31 Flavors: Dracula fic

Enough is not as good as a feast (4089 words) by belmanoir
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dracula (TV 2013)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alexander Grayson/Renfield
Characters: R.M. Renfield, Alexander Grayson
Additional Tags: Backstory, First Time
Summary:

Renfield settles into his new life. He cannot escape the bizarre conclusion that his employer, Vlad Ţepeş, terror of the Danube and scourge of the Order of the Dragon, has been weeping and rearranging the sitting room furniture in the middle of the night.

I've watched only a few episodes of the current Dracula series with Jonathan Rhys Myers, and vampire stories/Dracula stuff isn't usually my thing, but I enjoyed what I did watch, especially the guy playing Renfield (who was awesome in RocknRolla). So when my pal belmanoir wrote slash fic for it, I had to read it -- she's such an incredible writer that I was sure it would be good, and it really, really was. It's a deceptively simple story, but there are layers and layers going on underneath this main concept, especially in light of the fact that Renfield is a successful black man in a very hostile white person's world, and Dracula is playing at a false identity, and just...well, go read it and you'll see. It's really fucking good, and also smoking hot.

More joy day! and 31 Flavors: Pacific Rim fic

I have had a most decidedly unjoyful day today, and it's 9:30 and I'm just now getting around to something for more joy day. So I should manufacture some joy to make this terrible day go out a little betterer than it came in (how bad was it? I bought those little two-bite cupcakes that come in a package of a dozen and are mostly frosting, which I don't even like as much as cake).

So steal from the best, I always say: like killabeez did, tell me a character or an actor I'll be likely to know, and I'll give you the reason they fill me with joy.

And today's 31 Flavors rec is one that fills me with joy. I haven't put up anything here for my major current fandom, Pacific Rim, and this isn't Hot Dads focused completely the way I tend to roll, but damn, this story filled me with glee. Herc is WAY MORE of a fainting flower here than I see him, and his hesitancy with Stacker doesn't ring true to me, but I still got caught up in the author's version of things and didn't mind too much. I also loved how the story starts out with the scientists, showing us the events from Newt's point of view, and then flips to the same story from Herc's point of view. It's really, really funny.

Hermann Gottlieb's Stacker Pentecost Obsession Trapper Keeper (7455 words) by what_alchemy
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Pacific Rim (2013)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb, Hercules Hansen/Stacker Pentecost
Characters: Hermann Gottlieb, Stacker Pentecost, Newton Geiszler, Hercules Hansen, Chuck Hansen
Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Chuck is the biggest asshole of a matchmaker ever
Summary:

Hermann has a giant man crush on Stacker.

Newt finds it delightful. Herc, not so much.