"Bedshaped" and "Cure my Disease"

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Ze Table

Claim: Lost, Jack/Sawyer
Title: Bedshaped
Author: foxxcub
Characters: Jack, Sawyer
Prompt: Futurefic
Rating: NC-17 (just to be safe)
Length: long
Brief summary: This is one of my favorite fics. It's got everything. Angst, hot sex, a wistfullness. Despite it being futurefic both Jack and Sawyer are very much in character and the ending never fails to make me smile.
Link to the story: Bedshaped


Claim: Lost, Jack/Sawyer
Title: Cure My Disease
Author: strutterms
Characters: Jack, Sawyer
Prompt: Anger
Rating: NC-17
Length: medium
Brief summary: The sexual tension between these two veritably crackles and then when they have hot, angry sex? It explodes. It's a great fic by a great author and believe it or not, this was her first Lost slash fic!
Link to the story:Cure My Disease

"Coming Clean" and "Switched"

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Ze Table

Claim: Lost, Jack/Sawyer
Title: Coming Clean
Author: alliecat8
Characters: Jack, Sawyer, Michael, Kate
Prompt: Confession
Rating: NC-17
Length: long
Brief summary: It's long and incredibly angsty s2 fic, dealing with the fall-out from the whole raft incident. Sawyer is an utter bastard to Jack and Jack is hurt and then...lo! There is a confession that changes things. It's a lovely story and well worth a read-through or three.
Link to the story: Coming Clean

Claim: Lost, Jack/Sawyer
Title: Switched
Author: merile
Characters: Jack, Sawyer, Kate makes an appearance
Prompt: Crack!Fic
Rating: NC-17
Length: long (but not that long)
Brief summary: It's Crack!Fic but only just. What I like about this fic is the way she has a good grip on the characterisation of both Jack and Sawyer. She writes their dialogue and interaction well and the brief appearance by Kate amuses me. The last little bit of this fic is a killer and it just begs for a sequel.
Link to the story: Switched

I'll Be What I Am

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My rec table.

Claim: Stargate: Atlantis - John Sheppard
Title: I'll Be What I Am
Author: Zeelee, aka ficbyzee
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay.
Prompt: 8. Friendship.
Rating: PG-13
Length: medium (2,500 words)
Brief summary: Friends: yeah, John doesn't have them. This takes place on Earth, between episodes 201 (The Siege, Part III) and 202 (Intruder), and as far as I'm concerned, this IS what happened.
( Excerpt )

Link to the story: I'll Be What I Am

"Yohimbe" and "Twilight"

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Ze Table

Claim: Lost, Jack/Sawyer
Title: Yohimbe
Author: uberaeryn
Characters: Jack, Sawyer, Michael
Prompt: Friendship
Rating: NC-17
Length: long
Brief summary: Jack, Sawyer and Michael get high. Hilarity ensues. Then sex ensues between Jack and Sawyer. It's funny and all-round feel good fic!
Link to the story: Yohimbe

Claim: Lost, Jack/Sawyer
Title: Twilight
Author: philomel
Characters: Sawyer-centric, mentions of Kate and Jack
Prompt: Loss
Rating: PG-13
Length: short
Brief summary: This is beautifully written and angsty. It's not a loss of any one person, more the loss of what could have been and the writer manages to convey this sense of loss and sadness in a unique and haunting way.
Link to the story: Twilight

"Call It" and "Postscript"

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Claim: Lost, Jack/Sawyer
Title: Call It
Author: uberaeryn
Characters: Jack, Sawyer
Prompt: Dark
Rating: R
Length: long
Brief summary: This story will stay with you long after you stop reading it. It's jarring and eerie and downright spooky. Jack is falling apart, the island is targeting him when he's vulnerable and it's up to Sawyer of all people to save Jack from himself.
Link to the story: Call It

Claim: Lost, Jack/Sawyer
Title: Postscript
Author: hkath
Characters: Jack, Sawyer
Prompt: Reccer's Choice
Rating: R
Length: medium
Brief summary: I just love this story. Jack and Sawyer are both in character, the wording is descriptive, the language lyrical and the angst made me hurt for both Jack and Sawyer. Go read it.
Link to the story: Postscript

A Form of Heat That Doesn't Rise

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Claim: "Without a Trace," Jack/Samantha
Title: A Form of Heat That Doesn't Rise
Author: Tahila
Characters: Jack Malone, Samantha Spade, Maria Malone.
Prompt: 40. Confession.
Rating: PG-13.
Length: Medium.

