I figured since I've been on an AU kick, I'll rec some really good AU's.

Solitary Confinement by chasingthewinds - R - Kirk/Bones.

AU: Kirk & McCoy are patients in an asylum. It sounds cliche, I know. But you want to read it. It's a hard, heavy-hitting piece that will seriously make you stop breathing for a while.

Cityverse by atomicskull - PG - R - Kirk/Bones, Spock/Uhura, Sulu/Chekov.

AU: The Enterprise is a fashion magazine lead by it's editor-in-chief, Jim Kirk, and his ex-crime-photographer-now-lead-photo-editor boyfriend Leonard McCoy. Featuring adorable fashion models Sulu & Chekov. This should be terrible, I know, but it is so fucking funny and good.

Of Sentinels and Anchors by corpus_invictus (over at dreamwidth) - R - Kirk/Spock

AU: Spock is raised by his mother, on Earth. I like this fic because it deals with the premise in an exceptionally dark way, and the flash-backiness of the story combined with the dark text really makes this far more believable than some of the other possibilities.

title: NY (3)
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: none .. at least here.
rating: meh. pg13, language?
word count: 1,379
notes: originally i was going to make my bigbang mafia!au, but writing drifters basically sucked the longfic out of me. this is the beginning of the fic, in the same verse as the other two ny-fics (1 and 2). mostly it's jim being a little obnoxious fuck. this doesn't really have any kind of ending, but i do like the beginning, and figure you guys can see the whole blurb. i might come back to this verse, but as usual, doubtful.

( jim dislikes clocks. )

Hi guys! It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, I have the fruits of my labors to share with you all.

The reason I haven't been writing (as I've said) is because I"m working on a particularly long fic. It's finally done and organized, and I wanted to present it to you guys because you've stuck with me (i hope) through this long dry spell. I can't make many promises with what's to come, as school's already started and I've got my bigbang (due the 15th) and NaNoWriMo coming up, so I'm thinking about taking a short writing break between those two to do some editing on the bigbang and play some world of warcraft and maybe, just maybe, do some schoolwork.

Anyway, if you've got time, I've got 60k words of Kirk/Spock AU.

title: drifters
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: kirk/spock
rating: up to hard r for sex. it's not very explicit, though. sort of.
word count: 60k+
notes: prompt here: "Post apocalypse, mirror world. Featuring pirate/bandit/bounty hunter with dubious morals Kirk and serene/beautiful/cruel bottom!Spock who kills with his brain."

(full fic index here.)

hi! we haven't talked in a while, because i'm working on a long fic that over fifty thousand words, and I want to get it done before september first (so i can work on my bigbang, till the 15th, when it's due).

don't worry, i'll post it here when i'm done. soon.

in the meantime, i'm attempting to and failing to organize my tags. i hate the "pairing: none" encompasses a whole bunch of different characters. tags are a mess and i'm neurotic. help!

title: ---
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: kirk/spock
rating: r for cuddling? why not.
word count: 1840
notes: prompt here: "Kirk/Spock, touching, kissing, sex when it's raining (in rain). It can be porn, angst, anything, your choice :)" so. quick fluff. originally there was going to be porn, but i was just like 'ehhhh, porn.'

( you'll melt. )

title: shitty birthdays
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: none, just some quick k+b gen.
rating: pg-13 for language.
word count: 768.
notes: prompt here. "I turn nineteen tomorrow, and I thought to myself: we've seen most of these characters in their twenties-thirties (with one notable exception)--what were they like younger than that? I don't want kid!fic, I want the in-between."

( the )

title: NY (2)
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: none .. at least here.
rating: R for language.
word count: 989
notes: a continuation of ny. mobster!au. entirely callieach's fault.

( we will never die )

hey guys. sorry about the lack of writing. i've been trying to get my longfic finished before i start writing my bigbang, which will take me further away, and then of course, NANOWRIMO. in absence of my fis though, i'll give you some recs which i really love and happened to favorite. are there lots of good fics i've read that i won't be able to rec becuase they're lost in the kink meme? yes. do i have a few of them favorited? for some reason, yes. Figured I'd pick a few different pairings because I love a whole bunch.

so.

Two Men & a Motorbike and it's sequel, Two Men & a Starship by inell. (Kirk/McCoy, ~200k words, PG-13 through NC-17)

First of all, these combined equals upwards of 200k words, I'm pretty sure, so if you have a lot of time on your hands, this is the perfect solution. The entirety of 'Two Men & a Motorbike' takes place in between when the Enterprise saves the world and the end of the movie, so it's a lot of action in a short time and there is so much awesome relationship drama. Basically, two guys who both have personality issues? Don't fall into a relationship easy. Spot-on characterization, awesome drama, hot sex, a great, long read to settle into on one's day off.

