Yuletide(+) recs
I received:
Northern Exposure. Reaping the Whirlwind. I got Marilyn/Joel! \o/ It's a really lovely, delicate, sweet fic. He's had those thoughts a lot lately, imagining her, warm and solid. holding him. Surrounding him. A quiet presence, opening to him.
Noah's Arc. Reaching For It. This is like the Ricky/Noah of my HEART. Ugh. I. It just makes me so happy, I can't even. Even if sometimes he thinks about how natural it's always felt to wrap his arms around Noah.
Some other fic I've gotten recently:
3 sentence fic:
Fifth Element, Leeloo/Plavalaguna.
Night at the Museum, Rebecca/Sacajawea.
Dead Like Me, Roxy/Daisy.
Psych, Gus/Shawn.
And a Star Trek/Threshold crossover by lastwordslinger, which is Crusher/Fenway and woooonderful. ♥ (Sequel to this.)
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Other yuletide recs:
Addams Family. Pasodobles. Morticia/Gomez! So perfectly themselves here. She turns away from him, his torment, his ever delight.
Before Sunrise. Before Sunrise - 0 - Before Sunset . Love how so much is captured in so few words. New York. Bangkok. Istanbul. Rome. Cancun. Sydney. Paris.
Brideshead Revisited - Waugh. Gillyflowers. Incredibly beautiful prose and moments. ...his body copying the shape of Sebastian's, even if he did not directly touch him.
Dead Like Me. Fearless. Really fantastic characterization; I especially love Betty and her voice here. "Betty Rohmer. Those footless socks of yours are impeccable."
Drake & Josh. Acute Selective Drake-Related Amnesia. Hi-larious, with Josh being brainy and Drake being annoying and Megan being awesome. Reads like an episode. “Josh, the calendar you made of yourself in all your favorite outfits doesn’t count.”
Earthsea. Unbinding. A beautiful look at Tenar and Tehanu. Sometimes she thinks herself dead and born nameless into another body, another girl who breathes in fumes and dances for hungry ghosts.
Eddie Izzard Routines. Delicious. As everyone else has said, this sounds so much like one of his routines it's almost scary. Because there are only two things that polar bears really care about, you see, and those two things are Christmas and Coca-Cola.
[Fairy Tales]
General. No Frog, No Princess. So adorable and sweet. "Or you might have been an octopus. That would have been worse."
Snow White. That Was Most Beautiful. Great turnaround on the stepmother. She didn't know how else he could have come to her father's small farm where the earth was thick and brown and full of life.
Little Red Riding Hood/Snow White. Bedtime Story. Dark and delicious and gorgeous. It begins with a wolf.
[How I Met Your Mother]
The No "No Homo" Code. Of course Barney has a code! This made me laugh a *lot*. Barney/Ted. "Do horizons expand with a boom?" Ted asked.
An Extra Shot of Chocolate Syrup. Great character voices, and the plot is so perfectly HIMYMish. “That sounds exactly like Victoria.” His eyes were far away. “She must be back in town.”
The Legendary Five Way. Totally lives up to the title. I don't even like reading about porny times and this had me squirming in my seat, and the characterization is lovely. In his defense, he was really drunk. And in his further defense, that was Barney's fault.
Mirrormask. To The Library, Of Course. Helena as creatrix; really nice pacing. She raised her hand, and from it birthed new things.
Pushing Daisies. Itty Bitty and the H.O.G.. This felt like watching an Olive-and-Emerson episode. So utterly delightful. But mostly content is not completely content, and it was in this state of incomplete contentment that Emerson was wallowing when the door to his office opened and a whirlwind of entirely petite proportions upended his quiet Sunday.
Saving Face.
The Last Gasp of Chivalry. I love Wil, and how hard she's trying. "… I'm sorry." Wil shifts from foot to foot. "I'm still not good at this."
eating together. Great glance into Hwei-Lan's head -- this glimpse into her character feels so real. This girl is different; important. She can feel it.
Singin' in the Rain. Dreamed You First. Great look at the woman in green. She is considering killing the man next to her and sending the carcass into the kitchen so she has a damn steak on her plate.
