Sorry for the late posting - to make amends I bring two recs today. :D

Title: Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Background canon-compliant Jack/Ianto but largely gen
Categories: Friendship, Humor, Gen, Hurt/Comfort
Length: Medium (~6800 words)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: gilascave
Author Website: Gila’s Cave

Summary:
Ianto and Tosh have been kidnapped. This is how they cope.

Review:
Ianto and Tosh were my two favorite characters on Torchwood and I’m always on the lookout for fic featuring friendship between the two. I read this years ago and it has stuck with me for several reasons. The first being the superb Tosh and Ianto interactions and friendship. The second is the way the author deftly weaves humor into a seemingly hopeless and horror filled situation. I appreciated the way one of the characters would venture too close to the truth of their situation and how humor would be employed to pull the other back away from the edge. There are several times during their captivity that Tosh and Ianto are laughing, but in my mind it’s always tinged with a little mania and fear as well.

Overall a really great story that is unique and memorable.

Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs

Sorry for the late posting - to make amends I bring two recs today. :D

Title: Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Background canon-compliant Jack/Ianto but largely gen
Categories: Friendship, Humor, Gen, Hurt/Comfort
Length: Medium (~6800 words)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: gilascave
Author Website: Gila’s Cave

Summary:
Ianto and Tosh have been kidnapped. This is how they cope.

Review:
Ianto and Tosh were my two favorite characters on Torchwood and I’m always on the lookout for fic featuring friendship between the two. I read this years ago and it has stuck with me for several reasons. The first being the superb Tosh and Ianto interactions and friendship. The second is the way the author deftly weaves humor into a seemingly hopeless and horror filled situation. I appreciated the way one of the characters would venture too close to the truth of their situation and how humor would be employed to pull the other back away from the edge. There are several times during their captivity that Tosh and Ianto are laughing, but in my mind it’s always tinged with a little mania and fear as well.

Overall a really great story that is unique and memorable.

Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs

Sorry for the late posting - to make amends I bring two recs today. :D

Title: Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Background canon-compliant Jack/Ianto but largely gen
Categories: Friendship, Humor, Gen, Hurt/Comfort
Length: Medium (~6800 words)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: gilascave
Author Website: Gila’s Cave

Summary:
Ianto and Tosh have been kidnapped. This is how they cope.

Review:
Ianto and Tosh were my two favorite characters on Torchwood and I’m always on the lookout for fic featuring friendship between the two. I read this years ago and it has stuck with me for several reasons. The first being the superb Tosh and Ianto interactions and friendship. The second is the way the author deftly weaves humor into a seemingly hopeless and horror filled situation. I appreciated the way one of the characters would venture too close to the truth of their situation and how humor would be employed to pull the other back away from the edge. There are several times during their captivity that Tosh and Ianto are laughing, but in my mind it’s always tinged with a little mania and fear as well.

Overall a really great story that is unique and memorable.

Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs

Sorry for the late posting - to make amends I bring two recs today. :D

Title: Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Background canon-compliant Jack/Ianto but largely gen
Categories: Friendship, Humor, Gen, Hurt/Comfort
Length: Medium (~6800 words)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: gilascave
Author Website: Gila’s Cave

Summary:
Ianto and Tosh have been kidnapped. This is how they cope.

Review:
Ianto and Tosh were my two favorite characters on Torchwood and I’m always on the lookout for fic featuring friendship between the two. I read this years ago and it has stuck with me for several reasons. The first being the superb Tosh and Ianto interactions and friendship. The second is the way the author deftly weaves humor into a seemingly hopeless and horror filled situation. I appreciated the way one of the characters would venture too close to the truth of their situation and how humor would be employed to pull the other back away from the edge. There are several times during their captivity that Tosh and Ianto are laughing, but in my mind it’s always tinged with a little mania and fear as well.

Overall a really great story that is unique and memorable.

Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs

Sorry for the late posting - to make amends I bring two recs today. :D

Title: Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Background canon-compliant Jack/Ianto but largely gen
Categories: Friendship, Humor, Gen, Hurt/Comfort
Length: Medium (~6800 words)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: gilascave
Author Website: Gila’s Cave

Summary:
Ianto and Tosh have been kidnapped. This is how they cope.

