ds_recsredux | Entries tagged with category: slash

green-grrl.livejournal.com

Title: More Than I Wanted (Just What I Needed)
Author:

spuffyduds
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 2,250 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: Fraser and Ray accidentally fall into a casual sexual relationship, which Fraser thinks is what he's wanted all along, but there's something about it that's confusing him. After every encounter he seems to end up outside on the sidewalk not entirely sure how he got there. But why is it a problem, really? It's delightful watching Fraser work through it and come up with a (porntastically satisfying!) solution.

Frankly, this one works for the Bust a Gut Challenge, too--there are Fraser-ish phrases, Dief conversations and tyrannosaurus arms that make me laugh out loud! (I'm not explaining that one--just go read it. :-)

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More Than I Wanted (Just What I Needed)

Title: Mr. Fidgety Meets Mr. Snippy
Author:

pir8fancier
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 11,897 words, so far
Why I'm reccing this fic: Ray and Fraser are having one of those stakeouts where Ray's fidgety and Fraser's snippy, until Fraser snaps and "relieves the tension." And Ray freaks. Pir8fancier writes a truly outstanding Ray voice, as he works through his sexuality, his marriage, his theories on Dief, and other assorted thoughts. This is a WIP--five chapters done out of an anticipated six, but each chapter is so densely packed with good characterization that I don't think it suffers from lack of completion.

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Mr. Fidgety Meets Mr. Snippy

Title: An Admirable Solution
Author: Speranza (

cesperanza)
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 25,604 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: This is another fic that starts with a little something on a stakeout. This time both Ray and Fraser are comfortable with their bisexuality, and it's Fraser's emotional inexperience that keeps them from going further than their casual arrangement, that and society's general homophobia. Speranza, as always, writes a fantastic Ray POV.

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An Admirable Solution

keerawa.livejournal.com

Title: "Five Years Ago And Three Thousand Miles Away"
Author:

abbybanks
Pairing: Fraser/RayK
Rating: G
Length: 300 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: This is a perfect snippet of pure, undiluted angst. If you think it's impossible to tell a real story in 300 words, take a minute to read this one, and let it sink in.
When I left Ray, and returned to Canada...

Five Years Ago And Three Thousand Miles Away

akamine_chan

I had a hard time narrowing my favorite funny fics to just three...

Title: One Small Thing
Author:

arrow00
Pairing: Fraser/RayK
Rating: NC17
Length: ~1,840 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: in spite of (or maybe because of) the twisted humor in this one, it's one of the clearest Fraser-voices I've heard in a long time. This Fraser, down-to-earth and determined, is beautiful. Plus the idea of Fraser trying to plan a seduction is hot, hot, hot.

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One Small Thing

Title: Untitled
Author:

beledibabe
Pairing: Fraser/RayK
Rating: R
Length: ~1000 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: because it neatly encapsulates Ray and Fraser's relationship by way of a grocery list, edited, re-edited, and edited again. Funny and sweet and amazingly telling. (Note that Ray's corrections are done in caps.)

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Untitled

Title: Having A Party
Author:

ardent_muses
Pairing: Fraser/Ray K
Rating: NC17
Length: ~1500 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: because of two words: phone sex. Even better, phone sex, Northwest Territories style. It's sweet and sexy and funny and it never fails to bring a smile to my face.

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Having A Party

keerawa.livejournal.com

Title: Making the Scene
Author:

joandarck
Pairing: Fraser/RayK
Rating: PG
Length: 2725 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: Undercover in a gay bar cliche, with an absolutely hysterical deadpan Fraser. Do not attempt to eat or drink while reading. The arts are no joke, friend.

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Making the Scene

Title: Gun, with Occasional Kangaroo: A Love Story
Author: Punk
Pairing: Fraser/RayK
Rating: PG
Length: 76k
Why I'm reccing this fic: Well, there's this kangaroo, see, and Dief, well, he ... it ... I ... it's all really ... I just can't describe it. Despite the plotting marsupial, the story's not actually crack.

( A brief taste )

Gun, with Occasional Kangaroo: A Love Story

Title: Detail
Author:

sisterofdream
Pairing: Fraser/RayK
Rating: G
Length: 6800 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: This Team Reality entry shines a loving spotlight on the absurdities of due South canon. Perfectly in character. Perfectly ridiculous. I've read it half a dozen times in the last month, and every time, I laugh my ass off.

( A brief taste )

Detail

sam80853.livejournal.com

Title: Green Suede Boots
Author:

china_shop
Pairing: F/K sort of
Rating: G
Why I'm reccing this: I was laughing through out the whole thing. All right, maybe not through the whole thing but

china_shop so totally nailed Frannie here; it's so true to who Frannie really is - I love it.