True Blood. Some Crazy, Random, Happenstance Bullshit that All Turned Out Okay. Seriously, I wish the show were as good as this fic. LAFAYETTE. ♥ "So he's not a fucking vampire, he don't have antlers and ain't gonna pop up in the middle of the night with black eyes or a drug habit or a police record or no shit like that?"
Wonderfalls. Random Acts of Life. This is *so* in tone with the show. “A virgin birth. Been a while since that happened.”
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And, while I'm at it, have a few more recs I've been meaning to post:
American Idol
+ Eight Days of Lamberkkah by various authors. I'm sure this has been recced everywhere else already, but I feel compelled to rec it specifically because I am *not* an AI fan at all, and I found this hugely enjoyable anyway (in part because, yes, I adore crossovers and this has them in SPADES). Right around Rahm Emanuel was when I started dying. "Is that your brother?" Rahm asks, because apparently he's got eyes on the back of his head. "Tell him he has an okay blog."
+ Back of a Dream Car Twenty Foot Long by theswearingkind. And this one I read because, well, it's TSK. Chilling and creepy and lovely. "I'm not really yours," Kris says, flat and toneless and terrifying. "I never was. I never should have been."
Invisible Man.
+ The Wicker Basket by basingstoke. Crossover with Hot Fuzz that features TANDEM BIKES. What more do I need to say? Fawkes glides in circles around him. "Hey, check it." He tips the bike up onto its front wheel and bounces.
+ By The Light Of The Silvery Moon by zhiverny6. Oh, the *banter*. How it makes me laugh. “Well, sorry, I didn’t think to bring any produce with me on my trip to the friggin’ outback!”
NCIS.
+ somniphobia by delgaserasca. Ziva gen. Really, really lovely. An old trick, something her brother taught her; always hold your breath.
+ Just a Little Confused by
wishfulaces. Hilarious Tony/McGee that features the entire ensemble and they're all so very in-character. “The point, Tony,” McGee told him patiently, “is that if you really wanted to have sex with me, you should have just said, instead of pulling my proverbial pigtails.”
X-Men.
+ Storm Breaking by aneko_fic. Really gorgeous Storm/Mystique. Love the prose and themes explored. Ororo contemplated the night sky, traveled the corridors of her heart and her conscience, and said: yes, yes, I will come with you.
Psych.
+ Dancing on Air and Water by
everysecondtuesday. A really lovely Gus/Mira interlude. Before Gus was quite sure what happened, he was in the air, wind whipping briefly by, and then there was the cold shock of water swallowing him down. (Also recommended: this Gus/Mira/Shawn commentfic.)
+ Untitled by basingstoke. Okay, normally I can't read Shawn/Lassiter, but this is my exception (probably because it's all about Gus and Shawn having a hilarious conversation). "I LET HIM PUT HIS DANGLE IN MY SECRET PLACE AND I NEED TO TALK ABOUT MY FEELINGS," Shawn yelled, trying to pry Gus's hand away from his ear.
+ Drabbles: Set 1, Set 3, Set 4 and Set 5 by paynodebts. Mostly gen, though some definite Gus/Shawn overtones that I enjoyed. Vary in tone from fun to angst.
Sports Night.
Five Things Sorkin Never Got to Steal from Sportscenter by scrunchy. Damn fine character voices. "You're watching Sports Night, live and full of, just ... wacky antics. We're going to go put out the fire devouring our studio, but we assure you," Dan looked very seriously into the camera, "we're coming right back."
Star Trek XI.
+ The Benefits of Disengaging the External Inertial Dampener from a Northern Californian Perspective, or Lonesome No More! by ifanythingelse. Sulu/Spock that made me laaaaaugh so incredibly hard. The transcription of Vulcan was particularly inspired. Spock comes-Sulu's hand to god-three more times while Sulu lays there in a post-orgasmic fugue state mumbling the names of every county in California in no particular order.
True Blood.
+ Domesticity comes in various flavors by ethrosdemon. Lovely Pam/Godric, and hooboy, do I love the Godric backstory in this. In a small city in the Land Between the Rivers, a boy was born.
+ Deserts of Vast Eternity by dancinbutterfly. This is Godric/Eric, but Jessica was the highlight of this for me; she just cracks me up. “He’s so sweet and amazing in bed but we keep having to stop because I’m stuck in this stupid body with this stupid painful virgin vagina forever.”
