Recs! Arrow, AVG, Bond, DCU, ST(AOS), TW
.: Arrow :.
Rub-A-Dub-Dub by
Frea_O
Length: 5.998 words
Fandom: Arrow
Rating: PG-13
Relationship(s): Oliver/Felicity
Summary: They say cleanliness is next to godliness, but Oliver Queen is pretty sure they didn't take his crazy life into account when they wrote that line. Or: five uses for your everyday bathtub, starring Oliver and Felicity.
Reccer's Notes: Silliness and sweetness amidst the usual bullets, arrows, and mayhem. The characterizations are a delight and Sara gets in one great line as well as some fait accompli mischief. This was a ton of fun to read.
.: Avengers :.
[Vid] Raise Your Glass by
such_heights
Length: 3:27 minutes
Footage: Avengers
Rating: PG-13
Relationship(s): Gen
Summary: What part of party don't you understand?
Reccer's Notes: Excellent vid! It's not easy making a 3 1/2 minute Avengers team vid that includes their origins, falling down, and picking themselves (and each other) back up when two of the members don't have origins on film. Such Heights makes good use of the Clint footage available in particular (Natasha at least has IM2 screen time going for her). It's richly populated with all your favorites in the MCU, too, from Fury and Coulson and Hill to Peggy and Bucky and the Commandos to Jane and- yeah, you get the idea. A lot of fun with great editing.
.: Bond :.
All the King's Horses by
Revenant
Length: 93.348 words
Fandom: Bond (Skyfall), Sherlock Homes (BBC)
Rating: R
Relationship(s): Bond/Q
Summary: MI6 has been compromised, at least one agent inside suspected of working for the criminal mastermind James Moriarty. Bond's assignment is simple: find the mole and resolve the situation. The only catch is that the mission requires something Bond doesn't have in abundance: computer skills. With all of Q-Branch under suspicion he must turn to outside sources, and Mycroft Holmes thinks he has the perfect solution: his youngest brother.
Or: the unholy merging of Reichenbach Falls and Skyfall, and their respective super-villains.
Reccer's Notes: It's relatively easy to drop Q into the Holmes family. Lean and spare with tousled dark curls, his physical appearance passes him off as BC's brother well enough, while his sharp mind and manner of going slots him neatly in among Sherlock and Mycroft. Q as a Holmes makes a crossover obvious, but it's when you find James Bond in 221B that there's a cognitive dissonance. So although Q is brilliant as a Holmes brother, crossing those particular streams tends to be a hit and miss affair, best done with the lightest of hand.
This is not a light hand yet, remarkably, still manages to be excellent. This is a full blown merging of Skyfall and The Reichenbach Fall, with several key twists. Chief twist is that Q is not MI6's Quartermaster - or employed by MI6 at all - as he has been outside England's borders, freelancing, and generally avoiding familial entanglements. This makes him much more of a wild card even before adding in the complications of Moriarty and Silva existing in the same universe and operating, at least in part, on the same playing field.
Things evolve and change to a certain degree, but many things still play out in a similar fashion. I think it helps to be passingly familiar with Reichenbach's plot line as Bond's POV is the lion's share of the fic and less time is spent on how things are spinning out for Sherlock and John, but a sketchy idea of it should be fine. Overall, the fic is long and satisfying and a great read.
.: DCU :.
The Way I Was Made by hackthis
Length: 22.496 words
Fandom: DCU (Smallville/Teen Titans/Superman Returns)
Rating: R
Relationship(s): Tim/Kon
Summary: Remarks like that are his inner Luthor coming out. (The one where Kon goes to school in Gotham and hits on everything until he meets Tim and then it's mostly just Tim and Robin.)
Reccer's Notes: Merges Jason White with Kon-El for all kinds of interesting dynamics. Kon (Jason) goes away to Metropolis for college and attempts to get into every pair of pants he can while tying up muggers with their own shoelaces and blowing up things in the chemistry lab for entertainment. When he grudgingly admits calculus is killing him, he acquires a tutor by the name of Tim Drake, who's bizarrely oblivious to Kon's charms. Naturally, he runs into Robin after one aborted mugging and, wow, are those some tights he'd like to pull off with his teeth, ya know? Really, though, that's only half the story. Interspersed throughout are flashbacks, shedding a lot of light on Kon and his various bits of family: Lois died when he was still fairly young, but there's his dad - Richard White - plus Clark, Grandma Martha, and, off in the shadows, Lex Luthor. Those scenes are what elevate it from an entertaining romp to something a lot more poignant as it becomes clear Kon is still figuring out who he is and where he's going.