Current Mood: cheerful

luzula

Title: And these are all for you
Author:

innocentsmith
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski, Fraser/other canon characters
Rating: PG
Length: 8200
Why I'm reccing this fic: I'm so impressed that this seems to be the author's first due South story. It offers an insightful perspective on Fraser, and how he tries to make sense of people around him. I love how the fairy tales he read as a child affected him, and how he wrestles with the question of what makes a person attractive. The writing is sometimes poetic and beautiful, and sometimes strikingly funny, and very much Fraser.

Also, the Martha section alone would have been enough to make me love it.

And these are all for you

thady.livejournal.com

Title: The Harder They Fall
Author: to be revealed
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: NC-17
Length: 22,500 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

This story takes what it almost a cliché - Fraser gets hurt while pursuing a suspect - and transforms it into something real. It never gets too sentimental, but stays very true to both characters. And while I can understand Fraser here, I love RayK here, strong and brave and scared and so very himself.

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The Harder They Fall

thady.livejournal.com

Title: Detail
Author: to be revealed
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: G
Length: 6,800 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

This story takes all the whimsical and strange things about due South out in the light and lets the characters comment on it. It's almost meta-esque, but the story never stops being a story. It is in turns hilariously funny and heart-breaking. And I love the ending. Brilliant!

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Detail

thady.livejournal.com

Title: Truths Like Gravity
Author: to be revealed
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: R
Length: 3,800 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

Because I loved it. Warm and comfortable and hopeful and full of love. And full of the difficulties that can plague parents trying to raise their children. Although there's love among them not all is perfect. And while it's not exactly like my relationship with my parents, I can see things there that reminds me of it. It rings so very true to me.

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Truths Like Gravity

keerawa.livejournal.com

Title: Lift
Author:

spuffyduds
Pairing: K/V, F/K/V
Rating: R
Length: 6,200 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: There are lots of things to like about this story. It's the first wing-fic I've seen that captures the creepiness of the concept, as it slots neatly into Ray's nightmares of being an inhuman freak. Fraser's reaction when he realizes that his Rays are together is strikingly in character.

But the thing that makes me keep coming back and re-reading 'Lift' is the author's vision of Ray Vecchio, post-Vegas. This is a man who knows what he wants, and doesn't give a damn what other people think. He's cautious yet centered, loving and confident, completely ignoring Kowalski's fucked-up boundaries to transform the thing between them into an actual relationship. The idea that Vecchio's time undercover could allow him to grow into THIS person is wonderfully hopeful, and the entire story leaves me with a warm glow.

( a brief taste )

Lift.

instantramen

Title: Truths Like Gravity
Author: someone from Team Reality (see, I'm not Whimsy-exclusive!)
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski (duh)
Rating: R
Length: 3800 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: Because deep, dark secrets of fic preferences don't last long when you're reccing stuff to people, I might as well confess to another: I love kidfic. I love my favorite characters being happy, and I love big, tight-knit, not-necessarily-blood-related families, so a well-done combination of the two gives me the warm fuzzies. Team Reality's last mystery author rocks the kidfic hard: everything about Ray and Fraser flying half-blind through the ordeal of raising their three daughters feels honest, at least to my inexperienced self, and <SENTIMENTALITY ALERT> it makes me appreciate my mom even more (which, by this point, is honestly like dumping a glass of water into the ocean to make it wetter). </SENTIMENTALITY> I also got the sense of a lot of family backstory without feeling overwhelmed by exposition, which is always good but especially in shorter stories like this one. Get thee hence to share my warm fuzzies, or check the excerpt if you really need swaying on the whole sentimental parents thing.

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Truths Like Gravity

instantramen

Title: I can see the stars from a million miles
Author: it's a mystery
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: PG-13
Length: 7300 words
Why I'm reccing this story: In honor of our electricity finally being restored (what's the point of living in the Midwest if the hurricanes are going to get you anyway?), I've selected a story that, as well as being a prime example of the sheer weirdness Team Whimsy is capable of, gave me a bit of extra happiness because I'd finally seen Starman earlier this month and so had that whole improbably scenario pretty fresh in my memory. Beneath the crack it's pretty sad that the aliens' plot nearly goes off without a hitch, but otherwise this fic is a testament to the glory of crack. Everything that happens? Half Huey and Dewey's fault.

