Stargate SG-1: Jack/Daniel, 12,600 words, NC-17.
Paian is one of my absolute favorite Jack/Daniel writers; her characters are mature, wholly dimensional, believable entities whose feelings and thoughts I can empathize with and care about, in short she achieves what so many people can’t quite reach: real stories about real people who I really care for. This story is no different. It’s set after Fragile Balance and centers around both the clone!Jack and the regular Jack and Daniel. It’s lovely, plotty, and satisfyingly long.
Not Us
Stargate SG-1: Jack/Daniel.
This is a different, harsher Daniel than canon really suggests but Komos makes me buy it the same way she makes me buy nearly everything she writes: because I am a complete sucker for internal logic and interesting characterization.
Pars Pro Toto
Stargate Atlantis: Sheppard/McKay.
Funny, sweet, just this side of schmoopy and hotter than hell. John has uncontrollable seizures and Rodney’s the only one who can help.
That Pon Farr Thing
Stargate Atlantis : Sheppard/McKay.
An Orchestra AU in which John is a violinist and Rodney is a prodigy conductor and they are both broken and put together again in interesting and complex ways. This is the kind of AU that just fully envelops you, where the universe is so rich and the characters so spot on that everything clicks immediately.
String Theory
Stargate Atlantis : Sheppard/McKay.
Set during the team’s first return to earth back when Sheppard was still Major Sheppard this is a lovely filling in canon’s missing blanks type story, one of my favorite genres of fanfiction.
Things to Do In Denver When You’re Dead
Stargate Atlantis : Sheppard/McKay.
When Resonant takes on a cliché you’re pretty much guaranteed a good time. Terms of Service is Res’ take on slave fic and it’s fabulous.
“You’re telling me that you would sell your bodies for curiosity, orbital shielding, and a quarter-charged ZPM?”
“Well, yeah. Who wouldn’t?”
Terms of Service
Stargate Atlantis : Sheppard/McKay.
Written for the reel_sga challenge and based on the 1961 romantic comedy of the same name this is a complete romp of an AU. I love the set up and how well in character Brighid kept both Rodney and John even while transposing them into a completely different setting, there’s a nice weaving of canon into this story that really reminds me exactly why I love AUs so much.
Lover Come Back
Smallville: Clark/Lex.
So, you know, comics canon is far more invested in crack fic than fanfiction could ever hope to compete with. Shallot makes use of one of my favorite bits of DC canon wtf-level crack: Kon, aka Superboy, who is the test-tube baby of Superman and Lex Luthor. No seriously. In DC comics canon Lex Luthor and Clark Kent have a baby together. This story is fabulously funny and wonderfully long; no previous knowledge of DC canon needed to enjoy.
Reconcilable Differences
Stargate Atlantis RPS: Joe/David.
So I basically love lily’s writing no matter what; she’s written my other favorite sga rps story as well. She’s always, always, always fabulous on building plots and relationships and complexity. David is especially sympathetic in this, and I’m really just enamoured of the whole story really.
Safety Check
WB rps: Jensen/Jared.
So I’m just going to quote ’s feedback here. This is pure, unadulterated PORN with a side of kinky!Jensen & pliant!Jared. There’s rimming and hotness galore. Guh.
Blue Dog on a Yellow Couch
Stargate Atlantis: Sheppard/McKay.
Slow, hot, and lyrical; absolutely perfect for the story’s desert setting. One of my favorite things about Jenn is that she does versatility so well, infuse a story with mood and setting until it oozes with atmosphere and everything is poetry and then in the very next story she writes, she’ll do the same thing with gritty hardness and realism.
The Touch of Your Hand
Supernatural: Dean/Sam.
Ladyjaida has always been particularly good with characterization in all of the fandoms I’ve read her in. Supernatural is no exception for that, Sam is very good in this.
And the First Two Don’t Count
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Post-Devil’s Trap. A sorta pwp with just the right amount of complexity and outside meaning.
When it happens, they aren’t drunk or thoughtlessly looking to relieve morning wood. It’s barely dawn and Sam is stirring contentedly from a sunlit dream when he feels a wetness on his back where Dean’s cheek is pressed against it. He freezes, certain that Dean is crying and will never, ever forgive him if he turns around, when Dean snorts loudly and Sam realizes that his brother is merely drooling on him.
Deemed Salvageable
Supernatural: Dean/Sam.
There’s Sam learning about his powers and Dean angsting as Dean does, and a Missouri we maybe sort of got a glimpse at in canon, and really, really good plotting.
Until I Can See Again
Supernatural: Dean/Sam.
I’m not generally a fan of the idea of Dean and Sam having had sex pre-series, but for some reason it works for me in this story. And I like the author’s summary because it’s pretty true to the story: Sam doesn’t think it will ever go back to how it used to be. But mostly, any plot this has is really just an excuse for the porn.
Falling Like Rain
WB rps: Jensen/Jared.
I mentioned the fantastic pacing in my other recced story by Sinistral, No Sleep Til Bedtime, and I’m pretty much going to expand on that theme in this rec. This one is all about the mounting tension and lust, which, if you couldn’t tell by the stories I tend to rec most often, is a huge, huge turn on for me fic-wise. Any author that can make me feel what the character’s feeling pretty much takes the cake and this story is the perfect example of that. Both Jensen and Jared are fanfuckingtastic.