.: Star Trek :.
[ST:AOS Character Gifset] by
spocks-pockets
Fandom: Star Trek (AOS)
Rating: PG
Relationship(s): Gen
Artist's Notes: My past does not define me / My innocence is not ignorance / My calm hides a storm / My strength is not an illusion
Reccer's Notes: Well chosen character assignments to the various beats of the phrase and well rendered in 8 panels.
.: Teen Wolf :.
So Shed Your Skin and Let's Get Started by
halfhardtorock
Length: 21.801 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: NC-17
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek
Summary: He's sixteen and in the woods on the wrong side of the town-line and he's so fucking fucked. He knows he's not supposed to run, they teach that to you in preschool (don't run from a Were, back away slowly and walk with care), but they never told you how it would feel, standing alone in the dark with your heart beating in your throat as those glowing eyes tracked you from the shadows.
Reccer's Notes: A High School AU in the sense that Derek is only a couple years older than Stiles, although they don't attend the same school. Everyone is alive although Kate still managed to break Derek a little (to be fair, in this incarnation he mostly did it to himself, Kate was just bitchy and mean). I loved the world building where werewolves are known and how awkward Stiles and Derek were around each other, trying to figure things out and generally doing a hash job of it.
Wanna Be Adored by
Verity
Length: 2.168 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: NC-17
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek/Lydia
Summary: It took Lydia a moment-she was still caught up in Euclidean spaces and paradoxical decomposition, tongue sweet with bourbon-before she caught Derek's meaning, registered the rabbit flutter of Stiles's heart beneath her open palm where she'd pressed it against his chest. Stiles squeezed his eyes shut, like he couldn't bear to look at her, already steeled for the inevitability of her rejection. Lydia glanced at Derek, eyes glittering beneath lowered lashes. "Are you sure?" she said.
Reccer's Notes: The author's notes cite Francesca Lia Block as inspiration and, after reading the fic, I feel like I need to look up her work. The tone suits Lydia beautifully, a dreamy, glittery quality to it, drenched in warm, honey thick light.
Saving Face by
bewinsome &
mthenefarious
Length: 1.861 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: PG-13
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek
Summary: Stiles finds Derek's new look hilarious...among other things.
Reccer's Notes: Ten years after graduation Stiles is finally back in Beacon Hills for good. He's seen Derek in the meantime - not a lot, granted, but some, especially since he's working for the Sheriff's department as a deputy now. Long absences mean Stiles can be forgiven for not noticing Derek's getting prematurely white hairs in his beard until there's... actually quite a lot of them. Then, of course, since Stiles is an asshole, he can't leave it alone. Stiles feels Derek's reaction to that is really far too drastic. A funny fic that feels very in character.
Let's Not Talk About It by
hannah_baker
Length: 10.147 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: NC-17
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek
Summary:
“You can’t have a platonic romantic relationship,” Scott said when Stiles had tried to explain what had happened the previous night.
“I’m not saying it’s platonic. Obviously making out isn’t platonic. But it’s not like, romantic. I’m not waxing poetic about his gorgeous hazel eyes or how ridiculous his biceps are-”
“Really?” Scott asked, interrupting him. “Because it sounds like you are.”
Or, the one where Stiles' relationship problems could be solved so easily by talking about it. So naturally he doesn't.
Reccer's Notes: The conversation in the summary actually confused me a bit - I'm not quite sure what they were talking about (and I'm not sure whether the author knows you can have a platonic romantic relationship or whether it's just Scott that doesn't realize you can) - but the gist of the story is that Lydia preemptively dumps Stiles for anything other than casual sex, and it's not something he can do, so he calls the whole thing off. Scott is busy with Allison and Isaac, so Stiles goes to Derek to mope all over. It all leads to romantic comedy miscommunication/angst thanks to confusion between the words casual, trust, like, and love when they start up an undefined relationship.
