Death Note recs

Posted on August 17, 2008
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As usual,

## means “loved to bits OMG!”
# stands for “liked.”
[] means “rather liked,” on the brink between “liked” and “not my thing.”

If you want my reviews of manga and yaoi manga that I liked, click here. Other fandom recs are here.



Death Note Post Script: an Unofficial Blooper Reel, by moonythestrals #
Light/L, R, short. Summary: You know all of those things that should’ve happened in the actual series, but didn’t? Yeah, I don’t either - but my brain made a valiant effort to uncover them at four in the morning.
Spoilers: For the entire series, just to be safe.

Meta!ficю Шn my opinion, very funny. I like watching bloopers, so I enjoyed this fic a lot. It’s even more amusing on the second reading or if you try to imagine it as ‘real’ mis-filmed or mis-drawn scenes. My favourite thing: Hermione!Misa :) And the thing that made me laugh out loud was the several reshootings of THE scene from vol. 7.

And to think that I wasn’t even going to read more DN fic :) I’m a magpie *sadface*


A Tithe to Hell, by Aja (bookshop) ##
Light/L, NC-17, 34,000 words. AU, set immediately after manga issue 53 (the end of the Yotsuba Arc). Warnings for: knife/bloodplay, excessive eyerolling, bad metaphoric comparisons of L to fish, amphibians, birds, monkeys, insects, cave dwellers, and fungi, ridiculous amounts of cuddling, and cake as a plot device.

This is just bloody amazing. I finished it and kept staring at the screen, robbed of words and possibly even thoughts ‘cos they simply kept returning to the scenes of this story, rotating them in my head. I’m not sure I want to read another DN fic or even delve in this fandom at all because after this, how could they bloody compare? Guh.

It’s everything I would ever want L and Light’s relationship to be, every character trait perfectly explored, every mind-game potential fulfilled, every detail of behaviour and appearance taken into account. And it’s so poignant, so beautiful! The author made me see and feel, cry and grin, be there, become them.

They say familiarity breeds contempt. For me, it rather breeds inattention, the lack of consideration. I’ve been in HP fandom for years, so I stopped admiring — stopped noticing even that unique chameleon skill that makes a good writer take somebody else’s character and recreate it perfectly, as if it were their own invention, naturally like breathing. I read a story with a Snape that is perfectly Snape, I see a Harry who is so Harry that I can’t help saying “OMG it’s him!” and I take it for granted. And only when I come to a new fandom, do I begin noticing such things again afresh. Aja took my breath away with this skill here. A perfect Light. A perfect L. Simply wow.


Eroica recs

Posted on August 5, 2008
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I found a new, shiny fandom! Yay! How I love this moment when I begin reading fiction in a new fandom. Like Mr James entering a supermarket where a sale is on. Who? Read the manga! (Helpful link to my very long GLOWING rec of Eroica.)

Well, it’s a veeeery old fandom actually. I simply discovered it now. And OMG am excited! So now I’m wallowing in Eroica fiction like a happy piglet in the mud.

As usual,

## means “loved to bits OMG!”
# stands for “liked.”
[] means “rather liked,” on the brink between “liked” and “not my thing.”

If you want my reviews of manga and yaoi manga that I liked, click here. Other fandom recs are here.

Eroica fanfiction on the net:
Eroica fanfiction index at Eroicafans, the most comprehensive archive, with email order
Fried Potatoes, an eFiction based Eroica archive
Eroica archive at Belladonna.org, sorted by author; most links lead to Eroicafans
Castle Gloria, LJ community for Eroicafic
Schloss Eberbach, everything Eroica-related on LJ
Yuletide Eroica fics (mostly short)
Eroica fiction on FFnet
Eroica sources at Beladonna
Eroica recs at Crack Van
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Themed list: Come untouched

Posted on July 12, 2008
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Come untouched: HP fiction featuring orgasm without direct stimulation

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What I take:
- stories where a person comes without his genitalia being touched AT ALL. As in, the person’s body can be touched but NO touching genitalia and NO intercourse.
- come MOSTLY untouched. As in, the person is teased for so long or whatever that they come the second they ARE touched.

