May 2020 Multi-Fandom Recs
As always, in addition to my HP fic reading, I've been reading in other fandoms! Some newer fics, but I've also been reading at least one non-HP fic from my Marked for Later list as part of my project to reduce that list! Not every fic was a banger, but I did have quite a number of excellent reads, which are all below! <3
Title: Falling For You (Hook, Line, and Sinker)
Author:
FestiveFerret
Pairings: Steve/Tony
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 62,140
Content/Warnings: AU: Alternate First Meeting, phone sex, sex toys, dirty talk, first time,identity!porn, bottom!steve
Summary: After being thawed, Steve's adrift in the 21st century. There's nothing for him here, just the endless cycle of pre-packaged food, pointless training exercises, and long hours at the gym. But when he takes on a new project, it leads him to a new friend - one who might open up all kinds of new doors, new feelings, new experiences. Or might just break his heart.
Super engaging fic with Steve and Tony meeting online before the first Avengers movie and forming a deep connection. Loved the way things built here, the characterizations all around were fantastic, and the smut was seriously hot!
Title: Coming Clean
Author:
thebaddestwolf
Pairing(s): Annie/Jeff
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 24,078
Content/Notes: post-series, age difference
Summary: It almost didn’t seem real -- that he’d finally, finally, told her, that he’d kissed her -- that she’d asked him to. After the mess he’d made of everything, all the self-sabotage and self-loathing and other self-inflicted pain, the solution boiled down to something as simple as coming clean to her.
A missing scene fic, starting after the S6 finale study room kiss. Spoilers, obviously.
Perfect post-Community fic! Gave me exactly what I could have wanted RE Jeff and Annie and all of the characterizations were fantastic!
Title: All That's Best of Dark and Bright
Author:
saltandbyrne
Pairing(s): Arthur/Eames
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 7,160
Content/Notes: AU: Non-Dreamshare, AU: High School, teacher!eames, teacher/student relationship, phone!sex, dirty talk, implied bottom!arthur, COVID-19 related
Summary: That Eames is even thinking of Arthur in the midst of all this is insane. It’s strange, the things one's brain fixates on when the world falls apart. It had been one of his first thoughts, amidst the bizarre scramble to inventory how much soup he had in the house (Eames doesn’t even like soup) and whether he could still go to the gym (he makes it twice a week if he’s lucky). Eames had sat down at his desk, stunned, and thought, Does this mean I won’t see Arthur again?
Super hot fic with Eames as Arthur's teacher during the pandemic quarantine.
Title: The Way We Look at Horses
Author:
semperama
Pairing(s): Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 9,167
Content/Warnings: AU: Historical, AU: Western, RPF, outdoor sex, implied period-typical homophobia
Summary: It's the late 1860s, and the cattle trade is booming. Zach thinks this drive from Texas to Abilene is going to be just like all the others, but instead he meets a man who changes everything.
Lovely AU with some gorgeous prose and a wonderful sense of atmosphere.
Title: Fearfully and Wonderfully
Author:
semperama
Pairing(s): Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 47,464
Content/Warnings: RPF, first time, bottom!chris, internalized homophobia
Summary: Zach is pushing 30, his career is at a standstill, and his sex life is--and has always been--nearly nonexistent. He doesn't have much to be happy about, until he is welcomed into a group of actors who call themselves the Grimy Corp.
Amazing fic with Zach and Chris meeting and hitting it off before either of them made it big. Loved the connection and characterizations here, and the whole thing was just a delight to read!
Title: Sure to Lure Someone Bad
Author:
mistyzeo &
obstinatrix
Pairing(s): Jared/Jensen
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 6,791
Content/Warnings: AU: Omega!Verse, alpha/beta/omega dynamics, omega!jensen, alpha!jensen, knotting, heat cycles, semi-public!sex, bottom!jensen, elevator!sex
Summary: Jensen plans to take care of his heat the way he normally does: alone. But there’s a stranger on the subway that has a better idea.
Suuuper hot fic with Jensen going into heat and meeting a compatible Alpha on his way home...
Title: Bad Boy 'verse (5 fics)
Author:
mistyzeo
Pairing(s): Jared/Jensen
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 39,420
Content/Warnings: AU, nurse!jensen, cop!jared, semi-public!sex, car!sex, switching, role play, light bondage, rimming, outdoor!sex
Summary: Officer Jared Padalecki is shot on a routine drug bust gone wrong, and he winds up in the hospital under the care of nurse Jensen Ackles. After he's released Jared never expects to see the nurse again, but he runs into him by chance at a local coffee shop, coming off his night shift. Their budding romance is an unusual one, checked by Jared's long-term recovery and Jensen's unconventional work schedule, and sometimes it's not easy to find time for one another. Somehow though, through thick and thin, they're determined to make it work.
