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[isiscolo]

1. Half the posts on my flist can be summarized as, "It's hot as [epithet]! [Number] degrees, OMG I AM MISERABLE!" I feel for you. Really. Meanwhile, I'm wearing sweats and drinking hot tea in my pleasantly-cool house in pleasantly-warm Colorado.

2. I am still strangely entranced by the treadmill dancing3. If I were still in HP fandom, I would

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[kinetikatrue]

8. I read a delightful older due South story last night: O'Leary's Hotel by J. Hardin | Fraser/RayK, G, novelette. After a confrontation with some goons, Fraser is beaten almost to death - and rescued by an odd group of women with unusual powers. It's an interesting mix of Celtic mythology, streetwise Chicago, and the show's canonical magical realism. Great original characters. And, um, I got a little weepy at the end.

I don't know whether you're familiar with the universe that due South is being crossed with in this fic - Charles de Lint's Newford series - but J. Hardin does a fantastic job of capturing the feel of it, even transported from Canada to Chicago. Which would make this one of my favorite due South crossovers ever.

[isiscolo]

Oh! I was wondering what the "Newford" reference in the author notes was. Is this a tv series or a book series?

I think it's a great story that can be read even without knowledge of the crossed-over universe. But knowing this diminishes my respect for the story slightly, since the "great original characters" aren't original, I guess. Oh, well.

[kinetikatrue]

Book series, by Charles de Lint, comprised of several collections of short stories as well as well as several novels. And that's hardly all that he's written, most of it being truly excellent urban fantasy.

And, oh, yes, definitely - it stands neatly on its own. Which, IMO, actually has something to do with the fact that, AFAIK, the characters representing the Newford side of the cross are, in fact, OCs (and very well-handled ones at that). Which rather makes this a cross in the vein of, oh, trinityofone's SGA/His Dark Materials cross than, say, some of the SGA/dS stuff that's been done recently.

[delurker]

I too am entranced the by the treadmill dancing. I love the way they step from one to the other in that glide-y way...

[isiscolo]

It looks kind of like ice skating!