• 18:11 Got about another 5 minutes to be online. Relatives fine, birthday going fine, thanks for happy wishes! #
• 18:12 What I really want for my birthday: cake I can eat, more internet access and w/o/r/l/d/ p/e/a/c/e/ a job. Not much, really! #

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I've done two rec posts so far on my DW:
Norse mythology, Tigana, Boondock Saints, Calvin & Hobbes, Cable & Deadpool, Young Wizards, Repo! & Dr Horrible
More Repo!, more Calvin & Hobbes, American Psycho, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Babylon 5, Grecoroman myth and more Young Wizards

Tags: recs

Over at my DW journal. (DW will warn you that my journal is NSFW, but I assure you this entry is.)

Fandoms:

Animorphs, Dead Poets Society, Dragonriders of Pern, Glee, Juno, Lackadaisy, True Blood, Young Wizards

Tags: recs

Title: Getting Back
Author: esteefee
Pairing: Sheppard/McKay, (past Sheppard/OMC)
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 2,650
Spoilers: None (after series)
Categories: ER
Warnings: None necessary. Let me know if I'm mistaken.
Summary: The boys move in. And buy a shed.

written for casa_mcshep: Getting Back.

Tags: fiction

And once again the icon I wanted to use is on my other account, and I'm too lazy to upload it...anyway, as part of the ongoing effort to finish That Stupid Story before the heat death of the universe, I've been working on a difficult scene. It's the most explicit sex scene in the whole damn thing. It's het. It's on page four. How I suffer for my art.

I saw a lovely new synonym for tab-n-slot: "Ikea erotica." Although, to be strictly literal, that would imply not so much a scene that fails by being ridiculously prosaic, but one where it's impossible to parse the goddamn drawing and figure out what's actually happening.

Tags: fic meta, ikearotica, that stupid story

Fire Dancer, Spirited Away, Momo, Inda, Flowers in the Attic, Madeleine L'Engle, Dragonriders of Pern.

Tags: recs

Just a note for the horsey folks on the flist; I spotted a pair of Mountain Horse tall riding boots in women's size 8 for sale at the Goodwill auction site for a ridiculously small amount of money. (It's at $16 and change now; I'm not sure what model this is, but the current models of Mountain Horse tall boots go for $100-$200 new.) I would buy these just to re-sell if I didn't already have piles of stuff sitting around that I can't use. :D I've been riding in Mountain Horse boots for years and love them beyond all other riding boots. I literally had a pair that I wore for nearly 10 years before they finally wore out. I would highly recommend snapping these up if you're in need of some good tall boots. Why they don't have size 11s available for me is a mystery. Damn you, fates!

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1602627/greencasey2890
my FanFic, it about a new girl on Atlantis.
there 3 chapters on it so far.

http://greencasey2890.deviantart.com/



More on my DevArt

I've had almost no internet access the past few days, so I'm very very slow starting. But here we go!

Friday Night Lights, Fast and Furious, Grease 2, St Trinian's, Rome, Law & Order:UK, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sanctuary, History Boys

Tags: recs

Linked back to my journal. Includes Yuletide Madness recs. :)

Californication, Kal Ho Naa Ho, As The World Turns RPF, The Big Bang Theory, Dhoom 2, Futurama, How I Met Your Mother, Last Exile, Modern Family, Spirited Away, RPF #Yuletide, Slumdog Millionaire, The Ramayana

Enjoy!

Tags: recs, yuletide2009

Eeee, Yuletide madness stories are up! More stooooooooooooooooooooories.

And awesome stories they are, too. I received five (???????!!!!!!), and all of them manage to convey quite a bit in a short space.

Four of them are more American Gods stories, and seriously, I've been loving the results so much that I may put this down as one of my prompts next year as well.

A Light Across the Sea is a lyrical, light-filled, gorgeous piece of prose about Brighid: "She comes to the New World a saint, and becomes a goddess once more."

Small g is Dumuzi, a Sumerian grain god, in understated, stately prose: "I waved the barkeep over and indicated another round. Something golden, old but with a taste of sun. The man glanced over, and inclined his head, accepting the offering. He seemed, in that moment, regal."

