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pitchan.livejournal.com

Title: Under the Dragon's Claw
Author: gixi_ninja
Format: Novel/Series
Length: 94, 636+
Status: Complete, WIP Sequel
Warnings: Master/Slave but nothing R rated.
Link: Under the Dragon's Claw; WIP Sequel: When the Plum Blossoms Bloom
Summary: Captain Wei Shun's offer of marriage to Cheng Lan was humiliatingly rejected in front of all members of the royal court. That was ten years ago. Now, the king has given a newly victorious General Wei Shun a special reward for his military service - a slave named Cheng Lan. Lan was born to be a high ranking scholar-official within the king's court. When accusations of treason destroy his family and he is reduced to slavery, his last hope is a childhood friend who's love he once scorned.

Shun's success and popularity has seen him more than one jealous rival in court. The events that lead to Lan's family's arrest and execution are fast catching up with him. They will need to negotiate the treachery of the royal court together - if they are to survive.

Review:
I love stories in historical settings. It's always refreshing to see one not set in the West (Europe/America) but in the East (China). This story is not very hardcore. It has a Master/Slave set up but no BDSM setting, the romance is pretty sweet. I like the interplay between the characters. You'd assume a character would act a certain way due to past issues but everyone seems pretty mature. I also like the political setting, it's interesting and doesn't go into too much cliche territory.
The first story is complete and the sequel is under way. A nice interesting fic to check out.

Edit: Mods can you please add author tag 'by: gixi_ninja' please :)

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Title: Sister Claire
Authors: Ash (writer) Yamino (co-writer and artist)
Format: Webcomic, Illustrator Storybook style
Published/Free: Free
Length: 322+ pages
Status: Wip
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Occasional violence, trigger warnings on specific pages
Link: www.sisterclaire.com
Summary: Rife with nuns, Witches, magick, werewolves, cats, giant robot mechas, and blue angels who pop out of toilets to announce approaching apocalypses, Sister Claire is a webcomic about a young woman who leaves her quiet abbey to undergo a rigorous journey across a monster-riddled wilderness. On this journey, Claire begins to assemble the jigsaw puzzle of her past, present, and future, all while facing terrible dangers, finding new friends, mothering a being that may or may not be the Savior, and trying to save her found family from certain doom. It updates Mondays with comic pages and Tuesdays through Thursdays with illustrated storybook pages.

Review: As a creator of the comic, I’m not sure how impartial my review will be. But the story does feature more than one trans character, several POC, and characters from all over the sexuality spectrum (including ace.) The aforementioned representation picks up in Book 2 when the worldbuilding starts really kicking in.

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Title: The Whateley Academy Universe

Author: Various

Format: Various

Length: Episodes vary but we are approaching 300 stories avg 21k words ea (total canon word count in excess of 6.2 million words)

Status: Wip

Rating: Teen mostly, a handful would need a Mature rating, one or two may require an Ultra Mature rating. These are blocked on our site by a warning page to prevent accidentally stumbling into them without warning.

Warnings: While most of the Universe stories are fairly light-hearted and typical in tone for a super-hero academy; the WU does include Lovecraftian Mythos style horror and deals with real world issues of sex, rape, transgender and other alternative lifestyle situations. People with specific trigger issues will be able to read a significant majority of stories with no difficulties… but may wish to communicate with authors and fans on our forums for specific arcs to avoid. There is not, currently, any method in place to mark these stories separate from the rest.

Link: www.crystalhall.org

Summary: In this story universe, superheroes first appeared a little before World War I. Mutants and other empowered individuals began to appear more and more often as the century rolled on. By the sixties, a group of heroes and villains came together to create a safe, neutral high school where newly-emerged mutants could learn to control their powers. Mutations typically become evident at around puberty, often signaled by a change in eye color and other physical changes. Some mutants became fantastically beautiful. Some became hideous. Some changed sex. Many were rejected by their families and friends. To protect these children, ease their transition, ensure a future legacy for “their kind,” and guard society against rampaging adolescent godlings, this group of heroes and villains created a secret boarding school covering all four years of American high school. On the surface, this is a normal private boarding school of around 650 students, nestled in the remote hills of New Hampshire. It is known as “Whateley Academy.” Unknown to the world at large, this school trains the future leaders of the world – both heroes and villains. And while the school attempts to maintain a strict neutrality on the good vs. evil issue, the individual students have no such requirement.

