FANFIC FAVOURITES

The FANFICTION section will be undergoing a major overhaul this October.

Please be advised that almost all links here lead to stories with R content, with violent and explicit sexual themes.

In the Spotlight

FANFIC RECOMMENDATIONS

BtVS & Angel : Discworld : Good Omens : Harry Potter :

Lord of the Rings : Once Upon A Time in Mexico : Miscellaneous

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series

• Thralls by neichan

Very very long (94 chapters, still not finished), but awfully good. Awful lots of sex too. But, most surprisingly, sex is NOT distracting to plot. Which makes this a real superb treat. (If you're in for the looong ride.)

• Emerging by eliade

This is just perfect. Spike and Xander, in slow measures. Of a normal relationship, as normal as it gets in their world (post-NFA, AtS).

I almost broke into tears when it ended, when I realized that the spell was already over. But there's that lingering feel of magic still, and it's making me sniffle. Gosh, but I just love this. Never was much of a Buffy fan, more obsessed with Angel really, but even I could tell that Spike/Xander chemistry is a solid, real thing...too good to pass up on the exploitation, wehehe.

Discworld

• Tyger, Tyger by Grey L. Bloom
• In A Name by afrai

Good Omens

• Ordinary People by daeger
• A Wholly Ridiculous Explanation by Darth Maligna

Harry Potter

Abernaith is a seriously hooked Remus Lupin/Severus Snape shipper. She hardly looks at any other ship. Although, there are some exceptions to the rule. However, she can vouch for the known fact that the Lupin/Snape ship is one of the most consistent in churning out high-quality fanfiction. Choicest picks here include: stuff found in Switchknife's Slash Recommendations, The Treacle Tart's fanfiction and others I sniff out via Google.

• Call of the Wild by Wolfie Twins

This is actually HET. (As in, heterosexual relationships only.) You might be thinking, YE GADS! What's gotten into her??? but I assure you that this is one of the best Lupin stories ever, so never you mind that it's het. So if you haven't yet, GO READ IT NOW, PLEASE.

• Chasing the Dragon by Romie

This is classic Harry/Draco.

Purely intellectual, and very sensual writing. It is like a kaleidoscope, every facet closely examined, and no stone left unturned. And yet for all the pretty patterns revealed, all the more that the characters are steeped in delicious mystery. I barely got out of reading this alive, the first time. It's such a heady experience, that up to now I can't get it out of my head. But no matter how hard I try to grasp the fullness of this story, it escapes me like smoke.

• MY ONE TRUE SHIP

  Remus Lupin/ Severus Snape fanfiction

It wouldn't do justice to both Sinope and Guede Mazaka to say that the former is to the HP Snupin fandom as the latter is to OUATIM El/Sands. It's just not that simple. But the fact is, this is pretty much how I experienced both authors. I would even go so far as to say that, in a way, both Sinope and Guede Mazaka have been very influential to my own writing, and my own hardcore devotion to the world of fanfiction.

But, undoubtedly, it is Sinope's exceptional Thirteen Ways that figuratively turned my world upside-down and finally opened my eyes to the power of poetry, particularly Wallace Stevens' poetry. I owe a lot of what I am now to that first genuine breach of literature into my life.

So, without further ado, here are some of Sinope's works, all of which could make any Snupin fan proud of their ship:

Valley of Dry Bones (The Fever Dream Cut)

Anything Quite So Unreal

More Placid Stars

Thirteen Ways

Shapes in a Shadowbox

"Enigmas, Conundrums, and Other Mysteries", "Every Snupin Ever Written", "The Very Air He Breathed", "Give Or Take A Century", "Painless", "Sojourn", "Bottoms Up", "The Nine Lives of Severus Snape", "Still Life"

"The Measure of a Man", "Changing Channels"

This is just so sweet. The narration is kept simple, Lupin is kept mysterious and a flummoxed Snape is always good. Especially if the flummoxing is done by a certain craft werewolf, with a penchant for love poems. A nice little story to read while curled up in your couch with a hot cup of...tea. :)

This taught me to love Jewish culture, particularly Jewish romances. It's got one of the best-researched period setting and historical background I've ever read in any story, and the narration and tone is dead awesome. I wouldn't mind reading this as a stand-alone, or a legitimate novel. I felt that its ties to HP are superficial at best.

The author sets a slow pace, as if to view the world in soft, sepia tones. Rarely do I get to read stories concluded with grace and finesse, where all the delicate pieces of the plot fall into place at a single, simple sentence--a finely-wrought story.

