Recs!

Finally caught up on rs_small_gifts fic/art (and just in time for slashababy to be posted, which I'm starting on tomorrow--it's after midnight and freeeezing in my house). I have read sooooo much r/s today and it was all good (seriously, I never felt like skimming or skipping--how awesome is that for an exchange? Everyone got good stuff). There are my favorites.

It's the Thought by gryffindorj
Summary: Remus and Sirius have agreed to make each other presents this year. Sirius finds the task a little daunting.
Warning (though not for me): rather explicit (NC-17 rating well deserved)
So much to love about this one: dialogue, characterization, dialogue (I really liked the dialogue).

At This Moment (You Mean Everything) by littlepistols (aka cackling_madly).
Summary: Remus couldn't say no to his mates and their latest adventure, especially when Sirius was looking at him like that…
Sex and rock-n-roll, what more do want out of a marauders fic? The characterizations, particularly Sirius, are really well done and it's very well written, too.

Comfort and Joy by pavlablack
Summary: Non-magical, modern-day AU. Sirius can't get his new neighbor out of his mind.
I was about three or four paragraphs in when I started reading slower just so this would last. Really well done, well told story.

The Unlikely Survivors' Club (Or The Bloody Lucky Bastards Brigade, as Sirius Black prefers to call it) by rosemaryandrue
Summary: In which Sirius Black destroys baby monitors, Nymphadora Tonks is still a disaster in the kitchen, and they're only missing one person to make a perfect Christmas. Secondary pairing Nymphadora Tonks/Emmeline Vance
Another one that I knew within a few paragraphs that I wouldn't want it to end. Excellent (and I haven't even finished reading it yet *fingers crossed on the ending*). Come for the Remus/Sirius, stay for the Tonks/Emmeline