So you know what I said the other night, about bound books in bookshops that come with their own special language/packaging that's equivalent to what we now try to do via tags and warnings and recs and so on? Well, screw that. ( Potentially triggering mini-rant about an in-store author reading. )

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You know... it takes a very special talent to take an utterly cracky premise and make something special of it, something that transcends both the original idea and readers' expectations of it. I've been aware of this story for ages and ages. I've been aware of the author from several other fandoms, Inception especially, where she's written some ( Read more... )

chemm80 made the mistake of asking me yesterday what I was doing for Thanksgiving, which of course meant that I had to send her back blurry cameraphone pictures of my cranberry sauce while it was cooking (not the most photogenic substance in the universe, so I put my then-second bottle of beer in the shot because color, duh, and aren't you glad I don't ( Read more... )

Why, yes, that is Steve/Tony for two days in a row. When I recced yesterday's, I had an opportunity to look at my spreadsheet and lo and behold, it had been over 100 days since the last time I'd recced Steve/Tony. And that was just wrong, I have to say. Normally I'm not that dead set on righting past wrongs and such, but the story below was like ( Read more... )

I've always really, really, really wanted to love Steampunk. You have to understand - I live in what was pretty much the capital of the Steampunk Universe for the longest time, some of the best writers in the genre live here, we still have a Steampunk Con that runs each year - I think - that used to be run by a friend of a friend. I ooh'ed and aah' ( Read more... )

This one's a little different, for a number of reasons. I know the canon even less than I normally do, for one; I get the feeling this wouldn't read well as original fic, secondly; and, it's not even one of my usual pairings. Still, I came across it, I got to thinking about what I know about Bucky, then I got to thinking about the tons of canon ( Read more... )

Oh good lord. It's been a rough couple of days, and while it looks like they're letting up now, the general busy-ness in their wake has not settled just yet. I don't want to keep delaying, however. So I'm going to try to do two recs tonight, even though I'll have to keep them short. I have to get up very early in the morning for... reasons. Yucky ( Read more... )

I actually can't believe I haven't recced this one already. I know it's come up before, and I skipped it as a potential rec while thinking I'd already done it, and then a few days back I looked at it more closely, and realized I didn't even have it bookmarked (let alone recced) and oh my god how could I forget to talk about it but this is that ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a godawful day, and it doesn't help to rehash it, so I'm just going to add it to the pile of things I have to make up for and move on, right? Right. tryfanstone recced this to me a few days back, saying it's good and warning for typos. I agree about the typos but they're... irrelevant, really, and not even that many. But while I was otherwise ( Read more... )