"Proof", "Be Cool"

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My Sheppard/McKay rec50 table.

Claim: Stargate Atlantis: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Title: Proof
Author: devildoll (devildoll)
Characters: Sheppard/McKay, Sheppard/OFC (in her mind, anyway)
Prompt: 20 - Fight
Rating: Mature
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Even the author points out that the premise for the story is weak, but once you swallow it, the story just goes: John's misunderstanding leads to strong action and the action just digs everything in deeper, leading to more misunderstandings and their consequences.

It could be the recipe for a really dark and angst story, but instead, the author took a really light tone with it. And while it still retains the structure of intense emotional pain, it's, uh, not. It is, in fact, rather light.

Okay. I laughed. I found it very silly overall. But you have to accept the premise first.

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Link to the story: Proof

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Title: Be Cool
Author: HTH (hth_the_first)
Characters: Sheppard/McKay
Prompt: 21 - Epiphany
Rating: Mature
Length: Medium
Brief summary: So, it's, uh, really really incredibly hot? And I find stoner!John to be really adorable? And, uh, Rodney being all high and everything is serious fun?...Okay, yeah, I do have a marked fondness for stories with inhibition lowering plot devices, and this really is one of the best. The characters are true to themselves, and the author makes it all work. The tone of the story is spot-on -- I can see Rodney's mind working like this -- and the lightness of the piece is perfect.

Plus I mentioned really, really, incredibly hot, right?

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Link to the story: Be Cool

"This One's For You" & "A Thousand Doors"

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My Big Table


Claim: Harry Potter, Remus/Sirius
Title: "This One's For You"
Author: Thistlerose, [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]
Characters: Remus, Sirius
Prompt: 13. Established Relationship.
Rating: R
Length: long
Brief summary: Sirius writes Remus a love song. A fluffy, 'they're in love' piece but there's still the depth of history and the threat of the future in the fic, which makes sense. Very enjoyable.
Link to the story: This One's For You

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Claim: Harry Potter, Remus/Sirius
Title: "A Thousand Doors"
Author: [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]
Characters: Remus, Sirius
Prompt: 26. Death.
Rating: PG-13
Length: long
Brief summary: Set after Regulus's death, the fic is filled with unspoken emotion and poignancy. Sirius not knowing how to react and Remus not knowing how to comfort. Very true, and prettily done.
Link to the story: A Thousand Doors
 

"Summer Days A-Berrying" + "The Center"

[turlough]

My prompt table/list.

Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Summer Days A-Berrying
Author: Deirdre, at Infinite Passions and pierson
Characters: Nick, Kevin
Prompt: 01 First Time
Rating: explicit sex
Length: medium
Brief summary: A first-time story featuring Nick and Kevin, but a Nick and Kevin of another time, another place, dallying among the berry bushes. This is an incredibly sensual and hot story and for a while I thought of using it for the Sex prompt, but it also has a sense of freshness and innocence that makes it a wonderful first-time story.
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Link to the story: Summer Days A-Berrying and here


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: The Center
Author: Lucy, lucy_fic
Characters: Just about everyone who was anything in the pop world c. 2000
Prompt: 02 AU
Rating: sex
Length: epic (Book 1: 83 chapters. Book 2: 14 chapters, unfinished)
Brief summary: Welcome to The Center (aka The Walt Whitman Center for Pervy Boy-Fanciers - what did you expect from a place named by Chris Kirkpatrick :-) the local gay drop-in spot in an unnamed northwestern city. It is here that they all meet, and this is the story about them all, it is their activities and relationships - familiar, romantic, friendly, platonic, and everything else you can imagine - that make up the backbone of the story. It's not a story with grand dramatic gestures or OTT emotions, and that is what I love so much about it. These snapshots of everyday life feels incredibly real, no one in the huge cast is ever neglected for long, and Lucy manages to make everyone engaging and 'real'. An enormously satisfying read.
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Link to the story: The Center

Night of Truth, Shooting Star

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My F/V rec table

Claim: Due South, Fraser/Vecchio
Title: Night of Truth
Author: Meadow Lion
Characters: Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio
Prompt: 44 Mask
Rating: PG
Length: Short
Brief summary: Two short pieces; one from Ray's POV and one from Fraser's POV it is a Halloween story which takes the metaphor of masks and uses it to good effect as Fraser and Ray choose to reveal themselves to their friends and family, not hiding from the truth. They don't wear costumes but reveal their true selves and their relationship. This fic considers how that makes them feel and the strength they draw from each other.
Link to the story: Night of Truth


Claim: Due South, Fraser/Vecchio
Title: Shooting Star
Author: Lazuli
Characters: Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio, Ray's family, Diefenbaker, Ray colleagues, doctors
Prompt: 47 reccers choice
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: This story manages to do two things it combines a HIV/AIDs scare story with a first time story. Whilst I can be sceptical about tackling the whole HIV/AIDs thing this story somehow doesn't trivialise it and it somehow adds something to the first time aspect too. It has a happy conclusion but it also tackles struggles and doubts that Fraser and Ray have to go through in order to ultimately get that happy ending.
Link to the story: Shooting Star

Nineteen Hours

[hermitsoul]

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: Nineteen Hours
Author: Annie Sewell-Jennings on LJ anniesj
Characters: Buffy/Spike
Prompt: Secrets
Rating: NC-17
Length: Epic
Brief summary: Post-Chosen Spike finds himself alive in more ways then one. He and Buffy find themselves in a motel room where they try to sort out the past and decide where they go next.
Link to the story: Nineteen Hours

 

Leather

[hermitsoul]

BtVS:Spike Table

Claim: Buffyverse: Spike
Title: Leather
Author: Herself on LJ herself_nyc
Characters: Buffy/Spike
Prompt: Kink
Rating: NC-17
Length: Med
Brief summary: Season Seven fic - It got her hot. It got her boiling, the soulless killer's coat.
Link to the story: Leather