( I can prove it. )

I can see the stars from a million miles

Current Mood: power!

thady.livejournal.com

Title: a problem of memory
Author: to be revealed
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski/Vecchio, Fraser/Kowalski implied
Rating: G
Length: 1,725 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

There's so much packed into this short story, yet it never feels crowded and it flows beautifully. I love the use of Stella here, her 'outsider!pov' into this relationship, and how she is a completely human and real character here. Contrasted to this is the development of the Fraser/Kowalski/Vecchio relationship. Wonderful and rich.

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a problem of memory

thady.livejournal.com

Title: Want
Author: to be revealed
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: PG
Length: 4,000 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

I don't think this story can be recced too often. Sharp and poignant and real in a way that isn't affected by 'reality' or 'whimsy'. Brilliant and sad and hopeful. This story gives up its secrets slowly, and while a second reading isn't required I can only recommend it to see how all weaves so beautifully together.

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Want

jule1122.livejournal.com

Title: Truths Like Gravity
Author: Team Reality Member
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: R
Length: 3800
Why I'm reccing this fic: I love established relationship fics set in the future. I like the reassurance that Ray and Fraser make things work. This story leaves me no doubt as to the strength of their relationship, b ut that doesn't mean everything is perfect. We drop in on Ray and Fraser as their youngest child is about to turn 16, and Ray reflects on their life as parents. They weren't prefect parents, their adopted daughters did not all leave their pasts behind and embrace their new parents with no reservations. There are fights and estrangements and hurt feelings, but most of all their is love. Rays memories are filled with love for Fraser and for their family. And that love means hope.

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Truths like Gravity

thady.livejournal.com

Title: First One Thing, Then the Otter
Author: to be revealed
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: PG-13
Length: 13,100 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

Because this is a totally hilarious story, which made me laugh out loud many times. And despite the theme it has this magical mysticism so very much entrenched in due South. And on top of this we get an actual case.

Loved every second of this story.

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First One Thing, Then the Otter

thady.livejournal.com

Title: Deep Colours Bleed
Author: to be revealed
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski/Vecchio
Rating: PG-13
Length: 5,000 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

There are a lot of difficult themes addressed in this story - and no, it's not an 'issue' fic - but it's done without melodrama. I love the little glimpses into a very mature and complex relationship, and how they make it despite all the complications work.

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Deep Colours Bleed

jule1122.livejournal.com

Title: Want
Author: Team Whimsy Member
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: PG
Length: 4000
Why I'm reccing this fic: Whimsy in this fic is part of everyday life. Some people have extraordinary abilities, and while you can sense that is critical to this story, just why isn't revealed right away. The threads of this story are woven together wonderfully. Images of a blond man Fraser can't forget, an encounter with a woman who looks like Victoria that made me understand her place in Fraser's life in a way I never have before. And when it all comes together, it's perfect and breathtaking and leaves you aching for more. And once you know the truth, you can go back and see all the places it was brilliantly hinted at.

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Want

keerawa.livejournal.com

Title: First One Thing, Then the Otter
Author:

alex51324
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: PG-13
Length: 13,100 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: This fic is absolutely adorable. Fraser starts acting all shifty when they find signs of an otter at their crime scene. Ray, sweet and impulsive fellow that he is, decides to rescue the otter from the zoo lady's trap. And then things get delightfully whimsical.

( a brief taste )

See? How could anyone resist the gamboling otter?

First One Thing, Then the Otter.

kyriacarlisle.livejournal.com

Title: Next July We Collide with Mars
Author: TBA
Pairing: Vecchio/Kowalski
Rating: R
Length: 14,700 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: When Fraser ups and leaves town with a woman whom he doesn't introduce to anyone - and when he drops Dief off with Maggie and takes "emergency leave" without explaining why - it's only natural for the people who care about him to worry. The precedent, after all, is not good.

What follows is the very best sort of roadtrip: a series of tense, snarky, nervy snapshots of exactly how Ray Vecchio and Ray Kowalski would react if they were stuck trekking across Canada together to save Fraser from himself. Despite the tension caused by worrying about what they'll find at the end of the trail - and I was quite worried - this is also one of the funniest stories I've read in weeks. When you're driving, you don't always get time to process the things you see out the window; some of the best parts of this story happen in those sorts of flashes and can only be put together with more time and a bit of extrapolation. My favorite occurs once the canoe required by the challenge prompt ("It's been a long time since I kayaked through the sewers") is finally deployed, but I could have chosen any number of moments that, while perfectly clear in the text, invite the reader to supply explanation or context.

The voices are fantastic: Maggie, Fraser, and the rest sound exactly the way you'd expect them to, and the author has really nailed the posturing and rapid shifts in tone that make both of the Rays such engaging characters. Watching them negotiate the space around each other and their not-quite-shared knowledge of Fraser is engrossing.

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Next July We Collide with Mars