Review:
Ianto and Tosh were my two favorite characters on Torchwood and I’m always on the lookout for fic featuring friendship between the two. I read this years ago and it has stuck with me for several reasons. The first being the superb Tosh and Ianto interactions and friendship. The second is the way the author deftly weaves humor into a seemingly hopeless and horror filled situation. I appreciated the way one of the characters would venture too close to the truth of their situation and how humor would be employed to pull the other back away from the edge. There are several times during their captivity that Tosh and Ianto are laughing, but in my mind it’s always tinged with a little mania and fear as well.

Overall a really great story that is unique and memorable.

Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs

Sorry for the late posting - to make amends I bring two recs today. :D

Title: Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Background canon-compliant Jack/Ianto but largely gen
Categories: Friendship, Humor, Gen, Hurt/Comfort
Length: Medium (~6800 words)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: gilascave
Author Website: Gila’s Cave

Summary:
Ianto and Tosh have been kidnapped. This is how they cope.

Review:
Ianto and Tosh were my two favorite characters on Torchwood and I’m always on the lookout for fic featuring friendship between the two. I read this years ago and it has stuck with me for several reasons. The first being the superb Tosh and Ianto interactions and friendship. The second is the way the author deftly weaves humor into a seemingly hopeless and horror filled situation. I appreciated the way one of the characters would venture too close to the truth of their situation and how humor would be employed to pull the other back away from the edge. There are several times during their captivity that Tosh and Ianto are laughing, but in my mind it’s always tinged with a little mania and fear as well.

Overall a really great story that is unique and memorable.

Conversational Japanese, Plus Frogs

Title: Don’t You Shake Alone
Fandom: Generation Kill
Pairing: Brad/Nate
Categories: Drama, Kidfic, Romance, Post-Canon
Length: Epic (62,189 words)
Warnings: PTSD

Author on LJ: dsudis
Author Website: Words Words Words

Summary:
Nate looked exactly like Brad always pictured him: exhausted in the full life-in-a-combat-zone sense of the word.

Review:
As soon as I started reading this fic I knew that unless something crazily unexpected happened midstream, I’d be reccing this fic to others. The author does a great job delivering a story rife with tension from the very beginning. The storytelling is superb, the pacing is wonderful, and the drama is realistic. This story is mature and even and I think the PTSD as well as the support aspect is handled well.

One of the strongest parts of this story was how equal Brad and Nate were. Even though Nate was suffering from PTSD and Brad was his support, they were still equals in the relationship. Brad was the stronger partner through those harrowing first few days when Nate was deep in the weeds, but their roles reversed somewhat as Nate became more cognizant and aware of his own situation to the point that Nate was then able to support Brad and act as a catalyst of change with Brad’s relationship with his parents.

I really enjoyed the picture of familial love in all its messy, glorious, hurtful, and beautiful incarnations. Mr. and Mrs. Colbert, though never seen in person, are fully realized and complete characters through memories, text messages, and phone conversations. Brad’s phone conversation with his parents, towards the end, absolutely made my heart hurt in the very best of ways.

This is a beautiful, mature, hopeful rendering of family, friendship, and romantic partners.

Don’t You Shake Alone

Title: Don’t You Shake Alone
Fandom: Generation Kill
Pairing: Brad/Nate
Categories: Drama, Kidfic, Romance, Post-Canon
Length: Epic (62,189 words)
Warnings: PTSD

Author on LJ: dsudis
Author Website: Words Words Words

Summary:
Nate looked exactly like Brad always pictured him: exhausted in the full life-in-a-combat-zone sense of the word.

Review:
As soon as I started reading this fic I knew that unless something crazily unexpected happened midstream, I’d be reccing this fic to others. The author does a great job delivering a story rife with tension from the very beginning. The storytelling is superb, the pacing is wonderful, and the drama is realistic. This story is mature and even and I think the PTSD as well as the support aspect is handled well.