Super hot series with Nurse Jensen and Cop Jared! The 3rd fic is the main one and is a prequel to the first two smutty one-shots.
Title: Forbidden
Author:
bloodmakesnoise
Pairing: Dean/Sam
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 3,047
Content/Warnings: sibling incest, first time, made them do it, fuck or die, dub-con, bottom!dean
Summary: Dean's dying, and the only way to save his life is to act on his most forbidden desires.
Super hot fic with Dean needing to give in to a "forbidden desire" and worrying about the consequences.
Title: Ghosts Don't Sleep
Author:
bloodmakesnoise
Pairing: Dean/Sam
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 3,047
Content/Warnings: sibling incest, temporary major character death, ghost!dean, kinda-sorta necrophilia (Dean's a ghost possessing his dead body), bottom!dean
Summary: Dean dies when a hunt goes sideways, but Sam can't let go.
With the angels and demons gone, Sam uses magic to lock Dean's ghost to his earthly remains, but it's a limited time offer.
The Winchesters have a month to figure out how to bring Dean back.
Really interesting fic with Dean dying and Sam and him racing to figure out a way to reverse it. The plot was really engaging, and the codependent relationship between Sam and Dean was perfectly captured.
Title: I'll wrap up my bones, And leave them
Author:
LunaCanisLupus_22
Pairing(s): Stiles/Derek, minor Braeden/Derek, past Stiles/Malia
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 65,152
Content/Warnings: cursed!derek (kind of), first time
Summary: The one with feral!Derek whose head is not only trapped in a metal mask but has also been sold to a Circus as their newest attraction. Of course it's up to Stiles and Scott to rescue him.
Oh goodness, this post-Nogitsune fic was such a delight! The characters were lovely, the whole plot was super interesting, and I enjoyed how Derek's "curse" provided an opportunity for both him and Stiles to grow and learn more about each other, so they could eventually get to a point where they were ready to be together!
Title: Feel it like a fever, burning through the night
Author:
LunaCanisLupus_22
Pairing(s): Stiles/Derek, various background pairings
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 81,121
Content/Warnings: cursed!stiles (kind of), first time, bottom!stiles
Summary: the one where Stiles tries to do the noble self-sacrificing thing: gains a new power, a spectral skin colour and basically ruins his own life. 0/10 would not recommend.
Awesome fic with Stiles being injected with a special poison that makes his touch lethal and having to keep his distance from people to keep them safe (oh, and he's purple). The build between Stiles and Derek here was just wonderful, and the smut, when it finally happened, was absolutely worth the wait! This entry was originally posted here on Dreamwidth. Please comment there using OpenID
Title: Falling For You (Hook, Line, and Sinker)
Author:
FestiveFerret
Pairings: Steve/Tony
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 62,140
Content/Warnings: AU: Alternate First Meeting, phone sex, sex toys, dirty talk, first time,identity!porn, bottom!steve
Summary: After being thawed, Steve's adrift in the 21st century. There's nothing for him here, just the endless cycle of pre-packaged food, pointless training exercises, and long hours at the gym. But when he takes on a new project, it leads him to a new friend - one who might open up all kinds of new doors, new feelings, new experiences. Or might just break his heart.
Super engaging fic with Steve and Tony meeting online before the first Avengers movie and forming a deep connection. Loved the way things built here, the characterizations all around were fantastic, and the smut was seriously hot!
Title: Coming Clean
Author:
thebaddestwolf
Pairing(s): Annie/Jeff
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 24,078
Content/Notes: post-series, age difference
Summary: It almost didn’t seem real -- that he’d finally, finally, told her, that he’d kissed her -- that she’d asked him to. After the mess he’d made of everything, all the self-sabotage and self-loathing and other self-inflicted pain, the solution boiled down to something as simple as coming clean to her.
A missing scene fic, starting after the S6 finale study room kiss. Spoilers, obviously.
Perfect post-Community fic! Gave me exactly what I could have wanted RE Jeff and Annie and all of the characterizations were fantastic!
Title: All That's Best of Dark and Bright
Author:
saltandbyrne
Pairing(s): Arthur/Eames
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 7,160
Content/Notes: AU: Non-Dreamshare, AU: High School, teacher!eames, teacher/student relationship, phone!sex, dirty talk, implied bottom!arthur, COVID-19 related
Summary: That Eames is even thinking of Arthur in the midst of all this is insane. It’s strange, the things one's brain fixates on when the world falls apart. It had been one of his first thoughts, amidst the bizarre scramble to inventory how much soup he had in the house (Eames doesn’t even like soup) and whether he could still go to the gym (he makes it twice a week if he’s lucky). Eames had sat down at his desk, stunned, and thought, Does this mean I won’t see Arthur again?
Super hot fic with Eames as Arthur's teacher during the pandemic quarantine.