Review: As part of the canon author ‘cabal’ I am biased; however there is no question that the WU has an incredible level of world history and background depth available for its protagonist teenagers to explore. The power sets are well thought out and far more limited than those in traditional comic books. We have an active reader community, who participate regularly in discussions on our forums, and more than a few of our own fan fiction writers; some of who have been co-opted over the years into the canon roster due to the quality of their work.

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anialove.livejournal.com

Title: How to Shake the Other Man
Author: Derek Palacio
Format: Novella
Length: 60-ish pages
Status: Complete
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Mention of sexual assault and physical assault, whole story revolves around a murder
Link: Nouvella (this link is to buy direct from the publisher, but it is available from major retailers)
Summary: (from publisher) Seven years after leaving his father's home, Javier is growing increasingly restless as he works the streets of New York. But when he is taken in by Marcel, a boisterous, charismatic Cuban with a legion of street coffee vendors, their relationship evolves rapidly into something vital and sustaining.

Determined to keep Javi around, Marcel implores his younger brother, a former boxer turned trainer, to turn Javier into a fighter. Oscar eventually gives in, and pushes the flighty young man towards his debut.

But days before the match, Marcel is murdered.

Bound together by tragedy and circumstance, Javier and Oscar must decide what they owe and want from each other in Marcel's absence. Raw and unrelenting, HOW TO SHAKE THE OTHER MAN is a bruising portrait of brotherhood and the void of love lost.

Review: I am a big fan of Nouvella, a small publisher that specializes in putting out three to four novellas per year by unknown authors. They're niche, but I am all for supporting shorter literary fiction. (I feel like sci-fi and such embraces the novella more.)

How to Shake the Other Man is the story of Javier and Oscar, who are both reacting to the death of Marcel, Javier's sugar daddy/boyfriend and Oscar's older brother. It is, as such, thin on the romance but still thick on emotion. It's short, but it has quite a bit to say about race, sexuality, class, and human connection. And, well, it's beautifully written. (You can read an extended excerpt here.) For all that it's a foregone conclusion that Javier and Marcel's relationship is doomed (given Marcel is dead), I liked the glimpses of their life together. Theirs was a complex relationship, Marcel definitely afraid that Javier would leave. Both men have their scars from their pasts, but Marcel is older and more over it. There is a structure (the upcoming match) that keeps the story from meandering too much, but it really is all about the characters.

How to Shake the Other Man is a finalist for both a Lambda Award and a Triangle Award.

queenboothead.livejournal.com

Requesting: Stories that contain bottoms who can hold their own in a fight.
Would also like: I would prefer that the bottom is on the smaller side, at least compared to the love interest. I'd love it if their partner was physically bigger and at least as strong as the bottom.
Must not have: Slave fics or non-con.
Similar stories: I'm looking for characters like Jinx in Monster by Soleste81, or Boyd in In the Company of Shadows series by Sonny and Ais.

This dynamic really gets me excited for some reason. There's nothing better than a pretty boy bottom who can rip your throat out. :)

I'm open to pretty much all genres and I'd also love to get recs. for any comics/manga that meet the description.

ritaxis.livejournal.com

Title: Yellow Peril
Author: Jamie Noguchi
Format: Webcomic
Length: long
Status: WIP
Rating: Teen- Mature
Warnings: um? none? The protagonist is heterosexual, is that a warning?
Link: http://ypcomic.com/
Summary: (from the comic's "about" section) "It’s always disappointed me that in the history of the American sitcom, only one has ever starred an Asian American in the lead, headlining role. Margaret Cho’s “All American Girl” is the one and only Asian American sitcom to ever air on network television.
"What, we only get one?
"Yellow Peril is my small attempt to correct that great imbalance in the world of entertainment. Sure, there are plenty of office humor type comics. And yes, plenty of comics out there star Asian people. But none have been drawn by me… until now!"

