Rod
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A bunch of Slayers take part in a singing competition. What could possibly go wrong?
Shut up, Tyler.
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- Part 3 of Miami Knights
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A Matter Of Control by Rod
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Supernatural, due South, Big Wolf on Campus
04 Nov 2019
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Where would an Antichrist go to learn how to control himself? That's right, a Tibetan monastery.
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Eye of Newt by Rod
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Hollyoaks, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Mar 2019
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Frankie and Jack Osbourn's foster-son returns after some unfortunate events before Christmas. He isn't impressed by what he finds.
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- Part 3 of Amy the Vampire Slayer
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A Streak of Bad Luck by Rod
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI: Miami, Jake 2.0, Roswell (TV)
19 Jan 2018
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Tyler Jensen put cultists in jail. That has consequences. It's just a shame that Dan Cooper is the one to have to put up with them.
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- Part 2 of Miami Knights
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- English
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- 17,707
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- 9/9
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Two young men are found unconscious in the rubble of a blown up warehouse. CI5 want to know who they are and what's going on.
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Miami Knights by Rod
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), CSI: Miami, Glee, Jake 2.0, Roswell (TV)
06 Dec 2019
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Stories of Tyler Jensen and his successors in the A/V lab at Miami-Dade Crime Lab.
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Amy the Vampire Slayer by Rod
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Hollyoaks
25 Mar 2019
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It turns out that there is a reason Hollyoaks village. like the setting of most soap operas, is fulll of chaos and discord. A supernatural reason. Oh, and Amy Barnes is a Vampire Slayer.
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Harry Potter and the Teenage Spy by Rod
Fandom: Alex Rider - Anthony Horowitz, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
15 Jun 2015
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There are many possible ways for the uninitiated to discover what to do in a same sex relationship. The following series of reports examines one such possibility and the subsequent development of the relationship between Chris Keel and Sam Curtis.
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Texts From Cephalopods by volta_arovet for Stasia
Fandoms: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording (Youtube)
22 Dec 2011
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It is a well-established fact in marine biology that the octopus is the drunk texter of the cephalopod family.
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D.S.S. Requirement by esama
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Stargate - All Series
27 Feb 2015
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The Dumbledore's Army use the Room of the Requirement to get themselves a spaceship.
(Knowledge about Stargate is not necessary to read this story)
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- Part 1 of Wizards IN SPACE
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- 10/10
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Bookmarked by Rod
04 Jul 2018
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This is the "Hogwarts kids find an Asgard spaceship" story I keep losing!
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Jensen is a baker who keeps getting accosted by a wolf with a sweet tooth every time he tries to deliver food to his grandmother’s house.
Bookmarked by Rod
22 Sep 2014
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This wasn't the story I was going to review. I had another story in mind when I started paging through AO3 looking for the links. As usual I browsed as I went, because that's half the fun, and in the process I came across this one. Snorting hot tea is not recommended.
Yes, it's yet another Little Red Riding Hood parody, and Lord knows there are enough of those in the fandoms I read. This one however is written with such verve and sweeping silliness that I had to rec it. Honestly, it practically recommends itself; the writing is good and solid, consistently mildly absurdist in its humour, and the whole thing makes sense on its own level.
If this is what I get when I go "walking in the woods" of AO3, I really must get out there more!
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As a young chef trying to break into the sizzling hot world of Charleston cuisine, Jensen Ackles spent more time in the kitchen than he did sleeping, eating, or socializing; he was absolutely dedicated to his craft and to the mentor who’d given him a chance. When all of that work paid off in a big way, Jensen was thrilled, but from the moment he accepted his dream job, other aspects of his life began to sour, quickly.
Now, shouldered with the extra burdens of caring for his brother’s house and keeping his job safe from a brown-nosing new sous chef, Jensen tries everything, up to and including therapy, to keep his life from boiling over. It’s not until he hires college senior Jared Padalecki that things start to turn around, and Jensen learns that if he can stand the heat, fate might cook up something even better.
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Bookmarked by Rod
22 Sep 2014
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This is the story I was going to rec a few weeks ago before I got distracted with humour. Written for the 2012 SPN Big Bang, it is a much angstier Jensen-centric piece, but it attracted me early on because I'm something of a foodie and this story does a very good job of projecting the chaos and pressure of a Michelin-grade kitchen.
In many ways, the summary is as misleading as book blurbs get. Most of the action doesn't happen the way it implies, and in any case practically all the events it touches on happen within the first few hundred words. What we have in reality is a study of someone who loves creating gastronomic delights, but who has to do so in an increasingly poisonous atmosphere. Most of the thrust of the story is everybody else trying to get Jensen to realise that he hasn't actually enjoyed his work in a long time.
Tangled around that, we have a slow-burn romance between Jensen and Jared, the student who is his dog-sitter, gardener, house-keeper and one of the few people he can just relax around. This is a very slow-paced and confusing affair, mostly because we only see it from Jensen's blinkered viewpoint. It's not the usual coming-out issues, since both men know perfectly well that the other is gay, but it isn't until Jarod actually explains why he has been keeping his distance that we the readers can see everything tie back together.
I could go on about this detail or that, the use of real people vs original characters, but I'd be here all night and I'm already eating into my beauty sleep. Just believe me that this is a damn good story with credible characters, and go and read it yourself.
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Years after Voldemort's death and the end of the war, a lonely and alienated Harry Potter decides to take in a lodger. The result isn't quite what he anticipated. He has more in common with his new housemate than he expected, and together they learn to look life – and the wizarding world - in the face again.
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- Part 3 of The Lodger Series
Bookmarked by Rod
26 Aug 2014
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This story delighted me many years ago when I first read it on Martha's now-defunct LiveJournal. Coming across it again on AO3 when I thought it lost forever was a particular joy, and now I get to pass the joy on to you. Better yet, it turns out that there are prequels and sequels to enjoy as well, though they are by no means necessary to make sense of things.
The story predates Order of the Phoenix, so needless to say diverges from canon. All the information we need as readers is there in the text, spread about as necessary rather than dumped unceremoniously at us, allowing us to slip naturally into this variant world. A slightly different selection of people lived and died, but it's close enough not to matter; it's perfectly clear how both Harry and Draco turn into lonely young men with complicated lives. The trick that brings the two of them into contact some years after Voldemort's death is probably the least convincing part of the whole story, but it works well enough that I can't really complain.
This is a well-written, well thought out story, full of keen observations of personality and social reactions. It's not perfect; Justin Finch-Fletchley is particularly hard done by, but someone recognisable had to turn out to be a plonker to make the story work, and better it be Justin than someone whose nature would have had more obvious violence done to it.
I take particular delight in Martha's portrayal of Ron Weasley. This Ron is no temperamental ham-fisted side-kick to the famous Harry Potter. This Ron is the Chief Auror, the man who quite literally spread Bellatrix Lestrange across the main street of Hogsmeade. He can be extremely intimidating when he wants to be, but he's still the same old Ron. He reacts to the news of Draco's arrival with characteristic Weasley temper, but he and Harry can still have a reasonable approximation of a rational argument about it, and he doesn't hold the grudge past the point of reasonableness. Indeed at several cruicial points, Ron is the one to decide to trust Draco and casually back him up in public. This is a breath of fresh air compared with all the stories out there where Ron causes all of the conflict in the story.