I default on PurimGifts this year, by putting it off to the last moment and then having the last moment hit with a work crisis. :( But I got amazing stories as gifts, and I want to point everyone to them.

They're all Gentlemen of the Road fics, Michael Chabon's delightful mashup of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser with medieval Jewish history. The stories ( Read more... )

The making of Ḥanina ben Dosa: Fan fiction in the Babylonian Talmud by Monica Amsler in the journal Transformative works ( Read more... )

Another in my long-running series of AUs about Jessica from Merchant of Venice

Variation 8 (581 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jessica/Lorenzo (Merchant of Venice)
Characters: Jessica (Merchant of Venice), Lorenzo (Merchant of ( Read more... )

10 years ago last week I went to see the Star Trek reboot movie and I went home and wrote fixit fic. I Hate That Vulcan was an immediate and nearly thoughtless response to how silly the technobabble was in that movie. The movie's main McGuffin was lazily tabbed "Red Stuff" and that made me so angry and I had to do something about it ( Read more... )

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I got two more great Magic Flute fics for
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Weirdest troll/spam comment I've ever gotten on a fic:

From a user known as Le Star-Lord, left on a fic that is definitely not a Marvel fic

Wow! This fic of yours is perfect ( Read more... )

I got an odd comment on an old fic yesterday.

The fic, "Jamie and Every Shapiro in Washington Heights (and one Shiksa Goddess)", was written for the
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It disappoints me that two and a half years after I posted The Glass and Reed Advertising Agency, nobody has commented on my Easter Egg mention of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.

This fictional hospital was the employer of Gregory House on the TV series House. Thus it represents yet another aspect of the set of fictional geographies that ( Read more... )

I guess I got a little bit into the Christmas spirit.

Variation 7 (129 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jessica/Lorenzo
Characters: Jessica (Merchant of Venice), Lorenzo (Merchant of Venice)
Series: Part 8 of The Jessica Goldberg ( Read more... )