Slashy Awards 144: Strephon's a Member of Parliament!

[thefourthvine]

I've been trying del.icio.us for a while, and I've come to the conclusion - well, it's nice to have all my bookmarks resident on the web. And it's nice to be able to put everything up there. But - well, okay. It makes me not want to do actual recommendations sets, and that's kind of why I have this journal, and it's the thing I love most. So that

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[murklins]

1. I love delicious a lot, but it took me a while to get there. I still mark everything "do not share" if I have to be brutally honest and call it like it is. Still, I would be sad to lose your social bookmarks. I sort of look at them once in a while, because sometimes you seem to go *back in time* and pull out old links, which is very cool. But yeah, do not share is my friend and it could be yours too. But I find delicious has not enough space for notes, so if you find something with more notes, I'd love to know.

4. Probably I should say the sshp_prophet because it's the one I edit, but really it's the vm_navigator because Veronica Mars fic is my guilty addiction. I can't stop reading it, but it hurts so bad. So I need the newsletter to see when fic I might be able to stand gets posted.

5. Recs. Hard to rec things to you -- not sure which ones I found out about from here in the first place.

Benevolent Sibling by fahye, BSG. Galactica's residents star in the Cylon hit reality series Benevolent Sibling. Excerpt: “You can’t activate him now,” Sharon added, obeying. “He hasn’t slept with Gaius yet.” Six choked on a peanut. “That being the really important thing, of course."

Like New by penknife, Good Omens. Crowley has amnesia and has forgotten he's a demon. Aziraphale suspects it's just a new way for Crowley to annoy him. Funny and sad and altogether lovely.

Pop Divas After The End of the World by meyerlemon, RPF and BSG. What if the resistance on Caprica were led, not by sports stars, but popstars? Crack, of course. Excerpt: "Shit, Kara," Britney said, sounding a little annoyed, "it's the end of the world. Let it go."

The Fifty-Point Scrabble Bonus by fox1013, Grey's Anatomy. Izzie plays Scrabble with rabid intensity. Somehow this leads to Scrabble porn. Excerpt: Izzie beat Cristina, 316 to 149. She followed it up with her victory dance, reserved for only the most special occasions. Cristina declared war.

I can't resist reccing RPS, but it's really old, so maybe that makes it okay?

Pancake Mouth by helpwess, Olympics Swimming RPS. Michael Phelps is the unlikely yenta in this Olympics RPF story. Excerpt: "HA, HA," bellows Pieter's subself, and capers about in glee. "You're going to die! Your feeble Dutch gay is no match for the Thorpedo!"

6. Never read non-fiction successfully. But I did like Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. Everyone on the planet has read it though, so this wasn't very helpful.

[thefourthvine]

sometimes you seem to go *back in time* and pull out old links

Yup, I do. If I go back to something I have bookmarked in my old folder for any reason - and because of the way I rec and read, I do that fairly often - I try to put it into del.icio.us, too. If I went once, I'll probably go again, that's my reasoning.

Somehow this leads to Scrabble porn.

*amused*

Scrabble porn! That is totally appealing. (And now, of course, I'm thinking - if I like it, that will make two stories about Scrabble in two different fandoms. Will there one day be enough for a recs set?)

[murklins]

Hmm. The only other Scrabble fic I remember is Scrabble by MartianHousecat (schmevil). The Slytherins take Scrabble very seriously. Hilarious gen, no porn at all, except for hints of Draco/Pansy. A few comma problems, esily overlooked (by me, at least, because as you can see I'm no stranger to comma abuse).