The Night Loop, by raihu. (Nero/Ayel, ~2000 words, NC-17)

So I have a secret thing for crazy Romulans, and these two especially. This language of this fic is so awesome and powerful and filled with incredible imagery and metaphors that it really makes the action (mostly porn) and the thoughts (mostly Ayel's) about seventeen thousand times more awesome. this fic nails Nero's broken-down state of mind like hitting a bullet with another bullet blindfolded riding a horse. it's fucking AMAZING.

Symphony for the Stars & Planets by singingintime. (Kirk/Spock, ~9000 words, PG-13, Musician!AU)

Some AUs you just want to totally roll your eyes at, yeah? This one is awesome. All the characters stay themselves though they're now playing in an orchestra being conducted by the one and only Chris Pike. This was a really fun read, super amusing and cute. I love fluffy stories. 8D

admittedly, i watched a lot of zach quinto & chris pine interviews, but i have to say this is probably the funniest.

title: therapy
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: none, but i'm sure if you squint, they're there.
rating: pg-13 for language.
word count: 1291
notes: prompt here. "Professional psychiatric help is overrated. Pike/Kirk." When I originally started envisioning this fic, it sounded completely different in my head, mostly involving the fact that there was hot pike/kirk sex (a pairing that i've grown more attached to as of late) and not as much Jim actually being intelligent and sympathetic. however, when i started writing it, first of all, my kirk!voice was really shoddy and a little too revealing, and second of all, i was stuck for how Jim actually found out about Pike's nightmares, because I can't imagine him, you know, TELLING PEOPLE. so, this is what came out of it. i'm still not happy with it entirely, but at this point in time i'm ready to throw up my hands in frustration or move to work on something else, because i have something like 20 prompts bookmarked that i'd like to do, plus a longfic. so, this is what you get. i'm sorry if it sucks.

HOWEVER (no, no fic yet), i have to thank igrab for being the most incredible person in the world. ever. because she's my beta. she made my kirkvoice not suck. trust me, before she showed up, it sucked. and because i actually never use a beta (which is probably obvious by how much dumb bad grammar shows up) having one was weird. but igrab saved my life. and this fic. and continually puts up with my senseless, often tooting-my-own-horn bullshit. so, she's like the most awesome person ever. write her some nero/mandana, all of you. now.

OKAY, now you can read the fic.

( and when i close my eyes.....  )

title: NY
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: pike/kirk (!), kirk/mccoy
rating: R for jim's brain.
word count: 1291
notes: prompt here. Bones in a suit, reading the Times. Why is this Mobster!AU? We may never know.

( not such a nice guy )

title: the joke starts here
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: slight kirk/mccoy
rating: pg13
word count: 1332
notes: OH FUCK I LOST THE PROMPT FOR THIS ONE. HELP ME, it was like "a doctor, a captain and a vulcan walk into a bar."

( captain says ow. )

title: planning ahead
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: none | spock + kirk gen
rating: pg13
word count: 2434
notes: prompt here: "Track This
I'd love someone forever and ever if they wrote a fic keeping very much in the tone of the nu!verse that included Spock somehow getting his half-breed heritage thrown in his face and Kirk tearing whoever did the insulting a new one (and perhaps throwing them off his ship and/or marooning them on Delta Vega or something. xD). This is obviously a pivotal moment in the development of their relationship into something not so hostile."

( believe me when i say )

title: second (in command)
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: nero/ayel
rating: hard R (handjobs)
word count: 2710
notes: prompt here. ayel runs the ship while nero has temper tantrums; he lets nero take his fits of violence out on him - nero feels guilty.

( and if it's just that you're weak - )

title: flat eyes
fandom: star trek 09/daybreakers
pairing: kirk/bones
rating: pg-13
word count: 3129
notes: prompt here. Daybreakers AU. "One of them is a vampire, one is part of the resistance and they've found the cure. The problem is that the other might not necessarily want to be cured because the humans are losing the battle." Kind of ran awry with me.

( and i see )

title: ---
fandom: heroes
pairing: sylar/elle
rating: pg-13
word count: 2607
notes: wrote this on a whim, testing my sylar voice. got this idea while i was in the shower. hurr hurr.

( would you join me? )

rolf: the chekov of fire emblem. cute, but fucking awesome when you level him up.

also, expect strange heroesfic soon. i got an idea while i was going to/taking a shower. no, not that kind of idea. perverts.

A great video of our lovely mr. quinto here.

:D

title: visions
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: gen: kirk + bones
rating: pg-13
word count: 2019
notes: prompt here. ("The reason Bones actually brings Jim along is he's precognative. That might be the wrong word. I mean he has dreams about the future. Every scenario Jim isn't on the Enterprise, they all end up dead.")

( i see the things he's done to you )

title: a bad night
fandom: star trek 09
pairing: gen: kirk + spock.
rating: pg-13 for jim's mouth.
word count: 808
notes: prompt here ("kirk/spock: it's a bad night to be alone")

( to be alone )