Okay I'm not in this fandom really and don't plan to be, but it's all over everywhere, and so many familiar names popping up! So sure of course I'm reading it.

(I am going to try to keep these postscripta going if only to track new fandoms I dive into; we'll see if it lasts. the other new fandom I've been reading a lot in lately I haven't really figured out how to do a recs list yet.)

Anyway Our Flag Means Death is about gay pirates. Whether Ed and Stede count as enemies is not for me to say, as I haven't watched the thing, and it's still very in progress. However there have been a bunch of fics lately where Stede's ex-boyfriend and ex-wife gang up on him, and you know I am there for that.

They also make very good intro fics because I think at this point nearly everybody who follows fandom knows, at minimum, that Stede and Ed are idiots in love, and that's basically all Mary knows as of the end of S1, too.

• you should be so happy now (7688 words) by waveridden
  Chapters: 1/1
  Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Mary Allamby Bonnet & Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, Mary Allamby Bonnet & Stede Bonnet, Mary Allamby Bonnet & Jim Jimenez
  Characters: Mary Allamby Bonnet, Israel Hands, Frenchie (Our Flag Means Death), Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Lucius Spriggs, Stede Bonnet, Jim Jimenez
  Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Kidnapping, POV Outsider, Mary-Centric, adore the fact that mary-centric is a tag for several fandoms at once. here's one more fandom, Mary Allamby Bonnet-centric, Lucius Spriggs Lives
  
  In which the Widow Bonnet is taken hostage by the fearsome pirate Blackbeard.



• denial (2102 words) by huojuvuus
  Chapters: 1/1
  Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
  Rating: General Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet, Mary Allamby Bonnet & Blackbeard | Edward Teach
  Characters: Mary Allamby Bonnet, Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Stede Bonnet
  Additional Tags: POV Mary Allamby Bonnet, Attempt at Humor, Angst with a Happy Ending, Post-Canon, Fix-It, Mary-Centric
  
  In which the Widow Bonnet menaces the fearsome pirate Blackbeard with a spoon.



• Old and New (10992 words) by the_author_anonymous
  Chapters: 4/4
  Fandom: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet
  Characters: Mary Allamby Bonnet, Stede Bonnet, Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Assorted other pirates
  Additional Tags: In which Mary gets to meet Stede's new family, Mostly because I wanted her to interact with Ed, dumb pirate shenanigans, kind of a continuation of my last fic (but not really), so you can definitely read this without reading that first, It's time for a family reunion!, exasperating pirates are exasperating, Mary has also contracted the OFMD brainrot and worries about her sanity lol, whoops there's angst now, canon typical violence (but only for a bit), actions have consequences and Stede keeps having to face them, poor mary, awkward and slightly misguided attempts at comfort, the pirates try to fix their mistakes to varying levels of success
  Series: Part 1 of Mary Bonnet's Guide to Befriending Local Pirates
  
  In which the fearsome pirate Blackbeard flees before the Widow Bonnet.

(also, why does OFMD have Stede using the name "Captain Thomas" when they have Actual True Fact that he was known to use "Captain Edwards" sitting in the history books? Oh well, maybe they're saving it for later.)

snowflake_challenge #8 was a personal win from last year.

My win was that I challenged myself to post recs sets for 100 different enemy ships in 100 days, and it may have taken more like 120 days, but I did it!!

And I even tagged them all (as of today) so now I can link to the tag to show off: 100+days+of+enemy+recs

Somewhere I do have a whole list of follow-ups I wanted to do:
-stats about what kind of ships I rec'd, what kind of canons I rec'd, where the fic was hosted, how much total fic I rec'd, etc.
-How well I followed the rules I stated at the beginning of the challenge
-things I learned/advice on how to find old fic you remember but don't remember where and how to do small themed recsets
-list of enemyfic tropes people should write
-bookmark it all to AO3
-DL the stuff I want to make sure I have copies of
-proofread and regularize the posts
-leave comments for all the authors
-bookmark it all to pinboard
--etc

The only one I have accomplished is to tag all the posts. But at least I did that one!

The next Snowflake I need to catch up on is to rec something. So have some catch-up with two new enemyship fandoms I discovered


Johnny/The Devil

The song The Devil Went Down To Georgia is a perennial yuletide fandom. I went through and read a bunch of them this month. (January is a good month for deals with the devil.) Here's my favorite.

• A Cornstalk Fiddle (32602 words) by notbecauseofvictories
  Chapters: 3/3
  Fandom: Devil Went Down to Georgia (Song)
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: The Devil/Johnny (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
  Additional Tags: Music, Americana, Deal with a Devil, Body Horror, Theology, Souls, Bluegrass, Blues, Prophetic Dreams
  Series: Part 1 of The Devil Went Down to Georgia (And Then Went Down on Johnny)
  
  In which Johnny tempts the Devil into singing bluegrass instead of the blues

Ted Lasso

I don't know what Ted Lasso canon is doing that the top two 'ships are two middle-aged single fathers with fundamentally oppositional jobs; and the story of a man subbing for his ex-girlfriend and her new man, who he though hated him; but I hope it continues.

(Honestly I just don't know Ted Lasso canon. I this week learned, after reading over a third of the fic with him, that Trent Crimm is not in fact canonically gay? Next I'll find out that the "Ted Lasso Canonically Has A Huge Dick" tag is a lie.)

• Saltwater Ballads (37294 words) by Nanoochka
  Fandom: Ted Lasso (TV)
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Trent Crimm/Ted Lasso
  Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 02, Friends to Lovers, Idiots in Love, Sexuality Crisis, Ted Lasso Spoilers, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Dom/sub Undertones, Sexual Tension, Sex Mishaps, Humor, Porn with Feelings, Ted Lasso canonically has a huge dick, Accidental Dating
  
  Ted and Trent casually go out for an intimate dinner together. As you do.


• our bodies touch and the angels cry (19213 words) by lennynards
  Fandom: Ted Lasso (TV)
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Keeley Jones/Roy Kent/Jamie Tartt
  Additional Tags: proximity bond, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Jane Payne is a menace to society
  Summary:

  
  Roy and Jamie drink the special bonding tea that means they have to be constantly touching or they're in excruciating pain. Oops.

I made it to one hundred days! I did it! Only one month later than my original prediction! :D Maybe I can still finish things after all! I hope so because I haven't started Yuletide yet!!

