Makoyi's Fanfic Recs and Other Stuff

Title: Air Magic
Author: Flamebyrd
Fandom: Leverage (characters), Emelan (fusion, universe but no characters)
Genre: Fusion
Length: Short (2,687 words)

Author's Summary:
Parker moves into Discipline.

Review:
I have a special love for Emelan fusions and or Parker, Hardison and Eliot so I jumped on this fic as soon as it was posted. Some really good choices were made to translate the characters into the Emelan world - their magics in particular. The characterization of all the characters is spot on too.

Air Magic (on AO3)

Title: The Ghost Job
Author: seraphina_snape
Fandom: Leverage, Supernatural
Genre: Crossover, Casefic
Length: Medium (10,632 words)

Author's Summary:
The Leverage crew takes on the case of Mindy who's trying to prove that her husband wants to kill her for her money. But when Cliff - the husband - is found dead, things start to go wrong. The Feds show up to question Mindy, but the two guys' badges are about as real as Hardison's FBI badge - something that Eliot realizes pretty much right away. With a mysterious death and two fake FBI agents in the mix, the case takes off in a direction that Parker, Eliot and Hardison could never have guessed.

Review:
Straight up casefic as far as Leverage is concerned until the bad guy turns up dead and their surveillance caught nothing. The Leverage team and the Winchesters team up to solve a haunting/murder. It's written in Supernatural style but mostly from the POV of the Leverage characters. I missed the Leverage style humor and characterization work, but understand how that might not have worked in a Supernatural casefic. Otherwise, it's a good mystery story.

The Ghost Job (on AO3)

Title:  Thursday Lunch Cafe
Author:  clavicular 
Fandom:  Big Bang Theory, Leverage
Genre:  Friendship
Length: Short (1,602 words)

Author's Summary: The table was turned 45˚ too far clockwise, hardly the optimum angle for maximising space. There was really no reason for Sheldon to be crushed into the corner. And yet. Thanks to the incompetent café staff, here he was. "Alright, what do you want?" Sheldon gaped at the woman. "You're not my waitress!" "I guess your usual waitress took the day off," she said, tapping a pen against her notepad.

Review:
Parker and Sheldon meet, hit it off in their very unique ways, and decide to be (platonic) something-better-than-friends.  It's amazing :D

Thursday Lunch Cafe (on AO3)

Title: like you know i am better than the worst thing i ever did
Author: postcardmystery
Fandom: Leverage
Genre: Character Study
Pairing: Eliot/Hardison/Parker
Length: Short (1,744 Words)
Warnings: Dark (theme of death, heroic self-sacrifice)

Author's Summary:
“I’m goin’ to die for them,” he says to Sophie, before he ever says it to Nate, and it is not a simple statement of fact but a barebones confession, the helpless bleeding of a wound that he was too smart to not know had been made but he’d been putting pressure of for years, hoping that with spit and a prayer that he could make it heal, but he never could, isn’t sure that the stitches that could close that wound have even been invented.
“Yes,” she says, “And how long have you known that?”

Review:
This fic is an Eliot character study - the ship is very background so don't read for that (or decide not to read because of it).  I think Eliot Spencer is an awesome character - if you subscribe to the Sorting Hat's view of humanity, Eliot embodies a lot of qualities of the ideal hero according to Hufflepuff which is really interesting and more rare than any of the other house hero types - I'd personally like to see more of the Hufflepuff hero.  This fic is a bit of a deconstruction of the hero archetype though - taking those hero traits and pushing them down the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism (towards the latter) which makes for a very dark fic but an interesting one.

like you know i am better than the worst thing i ever did (on AO3)

Title: I Lie, I Cheat, I Steal (and I Just Don't Get Any Respect)
Author: fiercelydreamed
Fandom: Leverage, White Collar
Genre: Crossover
Length: Short (6,767 Words)
Admin Note: rec'd on fancake

Author's Summary:
"All right," Nate says, and smacks his hands together. "Let's go steal a con artist."

Review:
Short, but shows off the cleverness of both shows' characters. I especially like Parker's Eliot impression and her reaction when Neil recognizes her.

I Lie, I Cheat, I Steal (and I Just Don't Get Any Respect) [on AO3]

Title: The Not Your Teaching Tool Job
Author: BlackEyedGirl
Fandom: Leverage
Pairings: Parker/Eliot Spencer/Alec Hardison
Genre: Romance, Coming Out, Asexual Relationships
Length: Short (Words: 3,750)

Author's Summary:
Parker doesn't understand why it has to be more complicated than: "I want to be with you, I just don't want to sleep with you." It's everyone else who has the problem. (Parker as a biromantic asexual)

Review:
LGBT fest fic from a few years ago. I've just found Leverage and I really like some of the quirky characters, especially Parker, Eliot, and Hardison. I think this fic does a good job with Parker's characterization and manages to be a good portrayal of romantic asexuality and coming out as ace too.

The Not Your Teaching Tool Job (on AO3)