stories have beginnings and middles and ends, people have births and lives and deaths; and this vid--liquid bird (ensemble), a kind of goodbye from my favourite vidder to my favourite fandom (her "final farewell to the Team and the City that changed them forever")--manages to weave all of these together in a great rhythmic arc: the way the show and ( Read more... )

ok. so this is apparently the season for vids so good that my love for them can only be textually rendered in extreme keysmashing and extended capslock, which i will generously spare you and not even attempt--instead, i will show you the damn vids. which are awesome, but also SCARY AS FUCK, and full of all the things that go bump in the great dark ( Read more... )

So what if I am ten years late to the party? Mulder / Krycek (*) is everything I love in an antagonistic pairing: shifting loyalties, hidden agendas, uneasy alliances. O, and also hotness. They cannot seem to keep their eyes or their hands from each other, and I can hardly blame them.
I really am having fun working thru The X Files as I convalesce; ( Read more... )

I am miserably sick--voiceless, auuugh: even breathing is hard and rattles painfully in my chest, and everything (including my soft as silk bamboo sleepshift) hurts everywhere it brushes against my skin--but what with the coughing and all I cannot sleep, so I thought I might clear some of the recs I have been sitting on since everything went to ( Read more... )

To celebrate the return of the second half of Stargate: Atlantis (Season Four), I give you the happiest McShep vid ever: Four Years (Of a "Life Extraordinary") by Fabella.

My favorite episodes of the first half of the season, the ones my mind has lingered on the most, were all about John's darkness: his fears, and what he will do (who he is capable ( Read more... )

"Written by the Victors"
(a novel of future history)
by Speranza

It is likely, then, that Se Narsaugir, like its companions in the Liant Codex, will remain as much a source of mystery as of enlightenment to scholars seeking to understand the literatures and histories circulating around the Secession and the Great Schism with Terra that ( Read more... )

The Doctor / Rose Tyler: the Oncoming Storm and the Bad Wolf
"I'm the Doctor, and this is Rose. She's my 'plus one'."
It's better with two.

Fade Together vid by MartoufMarty (Nine/Rose/Ten)
"When you're far away / O God you are so far away..."
The Doctor and Rose, together and apart.

"Roundabout" or the swiftly tilting planet fic, by Casira
(Nine, Rose, ( Read more... )

Three vids:
Die Another Day vid by MartoufMarty (Peter, Sylar, a bit of Claude)
Being an empath is not all it's cracked up to be, and life as a bomb sucks.

Goodnight, Moon vid by BradCPU (ensemble)
The only way to describe this is as a fever dream, with Mr Muggles assuming a strangely ominous role.

The Wreckoning vid by Charmax (NikiJessica)
She came, ( Read more... )

Well, here you have it: three months of fiction addiction (and mono-induced sloth) reduced to a single recs post.

SGA: why I <3 McShep (stages of love)
1. “Share” by RagePrufrock (Rodney and John friendship; episode tag for The Return Part One)
He's never been a part of something like he was in Atlantis. Maybe it's a betrayal, but even more than he ( Read more... )

SGA: the City on the Edge of Forever *
Major or Lt Colonel John Sheppard / Dr Rodney McKay--aka McShep:
"Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose"
(Rodney POV; character death, futurefic)
There is a gravestone in Arlington National Cemetery. It sits watch over an empty grave, and there is a vine with small blue flowers, one the gardeners ( Read more... )