Les Misérables

Narilsa makes me wibble with word-lust. Her Frenchboys are dark and complex, and the language is lush and sexy and okay, a little heavy on the epithets and adjectives, but hey, I never claimed not to like purple. Dissembler features doctor!Enjolras and brawler!Grantaire absolutely awash in unresolved sexual tension.

"There is bruising here," Enjolras finally said, his long-fingered hand pausing in its ministrations over Grantaire's lower ribcage. Shaking his head, Grantaire reached up, took Enjolras's slender wrist in his hand, and moved the hand to his heart. Enjolras stared.

"No. That's where it is..."

She also wrote Forty Days in answer to my plea for gratuitous Mizslash, and -- let's just say it was exactly what the doctor ordered. *eg*

The Frenchboys Mix-n-Match Challenge closed awhile back, and while only half of the stories have actually come in *cough*, what's up there is well worth checking out.

K. Telfer drew Enjolras/Combeferre, and graced us with Reinvention, in which Combeferre clings to memories. Bittersweet and beautiful.

Also They Went On Their Way, by Jenelin, who is Still The Coolest: Courfeyrac/Bossuet, which like many of the mix'n'match stories shouldn't work, but does. In a decidedly Hugonian style, no less. <3

Last but not least there is One Hundred Years, by Soujin Prouvaire, which is Enjolras gen written after an idea of petronelle's and just... indescribably gorgeous.

"The small paper dragon his father had made for him writhed against his palm, and snakelike skin brushed dry against the line that meant life. Tiny claws hooked around his fingers, and tinier teeth nibbled his wrist. He stopped, childishly enthralled."

Hornblower

Speaking of Petra, you ought to know by now that if someone comes up with an oddball pairing, she'll probably write it just to see if she can pull it off. This one was Hornblower/Foster, and St. Elmo's Fire proves emphatically that she can. It's a drabble, and it is Just Right.

Harry Potter

I am one of those people who is vaguely terrified by Potterfandom in general, but fics keep poking into my consciousness. And yes, I freely admit to being something of a Sirius fangirl. What can I say? I'm drawn to melodramatic screwups. ;)

Four Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty, by Kel. Sirius in Azkaban, evidently written pre-OotP, and fragmented and enthralling and again, Right.

Also A Dog's Life, by Victoria P., which is a very simple, ridiculously cute story about... exactly what it sounds like, really. Okay, so it's not earthshattering drama, but it's so. Cute.

Westmark

Terence, by Old Kasperl, despite the pen name is an angsty little Florian vignette. (Someday, somewhere, in the far distant future, someone will write Florian humor and what there is of the fandom will implode from the paradox.) It's a bit over the top, but I like it anyway; it feels authentic to me.

The Princess Bride

Fearing Greenland, by debchan, is. Well. Princess Bride slash. But so help me God, it works, it's dear, and it's not even Racy.

Outsiders

Okay, I will admit something. I have never read "Outsiders". Have no idea what it's about, even. Do you know how often I read fanfic about something I'm not familiar with? Never.

But I do when it's Soujin writing it, because... because, dammit. And because Quai Razio Serna is an adorable story in its own right. Two boys in a train. Night thoughts. Slash of the fluffiest, adolescentest, wibblingest, timidest, sweetest kind. Go read it. Even if you have no idea what "Outsiders" is.