I will do a follow-up post at some point with stats and stuff, and what to do now, and hopefully also get everything tagged better, but for day 100 I am going to go through the 40 fandoms that are left on the spreadsheet and give them each a couple lines to make excuses as to why I skipped them instead of writing up a post! So no recs today, but a lot of fandoms!

( a very messy list )

I would be lying if I said the randomizer actually waited until the day 99 to give me this fandom, but it truly did wait until the last ten days! (and then I took the last ten days and put them in my own order, because the list was getting a bit thin.)

Harry Potter of course has no shortage of enemy ships (I used to ship Peter/Petunia, just because everybody had to pick a ship) but I couldn't not cover the good ship Guns 'n' Handcuffs. The Bang (and the Big) in "Big Bang". Going strong for 21+ years. (In fact, one of the first ever H/D authors just published a new H/D fic this week. Which I have not read yet.)

Harry Potter basically started as a crossover of a boys' school story and a fairy tale. And in the school story, you need a rival, like I mentioned in the Earthsea book. I feel like there must have been a lot of people (still are!) in Harry Potter fandom where that was the first book the school stories genre they had encountered - it was very unfashionable and had been for decades by the time the first Harry Potter book came out, for all that everyone from Jane Yolen to DWJ had already done wizardy versions of it - and so they were learning the conventions from HP, instead of nodding along to them. (I guess not everybody had pulled their grandma's old Grace Harlow books off the shelf in the back bedroom on boring summer afternoons.) But if you were familiar with the genre, you knew exactly what role Draco would play as soon as he showed up at the robe shop. And you started shipping it immediately.

I had a discussion elseweb recently about how you can see how some of what goes off in the later Harry Potter books is that JKR couldn't figure out how to transition from the school story/fairy tale pastiche into something else, when she got to the point in her story where she needed to, and you see that in Draco's storyline in particular. He needs and wants to be more than the stock genre antagonist but JKR never quite lets him, and that builds a character tension that is super useful for shipping, too.

Anyway, I have no idea how to come up with a set of three recs that in any way capture this pairing or my experience of it, so instead you get the first three fanfics I ever read for it that are still online (some of the first fanfics I ever read on an online fic archive.) Are they any good? I have no idea. Do I dare re-read them to find out? Nope. But here they are anyway!!

• Love Under Will by bookshop
  Chapters: 16/?
  Pairing: Harry/Draco
  
  Summary: I don't even remember at this point and the website doesn't have one. Harry and Draco fall in love? Under will? I suspect?



• Irresistable Poison by Rhysenn
  Chapters: 15/15
  Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
  Spoilers: All books
  Rating: PG-13
  
  Summary: I am 99% sure this fanfic is the first time I ever encountered the phrase "I want to be inside you". I believe it was uttered in the Astronomy Tower.



• Scholomance by astolat
  Fandom:Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences, Explicit, Mature
  Warnings: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death
  Complete Series
  Relationships: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley
  Words: 37,392 Works: 6
  
  Summary: I have not seen anyone address the question of how much this series has in common with that other Scholomance series that just came out, so: I need to catch up on them both, but I just wish to remind everybody that this exists! Draco Malfoy walks into the Scholomance and walks out alive again!

Okay, while Giles/Ethan is clearly the best enemyship in Buffy, there are kind of a Lot of them, so I gave it a second run.

Let's start by clearing the air: Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Spike. Both definitely enemyships! Both very much the biggest ships in that fandom, although it feels like twenty years in, Buffy/Spike has roundly won that shipwar. But I never really shipped either of them, I think because = well, if you've been following me for awhile, you might have picked up that I have a thing for characters who measure their lifespans in centuries. But I don't really have a thing for those characters dating teenagers. I don't think it's even really, like, a purity culture thing, I think it's just that, even when I was myself a teenager, it was a "no club that would have me as a member" problem. Like if you've reached your century mark and you still think dating teenagers is a good idea, then you're probably such a fuckup that the teenager could do better? I don't care how much destiny or fate you have on your side, you also have literally all the time in the world, let the cookie dough get nicely firm first. Buffy clearly has a kink for much older men, which I do not judge her for at all, but she's got plenty of time yet to shop around and find one who doesn't want to date a teenager, and that's basically always been my opinion on that particular shipwar.

But! There are plenty of other enemyships sailing that Hellmouth! So here are some other old favorites. In a "no AO3 links at all" special set, because Buffy oldfandom I guess has *really* not moved to AO3, but I was actually keeping bookmarks when I was reading it, and most of them still work!

• One Time Thing by Killa
  Rating: NC-17
  Pairing: Angel/Spike
  Length: One-shot
  Summary: Just a variation on a popular theme. Set after "The Girl in Question." Angel and Spike drown their sorrows, with predictable results.



• Slayers' Dance by erinya
  Fandom: BtvS
  Pairing/characters: Faith/Buffy, mentions Spike/Buffy, Willow/Kennedy
  Rating: PG-13; implied sexual content
  Length: One-Shot
  Disclaimer: So very, very not mine
  Prompt: 144. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy Summers/Faith Lehane. Buffy realizes that there may be more to how she feels about Faith than she thought.
  Summary: Buffy is confused. Kennedy tells her to stop being an idiot. Set post-Chosen, vaguely in Cleveland.



• Romantic Dinner by missmurchison
  Pairing: Spike/Joyce
  Rating: G
  Summary: A romantic dinner gets sidetracked a bit.
  Special note: This is the last fic in a longer Spike/Joyce series set in an AU where a) Spike is not in love with Buffy and b) Buffy stays an only child. They're est rel in this one. The first three in the series sold me on how much better a story choice this would have been than Spike/Buffy, but they seem to only be available on wayback now that allaboutspike is down. I am not linking to wayback-only fic in this series, but here's my Pinboard bookmark linking to the whole series just to prove it was there.

PotC is what I generally call my second ever fandom, though you have to count in a very particular way to get that result. But it was, definitely, the first fandom where I was there for the beginning - watching, at least, even if I didn't participate much - so it holds a special place.

It's also a great fandom for enemy ship! Honestly the only one I can think of that doesn't count one way or another is Pintel/Ragetti. And of course the whole trilogy is shaped around the most fundamental enemy ship of them all, Jack Sparrow/the Black Pearl.

I never watched any of the post-AWE movies, though, because honestly by the end, Jack was the least interesting character in the franchise. Someeday maybe? At least the ones that have Barbossa in them.

