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Right, this may not be fic, but it explains rather a lot of my life and deserves a rec because the kids need to know, dammit.
Fandom = drugs
Because Yuletide is the greatest thing to happen to fanfic since five things
The Addams Family Movie I know this is the kind of movie you watch on the bus during long school excursions, but that is the beauty of Yuletide Treasures. Fandoms no-one ever considers get this kind of treatment: the first meeting of Gomez and Morticia. Gardening, poisoning, grievous bodily harm and young love.
Morticia found herself wondering what his arm would taste like, and it wasn't her usual thinking about how people would taste if Mamma was allowed to cook them, but a more subtle sort of taste, as though she wanted to see if his skin would taste more like blood or like gunpowder, and if it would feel rough or smooth against her tongue.
Pulp Fiction As a child I loved this movie. Other people had Disney, but I had random bloody violence, cool cars, dancing the twist and lots of swearing. Really, what else could an eight year old ask for? Back story, motherfucker. I wanted back story. After all these years, kormantic has fulfilled a childhood dream. Yay!
He wondered what brand of gourmet coffee Jimmie bought; that hazelnut had been some good shit.
Flight of the Conchords No one can fully explain why this show is so fantastically hilarious. Something about the dead pan delivery, the silly accents, the sort of surreal-realism, with song! This has the voices, the style, the feel perfectly. It also might be the only entirely slash free Conchords fic in the blagosphere, so must be noted for rarity value.
"I feel like I've been as much of a not-struggling musician as I could be, back home. New Zealand is--"
"It's been tapped," Jemaine finished for him.
"Yeah."
"I tapped it."
"As much as it could be tapped, definitely. Yes." Bret wasn't sure if he should argue that it wasn't solely Jemaine's tapping that was executed. It was more of a tandem-effort tap, as they were a duo there as well.
Ocean’s 11 Having recently watched Burn After Reading, I had to re-watch Ocean’s 11 to level my spirit. And thus I had to re-read Ocean’s 11 fic. So much banter, so little time. (Although I think everyone knows, Dean is Batman, but we won't tell Danny)
"What superhero are you?"
Rusty blinks. "Excuse me?"
And while we're plotting and planning and possibly scheming, why not a little perfectly characterised slashy goodness?
It was so easy to underestimate Linus.
The one where the pirates are nine kinds of awesome PotC I can hardly express the glee I have for this fic. If you haven’t read it, do it now. If you haven’t seen the movies, get out from under your rock (don’t worry, we’ll wait), and then read this. If you don’t know what PotC means, get back under the rock; I’m not sure we can be friends any more. Oh, I can’t stay mad at you! Here, have a cookie, and some rum, and I’ll to introduce you to a fascinating phenomena that all started with a theme park ride and some eyeliner…
Nine Pieces of Eight
A breakdown, by way of Fowler Supernatural You know what’s fantastic? The English language. It’s a glorious, chaotic mess of exceptions and analogues, borrowings and thefts. You know what’s even more fantastic? Fic that dissects and manipulates grammar to make me cry. Not the smoothest segue, but I'm still crying.
When Sammy left, Dean had to learn all the ways to speak again.
The one that came from left field Batman: The Dark Knight This movie, with Imax filming, crazy emotional scope, ‘splosions and dead!Heath as the greatest villain ever, was so ambitious and intimidating, I didn’t really expect or seek fic. Minim, however, was not daunted, and wrote the elegant origin story of this verse’s Batwoman.
She's nearly eleven and a half the day the police come to the door.
A love song for Neville Longbottom Harry Potter That sneaky “fifteen years later” bullshit Rowling pulled meant she skipped the whole messy, interesting bit where all those kids became full fledged adults, with jobs and regrets and sex and resignations and maybe, maybe happy endings. Look, if you believe that Dumbledore was gay, do you also believe everyone marries their high school sweetheart? Yeah, I thought so.
20 Facts About Neville Longbottom
Wait, you mean two hot chicks can be friends? Wow! Ironman I’m not particularly against random kissing (I do kind of hate Katy Perry {Cobra Starship’s cover was better}) but jeez, fandom, it is possible for two people to be in an entirely sexless relationship. It has happened. And here it happens with cleverness and poetry and blowdarts and bonus scene-stealing Tony Stark. Try it. It won’t bite (though some like that).
All right, so maybe it wasn't the way Pepper had expected to spend her Saturday morning. Or any morning, for that matter. But Ever-- Christine was interesting to talk to, and it had been a ridiculously long time since Pepper had had a conversation that didn't revolve around missed appointments, angry stockholders, or flying robot suits.
