Blogging in November Day 4 - Fic Rec Time!

Share your favorite stories (with links!) from your first fandom love(s)/ship(s). Tell us why you still love them.

for the first time, I’m going to have to go rather fully off-script - my old-school links are stuck on a non-working hard drive.

So instead I will share with you some favourite stories from current loves as well as some from the archives.

Happy reading!

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by JoeLawson (Hawaii 5-0)

The one where there are merpeople and Danny's one, only think more shark than guppy. This story, while primarily Steve/Danny, does an amazing job with world-building and telling the stories of the other characters.

Retrograde series by LtLJ (Stargate Atlantis)

The Atlantis expedition has been lost for three years. SG-1 goes to find them, and arrives just a little too late.

A Stargate Atlantis AU to end all Stargate Atlantis stories. LtLJ writes what the Atlantis Expedition *should* have been and should have done. This story made me love Stargate Atlantis even more.

Hawkeye and Anklebiter by Copperbadge (Avengers)

Clint wants to give his kid the world. Isobel's not complicated; she'll settle for a couple of superheroes and a train set.

Kidfic! And an adorable one at that. I love what being a father does to Clint.

Never Leave a Trace by Copperbadge (White Collar)

Neal Caffrey can steal souls. Peter Burke has two shadows. Everything's normal...except when it isn't.

This is probably the best White Collar story I've read. It's magical realism  in a prison setting, and just wow. Sam went on to publish a novel with this idea as the starting point and it's just amazing.

A Nick in Time by Tira Nog (Harry Potter)

Cautious Snape sleeps with his wand under his pillow and wakes to unexpected results.

Severus Snape and Harry Potter, both teachers at Hogwarts, get turned into children by a meddling ghost. This is a precursor to a long and equally amazing Snape/Harry story (linked at the bottom of that story). Written before the series ended.

The Coffee Bandits of Greater Manhattan by daroos

A Coffee Shop AU with a twist. Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff were thrown together by fate but now run one of the most successful food trucks in the five boroughs. This is a story of how they came to be, how romance can bloom in strange places, and how the bonds of family aren’t always constricting.

What is says on the tin. A lovely AU.

Ain't Seen the Sunshine (Since I Don't Know When) by emungere

"I have two sons," she said. "Ages five and twelve. They're very bright, and I don't say that as a doting mother. I say that as someone who's seen their IQ scores and discovered that the elder was writing essays for a number of university students at fifty pounds a paper."

John Watson, ex-army surgeon, becomes the nanny to Sherlock (5) and Mycroft (12) Holmes, at the isolated Baskerville Hall. Lestrade is the London detective sent down to investigate the strange moor murders. This story went on to spawn a lovely blog in the voice of John Lestrade.