But this recs set is going to be Jack/Norrington. Old Jack/Norrington, from before the second movie came out. Mostly old Jack/Norrington that I haven't reread in at least fifteen years. Because. Some things are just foundational.

And also because POTC was one of those fandoms that landed squarely in the heyday of LJ fandom, from the first movie just as LJ really became everything, to the last movie right in time for us to sing our way through Strikethrough. So everything was on LJ. Stuff's hard to track down.

• Misdirection (11383 words) by Jenavira
  Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: James Norrington/Jack Sparrow, Sparrington
  Characters: Jack Sparrow, James Norrington, Joshamee Gibbs, Groves (Pirates of the Caribbean), Governor Swann, Various original Naval officers, and a squiggly thing
  Additional Tags: seafaring adventure, unnecessarily complicated seduction techniques, adorableness, content stolen from Irish myths, and also C.S. Lewis, I am not sorry
  Summary: Jack Sparrow's taken a letter of marque, and Norrington's life has taken a turn for the strange. Still, any excuse to get out from behind a desk for a while.



• Full Moon (18515 words) by firesignwriter
  Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Jack/Norrington
  Characters: James Norrington, Jack Sparrow
  Summary:

  Caught between a rock and a bajillion pirates, Norrington is forced to rely on Jack Sparrow's aid...and then his hospitality.




• Marooned (23259 words) by GloriaMundi
  Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: James Norrington/Jack Sparrow, Jack Sparrow/Various, Anamaria/James Norrington
  Characters: Jack Sparrow, James Norrington, Anamaria
  Additional Tags: Pirates, Historical, C17, AU
  Summary:

  The world's changed. When everything you loved is gone, what's left? Duty, honour, dreams, dust . . .

Earthsea is on this list for two reasons. The first one is Ged/Jasper. Because every boy hero in a school story needs a rival, a boy who's slightly more experienced, higher class, a little bit more popular, leans in doorways looking louche and arrogant, who is the only one who can goad Our Hero into acting rashly enough to trip onto the path to greatness. Every Tom Brown needs his Flashman, and Jasper was Ged's.

But there is also Tenar. And Tenar is much more than Jasper ever was, as much the hero of the series as Ged. When she is young, Ged is introduced as her enemy - the sinister wizard come to destroy what she protects - but instead he is gentle and calm and humble and slowly, with care, teaches her what it means to be a real person in the world. He gives her her soul back, and she turns aside from everything she's been to go with him.

And then she finds her own path, and twenty-five years later, as Ged came to her when she was young, he comes to her again when he's old, and she is gentle and calm and confident and slowly, with care, teaches him what it means to be a real person, the part of the lesson that the Archmage could never have taught her, and gives his soul back to him. And he turns aside from everything he's been to stay with her.

• Sparkweed (2633 words) by Minerva McTabby
  Fandom: Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Ged/Jasper
  Additional Tags: Yuletide 2004, Foe Yay, Missing Scene
  Summary:

  "Well, well," Jasper drawled. He leaned against the wall with easy grace, his arm a barrier trapping Ged against the pillar. "Following me about, Sparrowhawk? Spying? Oh, for shame!"




• The Tale of the White Lady of Iffish (8178 words) by raspberryhunter
  Fandom: Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
  Rating: General Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Characters: Vetch (Earthsea), Yarrow (Earthsea), Tenar (Earthsea), Ged (Earthsea)
  Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Misses Clause Challenge, Pre-Relationship
  Summary:

  It is not told in the Deed of Seren how Tenar of the Ring became the White Lady of Iffish. This is that story.




• On Oak Farm (1632 words) by betweentheheavesofstorm
  Fandom: Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
  Rating: General Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Characters: Tenar (Earthsea), Ged (Earthsea), Flint (Earthsea)
  Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Mutual Pining, Unresolved, One Shot
  Summary:

  ‘Ogion told me where to find you,’ he says, stiffly.

  She knew she’d see him again. He was bound to turn up sooner or later. She’d just expected it to be later.

Look, Batfandom had to be on here, because it's so much classic hero/villain stuff. Batman/Catwoman, of course, which goes way, way back. Bruce/Talia, which produced a kid. Bruce/Harvey. Various other villain ships and traitorous lovers for Bruce, of varying levels of canonicity.

I just, I gotta admit I don't ship any of them? Bruce/Selina is, in theory, excellent, but in practice, canon has fucked it up so many times and in such a variety of ways, not to mention failing to settle on any sort of stable characterization of Selina, that I just can't make myself care. The other villain ships are fine, I guess? But again canon is just so interested in making all of his villains The One Real Enemy that none of them are any fun anymore. The closest he has to a nemesis is Joker, but honestly Joker is just sort of pathetic, not interesting or really a match for Bruce, and also super gross.

The Nolan movies tried very hard to make Batman/Superman an enemyship but I don't buy it, They are not enemies, they are Batman and Superman! They are best friends to the point where if they do get in a Mandated Hero Fight they just automatically assume one of them is under mind control or something, and they're always right.

Honestly though I think the real issue is that I settled a long time ago on a Bruce Wayne characterization where he doesn't fall in love. Like, Bruce the Socialite dates a lot, and so many people have tried to get under the shallow mask and find the real Bruce, but even if they manage it all they find under there is a somewhat befuddled polyamorous aromantic who is never going to fall in love or be want exclusive with them no matter how much he loves them. People who try it with Batman end up in the same place, just from a different direction. Bruce should be sleeping with half of Gotham and having complicated sexual/emotional entanglements with half of the Justice League and otp with nobody except Batman.

(That said, I enjoy the crap out of Bruce/Lex where Bruce is 100% doing it just to fuck with Lex and Clark, and Lex thinks he knows what's going on but is very, very wrong and will never find out. I also love Bruce/Lois in a similar way, except that Lois is smarter than Lex and will absolutely figure it out, and they unionize against Clark but they are still enemies because girl reporters and eccentric billionaires have a natural predator/prey relationship. But both Bruce/Lois and Bruce/Lex are ridiculously rare.)

(Okay, Bruce/Harley is also good, mostly because fuck the Joker, and also because Harley and Bruce would both enjoy dating someone who understands them on a deep level and also is in 0 danger of falling in love with them.)

ANYWAY. the point is, I don't really have recs for any of that because most of the limited fic I can think of is by people who I have already used elsewhere.