Awesomest use of genderswap SGA Rodney is Rodney is Rodney, no matter what body he’s in. Which is why we love him. Trinityofone came up with something subversive and challenging and funny and original and hot and awesome. This honestly covers the consequences of a crazy genderswap, not just the fun sex bits. There are fun sex bits too, though.
Rodney crossed his arms under his breasts. "Well, this is stupid. And typical. Both my opportunities for hot gay sex and hot heterosexual sex are ruined!"
Camping. With superheroes. JLA Good fic in a fandom like this is such a pleasure to come across. This is a particularly adorable example, with the seven supers leaving powers behind for a week to reconnect around a bonfire in the desert. Team building exercises are so hokey, they can only be made better with the image of the Flash making s’mores and threatening to sing. Aww.
Hard travellin’ civilians
The one that’s profound and sexy about vampires and their after-effects Blade: Trinity Loving this movie is a secret shame of mine. It all has to do with my weakness for smart mouthed boys with shiny weapons. I’ll also watch Parker Posey in anything, and the sound track is fantastic, and there’s archery, and Esperanto, and in the end, the whole sword-fight-between-Wesley-Snipes-and-Dracula thing just sweetened the pot. And here’s some amazing fic about it.
the morning after/the night before
My favourite five things author (at the moment): kyra I’ve wondered why the five things is so popular and can’t come up with a satisfactory explanation. Hey, when a meme works, it works. You’re all lucky I’m not including the rarely glimpsed “Twelve and a half times (fill in character name) kissed/kicked/killed Snape” meme. That kind of shit should stay buried, man. Kyra has mastered the short and sweet format, spanning some of my favourite fandoms. I was going to just rec this first one (the fifth resurrection is canon, Joss, cool? cool.), but then i read all the others and couldn't damn pick.
Buffy: Five Resurrections That Weren't
Five things Kaylee fixed on Serenity that she never mentioned to Mal.
Five laws Hermione Granger broke.
Five reasons BJ Hunnicut thinks that Hawkeye Pierce is a better person than he is.
Five futures Kelly Kapour imagines for herself.
Five Reasons Pam's a Whore, According to Angela.
Five Things Inara Taught Mal About Sex.
Five Parties Emily Gilmore attended without Richard on her arm.
Fandom = drugs
Because Yuletide is the greatest thing to happen to fanfic since five things
The Addams Family Movie I know this is the kind of movie you watch on the bus during long school excursions, but that is the beauty of Yuletide Treasures. Fandoms no-one ever considers get this kind of treatment: the first meeting of Gomez and Morticia. Gardening, poisoning, grievous bodily harm and young love.
Morticia found herself wondering what his arm would taste like, and it wasn't her usual thinking about how people would taste if Mamma was allowed to cook them, but a more subtle sort of taste, as though she wanted to see if his skin would taste more like blood or like gunpowder, and if it would feel rough or smooth against her tongue.
Pulp Fiction As a child I loved this movie. Other people had Disney, but I had random bloody violence, cool cars, dancing the twist and lots of swearing. Really, what else could an eight year old ask for? Back story, motherfucker. I wanted back story. After all these years, kormantic has fulfilled a childhood dream. Yay!
He wondered what brand of gourmet coffee Jimmie bought; that hazelnut had been some good shit.
Flight of the Conchords No one can fully explain why this show is so fantastically hilarious. Something about the dead pan delivery, the silly accents, the sort of surreal-realism, with song! This has the voices, the style, the feel perfectly. It also might be the only entirely slash free Conchords fic in the blagosphere, so must be noted for rarity value.
"I feel like I've been as much of a not-struggling musician as I could be, back home. New Zealand is--"
"It's been tapped," Jemaine finished for him.
"Yeah."
"I tapped it."
"As much as it could be tapped, definitely. Yes." Bret wasn't sure if he should argue that it wasn't solely Jemaine's tapping that was executed. It was more of a tandem-effort tap, as they were a duo there as well.
Ocean’s 11 Having recently watched Burn After Reading, I had to re-watch Ocean’s 11 to level my spirit. And thus I had to re-read Ocean’s 11 fic. So much banter, so little time. (Although I think everyone knows, Dean is Batman, but we won't tell Danny)
"What superhero are you?"
Rusty blinks. "Excuse me?"
And while we're plotting and planning and possibly scheming, why not a little perfectly characterised slashy goodness?
It was so easy to underestimate Linus.