One of the strongest parts of this story was how equal Brad and Nate were. Even though Nate was suffering from PTSD and Brad was his support, they were still equals in the relationship. Brad was the stronger partner through those harrowing first few days when Nate was deep in the weeds, but their roles reversed somewhat as Nate became more cognizant and aware of his own situation to the point that Nate was then able to support Brad and act as a catalyst of change with Brad’s relationship with his parents.

I really enjoyed the picture of familial love in all its messy, glorious, hurtful, and beautiful incarnations. Mr. and Mrs. Colbert, though never seen in person, are fully realized and complete characters through memories, text messages, and phone conversations. Brad’s phone conversation with his parents, towards the end, absolutely made my heart hurt in the very best of ways.

This is a beautiful, mature, hopeful rendering of family, friendship, and romantic partners.

Don’t You Shake Alone

Title: Don’t You Shake Alone
Fandom: Generation Kill
Pairing: Brad/Nate
Categories: Drama, Kidfic, Romance, Post-Canon
Length: Epic (62,189 words)
Warnings: PTSD

Author on LJ: dsudis
Author Website: Words Words Words

Summary:
Nate looked exactly like Brad always pictured him: exhausted in the full life-in-a-combat-zone sense of the word.

Review:
As soon as I started reading this fic I knew that unless something crazily unexpected happened midstream, I’d be reccing this fic to others. The author does a great job delivering a story rife with tension from the very beginning. The storytelling is superb, the pacing is wonderful, and the drama is realistic. This story is mature and even and I think the PTSD as well as the support aspect is handled well.

One of the strongest parts of this story was how equal Brad and Nate were. Even though Nate was suffering from PTSD and Brad was his support, they were still equals in the relationship. Brad was the stronger partner through those harrowing first few days when Nate was deep in the weeds, but their roles reversed somewhat as Nate became more cognizant and aware of his own situation to the point that Nate was then able to support Brad and act as a catalyst of change with Brad’s relationship with his parents.

I really enjoyed the picture of familial love in all its messy, glorious, hurtful, and beautiful incarnations. Mr. and Mrs. Colbert, though never seen in person, are fully realized and complete characters through memories, text messages, and phone conversations. Brad’s phone conversation with his parents, towards the end, absolutely made my heart hurt in the very best of ways.

This is a beautiful, mature, hopeful rendering of family, friendship, and romantic partners.

Don’t You Shake Alone

Title: Don’t You Shake Alone
Fandom: Generation Kill
Pairing: Brad/Nate
Categories: Drama, Kidfic, Romance, Post-Canon
Length: Epic (62,189 words)
Warnings: PTSD

Author on LJ: dsudis
Author Website: Words Words Words

Summary:
Nate looked exactly like Brad always pictured him: exhausted in the full life-in-a-combat-zone sense of the word.

Review:
As soon as I started reading this fic I knew that unless something crazily unexpected happened midstream, I’d be reccing this fic to others. The author does a great job delivering a story rife with tension from the very beginning. The storytelling is superb, the pacing is wonderful, and the drama is realistic. This story is mature and even and I think the PTSD as well as the support aspect is handled well.

One of the strongest parts of this story was how equal Brad and Nate were. Even though Nate was suffering from PTSD and Brad was his support, they were still equals in the relationship. Brad was the stronger partner through those harrowing first few days when Nate was deep in the weeds, but their roles reversed somewhat as Nate became more cognizant and aware of his own situation to the point that Nate was then able to support Brad and act as a catalyst of change with Brad’s relationship with his parents.

I really enjoyed the picture of familial love in all its messy, glorious, hurtful, and beautiful incarnations. Mr. and Mrs. Colbert, though never seen in person, are fully realized and complete characters through memories, text messages, and phone conversations. Brad’s phone conversation with his parents, towards the end, absolutely made my heart hurt in the very best of ways.

This is a beautiful, mature, hopeful rendering of family, friendship, and romantic partners.

Don’t You Shake Alone

Title: Don’t You Shake Alone
Fandom: Generation Kill
Pairing: Brad/Nate
Categories: Drama, Kidfic, Romance, Post-Canon
Length: Epic (62,189 words)
Warnings: PTSD

Author on LJ: dsudis
Author Website: Words Words Words

Summary:
Nate looked exactly like Brad always pictured him: exhausted in the full life-in-a-combat-zone sense of the word.