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Northern Exposure. Reaping the Whirlwind. I got Marilyn/Joel! \o/ It's a really lovely, delicate, sweet fic. He's had those thoughts a lot lately, imagining her, warm and solid. holding him. Surrounding him. A quiet presence, opening to him.
Noah's Arc. Reaching For It. This is like the Ricky/Noah of my HEART. Ugh. I. It just makes me so happy, I can't even. Even if sometimes he thinks about how natural it's always felt to wrap his arms around Noah.
Some other fic I've gotten recently:
3 sentence fic:
Fifth Element, Leeloo/Plavalaguna.
Night at the Museum, Rebecca/Sacajawea.
Dead Like Me, Roxy/Daisy.
Psych, Gus/Shawn.
And a Star Trek/Threshold crossover by lastwordslinger, which is Crusher/Fenway and woooonderful. ♥ (Sequel to this.)
*
Other yuletide recs:
Addams Family. Pasodobles. Morticia/Gomez! So perfectly themselves here. She turns away from him, his torment, his ever delight.
Before Sunrise. Before Sunrise - 0 - Before Sunset . Love how so much is captured in so few words. New York. Bangkok. Istanbul. Rome. Cancun. Sydney. Paris.
Brideshead Revisited - Waugh. Gillyflowers. Incredibly beautiful prose and moments. ...his body copying the shape of Sebastian's, even if he did not directly touch him.
Dead Like Me. Fearless. Really fantastic characterization; I especially love Betty and her voice here. "Betty Rohmer. Those footless socks of yours are impeccable."
Drake & Josh. Acute Selective Drake-Related Amnesia. Hi-larious, with Josh being brainy and Drake being annoying and Megan being awesome. Reads like an episode. “Josh, the calendar you made of yourself in all your favorite outfits doesn’t count.”
Earthsea. Unbinding. A beautiful look at Tenar and Tehanu. Sometimes she thinks herself dead and born nameless into another body, another girl who breathes in fumes and dances for hungry ghosts.
Eddie Izzard Routines. Delicious. As everyone else has said, this sounds so much like one of his routines it's almost scary. Because there are only two things that polar bears really care about, you see, and those two things are Christmas and Coca-Cola.
[Fairy Tales]
General. No Frog, No Princess. So adorable and sweet. "Or you might have been an octopus. That would have been worse."
Snow White. That Was Most Beautiful. Great turnaround on the stepmother. She didn't know how else he could have come to her father's small farm where the earth was thick and brown and full of life.
Little Red Riding Hood/Snow White. Bedtime Story. Dark and delicious and gorgeous. It begins with a wolf.
[How I Met Your Mother]
The No "No Homo" Code. Of course Barney has a code! This made me laugh a *lot*. Barney/Ted. "Do horizons expand with a boom?" Ted asked.
An Extra Shot of Chocolate Syrup. Great character voices, and the plot is so perfectly HIMYMish. “That sounds exactly like Victoria.” His eyes were far away. “She must be back in town.”
The Legendary Five Way. Totally lives up to the title. I don't even like reading about porny times and this had me squirming in my seat, and the characterization is lovely. In his defense, he was really drunk. And in his further defense, that was Barney's fault.
Mirrormask. To The Library, Of Course. Helena as creatrix; really nice pacing. She raised her hand, and from it birthed new things.
Pushing Daisies. Itty Bitty and the H.O.G.. This felt like watching an Olive-and-Emerson episode. So utterly delightful. But mostly content is not completely content, and it was in this state of incomplete contentment that Emerson was wallowing when the door to his office opened and a whirlwind of entirely petite proportions upended his quiet Sunday.
Saving Face.
The Last Gasp of Chivalry. I love Wil, and how hard she's trying. "… I'm sorry." Wil shifts from foot to foot. "I'm still not good at this."
eating together. Great glance into Hwei-Lan's head -- this glimpse into her character feels so real. This girl is different; important. She can feel it.
Singin' in the Rain. Dreamed You First. Great look at the woman in green. She is considering killing the man next to her and sending the carcass into the kitchen so she has a damn steak on her plate.
