Admin post--Declaration Challenge

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Reccers, you have outdone yourselves this week! My fabulous co-mods and I thank you all kindly. The Fics of Your Heart Challenge is now officially closed.

But don't worry! We'll continue paying homage to Valentine's Day (and romance, and warm squishy feeling, and… rainbows and stuff) all month. This week, we bring you the Declaration Challenge. Sonnets, stutters, stumbles—bring us the fic or vid with the best, worst or most memorable declaration of affection you can think of. Does Ray accidentally insult the object of his affections? Does Fraser wax completely incomprehensible? Are there flowers and candy or pizza and hockey? Grand romantic gestures? Crippling fear of rejection? Drugs? Alcohol? Third parties? It's gotta get said somehow, and we want to read all about it. You have until next Monday to sweep us off our feet!

Broadway Hotel

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I've recced this here before, but it's the dS story of my heart. 

Title: Broadway Hotel
Author: resonant8
Pairing: F/K
Rating: NC-17
Length: 37K
Why I'm reccing this fic: When I think of dS fanfiction, I think of the moments in this story when ( spoilers )

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Broadway Hotel

"Comfort Zone," "the person fumbling here is me," and "About Time One Of You Lunkheads Said It"

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Title: Comfort Zone
Author: lalejandra
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~35,000
Why I'm reccing this fic: This rec is brought to you by my passionate love of top!Fraser. In this fic Fraser wants to explore his sexual boundaries so Kowalski takes him to gay bars. Some stuff happens. Let me tell you, the declaration scene is one of the hottest things I have ever read. A couple paragraphs of it is behind the cut. (It comes a little late in the fic, so if you are very anti-spoilers don't read it, but I don't think it gives away anything big.)

Link to the story: Comfort Zone

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Title: the person fumbling here is me
Author: snoopypez
Pairing: Ray/Ray
Rating: R
Length: 2300 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: Because this fic is hot and adorable in about equal proportions, and because I LOVE the way Kowalski tells Vecchio he's interested. Both times. Kowalski is so smooth. NOT. The first time (it comes pretty early in the fic) is behind the cut. The other one is EVEN MORE AWESOME. Just imagine that.

Link to the story: the person fumbling here is me

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Title: About Time One Of You Lunkheads Said It
Author: brynnmck
Pairing: Fraser/Vecchio
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~2500
Why I'm reccing this fic: Because Fraser uses the YAWN MANEUVER. Do you REALLY need to know more? I think not. But in case you want to, this fic is AMAZING. It is everything I love about season 1 and 2 F/V: banter, Vecchio bitching and not meaning it, excessive physical contact, Fraser being slightly disingenuous and a lot adorkable...This fic never fails to make me very, very happy.

Link to the story: About Time One Of You Lunkheads Said It

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Watershed

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This one springs to mind immediately -- I certainly will be back with two more later ...

Title: Watershed
Author: nifra_idril 
Rating: NC 17
Why I'm reccing this fic: because it almost hurt when Ray finally confesses. He so doesn't want to admit that he's head over hells but who is he kidding anyway?

"You're the super genius Mountie, so don't play dumb with me, because I know better. This is fucked, and it has been for a while, and it's your fault, Fraser, okay? Everything was *fine* before, back when we were just partners and neither of us had any kind of ideas about the other one, and now things are - they're not right, and it's messing us up, it's messing *me* up, Fraser. So you have to stop being in love with me."