Tags: [rating] pg

rec | grid reference [mopi]

title: grid reference
author: tieleen
fandom: my own private idaho
pairing: mike waters/scott favor
rating: pg
length: 1,175 words

[excerpt]
"We did follow it," Scott says, patiently. "That was how we got away from there. We didn't cross through the fields. At least not after I got you to wake up."

"I guess we went off it at some point," Mike says. It sounds wrong, but he's so tired.

"There's no road that can take you all around the world," Scott tells him. "They all stop, or go back on themselves, or become a different place. You've got to meet the ocean some time."

"I've never been to the ocean," Mike says.

"Regardless," Scott says, "it's still there."

"I guess so," Mike says. "I don't, I don't know."

rec | untitled [doctor who]

title: n/a
author: ricketyhands
fandom: doctor who
pairing: rose tyler/martha jones
rating: pg
length: 1,000 words

[excerpt]
Martha’s about to drift off the sleep when she hears the creak of the bed, Rose stirring as she crawls out of the top bunk (apparently John insisted on bunk beds, though they’ve got a second one on the other side of the rather large room). Martha watches her in the dark as she climbs down the little ladder – she seems much more fragile in a bedroom instead of out fighting, giant guns blazing.

Rose settles down besides Martha on her knees – Martha rolls onto her side and looks at her, and together they just kind of stare for a long moment.

Martha had been jealous of Rose at one point in her life. Now – now she just feels incredibly sympathetic. Empathetic, even. She knows some of the things Rose is feeling – perhaps not all of them, but some. It’s enough.

rec | certain processes [the west wing]

title: certain processes
author: vlieger
fandom: the west wing
pairing: josh lyman/sam seaborn
rating: pg
length: 1,883 words

[excerpt]
"Yes, Josh?" she appeared around her divider.

"What's up with Sam?" said Josh, dropping into his chair.

Donna followed him into the room. "I'm your secretary, Josh," she said.

"I know that, Donna," he said. "So by definition your job is to assist me. I need you to find out what's up with Sam."

Donna sighed. "Josh, I'm the senior assistant to the Deputy White House Chief of Staff."

"I know that," he said. "That would be me."

"You want me to find out what's up with Sam," she said.

"Yeah," said Josh.

"Is it in any way relevant to the successful functioning of the White House and its staff? Or the country, for that matter?"

"It could be," said Josh cagily.

"Right," said Donna. "Okay. Finding out what's up with Sam. I appreciate the not at all vague or demeaning assignment."

"I appreciate the lack of sarcasm, Donna!" Josh shouted after her.

"Don't push it, Josh," she called back.

rec | true, true love (and other disasters) [merlin]

title: true, true love (and other disasters)
author: dollsome
fandom: merlin bbc
pairing: arthur/merlin (+ vivian/elena)
rating: pg
length: 3,334 (WIP)

[excerpt]
“I’ll remind you of the delicious time we spent together. In bed. Snogging.”

“No big deal,” Merlin says nonchalantly. “I snog him in his bed all the time.”

“Yes,” Arthur says, not quite managing to keep the strain out of his voice. “He does.”

AKA: FAKE DATING.

rec | walking on water (the there goes the fear remix) [ferris bueller's day off]

title: walking on water
author: thefourthvine
fandom: ferris bueller's day off
pairing: ferris bueller/cameron frye
rating: pg
length: 2,404

[excerpt]
Cameron learned from this two things:

  1. The universe loved Ferris in exactly the same way it hated Cameron.

  2. Cameron's purpose in life was to be wrong so that Ferris could be right.

rec | five things daniel desario will never be [freaks and geeks]

title: five things daniel desario will never be
author: goddesspharo
fandom: freaks and geeks
pairing: daniel/various
rating: pg
length: 700 words

[excerpt]
"You can be more than this," Lindsay whispers to him once when they go to the laser lights show.

Daniel is so stoned that he actually believes her.

rec | waterfalls [atla]

title: waterfalls
author: phantasmik
fandom: avatar: the last airbender
pairing: katara/zuko/aang
rating: pg
length: 574 words

[excerpt]
They meet Toph in the center of the city and she greets them with friendly punches and loud, braying laughter that makes Zuko miss them all with a fierceness that he only feels during times like this, when they’ve all managed to gather in the same place at the same time. It makes him long for the days when they could all curl together on Appa’s back, the wind biting at their hair and eyes—before each of them became the faces of the nations.

rec | the euphorizine days of summer tour (etc) [rpf . . . ]

title: the euphorizine days of summer tour & sequel, duluth in the summertime
author: annakovsky
fandom: arrested development / the daily show rpf / the office rpf + comedy band au
pairing: george michael/maeby. slight jon/stephen. other pairings.
rating: pg
length: 5,700 words total

[excerpt]
Out the window Steve can still see Jon and Stephen, who're now apparently bickering about who has to drive. Steve thinks it's weird that he can tell that from across a parking lot. Well, maybe not that weird, after years of tours, of that same fight nearly every morning. He watches Jon crankily grab the keys from Stephen and stomp over to the driver's seat and smiles. He really has missed them. The Funke family log cabin pulls out of the parking lot, blocking Steve's view, and the bus starts to follow them.

rec | a nearing thunder [shakespeare's othello]

title: a nearing thunder
author: faviconandthen (ohargos)
fandom: shakespeare's othello
pairing: emilia/desdemona
rating: pg
length: 998 words

[excerpt]
And so you dream. That you might grasp her hand and run. You dream dark woods, branches tugging at your hems, hoods shadowing your faces, her white hands. You always dream the pounding of horses' hooves in the distance, like a nearing thunder. Sometimes it's Othello's men, sometimes Iago, with a strange smile upon his lips. Most of the time, though, he does not come, and you don't know whether to feel betrayed or relieved. You dream running. You don't dream happy endings, just a momentary escapade, pounding hearts, the bittersweet flavour of freedom.

rec | build a room, take the time [sherlock]

title: build a room, take the time
author: pailette
fandom: sherlock
pairing: john/sherlock (gen)
rating: pg
length: 1,277 words

[excerpt]
Part of it is the storm lending urgency to everyone’s plans, movements, but it isn’t the chill and the wet and the mud that has John pick up his pace. It is some other sense he’d cultivated in the army and perfected beside Sherlock, a sense he’d left in disuse for three years because he no longer had to get there in time right on time because getting there on time meant lives, meant Sherlock, anymore. That same urgency tells John he’s late, he’s going to be late—adrenaline: meet andrenergic receptors, reason: meet instinct.