It is far too seldom that I encounter such charged, intelligent dialogue as exchanged in these stories, especially in Five Full Moons. It is a wonder that the author can push for such a conclusion, and indeed, that the plot survived its ambitions. There is no place for soft sentimentality in these stories, nor does the narrative tarry at illusions that the reader might be quick to suggest. I doubt the author is blind to the temptation, but all the more are these stories, conjoined at the hip really as to be considered complementary halves, made worthy and moving and true.

This is like an ultra-diluted version of Four Christmas Eves...but not. It's wonderfully well-written crack, imo. Being a Snupin shipper, I thought that having Snape think of Tonks and follow it with "Clearly, she needs to die" as his mantra is a stroke of brilliance.

Lord of the Rings

• Perfection by Irena
• Love, War by mirrordance
• Silence by Lady Elina

Check out more A/L fanfics in this community:

LBES

ALSlash Archive

Once Upon A Time in Mexico

• La Cancion de las Pistolas by auburn

• To Sleep by l-dhenson

• Miss Becky

"After The Dust Has Cleared", "When All Is Said And Done", "Que Quieres En La Vida"

• Wires Series by Tiggy Malvern

1. Wires

2. Strung

3. Frayed

4. Tangled

5. Severed

• Blackbird by yoyo-anarchy

• Dreams by cottonmouth

• Touch by kHo

“Why do you not let me call you beautiful?”

“Because I’m not a woman, and because it’s too much of a reminder.”

“A reminder of what?”

“Of the fact that I can’t see how beautiful you are anymore.”

• Kingdom of the Blind by zombie kitten

Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Chapter 4

• Synaesthete by riverkwago

A "What If" story, written with great sensitivity and care. What with all the great OUATIM fanfics out there (for a small community, it's a goldmine), it would seem easy enough to understand Agent Sands' twisted psyche after a few stories (with a couple of NC-17s digested slowly for good measure). But this particular fic actually reminded me that it honestly is never easy to dig into the hell-hole that is Sands' brain. So, truth be told, I wonder how the authors of all this great stuff manage to do the impossible. Is it really so much easier to write about insane people than sane ones? How come toying with dysfunctional subjects seems more appealing? I'd really like to know...

On another, entirely different topic: I was surprised to find the author and I share in a few traits. The world is so small... I'm proud to have this one here.

• And practically everything OUATIM by GUEDE MAZAKA.

Try this story: Integral

(Guest starring Vincent(Tom Cruise) from the movie Collateral(2004))

It's one of the rare times I appreciate my knowledge of higher maths..

Warning: It's a TOTALLY intellectual nuke.

Miscellaneous

X-Men: the Movie/ Van Helsing crossover

• ALPHA/OMEGA by Chibi-Kaz

One Piece

• Listen and Call of the Tide by sherrymarie
• Bit by Bit by Saber Shadowkitten

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Neon Exodus Evangelion by Benjamin D. Hutchins

This is the Apocalypse. Angels and demons are real. And it's all up to DJ Croft to stop it. NGE Alternate Universe, crossover with X-Files.

Smallville

I'm not a Smallville fan. Never had the time to finish even a single episode. But I've got enough of the comic geek in me to understand Superman, plus a pretty good grounding on the Marvel heroes and the Justice League folks. So I figured, just toss in the usual soap-opera melodrama, fine tune the angst multiplied by the superpower factor, and voila!--it's just that easy to understand Smallville.

• Interstitial by punk
• Standing in the Common Spaces by jenn

Even though I hardly knew Smallville, I couldn't resist this masterpiece. Would never have thought of resisting anyway. Who would've thought that a crossover between Spiderman and Smallville, set a decade after the movies and the series respectively, would've made a convert out of little old me? Why, perhaps its the uber-slashfest between Peter and Lex. Or maybe the chocful of angst, I could gorge on it. Or even just the fantastic writing, with so many images; shiny and sharp and painful, muted and cold and numb, brittle as seashells echoing despair. God, I love when superheroes brood. And have sex. The brooding just make them all the more sexy.

American Gods

• "The City of Towers: Part 1 & Part 2" by irisbleu & linnpuzzle

This is like a dream come true for me. I've always wondered about that almost-interlude chapter, right smack in the middle of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, that bears almost no relationship whatsoever with the rest of the book. Add the fact that it has gay sex and has a feel for Unresolved Sexual Tension, and it just about had me squeeing like a good little fangirl over it. This fic...this fic is truly a dream come true.

Brokeback Mountain

• Human Interest by madlori