Diagnosis
Characters/Pairings: Inara, Simon/Kaylee
Warnings: None
Summary: Inara diagnoses a problem, and prescribes a treatment.
Comments: Short, cute, and surprisingly insightful. It’s odd. I tend to like fics that contain Simon and Inara conversations, despite the fact that I can’t stand them as a pairing. (Although I have no idea why I can’t stand them as a pairing, so maybe if I knew why, I’d figure out why I like them so much as friends). But is a pretty good fic centering around Inara talking with Simon about how good Kaylee would be for him, so how could I not like it? Even if, yes, I’m still not a big fan of Simon/Kaylee. I still think she’d be good for him.
…I’m weird.
One-shot, complete.

Possession
Characters/Pairings: Shinou/Murata, Wolfram/Yuuri, implied onesided Murata/Yuuri
Warnings: Sex. More than vaguely non-consensual sex. A very dark look at Murata and Shinou’s relationship.
Summary: Shinou visits Murata.
Comments: This is, as far as I know, a completely new look at Murata and Shinou’s relationship. As such, I am immensely intrigued by this. The author is very good at portraying Murata’s darker side. This line, in particular, was so perfectly Murata that I just…stopped at it for a second: “But he knew better than to do things just because he could. It was a lesson he wished certain other people in his life would learn.” Because a lot of what I see in Murata is that very… restrained strength, as though there’s always more that he can do, but he chooses not to because the situation isn’t dire enough. And in and of itself, that could be a tragedy, because I don’t think there is a situation that’d bring out Murata’s full strength anymore, because it’s almost like he’s forgotten to give something his all. And in a way, that’s sad.
…But that has nothing to do with this fic except ramblings that were caused by a line in it. What this is is a dark as all hell look at Shinou and Murata’s relationship if Shinou were, well, a controlling asshole. And it’s interesting because, well, Shinou hasn’t exactly impressed me with his thoughtfulness of other people’s feelings, and frankly, this interpretation is as good as any other. And it’s a new interpretation, and I adore that.
One-shot, complete.

By Æsculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea
Characters/Pairings: Simon, cast.
Warnings: None
Summary: Simon is, above all, a doctor as he settles into Serenity. A series of vignettes showing Simon doing basic physical examinations on each of the crew.
Comments: A very nice series of vignettes that does a good job of showing how each of the crew would react to medical checkups. By far, the one that amused me most is the Jayne one, but all of them have something interesting to say about each of the cast, and Simon’s interaction with the cast. I honestly couldn’t say my favorite, because I liked them all.
Series of vignettes, complete.

A Day of Prayer
Characters/Pairings: Simon-centric, a little Simon/Kaylee, Mal, Inara, River, Wash, Zoe.
Warnings: None
Summary: Simon has a little adventure shortly after he joins the crew when some unsavory types ask him to nurse their boss back to health.
Comments: This takes place right after the first episode, and the character dynamics reflect that. Simon’s still immensely unsettled by his new position as ship’s doctor, and runs into some problems when it comes to, well, depending on Mal. All the characterizations are nicely done, and it’s just a nice, moderately long, plotty fic. And I am such a Simon fangirl. And the Simon/Kaylee bit at the end just had me grinning at the cuteness, despite the fact that it’s not a pairing that particularly interests me.
Multi-chapter compressed onto one page again, dammit, split it into chapters why don’t you, complete.

Invisible Lines of Propriety
Characters/Pairings: One-sided River/Simon. Kind of. Except not quite.
Warnings: Vaguely incestual. Duh. Do I need to warn for that if I mention River/Simon?
Summary: River explores her brother’s body as though it’s an almost forgotten map.
Comments: This is just a beautiful little fic that’s just so River it’s heartbreaking.
One-shot, complete.