Title: The Way We Look at Horses
Author:
semperama
Pairing(s): Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto
Rating: Mature
Word Count: 9,167
Content/Warnings: AU: Historical, AU: Western, RPF, outdoor sex, implied period-typical homophobia
Summary: It's the late 1860s, and the cattle trade is booming. Zach thinks this drive from Texas to Abilene is going to be just like all the others, but instead he meets a man who changes everything.
Lovely AU with some gorgeous prose and a wonderful sense of atmosphere.
Title: Fearfully and Wonderfully
Author:
semperama
Pairing(s): Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 47,464
Content/Warnings: RPF, first time, bottom!chris, internalized homophobia
Summary: Zach is pushing 30, his career is at a standstill, and his sex life is--and has always been--nearly nonexistent. He doesn't have much to be happy about, until he is welcomed into a group of actors who call themselves the Grimy Corp.
Amazing fic with Zach and Chris meeting and hitting it off before either of them made it big. Loved the connection and characterizations here, and the whole thing was just a delight to read!
Title: Sure to Lure Someone Bad
Author:
mistyzeo &
obstinatrix
Pairing(s): Jared/Jensen
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 6,791
Content/Warnings: AU: Omega!Verse, alpha/beta/omega dynamics, omega!jensen, alpha!jensen, knotting, heat cycles, semi-public!sex, bottom!jensen, elevator!sex
Summary: Jensen plans to take care of his heat the way he normally does: alone. But there’s a stranger on the subway that has a better idea.
Suuuper hot fic with Jensen going into heat and meeting a compatible Alpha on his way home...
Title: Bad Boy 'verse (5 fics)
Author:
mistyzeo
Pairing(s): Jared/Jensen
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 39,420
Content/Warnings: AU, nurse!jensen, cop!jared, semi-public!sex, car!sex, switching, role play, light bondage, rimming, outdoor!sex
Summary: Officer Jared Padalecki is shot on a routine drug bust gone wrong, and he winds up in the hospital under the care of nurse Jensen Ackles. After he's released Jared never expects to see the nurse again, but he runs into him by chance at a local coffee shop, coming off his night shift. Their budding romance is an unusual one, checked by Jared's long-term recovery and Jensen's unconventional work schedule, and sometimes it's not easy to find time for one another. Somehow though, through thick and thin, they're determined to make it work.
Super hot series with Nurse Jensen and Cop Jared! The 3rd fic is the main one and is a prequel to the first two smutty one-shots.
Title: Forbidden
Author:
bloodmakesnoise
Pairing: Dean/Sam
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 3,047
Content/Warnings: sibling incest, first time, made them do it, fuck or die, dub-con, bottom!dean
Summary: Dean's dying, and the only way to save his life is to act on his most forbidden desires.
Super hot fic with Dean needing to give in to a "forbidden desire" and worrying about the consequences.
Title: Ghosts Don't Sleep
Author:
bloodmakesnoise
Pairing: Dean/Sam
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 3,047
Content/Warnings: sibling incest, temporary major character death, ghost!dean, kinda-sorta necrophilia (Dean's a ghost possessing his dead body), bottom!dean
Summary: Dean dies when a hunt goes sideways, but Sam can't let go.
With the angels and demons gone, Sam uses magic to lock Dean's ghost to his earthly remains, but it's a limited time offer.
The Winchesters have a month to figure out how to bring Dean back.
Really interesting fic with Dean dying and Sam and him racing to figure out a way to reverse it. The plot was really engaging, and the codependent relationship between Sam and Dean was perfectly captured.
Title: I'll wrap up my bones, And leave them
Author:
LunaCanisLupus_22
Pairing(s): Stiles/Derek, minor Braeden/Derek, past Stiles/Malia
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 65,152
Content/Warnings: cursed!derek (kind of), first time
Summary: The one with feral!Derek whose head is not only trapped in a metal mask but has also been sold to a Circus as their newest attraction. Of course it's up to Stiles and Scott to rescue him.
Oh goodness, this post-Nogitsune fic was such a delight! The characters were lovely, the whole plot was super interesting, and I enjoyed how Derek's "curse" provided an opportunity for both him and Stiles to grow and learn more about each other, so they could eventually get to a point where they were ready to be together!
Title: Feel it like a fever, burning through the night
Author:
LunaCanisLupus_22
Pairing(s): Stiles/Derek, various background pairings
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 81,121
Content/Warnings: cursed!stiles (kind of), first time, bottom!stiles
Summary: the one where Stiles tries to do the noble self-sacrificing thing: gains a new power, a spectral skin colour and basically ruins his own life. 0/10 would not recommend.
Awesome fic with Stiles being injected with a special poison that makes his touch lethal and having to keep his distance from people to keep them safe (oh, and he's purple). The build between Stiles and Derek here was just wonderful, and the smut, when it finally happened, was absolutely worth the wait! This entry was originally posted here on Dreamwidth. Please comment there using OpenID