Hello internet! I kind of avoided you between December 15 and last Monday, when I finally got to see the Star Wars movie. I guess it was sort of strange to be so spoiler-phobic, but I saw all of the first trilogy completely blind (because I was something like 7, 10 and 13 when they came out; I remember walking out of Empire and complaining loudly ( Read more... )

A few more, worth reading. These are all in books fandoms, and capture the tone of the originals perfectly.

( Star Trek (Rihannsu books); Tam Lin; The Princess Bride )

This hardly represents a full trawl of the archive, but here are some stories I have enjoyed.

( 6 stories in North & Hillard, Greek Prose Comp; Vorkosigan Saga; The Wire; The Dark is Rising; Flashman Papers; Oxford Time-Travel Universe )

I got an excellent story this year! If you read only one story in Forever, make it this one! You won't be sorry.

A Mistaken Assumption, Repeated (2947 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Forever (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Abe (Forever) & Henry Morgan
Characters: Abe (Forever), Henry Morgan, Jo ( Read more... )

In the end I wrote two stories for Yuletide this year, both of which have my sticky fingerprints all over them, as far as I can tell. Neither has made a big splash, but both recipients seem to like them, which is what matters. I also received a story which I adore!

Big Bad (1731 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Olympic Opening Ceremony (2012)Rating: ( Read more... )

Back from a wonderful weekend away -- we saw the sun! amazing! And then returned to nearly-unremitting gloom of Oxford. Woe!

But here are some more ASOIAF stories I liked. Many of them are also full of woe.

Goodbye Means Going Away (And Going Away Means Forgetting) (2368 words) by
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First, an insta-rec -- Fireball, by celli. I may well be the least-likely reader for this fic, since it's an SGA AU set in the world of NASCAR racing, which is something I know absolutely nothing about. Maybe less than nothing. As I type this, I'm betting that the "R" stands for "racing," so that NASCAR racing is actually redundant. Whatever. The ( Read more... )

Among the things that make vaznetti happy, the following may be found:

• the fact that her car started this afternoon, despite the weather and the fact that she hasn't used it for two weeks;
• the lamb chops she's thinking of cooking for dinner, unless she decides on eggs and bacon instead, because being able to eat breakfast for dinner is one of the best ( Read more... )

I was going to do one of those fanfic-year-in-review things (and discovered that I've written more, and more stories than I'm proud of, than I'd thought), but instead, here are a few more yuletide recommendations, coming in just under the wire of anonymity.

Hot Shots Part Deus: God Strikes Back. Because it's Hot Shots fic, and it's hysterically funny and ( Read more... )

This is only a taste of what I've been reading over the past couple of days, and there are so many excellent stories out there that I could come up with vast numbers to recommend.

Another story in the the fandom I received (the Riddle-Master trilogy), Coin for the Man Who Has Nothing gives us Deth in the first days of the series, as time, almost ( Read more... )