Ties That Bind
Characters/Pairings: Simon/Kaylee, River, ensemble cast. Basically everyone shows up, but those three are the focus.
Warnings: None
Summary: When Serenity visits Kaylee’s home planet, it turns out that Simon and River’s godfather is the governor of the planet. When he discovers Simon and River’s presence and invites their parents to visit him, things look disastrous for the Tam siblings.
Comments: A long, fun plotty story with an original premise. It’s a nice look at how Simon and River might interact with their parents after, well, everything, and how Simon, in particular, has changed. It’s well-written, and I could not stop reading it because I was flat out fascinated by what was going to happen. The interactions with Kaylee’s family are fun, though frankly, I think they suffered due to being put in the same fic as the Simon meets his parents plot. Just because I thought they could be decently done in a fic on their own, but with meeting Simon’s parents and having Simon and River being held captive by their parents who didn’t believe Simon, frankly, I almost forgot about them. But it’s still a damn good fic.
Multi-chapter put on one page damn you all, complete.

Reminisce
Characters/Pairings: Renji, Ichigo
Warnings: None
Summary: Two old friends talk.
Comments: I see very few fics dealing with the aging differences between Shinigami and Ichigo, and that’s a lot of why I like this. It deals with something too rarely dealt with. And Renji and Ichigo snark is never to be missed.
One-shot, complete.

Memories of Guns
Characters/Pairings: Zoe and Wash’s child, rest of cast.
Warnings: None
Summary: What kind of childhood would Zoe and Wash’s child have, anyway? This one.
Comments: …This is what Zoe and Wash’s child would grow up with. Lots of memories of guns and violence, but at the core, they’d be at the center of a surprisingly functional family.
One-shot, complete.

Immortality
Characters/Pairings: Itachi, Kisame, Orochimaru
Warnings: None
Summary: One explanation for why Orochimaru fears Itachi
Comments: Have you ever read a fic and just went “Oh my god. That’s the perfect explanation for that”? Well, this is one of those fics. I puzzled over the last line for a minute or two because I’m slow like that, then went “Wait a second… that’s brilliant!” Except as I think about it further, there’s flaws in the theory, but they’re the type of flaws that make me want to write a longer fanfic developing it.
One-shot, complete.

Lady Uchiha
Characters/Pairings: Sakura/Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi, Uchiha kids.
Warnings: Character deaths.
Summary: Lady Uchiha lives on, after her husband and teammates’ death.
Comments: Wow. Just…wow. This is one of the most beautifully done fics that I’ve seen in ages. It’s melancholy, but not crushingly so. It’s Sakura living on after the deaths of Naruto and Sasuke, with only her children by Sasuke to really keep her anchored to the world, and the author strikes the right note with that. The children are people in their own right, who’ve grown up without a father among people who remember their father and uncle too well, and they’re well characterized like that. The characterizations in all of this is just beautiful. And it’s just an amazing fic.
One-shot, complete.

Artifice
Characters/Pairings: Ed, Hohenheim
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Um. It won’t make sense unless you’ve seen the end of the tv series, although I wouldn’t say it spoils it, per se.
Summary: Ed still seeks a way home.
Comments: This is just a perfect little vignette of Hohenheim and Ed’s relationship post-series. Ed’s bitterness and Hohenheim’s regret are just played out well. And I have a massive soft spot for well-done Hohenheim and Ed fics.
Notes: You know, this reminded me that I still haven’t seen the FMA movie. The torrent I downloaded didn’t work for some reason, and I haven’t really been that into FMA for a while. I’m slow.
One-shot, complete.

Growing Up
Characters/Pairings: Simon/River. Kind of.
Warnings: Incestual not-particularly-graphic sex. Of a… hell if I know how to describe the issues involved in a simplified way.
Summary: River’s growing up, and has all the urges that a seventeen year old girl would.
Comments: This is just perfectly, perfectly, what a Simon/River fic should be. I, personally, only can stand Simon/River when it’s one-sided on River’s part, and that’s what this is. It’s disturbing, and makes me just want to hug Simon and tell him that River’s going to get better, and god I like Simon in this.
One-shot, complete.

One Thing or Another
Something Old
Something New
Characters/Pairings: River/Kaylee
Warnings: Sex in the second one
Summary: River changes and changes Kaylee with her.
Comments: I much, much preferred the first one to the second. Mainly because the first one was gen and, well, I have a deep and mostly unfulfilled love of gen. And the first one is one of the best River perspectives I’ve seen. But the second… I have a slight fondness for River/Kaylee. They aren’t my favorite, but I like it nonetheless. And the author manages to capture a lot of the dynamics of what their relationship would be here.
One-shot, complete.