The one where the pirates are nine kinds of awesome PotC I can hardly express the glee I have for this fic. If you haven’t read it, do it now. If you haven’t seen the movies, get out from under your rock (don’t worry, we’ll wait), and then read this. If you don’t know what PotC means, get back under the rock; I’m not sure we can be friends any more. Oh, I can’t stay mad at you! Here, have a cookie, and some rum, and I’ll to introduce you to a fascinating phenomena that all started with a theme park ride and some eyeliner…
Nine Pieces of Eight
A breakdown, by way of Fowler Supernatural You know what’s fantastic? The English language. It’s a glorious, chaotic mess of exceptions and analogues, borrowings and thefts. You know what’s even more fantastic? Fic that dissects and manipulates grammar to make me cry. Not the smoothest segue, but I'm still crying.
When Sammy left, Dean had to learn all the ways to speak again.
The one that came from left field Batman: The Dark Knight This movie, with Imax filming, crazy emotional scope, ‘splosions and dead!Heath as the greatest villain ever, was so ambitious and intimidating, I didn’t really expect or seek fic. Minim, however, was not daunted, and wrote the elegant origin story of this verse’s Batwoman.
She's nearly eleven and a half the day the police come to the door.
A love song for Neville Longbottom Harry Potter That sneaky “fifteen years later” bullshit Rowling pulled meant she skipped the whole messy, interesting bit where all those kids became full fledged adults, with jobs and regrets and sex and resignations and maybe, maybe happy endings. Look, if you believe that Dumbledore was gay, do you also believe everyone marries their high school sweetheart? Yeah, I thought so.
20 Facts About Neville Longbottom
Wait, you mean two hot chicks can be friends? Wow! Ironman I’m not particularly against random kissing (I do kind of hate Katy Perry {Cobra Starship’s cover was better}) but jeez, fandom, it is possible for two people to be in an entirely sexless relationship. It has happened. And here it happens with cleverness and poetry and blowdarts and bonus scene-stealing Tony Stark. Try it. It won’t bite (though some like that).
All right, so maybe it wasn't the way Pepper had expected to spend her Saturday morning. Or any morning, for that matter. But Ever-- Christine was interesting to talk to, and it had been a ridiculously long time since Pepper had had a conversation that didn't revolve around missed appointments, angry stockholders, or flying robot suits.
Awesomest use of genderswap SGA Rodney is Rodney is Rodney, no matter what body he’s in. Which is why we love him. Trinityofone came up with something subversive and challenging and funny and original and hot and awesome. This honestly covers the consequences of a crazy genderswap, not just the fun sex bits. There are fun sex bits too, though.
Rodney crossed his arms under his breasts. "Well, this is stupid. And typical. Both my opportunities for hot gay sex and hot heterosexual sex are ruined!"
Camping. With superheroes. JLA Good fic in a fandom like this is such a pleasure to come across. This is a particularly adorable example, with the seven supers leaving powers behind for a week to reconnect around a bonfire in the desert. Team building exercises are so hokey, they can only be made better with the image of the Flash making s’mores and threatening to sing. Aww.
Hard travellin’ civilians
The one that’s profound and sexy about vampires and their after-effects Blade: Trinity Loving this movie is a secret shame of mine. It all has to do with my weakness for smart mouthed boys with shiny weapons. I’ll also watch Parker Posey in anything, and the sound track is fantastic, and there’s archery, and Esperanto, and in the end, the whole sword-fight-between-Wesley-Snipes-and-Dracula thing just sweetened the pot. And here’s some amazing fic about it.
the morning after/the night before
My favourite five things author (at the moment): kyra I’ve wondered why the five things is so popular and can’t come up with a satisfactory explanation. Hey, when a meme works, it works. You’re all lucky I’m not including the rarely glimpsed “Twelve and a half times (fill in character name) kissed/kicked/killed Snape” meme. That kind of shit should stay buried, man. Kyra has mastered the short and sweet format, spanning some of my favourite fandoms. I was going to just rec this first one (the fifth resurrection is canon, Joss, cool? cool.), but then i read all the others and couldn't damn pick.
Buffy: Five Resurrections That Weren't
Five things Kaylee fixed on Serenity that she never mentioned to Mal.
Five laws Hermione Granger broke.
Five reasons BJ Hunnicut thinks that Hawkeye Pierce is a better person than he is.
Five futures Kelly Kapour imagines for herself.
Five Reasons Pam's a Whore, According to Angela.
Five Things Inara Taught Mal About Sex.
Five Parties Emily Gilmore attended without Richard on her arm.