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Anyway, here, share my screwed up circadian rhythm! Read these things!
To Shame The Devil (54801 words) by Kalliste
Chapters: 14/14
Fandom: Generation Kill
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Brad Colbert/Nate Fick
Characters: Brad Colbert, Nate Fick, Walt Hasser, Ray Person
Additional Tags: Genderswap, Supernatural Elements, Alternate Universe, Future Fic, DADT Repeal
Summary:
It’s not like Nate’s never been picked up in a bar before, but he doesn’t ever remember it going quite like this.
In his experience, gorgeous, stacked, and insanely tall blondes who look like they should be gracing the cover of a Victoria’s Secret catalogue don’t generally saunter into grimy Cambridge dives populated by obnoxious Harvard grad students, walk straight up to his booth, plunk themselves down next to him without so much as a by-your-leave, and open with “I certainly hope that you’re not drinking Coors Lite or some similar lowbrow swill, or else I will have lost all faith in the pretentiousness of the dicksuck Ivy League communist elite of this country.”
I want to call this genderswap in the fine old tradition of the early popslash genderswap stories--with that kind of focus on orientation and identity and consequences--and then my brain sort of locks up on the fact that I unironically believe that there is a fine old tradition of early popslash genderswap, but the point is: THIS IS BRILLIANT AND YOU SHOULD GO READ IT.
Made and Remade the Necklace of Songs (19751 words) by littleblackdog
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: The Hobbit (2012), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield
Summary:
Written for the Hobbit kink meme.
In a Middle Earth where dwarves dream of Heartsongs and hobbits carry the name of their fated partner as private Mark, Bilbo Baggins had never been able to properly translate the strange rows of runes inscribed on his wrist.
And likewise, Thorin Oakenshield had never imagined he would hear the voice of his Heartsong from a fussy little gentlehobbit.
At long last complete, and LOVELY! And happily full of people catching on at just the moment when it should be obvious to them what is going on.
Slow Dancing In A Burning Room (66236 words) by feelslikefire
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Skyfall (2012), James Bond (Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James Bond/Q
Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), Eve Moneypenny, Gareth Mallory, M (James Bond), Bill Tanner, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Plot With Porn, Suit Porn, Espionage, Snark, Canon-Typical Violence, invention porn, Secret Identities, decoy flats, dysfunctional flirting by dysfunctional people, scones for the Queen, Eve is the HBIC, Hurt/Comfort, Bond is a shady fuck, Tattoos
Summary:
What followed was the most bizarre courtship Q had ever—well, heard of, certainly. He didn’t have much to compare it to, but Moneypenny confirmed that normal people didn’t flirt like this. Not that he was normal. Not that any of them were.
Or: Q has a past, a cat, and a dangerous new boyfriend. Two of these things keep him up nights, the other pees in a box.
Do you like badass woobie Q? And Bond being crazy and awesome and still human? And Q being besties with Moneypenny and calling her Moneypants? GO READ.
Chosen Man (116551 words) by Sineala
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Marcus Flavius Aquila/Esca Mac Cunoval
Characters: Marcus Flavius Aquila, Esca Mac Cunoval, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Military, Canon Era, First Time, Loyalty, Shame, Submission, Romance, Action/Adventure
Summary:
The son of the man who lost the Eagle of the Ninth would never be allowed a first command of his very own fort, would he?
Marcus is posted not to Isca Dumnoniorum, but to a wretched and run-down garrison north of the Wall. There he finds that he is the new centurion of a group of scouts and spies, all of them British. He has few supplies and no experience. His men distrust him. His superiors despise him. His second-in-command is an incompetent drunkard. And the local tribes are determined to kill all of them.
But the worst thing of all is one of Marcus' soldiers. He is an enigmatic, dangerous, and insubordinate man by the name of Esca, who makes Marcus yearn for terrifying things he has never before wanted and can never, ever let himself have...
Ohhhhh my God, there are so many gorgeous things going on here, and while I'm not a Classicist by any stretch, it gives an amazingly immersive sense of time and place in Roman Britain; Marcus's mindset is beautifully slightly alien, and there is so much struggle and pining and so many fights between Marcus and Esca that make perfect sense and are ever so gorgeously painful to read.
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I keep thinking I should do this more often and then getting distracted by something shiny, but maybe I'll work on that. *g*
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You are REALLY into the long-form fiction lately, no? I typically will pass on anything that's over 8000 words, because I figure if I can't read it on a train ride home from work, the story can't do its job. But the Skyfall rec is tempting. You always lead me into questionable decisions. :)
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Thank you, it was wonderful. :)
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thank you
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Now I just need time to read any of it...
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And part of me wants to say you most certainly should -not- post recs more often, b/c I am getting too old to sit up reading until nearly 2 am on a school night!
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