Due South Fic Recs
Academic Punk by TheHoyden (RayK/Fraser): The quintessential college professor AU
Busted & its sequel Tapestry by JiM: A year after CoTW, and a life-changing experience, Ray goes back to Canada
Like a House on Fire by @bethbethbeth01 & kelliem (RayK/Fraser): “In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, ‘It’s deja vu all over again.’”
With Six You Get Eggroll by @cesperanza (RayK/Fraser): The story of how Ray & Fraser ended up with six kids.
Ray Is Not Actually Graphing The History Of His Relationship With Fraser–That Would Be Pathetic, And Ray Is Not Pathetic–But If He Was Graphing It, Even Just In His Own Stressed-Out, Messed-Up Brain, It Might Look Something Like This by sprat (RayK/Fraser): The sex has never not been good. That is not the confusing part of Ray-and-Fraser. They are naturals at the sex; the sex is their friend. If there was some kind of sexathalon, the two of them would be All-State, trophy-winning champs.
Like a House on Fire by Beth H (bethbethbeth): "In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, 'It's deja vu all over again.'"
Ping by Speranza: I am not the only person here who wants a do-over.
Tip, Slide, Tumble by j_s_cavalcante: Ray knew when he found the body in the alley it was going to change someone's life. He just didn't expect that life would be his.
All the Comforts of Home by rattlecatcher: post-CotW
Family Portrait by Journey [archived by dsa_archivist]: A slightly AU Ray Kowalski meets Constable Benton Fraser.
This Is Us Series by AuKestrel: how was the decision reached between Kowalski and Fraser to embark on the quest for the Hand of Franklin?
Near Wild Heaven Series by AuKestrel: This was, almost literally, the first thing I wrote, and certainly the first long thing I ever wrote. (Coming to Terms was the first "short" story I wrote and posted.) I worked on this off and on for over a year and did not write it in any kind of linear fashion. The first part was actually finished last, in part because I was stuck in getting them to a plausible misunderstanding that was necessary for the plot (such as it was). It's rough, and could have done with more work, although I did fix a lot of the (popular at the time, I swear!) dialect.
I'm posting it in part because I had SUCH a great time writing it (in fact, there are still parts of it that make me laugh), because I learned so much by/while writing it, and also because it's sort of "historical": a lot of the tropes in dS fandom did not exist when this was written (hard to believe, but there were only 27 F/K stories on Hexwood when I came into the fandom, and only about 5 of those had any kind of M/M sex!), and I thought it would be fun for other people to see how we earlier writers managed such things as tropes before they were tropes. But, in essence, you are about to read a "first novel," with all the alarm bells that ought to ring in your head.
Hawks and Hands by Dira Sudis (dsudis): Eighteen sex scenes strung together with angst and hockey.
Finding the Words by Berty: When luck finally runs out, who's there to pick up the pieces?
Wildly Courteous Ways by Starfish [archived by dsa_archivist]: A new assignment has Ray worried until Fraser steps in to help.
When the Ice Goes Out by Kellie Matthews [archived by dsa_archivist]: Long past CotW, Fraser and Ray K. discover that life both it and isn't as simple as it seems.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Wolves by Penelope Whistle [archived by dsa_archivist]: From stake-out to make-out.
Unguarded Protectorate by Bone [archived by dsa_archivist], Mairead Triste [archived by dsa_archivist]: Smut and angst. This story was previously published in the zine SERGE PROTECTOR.
Somewhere Else to Be by Kellie Matthews [archived by dsa_archivist]: This is an AU. Fraser's not a Mountie, Ray's not a cop, but as someone once said, things once linked remain that way. In any universe, they are meant to be partners.
The Reaching Out One by Alex51324: (AO3 account required) It's ten years after the events of CoTW (in other words, the present day). After the Quest, Fraser and Ray went back to their regular lives--
The Course by Bone [archived by dsa_archivist], Aristide [archived by dsa_archivist]: Randomness. Inevitability. Smut.
If It Walks Like A Duck . . . by Beth H (bethbethbeth): When an old friend of Ray Kowalksi's returns to Chicago, it takes almost no time at all for her to draw the obvious - and erroneous - conclusion about Ray and his "partner."
Genesis by kalena: In the beginning, Ray Kowalski meets Benton Fraser, geologist and volcano cowboy, in Hawaii. AU.
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WIP Game! ✨
RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.
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i was tagged by @luredin (thank you!) and i’ll tag @redgoldblue, @spaceradars, @logicgunn, and you, the person reading this, to either do this tag game, not do it, or do it six months from now (or anywhere between now and then) - whichever works for you.