Review:
As soon as I started reading this fic I knew that unless something crazily unexpected happened midstream, I’d be reccing this fic to others. The author does a great job delivering a story rife with tension from the very beginning. The storytelling is superb, the pacing is wonderful, and the drama is realistic. This story is mature and even and I think the PTSD as well as the support aspect is handled well.

One of the strongest parts of this story was how equal Brad and Nate were. Even though Nate was suffering from PTSD and Brad was his support, they were still equals in the relationship. Brad was the stronger partner through those harrowing first few days when Nate was deep in the weeds, but their roles reversed somewhat as Nate became more cognizant and aware of his own situation to the point that Nate was then able to support Brad and act as a catalyst of change with Brad’s relationship with his parents.

I really enjoyed the picture of familial love in all its messy, glorious, hurtful, and beautiful incarnations. Mr. and Mrs. Colbert, though never seen in person, are fully realized and complete characters through memories, text messages, and phone conversations. Brad’s phone conversation with his parents, towards the end, absolutely made my heart hurt in the very best of ways.

This is a beautiful, mature, hopeful rendering of family, friendship, and romantic partners.

Don’t You Shake Alone

Title: Don’t You Shake Alone
Fandom: Generation Kill
Pairing: Brad/Nate
Categories: Drama, Kidfic, Romance, Post-Canon
Length: Epic (62,189 words)
Warnings: PTSD

Author on LJ: dsudis
Author Website: Words Words Words

Summary:
Nate looked exactly like Brad always pictured him: exhausted in the full life-in-a-combat-zone sense of the word.

Review:
As soon as I started reading this fic I knew that unless something crazily unexpected happened midstream, I’d be reccing this fic to others. The author does a great job delivering a story rife with tension from the very beginning. The storytelling is superb, the pacing is wonderful, and the drama is realistic. This story is mature and even and I think the PTSD as well as the support aspect is handled well.

One of the strongest parts of this story was how equal Brad and Nate were. Even though Nate was suffering from PTSD and Brad was his support, they were still equals in the relationship. Brad was the stronger partner through those harrowing first few days when Nate was deep in the weeds, but their roles reversed somewhat as Nate became more cognizant and aware of his own situation to the point that Nate was then able to support Brad and act as a catalyst of change with Brad’s relationship with his parents.

I really enjoyed the picture of familial love in all its messy, glorious, hurtful, and beautiful incarnations. Mr. and Mrs. Colbert, though never seen in person, are fully realized and complete characters through memories, text messages, and phone conversations. Brad’s phone conversation with his parents, towards the end, absolutely made my heart hurt in the very best of ways.

This is a beautiful, mature, hopeful rendering of family, friendship, and romantic partners.

Don’t You Shake Alone

Title: Bottom of the ninth
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: DiNozzo/Gibbs
Categories: First time, Romance, Hurt/Confort,
Length: Long (~17850 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: Waldo

Summary:
Gibbs realizes that if he and Tony are ever going to have a relationship, he's going to have to do something about it. It takes almost a year, but he gets there eventually.

Review:
I was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. AndI was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. And I realized I hadn't shared 'Bottom of the ninth' before. I just had to do it right away.
Waldo wrote here a wonderful story around Gibbs and DiNozzo. Gibbs realizations and actions are well-written and rang so true to his character. Tony is also very much true to his character in the show as both a competent and complex man.
The slow build-up of their relationship is just amazing. Waldo really built an amazing story with subtle layering and a working mature relationship between two adults.
(I only have one regret. I would have enjoyed reading about all the hot sex they will have after the end even if I understand why Waldo stops it there...).

Bottom of the ninth

Title: Bottom of the ninth
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: DiNozzo/Gibbs
Categories: First time, Romance, Hurt/Confort,
Length: Long (~17850 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: Waldo

Summary:
Gibbs realizes that if he and Tony are ever going to have a relationship, he's going to have to do something about it. It takes almost a year, but he gets there eventually.

