under the influence of fingertips [Lord of The Rings, Lelogas/Gimli]

under the influence of fingertips by tamerofdarkstars 

Gimli awakes the morning after Aragorn's coronation in the lap of an Elf with Dwarven courtship braids in his hair. It comes as a bit of a surprise. 

I wanted to get lost and we just finished watching LotR so there weren't that many options how to get lost. So here we are, trying to understand these two who just can't talk about the important shit.

 But seriously. How cute is that all they want to do is braid each other's hair and thats the way they show they are together? What could ever be cuter? Seriously.

For Your Information [Merlin, Merthur]

For Your Information by reni_days 

Merlin sighs. "After your...announcement," he explains, "your father decided he needed a bit more information. Which is apparently where I come in. I'm sort of like his gay tutor, it's hard to explain." 

I don't like Uther. But who does? That is basically the norm in every single fic and the norm in this fandom. But after this, I kinda like him. Okay. He is still he asshole in everything but I can kinda like him now too, sometimes at least. So pretty much never.

Anyways. The whole Uther part in here was awesome with Merlin just dealing with him. The whole mentality of not caring what Uther thinks and how nothing can be real about the whole situation, that was the best part. Merlin was so sassy and just so Merlin. 

I also liked the Morgana part here, where she was welcoming Merlin into their family and just being the queen of everything at the same time.

The only thing I didn't like that much was Arthur. Not because he was bad or something. More like he was so boring. Kind of. I may have hoped that he had been gay all along and just got tired of being in closet (or maybe he just wanted a reaction of his dad or something stupid like that). But this way, it sounded kind of boring when comparing to the rest of the fic. This is not bad thing, just I was expecting so much more from him and yea.

Okay. In the beginning I kind of hoped that Arthur and Merlin were already together but Uther just didn't know that and the whole gay mentor thingy was just happy accident. Or something along the lines. But this way, this was just better. Seriously.

So go and a have a laugh while reading this. ♥

Pavlov's Cuddles [Stark Trek, Spirk, Philip Boyce/Christopher Pike]

Pavlov's Cuddles by InsaneSociopath 

Chris decides the absolute best way to get Jim to behave is to classically condition him using candy. Because. Um. That's perfectly normal and acceptable right?

This goes to that category where Kirk has so many problems and maybe those problems have their own problems too. But this time, it is not Kirk who is trying to overcome them. This time it Pike who is just trying to understand the problems and how he could help Kirk overcoming them. And then he finds some new problems. But there is a happy ending! That is very important part too.

The sad part is how people are still harrassing others who are slitghly different to others. And then the people who are suppose to be responsible adults are just not understnding whats going on and punishing the bullied kid. The scary part is how someone can go almost 30 years before anyone even notices that maybe Kirk is on the spectrum. 

But you have to love Pike for understanding and helping Kirk. And love his weird way of doing things. Yeaaa. Pike is weird, but so is everyone else to be honest. And his ways got the result so I think it doesn't even matter how he did it, as long as Kirk and everyone else is happy. Yay.

Oky. I had a point what I want to write about this. I really did. But right now, I can't remember it. So we have to go with these way too short and simple praises for this awesome fic. Yup.

Not the Fire but the Spark [Supernatural, Destiel, Nc-17]

Not the Fire but the Spark by goldenraeofsun 

Dean refused to look up his soulmate. His parents ran into each other by chance. Karen stopped by Bobby’s garage after her car unexpectedly broke down. Sam got seated next to Eileen on a plane, and he spent two hours miming conversation before she admitted she read lips.

Was it stupid for Dean to hold out for a story like that? Probably.

But he doesn’t regret his decision - not until Castiel Novak wanders into his tattoo parlor, asking about a cover up for his soulmark. 

This is another awesome fic where they actually think about the whole soulmate business. Like, they don't just automatically get their happily ever afters if they are soulmates. Their lives can fall apart and they can become stranges to each other. The most important part is that they have to do the work for the relationship to work and nurish and actually survive.

So basically this is not some fairytale soulmate fic where everyone is just super happy and have their happily ever after. Okay. Maybe some of them do. But the point was that the happily ever after is not given.

The other important part here is that if you are in any asexual spectrum it is okay. There is one aromantic person and she doesn't have a soulmate. And she is fine with that. And thats the norm. She doesn't want a soulmate, she wants to live her life without a lifepartner and is not "forced" to have a soulmate to share it with. Seriously. This is the kind of thinking I love.

Also. They dip into the thing where your soulmate's soulmatetattoo doesn't change even if you change your name. I am not so sure what to think about this, but I kind of like it. The whole thing has this one big question that I would love to have an answer for. Like, lets say you get abandoned as a baby. Your mother/father leaves you at the firestation without a name (so they can't be trased). Basically you kind of have to have a name at that point but then you need a name to live with. So which name is going to be on your soulmate's arm? And how can you be sure that the other is your soulmate if they have the name your bioparents' gave you but even you don't know that name?

I maybe should mention that they have name tattoos in this one. Where your soulmates name is tattood on your arm. Yea. Probably this info should be somewhere in the beginning but I can't be arsed to edit that much of the text.

Anyways. Why can't more soulmate fics be like this? I know this kind of world is getting more popular but still. I would love to read more soulmate fics where there is the possibility of you just being such a jackass that the relationship just doesn't work. So please. Feel free to leave links to similiar fics to the comments and I promise to at least check them out. Thanks.

Vulcan Keeping and Other Problems [Star Trek, Spirk]

Vulcan Keeping and Other Problems by t_3po

Where's the manual for raising nerdy young Vulcans chasing after local bad boys when you actually need it? 

This is about the aunt I want to be in the future. Kind of the cool aunt, who is always drinking wine and corrupting people's kids into the dark side. Yea. Thats me. I wanna be that in the future.

 So basically this story is about how Spock's aunt is super awesome and has an awesome impact on Spock. Also. Maybe Jim has some shitty influence over Spock too. Maybe. But it's mostyl Spock's aunt. The rest of the story is all about teenage angst and how to be an aunt to a vulcan. Yea. Basically the fic is pure gold.