For Love Is Not Ours to Command by
weathervaanes
Length: 18.536 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: NC-17
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek
Summary: Where Derek's skills at thinking on his feet mean that he and Stiles have to act. For the sake of Stiles' dad, of course, for the sake of the pack. No personal interest interference at all, whatsoever. Right.
Reccer's Notes: Another for the romantic comedy miscommunication pool. This one falls under the subheading "pretend relationship", with the unique motivator of pissing off Scott's dad. Stiles is trying to get some evidence against Rafael McCall and is about to get caught proverbially red handed when Derek, having been the lookout, comes up with... an alternate plan. On the bright side, Stiles pisses Rafael off pretty much just by existing at this point, and having Derek there to be an asshole too doubles the effect nicely. The make-out sessions that seem to keep happening are a bonus. Features a nicely self-aware statement from Stiles at one point and all-around excellent characterizations.
A Swinger of Birches by
drunktuesdays
Length: 2.467 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: PG-13
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek
Summary: The artifact takes him to a dark cave, one he hasn’t seen before. If he’d been back longer, gotten back in the paranoid mindset needed to survive Beacon Hills, that alone would have stopped him. There’s no part of the Preserve that he hasn’t ran through, no tree, no leaf, no rock he doesn’t know. He’s off balance and unready so he skids right into the entrance, stops only when the light on the stone winks right out. He’s turning to face Scott and Stiles, but there’s a rumble, and he has just enough time to throw himself to the ground, to duck and protect his head as rocks fall around him, the ceiling to the cave collapsing with a choking cloud of dust.
Reccer's Notes: The one where Stiles and Derek play Mate, Knot, Claw - of course Stiles comes up with it, who else? - while trying to keep Derek distracted from his predicament until help can arrive. Stiles is also the one who suggests "Oak, Ash, Birch" for one round. Surprisingly, given some of the statements in isolation, this isn't actually crack fic, it's just Stiles. (I keep picturing him trying this game on Scott and Scott just going, "Dude, how much werewolf porn have you been reading?")
Crossposted to Dreamwidth where there are
comments. Comment here or there. ♥ Blue :)
Rub-A-Dub-Dub by
Frea_O
Length: 5.998 words
Fandom: Arrow
Rating: PG-13
Relationship(s): Oliver/Felicity
Summary: They say cleanliness is next to godliness, but Oliver Queen is pretty sure they didn't take his crazy life into account when they wrote that line. Or: five uses for your everyday bathtub, starring Oliver and Felicity.
Reccer's Notes: Silliness and sweetness amidst the usual bullets, arrows, and mayhem. The characterizations are a delight and Sara gets in one great line as well as some fait accompli mischief. This was a ton of fun to read.
.: Avengers :.
[Vid] Raise Your Glass by
such_heights
Length: 3:27 minutes
Footage: Avengers
Rating: PG-13
Relationship(s): Gen
Summary: What part of party don't you understand?
Reccer's Notes: Excellent vid! It's not easy making a 3 1/2 minute Avengers team vid that includes their origins, falling down, and picking themselves (and each other) back up when two of the members don't have origins on film. Such Heights makes good use of the Clint footage available in particular (Natasha at least has IM2 screen time going for her). It's richly populated with all your favorites in the MCU, too, from Fury and Coulson and Hill to Peggy and Bucky and the Commandos to Jane and- yeah, you get the idea. A lot of fun with great editing.
.: Bond :.
All the King's Horses by
Revenant
Length: 93.348 words
Fandom: Bond (Skyfall), Sherlock Homes (BBC)
Rating: R
Relationship(s): Bond/Q
Summary: MI6 has been compromised, at least one agent inside suspected of working for the criminal mastermind James Moriarty. Bond's assignment is simple: find the mole and resolve the situation. The only catch is that the mission requires something Bond doesn't have in abundance: computer skills. With all of Q-Branch under suspicion he must turn to outside sources, and Mycroft Holmes thinks he has the perfect solution: his youngest brother.
Or: the unholy merging of Reichenbach Falls and Skyfall, and their respective super-villains.