So instead I am going to rec Robins. I would try to explain Robins, but Robins are complicated. But they are complicated in delightful chewy ways that hit all of my bells for antagonists who love each other.

• Heart, Humble (7791 words) by Betty
  Fandom: DCU - Comicverse
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Characters: Tim Drake, Jack Drake
  
  The one where Jack Drake meets Robin.



• Take It Back Now Y'all (82815 words) by TimTheToaster
  Chapters: 22/?
  Fandom: Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
  Characters: Tim Drake, Original Characters, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Waylon Jones, Oswald Cobblepot
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Additional Tags: Time Travel, to call this a fix-it is disingenuous but it is in the spirit, other batfam will apear, tim just has to figure his stuff out first, the OCs are kind of filler but also not if that makes sense, more tags as the situation develops, i'm just gonna slide in the, Slow Burn, tag because this is going to be a long build-up to Something, Canon-Typical Violence, but more like Tim's normal than Bruce's, Just So We're Clear, BAMF Tim Drake, Tim Drake-centric, Implied/Referenced Underage Prostitution
  
  The one where Tim gets trapped in the past and decides the obvious solution is to set himself up as a supervillain and take over Gotham's crime scene so that the Time Cops will notice him and send him home.



• Panic Room (15912 words) by envysparkler
  Chapters: 2/2
  Fandom: Batman - All Media Types
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake & Damian Wayne, Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne
  Additional Tags: Whump, Hurt/Comfort, Batfamily (DCU), Panic Attacks, Strangulation, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Jason Todd Needs A Hug, Tim Drake Needs a Hug, Damian Wayne Needs a Hug, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, Broken Bones, Hugs, Hurt Tim Drake, Hurt Damian Wayne, Enemy to Caretaker
  
  The one where Damian locks Tim and Jason in a room together.

Ah, Les Miserables. The fandom that rescued me from the doldrums of my RPF phase! Not just fictional, but public domain classical literature with a leftist political message! You can't get a more respectable fandom than that.

(I still haven't seen any movie versions. Or the musical. At this point it's a whole thing. Vive le Brick!)

If you look at Les Mis fandom as it exists, you might get the impression that the main enemy pairing is Enjolras/Grantaire. The problem with this is that Enjolras and Grantaire are not enemies. The fandom has done a good job of writing all the enemy tropes and archetypes for them (after all with only a few dozen pages of canon you have to get your story somewhere) and believe me I have read them all! But in canon they are not enemies. In canon Enjolras is the friend in your friend group who always seems to be doing five things at once, and is super passionate and doing good work at all of them, and you don't know how they manage it until you realize it's because they don't reserve any time for, like, being a human person. And Grantaire is the friend in your friend group who is constantly distracting himself with trivial stuff, new stuff every week, because if he ever stops distracting himself he remembers that life is futile and living is pain and we might as well all just die. You don't want to assign them to a group project together, but that doesn't make them enemies.

The real enemies are the old mens. Valjean and Javert. Valjean, the convict on the run! Javert, the policeman who never quits! Destiny keeps them crossing each other's paths and ruining each other's lives! Valjean's central character note is the way he slips in and out of identities - he believes deep down that the person he really is doesn't deserve to exist, so he spends most of his live becoming who other people need him to to be and abandoning selves at a moment's notice without ever daring to look back. Javert also believes he isn't worthy but he has dealt with this by deciding to be useful and standing firm in who he is like a rock. He is also happy to tell you exactly who and what you are, which he is also very certain of. This comes in handy in post-canon fic, where Valjean needs someone to teach him how to be who he is without any disguises, and Javert needs someone to teach him how to shed his old self and survive it.

I also need to put in a good note for Father Fauchevelent here, who did the whole sworn-enemy-to-devoted-partner thing as a speedrun quietly in the background while Valjean entirely failed to notice they had ever been enemies in the first place or that Fauchelevent had undergone any emotional turmoil about him. But they were basically married and raising a kid together for almost a decade? People should ship them more.

(note: if you only know a little bit about les mis fandom, you might be surprised at all of these pairings if you're under the impression these characters all died at the end of the book. Don't worry, they definitely didn't. Valjean followed Javert and saved him from the river, after which Javert decided that if he had to live and be forgiven against his will, Valjean did too.)

• Three Days (or The One Where Javert and Valjean Take a Road Trip Through France and Raise a Child) (36182 words) by zamwessell
  Chapters: 8/8
  Fandom: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables - Schönberg/Boublil, Les Misérables (2012)
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean
  Additional Tags: Kid Fic, Fix-It, Road Trips, Resolved Sexual Tension, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Parenthood, Fluff, Fluff and Crack, Fluff and Smut, I Don't Even Know, i want this to work out so much, Javert would be a good dad, tad bit ooc, Fluff and Angst
  Summary:

  Javert calls what he thinks is Valjean's bluff about needing three days to find the child Cosette and intercede for her. The Inspector comes along for the ride -- and gets much more than he bargained for, in the process.




• A Ribbon for a Spider (2987 words) by voksen
  Fandom: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (Radio Play 1937)
  Rating: General Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Père Fauchelevent & Jean Valjean
  Characters: Père Fauchelevent, Jean Valjean, Javert (Les Misérables)
  Summary:

  By chance, Fauchelevent and Javert meet at a tobacconist's.




• Toil Until the Old Colours Fade (94310 words) by drcalvin
  Chapters: 7/7
  Fandom: Les Misérables (2012), Les Misérables - All Media Types
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Javert/Jean Valjean
  Additional Tags: Groundhog Day, Time Loop, Temporary Character Death, Redemption, Purgatory, Suicide, Pining, Kink Meme, Holding Hands, Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Afterlife, Canonical Character Death, Javert's Redemption, Slow Burn, Ensemble Cast, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  Series: Part 1 of Groundhog-verse
  Summary:

  After his leap into the Seine, Javert finds himself back in Montreuil-sur-Mer on the morning of his first appointment with M. Madeleine. He soon discovers that while his choices can change the outcome of things, nothing can stop death from delivering him back to that same morning.

  Now he has to defeat the game of fate or keep returning to 1820, eternally dying without finding peace.

