Whew, started making my way through the giant list of Yuletide stories. (2678? OMG?) Here's some of the stuff I have read and liked. I still have to go back and dig deeper into some of these fandoms, so there may be more (especially around HTGAWM and Captive Prince). Give me all your recs, too!

Five (1477 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
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If you've been eagerly awaiting the newest part of the mafia AU,
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I can has awesomely hilarious Middleman fic!

Five Times Wendy Flew Solo, which is fun and ridiculous and involves giant cybernetic penguins. Let me repeat that for you: GIANT CYBERNETIC PENGUINS. It is so delightful and nerdy, and it makes me sigh happily. I just love it so much ( Read more... )

Ted Chiang's latest novella is up for free online: The Lifecycle of Software ObjectsIt's about AIs and online communities and about software companies and it's about something even more than that, about the relationships we forge with other people and other things. His world-building is, as always, exquisite. I am still amazed by his understanding ( Read more... )

story rec

So as a result of Mammothfail II: The 'For the love of fucking god, this is 101 shit here' version, I stumbled across a really cool story Nira and I by Shweta Narayan. It's lovely and full of cool imagery (which totally hits my weather kink, shut up), and I like that the world here doen't feel European or white. Check it out!

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I've been planning to do this for halfamoon for a while, but I keep on failing somehow. But yes, female character recs! A mix of gen and het focus on female characters. This is hardly a complete listing of all the stories about female characters I have loved, but here are few that have stuck with me over the years.

( The 'Martha Jones Kicks So Much Ass' Section )

I adore Arthurian legend the way I love comic book canon, in the way they're both so easy to retell and to retell in different ways. New details can be added or old details can be discarded. It's all okay!

Also, Yuletide stories are up. All 2426 of them. I received two very wonderful presents:

Aprocypha (Carnivale, Sofie) - I love Sofie like a ( Read more... )

1. Vid rec! To Touch The Face of God by destina. It's just a stunning ode to the U.S. space program, and it's about human yearning and human struggle and human sacrifice. I used to have a poster of a space shuttle hanging over my bed, no joke, and I wanted to work for NASA, and this reminded me of why. Seriously, go watch it.

2. Saw Across the Universe, ( Read more... )

Coming out of my pseudo-isolation to let you know that someone wrote me a NYR fic (OMG I've gotten three stories now, and I have no idea what I did to deserve this).

It's Dune-fic, Paul introspection, and it's just wonderful.

Go read.

Stuff done by me:

First kisses meme:

House/McKay (non-Mathletes) for queenzulu
House/Hello Kitty for xaeris
Chase/Six for demonqueen666
Hiro/Ando for savemoony

There may be more later, but that's what I have for now.

'John doesn't understand himself, but that's okay' recs over at gate_house

Stuff done by other people:

A pictorial log of the whole kerfluffle. (really funny)
Pre-opening ( Read more... )