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and then, hm. the thing about how i write fic is that technically speaking it’s, uh, deeply inefficient, in the sense that i’ll start a hundred things (more literally than you might think) and bounce around between them until something gets close enough to being finished that it just needs a final little push (which only happens for about half the things i start, but that’s okay, because the other half is also an invaluable part of the process).
point being, the list of WIPs is long. curated version (with any projects i’d consider abondoned/barely started filtered out) below the cut. send me a title or fandom + number!
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Starsky & Hutch (practically all of this is Starsky/Hutch)
Our girlfriend who lives in Canada
All your ducks in a row
Starsky gets politically involved
Starsky decides Hutch’s mustache is gay
On blond blintzes, and how to sweeten them: easy 5-step recipe!
Starsky interrupts Hutch’s date with a guy
Gold dust woman // Take your silver spoon (Dig your grave)
Hutch has a new neighbor
Peter Whitelaw meets Starsky for dinner
Someone overhears them
Starsky’s brother visits
Hutch gets himself a beard
Not even a good kisser (Death in a different place tag)
Everything goes wrong / They were jinxed
Hutch kisses Starsky
Hutch would pick Paul Newman
Starsky’s painted nails
Love you to love me
Sleep together sometimes
Fire metaphors - And a freight train running through the middle of my head
Starsky dates a married woman
Here be dragons (Cowboy on the white horse)
Hutch is the utterly oblivious one, Starsky is confused
Greg is a four letter word
Cuddling only happens when they’re dying
Huggy brings a housewarming gift
Arranged Marriage AU
The Brotherhood of the Traveling Pet Rock
Hutch vs. glasses
Twilight
Personalized embroidered towels
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Hawaii Five-0 (everything here is Steve/Danny)
It might sound cheesy
The opposite of purple prose (isn’t this)
Counting the days (and the hours, minutes, seconds, and maybe a microsecond or two)
The fic where Steve thinks Danny is dating the botanist neighbor
Arguments over spice racks
Five people who don’t get why Danny couldn’t just tell Steve that he’s in love with him (and one person who does)
Steve sees rainbows everywhere
Danny loses track of the line between friendship and romance
Five things Nahele learned from Steve (plus one)
They try to find a term for each other
Ace soulmate AU
The bunk beds fic
Steve and Danny buy a house together
Five times Steve is not going to be emotional about moving
They have Lou and Renee over for dinner!!!
The hyphenation of life
I love you sounds different if you’re saying it to a guy you’re sleeping with
I spy, with my little bi
Multimedia fic?
The soap opera fix
Deus ex machina (the one with dolphin God)
Danny has someone else
Steve’s becomes… themed
They watch Top Gun
Danny Williams and the Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Neighborhood Barbecue
Danny undercover needs to ward off advances
Danny tries to get Steve’s phone because he sent Stella a gay crisis text
Superheroes at a museum
A flip-flop state of mind (the half-posted multichapter fic already up on ao3)
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Stargate Atlantis (John/Rodney except for that last one, where it’s &)
The Brightest Light in Atlantis
Universe where X
Some kind of DADT repeal fic
John tells Rodney he likes him and they try to figure it out together
Aro Ace John
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due South (RayK/Fraser, and for #2 also RayV/Stella)
Oral hygiene fic
Fraser and both Rays and Stella have dinner together
The Guy Thing
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Other
Homophobia? (Sports Night, Dan/Casey)
Leapfrog (911, Buck/Eddie)
Jolene/Diane (from the songs. so I guess songfic)
Johnny comes out (and he and Daniel keep going to that bar) fic (Cobra Kai, Johnny/Daniel)
Our Dear Mr. Wilson’s Guide To Becoming A Successful Contributing Member Of A Team Of Internationally Renowned High-Tech Do-Gooder Criminals (Leverage Redemption, gen with background OT3)
MASH marriage fic (MASH, Hawkeye/Trapper)
BJ figures out Hawkeye is not very heterosexual (MASH, gen)
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watching some due south and fraser/rayk videos on youtube and crying over how beautiful the show and this ship in particular was and just remembering some things in no particular order:
“Do you find me attractive?” "Very much so, yes.”
the underwater “breathing” thing
zero personal space
the smiles at the end of mountie on the bounty
I will beat you to death with this empty gun
zero personal space the extended edition with extra grabbing
betting on air
LoooOOOuuuu Scagnetti
being in synch
the entirety of Asylum
Love at First Sight discussion with Meaningful Camera Shot(TM)
punching each other
who left the empty butterdish in the fridge
THEY LITERALLY RIDE OFF INTO THE SUNSET TOGETHER
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