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Sep 22, 2008 14:09

So, I got this journal to mainly to comment on others. But it looked kinda empty. And then, because I am a prime example of monkeyseemoneydo, when I noticed some people had rec lists, I thought “I read stuff! I can do that!” Thus: theonlytwin’s big damn reclist. Keep in mind that not only do my fandoms range far and wide, I have a long list of OTPs, but will wander outside such boundries if offered candy. Let’s say 85% het, but slash does crop up. I like apocalypses, (don’t ask me why) so you’ll find a fair few in here. There’s a healthy sprinkling of sex and violence, but I like to think people should use their own judgement. Really, I just go for quality, in any shape. Dig in!

Bobba Fett! Evil kangaroos! Robot! Kevin Bacon! Meta-ness! Michael Ondaatje! HIMYM. Absolutely the best ten things fic I’ve ever read, possibly the greatest in the universe. I don’t care if you’ve never seen the show, get out from under your rock, suit up, and check this out!

Ten Dreams Barney Had While Recovering at the Hospital

This should have happened, but canon crapped all over it. HIMYM. This is actually two very different fics by two very different authors, both of which have accurate characterisations and plausible plots, yet were unfairly jossed by the dumbass, so-called “real” writers. Screw you guys! I’m going home. And then I’m gonna, y’know, keep watching the show. But I’ll also read these. Maybe shake my fist at the TV screen. That’ll show ‘em.

Leave no man behind

That time Barney and Robin were having an affair no one knew about.

And I thought there was no Gil/Oscar fic in the whole wide blog. HIMYM/The Office. This one is fabulous. Gil and Oscar go to Barney’s brother’s wedding and Oscar gets asked to dance as all kinds of wonderfully human peccadilloes frolic about.

All the crazy married people

Arranged marraiges are sexy. Justice League. Not quite toonverse, not quite comics, all fantastic. An entirely possible alternate universe, with Batman and Wonderwoman, but also Bruce and Diana, and a theoretical threeway, and Sapphic poetry, and Scarlett O’Hara, and the pearl necklace, andandand perfect characterisation. Everything about this story is gold. Go, now, read. And then, read the DVD form.

Aspire to Touch the Sky

I don’t care what Russel T. Davies says, this is canon. It must be! Dr Who/Torchwood. Anyone remember that throwaway line, after the Master was defeated, but before Martha goes home to look after her family, when Jack mentions he used to be known as the Face of Bo? Yeah, me neither, but a little googling reminds us that the big floaty telepathic face thing (who turns up in a grand total of three episodes) is called the Face of Bo. This author has taken such paltry offerings and delivered an epic, stunning love story, with bonus sex on a beach.

Everyman
Jack/known universe


This is the fic I would play large amounts of money for to see filmed. Dr Who/Iron Man. Because Tony Stark likes redheads, and Donna Noble knows how to deal with clever, idealistic genii who have the attention span of a - oh, sparkly!


The ego or the suit?


This is funny because it’s true. True I say! Iron Man/HIMYM. This fic is short and elegant and absolutely beautiful, like a mathematical equation, or a midget in a ball gown.

Tony Stark is the Patron Saint of Awesome

Big shiny robots make death not sad. Transformers. Yes, I went looking for Transformers fic. No, I am not ashamed, and you can’t make me be. This is a finely crafted story that shows that aftermath is not necessarily bad. Plus, a discussion of autobot sexuality, and a road trip with Optimus. Though it verges on the corny, it balances out with the funny, and the true. One could even say that in this story, there is more then meets the eye. *Ducks*

Dude, you can’t tell me you don’t want a Bumblebee of your own

The WGA strike reduced me to RPF. I didn’t mean to, but then I did, and I liked it. It’s quite clever, and very romantic. In my defense, I like the characters’ chemistry so much I sort of assumed it would extend to reality. Oh, shut up and read.

Even as it’s happening, he can’t help but think how laughably cliché it is.

i heart cross-overs! Angel/others. This is just fun. Connor getting shifted around all the families he might have had. I can’t pick a favourite, they are all that awesome.I only read the first three and was laughing so hard I almost died. Then I read the last to and actually died. No really, I'm writing to you as a zombie.

Connor Bluth

Joss Wheadon is god, but some of us are pretty divine. BuffytVS/Angel. This is an example of everything that is right about fanfiction. Sad, sweet, tender, terrifying, slashy. There’s a cross-over. There’s Giles being utterly Gilesian. It is 25 moments of sheer beauty.

25 occasions people have celebrated in the Jossverse

One Vampire’s Theories Concerning Music and Ethics. BuffytVS. I always thought Spike was awesome, and then he got chipped. Boo! Oh wait, he’s still pretty much awesome! Yay! This is poetic and philosphical, and mentions Mick Jagger. Rock on!

It's just a little piece of rock. That's all silicon is, refined rock, and the metal bits, the wires, that's rock too.

This is like Roman Holiday, only Vampire Slayer style. BuffytVS. I love the detail here, the attention and emotion. I didn’t want it to end.

What comes to mind when she looks at him, though, is the fact that he saved the world and turned her down in almost the same breath.

War, what is it good for? Some damn fine story telling. Firefly. This story is just like a battlefield. It’s harsh and bloody and cuts down to the bone. You walk away changed.


