Some Twoof Recs

Some fics I've enjoyed over the last few weeks....

• [FIC] Out In The Woods, Down In The Leaves by the_ragnarok [Derek/Stiles, Pack/Stiles] 8k, Xeno, Gangbang, Fuck or Die. Summary: In which a ritual requires that Stiles get fucked by the entire pack, in wolf shape.
• [FIC] Stiles Super O by ametis [Derek/Stiles] 4k, Explicit, Prostate Massage, Multiple Orgasms. Summary: Derek buys a sex toy for Stiles.
• [FIC] Edges And Lines by blacktofade [Derek/Stiles] 4k, Explicit, Crossdressing. Summary: Derek likes Stiles in lingerie and makeup.
• [FIC] Not A Nine Inch Nails Song by HalfFizzbin [Derek/Stiles] 1k, Explicit, First Time. Summary: The first time they have sex, Stiles thinks he's prepared for anything.
• [FIC] How To Win An Argument Without Really Trying by sffan [Derek/Stiles] 2k, Explicit, Underage. Summary: It stared with a kiss. Well, actually, it started with an argument.
• [FIC] We Have Ways Of Making You Talk by DevilDoll [Derek/Stiles] 1k, Not Rated, Drugged!Derek. Summary: In which Derek gets dosed with truth serum.
• [FIC] Human Contact by vampireisthenewblack [Derek/Stiles] 3k, Explicit, PWP. Summary: Stiles can't take the pain away, but the skin-to-skin contact helps. It calms Derek, stops him from using all his energy in the instinctive fight or flight response that his injury causes. "It's working, just--" He takes Stiles's arm by the wrist, pulls it over his chest, then tips Stiles's head onto his shoulder so he can feel Stiles's breath on his skin. "Yeah. That's good."
• [FIC] Lift You To Your Higher Ground by verity [Derek/Stiles] 5k, Explicit, Self-Discovery, Sexual Identity, Asexual Character, Crossdressing. Summary: Derek takes a deep breath before he looks up. "I was going to jungle to pick up a guy." "Huh." Stiles taps his fingers against his bottom lip. They come away red; there's already lipstick on his teeth. "You know there's an app for that. Grindr. You're--I bet you could just get guys to come over, like pizza delivery." "I don't like pizza," Derek says.
• [FIC] You Suck by collie [Derek/Stiles] 8k, Explicit, Thumbsucking, Future Fic. Summary: It's obviously rude and insensitive when Derek grabs Stiles by the wrist and yanks his thumb out of his mouth, but Stiles just snorts a laugh when it's immediately replaced with one of the bigger curly fries out of his Arbys bag. "You're going to get buck teeth," Derek says, folding his arms and looking pointedly at Stiles. "I am not-" Stiles cuts himself off as his tongue darts over his upper lip. He makes a face and runs it over his front teeth, lip skinning up in an unintentional baring of teeth. "Do I have buck teeth?" he panics. The curly fries are forgotten and dropped into the trash.
• [FIC] Something Sweet To Tide You Over by weathervaanes [Derek/Stiles] 2k, Explicit, Kitchen Sex. Summary: It's all very simple really; Derek wasn't supposed to be home. See, when Stiles promised his best friend, his brother, his literal best man, that he would bake 72 cupcakes for Anna Victoria's fourth birthday he fucking meant it. He meant it because his alternate plan was to spend Thursday in a funk over Derek being away and surrounded by born wolves with communal living spaces and no sense of the need to use clothing.
• [FIC] But Not With Haste by uraneia [Derek/Stiles] 21k, Explicit, X-Men Fusion. Summary: It's been years since Derek escaped from the hunters who killed his family and bound him in his human form. He travels solo, never staying in one place, keeping under the radar--until a skinny, smart-mouthed kid stows away in the back of his truck. Four months ago Stiles's first kiss put his best friend in a coma. His dad gave him a couple hundred bucks and a hug and told him to run. By the time Stiles witnesses the cage fighter known as Wolverine take out a shotgun and its wielder with his bare hands, he's got a plan. He knows there's a school in New York for kids like him. All he has to do is get there. OR, in which Derek is the werewolf version of Wolverine and Stiles is Rogue.
• [FIC] Versus by secondstar [Derek/Stiles] 95k, Explicit, Sports AU, Football, Coming Out, Lots of sex! Summary: At age nineteen, Stiles Stilinski was the next big thing, according to The Guardian. It was surreal, not being able to turn on Sky Sports without hearing his name mentioned along with the names of players he grew up idolizing. Stiles couldn't believe that this was his life.
• [FIC] Stone/Sponge by 1001cranes [Peter/Stiles] 3k, Mature, Arranged Marriage, Imprinting. Summary: Peter has a taste for the all-consuming; he doesn't find it at all strange to be in the minor percentage of werewolves who have mates.
• [FIC] Growing Pains by TheLonelyMan [Sheriff/Stiles] 1k, Explicit, Incest, Underage. Summary: Stiles is a bit of a late bloomer.
• [FIC] Daddy's Lil Boy by Rrrowr [Peter/Stiles, Sheriff/Stiles] 3k, Explicit, Daddy Kink. Summary: Stiles misses his dad's beard. He's got a kink for it, it turns out. He tries not to think about it. Besides, he can't throw a dime without hitting a bearded guy these days anyway. So what if he focuses on them instead of what he really wants?
• [FANVID] What Might We Deduce About Them? by 0o0Vanilla0o0 [Derek/Stiles] 03:19, Not Rated. Summary: A vid showing how Derek and Stiles's relationship has grown so much and it's beautiful and subtle slow build development. All canon.

Finally, some un-anonymous criticism...

Woke up today to a sour comment on my last project from JAK_in_the_box:

"Some mispronounced words, and it was disconcerting to hear certain scenes done in what I think of as the Harlequin Romance Sex Scene Voice, the soft husky drawl you use, but you seem to use that voice for everything outside of story notes. I had to skip parts because of that. You sound totally different when you do readers notes."

The comment made me a little mad. I messaged my beta listener (jsea) who assured me that I pronounced everything correctly. She surely would have caught the mispronuncations on one of her four complete listen throughs. The only thing that could be construed as wrong is the witch chant that is used through out. At one point, myself and two other people (I think you were in on this piscaria) tried to figure out how to say it, so I eventually went to the author for her input and what you hear in the podfic, is what she settled on. So I'm a bit hurt that this accusation is out there that I didn't put enough care into my project to make sure that my words were pronounced correctly. Of coarse, they could be from a different country then me though....

What gets me here is the idea that it's something to rip me apart about, that I use a narrative/reading voice. I admit I do. Over the last year, I've developed my reading style. Let it evolve into what it is naturally. It's the way I'm comfortable narrating. I connect to the words better when I'm giving a performance. In essence, when I podfic, I'm acting. If all actors just used their own voice, everything would be quite boring, I think. When I get anons and comments like this damning the way I read, it hurts. My story notes are me talking. So of coarse they are going to sound different. Because I'm not performing that bit.

Le sigh. I'm so very unhappy about this comment. I didn't know what to say to the person because I wanted to rip their face off and piss in their mouth...but instead I just said, "Thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment. <3". I didn't want them to win, I didn't want them to have the satisfaction of breaking me. Is it possible the only consolation is that they didn't say it anonymously? So now I know what to expect when I see their name from here on out. (BTW, they have another one of my projects bookmarked;) and have zero contributions to fandom whatsoever.)

Well in a weird way they won a little bit. I had plans to record today, but instead I just went back to bed. I'm just so angry about this shit. I wanna rage.