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Three Recs
Nov. 6th, 2009 12:38 amThree things you should read, like, yesterday:
Broke Another Mirror by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
1297 (Chris/Karl, NC-17)
I am pimping this not only because she wrote it for me (*squeeeee*) but because it features EMO!BOTTOMY!KARL, which is always a good thing. Not only is the sex between the boys hot, but the entire description of the end of Karl's marriage is just so spot-on in its finality, and it's so discomfiting to watch these two people admit defeat and carry out the requisite politeness as they try to move on.
Awesome snippet: "We did okay, Karl," she says with a shrug and a defeated sort of smile when they leave the Family Court offices, a dissolution order granted with no more than a wave of the hand and a swing of a fountain pen.
It's a Thursday afternoon and the sun seems to follow them like an overprotective dog as they walk down Kingston Street. It's warm and familiar, not like the sun in LA; even that feels artificial against his cheek. But it's too bright, he thinks, this is weather for weddings, not divorces. It should be raining or something.
"Yeah, we did," he says finally, thinking before he speaks for the first time in a long time. And his smile as he turns his head to look at her is careful - practiced - the way he smiles when a stranger takes his photograph.
Someone to Drive You Home bystarsandgraces (Kirk/Sulu, Chekov/Sulu, background Kirk/McCoy and Spock/Uhura, NC-17)
This fic needs MOAR LOVE and I don't just say that because I beta'ed it. It's a Formula One AU! They drive cars and Kirk gets into an accident! He and Sulu have testosterone-driven sexytimes! Chekov is jealous and EVER SO SASSY. Wonderful characterizations and the dialogue is perfection.
Awesome snippet: "This is the awkward part," Hikaru says eventually. "Let's go to the bedroom and we can maybe... do something to help us forget about it."
"Smooth."
"I know, right?" he says, and they grin at each other.
Pavel sits up and kicks his jeans the rest of the way off, then pulls his t-shirt over his head. Hikaru just lies where he is for the moment, happy to watch. Pavel's so pale, and Hikaru can understand that when Pavel spends so much of his time indoors or entirely covered up, or both, but his shoulders are freckled. Hikaru wants to ask him why.
Instead, he just copies Pavel and strips out of the clothes that he's barely managed to keep on up until now.
Warp 5 byewinfic (Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Chekov & Sulu, PG-13)
Um, hey, so did you guys know thatewinfic wrote me a ficlet of BOYBAND AU for the last Sinfest? Well, she did. And it has RAPPING SPOCK. And they sing a song called "Orion Slave Girl"! WHAT.
Awesome snippet: The spikes on Hikaru's dog collar flash against the colored lights, his torn black tank raggedly revealing his perfect abs. He lets his long black hair swing free as he flashes a look that somehow encapsulates both blatant sexual invitation and infinite angst, and half the audience screams in ecstasy.
Broke Another Mirror by
1297 (Chris/Karl, NC-17)I am pimping this not only because she wrote it for me (*squeeeee*) but because it features EMO!BOTTOMY!KARL, which is always a good thing. Not only is the sex between the boys hot, but the entire description of the end of Karl's marriage is just so spot-on in its finality, and it's so discomfiting to watch these two people admit defeat and carry out the requisite politeness as they try to move on.
Awesome snippet: "We did okay, Karl," she says with a shrug and a defeated sort of smile when they leave the Family Court offices, a dissolution order granted with no more than a wave of the hand and a swing of a fountain pen.
It's a Thursday afternoon and the sun seems to follow them like an overprotective dog as they walk down Kingston Street. It's warm and familiar, not like the sun in LA; even that feels artificial against his cheek. But it's too bright, he thinks, this is weather for weddings, not divorces. It should be raining or something.
"Yeah, we did," he says finally, thinking before he speaks for the first time in a long time. And his smile as he turns his head to look at her is careful - practiced - the way he smiles when a stranger takes his photograph.
Someone to Drive You Home by
starsandgraces (Kirk/Sulu, Chekov/Sulu, background Kirk/McCoy and Spock/Uhura, NC-17)This fic needs MOAR LOVE and I don't just say that because I beta'ed it. It's a Formula One AU! They drive cars and Kirk gets into an accident! He and Sulu have testosterone-driven sexytimes! Chekov is jealous and EVER SO SASSY. Wonderful characterizations and the dialogue is perfection.
Awesome snippet: "This is the awkward part," Hikaru says eventually. "Let's go to the bedroom and we can maybe... do something to help us forget about it."
"Smooth."
"I know, right?" he says, and they grin at each other.
Pavel sits up and kicks his jeans the rest of the way off, then pulls his t-shirt over his head. Hikaru just lies where he is for the moment, happy to watch. Pavel's so pale, and Hikaru can understand that when Pavel spends so much of his time indoors or entirely covered up, or both, but his shoulders are freckled. Hikaru wants to ask him why.
Instead, he just copies Pavel and strips out of the clothes that he's barely managed to keep on up until now.
Warp 5 by
ewinfic (Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Chekov & Sulu, PG-13)Um, hey, so did you guys know that
ewinfic wrote me a ficlet of BOYBAND AU for the last Sinfest? Well, she did. And it has RAPPING SPOCK. And they sing a song called "Orion Slave Girl"! WHAT.Awesome snippet: The spikes on Hikaru's dog collar flash against the colored lights, his torn black tank raggedly revealing his perfect abs. He lets his long black hair swing free as he flashes a look that somehow encapsulates both blatant sexual invitation and infinite angst, and half the audience screams in ecstasy.
