76. Close Quarters - William Golding
"In a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a ship becalmed halfway to Australia. In this surreal, fête-like atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them thickets of weed like green hair spread over the hull ( Read more... )

So I've been reading a lot of fic lately, a fact that will be clearly demonstrated in my next monthly roundup of books I'm sure. Whatevs, I'm way past the 100 mark by now anyway. Anyway I dropped by at this stupid hour to mention this one. It's WIP, it's looking like it's going to be Bond/Silva and it's really, really unpleasant and OH I LOVE IT. ( Read more... )

I'm re-reading what must have been the first fanfic I ever read, or close to it. Who would have thought that Me and My Flame would still be available twelve years after it was published? I didn't even know you could access Tripod sites still. A blast from the past, so to speak ( Read more... )

I spent yesterday evening re-reading Grindeldore for Goats (now expanded and cleaned-up with a new title, Thirty-Five Owls.) This might be my favourite fanfic of all time. It is well-written, engrossing and 100% canon-compliant. It is one of those fics you read that very much slots into canon: this is how it happened in my head, this is my personal ( Read more... )

Part of the problem with finding good Dumbledore/Grindelwald fic is, I think, that the author needs to be intelligent to do it right. This smacks off snobbery, but I should point out that part of the reason I'd never touch the pairing myself is that I don't think I could do it justice. The relationship was so intellectual in nature that, without an ( Read more... )

So often when you return to fanfiction that you read as a teenager you find it to be awful. Those years have warped your tastes beyond recognition, and you see the fic for what it is. It's always a disappointment. Not so in the case for The Very Secret Diary by Arabella, I am pleased to report. This, for me, is the penultimate Tom Riddle fanfiction ( Read more... )

Fuck it, doing a kink meme nicked from drazzi because it's Friday night and I have NOTHING TO DO except eat crepes. FML.

This was kinda hard to do because I've read a lot of things that were not my kink yet I enjoyed anyway due to good writing, but I tried to stick with what I prefer to seek out here. Newsflash: I'm crazy-boring!

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I'm doing my annual-ish re-read of Harry Potter (very slowly) and have just hit Chamber of Secrets. This book is not the best of the bunch but it always had so much fanfic potential for me, simply for Tom Riddle, who fascinated/fascinates me. It reminds me that, for all the good fic that the HP fandom produced (and continues to produce even at its ( Read more... )

I went to see HBP a second time yesterday. Still beautiful, still awesome, fuck the haters. I love the Draco scenes so, so much it's actually a little ridiculous and I walked out of the cinema really needing some Draco fic (again). Specifically, I want a nice, involved, introspective Draco fic about him fixing the Vanishing Cabinet. Until the sixth ( Read more... )

Title: Portions for Foxes
Part: 3/3
Fandom: Brokeback Mountain
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Post-canon
Pairing: Ennis/Jack, Ennis/OC
Words: 10,400
Warnings: Some mild horror, violence, consensual rough sex, animal death (not abuse)
Disclaimer: With the exception of original characters, the characters and places portrayed here do not belong to me and I do ( Read more... )