I Want Your Lips to Sing by Twentysomething

Girl!Stiles.

But for some reason, when Stiles sees Derek talking to Lydia, the two of them painfully good-looking, all she can think about is that her hair is in a messy ponytail and there’s pizza sauce on the hem of her t-shirt. It’s not like she wants to go on a montage out of a ’90s teen film and come out like Rachel Leigh Cook on a staircase, but Stiles maybe thinks she doesn’t want to look like the homeless one in the pack.

Coming of Age // Explicit // Het // Words: 5,000

The Sanctuary by Chase_acow

Stiles runs away during his first heat, right into the waiting and ambiguously scary arms of the Alpha’s nephew, Derek Hale. He doesn’t have any choice except to submit, but along the way, he digs up a mystery that threatens his family and even the town’s safety.

Alpha/Beta/Omega // AU // Coming of Age // Explicit // Non-con // Romance // Words: 24,522

Born to Misfortune by Lexicale

Jensen is far too old to be frequenting breeding raves, yet here he is. He’s thinking of leaving, until he spots something out of the corner of his eye.

Alpha/Beta/Omega // AU // Coming of Age // Explicit // PWP // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Words: 7,381

nobody knew me at home anymore by Fee

The thing about best friends in a small town is that you don’t get to choose. Instead, you get exactly the person you need. It goes that way with Arthur and Eames. Maybe it’s because both of them aren’t made for small town life, not at all, and so instead of growing to fit the town, they grow to fit together.

Coming of Age // Mature // Romance // Underage Sex // Words: 25,000

armed with every precious failure by Liketheroad

Patrick wipes at his mouth, glaring. “You’re doing a pretty shitty job at the whole soulmate thing so far, I just want you to know that. Sincerely, from me to you, and all that.”

In which Patrick and Johnny soulbond at the World Juniors in 2007.

I have a huge weakness for soulbonding fics, when they’re done right, and liketheroad has done it perfectly in this story. My only wish is that it was much, much longer, because I want to see lots of more of this Jon and Patrick together. Liketheroad has written some other great Kane/Toews fic, but this is my number one favourite of her stories, and it’s among my favourites in the fandom. Don’t miss it!

(Also, there’s a point near the end where Patrick comments that if they’d done things differently, they would have screwed things up even more–to which my immediate reaction was: I want to read that fic, too. I only wish it existed.)

Coming of Age // Explicit // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Top 100 // Words: 26,717

Babyfic of Doom Series by Doctor Denmark

After they lose the Gold Medal game to the USA, things happen. Threesome things. And then later, there’s a baby.

Great fic, and reasonably realistic given its premise. Hall and Eberle aren’t my favourite pairing, but they’re definitely in the top five, and they’re well-written here.

Coming of Age // Explicit // Het // Romance // Words: 19,730

Extra Curriculars by Beatperfume, Riadsala, Shoemaster

Four-part high school/college semi-AU. The guys still play hockey (high school, college, and NHL), and some of the details of where they play are completely true to life. Link is to the series page, go there for summaries of the individual stories.

I like all the stories; they’re all well-written and interesting, with believable characters. I think my favourite is the second one, Nothing Worth Knowing, because I like and sympathize with this Ryan Kesler even when he’s being a jerk.

AU // Coming of Age // Explicit // Romance // Underage Sex // Words: 97,427

Warm Us from Within by Katarin

Warnings are for step-sibling pseudo-incest, with one of the participants 16 or 17.

AU where Bobby and Getzy are step-brothers.

AU // Coming of Age // Explicit // Incest // Romance // Underage Sex // Words: 27,510

From Wood and from Ivory by Vamm Goda

High school AU. Alex is a Russian exchange student who turns Sidney’s life upside down.

I have a few caveats about the writing of this fic–it would flow a little better if Sidney reflected less on everything everyone says and does–but otherwise it’s very good. It’s written from Sidney’s point of view, and the Sid in this story is my favourite Sid, who knows all about hockey and nothing about people. That kind of narrator is always fun to read, because there are so many things he doesn’t understand that are obvious to the reader, which makes many of the sitations he finds himself in so much funnier.

AU // Coming of Age // Explicit // Humour // Romance // Underage Sex // Words: 91,000

Waiting in the Sky by Dancinbutterfly

Православни икониMy Chemical Romance

The incest is kind of pseudo-incest, I guess, since in this story the Ways aren’t really brothers biologically?

Everyone knows Mikey and Gerard are close and everyone thinks they know why. Everyone’s wrong. The Ways have no way of knowing what they were getting into when they find an alien on the side of the road and take it home with them. The little extra-terrestrial inserts itself into their family under the human name of Gerard and becomes a member of their family. But more than that, the bond Mikey forms with Gerard shapes their whole lives in ways no one on Earth or beyond could’ve seen coming.

