assorted comic and manga recsincluding From Eroica With Love
assorted comic and manga recs
including From Eroica With Love
(scroll down for book recs)
From Eroica With Love
And
a thousand more
Author: torch
Pairing: Klaus/Dorian
Category: slash
Rating: PG
Description: Dorian's being framed.
Comments: I have trouble finding satisfying characterizations in this fandom;
fortunately, torch is excellent with them.
Breaking
Point
Author: Kadorienne
Pairing: Klaus/Dorian
Category: slash, angst
Rating: R
Description: Klaus finally gives in, but something's wrong.
"I suppose you thought that
sleeping with you would fix me?"
Comments: I rec this piece because I like it, but especially for the line I
quote above, because that was what grabbed me the most. Much as I'd like
to believe that gay sex makes all things better . . .
Cakes
and ale
Author: torch
Pairing: Klaus/Dorian
Category: slash, humor
Rating: R
Description: A confused and hungover morning-after.
Comments: My favorite of torch's pieces, because it's happy and funny and
satisfying.
Cantiques
de Noel
Author: BT
Pairing: Klaus/Dorian
Category: slash
Rating: NC-17
Description: Stranded in Edinburgh on Christmas Eve, at the end of an aborted
mission, Klaus needs to get away from his own life.
Comments: This is a bit sad and contemplative . . . which is maybe the necessary
atmosphere to mellow the Major out enough. Very lovely work.
Crossing
the Lines
Author: Jay Tryfanstone
Pairing: Klaus/Dorian
Category: slash, Futurefic
Rating: PG
Description: After Klaus' long war is finally over, he's ready to try something
different.
Comments: I can see this. It makes me both happy and sad, maybe because of
the sense of so much time already passed.
Crush
Author: Tosca
Pairing: Klaus/Dorian, Klaus/Z
Category: slash, unrequited, short
Rating: PG
Description: Z has a great deal of admiration for his commanding officer; or is
it more than that?
Comments: This is a cute little fic, and makes me chuckle.
Hold
Author: Sleeps With Coyotes
Pairing: Klaus/Dorian
Category: slash, crack!
Rating: PG
Description: I like her summary: "If he could, whether or not he should,
would he?"
Comments: I'm not sure this was intended to be crackfic, exactly, but it seems
so hilariously impossible . . . and at the same time, the voices are quite good.
Lacunae,
or Five Klauses That Never Happened To Dorian
Author: afrai
Pairing: Klaus/Dorian
Category: slash
Rating: R
Description: Klaus doesn't want to forget Dorian.
Comments: I've never seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but this
is an eerie, bittersweet story. (I'm not sure why I seem to gravitate
towards sad stories in a comedy fandom?)
More
furious and ugly
Author: torch
Pairing: Klaus/Dorian
Category: slash, short
Rating: R
Description: An interlude in the midst of flight: Klaus puts Dorian in his place
a little.
Comments: This is, as the title suggests, a bit dark (certainly of a different
tone than canon), but it really struck me. (All of torch's Eroica stuff is worth
checking out, though I've only recced three: go to her site and read the rest.)
Whitemail
Author: Sandy Herrold
Pairing: Klaus/Dorian
Category: slash, angst, short
Rating: PG-13
Description: Some special NATO training doesn't go too well. Klaus is a
perfectionist.
Comments: Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach is a good agent, but an extremely fucked up
individual. This is almost scary.
Misc
1602, Archie, ElfQuest, Sandman, V for Vendetta, X-Men
The
Naming of Things
Author: fresne
Fandom: 1602
Character: Hank McCoy
Category: gen
Rating: PG
Description: Hank ponders an important question--man or beast?--and argues with
Anthony Stark about drunkenness. In scholarly quotations.
Comments: This is perfect: both in character, and in tone with the era.
If
Through My Cracked and Dusty Dime Store Lips
Author: present pathos
Fandom: Archie
Pairing: Betty/Veronica
Category: femslash, Futurefic
Rating: PG-13
Description: In which Veronica gets what she's been after, in an extremely
roundabout way.
