Harry Potter: Freeze-frame by penknife

Freeze-frame (Remus/Sirius | G | 806 words) has Remus looking through a bunch of Muggle photos that Lily took while they were still in school and remembering. The story captures the artistry in still photos and why they're not necessarily worse than moving ones. Remus' descriptions of the Marauders are almost photo-like too, stripping away everything except the tableau in the picture.

Excerpt:
She brought the camera to the first Quidditch game of the season and sat with Remus and Peter in the stands, snapping pictures of James and Sirius. Remus spent a long time looking at them when she got them back by post, fascinated by the way James was frozen in a dive, his body taut with concentration, hand reaching for something he'd never touch. Here was Sirius, hand raised, grinning and shouting something, his robes and hair ruffled by the wind.

Discworld: When Chidder Met Teppic by Celestina

When Chidder Met Teppic (Chidder/Teppic | PG13 | 2,662 words) is Pyramids told through Chidder's point of view. This is nicely fluffy and makes me want to reread Pyramids. Plus, footnotes are always fun.

Excerpt:
When they heard the news about what had transpired in the kingdom of Djelibeybi from fellow traders, Chidder had quite frankly found it incredulous and suspected that it was a tale of pure fiction. Ptraci seemed to believe it, though, and it was her country, so Chidder decided to just go with the flow. When she came up with the crazy plan of being delivered to Teppic in a carpet carried by him, he found it ridiculous. He agreed to go along with it, though, just on the off-chance that he'd get to see Teppic one more time⁶.

Seeing Teppic again, somehow more mature in the months since they'd seen him, Chidder felt his heart skip a beat. Shock, he told himself. Shock that things had changed. Chidder didn't believe in stupid romantic notions. He hadn't expected anything this time, and was surprised to find himself upset when Teppic and Ptraci left to talk in private.

⁶ The thought of asking Tepp to choose between them never crossed his mind. Mainly because it was too scared of incurring the wrath of his conscious self.

Good Omens: TwoFish by Grindylowe

Twofish (Crowley/Aziraphale | PG13 | 6,620 words) has Crowley buying pet fish for himself and Aziraphale. Then he and Aziraphale get really, really drunk. The conversation at the beginning is lots of fun. I like how the sex is handled because it doesn't make sense for an angel and a demon to engage in human sex. In this story, they don't, and the alternative is so much better.

Excerpt:
"What's this? Fish?" Aziraphale asked, sitting on the couch, which creaked and sighed orgasmically in the way only an very expensive leather couch can. "What drove you to fish?"

"Shh-shh," he said. "Watch." The Great White Bastard, Jaws of Steaming Hot Death, Tour Guide of the River Styx, Gilled Terror, and Your Ass Between My Teeth floated, completely still, next to the little plastic argonaut stepping out of the little plastic sunken ship, next to the assorted Homies, and the figurines of Slimer and Egon from a "Ghostbusters" Happy Meal which had lived in the pencil drawer of Crowley's desk for eighteen years.

The goldfish bobbled about the surface, swimming back and forth, poking about excitedly; the betta was apparently asleep.

"They're lovely," Aziraphale said carefully. "How long have you been...watching them?" He asked in a tone that questioned Crowley's health.

"Dammit! What's wrong with the bloody bugger?" Crowley snapped, slapping the side of the bowl. "Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"Kill?"

"The white one's a fighting fish. From Japan. He usually beats your fish silly. Great fun."

"My fish?"