Snowflake Challenge #8: Reccing others

snowflake_challenge #8: Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

This one is a breeze, although I'm sad that I can't rec two of my all-time favs, because they are no longer found online and the only source I know of them is a private epub & some yellowed web prints...
Anyways (order again meaningless except for convenience; author links within the story links):

1. Black Moon Rising by Elegant Paws
   Fandom: Ai no Kusabi
   Length: 194,631 words (and three more chapters in a sadly unfinished sequel)
   Rating: Mature
   Pairing: Raoul / Katze, (Iason/Riki; Donovan/Guy distant seconds)
   Summary: Enemies make the strangest of all bedfellows.
   Where?: fanfiction.net
   BMR is the one AnK fic that stayed in my mind since the very first time I read it; it grew, expanded, spawned fic ideas (yes, we're talking 4F (fan fiction fan fiction) had I actually written any of it). It is an intricate tale about the background of Amoi society and how it formed from the initial colonists; how Blondies and mongrels are connected, and affected. To call it intriguing would be an understatement.
   
   
2. Disillusion by Tanuki-dono (a.k.a. resonant_words)
   Fandom: X/1999
   Length: 1200 words
   Rating: not stated, but I'd give it an R.
   Chars.: Saiki, Subaru, Seishiro
   Summary: First impressions aren't always reliable
   Where?: LiveJournal
   resonant_words wrote many lovely short stories and her (sadly unfinished) Tokyo Babylon-fiction Illusory Tandem was one of the inspirations for what would turn into the Decagram. Disillusion stars one of X's rare characters, Saiki, and his first perception of Sumeragi Subaru, which comes crashing down around his feet when he sees more than he bargained for.
   
   
3. The Trouble with Tortuna by Bruinhilda
   Fandom: Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
   Length: 2677 words (and a sequel)
   Rating: Teen and up
   Chars.: Zachary Fox, Doc Hartford, Shane Gooseman, Niko, OC
   Summary: Reporter Columnist Professional Smartass Davy Rourke of the Roving Star visits the latest tourist hotspot...Tortuna City!
   Where?: Archive of Our Own
   Bruinhilda writes extremely funny stories with just the right amount of seriousness strewn in for taste, sparking more than one of my own. (And yes, she inspired Talky Toaster in The Geist of the Goose!). TTwT is a classic GR plot with hilarious head commentary that - in my mind - could have easily been an episode of the series itself! Not to be missed.
   
   
4. Pairbond by baybelletrist
   Fandom: Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
   Length: 10325 words
   Rating: Mature
   Chars.: Gooseman, Niko, Walsh, Killbane, OCs
   Summary: Niko and Goose, sent on the most dangerous of missions, find themselves outnumbered and cut off from reinforcements. To survive, they must find a way to gain the upper hand against three deadly opponents.
   Where?: Archive of Our Own
   baybelletrist's careful characterization, serious topics, and precise prose make her works one of the major inspirations in GR fiction. Pairbond is one of the most intriguing coverings of GR's all-time OTP. Not to be missed.
   
   
5. Darkness Unleashed by Lara_bee and Macx
   Fandom: Yami no Matsuei
   Length: 421,929 words (in a series of 30 works - which I'd consider 30 chapters of one big story)
   Rating: Mature
   Chars.: basically everyone in YnM and then some
   Summary: There is a darkness inside Tsuzuki, a powerful force, a strength no human has and no shikigami ever had. EnmaDaiou knows that and he sets it free.
   Where?: Archive of Our Own
   A massive tale probably not for the faint of heart that I read when it was released chapter-by-chapter, having me actually biting my nails until the next one came out. I esp. loved the insinuations with The Count.