Fall
WB rps: Jensen/Jared.
Oh this is quite possibly one of my favorites in the fandom so far. Set immediately before the Paley festival (where Jensen said in an interview that they’d only gotten 3 hours of sleep on the plane down to LA and an 18 hour shoot before that) there’s tired, sleepy hysteria, and insanely smutty sex with so much wanting and lust that the words just melt, and fabulous, fabulous characterization. Everything works and the pacing is fantastic, too.
No Sleep Til Bedtime
WB rps: Jensen/Jared.
Just a short, sports related pwp, but hot, funny, and detailed like everything writes.
Sports Night
Stargate Atlantis RPS: Joe/David.
I really adore this story. The characterization is good but the pacing and the buildup and the intensity are what make this story so perfectly wonderful. Everything in the story fits together like tiny puzzle pieces; there are a ton of wonderful details, and the side cast is spot on.
a note on this rec: this entry was posted locked to the sga_rps livejournal community. I don’t usually rec friendslocked posts but since this is in an open community and not a personal journal I’m going to keep the rec, just don’t forget to join the community if you want to read it.
Late Night Television
Stargate Atlantis: Sheppard/McKay.
Lenore is a fabulous storyteller. Her scenarios are always inventive and completely entertaining. This is a fantastic take on the aliens make them do it genre of fic.
What Happens on Telarus and What Happens in Atlantis
WB rps: Jensen/Jared.
Lengthy enough to be well paced and somewhat plotty, with a good Jared voice. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Something to Think About
Supernatural: Dean/Sam.
A companion piece to Stumbling Across Its Bleak Ending (previously recced here) this is that story from Sam’s perspective. The contrasts between the two stories are what make this for me (you know, aside from the excellent writing) because where that story is all about Dean’s having left Sam, this one is all about Sam’s determination to get him back. And it’s just gorgeous.
Practical Men of the World
Supernatural: Dean/Sam.
Complex and perfectly heartbreaking. I love an author who doesn’t flinch at writing the fucked up complicated parts of the Dean/Sam relationship, because it can’t possibly all be puppies and bunnies the way the fall lines are drawn in canon.
and when they fall
Supernatural: Dean/Sam.
Written after Salvation but before Devil’s Trap, this goes AU before the season 1 ending but it’s a gorgeously executed look at what could have happened if Sam and Dean hadn’t gotten to Papa Winchester in time to save him. Dean and Sam’s characterization is great in this; Sam and Dean always seem like the kind of characters whose best (and worst) qualities come out in times of crisis and Liz totally understand this.
Carry On by ; 2.287 words, NC-17.
Sports Night: Casey/Dan.
Told in alternating sections of Dan talking with Abby in therapy and the events he tells her about, the narration in this story is amazingly tight. Unreliable narrators, when done right, are such an effective trick; they’re fallible, we only know what they know when they know it (but sometimes we can guess at more) and the building of plots is even more intense. And Annie is fantastic at all of this in Like Sailing and Home Runs. Her Dan is charming and fallible, sympathetic and stubborn.
Like Sailing and Home Runs
Sports Night: Casey/Dan.
This is like, an entire afternoon read, but it goes by so quickly. Some authors fall into pacing traps and narrative potholes and diversions when writing stories this length but Annie is not one of them. Epic and at turns frustrating (because boys are just so dense you know?) and romantic but never, ever sappy. And the fantastic thing about Annie’s stories? Is that they always satisfy. She is the queen of telling not showing and she’s a true Sports Night writer, this isn’t just a story about two guys getting together, it’s a story about best friends and sportswriters and tv shows and so, so much more. Every cast member is fleshed out and full of life, and every pice of action is lived by you and the characters. This is how all fanfiction should be written.
Not Homophobic
Stargate Atlantis/SG-1: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay/Sam Carter.
This makes two het!threesome recs in one day which is weird for me because normally I am not all about the threesomes. But this is so much more than that. Warm and layered, and told from Sam’s point of view, I love that she really gets John and Rodney and genuinely cares about them. I also love that John is so hesitant about it all, because for serious, the only way this could ever go down would have to be like that. And this is as much a John/Rodney story as anything else, which was a lovely surprise.
Yoshino
WB rps: Jared/Jensen.
OMG 12,000 words of amnesia fic from one of my favorite Jared/Jensen writers is like heaven on a good day. And this is so, so fabulous. Touching and funny, with a perfect side cast and all these lovely details, all paced incredibly well.
You Must Remember This
Supernatural: Sam/Dean.
Stories that go into the whole Dean wants Sam to stay, Sam wants to go conumdrum fascinate me, and this one feels incredibly true to how I think, things should play out if the boys are ever going to find some common ground (and, you know, if they were having the dirtywrong incestuous sex now and again, too.)
Stumbling Across Its Bleak Ending
Supernatural: Sam/Dean.
While I haven’t loved all of poisontaster’s writing, (she tends to go the dark, incest can never be right and Dean’s a bad bad man for thinking about it route more often than I prefer) I really like this series. All three are short, pwp style stories with a heavy emphasis on the public sex kink which, dude, I can totally get behind. Jerk off sessions in bathrooms and crowded bars? Hell yes. So if you’re into that at all, you will probably like this series as much as I did.
Helping Hands, On the Other Hand, Jazz Hands.