So no matter how good things are going before, there is one class period that basically ruins my day. There are two silver linings: a) I have not lit any students on fire (yet) and b) when I get home I can read about kickass female characters being fabulous.

AVATAR
Reign Within by rawles
Mai has always been a tool.
The most important thing, her mother ( Read more... )

I filed these away to wait for author reveals, and there they sat long past when I meant to put them up. In my defense: student teaching. Against me: I'm still in the grading papers stage, not the planning lessons stage. Oops.

28 Days Later
I See Us Growing Old, I See Us Growing Old Together by buckle_berry
Christmas after the Rage.

Being ( Read more... )

The second half of my Yuletide recs from 2008 (I figured I should get them in before the new ones came out).

Wristcutters
Suicide Isn’t Really Painless But Coming Back To Life Just Might Be by brigid31
Zia and Mikal, making a life together after the movie.

They tell people they met in the hospital

Tanya Huff - Blood and Smoke series
Five Ways ( Read more... )

So I'm out at a coffee shop on the first really nice day of spring (that looks like it's going to stay that way) wearing a pretty summer dress and studiously not working on my field experience reports for finals. So I figured that as many universities around this part of the world are in and/or approaching their final examinations, I would give ( Read more... )

Stargate: Atlantis/Grey’s Anatomy
Fireworks by fox1013 
Growing up, Laura Cadman and George O’Malley were best friends. In my heart I know this is true.
     So they went to her backyard and blew the head off of an expensive baby doll she'd gotten from her grandmother, and then she had tap lessons and he had to go home to do his homework, but afterwards ( Read more... )

Terribly behind on all this, but I wanted to make sure the I could include the authors before I posted. And then the authors came out, and I was just lazy. Shame shame. But, I reread them all before I write them up and post them, and I just haven't found the time. Some things can't be rushed, you know.

Abhorsen
Dancing Like the Living by Raven
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BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA

The Artist as a Young Man bylembas7
I haven’t read Bridge to Terabithia since about the fifth grade, or seen the movie. Despite that, this brings that book home so much to me. This is technically a crossover with Harry Potter, as part of lembas7’s larger “Elijah’s Cup” Universe, but in a prequel sense, so it can stand completely on its ( Read more... )

Today is a day for superheroes of all kinds.

BATMAN
Able to Succeed by brown¬betty
Tim has homework to do. This makes my geeky teacher side so very happy. 
      When he gets assignments back from teachers, they usually have a few minor corrections and scrawled comments like interesting! Good Work! Keep it up! Bruce has neatly pencilled all his ( Read more... )

An offering from fandoms I don't read regularly, or am just too picky to get a large selection of:

THE BOURNE IDENTITY
Paris by uhmidont
Nicky, as time passes at Treadstone.
      He didn't speak the whole time he was there. He filled out the checklist and handed it back to her. He was sleeping fine, eating fine, and taking his pills.
      He was ( Read more... )

Btvs/SG-1
Misunderstandings by Don Sample
After a team is killed off-world, Daniel Jackson discovers an inscription much like one once translated by a Dr. Rupert Giles. This story is well-written and well-researched without any of the gaping plotholes often left by crossovers. An adventuresome ensemble piece.

House/X-men
Mind Over Matter by npkedit
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