Fic rec: X-Men: First Class

"Any Day Now" by entangled_now | Charles/Erik | Involuntary crossdressing | Raven's smiling so hard her face has to hurt, and he can feel the wash of her amusement. It's mildly humiliating. | 3.800 words

Erik's swearing and pushing his hair out of his face. Calling his name quietly, like he's afraid he's broken him. Charles isn't quite sure that he hasn't yet. He feels very sore, and strange, sticky and utterly debauched, mind humming like someone carved into it, left it raw and wet.

Yeesh, that's hot! O.o Wow, so utterly, utterly hot. Definitely XXX rated, not even NC-17 anymore *fans herself*

Podfic rec: Merlin

"Not In This Land Alone" by torakowalski, read by crinklysolution | Arthur/Merlin, Gwen/Lance, Morganna/Morgause | Modern AU | When Merlin Emrys gets a summer job at Buckingham Palace, he doesn't expect to even meet King Arthur, let alone become involved in protecting him from a plot to overthrow the monarchy.
 | 4hrs. 10mins.

"Merlin, come here and take this one too." He waved a small painting of a blonde woman who Merlin was fairly certain was Queen Igraine. "And do try not to shout at her, all right?"

Merlin took the painting with numb hands. It wasn't as if strange things didn't happen around him all the time, but he'd never actually had a dead king talk to him before. He looked at Queen Igraine suspiciously while he carried her, but she didn't offer up any conversation, snooty of otherwise.

Relieved, he bent down to set her against the wall, next to Uther.

Several times, I laughed out loud while listening to this podfic. What an awesome, plotty thing. And I just love the way crinklysolution's reading it!

XMFC: favorite scenes 8

( I can't shoot anyone point blank, let alone my friend! )