Untitled
Characters/Pairings: Vaguely Rukia/her sword. No, really. God, I love Bleach.
Warnings: None
Spoilers: For the latest chapters. 201-202, I believe.
Summary: Rukia awakens to find the spirit of her sword in her room.
Comments: I think the author says it best: “…I think only Rukia can manage desperate femslashiness with a sword.” And that is why I love her so.
One-shot, complete.

A New Bloodline
Characters/Pairings: Kakashi/Obito/Rin, Yondaime
Warnings: None
Summary: Obito has a complex about being last.
Comments: I just love Kakashi/Obito/Rin fics and this plays nicely on the whole theme of the loser in Naruto. It’s… There’s something about it that doesn’t quite jive for me, but I have no idea what. And it’s pretty good nonetheless.
One-shot, complete.

The Family Business
Characters/Pairings: Neji/OFCs, Neji/Lee/Tenten/Ino, various others implied
Warnings: The entire thing is sexual content. No graphic sex, though.
Summary: When Lee and Tenten catch Neji in a porn movie, hilarious lectures ensue.
Comments: It’s odd, actually. I’ve read this before several months ago and didn’t particularly like it. But this time I was just cracking up. I’ll be honest here. It’s not particularly concerned with keeping characters perfectly in character, and Lee and Tenten and Ino in particular are not in character. But Neji’s ‘Why am I surrounded by crazy people?’ reaction was just perfect, and I was just laughing my ass off here.
One-shot, complete.

The Things I Cannot Change - A Firefly/Smallville crossover
Characters/Pairings: Simon/Lex. No, really. Mentions of Lex/Clark.
Warnings: Sex. Non-graphic rape.
Summary: When a few of Serenity’s crew run across a bald man dying in the desert, they hardly suspect how much he’s going to affect their lives.
Comments: Long, well-done, and I have no idea how well the two Smallville characters are characterized, but I can certainly see the canon characters in Firefly in their characterizations here. I thought the author did an excellent job of merging two series that I sure didn’t think it would be possible to merge. And really, I’m kind of a sucker for that. I’ll admit to being really, really doubtful that Clark in any way whatsoever resembles canon!Clark, but I’m also giving the author a fair amount of leeway there because hell, five hundred years and the death of your home planet can change a man. And Simon and Lex’s relationship was just fun.
Notes: This Firefly fanfic archive has a tendency to put all their chapters on one page if the fic’s finished, so I’m kind of torn on whether to call it a multi-chapter or not. Since I usually mention that more to let people know that they’re going to be clicking through various pages than any other reason. Not that I totally didn’t notice that it was a multi-chapter on at least one fic that I already recced from this archive or anything. Eh, well. I guess it doesn’t really matter which one I choose.
Multi-chapter, complete.

Please R&R
Characters/Pairings: Kenren, Tenpou, Konzen. Imagined Konzen/Kanzeon Bosatsu
Warnings: None
Summary: Kenren writes Konzen/Kanzeon Bosatsu fanfic. And is careless.
Comments: I was far, far too amused by this. A short snippet that’s just amusing as all hell. And I adore Tenpou in this.
One-shot, complete.

Gay porn
Characters/Pairings: Temari, Kankurou, Gaara
Warnings: Despite the name, there is no sex. There is, however, extensive discussion of sex. And brain-breakingness.
Summary: Temari and Kankurou discuss the unintended effects of Gaara’s Ultimate Defense. And get quite squicked in the process.
Comments: This just made me laugh and laugh. Because yes, what the world really needs is pervy conversations about Gaara’s Defense’s effect on his sex life.
One-shot, complete.

Power
Characters/Pairings: Hinata, Kiba, Shino.
Summary: Hyuuga Hiashi finally sees Hinata when she finally gains a form of power that he recognizes.
Comments: This strikes me as very true, actually. Hinata seems to be the bonding force in her team, the one that allows her teammates to stand each other, and what the fic does with that strikes me as pretty plausible. And I adore Hinata. And reading this, I’m torn between wanting to kick her father for taking so long to see Hinata, and wanting to dance with joy because he’s finally beginning to give a damn about her.
One-shot, complete.