Eris Discordia has sharp edges and a fast pace and a killer last line: "She was brought ashore in dusty, leather bound books, stuffy academic journals and in the minds of stuffier professors. She might have come more quickly if it hadn't been for the ship wrecks, the boxes dropped into harbours, the professors lost in the pleasures of the port, but discord was in her nature. Discord was her nature."

and Coming to America: Venus is Venus seen through ordinary eyes in an ordinary encounter, deceptively simple: "The tattoo hurts worse than having your teeth pulled. The woman takes Zeke's free hand and squeezes it. He whispers to her about the sea voyage, about how the pay'll be enough for a farm with room for kids, and about how scared he is. She smiles and says it'll be all right."

The fifth gift I got was for Ellen Emerson White's The President's Daughter series: The Importance of Season Tickets--the title made me grin like a loon, as did the story, which puts Meg and Preston in the future, on the cusp of something, and (of COURSE) at a Red Sox game. :hand-flailing delight:

Have I mentioned lately that fandom is awesome? Because yes. Yes, it is.

Tags: yuletide

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Yay! the Yuletide Madness collection is open! There's more incredible stories to read and comment on!

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletidemadness2009/fandoms

EDIT: I don't think this entry really contains any spoilers, but read at your own discretion. Let me just say, though, it was gay. Gay gay gay gay gay.

Oh my god, I'm supposed to be packing for an upcoming trip to China but I just have to get this off my chest--I saw Sherlock Holmes today, and it is like a Holmes/Watson birthday present to me from the powers that be.

The bickering over custody of the dog, "My dog!" "Our dog!" "My dog!" Holmes' open sabotage of Watson's relationships! Holmes trying to keep Watson from leaving him through all manner of ridiculous stunts! Holmes being bitchy to Mary! Mary saying Holmes cares as much about Watson as she does! The flirting! The open affection! Holmes joking about marrying Watson! Scrabbling at his pockets! Sharing clothes! Bickering about who left the stove on like an old married couple!

The entire time I sat with my heart in my throat, waiting for the moment it all came crashing down--and it never did! I went in thinking, "Oh well, they'll probably play down the gay, throw in some smokescreens, keep them from having too much screen time together, but hey, Jude Law!" I-I did not expect them to play UP the gay and have Holmes flirting with Watson every few minutes or angsting about Watson leaving him.

(Just saw that Downey implied that Holmes and Watson might be gay. Haha! Where are my promised wrestling and sharing-a-bed scenes, though?)

P.S. If anyone knows where the Sherlock Holmes movie fandom is congregating, please let me know! I'm stuck in China for a month, and I'm gonna be completely miserable.

( unpopular fannish opinion tiems! )

I COULD GO ON but actually this is taking time away from my looking for trashy NCIS El Gay fic to read when I should be in bed already, so, whatevs. Good night, internets.

Okay what I remember:

1. John and Rodney are in the Jumper Bay
2. John maybe pining after Rodney who is oblivious
3. Atlantis keeps playing music to correspond with John's thoughts -- and there all about sex including one Jethro Tull song.

FOUND by aurora_84 
http://franticsga.livejournal.com/1154.html

I'm falling in love with the bookmarks/recs function over at AO3 today! It's making me very, very happy. :)

I'm skipping around a lot in my reading, so may catch up on more stories in some of these fandoms later. But for now:

Vorkosigan, Band of Brothers, The Breakfast Club, Dracula, Lord Peter Wimsey, Spy Game, Rio Bravo, Leverage, White Collar, Adventure Inc., Sports Night, Gunmen, Anne of Green Gables, and Aliens.

(Link goes to my recs at AO3)

I'll be adding to these over the next few days, and will update. Yay yuletide!

Tags: recs, yuletide2009

Yay madness open!

Over here is the first rec compilation, you're on the second part.


( And now... more indexed recs! )

Tags: recs, yuletide2009

Just a few recs, including a couple fandoms I haven't seen anyone mention yet! All rated teen or lower.

( Recs for Castle, Lie To Me, and In Plain Sight )

Tags: recs, yuletide2009

Callum Keith Rennie, 425 words, PG-13


( I've Had a Really Nice Time, But My Reindeer Need to Be Fed )

Tags: c6d, ckr, special hell

( Not dead yet. But that's not necessarily a good thing. )

i'm posting yuletide recs and to-read lists over at delicious, but my most enthusiastic rec so far goes to this BREAKFAST CLUB FUTUREFIC: Most Likely To. oh my god, this is everything i could have possibly hoped to have hoped for in a story like this. brian the grown-up not-quite genius geek wonder, bender the not-quite burnout bum. SO GOOD.

i also really really liked -- to continue with a theme -- this ferris bueller's day off story. more of a day-after-the-adventure-plus-years-before than futurefic, but really perfectly capturing cameronpov and the ferris/cam/sloane-ness of their friendship.

now i want to go back through the archive for other '80s movie fics. i've been threatening (especially to koncupiscence) to write some kind of wonderful futurefic where both keith and watts have figured out how damn queer they are, and how ridiculous it is that they ever took all that misplaced lust and focused it on each other.

let me know if you know any good ones (pretty in pink, anyone?) that i should track down?

