Lord of the Rings: Engastrimyth by Merripestin

Engastrimyth (Frodo/Sam | G | 947 words) is about what might have happened if Frodo had kept the one ring. This is creepy in just the right way to give me shivers. And Sam's voice as he narrates is just right as well.

Excerpt:
The first time he said, "I love you, Frodo," with my mouth, it stopped being true.

Smallville: Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! by Julad

Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! (Pete-Clark | PG13 | 2,788 words) is the story of Pete and Clark's friendship. It's rather saccharine, but I kind of like it because of that. Young Clark is adorable, and anything that fleshes out Pete well is, in my mind, good.

Excerpt:
Pete knew he was way cooler than his new best friend Clark. After all, he had three older brothers and knew more words than Clark. Not that Clark knew many words at all, but Pete had fun teaching him. Clark knew milk, cookies, sandwich (kind of-- he thought everything he could eat was a sandwich, including flowers). Pete taught Clark He-Man, ice-cream, cartoons, ass, and cooties; after that, Clark seemed to manage just fine on his own.

X-Men: The Zippo by Serial Karma

The Zippo (Bobby/John | NC17 | 2,069 words) is Bobby obsessing about John's lighter. There are a lot of sexy, sensual descriptions in this story. I, personally, like the build-up to the sex more than the sex, but that's my own quirk. And the sex is well-done too.

Excerpt:
Bobby wants to know what the lighter feels like. Is it always warm from constant contact with John's skin? ("Guh," goes Bobby's brain.) It looks so smooth, but is the texture different where those shark teeth are painted on? When John's tongue idly flicks out to taste the metal (which he only does when he's concentrating really hard, like on a math test), how does it taste?

Peter Pan: We Outgrow Love, Like Other Things by sophiahelix

We Outgrow Love, Like Other Things (Wendy | G | 1,781 words) continues where Peter Pan stops, with Wendy growing up and starting her own family. This story is... quiet and sad, slipping past a person's own notions.

Excerpt:
Wendy sometimes thought that she had been born with a certain number of kisses, and that she must be very careful about to whom they were they were given. She thought with chagrin of the many kisses she had given away so freely in her childhood, to her two first brothers, and to the brothers that came later, when now she had four sweet children who needed so many more kisses than she could give them.

Justice League: All Through the Night by Sarah T.

All Through the Night (Bruce/Wally | PG13 | 1,363 words) is about Batman coming to terms with the revelations of the episode where the Justice League met their evil twins from a parallel universe. And my descriptions, for both the story and the episode, do not do them justice. The story is introspective without getting bogged down by inner thoughts. And the characterization of Flash in this is excellent.

Excerpt:
Flash jumped to his feet. "Geez, I was just kidding."

He loomed over him. "And I wasn't. Wally--"

"Come on, lighten up, it's not--Hey!" Flash dropped both pints to the floor with a thud. "You know my name!"

He cursed silently. That was the sort of slip he should never make. Unforgivable. He straightened himself, considered. "I researched your identity some time ago."

"Well, I don't remember giving you permission to pry into my secret identity! I mean, my not secret identity! Well, secret to you guys! --What'd you do that for?"

"Because--" Because when he'd met Flash, he'd simply been unable to accept that anyone could be so sincere and open-hearted. He'd looked at his easy grin and seen a shark baring its teeth. The thought shamed him now. "Security. I needed to know."

Smallville: Uncle Einar by Shrift

Uncle Einar (Clark/Lex | PG13 | 3,197 words) has Lex at the Kent family reunion. Large family reunions are always an instant source of comedy. They make me smile, at least. And Clark's Uncle Einar is fantastic.

Excerpt:
Lex paused and nodded at one of Clark's relatives as she passed them on the landing -- he thought it might be his second cousin Jackie, but Clark hadn't seen her since he was eight, so he couldn't be sure. "Might I bother you for an explanation?"

Clark followed Lex into the bathroom and decided to play dumb. "Sure, Lex. What about?"

Lex didn't look up as he dabbed at his jacket sleeve with a wash cloth. "Oh, I don't know, Clark. Why don't we start with why I'm here and work our way up to the man we were just talking to who sounds like the Swedish Chef, and why your cousin Bobby asked me to meet him in the barn later so I could suck him off."

Clark's fingers slipped on the buttons of his shirt and a few went flying to clink against the mirror behind the sink. "He what? He's-he's got a mullet, Lex."

Justice League: A Self Apart by Te

A Self Apart (Wonder Woman/Hawkgirl | R | 1,838 words) is Diana musing about her situation and about Hawkgirl. This very much feels like it could fit without stretching canon and expounds on the Diana given in the show.

Excerpt:
Diana knows they think she's naive, that there's something inherently limiting about living one's life surrounded by women, and only women. They forget her age, and her strength, and her education.

Somehow, none of these things matter against the fact that she'd never exchanged words with a man until leaving Themyscira. They treat her with 'kid gloves,' and joke, and tease, and even Flash -- a man with far more bravery than sense -- is far more likely to try his wiles on the utterly uninterested (and violent) Shayera than on her.

And it's not as though she particularly *wants* Flash's attentions -- Diana has played stones with little girls more mature than him -- but... but.