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How Much String is in the World. Who Has It.--
someinstant DCU, Dick Grayson/Tim Drake Dick's brooding (with tequila) because in all essence, he was banished to Bludhaven, so Tim is sent to check on him. And things develop, as they so often do. This story is hilarious, truly. This is the story that made me say, with absolutely no natural segue, 'you know, subduction and orogeny does sound dirty.' But I'm used to people staring at me strangely. Because--Tim and comparisons to Jane Goodall, and him admitting that he keeps notes on them (if only in his head) because that is such a Tim thing to do. And the way Dick's drunk logic makes perfect sense. This story is really just witty and awesome all around.
The Hidden Benefits of Anger--
sparky77 Heroes, Nathan/Peter After the whole unfortunate thing in New York with the exploding, and such, Peter can't find Nathan. So he comes up with various reunion scenarios (and also drinks) like "Peter’s Terrible Reunion Story #3: Peruvian Warlords (also known as: Evidence of Peter’s Slipping Sanity)". And then Peter throws a tantrum. So it's all happy, in the end.
Ten Things to Get Used To --
cesperanza due South, Fraser/RayK The due South series finale caused somewhat of a renaissance for the great canadian shack story, a genre that had been sadly dying off with the decrease in pioneer novels. Sometimes I wonder why the pioneer novels died off, but then I settle for being incredibly grateful and hoping I never have to read another one. No genre on earth has ever come close to the sheer pedantic plotlessness of a pioneer novel (Canadian especially), except for maybe the prairie novel, a close cousin of the pioneer kind, which might win out with its sheer pretentiousness. But then there are stories like this, and I remember why they ever existed in the first place. Because here is an absolutely fabulous story about the great white unfamiliar, and adjusting to it. It's all discovery, really
Thirteen Ways--
eponis Harry Potter, Remus Lupin/Severus Snape Because this has never been more true than for this couple; Lupin and Snape don't have the luxury of new beginnings. They do have a lot of bad blood under the bridge, or however it goes. This was written post-Order of the Phoenix, which, to my mind, decreases the angst several lengths from what it would be post-HBP. Which is good, because this fic packs enough punch without any more help. They're never going to be fluffy, there's too much history for that. This is a series of vignettes, really, but it tells a complete story.
The New Atlantean Dictionary of Literary Terms: A Complete Reference in Four Volumes--
thingswithwings SGA, McKay/Sheppard, Teyla Emmagen/Kate Heightmeyer, other pairings. To start, there was no way that I could not love this story. I mean, literary terms! How cool is that? Of course, I'm a person who owns a shirt that says 'strike a juxtapose' that I wear often and in public. And then this story had to go beyond and be incredibly well-written, and interesting, and highlight some of my favourite supporting characters who never get enough attention. And it kind of won my undying devotion for the use of 'deus ex machina' because if there was ever a show that relied on it, SGA would be it. Also: t’s not until he’s spent a lot of time on Atlantis that he realises that he’s not Tom Baker in Logopolis: he’s Colin Baker in Terror of the Vervoids, doomed to fight his heroic fight against the Pegasus galaxy’s equivalent of unconvincing stuntmen in duct-taped foam suits. Hee.