeling so vulnerable and I love the relationship that develops between her and Erica - it doesn't exist at all to begin with, not really, and then it's this fragile new thing that develops further. There's all of this growth in the fic and the character interactions are awesome.

Here to Hold on To by

lady_ragnell
Summary: A chance meeting in the hospital the morning after Laura kills Peter leaves Laura with a telepathic connection to a teenager she'd never met before--one who, after she finds out about werewolves, wants the bite.
Rating: PG-13 | 14,812 words | Erica/Laura

This is really great. The tension between her and Erica is believable and pretty non-creepy. Erica is so much herself and Laura's feeling her out - this person suddenly in her head who wants to be a werewolf - and sorting out the business of being Alpha in Beacon Hills and I am just so much a fan of her chugging on and being an adult. I feel like this is how the story should have gone down.

November Pink by

MissLouisa
Summary: Cora can barely remember what it's like to do the proper family thing - she moved around from pack to pack for the years she was missing, like an unwanted foster child, and she's experienced Thanksgiving and Christmas with families, but they haven't been her own family in a long long time.
Somehow, Cora and Derek end up hosting Thanksgiving for Lydia and the Stilinskis.
Rating: PG-13 | 3,580 words | Cora/Lydia

This fic is full of tentative relationships just starting to be built and it is really lovely for that. It's sweet and kind of awkward. I like the relationship between Cora and Derek a whole lot; they try with each other but are both pretty reserved, it's an interesting dynamic. The relationships in this are pretty satisfyingly realistic.

until the moon gives you back by

fightingtheblankpage
Summary: After her brother's death, and after killing her own uncle, Laura doesn't have much reason to stay in control over herself. She spends years roaming the woods around her house, and forgetting who she was before. Then, one day, Lydia Martin buys the old Hale house on a whim. Lydia wants to be left alone. Laura wants to have a pack again.
Rating: G | 14,872 words | Laura/Lydia

This is a deliciously tropey AU with a near feral Laura reaching out to Lydia. It is basically exactly what you would expect to read based on its summary and it could benefit from a beta but it's kind of great. It has people feeling alone and disconnected, slaughtered offerings, head-pats and cuddles, and, of course, a dramatic showdown. It's fun.

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