Honestly, the reason I drifted out of this RPF fandom isn't that the main people involved betrayed me horribly; they just fell in love with wonderful people that they got on well with, and after that I didn't want to ship them with anyone else, but also shipping the real relationships felt not fictional enough? So I wandered out, and quit RPF altogether for awhile. So there's your other lesson: if you do start RPF shipping people who are genuinely ok people, they will go on to have nicer lives than you managed to imagine for them and all your fic is outshone. (Possibly the real enemyship these past two days is me/rpf.)

If you aren't familiar with comedy panel shows, they're basically if you mix game shows with improv comedy. Theoretically there are contestants competing in some kind of contest of skill; in practice everything's made up, the points don't matter, and everybody's playing to have the most fun, not to win. There are usually a few regular contestants and then a general pool of comedians/celebrities/entertainers who work the panel show circuit, and a lot of the appeal of the show is the sort of half-acting, half-real ongoing relationships between the regulars. For some reason they haven't really existed in the US since the 1970s, the closest we've got is right now is Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. And the British ones mostly don't even syndicate or legally stream here, mostly iirc because of copyright issues that make the format hard to license internationally. But you can usually watch a lot of them from several different Commonwealth countries on Youtube at any given time.

Because of the format with regular contestants theoretically competing against each other on teams, there are a lot of those onscreen relationships that are set up as comically adversarial. I give you recs for Paul and Ian, the long-time opposing team captains on Hignfy; Alan and Stephen, the long-time permanent panelist and host on QI; and Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell, who were on the circuit of all the shows together for a long time and always ended up hate-flirting across the desk.

• Revelations (895 words) by paranoidkitten
  Chapters: 1/1
  Fandom: Have I Got News For You RPF
  Rating: General Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Ian Hislop/Paul Merton
  Characters: Ian Hislop, Paul Merton
  Additional Tags: Coming Out, Newspapers
  Summary:

  A series of newspaper clippings.




• F Series (2379 words) by marginaliana
  Chapters: 1/1
  Fandom: QI RPF
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Alan Davies/Stephen Fry
  Characters: Alan Davies, Stephen Fry
  Series: Part 1 of letter series
  Summary:

  Alan has a cunning plan. Alan/Stephen.




• A Case of Unintentional Flirting (3151 words) by Irmelin
  Chapters: 1/1
  Fandom: British Comedian RPF
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Charlie Brooker/David Mitchell
  Characters: Charlie Brooker, David Mitchell
  Summary:

  For the anonymeme prompt: Mitchell becomes uncomfortable with Brooker's escalating flirtation in public (over Twitter, on panel shows) and tells him so. Brooker's been thinking of it as a joke; it's not until Mitchell confronts him about it that he realises that, shit, maybe he actually does...?

Have you ever had the experience when you're looking back over a fandom you used to be really into, and you wish you'd been smarter than to be really into that fandom, but it was over a decade ago, at least you never posted much in that fandom so your participation would probably be forgotten if you didn't, say, bring it up in a posting challenge? And then you scroll down the tag and two of your fics are in the top ten in the fandom by kudos, comments *and* bookmarks? And one of them is a fic you posted less than five years ago?

Anyway.

Don't ever get into RPF fandoms, folks, you will only be left betrayed and filled with regret.

• Do not imagine that leadership is a pleasure (1839 words) by Saffronra
  Chapters: 1/1
  Fandom: British Government Cats RPF
  Rating: General Audiences
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Characters: Larry (British Government Cats RPF), Palmerston (British Government Cats RPF), Original Male Dog Character(s)
  Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat
  Summary:

  A new political animal arrives on Whitehall - something will need to be done to preserve order.

Stargate:SG1 is not really a big fandom for enemy ship? Jack O'Neill/Harry Maybourne really should have been, by all rights, but it always turned up more in background than actually being shipped. (Maybe Maybourne's actor wasn't sufficiently hot? It's always tragic when that happens.) And Daniel/Vala counts, I guess, but that era of canon always had a weird overlay of echoes of Farscape, and I didn't know Farscape enough to decode them. There were plenty of other possibilities really, but none of them went anywhere.

Maybe it was something about the timing, SG1 falling square into the LJ era, when mailing lists and hand-rolled archives were on their way out in favor of social media, AO3 wasn't around yet, and there wasn't really a space for small pairings to build a community? Or maybe Jack/Daniel and Jack/Sam just used up all the air in the the room.

So really this is on the list for one specific fic but it is one of my favorite fics of all time, it has all the best things in it, and I have read it lots times. Lots.

• Conflict of Interest (5631 words) by Maraceles
  Fandom: Stargate SG-1
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Ba'al/Jack O'Neill
  Series: 2 parts
  Summary:

  Jack and Ba'al get thrown in a Goa'uld prison together. Despite whatever else is between them, they're still enemies. They can work with that.

Normally I would not have let two closely related fandom end up next to each other (randomizer or not) but we're coming into the final stretch, and I decided I couldn't leave this one out, even if I already did a cheat version of TOS.

If you want to know why, there's a five part ship manifesto from 2005 that I cannot possibly outdo! (It's a fascinating study in Star Trek fandom of the much earlier web, too.)

I am immensely picky when it comes to Spock/McCoy though, so I didn't really have any recs at the ready. I patched some together at the last minute though I am sure I missed a lot. The Galactic Journey rewatch - where we LARP watching Star Trek as if it's 1966 and none of us have heard of it before - has helped me figure out part of why, though. A lot of people play Spock and McCoy as opposites, where Spock is the emotionless Vulcan and McCoy the emotional Human. Of course we all know that Spock is in fact deeply emotional with great passions, but knowing that being overemotional could be a danger, and growing up in a culture that deeply valued dispassion and logic, he learned to master and suppress his feelings.

What a lot of people seem to miss is that, at least in these early episode, McCoy is his opposite there too! McCoy is always messily emotional and a loud advocate of the value of feelings. But if you look at what he does rather than says - he's the consummate scientist; his first thought to solve any problem is laboratory data; he's at least as often the voice of reason as Spock and he reverts to cold logic in a crisis. He's the first person to pull off a "needs of the many" pointless self-sacrifice move (in Miri). One gets the distinct impression that in McCoy you have someone who is naturally intellectual, whose first instinct when presented with a feeling is to repress it - but he has learned the hard way that logic run amok leads to poor decisions, and growing up in a culture that valued the expression of emotion, he has learned to master the art of emotion and how to use it to temper and control logic. *Extremely* notable here is his role in the "The Naked Time", where an alien pathogen strips everyone down to their core self. McCoy is definitely one of the first infected, via caring for patients (THEY HAVE NO QUARANTINE PROCEDURES) - but while everybody including Spock is having emotional breakdowns and unable to concentrate on their jobs, he locks himself in the lab and calmly sciences it better. His constant spats with Spock aren't because he doesn't have an understanding of logic - it's because he knows on a personal level that logic without emotion is as dangerous as the reverse.