Comments: Pulling the flat, primary-colored Archie world into three dimensions.
That's a feat.
That
Old Familiar Fable? Not Quite.
Author: mollyscribbles
Fandom: Archie
Pairing: Betty/Veronica
Category: femslash
Rating: PG
Description: The girls finally get sick and tired of being strung along by
Archie.
Comments: Total gleeful catharsis.
Stop
The Wheel From Turning
Author: penknife
Fandom: ElfQuest
Pairing: Leetah/Cutter/Skywise
Category: short
Rating: PG-13
Description: Leetah reflects on relationships and change.
Comments: This is probably what Yuletide does best: this fic is a small,
reflective, character-driven moment. I love Leetah and Skywise.
The
Taste of Honey
Author: Edo no Hana
Fandom: Sandman
Characters: Death, Dream
Category: gen, short
Rating: PG
Description: An idyllic moment before the end of a dream: for just a bit, you
get to be part of the story.
Comments: This is small and pretty and perfect.
For
wherever you go, I will go
Author: rm
Fandom: V for Vendetta
Pairing: Valerie/Ruth
Category: short
Rating: R
Description: When the war came . . . the workings and breakings-down of a
relationship lived in fear.
Comments: This is heartbreaking, but has its beautiful moments. (It
shouldn't be surprising that Valerie is my favorite part of the comic, so.)
Pentacle Road
Author: Te
Fandom: X-Men
Pairing: Mystique/various
Category: femslash, het, angst
Rating: PG-13
Description: "Five things that probably aren't true about Raven Darkholme, aka
Mystique"
Comments: Mystique is one of my favorite X-Men characters ever, and certainly my
favorite villain. A very original and insightful fic: nothing less from
Te.
Troy Fallen
Author: Sobia Helen
Fandom: X-Men
Pairing: Rachel Summers/Kate Pryde
Category: femslash, angst
Rating: PG
Description: Ray and Kate talk, just before their last mission together.
(Set, obviously, in the future time that Ray comes from.)
Comments: Aw, this is so sweetly sad. Written right before Kate sent Ray
back to the past. These two were so very text, as far as I'm concerned.
assorted
book recs
including Good Omens
Good Omens
And when he falls
Author: torch
Pairing: Crowley/Aziraphale
Category: slash, humor
Rating: PG-13
Description: A drunk Crowley decides to try and tempt Aziraphale, who is rather
doubtful about the whole thing
Comments: Cute. good dialogue. Just a bit of harmless fun.
Bright With
His Splendour
Author: daegar
Pairing: Crowley/Aziraphale
Category: gen, angst, pastfic
Rating: PG-13
Description: The story of the Fall, and then following Crowley through the ages,
the conception of the Arrangement, and friendship
Comments: Crowley is extremely sympathetic in this story, and
the bit where he is in WWI? I want to cuddle him. He's a little less
bastardly than he could be, but really, this is a fabulous fic.
Eight Nights
Author: daegaer
Characters: Crowley, Aziraphale
Category: gen, humor
Rating: PG
Description: Aziraphale tricks Crowley into celebrating Hannukah.
Comments: Hee. A cute little fic.
Faltering Rain
Author: Tomo Trillions
Pairing: Crowley/Aziraphale
Category: slash, angst, pastfic
Rating: PG
Description: Way back during the French Revolution, Aziraphale makes a
confession, and Crowley calls him on it.
Comments: I really love this one; it's lovely and sweet. One of my
favorites.
Five
Things That Never Happened To Aziraphale
Author: daegaer
Pairing: eh, it's ambiguous (well, a little Edmund/Gedge)
Category: humor, slash, gen, AU, minor crossover
Rating: PG
Description: a Good Omens "five things that never happened" fic.
Comments: Dear gods this is hilarious. I love the first one especially.
daegaer has a really great handle on this fandom . . .