Tags: fic

Another round of recs, that I can't help but list even though there aren't that many so far.

Fandoms: Brideshead Revisited, Cambridge Latin Course, Child Ballads, Gone With the Wind, His Dark Materials, Shakespeare - Henry IV plays, The Scarlet Pimpernel.

( Details recs below the cut. )

Tags: recs, yuletide2009
where it's at: Desk
I feel funny and my pants are: cheerful

I.  Day 14 → A non-fictional book

1.  Currently I'm reading Emerson: the Mind on Fire, by Robert Richardson.  What a crazy thorough biography.  The author is so focused on the intellectual influences that I feel like I've read every book Emerson's read.  It gives me great comfort to realize that Emerson didn't start on the path to becoming, you know, The Man, until he was 28.  LIKE ME, YES, EMERSON AND I ARE OBVIOUSLY SOUL SISTERS.

2.  I quite like Generation Kill, although it's more interesting to read it side-by-side with One Bullet Away, by Nate Fick.  For my money, however, the Iraq war book I'd rather read is Love My Rifle More Than You, by Kayla Williams.  I didn't want to read something so similar to my own experience, but when I was forced to read it I enjoyed it both more and less.  More because she's funny and poignant without being at all sappy, and less because I cried practically through the whole thing (it's not sad-- vertigo and uncontrollable weeping are apparently my version of PTSD, and the book hit very close to home). 

There are some things I didn't particularly like-- you can tell, for example, that she has serious issues with other women in charge of her, and she's definitely a part of the problem herself in some ways, the way almost all women in the military have to be to survive.  But she really gets into exactly how fucked up the military is with regard to women, sexual harassment and outright assault, and quite a few other things.  It's infuriating because it's the truth.  So if you read it-- and I do recommend it, it was pretty good-- be prepared to become very angry.

3.  The Fat Fallacy, by Dr. Will Clower.  I hate diets, diet books, and any kind of food discussion other than MMM THIS IS DELICIOUS.  This is not a diet book.  This is a book about what is really in your food and why you should stop eating processed crap.  It also promotes wine and cheese and dark chocolate, each of which I am a fan.  I read it in 2003, although I think it came out quite a while ago, and in the last few years there have been numerous books that have come out supporting everything he's said.  So if you ever get a sudden hankering to change your eating habits, I'd pick up this even before I'd pick up anything by Michael Pollan or that crew, although I really like his stuff as well.



II.  Mr. B and I spent our day being sick and lazy, respectively.  This morning there were waffles (slightly crispy, resembling cookies in some respects actually, but waffles all the same) and NewsRadio.  We did venture out on a shopping excursion at one point.  I bought one of my friends season 1 of Veronica Mars, and then spent all the rest of my money on, uh, myself.  I got an Elmer Fudd hat (do not judge, okay, it is very very cold here most of the time) and Peppermint Nog.  No reasonable person should have to live without Peppermint Nog.  This evening it was veggie lasagna and Doctor Who, and dear god, it's not even 11pm and Mr. B is asleep and I am nearly there.  LAME.  WE ARE  YOUNG AND HAVE NO CHILDREN, WHY ARE WE NOT OUT LIVING IT UP PEOPLE?

This might have to be my New Year's resolution, y'all:  to do stuff.  There will be time for knitting in front of BBC America and going to sleep before midnight on a Saturday when I'm actually physically old instead of just mentally old.


III.  Hee, Fandom Secret #136!  I'm not the only one who will feel betrayed by the universe if Colin Morgan and Bradley James are not really in love with each other.  Actually, part of me hopes they're not in a relationship at the moment, because they're so young that the odds of them breaking up would be quite high, especially since it kind of seems like Colin Morgan is a workaholic and Bradley James is like pah relationships, my mates are better.  No, I haven't given this any thought at all, why do you ask? 

All right.  To bed with First Among Sequels, Mr. B snoring away next to me, and Sophie tucked into her dog bed with her blankie.  Zzzzz.