True Blood. Some Crazy, Random, Happenstance Bullshit that All Turned Out Okay. Seriously, I wish the show were as good as this fic. LAFAYETTE. ♥ "So he's not a fucking vampire, he don't have antlers and ain't gonna pop up in the middle of the night with black eyes or a drug habit or a police record or no shit like that?"
Wonderfalls. Random Acts of Life. This is *so* in tone with the show. “A virgin birth. Been a while since that happened.”
*
And, while I'm at it, have a few more recs I've been meaning to post:
American Idol
+ Eight Days of Lamberkkah by various authors. I'm sure this has been recced everywhere else already, but I feel compelled to rec it specifically because I am *not* an AI fan at all, and I found this hugely enjoyable anyway (in part because, yes, I adore crossovers and this has them in SPADES). Right around Rahm Emanuel was when I started dying. "Is that your brother?" Rahm asks, because apparently he's got eyes on the back of his head. "Tell him he has an okay blog."
+ Back of a Dream Car Twenty Foot Long by theswearingkind. And this one I read because, well, it's TSK. Chilling and creepy and lovely. "I'm not really yours," Kris says, flat and toneless and terrifying. "I never was. I never should have been."
Invisible Man.
+ The Wicker Basket by basingstoke. Crossover with Hot Fuzz that features TANDEM BIKES. What more do I need to say? Fawkes glides in circles around him. "Hey, check it." He tips the bike up onto its front wheel and bounces.
+ By The Light Of The Silvery Moon by zhiverny6. Oh, the *banter*. How it makes me laugh. “Well, sorry, I didn’t think to bring any produce with me on my trip to the friggin’ outback!”
NCIS.
+ somniphobia by delgaserasca. Ziva gen. Really, really lovely. An old trick, something her brother taught her; always hold your breath.
+ Just a Little Confused by
wishfulaces. Hilarious Tony/McGee that features the entire ensemble and they're all so very in-character. “The point, Tony,” McGee told him patiently, “is that if you really wanted to have sex with me, you should have just said, instead of pulling my proverbial pigtails.”
X-Men.
+ Storm Breaking by aneko_fic. Really gorgeous Storm/Mystique. Love the prose and themes explored. Ororo contemplated the night sky, traveled the corridors of her heart and her conscience, and said: yes, yes, I will come with you.
Psych.
+ Dancing on Air and Water by
everysecondtuesday. A really lovely Gus/Mira interlude. Before Gus was quite sure what happened, he was in the air, wind whipping briefly by, and then there was the cold shock of water swallowing him down. (Also recommended: this Gus/Mira/Shawn commentfic.)
+ Untitled by basingstoke. Okay, normally I can't read Shawn/Lassiter, but this is my exception (probably because it's all about Gus and Shawn having a hilarious conversation). "I LET HIM PUT HIS DANGLE IN MY SECRET PLACE AND I NEED TO TALK ABOUT MY FEELINGS," Shawn yelled, trying to pry Gus's hand away from his ear.
+ Drabbles: Set 1, Set 3, Set 4 and Set 5 by paynodebts. Mostly gen, though some definite Gus/Shawn overtones that I enjoyed. Vary in tone from fun to angst.
Sports Night.
Five Things Sorkin Never Got to Steal from Sportscenter by scrunchy. Damn fine character voices. "You're watching Sports Night, live and full of, just ... wacky antics. We're going to go put out the fire devouring our studio, but we assure you," Dan looked very seriously into the camera, "we're coming right back."
Star Trek XI.
+ The Benefits of Disengaging the External Inertial Dampener from a Northern Californian Perspective, or Lonesome No More! by ifanythingelse. Sulu/Spock that made me laaaaaugh so incredibly hard. The transcription of Vulcan was particularly inspired. Spock comes-Sulu's hand to god-three more times while Sulu lays there in a post-orgasmic fugue state mumbling the names of every county in California in no particular order.
True Blood.
+ Domesticity comes in various flavors by ethrosdemon. Lovely Pam/Godric, and hooboy, do I love the Godric backstory in this. In a small city in the Land Between the Rivers, a boy was born.
+ Deserts of Vast Eternity by dancinbutterfly. This is Godric/Eric, but Jessica was the highlight of this for me; she just cracks me up. “He’s so sweet and amazing in bed but we keep having to stop because I’m stuck in this stupid body with this stupid painful virgin vagina forever.”
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