Review: This is a beautiful, beautiful thing. Everything is in it -- gay porn stars, bisexual adultery (maybe), race, class, martial arts, amazing food, local color (Bethesda, Maryland), nerd jokes, art, culture, stories and stories, humor, feels, every thing. Basically, our hero, who starts out as an art monkey (I think that's what he calls himself) for a PR film, develops complicated, sometimes hilarious and sometimes mysterious and sometimes poignant adventures with his friends, some of whom he's known forever and some of whom he's met at work. There's even a villain, a really hateable guy. And a story line with drag queens in it, too. And pop culture references everywhere, and a big dose of parody. And poignance. And fluff.

Need author tag: Jamie Noguchi

bladebird.livejournal.com

Subject: As stated in the title, I'm looking for stories that are based in ancient china. I have alot o difficulties earching for such one on Amazon and I have only found one author that writes it and we all know who she is, Yeyu

Requesting: I don't have much requirements except it has to be in ancient china and with a lot of outside and inside drama. Like the story has to revolve an outside conflict and romance conflict. It has to be a novel and not short stories

Would also like: Wuxia and equal partnership like both of the men can take care of themselves.

Must not have: Inever liked it when one partner needs help all the time like that No Money manga where the uke is always in trouble and weak.

Similar Stories: Can't think of any at the moment except Yeyu's stuff. I kind of want something like a slash version of Jin Yong's and Wen Ruian's stories but I doubt it will exist in English.

r-a-parker.livejournal.com

Downloading: Right click or control click and choose “save as” to save a copy to your computer. You can also simply click to read it online. The table of contents is linked to all the stories and art for easy navigation.

Download currently unavailable!.

SUMMARY

Whether it's stepping around a corner, crossing an ocean or travelling to another dimension, we're always looking for that next horizon to conquer, which is what inspired T.Spoon to write Wanderlust. Behind this cover lies a collection of short, long and epically long stories that explore what it means to step outside your comfort zone, to leave behind everything you know to explore the unknown, or to find that one place where you belong. In this anthology you'll meet time travellers and illegal aliens, covert operatives and magic knights, inadvertent superheroes and intrepid porn actors.

ABOUT T. SPOON

As with previous anthologies, T. Spoon is made up of a bucket load of talented authors and artists. So a tremendous thank you to, in no particular order, BlueGhostGhost, Berthablue, Ais, Ania, ~~Jaolynn~~, Voidmancer, G, Zeffy, ManicDak, Parker, Medeni, Coz, Dusk Peterson, Plumblossom .

Special thanks to Ania, Potatoe and Zeffy for editing their way through the tsunami of words and plot. And an extra bit of thanks to Zeff for her organization skills and for literally drawing tags out of a hat.

Finally, this anthology is dedicated to the comm. You guys are all absolutely amazing and brilliant and wonderful. Thank you for making the community what it is.

Warnings:copious amounts of plot, happily ever afters, not so happily ever after, angst/fluff/snark
Rating: From Everyone all the way to Mature
Length: ~100k overall (YEAH, we know, we're kind of appalled and amazed too)
Note: If you wonder why it sometimes seems like the writer just threw together random plot points, that's because they did. For this anth, we randomly picked out four of TSP's story +tags for the authors (and two for artists) and said, "make a coherent plot out of this." And somehow they did. It's kind of magical.

Tan, can we get author tags for Coz, Medeni, and Xythe Twistvoid? <3

emmaslight.livejournal.com

Title: Backbone
Author: Dustyhands
Format: Online Fiction
Length: Novel (80,000+)
Status: WIP
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Violence (the swordplay, hand to hand combat, magical type!), a traumatic (rather graphic) sexual experience but not of the non-con/dub-con nature.
Link: Fictionpress

Summary: Elstrin White joined the Mernot Army to escape his abusive schoolmates and family - but little by little he unveils the secrets held against him. Training doesn't just involve running laps. Backbone isn't all you need to fight a war. M/M slash.