Tags: bradley james is mad, colinmorganalloneword, happy meme, mr. boyfriend
I feel funny and my pants are: lethargic

Hamlet, Little Red Riding Hood, Matilda (book-canon), My Fair Lady, National Treasure, Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (album), Oxford Time Travel 'verse, and varying degrees of Paul Simon (Graceland and Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard) here.

Tags: recs, yuletide2009
the world is singing and it sounds like: TV

Casablanca--

Sentimental Reasons, and Sam In Casablanca. Two stories that are very different in tone and outcome, but both centered on Sam, and both excellent.

The Wire--

Stated Target and It's Just the Way the Game is Played. Every year, I cross my fingers for one good story for The Wire, and this year, there are two amazing ones. My love for these cannot be textually rendered.

Also posted at Dreamwidth.

I tried my hand at lefse. Ok, well, calling what I made "lefse" is stretching it a bit... it's vegan and gluten free (I used sorghum flour instead of wheat, and there's avocado oil instead of butter...). In fact, the only relation it bears to lefse is that there's potatoes in it and it's rolled out flat. But RF's mom figured out how to make lefse for me around my food allergies last year, and by golly I did my best.

It's tasty enough, if you've never eaten lefse before and aren't pretending that it's supposed to be lefse. I wouldn't dream of feeding it to any real Norwegians though...

where it's at: home! with a needy cat on my lap
I feel funny and my pants are: amused
the world is singing and it sounds like: the whirring of the fan - I might have burned it a bit...

I just posted a few recs at my journal. The fandoms are Monty Python's Life of Brian, Harold and Kumar, Leverage, Anthropomorfic, Saving Face, Northern Exposure, Rapunzel (fairy tale) and The Handmaid's Tale.

Tags: recs, yuletide2009
I feel funny and my pants are: happy

• 15:43 Cashier at the used bookstore was impressed with my purchases. He said people usually just buy thrillers. Haha #
• 16:13 Mike got a new bass! With my limited musical knowledge I can say only that it is blue and expensive. #
• 16:38 Bought The Story of O. Should not have started reading it in public while with my in-laws. #
• 16:41 My FIL asked why he would need a power cord if we bought him a wireless router. My BIL had to explain that electricity is not wireless. #
• 19:10 Just saw the movie Up In The Air. It was pretty good. Though I wish Clooney was out. sadface #

Guys, Christmas was really sucky this year, on the order of "catastrophe," or very nearly. I'm off for a few days on account of work-related stuff (I know, I know, I can't believe it either), but I'll be back up and running soon, I hope.

In the meantime, I just want to... ( do these things )

where it's at: deskie
I feel funny and my pants are: rushing to bed
the world is singing and it sounds like: Cage the Elephant, "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked"

Title: Matters of Blood and Connection
Author: LeAnn
Pairing: Sam/Vala
Rating: T
Summary: "I know darling, I miss him too." Vala helps Sam through a rough time.
Author Notes: character death
Word Count: 2346
Disclaimer: I own nothing, nor do I claim to. I just use these characters for fun :]

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where it's at: Essex
I feel funny and my pants are: calm
the world is singing and it sounds like: Better Than Ezra

Fandoms include Rome, White Collar, Torchwood RPF, Child Ballads, and Sherlock Holmes

( Rec list )

Tags: recs, yuletide2009
where it's at: Yuletide Heaven
I feel funny and my pants are: cold
the world is singing and it sounds like: Rehearsals for Retirement- Phil Ochs

If you posted a reaction to Doctor Who Part One, could you please link it in the comments? Because um, yeah.

I made a list of vid recs, going through all characters and several different pairings, in my LJ.

http://x-erikah-x.livejournal.com/182436.html

Tags: vids

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Tags: fandom: star trek
I feel funny and my pants are: drunk?

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( Gentlemen of the Road, Goblin Market, Hamlet, Hellblazer, Hot Fuzz, Inspector Chen series, Jeeves - Wodehouse, Lewis, Literary RPF, Lord Peter Wimsey - Sayers )

Tags: recs, yuletide

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This last decade has brought incredible opportunities and incredible people into my life. It's ended on a painful note with my grandmother passing away, but the fact remains I am incredibly blessed with good friends, loving and supportive family, and the opportunity to return to school against many odds. I think on balance, things have been pretty darn good.