Won’t do:
- if a guy is fucked and comes without touching his cock.
- wet dreams won’t do either.
- no WIPs that have only a chapter or two written;
- no drabbles;
- do not bring fics you haven’t read;
- do not bring fics you didn’t like;
- do not bring fics the authors of which show no grammar or spelling skill even if you liked them;
- do me a courtesy, please, do not leave only a link. I’d be really grateful if you tell me (besides the title and author) whether the fic is a WIP or completed, what the pairings and the rating are.

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My favourite manga

Posted on June 29, 2008
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## means “loved to bits OMG!”
# stands for “liked.”
[] means “rather liked,” on the brink between “liked” and “not my thing.”

If you want to see what yaoi manga I liked, look here.

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Yaoi recs

Posted on June 29, 2008
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Since I started reading yaoi manga and have read and liked a considerable number of them, I decided to collect the links to those manga that I liked here.

A couple of things to know:

- I’m ‘omnivorous’, which means I read any genre and will give a go to any plot.
- That includes rape (which happens, like, in every other yaoi manga as the expression of undying love), incest, and shota(con). If you don’t know what that is, go read the corresponding articles in Wikipedia first. Otherwise, mind the genres and warnings, and if you know you don’t like something, simply don’t click the links. It’s not my task to cater to your kinks and squicks.
- If a manga is licensed, I won’t give link to places where to download it. If you want to read it, you’ll have to find it on your own. It’s not that difficult, seeing how many free manga-sharing communities and sites there are. But it would do good to support your favourite mangaka by buying her work!

## means “loved to bits OMG!”
# stands for “liked.”
[] means “rather liked,” on the brink between “liked” and “not my thing.”

If you want to also read my reviews of the yaoi manga I read that I’m not including here (I don’t like every one of them, naturally), go here. Chances are, you’ll like something that wasn’t quite to my tastes. Read more

Themed list: Werewolves

Posted on June 20, 2008
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The list was compiled for McKay’s (scribbulus_ink), on the occasion of her birthday.

Werewolves in HP fiction.

Have a look at this list compiled by Lira_Snape: A cure for lycanthropy.

RULES

What I take:

- since the theme is not Remus Lupin but werewolves, I take fics that deal with werewolves in several particular ways. The fics MUST BE lycanthropy-centric. NOT Remus-centric. The hardship of being a werewolf must be shown in a very detailed way. So, far not every fic where Lupin transforms or where the author muses about the influence of the moon on him qualifies.
- I’m interested in lycanthropy shown either as an illness, or as a social problem, or in the respect of personality traits, as in, care of a werewolf child, werewolf social problems (an inability to find a job that is only mentioned isn’t enough), werewolf physiology and psychology etc. In other words, anything important for understanding lycanthropy.
- of Lupin’s personal history, I accept fics that show us how he was bitten, how he reacts on the lessons about werewolves when he’s a student at Hogwarts, the night of the prank from Lupin’s POV, and some other events that can be considered particularly meaningful.
- we should be shown either serious, or detailed, or novel approach to the problem.
- accepted by default are the fics:
a) where somebody else is turned (except those AU fics where somebody else is a werewolf, as explained in King Draco’s section);
b) where somebody stays with the werewolf when he changes to observe the change or keep him company (and where it’s shown in detail);
c) where we can see things from the changed werewolf POV, when we can see *how* the wolf in the man sees the world.
- I’ll take only a couple of fics that explore the concept that werewolves mate for life that I consider the best, as well as no more than a couple of those that argue the concept.
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Themed list: Voyeurism

Posted on May 31, 2008
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Voyeurism in HP fanfiction

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What I take:

- fics where one character watches another. For this list, voyeuristic stories are the stories in which the observer is sexually aroused by the ongoings of others. Please don’t confuse it with bystander fics (where the bystander character is not aroused by observing the couple/main pairing). It might also help: the focus in a voyeurism fic usually is on the voyeur and what (s)he is thinking and feeling while the focus in a bystander fic is what the bystander observes.
- I’ll also take fics where a character watches others have sex, even if doesn’t arouse them;
- the person being observed should NOT know that they’re being watched.
- the voyeur should NOT join in/get involved in the same scene they are watching. The last two are my personal quirks for the list.