Review: It's rare to come across a fantasy that is actually original - a page turner that is entertaining, unpredictable and will surprise you with each new revelation. Backbone is one of those rare stories.

A really well written story, the world building is just brilliant, totally unique and well described (especially the swordplay/training scenes!! Can i just say wow!). Steampunk but not.....a mix of Victorian (Swords and axes, slums and class society?), magic and technology. A great cast of characters each with strong personalities that make for great entertainment. I love the dynamic between Elstrin and Snow, the connection is intense, at times feels sexual but you really have no idea how it's actually going to play out between them. There's a bit of "twilight" action going on as there is another potential relationship developing at the same time. I imagine others will be cheering for the other team but I'm all 'Team Snow"!!

If you're a fan of the fantasy genre this is a must read!!

anialove.livejournal.com

Title: The Princess Series (#1: The Stepsister Scheme, #2: The Mermaid's Madness, #3: Red Hood's Revenge, #4: The Snow Queen's Shadow)
Author: Jim C. Hines
Format: Novels
Length: Four books
Status: Complete
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: No actual slashy shenanigans until the third book?
Link: Amazon: The Stepsister Scheme, Preview
Summary: What would happen if an author went back to the darker themes of the original fairy tales for his plots, and then crossed the Disney princesses with Charlie’s Angels? And with Jim C. Hines penning the tale readers can bet it won’t be “and they lived happily ever after.”

Review: Basically, Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty become a trio of covert operatives, protecting their kingdom and others from various magical threats. They're like superhero princesses. Snow is a powerful mage, Talia (Sleeping Beauty) is a weapons expert, and Danielle (Cinderella) is learning how to put her gifts to use. She's more used to cleaning stains than aggressive diplomacy.

All three women become fleshed-out and grow as the series continues. There's lots of action and humor to back-up the girl power. But why I am I reccing it here? Because Talia is a lesbian and gets some awesome romance throughout the series. She's got forbidden love, unrequited love, flirtation, and requited love. Her relationships are given as much attention as those of the straight protagonists, which is awesome.

(Note on non-con tag: It's all backstory, but if you know the original Sleeping Beauty tale . . . yeah.)

tanrien.livejournal.com

Title: Batwoman
Format: Comic issues
Length: the parts I'm recommending are a seven part tie-in and an on-going, currently four issue series
Status: wip (Elegy is completed and can be read on its own)
Rating: mature
Warnings: graphic violence, death
Summary:
Kate Kane survived a brutal kidnapping by terrorists that left her mother dead and her twin sister lost. Following her father's footsteps, she vowed to serve her country and attended West Point until she was expelled under "Don't ask, don't tell". Now she is many things: estranged daughter, grieving sister, proud lesbian, brave soldier, determined hero. She is BATWOMAN.

Review:
Ohh, this is so awesome! Anyone who loves those classic superheroes, the kickass Bat-style, and the Gotham dynamic of detectives and Bats, will probably enjoy this as well. Apparently it's DC's first venture into having a series with a queer hero(ine) as main character, and so far they are doing quite well. The art style is very artsy, but there are only some things that might take time getting used to. Kate herself is brilliant, Batwoman is kickass, and the plots, the romantic relationship and the mystery parts, are really well done and engaging.

I'm recommending the new Batwoman series (DC recently restarted their whole universe, so no background knowledge needed!), but for a good understanding another book has to be included as well:
- Batwoman Elegy, which featured in Detective Comics, issues #854-860; kind of the Origin story
- Batwoman, on-going series, #1--

I really love how much thought they put into this. Kate's character and her backstory are believable and as a proud lesbian she has to deal with certain repercussions and watching her deal is quite fascinating. And even the sex scenes are drawn sensible but still awesome!

