Reading
All my readings lately have been of the ficcish variety so...there. ;) In no particular order:
When the World Ends by lieueitak (although this link will take you to ff.net). This one's a House fic. I know I don't mention and/or rec House fics very often, but I'm only a tangential House fan and haven't watched anything from this season at all. That said, lieueitak is excellent at capturing House's voice and his signature Proud to Be a Prick-ness. I know, I know, you're thinking "How the heck would she know if she doesn't watch House?" Don't believe me. Read the reviews. Anywho, I am happy to rec this one and not just mention it as something I read in passing. Be warned, it has spoilers for "Joy" (as you'll see in the Author's Notes) but if you don't mind mild spoiling it is so completely worth the read. I stayed up late to read this one.
Hero is another ff.net find, by Jedi Keladry. It's a Harry Potter, Snape and Hermione friendshippy fic. I know, I know, it's Snape, but Keledry makes this work. I promise. This was actually my second Jedi Keladry fic.
Hope's Sanctuary was my first Jedi Keladry fic. It's a Star Wars, Obi Wan/Padme Amidala fic. It's a slow build romance, and quite unlike what you'd expect of an Obidala fic. (And as a side note, for a second the auto-fix on my lj editor recognized "Obidala" as a correct word. Hee!) This is more of a "what if" fic, or perhaps an AH, than a true AU. It follows a lot of the SW mythology even while taking some small turns as our characters make different decisions and have to work through them. Even if you're anti-jedi pairings, I think you'll like this. Half the reviews for this one are from people going "I don't usually like Obidala fics, but I like this!" God knows I did (I do like Obidala, for the record. The stranger the combo, the more it fits my bill it seems like). It was enough to send me searching for more of Keladry's fics.
She Was Beautiful to Him is another Jedi Keladry (this time going as Keladry Lupin) fic, and another Snape/Hermion. Like "Hope's Sanctuary" it's a slow romance kind of thing, starting in 4th year or thereabouts to post-war. It goes seriously AU around Half-Blood Prince but it's well worth it. Much of Keladry's S/H fics are archived here (if she has any other SW fics, I don't know where to find them) and the ones I've picked through I've really liked. I'm mentioning this one in particular because 1) I'm too lazy to list everything else and 2) I really liked the way this builds. Keladry has a good handle on who the characters are and is willing to make the reader go through the paces of building up a story.
Annnnd that's it-ish. ;)
When the World Ends by lieueitak (although this link will take you to ff.net). This one's a House fic. I know I don't mention and/or rec House fics very often, but I'm only a tangential House fan and haven't watched anything from this season at all. That said, lieueitak is excellent at capturing House's voice and his signature Proud to Be a Prick-ness. I know, I know, you're thinking "How the heck would she know if she doesn't watch House?" Don't believe me. Read the reviews. Anywho, I am happy to rec this one and not just mention it as something I read in passing. Be warned, it has spoilers for "Joy" (as you'll see in the Author's Notes) but if you don't mind mild spoiling it is so completely worth the read. I stayed up late to read this one.
Hero is another ff.net find, by Jedi Keladry. It's a Harry Potter, Snape and Hermione friendshippy fic. I know, I know, it's Snape, but Keledry makes this work. I promise. This was actually my second Jedi Keladry fic.
Hope's Sanctuary was my first Jedi Keladry fic. It's a Star Wars, Obi Wan/Padme Amidala fic. It's a slow build romance, and quite unlike what you'd expect of an Obidala fic. (And as a side note, for a second the auto-fix on my lj editor recognized "Obidala" as a correct word. Hee!) This is more of a "what if" fic, or perhaps an AH, than a true AU. It follows a lot of the SW mythology even while taking some small turns as our characters make different decisions and have to work through them. Even if you're anti-jedi pairings, I think you'll like this. Half the reviews for this one are from people going "I don't usually like Obidala fics, but I like this!" God knows I did (I do like Obidala, for the record. The stranger the combo, the more it fits my bill it seems like). It was enough to send me searching for more of Keladry's fics.
She Was Beautiful to Him is another Jedi Keladry (this time going as Keladry Lupin) fic, and another Snape/Hermion. Like "Hope's Sanctuary" it's a slow romance kind of thing, starting in 4th year or thereabouts to post-war. It goes seriously AU around Half-Blood Prince but it's well worth it. Much of Keladry's S/H fics are archived here (if she has any other SW fics, I don't know where to find them) and the ones I've picked through I've really liked. I'm mentioning this one in particular because 1) I'm too lazy to list everything else and 2) I really liked the way this builds. Keladry has a good handle on who the characters are and is willing to make the reader go through the paces of building up a story.
Annnnd that's it-ish. ;)