The author's journal title is "Long on H, Short on C" and yep, that's this fic. There's a happy ending, but the fic is about shitty things happening, not about recovery from them. I particularly liked the relationship between Spencer and Ryan.

Rage Fear Sorrow Shame by kheresellePairing: Gen ( Read more... )

I tend to be wary of genderfuck in general. I pretty much don't read always-a-girl AUs at all. But this series has a really interesting take on the idea--Pete has dissociative identity disorder, and one of his personalities is a girl, and that's who dates Mikey during the Summer of Like. (The second installment, "Wind His Branches Round," is about ( Read more... )

This community is not just about angst. It is about any fic that is not fluff and smiles, and while much of that is angst, there is one other very important category included in the set of fic that is not fluff: DOUCHEBAG FIC. Oh man, I love it when the boys are just total assholes to each other. And this fic is one of my favorite douchebag fics. ( Read more... )