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So I may have gone and done some flat viewings yesterday. I may have found a really wonderful place that I can afford and has no prior owner so I would be dealing with a company rather than some crazy bitch. I may have made an offer that the agent has assured me will be accepted come Monday. I may already be deciding how I'm going to arrange my furniture, and using the floorplans to estimate what size sofa will fit in the room and where my TV is going to go.

On to today's rec!

Percy Weasley and the Gay Vampire Cult of Oliver Wood by Decembers_falling. Summary: "But LOOK, I am clearly anti-Establishment," Percy said, his new mesh shirt pulled halfway up his chest to show a pretty silver ring in his navel. "The Man hates piercings, I read about this in a magazine." Percy is a bit changed after the Ministry's announcement.

Tags: harrypotter, harrypotter, slash, fic, genre:humour, romance a:decembersfalling

I swear, if I don't find out soon which way the seller is going to jump on this property, I am going to track her down and smack her about. For those who don't know, I'm about as close as I can get to being ready to exchange for fucking finally, but now the seller won't let the mortgage company come do the survey or talk to me or even the estate agent. So I'm living in limbo at the moment, fairly convinced she's thinking about pulling out, and seriously, is it too much to ask to be put out of my misery so I can start looking for somewhere else if you're going to nix the deal?

ARGH.

And now: a rec! Eleven people so far have filled out my poll, and the first fandom to jump out at me on the list that has lots of ticks was Avatar: the Last Airbender.

I LOVE THIS SHOW. For something that is, on the outside, a kids' show made by Nickelodeon and shown on Cartoon Network, Avatar is one of the tightest, cleverest, most heart-wrenching and joyful pieces of television - nay, fiction - I have ever come across. I am a picky person. I rewrite lines in published books in my head as I read them sometimes, if I think the scansion is wrong. And there is absolutely nothing I would change in Avatar.

Seriously. If you haven't seen it, beg steal or borrow a copy. I may - ahem - be able to hook you up. Just sayin'.

Signs That Can't Be Learned by

artemisrae. Summary: There’s a fine line between the duties of the Avatar and the duties of a family man. Sometimes Katara can’t help but wonder where Aang’s allegiance lays.

Tags: avatar, aang/katara, kataang, het, fic, post-series, a:artemisrae

Bullet-pointy list for formatting goodness!

Things are finally FINALLY moving with the flat purchase. I've been approved for the mortgage (pending their receiving a piece of paperwork I sent yesterday), and they have authorised the appraisal/survey. Which means that, hopefully, I WILL ACTUALLY MOVE SOMETIME THIS YEAR.

All those who have heard me moaning about this never-ending saga can now breathe a tentative sigh of relief.

In fannish news, I am now up-to-date on: White Collar, Criminal Minds, Castle, and Glee. I would have been up-to-date with Supernatural, too, but I seem to be missing eps 505 and 506. Dammit. Of course, since all shows boot up for the second half of the season this month, I will soon be behind again. Eventually I will catch up with everything, I swear. As soon as I get the goddamned internet for reals.

I've been reading a lot this week (real books! Made from trees!) and I read this AMAZING YA book (and then the sequel) that you will all love and have to go read NOW NOW NOW. Look, you can even read a sample chapter for free!

It's called The Hunger Games, it's by Suzanne Collins, and it is pure genius. In a post-apocalyptic world, a teenage girl takes her little sister's place in the Hunger Games, reality TV with a difference... as punishment for their rebellion, the people of the twelve districts are forced to send twenty-four teenagers, twelve boys and twelve girls, into an arena where they are forced to kill each other for the amusement of the ruling class, until only one is left standing. Tense, dramatic, painful, and wonderful; I haven't stopped thinking about it since I read it, and I kind of want to get amnesia so I can read it for the first time all over again.The sequel is already available (and I've devoured that too,) and the third and final book of the trilogy comes out this Summer. I think I might die of anticipation.

And now for the accumulated daily recs: this week, with a theme of 'superpowered AUs'! (I swear I will post some non-slash soon, too, for variety.)

biconvex by

mercurial_wit. Extract: Peter could feel a headache threatening to develop in the Caffrey Zone, which was located an inch above his temples, and had been a close acquaintance of throbbing pain during the last seven years. "But you're a shielder," he said, daring Neal to point out that he was stating the obvious. "And a bad one at that."

Tags: whitecollar, neal/peter/elizabeth, het, slash, fic, au, telepathy, superpowers!au, a:mercurial-wit

Fight Down Height by

hannahrorlove. Extract: When he opened his eyes, the most surprising thing about the situation became the fact that he was looking down over his office.

Tags: house, house/wilson, slash, fic, au, genre:superpowers, crackfic, superpowers!au, a:hannahrorlove

I Can See That You're Thinking About Having Sex With Me But I Am Not Into You by

kathkin. Summary: Based on this prompt on the old Kink Meme: AU. Arthur can read minds.

Tags: merlin, merlin/arthur, slash, fic, au, psychic!sex, superpowers!au, a:kathkin

Sweet Dreams Are Made of These by

camouflagecamel. Summary: When Jim meets the older Spock in that horribly cold ice cave, only a small part of him is shocked. Of course, he thinks to himself. Of course I can see the future and dream of my as-of-current-arch-enemy fucking me senseless and then meet his alternate-older self on an icy hellhole where he basically left me to die. Of course. Life is never fucking simple.

Tags: startrekxi, kirk/spock, slash, fic, au, fic, cliche:someoneispsychic, superpowers!au, a:camouflagecamel

X by

trinityofone. Extract: “You know why they’re sending you.” Elizabeth nodded. “Of course. It’s an exploratory mission—” “No.” The coin spun in General O’Neill’s hand, beside General O’Neill’s hand. “You know why they’re sending you.”

Tags: sga, x-men, marvelverse, fusion, fusion:sga, fusion:x-men, crossover, crossover:sga, crossover:x-men, au, cliche:superpowers, a:trinityofone

Awakening and Synergy by

crimsonquills. Summary: Everyone in the world suddenly gains psychic abilities. There are consequences. / Summary: Set immediately after Awakening. As in, if you squished the two together you wouldn't be able to tell where the seam was. Tony's awake. Now he and Gibbs have to adapt to the bond that brought him back.

Tags: ncis, gibbs/dinozzo, slash, fic, psychic!sex, a:nix

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Entries tagged with moving

I did, after all, promise a rec that actually fit your preferences rather than ignoring them.

A rock and a hard place - I'm holding the rock, your head is between it and where it's going.

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