She needs to feel real and alive after all that death and for a moment she’s at a loss of how to get that, how to feel that when she can’t turn to Finn and Raven is buried in engineering and forty-seven of her friends could be dying in Mount Weather.
But then she thinks of Bellamy’s fingers under hers.
Adult, missing scene. Clarke needs something real – Bellamy gives it to her. I love how comfort-seeking, life-affirming smut turns into something lovely and deep, without messing up canon.
The footsteps rounded the corner.
“We might need crazy right about now,” he said urgently.
She pushed him against the wall, hard. He had only a moment to register his surprise before her arms wound around his neck and her mouth touched his.
Teen, fluff. I have a soft spot for pretend!relationship fics, and this one’s just really sweet.
Lust was normal, it was okay to lust after another man, but love them? You never heard of anything like that. Your talks between you and the other young men you were raised with discussed how to use oil so slick them up but never how to tell them to leave the war because it is too dangerous and you just don’t know how you would continue to live knowing they’re dead.
Mature. Poor confused Li Shang… This is short but lovely in its bittersweetness.
Cherry Blossoms on the Battle Field, by forgettingthedetails
The questioning eventually comes to Bucky. “Captain America,” a sharply dressed male reporter says, “what are your thoughts on repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?“
Steve feels a sharp twist in his gut, one that matches the nagging impulse that hasn’t left the back of his mind in the months since he made the decision to not come out.
Mature, comic!verse. I love comic!Steve & Bucky, and this Steve is so great – both during the war with Bucky and after his defrosting, forming new relationships and dealing with his sexuality in a world that hasn’t come quite as far as many would like to think.
ETA: Sadly the fic has been deleted.
Vid: Don’t Let Me Go, by lonelymundane
I’m enjoying Westworld so far, and the romantic in me is very much rooting for the star-crossed lovers robots Dolores and Teddy. This vid captures both the beauty and the heartbreak of their story. Music by Raign.
A tribute to all the attractively falling (and just attractive) men of the MCU… Love it! Music by The Weather Girls.
Laura knows that expression simply because she herself wears it so often.
Falling for Clint Barton has its own particular facial expression – fond and exasperated and slightly sappy all at once. Though to be fair, on Natasha it’s more exasperated than sappy.
Teen, polyamory (not a threesome). Because if I was Laura, I’d enjoy imagining Clint and Natasha having sex, too. *g* This is how I can live with the weird farm family thing.
Vid: L.O.V.E. by purplefringe vids
One of my favourite adaptations of one of my favourite Shakespeare plays, this is just a delight – as is this vid, capturing the playful spirit of Beatrix and Benedick as well as their, well, LOVE! 🙂 Music by Nat King Cole.
Is it weird to rec a vid for a show I’ve never seen? But this is just such a great version of the eternal story of Peter & Wendy. Music: The Way, by Zack Hemsey.
She’s lying on her stomach poking sticks upright in the grass. He sits down beside her, and he can see the tension in her shoulders.
“So,” he says casually, and he’s very proud of the way his voice doesn’t shake at all. “I hear the Aegean Peninsula is nice this time of year.”
Pre-series AU, adult. Pilots on the beach!
artemis rising, by stars-like-dust
