september recs, day two: teenage werewolves

[meretricula]

Just to make this clear, I do not watch Teen Wolf. I've seen the first... four episodes, I think, with a friend from library school, and I did enjoy them very much, but it was really not the show that I see in gifsets on Tumblr all the time. (For instance, based of those four episodes? SCOTT/STILES ALL THE WAY, they are beautiful devoted incompetents. Allison can come too.) And based on the gifsets, I ship Stiles/Danny with the fire of a thousand suns. HOWEVER, you kind of can't participate in Teen Wolf fandom at all without encountering Stiles/Derek, so I'm only reccing the Stiles/Derek that I, a person whose OTP, in the words of another library school friend, is Derek/therapy, find enjoyable. Be not afraid!

Happy and Proud, by nerjaveika (Stiles/Derek)
I dare you to watch this vid start to finish and not laugh. The comedic timing is exquisite. Seriously, I had never seen a single episode of Teen Wolf the first time I watched it, and I still almost died laughing. (There are some major typos and misspellings but I promise you that it is worth looking past them.)

Next Thursday, by wldnst (Stiles/Danny)
STILES/DANNY OTP. I'm also going to cheat a little and add that you should check out all of this author's fic as well as Chash/longsufferingly for more of the good ship Team For God's Sake Stop Dating Werewolves They Make Terrible Boyfriends, but this one is super great. (It's really hard to find Stiles/Danny on the AO3 because it's frequently a background pairing for Stiles/Derek, and that is terrible for budding shippers. Here, I filtered out the bad pairing for you. Enjoy!)

Darling It Is No Joke, by thehoyden (Stiles/Derek)
This is the fic that made me start reading in Teen Wolf fandom. It was kind of a misleading introduction, because all of the stuff I find unavoidably gross about the fandom generally (age difference, Derek needs SO MUCH THERAPY on account of his dead family and abusive ex before he should ever date again, TEENAGE WEREWOLVES ARE TEENAGERS DO NOT COMMIT TO BE YOUR HIGH SCHOOL BOYFRIEND'S FOREVER GIRL) has been handily AU'd out! So the fic is great, but then my expectations met the reality of the rest of the pickings on the AO3 and it was a little painful. BUT ANYWAY. This is the one where Stiles thinks Derek is a cop stripper. If you haven't read it yet, you really should.

Picking Up Strays (and sequels), by peroxidepest17 (gen)
Because Stiles and his dad adopting all the lonely stray werewolves is really how this show should have gone and you cannot tell me otherwise. I WILL FIGHT YOU.

Moves, by sisabet (Stiles)
I am allowed to have my shallow affection for Stiles Stilinski's beautiful and expressive little face, ok. Leave me alone.

WHEN YOU FAIL TO TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT, YOU GET TEENAGE WEREWOLVES. LET THIS BE A LESSON TO YOU. (By which I mean: give me prompts, guys.)

Comments

[mardia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how about...top five fics in hockey fandom involving Eric Staal? Top five fics involving pining?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

just checking that you remember I am mono-ship with Eric and you are therefore actually getting top five Jeff/Eric fics... so long as you're good with that I'm happy to do it! :) pining will require more thought but the month is long.

[mardia.livejournal.com]

Hee, girl, I will NEVER complain about Eric/Jeff fics.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

excellent, excellent. :D

[khoshgeleh-16.livejournal.com]

Derek/therapy OTP 5ever, seriouslyyyyyy.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

I WILL GO DOWN WITH THIS SHIP

[khoshgeleh-16.livejournal.com]

Also, since I am writing figure skating Erica Staal... five figure skating recs? I haven't touched the fandom since that one OH GOD I KNOW THEM moment caused me to flail out, but maybe it's worth trying again in like... carefully-curated format.

(Ashley Wagner and Armin Mahbanoozadeh are probs the only deal-breakers you're likely to encounter... I've known Armin since he was 10, that is a giant NOPE NOPE NOPE.)

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

lololol well I can certainly do that! but it's gonna end up being either "five fics about Johnny Weir" or "five fics by mosca" so pick your poison now :P

[khoshgeleh-16.livejournal.com]

Can you not... combine them? I do sort of take Miss Johnny as a given in most skating rpf, but idk if I want to read a *ton* of Johnny-centric fic because... meh. Though I had a look at mosca's skating RPF and... I gotta say, Ben Agosto/Johnny Weir is not a thing I have ever in my life contemplated. Sell me on it.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

oh, I mean, I'd probably include one or two fics featuring Johnny in the mosca round-up, it's just that she's the only author in skate fandom who writes about people OTHER than Johnny. \o/

[kfunk22.livejournal.com]

oooh, exciting project! i'm fascinated to see what else you come up with this month.

totally second your praise of wldnst, great author, especially her inception fics. now, there's a suggestion for you: what about either female-centric or genderswapped inception fics or both?

also, i am a sucker for amnesia fic. maybe you can do a pan-fandom investigation of my favorite trope?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

if nothing else, it's a good challenge to my ability to be consistent XDD

hmm, female-centric inception... I'll need to poke around a bit, but I think I can do that! I've only ever been on the fringes of that fandom, but I did see the movie, which puts my level of involvement a lot higher than most of the stuff I rec tbh.

lololol well I can think of two hockey fics that fit the bill for amnesia right off the bat... pan-fandom is a dangerous word with me! :P

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

These are all awesome stories.

Suggestions: How about long fic? Or small fandom fic?

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

my taste is, as ever, flawless~~~ XD

oof. I always get hung up on what qualifies as a small fandom -- I guess I could let the experts take it out of my hands and do a Yuletide set? I've failed miserably at actually doing Yuletide recs the last few years.

[dreamofthem.livejournal.com]

Next Thursday is my favourite and I love you for filtering that pairing out for us

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

the day I realized I could make all the Sterek go away was a magical one for me, haha. how could I not share this revelation???

[jjhunter]

Prompt-a-licious, if you need some more:

- 5 awesome podfics

- 5 fics featuring women on Roaring Rampages of Revenge

- 5 crossover fics

- 5 fics featuring body art / tattoos

- 5 time loop / 'groundhog's day'-style fics