Clutching Straws

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Big Damn Table.

Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Clutching Straws
Author: Sel (seldear)
Characters: Teyla, Sheppard, Lorne
Prompt: 48 - Reccer's Choice
Rating: Mature
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Ummmm. Ah, Wraith enzyme, how I do adore thee? I love that so many have written aggressive!Teyla based on her reaction to the drug. In this story, Sheppard comes across several of the Marines drawing straws for who will let Teyla beat up on them while she is working through the rest of the enzyme left in her system -- and the implication is that it may not stop with just 'training exercises', and become something sexual. Naturally, Sheppard is the one who decides he should take one for the team. Only not as crassly as I just put it, of course. There's actual motivation for why he decides to do what he does. And as usual in stuff that I've been reccing, there are themes of power and control.

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Link to the story: Clutching Straws

"Deliverance"

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my table

Claim: X-Files, Mulder/Skinner
Title: Deliverance
Author: Spike and Te
Characters: Mulder/Skinner
Prompt: 20. Non-con
Rating: NC-17
Length: long, 3500
Brief summary: Mulder and Skinner are on a fishing vacation in the backwoods. While Mulder is busy humming sarcastically, he finds himself in trouble.
Link to the story: Deliverance

Aftermath

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Claim: "Without a Trace," Jack/Samantha
Title: Aftermath
Author: ellam
Characters: Jack Malone, Samantha Spade, Maria Malone.
Prompt: 09. Hurt/Comfort.
Rating: PG.
Length: Medium.

Brief summary: Jack finds the mundane nature of life especially difficult after Samantha is shot in "Fallout, Part 2." The fic leaps to life through the details, and the author contrasts them beautifully with a very eloquent inner monologue. Jack's desperation is palpable, as his relief when he finally visits Samantha in the hospital. This fic may not fit the generic defintion of hurt/comfort, but that's the beauty of it -- as Jack is definitely hurting before he visits Samantha, and receives comfort in her presence.

Link to the story: Aftermath

"Thy Rodney and Thy Staff They Comfort Me"

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Rec50 progress

Claim: Stargate: Atlantis, General series
Title: "Thy Rodney and Thy Staff They Comfort Me"
Author: Sage, at sage_theory and Paper Hearted.
Characters: Ford, Teyla, Sheppard, Rodney, Beckett
Prompt: 21 - Epiphany
Rating: PG (gen)
Length: Long (~3000 words)
Spoilers: Hide and Seek, Suspicion
Brief summary:
There is not much fic around which features Ford, let alone fic written from his point of view. This is a beautifully written, subtle gen fic which (despite the title) is Ford centric, but which also gives us a glimpse of the other members of the team. All of it is wonderfully in character, yet offers a slightly different perspective on them all. It also examines the reality of the situation they are in, settling into a new galaxy or a new planet and trying to get used to each other. As if that wasn't enough, it offers an explanation as to what a Hail Mary actually is, leading to an epiphany for Ford and also an elegant exploration of the metaphor.

Link to the story: Thy Rodney and Thy Staff They Comfort Me

The Winning Side

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Claim: Magnificent Seven:  general series
Title: The Winning Side (OW)
Author: NotTasha
Characters: Nathan, Ezra
Prompt: Reccer's Choice
Rating: PG
Length: Med
Brief summary: Ezra learns about Nathan's hobby.  This is the first in the series, A Game of Chess, that explores the often strained friendship between the gambler and the healer.

Link to the story: The Winning Side

The Hunt

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Claim: Magnificent Seven:  general series
Title: The Hunt (ATF)
Author: KRH (Karen)
Characters: Nathan
Prompt: Time
Rating: PG-13
Length: Long
Brief summary: The team medic, Nathan is often seen as the cool, levelheaded one on Team Seven.  However, when Josiah is attacked on vacation the rest of the team struggles to rein Nathan in as they try to put the pieces together in time.

Link to the story: The Hunt

I'm What, Bald Beautiful Badass

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Smallville Table
Claim:Smallville(all parings)
Title:I'm What
Author:Betsanne
Characters:Clark/Lex
Prompt:Fandom Cliche
Rating:PG
Length: short
Brief summary: This story makes me laugh every single time I read it. Betsanne takes damn near every Clex cliche and mocks it in this short but funny fic. Go ahead read it. It'll put a smile on your face.
Link to the story:I'm What

Claim: Smallville(all pairing)
Title:Bald, Beautiful, Badass
Author:kHo
Characters:Clark/Lex
Prompt:Crack!Fic
Rating:NC-17
Length: medium
Brief summary: kHo has done it again. She was attacked by a crack monkey, and wrote a fic wherein Lex has a Bruce Willis fetish. He and Clark watch The Color of Night and well . . . things go from funny to hot. Enjoy
Link to the story: Bald, Beautiful, Badass

In Dreams & Gunslingers

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Claim: Queer as Folk: UK - General
Title: In Dreams
Author: Margo
Characters: Stuart, Vince, Cameron, Hazel, Alex, Nathan
Prompt: 28. Dream
Rating: NC-17
Length: Medium
Brief summary: In and out of dreams. I really liked this story, a set of different POV's in dreams. The entire peace has a very soft and fluid quality to it, just like dreams themselves. I also liked Hazel and Nathan's dreams in particular, as we often don't get to see a lot of their inner thoughts.

A beautifully done story and a lovely bit of S/V love at the end, perfectly plausible dreams for both of them to have.

Link to the story:In Dreams by Margo


Claim: Queer as Folk: UK - General
Title: Gunslingers
Author: Maggie the Cat
Characters: Stuart/Vince
Prompt: 29. Weapons
Rating: NC-17
Length: Long
Brief summary: This is a fun one. Stuart, Vince and target practice. For anyone who isn't aware, at the end of the series, the boys had picked up a gun in America. There are a good amount of stories that feature said gun, but this one uses it in a particularly interesting way. I really like

Vince here, all butch and tough and Stuart slightly tense, but still up for it. Brill.

Link to the story:Gunslingers by Maggie the Cat