Intent
Author: Honey
Pairing: Crowley/Aziraphale
Category: slash, humor, pastfic
Rating: G
Description: Paul's missionaries are, well, on a mission in 50 A.D.
They fail to suspect divine/demonic interference. also, can thwarting BE
tempting, under the right circumstances?
Comments: My first ever, absolutely wonderful, Yuletide gift. It's
hilarious as hell: I love things that play with the Bible. What a perfect
present.
It Came Upon
A Midnight Clear
Author: daegaer
Pairing: none really, but it's about Crowley & Aziraphale
Category: gen, humor, pastfic
Rating: PG-13
Description: Aziraphale is busily spreading the good news, and Crowley is . . .
well . . . helping? sort of.
Comments: Wonderful characterization. I love these pastfics; what a
versatile fandom this is! I recced this before I even knew it was by
daegaer . . . she's just that good.
Like
New
Author: penknife
Pairing: Crowley/Aziraphale
Category: preslash
Rating: PG
Description: Crowley seems to have developed amnesia; Aziraphale is not pleased.
Comments: A nice little comment on false solutions and easy answers. I
like this portrayal of Aziraphale.
Ordinary People
Author: daegar
Pairing: Crowley/Aziraphale, erm, Tony/Ezra
Category: slash, AU
Rating: PG
Description: *hums* "what if Crowley was one of us? what if Aziraphale was
one of us? just a stranger on the bus . . . "
Comments: I really didn't think I'd like this, but it's surprising and lovely
and satisfying. One of the best fic in the fandom.
Misc
Anne of Green Gables, Arthurian Legends (general), Babysitter's Club,
Bible, Narnia, Peter Pan, Pippi Longstocking
Forgotten
Wishes
Author: hafital
Fandom: Anne of Green Gables
Pairing: Anne/Diana
Category: femslash
Rating: PG-13
Description: Snapshots of a doomed romance.
Comments: So bittersweet! Beautiful imagery, which is really the
requirement for a good Anne fic.
a
table fixed with ferns and wild roses
Author: lalejandra
Fandom: Anne of Green Gables
Pairing: Anne/Diana
Category: femslash, fluff, short
Rating: PG
Description: Anne indulges in one of her beautiful fantasies.
Comments: This is a sweet little piece, adorable and quite in-character.
Kindred spirits!
The
Handmaid's Veil
Author: Alexandra Lynch
Fandom: Arthurian Legends
Pairing: Tristram/Isolde, Isolde/OFC
Category: femslash, het, unrequited
Rating: R
Description: A tragic story of love and devotion.
Comments: This is beautiful and sad and awful. Alexandra Lynch has a real
handle on the Arthurian stories, as she continually demonstrates.
In The Smoke of Winter Fires
Author: Alexandra Lynch
Fandom: Arthurian Legends
Character: Morgan Le Fay
Category: gen, reference to incest
Rating: PG-13
Description: Morgan Le Fay does everything for her son.
Comments: More of Alexandra's excellent Arthurian fic.
A
Space of Flowers
Author: RubyNye
Fandom: Arthurian Legends
Pairing: Arthur/Lancelot
Category: slash
Rating: PG
Description: Lancelot comforts his King after the loss of the Queen.
Comments: Absolutely gorgeous language, and an inevitably sad ending.
Watching
Author: Alexandra Lynch
Fandom: Arthurian Legends
Pairing: Morgan Le Fay/Guinevere, with a side of Morgan/Arthur
Category: femslash, angst, a touch of incest
Rating: R
Description: There's something about her husband's sister that holds the queen's
gaze, that speaks to some part of her not defined by the men in her life.
Comments: Beautifully written, both sweet and bitter. I am completely in
love with this piece, which was written for me!
Touching All The Places That Are Yours
Author: goovie
Fandom: Babysitter's Club
Character: Claudia
Category: wankfic, femslash, short
Rating: NC-17
Description: Claudia doesn't so much like boy parts.