So anyway that's my Spock/McCoy manifesto. (We all know the endgame ship here is Kirk/Spock/McCoy, but S1 really pushes "Kirk is married to his ship", the real TOS OTP, so Spock and McCoy can make do while he works that out with her.)

(Also omg, this is really my first TOS watch with actual good visuals, all of the characters spend so much time giving each other unexplained Significant Looks that beg for explanation, and also making remarks that don't make sense as double entendres but make even less sense if they aren't. It's a show that makes Choices.)

• A Study of Recurring Interpersonal Phenomena Between S'chn T'gai Spock and Leonard Horatio McCoy (2437 words) by therev
  Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek
  Rating: General Audiences
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Leonard "Bones" McCoy/Spock
  Summary:

  Question: Could the unique phenomena which occurs between himself and Doctor McCoy actually be the result of mutual attraction? Spock tries to find out the way he knows best: science!




• Surgeon's Mate (4590 words) by belmanoir
  Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Leonard McCoy/Spock, James T. Kirk & Spock
  Characters: Leonard McCoy, Spock, James T. Kirk
  Additional Tags: Bread and Circuses, Episode Tag
  Summary:

  Spock likes McCoy. McCoy won't take a hint.




• Breaking Point (longish?) by Marcy
  This is hosted on the Spock/McCoyote's Den Archive on Tripod. It has explicit sex in it. It's set post-movies and explores the aftermath of the Katra transfer, among other things. You may have to copy-paste or zoom in to read it because the formatting is not, legible. It doesn't have a date but it's pre-2005.
  Summary: The first installment in the Kalevala Series. Prequel to A Scream in Vacuum, Ben Tor Katra, and Kalevala. McCoy's life is in shambles. He needs help, and it is up to Spock to help him.

The main Deep Space Nine enemy(ish) pairing is Garak/Bashir. Garak is the Cardassian tailor left behind by the occupying Cardassians when they evacuated the Bajor system - but is he more than just a tailor? Is he, perhaps, a spy? Bashir is the naive and perky Federation doctor who arrives with the new Federation-led administration of the old Cardassian station - but he is hiding a dark secret of his own.

The dark secrets thing is kind of a side issue, though. Mostly they engage in recreational cultural exchange across the gulf of enemy nations with a new and troubled peace. And flirt. A lot.

• pouring just a hint (8925 words) by susiecarter
  Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
  Additional Tags: Misunderstandings, Miscommunication, Mutual Pining, Alien Cultural Differences, Original Character(s)
  Summary:

  Julian doesn't think about it much these days. Why should he, when it's been so long?

  But when he does, if he does, well—he considers it part and parcel of Garak, that's all. Disconcerting at first, a little invasive. Awfully close to a line but not quite crossing it, and leaving Julian with absolutely no idea what he's meant to do in response. Garak in microcosm, summarized in a single unexpected gesture.

  (Or: Julian has always thought Garak just had a weird little habit. Until another Cardassian does the same thing to him, and seems to imbue the gesture with a meaning Julian really had not anticipated.)




• Learning the Language (13427 words) by Allemande
  Chapters: 2/2
  Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
  Additional Tags: Romance, Friendship, Post-War, Rebuilding, Friends to Lovers, Post-Canon
  Series: Part 1 of Learning the Language
  Summary:

  Julian Bashir joins the post-war effort on Cardassia Prime because it seems like the most obvious thing to do: No planet is worse off after the war, he's a doctor, and they don't have enough of those. He's learning the language, because that's what you do when you're living somewhere for an indefinite amount of time. But he soon realizes that language isn't just about vocabulary and grammar, and learns a few things about his own past along the way.




• Proof (81316 words) by AlphaCygni
  Chapters: 13/13
  Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Elim Garak/Cardassia, Elim Garak/Kelas Parmak, Julian Bashir/Elim Garak
  Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Cardassia, Enemies to Friends, Interspecies Book Club, POV Elim Garak, POV Julian Bashir, References to Shakespeare, Episode: s03e05 Second Skin, Obsidian Order, Angst
  Summary:

  Enabran Tain has retired, and Garak has been second-in-command of the Obsidian Order for over three years. His next assignment is the interrogation of Cardassia’s newest detainee, a Federation doctor charged with espionage.

The other important enemyslash ship in this fandom is Quark/Odo, which I have not read as much of but I'm pretty sure is what I actually shipped when I was watching the show in first run, because they are just so delightfully combative, and delighted about it, so here is a Quark/Odo bonus rec.

your accent mixing with mine (8931 words) by spacebubble
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Odo/Quark, Elim Garak & Odo, Garak/Bashir (background)
Additional Tags: Conversations, Language, Affectionate Insults, Shapeshifting, Pet Names, Character Study, and a burgeoning friendship with a detail-obsessed tinker tailor etcetera, Universal Translators, Translator Malfunctions
Summary:

The station's universal translators are malfunctioning, but Quark and Odo don't have a problem understanding each other.

Good Omens is the story of a demon who didn't so much fall as saunter vaguely downward, and an angel who was just enough of a bastard to be worth liking, and how they fell in love and attempted to save the world and realized that they could just pick a third side to both be on.

I think there was a TV show or something recently? (Just kidding, I did actually watch the show for this one.) So there's a lot of fanfic from the show. But I've been in this fandom since 1998 - I had a sleepover at shinyhappygoth's house, and read her copy of the book instead of sleeping (we had wild sleepovers, clearly). And the first online slash fic I ever read was Crowley/Aziraphale! And also there's too much show fic, I can't narrow it down, so have some classics of old bookfandom.

• And when he falls (1234 words) by torch
  Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley
  Summary:

  There are many ways to celebrate having avoided the apocalypse.




• The Sacred and the Profane (35477 words) by afrai
  Chapters: 15/15
  Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
  Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Angel Crowley (Good Omens), Demon Aziraphale (Good Omens)
  Series: Part 1 of The Sacred and the Profane universe
  Summary:

  Somewhere else, the happy ending was different.




