Yuletide & Pacific Rim Secret Santa
Both collections opened this morning and when I wasn't spending time with the family or writing, I did some reading. And now I'm going to do some reccing. There may or may not be more later as I get to them. :D
Pacific Rim Secret Santa
My gift:
Watashi no Kazoku
Chuck & Mako
Mako meets Chuck for the first time when they're 14 during a visit to the Sydney shatterdome, a year spent around soldiers and techs having given her more confidence. She's been to Anchorage briefly before spending most of the past year in Lima. She never gets to meet anyone her age, and so she's excited at the prospect of meeting Chuck.
Recs:
The Land of the Second Chance
Chuck/Raleigh
Two years after Pitfall, Raleigh and Chuck reunite in the most unlikely of places.
Atlas
Herc/Stacker, Herc/Angela
Hercules Hansen, and the people he has loved and lost to the changing world.
Where the wild things are
Chuck/Yancy
The nightmares had started with the tapering of his pain medication. They were possibly a symptom of the withdrawals. They were probably a symptom of trauma. Neither of those explanations were helping him sleep any better at night.
Not a bad kind of Afterlife
Stacker, Yancy, Chuck
Stacker Pentecost wasn't sure what he expected after he died. He'd always preferred to live for the present, rather than consider what would happen to his soul. He'd never even been convinced that his soul would exist after his body died.
So it was shocking when he woke up in the Shatterdome, some unknown time after he'd died blowing up Striker Eureka at the bottom of the Pacific.
Water Damage
Raleigh & Yancy
The date is February 29th, 2020, the water is cold and his drive suit is heavy. Yancy doesn’t die, but Raleigh doesn’t know that.
yuletide
My gift:
After Crash
Arrow
Felicity, Oliver, Diggle
Felicity doesn’t like it when he comes back covered in blood. And lately, that seemed to be Oliver’s preferred way of returning.
Recs:
Evergreen
Cal Leandros novels (Rob Thurman)
Cal, Niko, Robin
Hunting monsters is their job, but hazard pay doesn't always cover the price of such a career. One day their luck may run out.
it's hard to do these things alone
Fast & Furious series
Brian/Dom, Han/Gisele
Brian doesn't lie to cars. He doesn't lie to Dom either, but that's a newer development.
Common Ground
Fast & Furious series
Brian/Dom
Brian was focused on the job, on getting the detective shield, on moving up and maybe taking LT's place one day. He didn't have time for distractions, even if they were distractions of the bald and built variety, with a voice like rough velvet and legs like oak trees and shoulders that were probably carved out of marble.
(Coffeeshop AU, because every fandom needs one, and the idea of Dom running a coffeeshop and Brian and Rome as patrol officers was too fun of an idea not to write.)
This Won't Hurt
NFL RPS
Alex Smith/Dustin Colquitt
The average NFL QB stands 6’3” and weighs about 225. The average quarterback career runs about 6 years, depending on who you believe, and allowing for the variance generated by guys like Blanda and Favre, and all the cup-of-coffee players littering the other side of the bell curve. All that makes it seem Alex is sitting pretty square in the middle of things, average in all senses of the word.
But Alex has always been exceptional.
Pacific Rim Secret Santa
My gift:
Watashi no Kazoku
Chuck & Mako
Mako meets Chuck for the first time when they're 14 during a visit to the Sydney shatterdome, a year spent around soldiers and techs having given her more confidence. She's been to Anchorage briefly before spending most of the past year in Lima. She never gets to meet anyone her age, and so she's excited at the prospect of meeting Chuck.
Recs:
The Land of the Second Chance
Chuck/Raleigh
Two years after Pitfall, Raleigh and Chuck reunite in the most unlikely of places.
Atlas
Herc/Stacker, Herc/Angela
Hercules Hansen, and the people he has loved and lost to the changing world.
Where the wild things are
Chuck/Yancy
The nightmares had started with the tapering of his pain medication. They were possibly a symptom of the withdrawals. They were probably a symptom of trauma. Neither of those explanations were helping him sleep any better at night.
Not a bad kind of Afterlife
Stacker, Yancy, Chuck
Stacker Pentecost wasn't sure what he expected after he died. He'd always preferred to live for the present, rather than consider what would happen to his soul. He'd never even been convinced that his soul would exist after his body died.
So it was shocking when he woke up in the Shatterdome, some unknown time after he'd died blowing up Striker Eureka at the bottom of the Pacific.
Water Damage
Raleigh & Yancy
The date is February 29th, 2020, the water is cold and his drive suit is heavy. Yancy doesn’t die, but Raleigh doesn’t know that.
yuletide
My gift:
After Crash
Arrow
Felicity, Oliver, Diggle
Felicity doesn’t like it when he comes back covered in blood. And lately, that seemed to be Oliver’s preferred way of returning.
Recs:
Evergreen
Cal Leandros novels (Rob Thurman)
Cal, Niko, Robin
Hunting monsters is their job, but hazard pay doesn't always cover the price of such a career. One day their luck may run out.
it's hard to do these things alone
Fast & Furious series
Brian/Dom, Han/Gisele
Brian doesn't lie to cars. He doesn't lie to Dom either, but that's a newer development.
Common Ground
Fast & Furious series
Brian/Dom
Brian was focused on the job, on getting the detective shield, on moving up and maybe taking LT's place one day. He didn't have time for distractions, even if they were distractions of the bald and built variety, with a voice like rough velvet and legs like oak trees and shoulders that were probably carved out of marble.
(Coffeeshop AU, because every fandom needs one, and the idea of Dom running a coffeeshop and Brian and Rome as patrol officers was too fun of an idea not to write.)
This Won't Hurt
NFL RPS
Alex Smith/Dustin Colquitt
The average NFL QB stands 6’3” and weighs about 225. The average quarterback career runs about 6 years, depending on who you believe, and allowing for the variance generated by guys like Blanda and Favre, and all the cup-of-coffee players littering the other side of the bell curve. All that makes it seem Alex is sitting pretty square in the middle of things, average in all senses of the word.
But Alex has always been exceptional.