Recommending the reccers (and other stuff)
I haven't recced in ages. And to tell you the truth, this isn't really a recs post. But here's a few things I've been meaning to mention to the wider community of my LJ for a while:
1. Multi-fandom 48 Hour Fic Challenge
The bordellinos (old West Wing group in which we sometimes hold challenges which no one completes) held a challenge to write a story within 48 hours. The results are not only fabulous, but also feature some pretty interesting fandoms:
Furies wrote No Clowns at the Circus Today (The L Word, Bette, post-series)
pene wrote Still the Guilty Cannot Sleep (The Mentalist, Lisbon and Jane)
intl_princess wrote Nothing Left to Burn (Gossip Girl, Chuck/ Blair)
cappuccinogirl wrote Three Women (Californication, Hank and his women)
azurejay wrote I'll Give You a Match if You Need It (RPF, Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump)
2. Chasing Rainbows Recaps
catechism is recapping an old Paul Gross TV show, Chasing Rainbows and it's hilarious (the recaps, not the show. Although the show is hilarious in that "laugh or you'll cry" way). The pilot episode recap is on her Dreamwidth journal here but why not pour yourself a martini or a daiquiri or just grab a bottle of something stiff and read the whole lot, because television used to be sad and we should all get drunk and laugh at it.
3. Recs and Meta
nrrrdy_grrrl runs a journal of fanfiction called Further and mixed in with a lot of meta and insightful thoughts about fandoms such as DCverse, Trek, Supernatural (mostly Supernatural) and X-Files, there's a bunch of interesting recommendations from now and before and beyond. For those who love to meta their brains out and just enjoy talk about fic.
4. Recs
If you haven't come across it already, dodificus has the good shit and these days this is where I get the majority of my crack. This is largely because she recs Rodney/ John, Sam/ Dean, Kowalski/ Fraser, Merlin/ Arthur and, well, you understand.
Of course, there's other stuff in there and if you take a look, you'll see there's a good variety, but it's a recs journal only and I rarely disagree with her taste, so it can't be bad, right?*
So check out something new today!
* this does not mean she recs dark and depressing stories about characters in the middle of an existential angst crisis, okay? Don't give me that look.
1. Multi-fandom 48 Hour Fic Challenge
The bordellinos (old West Wing group in which we sometimes hold challenges which no one completes) held a challenge to write a story within 48 hours. The results are not only fabulous, but also feature some pretty interesting fandoms:
Furies wrote No Clowns at the Circus Today (The L Word, Bette, post-series)
pene wrote Still the Guilty Cannot Sleep (The Mentalist, Lisbon and Jane)
intl_princess wrote Nothing Left to Burn (Gossip Girl, Chuck/ Blair)
cappuccinogirl wrote Three Women (Californication, Hank and his women)
azurejay wrote I'll Give You a Match if You Need It (RPF, Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump)
2. Chasing Rainbows Recaps
catechism is recapping an old Paul Gross TV show, Chasing Rainbows and it's hilarious (the recaps, not the show. Although the show is hilarious in that "laugh or you'll cry" way). The pilot episode recap is on her Dreamwidth journal here but why not pour yourself a martini or a daiquiri or just grab a bottle of something stiff and read the whole lot, because television used to be sad and we should all get drunk and laugh at it.
3. Recs and Meta
nrrrdy_grrrl runs a journal of fanfiction called Further and mixed in with a lot of meta and insightful thoughts about fandoms such as DCverse, Trek, Supernatural (mostly Supernatural) and X-Files, there's a bunch of interesting recommendations from now and before and beyond. For those who love to meta their brains out and just enjoy talk about fic.
4. Recs
If you haven't come across it already, dodificus has the good shit and these days this is where I get the majority of my crack. This is largely because she recs Rodney/ John, Sam/ Dean, Kowalski/ Fraser, Merlin/ Arthur and, well, you understand.
Of course, there's other stuff in there and if you take a look, you'll see there's a good variety, but it's a recs journal only and I rarely disagree with her taste, so it can't be bad, right?*
So check out something new today!
* this does not mean she recs dark and depressing stories about characters in the middle of an existential angst crisis, okay? Don't give me that look.