Podfic rec: Merlin

"like grabbing my heart and taking my breath" by pandatwirls, read by lunchee | AU | Arthur/Merlin | the one where arthur leaves merlin breathless. | 1hr. 17min.

"Are you sleeping?" Arthur asks when Merlin is suspiciously quiet and a particularly funny joke concerning jelly gets no laugh from him.

"Yeah," Merlin makes a naively beguiling groan as he stretches out and wriggles back in his seat, yawning and rubbing his eyes, and all other signs of tiredness. "Sleepy."

"Okay," Arthur says and he just lets Merlin rest his head where he chooses, and if that so happens to be his shoulder then- Fuck.

Aww... Seriously, aww... That's one sweet tale! And I love lunchee's reading even though the music is way too loud.

Fic rec: X-Men: First Class

"never too late to be who you might have been" by acetamide | AU | Charles/Erik | Erik wakes suddenly and takes a deep breath, and realises that there is nothing. | ~20.000 words

And Erik thinks of Charles, standing commanding and unyielding on the grass and watching Stryker squirm in front of him; he thinks of Charles, and the pure outrage in his voice, and is struck cold at the thought of what he might do. Charles is the most powerful telepath in the world and his powers are near-limitless, and one idiotic human was stupid enough to test them.

This is one of the best fix-it!fics I've ever read. So detailed and well plotted... I'm smitten, smitten!