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Katekyou Hitman REBORN!: Plucking Feathers by midnightdiddle - This is a bit of an odd fic, I'm still not precisely sure what to make of it, but... the writing is lovely and I liked the comparisons the author draws between the characters and birds, the little stories told and the meaning of names all blend well together. The characterizations are solid and... it was just the right length, I think. It didn't need anything more/less and sometimes that's really nice in a short fic like this. (Dino/Hibari.)
Katekyou Hitman REBORN!: In the Burned House by glasssubway - I was browsing the newsletter and stumbled over the link for this fic and, hey, neat, new D18 fic by an author I hadn't yet read! Okay, I'll give it a shot. And this fic was... maybe not precisely what I expected, it's a littler darker and unhappier, but somehow it was okay. Maybe the author's notes cheered me up (it's nice to know there are other D18 OTPers out there ♥) or maybe I just vibed with the really lovely writing. Dino making his way through the Vongola compound, searching for any trace of Hibari, it was the kind of fic where the tension built degree by degree, not really noticing it until the end when suddenly it all crashes together. I might not have otherwised like this, but the writing was really strong and lovely here and I liked this take on TYL!Dino and the dynamic you can feel between him and Hibari. (Dino/Hibari, maybe deathfic, maybe not, it's just unclear enough that you could go either way if you squinted.) Katekyou Hitman REBORN!: Rain and melancholy by xhiro_xhiro - I think what really won me over--aside from that I'm always primed to like a well-written D18 fic--was this line: He was an Italian in love for goodness sake! He was being mild by all standards. Just the reminder that Dino is Italian and thinking of the archetype of an Italian in love, it puts me in exactly the right frame of mind for this fic. XDDD Hell, it made me want something truly over the top because that would be hilarious. This fic, though, was a bit quieter than that, but I still liked it a lot, it was an interesting look at Dino's thoughts on Hibari. It had little moments of humor (Dino's way of "spying" on Hibari was kind of great) and a kind of great ending as well, so I was totally happy with this fic. XDb (Dino/Hibari.) Katekyou Hitman REBORN!: Dare by chiiaroscuro - Okay, if there's one pairing I like anywhere near as much as I like Dino/Hibari, it's Mukuro/Hibari. So. When there was an NC-17 fic with Dino/Hibari/Mukuro? I-- I had to. My one complaint is that the POV kept switching all over the place and especially in a fic with three male characters, it made it sometimes difficult to keep track of what was going on with whom. Other than that? Mmm, nice. It was almost doujin-like with the set-up and the descriptions of the sex and the entire plot, but in the best way possible, because it was really kind of smoking hot. The writing is lovely, Dino's characterization is really spot-on for this kind of fic, and Mukuro is that mysterious sort of devious and dangerous, and Hibari is just-- nnn, I loved the characterization here. And I love that it's never really clear how much is real and how much is illusion (what with Mukuro being involved and all) and the ending is perfect. *__* (Dino/Hibari/Mukuro, NC-17.) Katekyou Hitman REBORN!: La Principessa by ansibs - You know, when I think on the summary of this fic (Dino/Hibari relationship, Dino suddenly has a kid, Hibari and the kid connect... sort of, mostly off-screen), it seems like such the recipe for badfic. And yet, because of the way it's written, the author's style, the way it's unrelentingly a painful fic (even in the happier moments of Dino/Hibari interaction) without being too gratuitious, I wound up really liking it. It helps that I'm taken with the author's style and the way she writes Hibari, the way he shows so little outwardly, he's very direct and quiet, yet there's so much going on underneath and there's something... perhaps not 'realistic', so much as... sensical about Dino having a little baby pop up, especially, especially Hibari's reaction to the whole thing. Not a happy piece, but definitely a pretty piece. (Dino/Hibari.) Katekyou Hitman REBORN!: Something About Airplanes by glasssubway - I think the beginning of this fic started out a little rough with Hibari, but by the time he got off the plane in Italy, the fic had settled into what it wanted to be and got kind of totally awesome. There are some great moments in the fic (Hibird totally steals the show, seriously) and the characterizations are nice and... actually, I've been sitting here for the last five minutes or so trying to figure out how to describe why I liked this fic so much without spoiling the parts that made it fun, and kind of totally failing at this. So, just. It was a fun little fic and had a couple of really funny moments (especially when I started imagining the moments in between the written scenes, how the characters got from one place to the other) and a very nice ending. If you like D18, you should enjoy it. XD (Dino/Hibari.) Katekyou Hitman REBORN!: Space Dementia by cleartempest - [Note: There will be spoilers for this fic in the rec, so only read on if you don't want to be surprised when reading it.] I debated a bit whether or not to warn for deathfic with this story, because I went in without warning and wound up not entirely surprised, plus I think it's worth reading even when I don't usually read a lot of deathfic and didn't want to scare anyone off, but ultimately I decided to warn anyway, because I wouldn't have wanted to read it on a bad day. It's a really beautifully written fic, though, and there's this sense of... well, the author describes the condition of space dementia in the author's notes and she does a fantastic job of capturing that feeling in the fic, there's so many subtle little touches that gave me this certain sense as I was reading, rather than directly stating what was going on with Hibari. Dino's point of view and the almost whirlwind nature of Hibari as Dino watches him, the characterization of both of them, it's really amazingly done. *__* (Dino/Hibari, read the rec for other warnings?) Katekyou Hitman REBORN!: Innocence lost by tredecaphobia - I think the author's view on Hibari and my own view of the character differ a little, given the ending, which implies what the title says--innocence long lost in Hibari and that it saddens Dino, whereas I tend to think Hibari probably just turned out that way naturally with no sad past whatsoever. But that's one small thing, one small personal preference thing even!, amonst a larger fic that I really liked. The author nicely kept the way Hibari just keeps going and going, even when he's half dead and still unrelenting, even when it's not really out of anger, that it's just the way Hibari is. I liked that it was easy enough to picture this fic in my mind's eye, the way Hibari acted in it. ....and, okay, I'd be lying if I said I didn't like the image of Dino trying to get an unconcious Hibari into the shower and thinking he looked so young and fragile while unconscious, yet at the same time never losing that undercurrent of what a scary bastard Hibari actually is. XD (Dino/Hibari sort of, sort of not. It's gen, but if you want to....) Katekyou Hitman REBORN!: All About The Crumbling World by glasssubway - Okay, I really liked this one, the characterizations of both Dino and Hibari felt spot-on to me, especially since... well, I would have liked more to happen, but sometimes I appreciate when it doesn't because Hibari's not the type and if Dino's not in the right place/frame of mind, either.... Anyway, I love the way Dino sees everything about Hibari and the way they interacted here, it's so easy to imagine this as fitting perfectly into my idea of how the TYL (though, not quite that far ahead) storyline played out, I love that we still don't have any idea what happened to Dino, even in this fic. All of it. Was just right for me. Especially Hibird and its role in this, which was hilarious and then totally asd;fklajsdflkjajs-inspiring at the end. ♥ (Dino/Hibari.)
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