This is one of those rare stories I didn't know what to do about for the longest time. I wanted to rec it. But I have reservations. But it's incredibly hot! But Ray has some real issues here. But it all ends up okay! But Ray has some really serious issues here, you know? For a variety of reasons, I've seen homophobia more (and portrayed more ( Read more... )

Oh, wow. You know what? I am almost freakishly exhausted. My brain's not working right, I'm emotionally twitchy (I'd love to blame tonight's Glee, but in all honesty this all started earlier in the day) and I've had trouble finding my words for a couple of days now. You may have noticed. Still. I really can't fall behind any further. And I do have ( Read more... )

Unsurprisingly after yesterday, now I've got Queer as Folk on the brain, which is... not actually a good thing. It's already been a weirdly angst-ridden week for me. And thinking back to (*waves half-heartedly in the direction of 2005*) that whole thing is just not very helpful. So! So. Something better, and brighter and properly satisfying, yes? ( Read more... )

Two days after the house guests moved on, and I find that I'm still slowly coming down off the constant state of alert. Starting to read regularly again, too, which - yay! So, this one. This was written by someone I know is a very prolific dS writer, or so others told me. I'd been looking at her AO3 profile for a long time, but there just wasn't ( Read more... )

Oh my god, you guys. I'm just... OK, let me offer you a piece of completely unsolicited advice, yeah? Never, ever, have house guests during an election season. That goes double for blood relations. Even if you agree with their politics, things are going to get heated. And when you don't agree... well. You'll be going in the kitchen for a glass of ( Read more... )

Oh, good lord. Yes. See this here? This is so exactly right on the money in terms of voices and characterizations and interactions I just about died reading it. Well, no, that's not why I just about died, not truly. I actually just about got an ulcer reading it, but oh my freaking god, don't let that stop you.

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I've been in a mood, shall we say. I was going through my to-read list late last night, and came across this, which is a sequel, which I've already recced in the first sequels post ( @LJ|@DW), and whose original I recced also ( @LJ|@DW). I never properly read the sequel, I'd just sampled just enough of it to know that it was fantastic, and that I'd ( Read more... )

Two days in a row of Ben and RayK! Be still my heart! I didn't plan it this way, I assure you, but I was casting around pretty desperately yesterday for something that would take away the lingering sting of "Kowalski Is Bleeding" and I found this in my old bookmarks still waiting to be read and, oh my god, did it ever just shoot to the top of my ( Read more... )

This was meant to be last night's post, but I couldn't do it. I still don't quite have the dexterity I need to get it done, but luckily enough this is one of those stories that - again - speaks for itself. It's one I meant to read for a long time, and was sure I was going to rec no matter how I felt about it. Do you know what I mean? You can tell ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how I came across this one now - cruising through bookmarks on Pinboard, most likely - and having read it, I'm not sure how I didn't come across it before. But every time I find a gem in this fandom - an author, a story, a community, an archive - I think that's it, I have the whole of it now, I can tell how big this fandom is. And then ( Read more... )