Kat Recs All The Fics, Round 2 - Day 4

[kat_lair]

Today I 1) sent off another thesis chapter to the supervisors, 2) almost had a panic attack in Tesco (this is what happens when I don't leave the flat except for the corner shop and nearby park for a week), and 3) ogled at some firemen (upstairs' cooker caught fire. no really.)

So you know, WHATEVER, MY LIFE. Have some more Glee recs. I'M NOT SORRY. But in case that's not your thing, there's something for the Trekkies too.


Glee

a different sort of forever - Blaine/Kurt, vampire!AU. I would have read more of this very happily, but even this rather stimulating make-out scene is enough to get the blood-pumping. ...yes, yes I did just make that awful pun. Just go read it.

just under skin - Blaine/Kurt. You know that kilt Kurt wore to the prom? Turns out Blaine really, really liked it. That's not the only thing he likes, either... This is a sex fic where fact that sex is still something new to the boys comes through loud and clear.

Like Invisible Strings - Brittany/Santana. Brittany's inner monologue is brilliant and completely in character. Sweet and, well, bittersweet.

Say it With Flowcharts - Blaine/Kurt, Blaine & Rachel friendship. Amazing characterisation of everyone. Rachel and Blaine's friendship is perfect and makes absolute sense. I want to see it in the show so very badly. Great alternative getting together plot for Kurt and Blaine too. This is a wonderful read that you should treat yourself to immediately.

The Smallest Bones - Blaine/Kurt. This is future fic but not by much, set the summer before the boys are about to start junior college. This is lovely character study of Blaine with glimpses to his background. He and Kurt are solid and the future waiting for them full of promise. Lovely, slow read that simmers with the heat of summer.

Willing To Take The Risk - Blaine/Kurt, college!AU. In which Blaine is five years older than Kurt and they don't meet until College where Kurt ends up taking a class taught by one Dr. Anderson. It's a little (a lot!) wrong how much I enjoy this cliché, but... yeah. I would have wanted a longer courtship dance, but this is still a highly enjoyable read.



Star Trek XI: Reboot

All-Time Favorite - Kirk/McCoy. Bones is making new friends. Jim is not jealous. Just a little... thrown, that's all. I loved how McCoy's reaction makes a lot of sense; if you can't have what you want, then you try to move on. Lovely read.

Dear Daddy Series (don't believe the 'one-shot' in the header info, just keep on clicking to the next part) - Kirk/McCoy, Joanna McCoy/OMC eventually (they are young kids but still totally mfeo, you'll see). Firstly: this is long. Secondly: it is also completely un-put-down-able. Reserve at least a couple of days. Sorted? Okay, so this is also the most amazing thing ever. Told mostly in series of emails (or whatever the Starfleet equivalent is) between McCoy and his daughter, though pretty soon other correspondents enter the narrative and things like personal log entries also start to appear. You know I love epistolary fic, so that alone would have put this on my rec list. Add to that a rather sweet Kirk/McCoy romance and we're in business. But! It doesn't end there. Because I clicked for the Kirk/McCoy but it was the utterly compelling characterisation and friendship between Joanna and Savas that made my heart ache and melt and flip around and all sort of other physically impossible things. Kids, het pairing... and yet. And yet. Looks like the author is picking the series back up, fastforwarding seven years and I live in fervent hope we'll get to see the outcome of the Jo/Savas epicness. <3_______<3

Grand Pas de Deux - Chekov/Sulu, AU. Hikaru's daughter takes ballet lessons, Pavel is the teacher. This is a heart-warming romance that doesn't even pretend to be anything else. Author does a good job fleshing out all the characters and giving them interesting backgrounds and issues to deal with . A wonderful read.

twelve - Kirk/McCoy, college!AU. It's Christmas time and Bones is wooing Jim. Jim takes a while to catch on to that fact. Ugh, adorable and grin-inducing.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/shing_/]

More fic recs yay! As you're the only one of my f-list who reads Glee fic and no one has responded to my fic finder request on the K_B comm, would you happen to know this fic? -- set after "Silly Love Songs", Kurt confesses crush & they decide to remain friends but Kurt starts to slowly distance himself from Blaine. The only scene I really remember is during Warbler practice, Wes/David moves Kurt to a different position away from Blaine which throws Blaine off. Afterwards, Blaine confronts them, asking them why they moved Kurt and Wes/David eventually tell him that it was at Kurt's request.

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I haven't come across that one... it reminded me a bit of this (http://community.livejournal.com/kurt_blaine/678888.html) with the distancing, but not quite the same and doesn't have that scene in it. Sounds good though so if you do find it, drop me a link as well?

[ravanna.livejournal.com]

Youre recs make me very, very happy. I do come here often enough to check what kind of good stuff you've found, so - thank you!

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you for letting me know. I'm really glad my obsessive reading habits are bringing joy to others :)

[loki-dip.livejournal.com]

1) Hooray progress. :)
2) Eek. :(
3) :D Pretty is always nice. I have improved my new room with Colin Morgan and Katie McGrath's faces. Much better. :)

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

Things to learn from all this: keep chugging away at thesis, leave house more often, but don't set it on fire. :D

[loki-dip.livejournal.com]

I like your theory, and tonight I will get to editting my thesis. Bad Kip, been putting it off!