AU // Coming of Age // Explicit // Incest // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Words: 22,830

Away with the Boys in the Band by inlovewithnight

My Chemical Romance, Mikey/Otter, Mikey/Gabe Saporta, Mikey/Pete Wentz, Mikey/Alicia

AU where Mikey has always been a girl, but things otherwise are pretty much the same. This story is absolutely awesome; I couldn’t possibly recommend it highly enough. Although there are several pairings, this is really more of a gen fic, with the focus more on Mikey’s life as a whole rather than on any particular romantic relationship. There is, however, a lot of sex.

AU // Coming of Age // Explicit // Femmeslash // Het // Top 100 // Words: 69,162

Run by Mrs Ron Weasley

My Chemical Romance

Frank is a secret teenage werewolf. I love this story for a lot of reasons, one of them being that I love werewolf fic most of the time, and this is good werewolf fic. The opening scene between Frank and Gerard is also incredibly awesome; Gerard is about the only person in the world likely to take Frank’s behaviour in stride. Wish there was more of this, but what’s here is excellent.

AU // Coming of Age // Explicit // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Top 100 // Underage Sex // Words: 63,200

A Year Like None Other by Aspen in the Sunlight

Followed closely by A Summer Like None Other and by the WIP A Family Like None Other.

Various events lead to Harry and Snape slowly developing a father-son relationship. This is quite a long and enjoyable story, and although there’s a little too much of Harry behaving like a brat, it’s no worse than the books themselves in that respect.

Coming of Age // Gen // Het // Teen

Starlight by Tyellas

The Silmarillion

And its sequel, Thrice for Honour.

Starlight is actually gen, though rated R for violence and mature themes; on a winter night, strangers arrive seeking shelter at Maglor’s camp. Thrice for Honour is slash, and contains graphic BDSM sex, as Elrond is initiated into a set of Noldorin sexual rites.

BDSM // Coming of Age // Explicit // Gen // PWP // Sci-fi/Fantasy

Umad Learns Sumerian by Annakovsky

Okay, Annakovsky is totally doing what I thought couldn’t be done, and making me really like Dawn.

There had been a Scooby meeting, sans Willow, after the whole Willow-going-evil-and-trying-to-destroy-the-world-and-kill-all-of-them thing. Not that Dawn was bitter about that. No, Willow threatening to revert her to green energy had rolled right off her back.

Everyone else had made all the decisions already, of course. Giles was taking Willow back to England with him, so she could get help or whatever.

“So she tries to kill us and she gets a free trip to England?” Dawn had said dryly. “I shoplifted, does that mean I get a weekend in LA?”

“Dawn,” Buffy had said warningly, and she shut up while the rest of them talked details. She was sick of never having a say in things, of having everyone concerned about taking care of her. It was stupid and boring and she felt useless. Besides, if this was them taking care of her, they did a sucky job. It was time she took care of herself.

Coming of Age // Gen // General audiences

Learning Experience by Kat Reitz, Perryvic

Clark meets a guy in one of his classes who kind of reminds him of Lex, and who helps him to figure out some thing about his relationships with Chloe and Lex.

Coming of Age // Explicit // Het // Romance

Conflicts of Interest by Prufrock

And its sequel, Visiting Hours.

Two very long, very good stories told from the perspective of Lex’s son, Conner Clark Luthor. Extremely well-written, cute without being too sappy, and with great original characters. And her portrayal of Lex makes me love him even more than I did already.

Conflicts of Interest is mostly gen, since the main character is only nine years old.

Conner almost always understood things when his dad explained them nice and slow, with big hand motions and lots of pictures. For the Masturbation Is Just Fine And A Preferable Option To Premature Sexual Experimentation Or God Forbid Intercourse But Please Don’t Let Me Ever Accidentally See You Doing It Because I Will Die speech, his dad made a PowerPoint presentation, complete with pictures of locks on doors.

Do click on the link to Lex’s masturbation PowerPoint presentation. It’s too funny.

Action // Coming of Age // Explicit // Gen // Humour // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Underage Sex

As the Night the Day by Alax, Dana

Also Clark/m.

“I wouldn’t have pegged you for a sci-fi geek.”

“Geek?” Lex sent Clark a smoldering look. “You do know who you’re speaking to, don’t you?”

“Lex Luthor, sci-fi geek?”

AU with Clark as rent boy. Some things may change, but Lex is just as fucked up in any universe.

AU // BDSM // Coming of Age // Explicit // Romance // Underage Sex

Psychobabble by Prufrock

Clark hates his intro to psych course.

“So, Clark, I assume you believe that True Love is forever?”

He nodded.

Having established himself as an enormous geek as far back as freshman year left him very little face to lose at the beckoned point of junior year; social death had occurred already, post-mortem loserdom was remarkably freeing. Lex said that he was being morbid, but Clark thought those were pretty big words coming from a guy who liked to let an entire town think he was just the crazy brat prince from the Scottish castle in the middle of Kansas.

She laughed, and the sound was bright. “Well, good for you, Clark. I don’t look forward to the day you realize that it isn’t true.”

Coming of Age // Romance // Teen

Responsible by E.E. Beck

Short story set in the same universe as the marvelous A Deeper Season (see my rec), but far in the future. This is only one of the snippets available from this universe; see E.E. Beck’s livejournal for more.

AU // Coming of Age // Gen // General audiences