• Ordinary People (The Anything But Ordinary Remix) (14447 words) by cimorene
  Fandom: Good Omens
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley
  Additional Tags: Remix, Romance, First Time, Alcohol, Wings, Humor, Making an Effort (Good Omens), Canon - Book, Getting Together
  Summary:

  Crowley has started to take a proprietary interest in Aziraphale's bookshop.

So today I have to come back to you with an apology. A couple weeks ago I did Witcher fandom! And I rec'ed Yennifer/Jaskier and Geralt/Emhyr, and I do stand by that.

But then msilverstar and rmc28 had to show up in comments and point out that I had missed the real enemyship in Witcher fandom, and mea culpa. They were right. The real one true enemyship in Witcher fandom is Iorveth/Vernon Roche.

In my defense, I had missed it because after reading several of the books, and absorbing a lot of canon via show and video game fandom, I barely knew who Vernon Roche was (something to do with Temerian politics? Sounds complicated) and had no idea who Iorveth was, so I figured it was one of those really minor side character ships where you had to be there in the chatroom when they came up with it.

Turns out you just had to know the second video game, not just the third one. In the second one Iorveth and Roche seem to be pretty major characters. Iorveth is the leader of the Scoia'tael, a group of elven guerilla terrorists. Roche is the leader of the Blue Stripes, the Temerian Special Forces commando unit tasked with stopping them. Explaining what is at the root of the conflict would require much greater knowledge of Witcher canon than I, frankly, ever want, and also probably several dedicated years studying Polish history, so we'll leave it that both of them have done terrible, terrible things for their causes, both of them have really awful reputations that they have earned in full, and there are no good guys here, just two people who've spend a long time doing the wrong thing for what they thought was the right reasons. But the two of them have been fighting each other back and forth through the Temerian forests in an evenly matched dog-and-squirrel chase for years, and they have each had each other at their mercy at least once - and found themselves unwilling to kill their counterpart (but quite willing to monologue about how much they respect them!)

Meanwhile, post-Witcher 3, all the political reasons they had to oppose each other are gone in the wake of Nilfgaard's conquest of the North (and so are most of the people they knew from those days.) They find themselves both reluctant survivors, tasked with trying to patch some kind of life and home together from what's left of them, and for once with common enemies and common goals. So that's great set-up there for enemyslash!

• Peace-Tied (54840 words) by bomberqueen17
  Chapters: 9/9
  Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Iorveth/Vernon Roche
  Additional Tags: Enemies to Lovers, Canon-Typical Violence, poorly-negotiated kink, Past Sexual Assault, Alcoholism, Addiction recovery, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, just a lot of post-trauma, Politics, Discussions Of Fantasy Racism, War Crimes, both of these people are war criminals, and have to deal with that, Hair Pulling, Sexual Choking, Blow Jobs, Biting, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Post-The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  Series: Part 25 of Meet Death Sitting
  
  Iorveth and Roche attend a diplomatic conference together.
  (Warning: This is part of an extremely long series that *will* eat your life for at least a week. But this one stands on its own, if you let it.)



• Mending Fences (8799 words) by quills_at_dawn
  Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Iorveth/Vernon Roche
  Additional Tags: Retirement, Post-Canon, Toussaint (The Witcher), Chaperon, Happy Ending
  Series: Part 7 of Witcher Shorts, Part 1 of Mending Fences
  
  Iorveth and Roche go on a road trip together.



• Here’s to the Men We Were (15549 words) by dread_thehalfhanded
  Chapters: 7/7
  Fandom: Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Iorveth/Vernon Roche
  Additional Tags: Set Post-W3, Mentions of Roche/Foltest, Vergen is happy and thriving under Saskia and I refuse to believe otherwise, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Grumpy Old Men, Drinking & Talking, Post-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Fantastic Racism, Needles, Masturbation, Pining, An unlearning, Enemies to Lovers
  
  Iorveth and Roche go flower-picking together.

He is Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander. Born in 1592 in the Highlands of Scotland and he is still alive. He is immortal. For 400 years he's been a warrior, a lover, a wanderer, constantly facing other immortals in a combat to the death. The winner takes his enemy's head and with it his power. I am a Watcher, part of a secret society of men and women who observe and record, but never interfere. We know the truth about immortals. In the end, there can be only one. May it be Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander.

That's it, that's all the show knowledge you need! That's all the average episode assumed you would know, anyway.

Except you need to know about Methos too. Methos is the World's Oldest Immortal (tm). He is mostly interested in being left alone and being a troll, in that order. People shipped him a lot with Duncan MacLeod, for fairly obvious onscreen reasons. The fic often had a massive dose of enemyslash to it, for slightly more complicated reasons. (Okay, the average Methos episode did have the format of 'Methos and MacLeod are the best of friends, they get into a spat about ethics, somebody else loses their head, Methos and MacLeod make up over murder', and there was the two-parter where MacLeod went evil and Methos had to save him, and the two-parter where Methos went evil and MacLeod had to save him, but other than that, honestly! they generally get on fairly well. As much as Immortals can, in a world where all Immortals more-or-less believe that they are trapped in a winner-take-all battle royale with each other.)

But a lot of the Methos/Mac fic went all in on the "Mac and Methos don't trust each other" in a way that felt really off-model when I actually watched the show? (And I have watched the whole show! It holds up better than, frankly, it has any right to.)

The real interesting enemies/lovers/friends dynamic here is with the Watchers. Joe is a Watcher. The Watchers are sworn never to interfere in Immortals' affairs, but they are also being slowly taken over, interally, by a faction that wants to murder Immortals for their own ends, and Joe has to constantly battle his love for his Immortal friends with his loyalty to the Watchers. Meanwhile. Methos has been living undercover as a mortal Watcher under the name Adam Pierson, and is happy to juggle his two opposing identities of Immortal and Watcher as long as he can get away with it. There is some really interesting complicated stuff there. (Also I ship it. A lot. And Joe is one of my favorite characters, ever.)

I feel like I'm not going to do justice to this recs set though because Highlander fandom isn't one that moved wholesale to AO3, and what is up there is mostly by still-very-active authors I've used in other fandoms, and huge swathes of the old fandom have just disappeared, and I never kept good enough records because Highlander fandom just seemed like it would always be there for me, waiting. But here are three good stories that deal with Watcher and Immortal conflicts of loyalty.