Brief summary: Notable for introducing the fanon/canon notions of Samantha smoking and Samantha being from the Midwest, this story is a beautifully drawn dance -- from the FBI balcony to the car to the bed, and back to Jack's home and life. The characters exchange "secrets" as a sign of intimacy, though they don't address perhaps the biggest secret: their relationship, and what it means to them. The author does a wonderful job of masking the characters' feelings behind their words, their lies -- even up until the final lie Jack tells to his wife to explain his whereabouts the night before.

Link to the story: A Form of Heat That Doesn't Rise

Push and Pull

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Big Damn Table.

Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Push and Pull
Author: Miss Pamela(misspamela)
Characters: Teyla, Ronon
Prompt: 29 - Weapons
Rating: Mature
Length: Short
Brief summary: Stick-fighting with Teyla has become something of a fandom cliché, letting her train with everyone in Atlantis and then some. As she spars, she is strong and powerful, aggressive and attractive. She totally kicks ass. And in fandom, that kind of movement isn't far from sex.

( excerpt )

Link to the story: Push and Pull

PSA: No matter how old a story is, most authors like to hear that people are reading their work, so please think about leaving feedback when you're done. Thanks!

"Comfort and Joy" and "Sweat and Smoke"

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My Table of Prompts

Claim: Horatio Hornblower, general series
Title: Comfort and Joy
Author: tanacawyr
Characters: Horatio/Archie
Prompt: 42, Holiday
Rating:
Length: Long, 4416 words
Brief summary: AU but follows canon in everything except the death of Archie Kennedy and the existence of Barbara Wellesley. Captain Kennedy relives his life and Christmases past with his Admiral Hornblower. The ending is so sweet, it’s how Horatio and Archie should end up.

( Excerpt )

Link to the story: Comfort and Joy


Claim: Horatio Hornblower, general series
Title: Sweat and Smoke
Author: damned_colonial
Characters: Hornblower/Kennedy/Bush
Prompt: 29, Weapons
Rating: PG? PG-13? No real overt sexual references, but we all know what goes on below decks.
Length: Medium, 876 words
Brief summary: There’s nothing like cannon to fire up the men. Archie’s thoughts during Bush and Hornblower’s gunnery drill.

( Excerpt )

Link to the story: Sweat and Smoke

"Bright Burning Troy" and "From the Abyss"

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My Table of Prompts

Claim: Horatio Hornblower, general series
Title: Bright Burning Troy
Author: misskittie79
Characters: Horatio/Pellew, Archie/Edrington, Horatio/Archie
Prompt: 3, Angst
Rating: “NC-17 for violence, disturbing content, and consensual and non-consensual sex.”
Length: Epic
Brief summary: Horatio is left desolate after Archie’s death and finds himself the subject of Pellew’s attentions. Archie, meanwhile, was smuggled from Kingston, has been branded a mutineer and is staying with Edrington. When Archie and Horatio finally find each other, their reunion is wrought with heartbreak, misunderstanding and frustrating for both. I’ll admit it, I bawled last night reading it and I forwent sleep to finish it.

( Excerpt )

Link to the story: Bright Burning Troy


Claim: Horatio Hornblower, general series
Title: From the Abyss
Author: tanacawyr
Characters: Archie/Simpson, allusion to Horatio
Prompt: 10, Fandom Cliche
Rating: NC-17, warning: non-con
Length: Medium, 1571 words
Brief summary: In Hornblower fandom, many people (myself included) see the very real possibility of Archie Kennedy being sexually abused by Jack Simpson, which would account for his complete change in demeanor around Simpson and the occurrence of his seizures. But, there is no real hard evidence of this, which causes this idea to veer a bit into fandom cliché. In From the Abyss, tanacawyr weaves a very realistic tale of Archie’s abuse under Simpson, how his seizures began, and his feelings towards a new midshipman’s arrival.