Fandoms include: David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Amanda Palmer - The Astronaut, Kill Bill, Hunger Games, Like Water for Chocolate, Oregon Trail, The Dark Tower, Inuit mythology, fairy tales, the Silmarillion, Sandman, Slings & Arrows, Peep Show

Kimono Dreams - David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (album)
This was my request - it was my long-shot why the hell not request and i'm so glad it happened. I didn't give much, if any, direction; I figured if someone was going to offer this they'd have their own vision. The story is dark and Ziggy is frightening and beautiful. The language is very immediate and full of brilliant imagery. I am so pleased to have received this, it really is an amazing gift. The words run together like magic, take flight, sound drum beat chords through skin too young to have learned all that glitters is not gold.

( the rest are behind the cut )

Tags: recs, yuletide2009

Below the cut be: Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes, Jim Butcher - Dresden Files, Monster, Mythology - Near Eastern, Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley, and Tanya Huff - Smoke Series.

( Now Chock-Full of Reccy Goodness! )

Tags: recs, yuletide2009

Hi,

I'm looking for a fic where John had been captured off world and manages to escape. The story doesn't go into detail about his capture and is from a Village's POV. Sheppard is found by a group of villagers and once they realize that he is not crazy they leave him alone as he asks. They tell him he is welcome in the village. the villager who makes the offer has 2 children, a boy and a girl. The little girl later convinces John to go back to her home.

The thing I remember most about the story is that Sheppard and his team have become a sort of legend. Sheppard is supposedly married to the Athosian princess (according to legend) and Rone (Ronon) is the protector and MKay is the smart one. The little girl things John is nuts when he tells her that people call him Sheppard but that she can call him John. She doesn't believe that he could be the 'real' Sheppard. Ronon finds him in the end.

It's not the best summary, sorry about that.
Does this story sound familiar to anyone?

I feel funny and my pants are: pensive

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Title: Formal Jules
Word Count: 200.
Characters/pairings: Sam/Jules.
Rating: PG-13.
Warnings: None.
Spoilers: 2x01 - Eagle Two.
Summary: Formal Jules was a living fantasy.
Written for: flashpoint_sru, prompt #17 Outfit.
Beta: The awesome lillyg!
Disclaimer: I do not own Flashpoint or anything related to it.

Title: Breaking Free
Word Count: 400.
Characters/pairings: Sam/Jules.
Rating: PG-13, a bit of an AU.
Warnings: None.
Spoilers: 2x01 - Eagle Two.
Summary: Couldn’t he see that she wanted to be alone?
Written for: flashpoint_sru, prompt #5 Trigger.
Beta: The awesome lillyg!
Disclaimer: I do not own Flashpoint or anything related to it.

Recs for Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Belgariad, Calvin & Hobbes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chrestomanci, The Dark is Rising, Dead Like Me, Demon Diary, Disney Princesses, Dragonriders of Pern, Fairytales, Fried Green Tomatoes, Glee, Here is Greenwood, Juuni Kokki, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, The Lorax, The President's Daughter, The Princess Bride, Princess Tutu, The Secret Garden, Skip Beat!, Sky High, Spirited Away, Valdemar

Tags: recs, yuletide2009

One Leverage and one White Collar story recced here: http://melodyunity.livejournal.com/75851.html.

Recs for Miracles, Chuck, Leverage, and Big Bang Theory are here: http://melodyunity.livejournal.com/76163.html

Tags: recs, yuletide2009

I haven't been reading in any sort of order, but here are some Yuletide fics that have struck my fancy (and managed to bookmark when the archive wasn't being cranky):

To begin with, my brilliant, wonderful gifts:

Bridgerton series - Quinn

Chase the Glowing Hours - Five dances between Colin and Penelope, from their early friendship to their marriage. This reads like something straight out of Romancing Mister Bridgerton; the voices are fantastic.

Mendol

My love, she is nothing (she's only everything) - It's a shame that more people haven't read this fic. It doesn't have the kinky crack of the series, but makes Nami and Ray real, and warm, and human.

And onto other people's gifts!

( Legally Blonde, Leverage, Nodame Cantabile (TV), I Am Maru, Inspector Chen series - Williams, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Yankee-kun to Megane-chan )

Tags: recs, yuletide2009

Calvin and Hobbes, Discworld, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Beauty and the Beast (fairy tale, rather than Disney) and Cinderella here.

Tags: recs, yuletide2009
the world is singing and it sounds like: TV (NCIS)

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