Sometimes, the Old Stories Are The Best

The days are getting noticeably shorter and with Labor Day, it's time to buckle down, put away the flip-flops and bathing suits and get back to work. Which means it's a good time to recommend your White Collar case fics – stories that focus on solving a mystery, or maybe plugging up a plot hole from an episode.

Remember - you can recommend one of your fanworks for the theme and the fanwork must be at least six months old (i.e., published before March, 2015), but the older the fanwork, the better.

You can always recommend as many fanworks from other creators as you want to (but do check to see that they haven't yet been rec'd here on wcredux), and they must also be at least six month old.

Please use this posting template:

<B>Author:</b> <user site="livejournal.com" user="YOUR USER NAME"> <B>Characters/Pairings:</b> <B>Rating:</b> <B>Word Count:</b> <B>Theme:</b> <B>Original Publication Date:</b> <B>Content Notes:</b> (i.e., warnings or triggers) <B>Summary:</b> <B>Why should people re-read this story?:</b> <B>Fanwork Links:</b> <a href: >FANWORK NAME</a>

Posts for this theme will be open until September 30. Early next month, your mods will collect the recommendations and add them to the master list.

Please don't hesitate to contact a mod if you have any questions.

Author: elrhiarhodan
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke
Rating: G
Word Count: 1200
Theme: Special Theme Week – Peter Burke's Birthday
Original Publication Date: 08 July 2010
Content Notes: None
Summary: The Road Not Taken – Young Peter's challenged by his friends to do something bad , but he remembers what his father once told him. Likes the Desert, Misses the Rain - Peter and his dad go on a trip by themselves and discover just how much they miss what they left behind.
Why should people re-read this story?: Okay, I know the rules say ONE story, but these two very brief ficlets are in a single post. I wrote them from prompts given to me by one of my first fandom friends, photoash. Even though they were written very early in my WC fandom career, before Season 2 started to air, I think that they still hold true for the character of Peter Burke.
Fanwork Links: Two For Young Peter Burke

Author: elrhiarhodan
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Diana Berrigan, Clinton Jones, Vincent Adler, Daniel Picah, mention of other canon characters in minor non-canon settings; Peter/Neal, Neal/Daniel, Peter/Adler, Adler/Neal
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~56,000
Theme: Villains
Original Publication Date: July 2, 2013
Content Notes: Prostitution, rape, Domination/submission, dubious consent, fuck-or-die scenario, use of gender-specific insults
Summary: In some alternate universe, Peter Burke is a wealthy and bored financial advisor and discovers that one of his clients, Elizabeth Mitchell, is using her event planning business to launder profits from an escort service catering to the wealthy gay elite in New York. Instead of turning her in, he asks her to hire him. Neal Caffrey has been recently released from a four-year sentence for bond forgery and learns that his girlfriend, Kate has married his old boyfriend, Matthew Keller and they’ve taken off for parts unknown. Determined not to return to prison, Neal turns to his friend, Mozzie, for help. Moz knows a guy – or in this case – a gal who’s willing to hire Neal. As an escort.
Why should people re-read this story?: Because this is one of my favorite stories, it's case fic, it's kink fic, there's hurt/comfort, rentboys, romance, and one seriously over-the-top portrayal of Vincent Adler.
Fanwork Links: Fortune's Just a One Night Stand – Link to Story Masterpost

Thank you everyone for your smexy fanwork recommendations. The theme is now closed.

The round-up post for recommendations and the update to the community master list will be issued next week.

If February is for love and May is the month for friendship fanworks, July is the month where we want your recommendations for fanworks designed to get everyone all hot and bothered. Fanworks don't have to be X-Rated or super kinky (but we'd like it if they are). And we want all flavors of smut - slash or het, OTP or OT3, or solo pleasures.

Remember - you can recommend one of your fanworks for the theme and the fanwork must be at least six months old (i.e., published before January, 2015), but the older the fanwork, the better.

You can always recommend as many fanworks from other creators as you want to (but do check to see that they haven't yet been rec'd here on wcredux), and they must also be at least six month old.

Please use this posting template:

<B>Author:</b> <user site="livejournal.com" user="YOUR USER NAME"> <B>Characters/Pairings:</b> <B>Rating:</b> <B>Word Count:</b> <B>Theme:</b> <B>Original Publication Date:</b> <B>Content Notes:</b> (i.e., warnings or triggers) <B>Summary:</b> <B>Why should people re-read this story?:</b> <B>Fanwork Links:</b> <a href: >FANWORK NAME</a>

Posts for this theme will be open until July 31. Early next month, your mods will collect the recommendations and add them to the master list.

Please don't hesitate to contact a mod if you have any questions.

On and off for a number of years, there was a community of Dreamwidth called "The Month of June", which focused on Neal's lovely and larcenous landlady, June Ellington. New fanworks were posted for each day of the sixth month of the year. Rather than replicate that here, the month of June is devoted to White Collar's wonderful secondary characters: Diana, Clinton, Hughes, Lauren, June, Satchmo, Sara, Kate, Alex, Blake, Bugsy. (Any recurring character other than Peter, Neal, Elizabeth or Mozzie.)

Note: Technically, Philip Kramer, Vincent Adler, Matthew Keller, Curtis Hagen, Garrett Fowler, Rebecca Lowe/Rachel Turner, and Alan Woodford are recurring secondary characters, but the theme for August is "Villains" and you might want to save those recs for that month.

The fanwork you rec should feature the secondary character – not just mention him or her in passing. The fanwork doesn't have to be about that character, but the character should have a major role in the fanwork.

Remember - you can recommend one of your fanworks for the theme and the fanwork must be at least six months old (i.e., published before December, 2014), but the older the fanwork, the better.

You can always recommend as many fanworks from other creators as you want to (but do check to see that they haven't yet been rec'd here on wcredux), and they must also be at least six month old.

Please use this posting template:

<B>Author:</b> <user site="livejournal.com" user="YOUR USER NAME"> <B>Characters/Pairings:</b> <B>Rating:</b> <B>Word Count:</b> <B>Theme:</b> <B>Original Publication Date:</b> <B>Content Notes:</b> (i.e., warnings or triggers) <B>Summary:</b> <B>Why should people re-read this story?:</b> <B>Fanwork Links:</b> <a href: >FANWORK NAME</a>

Posts for this theme will be open until June 30. Early next month, your mods will collect the recommendations and add them to the master list.

Please don't hesitate to contact a mod if you have any questions.