If you want some samples, try the Batwoman tag on Daily Scans. There are quite a few scans, but keep in mind the issue numbers, as some scans might be from older issues and some from newer, so big spoiler alerts for everything there.

anialove.livejournal.com

Title: Santa Olivia
Author: Jacqueline Carey
Format: Published book
Length: Novel
Status: Complete, with sequel
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Violence
Link: On Amazon, Sequel (Saints Astray)
Summary: (Blurb)There is no pity in Santa Olivia. And no escape. In this isolated military buffer zone between Mexico and the U.S., the citizens of Santa Olivia are virtually powerless. Then an unlikely heroine is born. She is the daughter of a man genetically manipulated by the government to be a weapon. A "Wolf-Man," he was engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, stamina and senses, as well as a total lack of fear. Named for her vanished father, Loup Garron has inherited his gifts.

Frustrated by the injustices visited upon her friends and neighbours by the military occupiers, Loup is determined to avenge her community. Aided by a handful of her fellow orphans, Loup takes on the guise of their patron saint, Santa Olivia, and sets out to deliver vigilante justice - aware that if she is caught, she could lose her freedom...and her possibly her life.

Review: Jacqueline Carey is one of my favorite authors. Her style is lush and she has wonderfully distinctive characters. While most of her books have gay content, this is the only one where the main couple is gay. But Loup's sexuality is a wonderful non-issue. No one really cares. What do they care about? That she's a badass.

Santa Olivia is more intimate than Carey's fantasy novels, but no less wonderful. It's a harsh world populated by many good people, who have to make hard decisions. (Not that there aren't a few characters filled with spite who work to make those hard decisions even harder.) It's a fairytale, a bildungsroman, a love story, and more.

I haven't read the sequel yet, but it's been getting mixed reviews.

pitchan.livejournal.com

Title: In Man's Own Image
Author: Kouri and Karasu
Status: WIP
Link: http://knkfics.livejournal.com/216148.html#cutid1 (link to their masterlist. It's friends locked, but if you request to be friended in this very post, they usually friend back within hours).
http://knkfics.livejournal.com/tag/in%20man%27s%20own%20image (Link to story. You have to go back through the tags to the first chapter)
Summary:
In a word...: Two hundred some-odd years after the Salvatore Incident, the people involved have moved on and settled into their own lives. When demons start disappearing, some familiar and unfamiliar people team up to try to find out what's going on. They unearth something much larger than any of them expected.

Review: Firstly the 'Fallen into Grace' Trilogy has been recced here: http://the-slash-pile.livejournal.com/212895.html
From what I understand, this is the beginning to another sequel trilogy based on the FIG universe. Most of our loved characters have passed on, but some still remain (Rylee, Mika, Penny, Benjamin!). The new characters seem awesome as well though. So far pretty engaging, and will probably remain so throughout the story.
Just giving a heads up to those that loved the FIG story that the sequel is out ^_^

ddz008.livejournal.com

Title: Second Shot
Author: Quonus10
Format: novel
Length: 43 chapters
Status: In Progress (it's almost finished and updates are really frequent)
Rating: Mature
Link: http://www.gayauthors.org/story/Quonus10/secondshot/1
Author's summary: What do you do when you are deep in the closet but you meet the man of your dreams? Do you take the chance and risk the consequences?

Review: I enjoyed reading this story since the first chapter. The author does a great job writing the two main characters, you get to really know them through the story and you can see how they grow up and mature. The love they share and the problems they have to deal with make them both better persons for it.

It's a story about being with someone that's still struggling with letting others know about their sexuality, about coming out and dealing with the consequences. It's about love, friendship and family.

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elezbed.livejournal.com

Hello everybody,
So I was in my karate/jujitsu class and the boys were grabbling and I was thinking it's really a good slash position lol!
Anybody know good martial art slash? Like one or two are into martial art? I know a fic Deceiving Clouds, Cunning Waves ... but I want more !

