Skin Deep by Starlingthefool
A story that starts with a spiral, ends with a fire, and is stained with ink and blood in the middle.
(In other words, a tattoo shop AU that totally took on a mind of its own.)
Action // AU // Mature // Words: 16,613
Weltschmerz by Cobweb Diamond
How to come to terms with the unsatisfactory nature of physical reality.
AU // Mature // Romance // Words: 15,000
In Our Line of Work by Fee
Arthur wakes up and realizes the last ten years of his life have been a dream. He is nineteen, and he can barely remember where he is. What he can remember is the ghost of Eames’ hands pressed down on his chest trying frantically to stop the blood flooding up around his fingers as Arthur died (as he woke up).
Seriously gorgeous fic told in alternating present and flashback.
Action // AU // Mature // Romance // Words: 15,500
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
Life In Virtual Reality by Cobweb Diamond
Eames finds himself haunted by projections of Arthur.
Mature // Words: 8,910
My favourite place (is me and you) by Noidealtype
The summer after they win the Cup, Jon stops by Buffalo to see Pat. Followed by Unsteady on the first go round and Salt Skin.
Honestly, there are things I love about these fics and things I don’t. They hit some of my intimacy kinks really hard, but they’re also way too sentimental for my taste. The series is also crying out for at least one more installment, with some fairly important future developments left hanging.
Still a good read, though!
Mature // Romance
Beauty Move by Shihadchick
When Taylor said Tubes could move in with him and Ebs, this wasn’t exactly what he’d been planning on.
Also Jordan Eberle/Colten Teubert
Mature // Romance // Words: 6,489
To Find My Way to You by 26miledrive
Sometimes Max goes out and gets hammered, just because he knows how much Chara hates it. AU where they are werewolves.
BDSM // Mature // PWP // Romance // Words: 3,656
Catching up to the present by Shihadchick
Patrick should have seen this coming.
Tazer certainly leaves with girls, and then turns up at practice with hickeys, but he won’t tell anyone anything, which is so fucking unfair because Pat has told him everything he’s ever done with the girls he’s banged, including the one time that really hot redhead wanted to finger him.
(He’d let her. It had been pretty good. Patrick had spent a lot of time congratulating himself for his sexual adventurousness while Tazer just blinked at him and didn’t say anything, and Seabs – who was eavesdropping like a total loser who deserved all the TMI he got – laughed hysterically and then wouldn’t even say why.)
Mature // Romance // Words: 4,100
Gifts on the Pile by Butterfly Beat
I liked the structure of this; I thought the short fics set around the same theme worked well for the story being told. Reaction stories are also some of my favourites, so I liked this for that reason as well.
Ten wedding gifts, and the people who gave them.
Mature // Romance // Words: 31,668
No Experience Necessary by Ladyofxxx
My Chemical Romance
Gerard accidentally lands a job at a pizza store and even though the pay is shit, the guys he works with are pretty cool. Soon he’s made all the friends he missed out on in high school and he actually has something to do on a Friday night. Everything’s great until he realizes he’s got a hard-on for his cute punk workmate Frank, who is, in all likelihood, straight.
Featuring store-based pranks, a moshpit, a black eye, frosting licking, sex on a picnic table, an army of zombie pizza boys and gratuitous mentions of The Cake Of The Week.
AU // Mature // Romance // Underage Sex // Words: 26,361
The Golden Ones by Ankaret
On the road to Corambis, the past catches up with Felix and Mildmay.
I don’t love the plot of this story, but I like Mildmay’s voice in it, and it is appropriately creepy for Sarah Monette fanfic.
Mature // Words: 9,324
The Old Straight Track by J. J.
My Chemical Romance
AU where Frank is a ghost. Gerard moves into his old apartment, and stuff starts to happen. The sequel, Living with Ghosts (31,826 words), follows directly from the first story (to the extent that you will probably be confused, as I was, about whether the first story is actually over.) The author is still working on the third story as of May 2011, but it isn’t finished yet, and the stories do not stand alone in any way. Be warned if you start reading this before the third story is posted that there is no resolution of any kind at the end of the second story.
AU // Character Death // Horror // Mature // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Words: 30,198
Thing-Thing by Sinsense
My Chemical Romance
When Gerard signed the admissions paperwork for the Fordhaven School for Boys, he knew he was signing up for four years of sexual frustration. No one was gay at Fordhaven. Gerard was all-too-aware that he would be a virgin until he graduated. In his senior year, though, this stupid gay freshman disproves Fordhaven’s straightness, and throws Gerard’s entire world off-kilter.
Now, in between drawing, avoiding bullies, running an incredibly serious tabletop RP game, failing out of math, and hanging out with friends, Gerard is also busy kind of falling for this asshole who’s way too young for him. It’s not what he planned on, but it’s what’s happening. In conclusion: high school sucks.
AU // Mature // Romance // Words: 43,300
Curiouser Things (Have Been Known to Happen) by Extemporally
This fic is actually the sequel to another, Locker Room Adventures (Aren’t Usually Like This), and there’s a link to that story at the top of the page. However, I don’t really like the story much; it’s all right, but this one is so much better. Basically, Evan working out how to have a relationship with Johnny.
Mature
Sparkly Boys by La Sipota
Evan is 17 and still a minor, so when his family can’t travel to a competition with him, he stays with the Weirs.
Mature // Romance
Verbal by E.E. Beck
Making out with Ryan puts Seth in a predicament.
Mature // PWP // Romance
Three Tasks by Syllic
Although it starts off with a cracky idea – that Arthur is the Royal Arbiter for Suitable Suitors’ Disputes – it works because the author takes the idea somewhat seriously. Very nice, slow romance between Arthur and Merlin.
Humour // Mature // Romance
To the Best of My Recollection by Kate Andrews
Reboot
Jim gets flashbacks to Spock’s relationship with the other him. They don’t make his life any easier.
Mature // Romance