Right, so: Merlin! For me, half of the attraction was the canon, and half of it was the absurdly rich corpus of fanfic that's sprung up over the past few months. So, this is my Massive Rec Post of Doom, long in the making. In order to save time, I haven't really said much about my own reactions to the stories, beyond putting asterisks beside ( Read more... )

Apparently, "lengthy AUs in which the characters are yeshiva students who fall in love with each other" is a genre of fanfic. Apparently, it's one I can't resist.

First, schemingreader wrote The Heart's Obligations a couple of years ago, a Harry Potter AU on that theme -- Snape/Lupin, set in the 19th century, and utterly wonderful.

Now, I discovered kassrachel's A ( Read more... )

In the midst of busyness and excitement, here are a few things that I've really enjoyed -- two IF games, two essays, and one fic.

Blue Lacuna -- This, I think, will be my new "introducing new people to Interactive Fiction" game. Not only is it an excellent and engrossing novel-length game, it's well-designed for beginners; you can get by without ( Read more... )

So, apparently Vividcon was this weekend. :-)

I was watching a few of the videos that came out of it, and I absolutely have to rec these two (and one bonus!):

Handlebars, by flummery. Holy crap, people. This is a new Doctor Who vid (Tenth Doctor, gen) that immediately ranked as one of the best vids I've ever seen. The song is fantastic and perfectly ( Read more... )

24 recs in 20 fandoms, including my own gifts. I still haven't read everything in the fandoms I know, and I have several long, frequently-recced stories open on my browser, but I wanted to get this batch out before the big reveal. I encourage browsing of the archives, though; these were my favorites, for one reason or another, but there were many ( Read more... )

Things I've read this week:

• Converse Symmetry, by Terrie Drummonds, Garak/Bashir, NC-17. Yes, I am reccing 10-year-old DS9 slash. Shutup. I stumbled on this while searching for Picard/Q for a friend, and it's a better read than any of the P/Q I found. A crew of familiar characters from an alternate universe arrives at DS9, and the ensuing ( Read more... )

Gnargh. I'm switching over my website and fics to PHP, which is great because it means I'll be able to play with the format in the future without having to alter every single page . . . but which also means that I have to tediously go through sixty-something stories to make them PHP-compliant. Sigh ( Read more... )

Regarding Good Fan Fiction to Read:
(To the authors of these fantastic fics: I've been so busy lately that I haven't had the time to post comments yet, and I'm sorry.)

A Thousand Shades of Orange by piratesword, PG-13, Buffy/HP. Gen interactions between Willow and Luna while Willow's recovering in England.

Timewatching; or, Five Ways Ianto Jones Seduces ( Read more... )

FIRST! I have had "Voodoo Child" (here come the drums, here come the drums) in my head all week. Dammit.

SECOND! Huntsman by lizbee is Ten/Martha/TARDIS (PG-13, no major S3 spoilers), and it's plotty and well-characterized, and DW history plays a role, and Martha is an HP fan, and it's just perfect. I could see this actually happening ( Read more... )

To the HP fans on my flist: while I am not averse to reading DH spoilers, I will be extremely careful to keep any information (or even general reactions) under labeled LJ cuts. This applies before and after the release of the book; I'm aware that for one reason or another, many fans may not get a chance to read the book for days or even weeks ( Read more... )