Cradle Elbows Wide


There must be 60 ways to die on a Firefly. Firefly. This whole story is just *ouch*. The only comfort is that each chapter is mutually exclusive: no two can exist in the same verse. I cried, pretty much the entire time, but extra hard at chapter five. I mean, Davey. *ouch*


Reagan almost deletes it automatically.


He wiles, she wiles, they while away the day. Firefly. Ahh, unresolved sexual tension makes such fantastic banter. Her Mal’s voice is dead-on, finding just the right balance of responsibility and juvenility that makes it ring true.

She couldn't have heard him right. "Dear God, it's finally happened. You've snapped."

What constitutes the greatest cross-over ever? Firefly/Futurama. Many people are like to have many different opinions on what the greatest cross-over ever might be. I’m pretty sure that when it is decided, at an infinite point in the future, whatever the fandoms involved, River Tam will be there. mandysbitch has some fantastic cross-overs. This is the crackiest.

Bender wanders onto a ship, talks to some chumps, walks away happy.

The zombie apocalypse that’s not really a zombie apocalypse. Firefly/Torchwood. The tatters of Torchwood Three, plus River, against a ravening hoard. That’s a recipe for gloomy, end-of-the-world fun. It’s graceful and lovely, right down to the tantalising hint of Doctor/River.

Did Sir enjoy his stay at the zombie apocalypse?

I actually thought for a second Neil Gaiman had posted this under a pseudonym. Neverwhere. I spent rather a lot of this story smiling at the style, until the content really crept up on me. And then, *shudder*. It’s very very clever, and very very spooky. WARNING: It only works if you’ve read the book. Go read the book, it’s fantastic.


Dick Mayhew and his Marvellous Cat


“What’s worse then dating a serial killer?” says a serial killer’s sister. Dexter. I have an unhealthy love for Floridan crime, so this show was like crack to me. This story, this portrait of dearly daunted Deborah, dealing with the denouement of her dastardly darling Rudy deciding to slice her up, is pure coke.


Deb takes up knitting.


What is there for a killer to do when the whole world is dead? Dexter. I mentioned I like apocalypses? This fandom is bizarrely suited to them. This reads like a deleted scene from the show, only with way more corpses. Which is saying something. Not for the squeamish.

It’s them against the world, and Deb likes it that way.

Does anyone recognise this show? The Pretender. Man, I used to love this show. Then it got weirder, and then even weirder, and the follow-up movies were so weird, I sort thought I dreamed them. But no. All that ridiculous plotting, hand holding, a near kiss, really happened. But that’s all that happened. I mean, we got more then that from the nine year Jack/Sam UST in SG-1, and that was pretty damn frustrating. Here are some examples of what could have happened, instead of that nonsense in the island.

Violent and cathartic and awesome.

Really Good Gun


Secrets and sex and states and shoes.

Jarod texts her at sunrise.


Sexy, disconcerting and awesome spooky. It’ll climb into your head like a warm kitten, then dig in sharp little claws.

Somewhere a clock is ticking


X-Men cross-over. Guess who’s got wings?

They have to take a public flight. She's going to kill him anyway.


A love/hate letter to Perth, which, for those of you who don’t know, is this crazy little microcosm of civilisation on the far end of Australia with great beaches and skate parks.

Jarod told Miss Parker she'd follow him to the ends of the Earth.


Creepy Christmas snaps, a tiny igloo and the most excellent ending a fangirl can ask for.

Chasing Cars


One universe bad. Multiple universes good. SG-1. Fifteen times the world ended for Jack O’Neill. A couple of these are actually cross-overs, but if you don’t recognise a fandom, no-one will mind. Fifteen bites of incredible. Anr owns my soul. Well, shares in it. It's kind of spread around really. Why are you listening to me, go read!

Four days without sleep, two without food. They're running on bad coffee and sheer determination, fighting an enemy they can't beat, fighting themselves and hopelessness.

Love, lapels, centaurs and milk. (No swearing.) Middleman. Before the writers fell over themselves to dissuade us of the notion, some gosh darn good MM/WW fic was produced. Here it is made to seem a beautiful inevitability. Ida looks on like the snarky chorus at a Greek tragedy.

He really doesn't like Ben. On the other hand, he really doesn't like Richard Nixon, the guy who invented skim milk, and people on TV (not real life, just TV) who wear brown suits, so Wendy doesn't really look into it.

This is the way the world ends! Take that, T.S. Elliot! Middleman. With a deft hand this story is made to seem hopeless and hopeful at the same time. It has violence, debate, and a parallel universe. Good times, the end of times.

Wendy won't make it to the end of the world, but she'll try.

The awesomest non-X-Men origin story ever. NCIS. Proof that there is life in ff.net. When Tony met Gibbs, and Gibbs met Tony, and Tony is revealed to be far more angry and adorable and messed-up then anyone could have expected.

Rictus

Bulletin: Life after Gibbs not that bad. NCIS. You know why I like Tony? Because Ziva scares me and McGee bores me and Gibbs is a big, fat, canon Mary Sue. There, I said it!

The motto is not always WWGD. WWGD is brought out at half-time when the center just sprained his ankle and the other team has that one guy who has to be at least seven feet tall. Most of the time, Tony gets by on various second-string techniques.

That's it for now, but I have an unbelievable amount of favourite Supernatural fics I need to find and rec, and dig out some other lost fics. If anyone wants to rec something to me, go on! Spread the love!

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