I don't read a lot of Snape/Harry, and I think I know why now: it's because this pairing needs to be dark for me. I can't see romance for it. I see only pain, death, anger and obsession. And after reading atrata's Nine Adulteries, there's really no way I can deal with any other kind of Snape/Harry now ( Read more... )

setissma says in her notes to The Bathtub's Archipelago that she's never written Ron before, let alone Harry/Ron. She should do it more often. This is a such a sharp little story, a perfect slice of their relationship as it might look after the war is over, when the boys will likely need some putting back together.

copperbadge's Reclamation is a fascinating AU about a Tom Riddle who chose a different path. The key here, though, is that he's still Tom Riddle. Excellent characterization all around -- chilling characterization, considering how much is different, and how much is exactly the same ( Read more... )

snegurochka_lee wrote Five Dead Women for the femgenficathon. This is for all of those people who say the female characters in the HP-verse aren't interesting or are badly written or whatever lame excuse is the thing du jour. I don't think you can get such a freaking awesome story unless there's something compelling going on with the women in the source material, and this ( Read more... )

doyle_sb4's A Phantom of Clouds is just -- oh, utterly gorgeous. The characterizations are delicate and just right, and the setting is rather original. It's a sort of quiet, thinky, lovely little story, with tantalizing glimpses into plausible personal histories for the three characters ( Read more... )

taraljc always does really good, ep-like longer stories, no matter what fandom she's writing for. Happily, her current focus is on Doctor Who. Ivory and Horn is a slightly zany planetary adventure, Who-style, with some gentle subtext-made-more-text.

I love Who fics which play with the fact that the TARDIS is a time machine. More of that, please! gwynnega's City of Loss makes my little geeky romantic heart go pitter-pat.

Everyone and their mother in the new Doctor Who fandom has read Pulse by casirafics, so I'm just jumping on the bandwagon. It's quite good, though -- a well-written reminder that the Doctor is alien, and that even so, he and Rose still manage to share something.

I LOVE best friend pairings, and Brian/Michael on Queer As Folk US was what got me into the show to begin with. Then, of course, Brian/Justin ran away with everything. Sure, they were pretty, but there's just something about buddyslash...

Anyway. synchronik, whom I have admired across many fandoms, wrote THE Brian/Michael story when the show ended: Every ( Read more... )

So I have a new fannish obsession. (Those who've followed my recs over the years are like, "Yeah, what's new.") That obsession is Doctor Who, the new series.

I still have...issues with NC-17 Whofic, or even outright romantic fic, although I've read and enjoyed fair amount. I think the best stories in the fandom are those like loneraven's Lovers, 'Tis ( Read more... )