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Humour
Wherein Sidney Crosby gets laid, and Russian diplomacy saves the day.
On the one hand, the Russian hockey players in this story are not very believable. On the other hand, they are very funny. It’s a good trade-off if you’re willing to suspend your disbelief.
The one thing I wasn’t happy about was the writing. It’s not terrible, but there’s something about the way the characters talk without ever really saying what they mean–without ever really communicating anything at all–that got on my nerves. I still like the story, though, and it’s something that might not even be a problem for most people.
The humour was over-the-top in some places for my taste, but overall the story was still very funny. Marc Staal comes out to his family. His brothers are supportive–maybe a little too supportive.
Gen // General audiences // Humour // Words: 2,909
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
My Chemical Romance / Fall Out Boy
Pete doesn’t like dick. This is a problem.
And the Frank/Gerard companion piece, a kind of savage caring.
Like so many awesome stories in Figure Skating fandom, this story is a WIP that was started for a kink prompt and may not everbe finished (although the author has said she? would like to, so there’s a chance!)
This was a much, much better story than I expected. The dialogue and some of the situations are very funny, managing to hit the right note of absurdity without becoming annoyingly stupid or improbable. Johnny and Evan’s tense ceasefire is fun to watch, and the mystery is interesting so far.
Johnny comes back to his hotel room to find a man’s corpse in his bed and the police outside his door. He makes a run for it to try to prove his innocence, and ends up taking Evan Lysacek with him.
Long, somewhat plotty modern reincarnation AU wherein Merlin rooms with Prince Arthur at St. Andrew’s. Excellent writing, with really funny dialogue and some fantastic UST. It reminds me a lot of Drastically Redefining Protocol, for obvious reasons, but it’s still very much its own story. The first scene, where Merlin and Gwen meet on the train, got me smiling and I didn’t stop all the way through. Go read it and then join me in hoping desperately for a sequel.
Reboot
Dala has a lot of great fics; this just happens to be the one I like a tiny bit better than the others, but you should try them all.
I actually said recently that I wasn’t into Kirk/McCoy, so of course I tried a couple afterward and was immediately sucked in. If you’d asked me two weeks ago who my favourite original Trek characters was, I would have said Spock, but it turns out that, as far as Reboot!verse goes, it’s Kirk I’m a sucker for.
Bones discovers Jim’s…collection.
Reboot
I am in awe of this story. Reading it made me so happy. It’s kidfic, which can be pretty awful, but it manages to be cute and funny without being precious or sappy. I love everyone in the story. I especially love Kirk and McCoy’s relationship, but all the character interactions are wonderful.
Also, educational anecdotes? Funniest idea ever.
Seriously, don’t miss this story.
(Another reviewer and the author both mention that Uhura gets short shrift in this story; her relationship with Spock ends unrealistically quickly. Which I’m actually fine with; I don’t read K/S for Spock/Uhura, so I’m happy to get that relationship out of the way. Not that I don’t love Uhura, but she and Spock together just don’t work for me. In fact, Deastar wrote another excellent story, How Many Roads? or, 27 Times Jim Kirk Hit On Nyota Uhura, which I loved because it is wonderful but hated because it is Spock/Uhura, and apparently I can’t deal with that. I am not usually one for OTPs in any fandom (with the exception of Farscape) but it seems I have one now.)
At the Feast of Fools, Merlin plays an unusual role. One that requires genderfuckery.
And now you can also read about what happened at The Next Feast of Fools.