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Themed list: Founderfics

Posted on May 31, 2008
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Founderfics (fics that feature or are about Hogwarts founders), for Naatz for answering my “Snape pursues Harry” challenge.

RULES

What I take:

- fics where we can see Hogwarts Founders: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin, any one of them or all together.
- it can be a ‘pure’ Founderfic, i.e. historical fic where we can see the Founders in their time (10th century).
- it can be a time-travel fic where one (several) of canon characters travel(s) a thousand years back in time and meet(s) the Founders or, on the contrary, where one of the Founders travels forward to the modern era.
- it can be a portrait of a Founder only if it plays a significant part in the fic.

King Draco’s code, or What I don’t take:

- no Merlin fics if there are no Founders;
- no Highlander cross-overs;
- no portraits of the Founders if all they do is say a couple of words. A portrait must play a significant part in the fic or be a real character of the fic in some way;
- no fics where there’s only some Founder’s heirloom, be it an artifact, a book written by them or something else of the kind;
- no fics where the Founders are just mentioned / spoken of. We must see them as actual characters in the fic;
- no fics where there are heirs of the Founders but no Founders themselves or if the Founders appear briefly, only for the sake of proving/explaining the heritage;
- kill Mary Sue! I won’t accept a fic where there are suddenly Salazar and Rowena’s super-powerful heirs in a college in America even if there are the Founders themselves in the fic;
- absolutely no WIPs that have only a chapter or two written. I’ve seen dozens of abandoned fics while searching;
- no drabbles;
- do not bring fics you haven’t read;
- do not bring fics you didn’t like;
- do me a courtesy, please, do not leave only a link. I’d appreciate the following info: author, title, pairing, rating, WIP status; which of the Founders we are told about and how it’s done.

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Themed list: Shakespearean HP fics

Posted on May 28, 2008
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Shakespearean HP fics, for the incredible, adorable, dearly loved Isiscolo. Happy belated birthday! I hope you’ll find here something you haven’t read and that you’ll like.

RULES

What I take:

- X-overs with and cover-versions of Shakespeare’s works;
- stories inspired by Shakespeare’s works when the original can be traced in the fic [relatively] easily;
- stories where HP characters make stage performances of Shakespeare’s plays;
- if it’s a fic based on a sonnet, it should be more than just a couple of quotations; the whole fic should be the interpretation of the sonnet.
In other words, I take stories where the characters of HP-verse can (this way or that) act as Shakespearean characters or in Shakespearean situations.

King Draco’s code, or Big No-Nos:

- no Draco/Ginny, Harry/Pansy (or anything else, and particularly no Draco/OFC) based on Romeo and Juliet. There are dozens of them, inpired by Leonardo di Caprio’s smile;
- no WIP rule is on today. I’ll accept a WIP only if it’s more than halfway through and the updates are regular;
- if a character reads/recites some Shakespeare, it’s not enough;
- a Shakespeare’s line in the title or epigraph is not enough either;
- pretty please, no silly parodies based on “To be or not to be” monologue;
- no drabbles;
- do not bring fics you haven’t read;
- do not bring fics you didn’t like;
- do me a courtesy, please, do not leave only a link. I’d appreciate the following info: author, title, what Shakespeare’s work the fic ‘covers’ and in which way; pairing, rating, WIP status

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Themed list: detective HP fics

Posted on May 26, 2008
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This list is for Geoviki. Go read her fabulous story A Thousand Beautiful Things!

Detective fics in HP fandom

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What I take:
- the main thing in a detective story is investigation. I’m asking you to take into consideration the following:
- an investigation should be either conducted by the authorities/organisations/any figure of authority/person in charge and/or be thought of as *investigation* by those who carry it and/or the fic should feature handwriting/blood/hair/etc analysis and systematic compilation of evidence aimed to reach, eventually, a suspect;
- a story can be entirely detective, but also it can be action/adventure or mystery with a strong detective element;
- crossovers with the classics of the detective genre such as stories about Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Cristie’s fiction fit automatically.

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