It is chock-full of Butch internally struggling with his unrequited (or so he thinks) love for his best friend, Buttercup, over something like a decade. Why This Must Be Read: If romantic angst is your thing, Best Kept Secret is made to order. Rating/Warning(s): T/swearing, drinking, the "male gaze," property damage, emotional infidelity Like a dark chocolate truffle, it is best enjoyed in this small dose. It's a brief moment but it's fraught with UST and it's evocatively written. However, she has written others fics besides the epic More Than Human and this is a great one. I don't think it's possible to be in the PPG fandom and not know sbj. Rating/Warning(s): T/mild swearing, drinking, the "male gaze" At its heart, beyond the romance, this fic is about Blossom learning to chill, at least a little bit, and finding out it helps in all sorts of ways but especially in her interactions with others. The girls all get new powers which complicate things a good deal and ratchet up the intensity of Blossom having her world view rattled. However the fic is just as much about Blossom's relationships with her sisters as it is about her relationship with Brick, or more precisely it's about how her evolving relationship with Brick influences her relationship with her sisters. Why This Must Be Read: Brick bets Blossom he can get her to fall for him in 28 days. Rating/Warning(s): T/violence, injury, emotional trauma Pairing: Blossom/Brick, with a little bit of Bubbles/Boomer interaction and some tragic shades of Buttercup/Butch Sandstorm3D is working on a sequel which this world can fully support but trust me, the ending is pretty epic on its own. It's also, very much, the story of the Boys discovering they can be pretty dang heroic and that emotional support is not quite as unnecessary as they may want to believe. The Girls face a very grimdark future, without their powers, and this is the story of the alliances they make as they face the climactic battle for the future of the world. The focus is, of course, on the Powerpuff Girls and the Rowdyruff Boys but we get some wonderful father-daughter support with the Professor as well as some great appearances of other known and loved characters (and some terrifying appearances of a few others). It's the character growth and relationship building that make this fic, and they make it very, very well. What makes this fic so good is that there is an incredible amount of character growth and relationship building during the fighting. I dozed off during some of Captain America: The Winter Soldier's fight scenes (I was watching it on DVD). I find it not only upsetting but also often uninteresting to read/watch. I normally avoid anything that involves a lot of fighting. Why This Must Be Read: First of all let me say I'm a pacifist. Rating/Warning(s): T/blood, gore, violence, death, child death, major character death, torture, injury, paralyzation, child abuse, tyranny, dystopian future, swearing, disabilist language, sexism, illness, malnutrition, (basically anything you can imagine happening if the world went to heck in a handbasket) Pairing: Bubbles/Boomer for sure but there is definitely something going on with Blossom/Brick and even some interesting moments with Buttercup/Butch, there is also a fair amount of Buttercup/Mitch These are all stories with aged-up characters to probably high school or beyond. The Blues (Bubbles/Boomer) are actually my favorite but apparently I'm in the minority so these recommendations won't show my personal preference. As promised, more animated shipping! I'm a straight down the spectrum shipper when it comes to Powerpuff Girls, which means Reds, Blues, and Greens.
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