sakura_no_miko

Title: that song you sing for the dead

Author: brella

Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho

Rating: PG

Pairing: none, gen

Warnings: minor character death

Other notes: grieving, cultural differences, family, friends,

Length: 23k

Summary: “What do you want?” Yukina asks, impartially, for she knows that the answer likely has nothing at all to do with her and no longer childishly fantasizes that anything ever does.

Hiei struggles with the simple question—anything like it has always seemed to leave him in a quandary. He has made no move to sit down; then again, Yukina has certainly not invited him to. His posture is rigid, poised to flee at any moment.

“Kurama told me that the koorime Rui died,” he explains at last, “and that you’ve gotten it into your head that you wish to return to the Glacial Village as some sort of ill-advised commemoration. Is that true?”

Title: The Three Trials of Segeeth

Author: Lenore

Fandom: Smallville

Rating: PG-13 (prequel is NC-17)

Pairing: Clark/Lex

Warnings:  prequel has underage, drug use and dubcon; emotional blackmail, character injury, discussion of partner betrayal

Other notes: AU, alien culture, culture clash, arranged marriage, mythology, quest/trials

Length: 22k

Summary: Lex sets out to prove himself and win Kal.

Title: We’ve Gotten Strange, We’ve Gotten Older (It’ll Be Alright)

Author: theswearingkind

Fandom: Spartacus

Rating: R

Pairing: Agron/Nasir

Warnings: canon character death, semi-explicit sexuality, coarse language, jealousy

Other notes: established relationship, post-series, domesticity, wedding, vignettes, old age, culture clash

Length: 5k

Summary: There are hard times, of course, as they knew there would be. But there are sweet times, too.

Title: Not Part of the Plan series

Author: Annie D / scaramouche (tumblr)

Fandom: Supernatural

Pairing: Dean/Castiel

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), forced/arranged marriage (and dubcon elements related to that), couple of instances of self-harm, ritual/magical bloodletting and tattooing, captivity, mentions of childhood abuse, manipulation

Other notes: political drama, work-in-progress, long-distance relationship, slow build, relationship problem(solving), angst, cultural differences, adventure

Length: 340k

Summary:

Castiel's spent most of his adult life keeping his head down and staying out of trouble. This is a deliberate choice on his part, because as a cousin of the King, he'd rather stay unimportant and forgotten. This changes abruptly when King Michael decides that he has a better use for Castiel: he is to be wed to a noble member of the neighboring Republic, as part of an agreement between their two nations.

Castiel knows he has to obey, but that doesn't mean he won't rebel in what small ways he can. Unexpectedly, his actions end up having far-reaching consequences.

Title: The Snow Doll

Author: jemisard

Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space 9

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Garak/Bashir(-ish)

Warnings: hypothermia, character injury, ambiguous character death, angst

Other notes: hurt/comfort, fairy tales, character study, culture clash

Length: 22k

Summary: Crashed on a frozen world, off course and with no communications, Bashir and Garak just have to survive and stay sane until help arrives.

Title: Like A Tear Cast in Stone

Author: CatalenaMara

Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Kirk/Spock

Warnings: depression, identity issues, culture clash, species-ism, marital issues/arranged marriage

Other notes: excellent original character, outside perspective, classic fic, psychology, alien culture

Length: 6k

Summary: A Vulcan woman recently posted to the Enterprise has difficulty accepting human behavior and Spock’s seeming betrayal of Vulcan by bonding with Kirk.

Title: Cardassian Courtship

Author: Lady Drace

Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space 9

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Garak/Bashir

Warnings: sex (gay)

Other notes: culture clash, rampant unresolved sexual tension, aggressive flirting

Length: 10k

Summary: Bashir suddenly connects some dots.