Review:
I was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. AndI was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. And I realized I hadn't shared 'Bottom of the ninth' before. I just had to do it right away.
Waldo wrote here a wonderful story around Gibbs and DiNozzo. Gibbs realizations and actions are well-written and rang so true to his character. Tony is also very much true to his character in the show as both a competent and complex man.
The slow build-up of their relationship is just amazing. Waldo really built an amazing story with subtle layering and a working mature relationship between two adults.
(I only have one regret. I would have enjoyed reading about all the hot sex they will have after the end even if I understand why Waldo stops it there...).

Bottom of the ninth

Title: Bottom of the ninth
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: DiNozzo/Gibbs
Categories: First time, Romance, Hurt/Confort,
Length: Long (~17850 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: Waldo

Summary:
Gibbs realizes that if he and Tony are ever going to have a relationship, he's going to have to do something about it. It takes almost a year, but he gets there eventually.

Review:
I was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. AndI was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. And I realized I hadn't shared 'Bottom of the ninth' before. I just had to do it right away.
Waldo wrote here a wonderful story around Gibbs and DiNozzo. Gibbs realizations and actions are well-written and rang so true to his character. Tony is also very much true to his character in the show as both a competent and complex man.
The slow build-up of their relationship is just amazing. Waldo really built an amazing story with subtle layering and a working mature relationship between two adults.
(I only have one regret. I would have enjoyed reading about all the hot sex they will have after the end even if I understand why Waldo stops it there...).

Bottom of the ninth

Title: Bottom of the ninth
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: DiNozzo/Gibbs
Categories: First time, Romance, Hurt/Confort,
Length: Long (~17850 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: Waldo

Summary:
Gibbs realizes that if he and Tony are ever going to have a relationship, he's going to have to do something about it. It takes almost a year, but he gets there eventually.

Review:
I was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. AndI was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. And I realized I hadn't shared 'Bottom of the ninth' before. I just had to do it right away.
Waldo wrote here a wonderful story around Gibbs and DiNozzo. Gibbs realizations and actions are well-written and rang so true to his character. Tony is also very much true to his character in the show as both a competent and complex man.
The slow build-up of their relationship is just amazing. Waldo really built an amazing story with subtle layering and a working mature relationship between two adults.
(I only have one regret. I would have enjoyed reading about all the hot sex they will have after the end even if I understand why Waldo stops it there...).

Bottom of the ninth

Title: Bottom of the ninth
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: DiNozzo/Gibbs
Categories: First time, Romance, Hurt/Confort,
Length: Long (~17850 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: Waldo

Summary:
Gibbs realizes that if he and Tony are ever going to have a relationship, he's going to have to do something about it. It takes almost a year, but he gets there eventually.

Review:
I was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. AndI was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. And I realized I hadn't shared 'Bottom of the ninth' before. I just had to do it right away.
Waldo wrote here a wonderful story around Gibbs and DiNozzo. Gibbs realizations and actions are well-written and rang so true to his character. Tony is also very much true to his character in the show as both a competent and complex man.
The slow build-up of their relationship is just amazing. Waldo really built an amazing story with subtle layering and a working mature relationship between two adults.
(I only have one regret. I would have enjoyed reading about all the hot sex they will have after the end even if I understand why Waldo stops it there...).

Bottom of the ninth

Title: Bottom of the ninth
Fandom: NCIS
Pairing: DiNozzo/Gibbs
Categories: First time, Romance, Hurt/Confort,
Length: Long (~17850 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: Waldo

Summary:
Gibbs realizes that if he and Tony are ever going to have a relationship, he's going to have to do something about it. It takes almost a year, but he gets there eventually.

Review:
I was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. AndI was feeling a bit down recently so I decided to read a few old favorite fics of mine. And I realized I hadn't shared 'Bottom of the ninth' before. I just had to do it right away.
Waldo wrote here a wonderful story around Gibbs and DiNozzo. Gibbs realizations and actions are well-written and rang so true to his character. Tony is also very much true to his character in the show as both a competent and complex man.
The slow build-up of their relationship is just amazing. Waldo really built an amazing story with subtle layering and a working mature relationship between two adults.
(I only have one regret. I would have enjoyed reading about all the hot sex they will have after the end even if I understand why Waldo stops it there...).

Bottom of the ninth