Thanks you

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zmape.livejournal.com

Hello! This is my first post in here, and I hope that I don't do anything wrong. :D (By the way, sorry for my English)

I wasn't sure if I should post this request, because there's kind of same requests. (Like Karate Kid-style etc.), but then I read this story, Yankee, which was req'd here. And believe me, I fell in love with it. Martial arts-scene has been always one of the things I love, but this is almost the first time, when I've considered about reading it. So yeah, I don't have any critiquest about genres, so if you know something, I hope that you'll post it!

Thanks! :)

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Stam1na - Murtumispiste

gwengwel.livejournal.com

Title: Yankee
Author: Thezot
Format: Novel
Length: 16 chapters
Status: Complete
Rating: T
Warnings: Not HEA, some violence
Link: http://www.orbital-one.co.uk/Authors/TheZot/YankChaps.htm
Summary: What happen when the new guy in school who is Asperger, gay, Kung Fu Master and worse of all... a Yankee, is being bullied by the closet gay quaterback? He take revenge!

Review: Sound cliche, hum? Yet, it's written realistically, nobody's perfect in there , sometime it's funny, sometime it's sad and awkward and you don't have a ending at the "Princess" style. The sad fact it's that it was supposed to have a sequel and it's was never written.

animeluver91193.livejournal.com

Hi! I just watched the new Karate Kid movie (which was awesome!) and now I really want to read some fiction that's similar.
So, I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could rec me any good bully fics, or any original adaptations of the karate kid.
Thank You!!

Current Mood: blah

tanrien.livejournal.com

Title: Deceiving Clouds, Cunning Waves
Author:

lilith_lucifer aka ansatsusha xiii
Format: novel
Length: 100k+ so far
Status: ~~wip :( -~~ finished now
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: N/C, Incest
Link: http://lilith-lucifer.livejournal.com/29366.html OR http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2784849/1/Deceiving_Clouds_Cunning_Waves
Summary: "All the fourth son of Yue's Emperor, Bai Lingyun, ever wanted was to drift around freely like an unrestricted cloud, but he soon finds that he cannot escape responsibility in a time of crisis. Especially since he's a genius." (Wuxia, meaning Chinese High Fantasy)

Review: Wow. I was just working my way through the (few) non-slavefic-stories over at The Skinny, opening new tabs here and there, including this one. Then I did some other stuff, got back, closed some tabs and... found this. Three hours later I checked the fantasy, the modern fantasy and the author tag here at The Slash Pile because I couldn't believe this hadn't been recced before!

It's just an absolutely fascinating story, so rich with detail and an obvious love for China. The characters are strange, developed and distinguished - you can sympathize with them, their reactions, their emotions, their relationships are understandable and believable. Yet theirs is a different society and I often felt like some kind of watcher, instead of being right inside the protagonists - this wasn't a bad thing, but instead very interesting and fits to the setting. It's one of the few stories where I'm in no way annoyed by the portrayed women or by their POVs.

Because of this, it feels more like a book to me than original slash. While the "relationship" is, in my opinion, the main plot, with everything else that's going on, it's depicted very, well, realistic or rather, down-to-earth. The characters are men with power, men with responsibilities to their families, to their country, to their allies. These come first.

The author says, "action and politics. Not a lot of romance, and not a lot of sex." That's true, but - and how sad is it that I have to write "but"? - it's still a very, very well written, very good story.

(Will check for spelling mistakes tomorrow, I'm dead tired. :) )

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Entries tagged with +martial arts

Rec: Under the Dragon's Claw

Rec: Sister Claire

Rec: The Whateley Academy Universe

Rec: How to Shake the Other Man

[Request] Ass Kicking Bottoms

Rec: Webcomic, "Yellow Peril"

Request Ancient China

TSP Special: Wanderlust (A Travel Anthology)

Rec: Backbone

The Princess Series

Rec: Batwoman

Santa Olivia

In Man's Own Image by Kouri and Karasu

Second Shot

Koe's slash fiction in Norwegian

Martial arts slash

Request: martial arts

Yankee

Karate Kid Recs?

Deceiving Clouds, Cunning Waves

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