Reboot
Q-Squared-style universe convergence fic. Three different (almost)Reboot!verses come together. There are some extra stories set in Universes B and C. The warning are (mostly) for the Universe C prequel rather than the main story.
Action // AU // BDSM // Darkfic // Explicit // Future Dystopia // Non-con // Rape // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Torture
Not the story I was expecting, but amazing nonetheless. Gorgeous writing.
It’s a few years after the war, and Harry has difficulty remembering things. All kinds of things.
Explicit // Rape // Romance // Top 100 // Underage Sex
AU. What if Cordelia never started working for Angel after they met at the party in City Of?
AU // Character Death // Darkfic // Explicit // Extreme Violence // Het // Non-con // Rape // Romance // Torture
It’s fic like this that’s helped to reconcile me to the wrongness that is Angel/Connor. The rape and torture doesn’t happen to Connor, but that doesn’t make this story any less wrong.
Explicit // Incest // Rape // Torture // Underage Sex
AU where both the Luthors die, and Lex is adopted by the Kents. Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson both appear, and even Oliver Queen has a cameo.
Action // AU // Explicit // Incest // Rape // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Torture // Underage Sex
After Clark and the Kents are kidnapped, Lex and Chloe spend years looking for them, but even Lex doesn’t expect what happens when they find them.
Action // Explicit // Mystery // Non-con // Rape // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Torture // Underage Sex
Lex is kidnapped and tortured, and Superman saves him when his father won’t.
…Lex doubted that Jonathan had ever explained the intricacies of anal sex to his son.
There were certain days that Lex wished that his own father had never explained it to him.
Action // Explicit // Extreme Violence // Rape // Romance // Torture
I’m not quite sure how I missed reading this for so long, but I’m so glad I finally did read it, because it’s one of the best Smallville series out there.
When Lionel finally finds an heir he considers worthy, Lex gets help from Clark. So many of the stories in this series are long and wonderful, and there’s a great original character in Eli Cohen. Most of the really disturbing stuff is off-screen or only implied.
I think this is a WIP, although each story is pretty much complete in and of itself, so it’s not like it ends on a cliffhanger or anything.
Action // Explicit // Non-con // Rape // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Torture // Underage Sex // WIP
I’m in two minds about recommending this story. On the one hand, I don’t actually love it the way I do the other stories I’ve rec’d by the same author. On the other hand, too many Trek stories, particularly TOS-era stories, gloss over the huge differences between Vulcans and Humans. This one doesn’t.
An alternate way “The Menagerie” might have gone. What if Starfleet had refused to accept the Talosians’ testimony on Spock’s behalf?
Spock, on Earth, in prison. Even in the 23rd Century, prison is not a nice place to be.
AU // Explicit // Extreme Violence // Rape // Romance // Torture
TOS
And its sequels, New Minglewood Blues and Morning Dew.
A fabulous, sprawling AU that splits off about three years into the first five-year mission. Some pretty awful things happen to Our Heroes; not for the faint of heart.
Action // AU // Darkfic // Explicit // Extreme Violence // Rape // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Top 100 // Torture
Good Duo backstory is hard to come by. This is the best I’ve read so far, and it’s pretty amazing. It’s not at all how I pictured it, but the story makes so much sense and has such emotional resonance that by the time finished it, I was completely convinced. And completely hooked.
This is the story of Duo, Solo, and the L2 plague, which is used so often to create Duo-angst but rarely explored in any depth. I love Duo’s narrative voice in this fic, especially the way he juxtaposes the story of his first weeks on the colony with the account of the early progress of the plague. Lovely, lovely writing.
That night is my last pure night; the first soft whisper of a greater shadow that hangs over the landscape of my life. The last time the rain really belonged to me.
I never met Mary Lenox. The history-books say she was twenty-three, that she was admitted to Wellspring Hospital on May 15, AC 186 and died two days later of respiratory complications. As I figure it, that was seven days after Solo warned me out of the rain.
Her death passed without comment; she was only the first faceless pebble in the landslide to come.
I hesitated for a long time before adding this story to my Top Ten list, not because the fic itself isn’t good enough to justify it, but because I had a sort of unofficial rule that only novel-length fiction would be added to the list. In fact, I still do, but Twilight deserves to be the exception.
Action // Character Death // Darkfic // Extreme Violence // Gen // Mature // Non-con // Rape // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Top 100 // Top Ten // Underage Sex
Written in the form of a news article. A reporter is invited to witness a decidedly amateur attempt at mediation between a 15-year-old rapist and his 13-year-old victim. I can easily belive this as a real newspaper piece, and I don’t think the story would have worked as well in any other form.
Rape // Teen // Underage Sex
A coming-of-age story set in the late 60′s; the music of the era is frequently mentioned in the story and helps to set the scene. I’m not crazy about the writing, although it’s far superior to most of the things I’ve read at the Nifty Archive, but the plot is interesting and a lot more complex than it seems in the beginning.
Character Death // Coming of Age // Explicit // Rape // Romance // Underage Sex
The Iliad/Greek myth
My favourite Iliad story. Gloria Mundi writes with such an amazing and unique voice, perfect for the tone of the Iliad:
Neither of them will ever surrender to anyone else. Once Patroclus — in Achilles’ armour, a perfect fit at last — has fallen to Hector’s hand, Achilles will have to find other ways to love.
Like a girl, like a dog, like a ghost.
Action // Character Death // Darkfic // Extreme Violence // Historical // Mature // Rape // Romance // Top 100
When humans are seen only in terms of profit and loss, what happens to humanity?
Set in a slave state where corporations rule. Four interconnected stories (the last one by a guest writer); I like Redemption the best.
Take the darkfic warning seriously. This isn’t the kind of story that uses slavery as a plot device; the slave society is real, oppressive, unrelenting and inescapable.
ETA: Northern Corporate Dominion is now available only on livejournal. The first three stories are: Pride, Expulsion, and Redemption.
Darkfic // Explicit // Extreme Violence // Future Dystopia // Rape // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Torture
A young ranger, Illya, ends up becoming entangled with the prince heir. The fact that he can see ghosts is both a help and a hindrance.
Not my favourite original fic, but still really good. I think it was longer than it needed to be, but not so much that it was annoying. The plot seemed a little unfocused as well; I think it was because the climax comes at an odd point in the story, but Dynasty of Ghosts is still a great read.
30 Nov 06: Has now been published and is no longer available free online. You can get it as a paper book or as an ebook, although the price for either version is a bit steep for me.
Action // Explicit // Rape // Romance // Sci-fi/Fantasy // Torture