Comments: I guess it should disturb me to read about childhood protagonists
masturbating, but there's something oddly affirming about it.
Validation
Author: Rhipowered
Fandom: Babysitter's Club
Pairing: Kristy/Stacey
Category: femslash, angst, character death
Rating: PG
Description: Kristy finally works some things out. Unfortunately, things
are lost in the process.
Comments: This choked me up a lot. I haven't even thought about these
books in ages, but man. And it works.
At the
Gates of Heaven
Author: Deborah
Fandom: the Bible
Pairing: Jesus/Judas, Jesus/Everyone
Category: slash, gen, fluff, short
Rating: PG
Description: Jesus saves.
Comments: this is just cute.
The
Night
Author: Tallullah
Fandom: the Bible
Pairing: Lilith/Eve
Category: femslash, het
Rating: NC-17
Description: A pretty little story of seduction and betrayal.
Comments: Written for me for Yuletide. I love Eve's characterization here,
though it's maybe not entirely fair to Adam.
Gerda
and the Snow Queen
Author: Moonsheen
Fandom: fairy tales (the Snow Queen)
Pairing: Gerda/Kay, Gerda/Snow Queen
Category: gen, het, Futuerfic
Rating: PG
Description: After the end of the story: Gerda lives a quiet life with Kay,
until a belligerent little street girl brings the past back to haunt her.
Comments: My Yuletide 2006 gift, answering a request I made two years running.
It's beautiful, and the style is lovely and fairy tale appropriate.
Witch
Author: lisan
Fandom: fairy tales (Snow White, Sleeping Beauty)
Characters: the Queen, the Witch
Category: gen
Rating: PG
Description: About witches and queens, mothers and daughters
Comments: A very original and interesting take on two classic fairytales.
5
Times Arthur Dent Lost His Towel
Author: makesmewannadie
Fandom: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pairing: Ford/Arthur
Category: gen, slash, humor, crack!, short
Rating: PG
Description: Pretty self-explanatory.
Comments: Tiny, but very funny.
The
Running of the Deer
Author: daegaer
Fandom: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Characters: Ford, Arthur
Category: gen, humor
Rating: PG
Description: Pre-book: Ford's a funny chap, and kind of a pain, but also
Arthur's friend.
Comments: This is funny and quite in tune with the characters.
Another
Country
Author: Jay Tryfanstone
Fandom: Narnia Chronicles
Pairing: Jill/Susan
Category: gen, preslash
Rating: PG
Description: Narnia as a sort of uneasy Eden; Susan as Eve.
Comments: I like this story because it is uncomfortable, particularly about
paradise and perfection.
Peter In
Love
Author: Tosca
Fandom: Narnia Chronicles
Pairing: Peter/Aslan
Category: slash
Rating: PG
Description: Peter and different kinds of love
Comments: I know it sounds disturbing (the pairing, anyway), but it's
surprisingly NOT. it's sweet, intelligent, and fascinating.
Too
Young, Too Old
Author: vongroovy
Fandom: Narnia Chronicles
Pairing: Edmund/Caspian
Category: gen, preslash
Rating: PG
Description: It's strange, to no longer be grown-up, to have to do it all again.
Comments: The oddities of time and age in the Narnia books are fascinating.
This is a contemplative little piece.
The
Screaming of Coneys
Author: lah
Fandom: Peter Pan (nonspecific)
Characters: Pan and Hook
Category: gen, though you could say there's a little subtext, if you squint
Rating: PG
Description: the Captain contemplates this whole Neverland business. then
Peter shows up, and there is an interesting exchange.
Comments: I love Captain Hook. So much. this is a lovely little
piece, quite well-written.
Pippi Says Goodbye
Author: Resonant
Fandom: Pippi Longstocking
Pairing: Pippi/Tommy, Pippi/Annika
Category: het, femslash
Rating: NC-17
Description: Tommy is leaving home, and Pippi has her own idea of how to say
goodbye.
Comments: This story weirds me out, but I love it anyway. It works.