• Shades and Echoes (28308 words) by auberus
  Chapters: 19/?
  Fandom: Highlander: The Series
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Hints of slash - Relationship
  Characters: Methos, Duncan MacLeod, Connor MacLeod, Joe Dawson, Amanda Darieux, Hugh Fitzcairn, Don Salzer, Darius
  Additional Tags: AU
  Summary:

  In which Duncan meets Adam Pierson a little earlier than he did in canon, and promptly takes the 'new' Immortal under his wing.




• Immortal Haven (29506 words) by jtt
  Chapters: 6/6
  Fandom: Highlander: The Series, Highlander - All Media Types
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Characters: Methos, Joe Dawson, Immortals and Watchers, Amy Brennan-Thomas
  Additional Tags: Methos' past, advanced ancient cultures, Immortals as valuable members of society, Amy Zoll, Timothy Wyatt, Let's go spelunking people, Methos exposed as Methos to Watchers previous to this story, Methos' early years, Watchers, get their comeuppance, Identity Reveal
  Summary:

  The Watchers know who Methos is now, but as Joe warned them - they can't Watch someone they can't find. Finally, Methos is spotted at an archeology site... a 5,000 year old cave settlement to be exact. Set in 2000, but before the Endgame movie.




• Worth Having (3171 words) by Maygra
  Chapters: 1/1
  Fandom: Highlander: The Series
  Rating: General Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Characters: Joe Dawson, Methos, Methos/Joe implied
  Additional Tags: Gen or Pre-Slash, Community: Sweet Charity, 2008
  

Ah, the classic of all classics of enemy ships! The tale of a city torn by a feud between its two greatest families, and of the heir of one of the houses, and also the cousin of the prince who just hates said heir so purely that he's perfectly willing to throw over his family's traditional neutrality just to get the chance to fight him in the street.

(Also I guess there's a couple kids called Romeo and Juliet involved somewhere in the background?)

• Make it a Word and a Blow (2819 words) by NotTonightJosephine
  Fandom: Romeo+Juliet (1996), Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Mercutio/Tybalt, Mercutio/Benvolio Montague
  Additional Tags: Everybody Lives, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Mercutio's Hero Dick Saves the Day, Oral Sex, tiny bit of knifeplay, some accidental voyeurism, some less accidental exhibitionism, Canon-Typical Violence, Benvolio is ace-spec, Benvolio and Mercutio are in an open and loving relationship, potential future Mercutio/Benvolio/Tybalt, lots of banter, forgive my attempts to be Elizabethan, and american, I took Some Liberties with the Text, men in lingerie, Tybalt shows his pride in weird ways
  
  And but one word with one of us? couple it with something; make it a word and a blow.



• Flick of a blade (5019 words) by drcalvin
  Chapters: 2/2
  Fandom: Rómeó és Júlia (Színház)
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Mercutio/Tybalt
  Additional Tags: Knifeplay, Not Safe Sane and Consensual, Edgeplay, Outdoor Sex, Antagonism, Love/Hate, UST, Knifeplay Game of Chicken, PWP, Dirty Talk, Oral Knifeplay, Switchblade, Frottage, Mindfuck
  Series: Part 1 of A game of chicken (with knives)
  
  Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.


• what lies lurk in kisses (3922 words) by Cinaed
  Fandom: Rómeó és Júlia (Színház), Romeo And Juliet - All Media Types
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: Underage
  Relationships: Mercutio/Tybalt
  Additional Tags: Unresolved Sexual Tension, Brothels, Canon-Typical Violence, Kissing, Epilepsy, Yuletide, Yuletide Treat
  
  that I mean to make bold withal, and as you shall use me hereafter,

Naruto is a shonen manga and anime that is perhaps most succinctly described as what Harry Potter would be if everyone was unashamed and open about the fact that their real purpose was training up child soldiers to fight in a forever war.

Naruto is the baby who miraculously survived last generation's great evil, and ended up with that power sealed inside him, and was raised as a pariah and kept in ignorance of that fact.

There are a lot of enemy pairings in this fandom! Perhaps the most obvious is Naruto/Sasuke; Sasuke is the kid who was raised in apparent privilege but actually tragedy who has hate on first site with Naruto, but they come to grudgingly respect each other over their training, until Sasuke defects to the enemy for complicated reasons that we don't find out until much, much later.

There is also a lot of Naruto fic about characters who are part of the enemy Sasuke defects to, but I will admit to not having read much of that, because I stopped following canon before they really showed up. (With long shonen I tend to really like the first, oh, twenty installments or so, but at some point either it has been too long with nothing happening, or too much happening all at once, and I give up.)

Then there's Kakashi/Iruka. Iruka and Kakashi are the Remus and Sirius in the Harry Potter metaphor, if they'd actually had real instutional support and backup in their attempts to train the children. Iruka is Naruto's primary school teacher, who is the closest thing he has to a parental figure for most of his life. Kakashi is the eccentric, traumatize master who is assigned to teach him after he graduates. Their enemyship dynamis is not as dramatic as most of the others in this fandom, but their ship has kind of an odd history - in the beginning of canon, they'd actually had very little interaction, other than getting in a loud fight in an official meeting over the moral issues around the training up of child soldiers. But I guess Japanese fandom latched on to that interaction and started shipping them, and then the marketing picked up on that, so for awhile there was more Kakashi/Iruka merch than there was canon!

So have a Kakashi/Iruka recs set, because their fic tends to be lighter on complicated plot stuff than most of the others.

• Hunter's Moon (10635 words) by Maldoror_Chant
  Chapters: 2/2
  Fandom: Naruto
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
  Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Mild Hurt/Comfort, ninjas follow orders
  Summary:

  Ninja live and die for their village. Ninja follow orders. Ninja hurt and kill those they are ordered to hurt and kill, including other ninja. Ninja will hunt friends and loved ones if ordered to. Everything else is secondary.
  'Secondary' does not mean 'unimportant'.




• Animal Crackers (29471 words) by pentapus, torch
  Fandom: Naruto
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
  Additional Tags: mild violence really, mild slash really, Animal Harm, human harm, Treehouse Reversebang, art-based
  Summary:

  Iruka's quiet summer is suddenly full of children, animals, undead animals, summoned animals, traps, missions, dango, and really annoying jounin.




• Opening the Roads (8679 words) by thehoyden
  Fandom: Naruto
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
  Summary:

  He was a chuunin academy teacher, not a courtier trained in statecraft and diplomacy.