( Excerpt )

Link to the story: From the Abyss

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Claim: Firefly: Zoe/Wash
Title: Tears by Proxy
Author: poisontaster
Characters: Zoe, River, Mal, Kaylee, Jayne, Simon
Prompt: Loss
Rating: G
Length: Short
Brief Summary: This short is brilliantly written with an ingenious turn at the end. However, if you haven't seen Serenity, it won't make sense to you. Serenity spoilers!!!
Link to the Story: ( Tears by Proxy )

"The Way We Grow Old" and "Easy Come, Easy Go"

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my rec table

Claim:*NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: The Way We Grow Old

Author: Rhys (rhyssj and at Experiment V)
Characters: JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Brianna Fatone (note: spelled "Briahna" in real life but "Brianna" in this story)
Prompt: 24. Future fic
Rating: R
Length: long (14,084 words)
Summary: Joey and JC try their hands at a relationship that didn't work in the past and settle into happy domesticity, along with Joey's kid. Set seven years in the future (although it was farther away when it was written). Rhys has many great JCs to choose from, and this story is nominally a Joey story, but I love this particular characterization of JC because it emphasizes the nurturer in him. JC in this story is steadfast and loving, two aspects of his personality that I fully believe in, and they rarely get highlighted in a way that doesn't lapse into full-blown stereotypicality. This JC isn't over-the-top, but is exactly as patient as he needs to be, and he's rewarded at the end with Joey's realization that growing old doesn't mean losing the things you love. And yes, this made me cry a bit. What?!
( Excerpt )

Link to the story: The Way We Grow Old

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Claim:*NSYNC, JC Chasez
Title: Easy Come, Easy Go

Author: Helenish (helenish and at Oh, the humanity)
Characters: JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, Justin Timberlake
Prompt: 26. Death
Rating: R
Length: long (15,935 words)
Summary: Also known as the gangster AU where everybody . . . well, but I won't ruin it for anyone who hasn't read it. Joey's a gangster who owns a nightclub. JC's his bit on the side, the jazz singer at the club. Chris is Joey's contract killer. Lance is Joey's right-hand man. And Justin is Chris's whore. And it all works, it really, really does. There's just enough detail to let you picture it in your head and everyone speaks just as much as they should, and the POV changes are just long enough to slip you inside their heads. There is deep angst and deep love, and JC is a jazz singer in rumpled shirt-sleeves and fraying khakis turned up at the ankle, and he keeps his heart in his throat. If JC lived in this world, this is exactly who JC would be, which is just about as high as praise gets for characterization in AUs.
( Excerpt )

Link to the story: Easy Come, Easy Go

Wallpaper Moments, Portraits

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My recs table

Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny
Prompt: Teamwork
Title: Wallpaper Moments
Author: stmargarets
Characters: Harry, Ginny
Rating: PG
Length: short
Brief summary: Harry and Ginny are put to the ultimate relationship test: wallpapering together. This is a sweet, adorable, cute, lovely... well, you get the picture. It's a fantastic fluffy fic, and I think it exemplifies the "teamwork" prompt perfectly. :)



Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny
Prompt: Jealousy
Title: Portraits
Author: Zachere (zfic)
Characters: Harry, Ginny, Dean Thomas
Rating: PG-13
Length: medium
Brief summary: This is a very nice character study of Ginny, which explores her relationship with Dean Thomas as well as her relationship with Harry. That's an aspect of Ginny's life that I'd love to see more of in fic. It was written pre-HBP, so it's not fully canon-compliant, but it's still well worth reading.

"A Tiger by the Tail," "Ink-Stained Plan"

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My recs table

Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny
Prompt: Dark
Title: A Tiger by the Tail
Author: viola_dreamwalk
Characters: Harry, Ginny
Rating: PG-13
Length: short
Brief summary: Harry and Ginny get married, have a baby, and live ever after. This fic is dark and haunting -- I haven't been able to get it out of my head since I read it, and that was a loooong time ago. If you've been thinking that this pairing would work well with darkfic, definitely read this fic. And the next one too.

Claim: Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny
Prompt: Non-Con
Title: Ink-Stained Plan
Author: starrysummer
Characters: Harry, Ginny, Tom
Rating: NC-17
Length: short
Brief summary: The blood-black ink flourishes, seduces, and shows her the way. When Harry destroys it, she has to realise her own plan, her own way, yet in those envy-green eyes, she thinks she can find it once again. Nobody writes dark H/G like Robin does. The pairing is so well-suited to darkfic that it is really a crime so little of it gets written. But what there is, is great. Definitely read this fic if you like darkfic, whether or not you like the pairing. It also includes some implied Tom/Ginny.