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Angel
And It was Good by Fox1013
Spoilers of the finale, but just. Heh. Lilah/Wesley. Much fun. Especially the shoes. I mean, *especially* the shoes.
Brothers Grimm
Two Princes: A Fractured Fairy Tale by Victoria P - NEW
This stunning extension of the movie, threesome, incest, and so hot it steams off the page.
Buffy
The Bowiehabarata by Rivka T and Mustang Sally (Buffy/Spike)
I'd read all of this, then skip over and read all the X-Files stuff. If you've been living under a rock and never seen EITHER of these shows, read the stories anyway. Yes, I do mean that. They are THAT good.
The Heart's Filthy Lesson
Serious Moonlight
Changes
Spiders From Mars
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Traitor, the Witch, and the Lovers by Katie Vieceli
I've seen this on so many rec pages it's unreal--I found it on Kate Bolin's, I think, and it seems to get one of two very intense reactions. I got the one where I closed it down and had really bizarre dreams after, and it followed me around for a bit (read: weeks).
I'm religious enough to read Narnia as a Christian fable and fanfic writer enough to appreciate how beautiful it is to fuck up canon. Katie doesn't lose any of the religious overtones--they're what raise the story from just fanfic to something that approaches art. It's cruel and disturbing and mercilessly dark and bizarrely hopeful.
Though even to myself, I can't explain *where* the feeling of hope comes from.
"It's cold here..." he said slowly. "It's dark."
"Oh, love, my poor little fool, it's always dark when your heart is black. Always cold when your soul is gone."
Another *really* good example of what AU fic is all about.
Gravitation
Backspace by Rageprufrock
This does not mean I am *at all* into manga. But it's pretty. It's very Yuki. And I smiled a lot while reading. Happy place
Harry Potter
Better Than This by Victoria P
I love her Sirius/Remus. Just do. She has a feel for these characters that makes me feel it, too, and I get lost in how she writes them, apart and together. Slow, rich, quiet love-forever, two men who've done everything, been hurt by everything, including themselves. Including each other. But when they're together, those things stop mattering.
Everything really stops mattering but what they can be together. And it's beautiful.
Blood Speaks by northlight
This is probably among the first HP fics I ever read, and I still find it incredibly powerful and incredibly sad. Everything he ever was decided before he could even talk, and God, it hurts. He's never going to be whole. I'm not sure he even knows what that means anymore.
Friend Like Me by Lady Vader - NEW
When Draco rewrites history. This is such a wonderful Draco, aching and angry and too jaded to believe anything, even in his own stories. Even there, he can't get a happy ending. Second person POV, but it immerses you so *much* this way.
Home for Wayward Elves by Eolianbeck - NEW
H/Hr/D, this wonderful, rich Hermione voice, post war. Where all things are possible.
Just Like My Daddy by Elizabeth Barr
It's written pre-OOTP, as in, no canon on OOTP is going to show. But fascinating nonetehless. I've wondered about wizarding family politics.
Lustre by Julad
I'm kind of bitter about this one, since, one, it actually made me *get* the entire Draco/Harry Endless Freaking Love of the Ages thing on which what, there are a quarter billion stories? Yeah.
But anyway. It's funny, and cute, and I can see this Draco and this Harry. I mean, *really* see this Harry, especially post-OotP, where I finally started liking the little bugger way too much. What makes me like it best is the sheer seamlessness of story to characters in the book--I bought it, hook, line, and sinker. And this is a Draco I could totally fall in love with.
Misanthropy, Lycanthropy, And The Pursuit Of Knowledge by Halrloprillalar - NEW
How people come to a place where they're not really enemies, but the friends thing is kinda weird.
Nightblooming Heartsease by Julad
Prequel to Resonants's Transfigurations: a Neville story, in which Snape and Neville work together near the end of the war. It's beautiful and sweet and broke my heart and I read it again and again to get that feeling back.
Of Cloaks and Daggers by Rowan R - NEW
Severus is convinced Remus is out to kill him. Albus is going to get a hernia at the rate he's going. And everything is just funny. Don't bother with worries on characterization--it is just too damn much fun to read.
The Other Side by Ethrosdemon - NEW
Wow. Just. Yeah, no real words for this one. Wow.
Remedial Potions by Lupercali
Proof that whining gets you what you want. Lupin and Snape and Sirius, and a love story inside a story that was almost love but couldn't be. Snape is beautifully drawn, and I love the outsider look at the Lupin/Sirius pairing. They're all still young and screwing up and still not quite the people they'll become, but they're so close you can see the echoes. Lupin is equally entrancing in his youth and innate calm that, God, he has to need with Sirius. It's gorgeous. Just absolutely spot-on gorgeous.
Sides by Prillalar
Weird and creepy Harry/Draco, futureficcish, short and not so sweet. I like dark Harry. I want more.
Take It And Like It by Sara - NEW
Mmm. Sex magic. It's my happy place.
