For those of you just landing here now, a short explanation: I set myself a goal in 2012, to rec one long slash fanfic (or original fic) story every day for the entire year. The stories had to be more than 10,000 words (and they were, for the most part), preferably slash, and good. I had 3-4 fandoms I usually read, when I started; by the time I ( Read more... )

According to my kid's 4th grade teacher (this was back when my kid was actually in 4th grade, which is... no longer the case) anything can be made fun when you do it with a friend. Granted, I think she was actually referring to long division at the time, but hey, whatever works, right? And it's not as if reading fanfiction isn't fun already, ( Read more... )

The second batch of stories I wasn't able to finish reading this year is under the cut. As before, some of these are beloved and familiar, but I just wanted to read them again. Others I started and got excited about. Still others I haven't read at all, but they sounded amazing. Give them a try, and consider writing up a rec; if you do, and you tell ( Read more... )

There were so many stories I hadn't finished reading by the time the end of the year rolled around. Here are some of them. I'm almost certain they're marvelous. Some I've read and wanted to re-read; others I started and had to interrupt; still others I never even started but they sounded so good. If you read them, consider writing up a rec? Let me ( Read more... )

Confetti, people! Woot! I'll be back later tonight or tomorrow with more stuff and notes and presents and Even More Fic (yep!) but in the meantime, I figured I'd post this now in case I don't make it back home until late (unlikely, but I'm paranoid). The following story happens to be the most brilliantly realized fic I've read in a few weeks, ( Read more... )

Right, so. It's this one, and tomorrow's, and then a crapload of notes and ephemera and even!more!bookmarks distributed among several wrap-up and where-to-next posts, all coming to you on January 1st, if I don't have a hangover. It doesn't look like I will, because I'm surrounded on all sides by non-drinkers and drinking by myself always seems sad ( Read more... )

Oh good lord, I had such a hard time settling in to rec this. No second thoughts, or at least none in the traditional sense, it was just that at the last minute I lost track of why I wanted to talk about this one, so I went on an overlong trip down memory lane through all my Inception recs and still-unrecced bookmarks, which Pinboard tells me add ( Read more... )

This will be the last of the Sam/Dean recs in this project. It feels so weird to say so, not only because the project itself is coming to an end but because even now, I can think of at least five other major pieces of fanfiction featuring these two that I could also be talking about. And that's without even really looking. If I go back through the ( Read more... )

It figured I would end up swapping out at least one of these last ones, when it came down to it. As I said, it's been incredibly difficult talking about some of them all along, and the one I was going to talk about tonight just won't budge from the bubble of quiet contemplation I seem to have built around it. To be fair, it's a serious story ( Read more... )

Way back at the beginning of this project, when I was counting to myself the number of fics I could name off the top of my head to include here, before I even started doing any research, this was the first candidate that came to my mind. It isn't so much that I've been procrastinating on its rec (although I have). It's that I'm terrified of talking ( Read more... )