Reccer's Notes: It's relatively easy to drop Q into the Holmes family. Lean and spare with tousled dark curls, his physical appearance passes him off as BC's brother well enough, while his sharp mind and manner of going slots him neatly in among Sherlock and Mycroft. Q as a Holmes makes a crossover obvious, but it's when you find James Bond in 221B that there's a cognitive dissonance. So although Q is brilliant as a Holmes brother, crossing those particular streams tends to be a hit and miss affair, best done with the lightest of hand.
This is not a light hand yet, remarkably, still manages to be excellent. This is a full blown merging of Skyfall and The Reichenbach Fall, with several key twists. Chief twist is that Q is not MI6's Quartermaster - or employed by MI6 at all - as he has been outside England's borders, freelancing, and generally avoiding familial entanglements. This makes him much more of a wild card even before adding in the complications of Moriarty and Silva existing in the same universe and operating, at least in part, on the same playing field.
Things evolve and change to a certain degree, but many things still play out in a similar fashion. I think it helps to be passingly familiar with Reichenbach's plot line as Bond's POV is the lion's share of the fic and less time is spent on how things are spinning out for Sherlock and John, but a sketchy idea of it should be fine. Overall, the fic is long and satisfying and a great read.
.: DCU :.
The Way I Was Made by hackthis
Length: 22.496 words
Fandom: DCU (Smallville/Teen Titans/Superman Returns)
Rating: R
Relationship(s): Tim/Kon
Summary: Remarks like that are his inner Luthor coming out. (The one where Kon goes to school in Gotham and hits on everything until he meets Tim and then it's mostly just Tim and Robin.)
Reccer's Notes: Merges Jason White with Kon-El for all kinds of interesting dynamics. Kon (Jason) goes away to Metropolis for college and attempts to get into every pair of pants he can while tying up muggers with their own shoelaces and blowing up things in the chemistry lab for entertainment. When he grudgingly admits calculus is killing him, he acquires a tutor by the name of Tim Drake, who's bizarrely oblivious to Kon's charms. Naturally, he runs into Robin after one aborted mugging and, wow, are those some tights he'd like to pull off with his teeth, ya know? Really, though, that's only half the story. Interspersed throughout are flashbacks, shedding a lot of light on Kon and his various bits of family: Lois died when he was still fairly young, but there's his dad - Richard White - plus Clark, Grandma Martha, and, off in the shadows, Lex Luthor. Those scenes are what elevate it from an entertaining romp to something a lot more poignant as it becomes clear Kon is still figuring out who he is and where he's going.
.: Star Trek :.
[ST:AOS Character Gifset] by
spocks-pockets
Fandom: Star Trek (AOS)
Rating: PG
Relationship(s): Gen
Artist's Notes: My past does not define me / My innocence is not ignorance / My calm hides a storm / My strength is not an illusion
Reccer's Notes: Well chosen character assignments to the various beats of the phrase and well rendered in 8 panels.
.: Teen Wolf :.
So Shed Your Skin and Let's Get Started by
halfhardtorock
Length: 21.801 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: NC-17
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek
Summary: He's sixteen and in the woods on the wrong side of the town-line and he's so fucking fucked. He knows he's not supposed to run, they teach that to you in preschool (don't run from a Were, back away slowly and walk with care), but they never told you how it would feel, standing alone in the dark with your heart beating in your throat as those glowing eyes tracked you from the shadows.
Reccer's Notes: A High School AU in the sense that Derek is only a couple years older than Stiles, although they don't attend the same school. Everyone is alive although Kate still managed to break Derek a little (to be fair, in this incarnation he mostly did it to himself, Kate was just bitchy and mean). I loved the world building where werewolves are known and how awkward Stiles and Derek were around each other, trying to figure things out and generally doing a hash job of it.
Wanna Be Adored by
Verity
Length: 2.168 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: NC-17
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek/Lydia
Summary: It took Lydia a moment-she was still caught up in Euclidean spaces and paradoxical decomposition, tongue sweet with bourbon-before she caught Derek's meaning, registered the rabbit flutter of Stiles's heart beneath her open palm where she'd pressed it against his chest. Stiles squeezed his eyes shut, like he couldn't bear to look at her, already steeled for the inevitability of her rejection. Lydia glanced at Derek, eyes glittering beneath lowered lashes. "Are you sure?" she said.
