oritsu_luv | Random Recs without genre

I have the fandoms I read in most often: bandom, popslash, HP. And then there are those random fics that don't fit in those genres. Those amazing fics that stand alone, outside of fandom, the fics you didn't even know you wanted until you read them. These are those fics.

Letters Home, by penknife.
Secret Garden, Dickon/Mary/Colin.
Set during WWI. Colin can't help wondering sometimes how the story will end.

Beautiful and a little sad. A lot of the movies put in epilogues of sorts, but this is exactly how I want the Secret Garden to end.

He wonders, too, how long it would be before he woke to find that Mary had slipped out of their bed at night. He wonders if he'd lie awake imagining what they were doing, telling it to himself like a story to soothe himself into sleep. He wonders if he'd look down at one of their children playing in the sun and see a spray of freckles across her cheeks, familiar small square hands. He wonders if he'd mind.

By the Waves We Left Behind, by opheliarising. Many Waters, Gen.
What does it mean to be faithful?

Many Waters was always my favorite in the Wrinkle Before Time series, and this fic is amazing. It's mostly an epilogue to the book, and the author captures the style and atmosphere so completely, I actually wondered if somehow Madeleine L'Engle was submitting fic to Yuletide. Perfect.

One day he wants to find someone he loves, and that person won't be Yalith either. One day he will have to keep something from Sandy, hold someone close and dearer than his twin, find a way to forget or make peace with the part of himself that remembers the whole of the universe - stars, angels, people, galaxies - whirling to the sound of one luminous voice. Someday he will no longer be able to touch the unicorns, and he wants that, he does, but not yet. Not yet.

Abracadabra, by Lyricality.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie/Wonka.
Eight years after that fateful day in February, Charlie has finally learned how to want. Based heavily on the look of the future Burton film and the chronology of both Dahl’s books. Depp is Wonka.

I know, I know. But this is such a great fic. The writing is absolutely gorgeous.

Charlie curls his tongue around the Gobstopper and wonders if it all means anything, or if he just likes the idea of holding something in his mouth that Wonka might have touched with his tongue, and with his lips. It’s still substitution, but Charlie is good at that sort of culinary math. Ninety-two percent fantasy, seven percent lonely patience, four percent pure sugary lust, and 2 percent Wonka’s perfect gleaming lips. One hundred and five percent decadent misery.

Gorgeous, by phabella. US5, Ritchie/Jay.
Home is where Jay is.

US5 are a boyband operating out of Germany, who I first learned of through InRock Magazine. Great details and sharp characterizations.

Izzy coughs and tries to take the knife from Chris, saying, "C'mon, you freak, it's gonna take you a year to cut one fucking green pepper," while Richie crosses the kitchen, looks down into the sauce pan and wraps his arm around Jay's waist, breathes in the smell of pasta sauce and Jay's cologne and home. "Hey," he says. "Smells good." He brushes his lips against the smooth, warm skin of Jay's cheek and it's nothing, it's like every other greeting in Europe, except that Jay runs his free hand over Richie's back and behind them, Izzy coughs again, pointedly. But it doesn't mean anything, Richie thinks, and turns away to help with the vegetables.

More, by disarm_d. x-over. Adam Lambert/Brendon Urie
"Don't you have experience with this kind of thing?" Adam asks.
"Dick?" Brendon asks, blinking.

I never knew I needed Adam/Brendon until I read this. It's amazing. Just really, really emotionally realistic. No snippet for now, because I don't want to click on it at the office. LOL