I just checked the last February Festival recs, and during the course of that month I already recc’d the “Rake At the Gates of Hell ‘Verse” by synecdochic and the Puma!Verse stories by ephemera_pop and nopseud, as well as CrimsonQuill’s Slave to Love. All the stuff I usually reach for first.

So let’s see….. this time I’ll rec Into the Fire by deirdre (also known as piersonThis is an ( Read more... )

Ricky Martin never really did much for me until mickeym paired him with JC in a series of stories. But I'm willing to read JC with anyone so I jumped in and found myself devouring these. I don’t think they need to be read in any particular order, although they seem to meet for the first time in Burns where they catch each others' eye across a dance ( Read more... )

My pick for this day is Grocery Day. I am ashamed to say I am not 100% completely certain of the authorship…. I have it marked as being halowrites and mickeym, but I’m not certain now how I came to that conclusion. (Please authors, put your name on the same page as your story!)

Chris and JC go grocery shopping, and amuse the hell out of each other.

"Lube!" ( Read more... )

I’m reaching way back for this rec, to the classic What Makes You Different (Makes You Beautiful) by Lois Lane.

The big deal about being a girl was that the world around you felt like it was made for other people who weren't girls. Things like watching what you wore, that you didn't show too much skin even though it was Florida, and May, and ( Read more... )

A new month of recs and I am already way late! Sorry about that.

Day 1 is all about stories with a Great Opening. I'm sure I must have recced this somewhere else, but it remains one of my favorite opening lines in the history of popslash:

AJ was bored in the middle of a sex shop, which he really didn't think fair at all.

It's from Matters of ( Read more... )

I am not going to be able to give recs for all the stories the way I’d wanted to, because Life just keeps getting in the way. And I haven’t been able to provide individual feedback for all of these stories yet, because again, Life keeps getting in the way. But here are a few recs I can offer, before the reveal:

A Very Special SnowflakeThe ( Read more... )

I am going to rec a series that I go back and reread upon occasion: synecdochic’s Rake at the Gates of Hell !Verse.

1: Rake at the Gates of Hell

2: Through A Glass, Darkly

and then the sidestories:

Shantih
Lies My Parents Told Me
The Many-World Theory of Quantum Mechanics
Rake at the...Poker Table?
Lambs Sex Magic Smut
With Nasty, Big, Pointy Teeth ( Read more... )

A ha! I’m being creative and non-linear, and going backwards! I just thought of a story that fits this topic - Betty Plotnick’s Fire and Rain. I read this once, several years ago, and was so upset by it that I never went back to read it again. In this story (yes, I had to skim it (quickly) to gather details for you) JC, Lance, and Justin are ( Read more... )

Hi everybody. I know I’m massively behind here (and I’ve even skipped some days). Real Life has been stressful - among other things, I’ve been working towards getting myself included on the Organ Transplant List. I’ve spoken with two of the Transplant Coordinators, and saw my specialist on Friday, and I have an appointment scheduled with the ( Read more... )

I am fortunate enough to be able to rec pieces by two of the best writers we have in popslash, nopseud and pensnest.

nopseud was taking part in a meme where she offered up either a short prequel or sequel to any of her popslash stories. I asked for a sequel to “The Wedding Cake Theory,” and this is what she wrote for me.

In February/March of last year pensnest created the ( Read more... )