The Tale of the Shining Prince by illuferret
I don't know what to say about this one. It entranced me, and while Draco/Harry appeals to me, it's not like an OTP thing. But wow. Nothing like the books, filling in cracks you dind't know were there, and rewriting canon so fluidly it shocks me. I don't want to spoil it at all--it's another story I think should be read cold if at all possible to get the full effect. Time jumps and some interesting character development all around. Must read, definitely.
Second of Our Reign by Wax Jism
Futurefic, post Voldemort, post-War. Draco is different. It's spooky, tha'ts the best I can do. But utterly riveting.
Third Time's the Charm by Helen - NEW
There is too much to love about this story to really go into it all. It's Lupin/Severus, which, if I was ever to get into HP fandom, would be my pairing of choice, it's snarly and defensive and a little snarkily bitter, as only very good and familiar old enemies turned allies can be, and it's a freaking *amazing* Snape that is canonesque *and* extremely likable, and hell, that's like finding an intact snowball in hell, you know? Much love. Backdrop of Draco/Rob only makes it all that much more fun.
Trade by Aja - NEW
The summary is probably better than any explanation I could give, really.
Transfigurations by Resonant
I can see why this is recced everywhere. A fascinating Draco/Harry, post-War, futurefic. Good, solid plot, excellent characterizations, and so much useful angst. Yes. Happy.
What He Wants by Debchan
Blood magic and a learning curve. OotP went some *interesting* places in how Harry's growing up, and this story, to me, pulls it together beautifully. Harry's alone, he's miserable, and he's desperate for what he wants. All he needs is a little assistance. And Snape's right there. I don't think anything I've read so far in HP hit me quite like this. I can see Harry doing this. And it's good.
Joan of Arcadia/The Day After Tomrrow
Goodnight, Moon by Yahtzee
The idea was apocalypse crossovers with the apocalyptic movie The Day After Tomorrow, but Yahtzee did so much more with this. It's a beautiful, moving, very human and heartbreaking story of being *human*, of family, and sacrifice, and I cannot recommend this story highly enough. It's utterly breathtaking to the very last word.
OC
It's My Party by Bone (OC)
The OC. Okay, so sue me, I don't watch the show, but this is BONE and I'd read her laundry list if she would post it, so all happiness here.
Funny thing was, parties were parties no matter the zip. Same shit, different decor. Too much booze, too few clothes, too many ways to fuck it all up, and if Seth hadn’t wanted to go, well, he wouldn’t be there. But Seth did want to go, so. He went where Seth went, that’s how it worked. It worked, it did. It worked better than anything else he’d tried, and it wasn’t like he had anywhere better to be.
Spiderman the Movie
Complicated by Bren Antrim
A lovely Harry and Peter. Loves it. Much.
Riptide by veuki
There's a sad lack of good Peter/Harry, and this story makes up for a lot of that. A good cover of their relationship. Beautifully written.
Wendy and Peter (Peter Pan)
A Hundred Years Ago by trifles
An achingly sweet, painful origination story of Hook and Peter. And mothers are grown-ups. They have to be.
The West Wing
Time and the Fates of Men by Marguerite - (The West Wing, all)
Marguerite's Page
Just read anything there and you will be content. I like this series especially because it was the first I read in TWW fic, when I wasn't LOOKING for TWW fic. Still fell in love.
The X-Files
Cruel and Unusual by Jane St. Clair
he differences between Jane and other writers is that she can *change* her characters and still keep them the same. This Scully is a world away from the one above, but the pieces are all still the same--bitter and harder and somehow colder, but still Scully in all the ways that matter. It's another rescue, for another reason, but they don't even know why. It's absolutely gorgeous.
See, this kind of thing, at a formative time in my fandom development, could have seriously led me down the path of Krycek/anyone OTPing.
Half a World Away by Jane St. Clair
Waayy back in the days I wrote nothing but Paris/Torres, tried to get Seven naked a lot, and toyed with the concept of slash, which scared me to bits, I ran across Jane's Sleepers (with Feet), one of the loveliest Paris/Torres stories in history. Katie Redshoes in Trek once said that Jane's stories always seemed to come from a slight angle that you don't entirely expect, and she was right.
It's Scully and it's Krycek, and it's a rescue of a kind and they're really not sure why.
Considering I know nothing of the fandom, only watched the show, take with a grain of salt that I really, really loved Scully like this. Almost but never quite broken, and Mulder there even though he's not, for both of them. And the style is beautiful. I re-read every so often just to wallow in how damned *good* this is.
It could have been canon. Damn well *should* have been canon.
Iolokus by MustangSally and RivkaT
seemag says this story was one of the ones that scarred her--I can see why. Intense, powerful plotting, massive, rich character arcs, deep love and mistrust and everything that goes along with it, Scully and Mulder just stumble through and keep their heads above water as best they could. I love stories that explore what goes on in Scully's head after all she's been through.
And no one else, living or dead, could possibly, *possibly*, made babyfic so damn sexy.
This is like The Weekend Read, where you hole up with your computer, some coffee, and don't come out until Sunday night, bleary, shocky, and absolutely entranced.
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