Title: Mr Fixter
Author: hydr0phobia
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Dan/Adrian
Length: 1150
Warnings: None
Spoilers: The movie

Why this must be read: This was the first Watchmen fic I ever read, and it has a certain pure something that has kept it firmly in my favourites. Dan and Adrian are both beautifully and economically characterised, and ( Read more... )

Title: A Mirror of the Trackless Sky
Author: Cherry Ice
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Dan/Laurie, Veidt
Length: 1500
Warnings: None
Spoilers: The GN.

Why this must be read: Written with sparse language and a light touch, this is a story about the impossibility of the aftermath, picking yourself up and moving on. I love the little ( Read more... )

Title: Feet of Clay
Author: glitterburn
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Adrian Veidt/Alexander the Great/Hephaistion
Length: 4643 words
Rating: R
Summary: Adrian goes back in time to Libya, 331 BC in order to meet the one man who’s ever truly meant anything to him.

Why this must be read/seen: It was really hard to pick an excerpt from this story ( Read more... )

Title: Playing a Poor Hand Well
Author: steals_thyme (fic journal)
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Dan, Rorschach, Dan/Rorschach
Length: ~21,000 words
Warnings: Lots and lots of unf-inducing UST (just sayin')
Spoilers: None

Why this must be read/seen: Daniel has been running into some financial troubles lately, and with his home on the verge of foreclosure, ( Read more... )

Title: Moonless Night
Author: daylilymoon
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Daniel, Rorschach, D/R
Length: ~22,000 words
Spoilers: None, AU.

Why this must be read/seen: "A patrol gone wrong leaves Rorschach blinded and badly injured; he seeks out his old partner and lives through the consequences." With daylilymoon 's poetic prose to steer the way, we get H/C at its best ( Read more... )

Title: Eleven Photographs of Boys
Author: eugenetapdance
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Adrian, Dan, OMCs, Adrian/OMCs
Length: 2643
Warnings: None, except that eugenetapdance recommends "a cursory wiki-ing of Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, and Joe Dallesandro. And maybe you should look up Prop 6 and Anita Bryant, although if you saw Milk, you'll probably ( Read more... )

Title: Five Things That Never Happened to Janey Slater
Author: gisho
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Janey/Jon, Janey/Wally, assorted
Length: ~4000 words
Warnings: Character death(s), nuclear disaster
Spoilers: What happened to Janey Slater (in canon) is implied.

Why this must be read/seen: There's so little Watchmen fic out there for secondary ( Read more... )

Title: Genesis On
Author: findmyantidrug 
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Jon, Rorschach
Length: 914
Warnings: Character death
Spoilers: End of graphic novel / movie

Why this must be read/seen: findmyantidrug  has authored some great Watchmen fic. Genesis On is different from her usual fare, which is more shippy, but this deserves to be read for its wonderful and creepy ( Read more... )

Title: You Gotta Get a Gimmick
Author: sandoz_iscariot
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Sally Jupiter, Laurence Schexnayder, Laurie Juspeczyk
Length: 600
Warnings: none
Spoilers: none

Why this must be read/seen: One, it's a Sally fic (a rarity in itself) and two, it's done cleverly, without a word wasted. Sandoz delivers just plain good writing here, explaining ( Read more... )

Fandom: Watchmen
Characters: Nite Owl/Dan Dreiberg, Walter Kovacs/Rorschach, Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, Laurie Juspeczyk/Silk Specter II, Leslie Chadwicke/Twilight Lady
Rating: R to NC-17
Length: 10,000+
Warnings: Sex and sexual situations (potentially triggering). Torture. Violence. BDSM. Character Death. Anti-Fixit Fic.
Spoilers: For the end of the GN.
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