Title: the man in the desert
Author: ruinga
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIII
Characters/Pairings: Oerba Yun Fang/Oerba Dia Vanille
Summary: It starts and ends with them. A study of Fang in the world's last thirteen years, in thirteen short parts. Spoilers up to the end of Lightning Returns.
Wordcount: 2.635
Why it's awesome: A beautifully written look at ( Read more... )

A year late, but here are the collected recs I made for my rec-a-weekend project in 2013. Sorted by fandom, with links to the individual recs.

( Assassin's Creed )

Title: Shadow of the Bookman
Author: ButterflyGhost
Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Ray Vecchio, Vecchio Family, Armando Langoustini, OCs, Benton Fraser, others
Summary: The FBI have approached Ray to go undercover with the mob, and Ray has said 'no.' But it turns out that there is a skeleton in the Vecchio family closet. What is the secret ( Read more... )

Title: Signal Fire
Author: zeitheist
Fandom: Assassin's Creed
Characters/Pairings: Desmond Miles, Wiliam Miles, Shaun Hastings, Rebecca Crane
Summary: Written for the Fiction On Christmas Morning giveaway on my Tumblr, for the anon who wanted "gen fic, (preferably happy gen fic) with the modern Assassins Creed guys". This fic is based around ( Read more... )

Title: Archarnement
Author: pqlaertes
Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio
Summary: Fraser's increasing loneliness leads him to an desperate encounter.
Wordcount: 5392
Why it's awesome: A beautifully written piece that captures Fraser's loneliness and starvation for intimacy so well that somehow this story doesn't seem ( Read more... )

Title: An Ever Fixed Mark
Author: elspethdixon, seanchai
Fandom: Marvel 616
Characters/Pairings: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Wanda Maximoff, Janet Van Dyne, Hank Pym
Summary: Loki accidentally turns Tony into a woman. Steve is less than thrilled. Hijinks ensue.
Wordcount: 70,947
Why it's awesome: Long, plotty, and a magical genderswap done extremely well. Tony's reaction ( Read more... )

Title: Twenty Years Gone
Author: ButterflyGhost, happy29
Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Ray Kowaski, Ray Vecchio
Summary: So... Happy and Butterfly were talking about first days on the job, and how much the Rays have in common, and... this happened.
Wordcount: 3396
Why it's awesome: I love stories that deal with the unexplored past of the ( Read more... )

Title: Arch to the Sky
Author: sl_walker and kalijean
Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Renfield Turnbull/Ray Vecchio, Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Francesca Vecchio/Thomas Dewey, etc.
Summary: None given
Wordcount: ~ 217,000
Why it's awesome: There aren't many stories about Turnbull out there, and even fewer that do him justice. Although "doing him justice" is ( Read more... )

Title: Hell's Mouth
Author: sinka
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters/Pairings: Dean, Sam
Summary: When Dean tells his brother to 'pick a hemisphere' he doesn't expect him to take it literally and drop off the map. So when an eye-opening trip to the future makes him realize their separation was a mistake, he doesn't expect having to follow Sam’s trail ( Read more... )

Title: Deeper than Bone
Author: nosilencehere
Fandom: Marvel 616
Characters/Pairings: Thor, Tony Stark
Summary: Thor has already lost one shield brother. He will not lose another.
Wordcount: 1298
Why it's awesome: I love the friendship between Thor and Tony in the comics, and I like seeing them take care of each other much better than I like seeing them fight. ( Read more... )