Reccer's Notes: The author's notes cite Francesca Lia Block as inspiration and, after reading the fic, I feel like I need to look up her work. The tone suits Lydia beautifully, a dreamy, glittery quality to it, drenched in warm, honey thick light.
Saving Face by
bewinsome &
mthenefarious
Length: 1.861 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: PG-13
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek
Summary: Stiles finds Derek's new look hilarious...among other things.
Reccer's Notes: Ten years after graduation Stiles is finally back in Beacon Hills for good. He's seen Derek in the meantime - not a lot, granted, but some, especially since he's working for the Sheriff's department as a deputy now. Long absences mean Stiles can be forgiven for not noticing Derek's getting prematurely white hairs in his beard until there's... actually quite a lot of them. Then, of course, since Stiles is an asshole, he can't leave it alone. Stiles feels Derek's reaction to that is really far too drastic. A funny fic that feels very in character.
Let's Not Talk About It by
hannah_baker
Length: 10.147 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: NC-17
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek
Summary:
“You can’t have a platonic romantic relationship,” Scott said when Stiles had tried to explain what had happened the previous night.
“I’m not saying it’s platonic. Obviously making out isn’t platonic. But it’s not like, romantic. I’m not waxing poetic about his gorgeous hazel eyes or how ridiculous his biceps are-”
“Really?” Scott asked, interrupting him. “Because it sounds like you are.”
Or, the one where Stiles' relationship problems could be solved so easily by talking about it. So naturally he doesn't.
Reccer's Notes: The conversation in the summary actually confused me a bit - I'm not quite sure what they were talking about (and I'm not sure whether the author knows you can have a platonic romantic relationship or whether it's just Scott that doesn't realize you can) - but the gist of the story is that Lydia preemptively dumps Stiles for anything other than casual sex, and it's not something he can do, so he calls the whole thing off. Scott is busy with Allison and Isaac, so Stiles goes to Derek to mope all over. It all leads to romantic comedy miscommunication/angst thanks to confusion between the words casual, trust, like, and love when they start up an undefined relationship.
For Love Is Not Ours to Command by
weathervaanes
Length: 18.536 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: NC-17
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek
Summary: Where Derek's skills at thinking on his feet mean that he and Stiles have to act. For the sake of Stiles' dad, of course, for the sake of the pack. No personal interest interference at all, whatsoever. Right.
Reccer's Notes: Another for the romantic comedy miscommunication pool. This one falls under the subheading "pretend relationship", with the unique motivator of pissing off Scott's dad. Stiles is trying to get some evidence against Rafael McCall and is about to get caught proverbially red handed when Derek, having been the lookout, comes up with... an alternate plan. On the bright side, Stiles pisses Rafael off pretty much just by existing at this point, and having Derek there to be an asshole too doubles the effect nicely. The make-out sessions that seem to keep happening are a bonus. Features a nicely self-aware statement from Stiles at one point and all-around excellent characterizations.
A Swinger of Birches by
drunktuesdays
Length: 2.467 words
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Rating: PG-13
Relationship(s): Stiles/Derek
Summary: The artifact takes him to a dark cave, one he hasn’t seen before. If he’d been back longer, gotten back in the paranoid mindset needed to survive Beacon Hills, that alone would have stopped him. There’s no part of the Preserve that he hasn’t ran through, no tree, no leaf, no rock he doesn’t know. He’s off balance and unready so he skids right into the entrance, stops only when the light on the stone winks right out. He’s turning to face Scott and Stiles, but there’s a rumble, and he has just enough time to throw himself to the ground, to duck and protect his head as rocks fall around him, the ceiling to the cave collapsing with a choking cloud of dust.
Reccer's Notes: The one where Stiles and Derek play Mate, Knot, Claw - of course Stiles comes up with it, who else? - while trying to keep Derek distracted from his predicament until help can arrive. Stiles is also the one who suggests "Oak, Ash, Birch" for one round. Surprisingly, given some of the statements in isolation, this isn't actually crack fic, it's just Stiles. (I keep picturing him trying this game on Scott and Scott just going, "Dude, how much werewolf porn have you been reading?")
Crossposted to Dreamwidth where there are
comments. Comment here or there. ♥ Blue :)