I know I'm in my own world... it's okay, they know me here

OMG WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE I DON'T EVEN

(found on gigantic's lj)

So today was a bitch of a day, but not specifically because of all the stuff that's been happening at work but more because I got one of those Very Special Parents that I like to privately call 'that freaking crazy bitch.' Honestly, this woman. IDEK. Not even worth going into it. My mentor was very nice about it, anyway.

Pretty much would have been a bitch of a day whether or not all this stuff was happening or not, so I guess it's better than it has been?

Tomorrow I'm going to be in London for a study day, after which I'm going to meet up with cienna, takadainmate and gnine to watch old Highlander episodes and rock out. I'm looking forward to it - I'm keeping busy at the moment, and it's nice to have something I'm doing other than being chastised.

Now for a rec! *goes and digs for something you guys will like*

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This is just the first fic of a series. Now, I haven't seen BSG, but this fic? Makes me really, really want to. It's soooo good.


Downloaded by ennyousai_fic. Extract: When he opens his eyes he feels steadier. He remembers now what happened. They'd been on Capella IV only to discover the Klingons were already there, and he'd stepped forward without thinking to pull Jim out of the way and -

"You're lucky you were in range of the Resurrection Ship," says the woman on his right softly, and he sees that she is tall and blond and beautiful. "Just a little further out and we wouldn't have been able to download your consciousness."


Tags: startrekxi, battlestargalactica, crossover, crossover:startrekxi, crossover:battlestargalactica, kirk/mccoy, slash, fic, angst, cliche:someoneisarobot, a:ennyousai

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I haven't felt much like reccing this past week or so, but as you can read in my previous post, things are improving, so here we go again :)

Today's rec is a truly epic fic. I am talking over 200k words long. It is also TOTALLY ADDICTIVE. Seriously, it's worth reading, but make sure you have time to sit for a while, okay? It is like a healthier kind of cocaine (depending on what you tend to snack on while you read, naturally.)

This fic is Kirk/McCoy, Academy!fic, with a very strong structure and sense of personality coming through from McCoy as POV character. You get a real flavour of his mind reading it, and seeing Jim through his eyes is really well written. While it's not a massive departure from general fandom opinion of Nu!Jim, it's done in such an accomplished manner that it's fair to say it's one of the better examples of the type. It's also a good slow burner of a fic, though as I find often happens with slow burners the burn is better than the payoff. Try it anyway.

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Switch by ceres_libera. Summary: The life and times of Leonard H. McCoy MD/PhD … If Leonard McCoy's life could get any fucking weirder, it would be … Jesus, he didn't even want to think what that could possibly mean, because it's already been too fucking weird to make any kind of rational sense.


Tags: startrekxi, kirk/mccoy, slash, fic, spock/uhura, a:ceres_libera

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Only two out of eleven of you who responded to my last post said that you read crossovers, and only three said fusions. I am outraged! Horrified and hurt!

As you may know, or may have guessed from my reccing habits, I ADORE crossovers. Therefore, I am disowning you all. (Except for wickednotevil, ionaonie, leupagus and zoeiona. I will let you live.)

Now, believe you me, there are a lot of bad crossovers out there. I especially hate ones where the author's two favourite slash couples meet and everyone is gay. This is not because I hate either pairing, but because I tend to find it awkward and unlikely that they would all be sleeping with what you might call unexpected partners; it's an extension of my hatred of 'everyone's gay!' fic in general.

HOWEVER! A good crossover is an absolute joy, one where characters meet and interact who wouldn't necessarily do so otherwise, and you get to see the way the two universes can be slotted together. Put it this way - I have 141 crossovers bookmarked on my delicious. Which is why today I'm going to rec you some crossovers, regardless of whether you like crossovers or not! Take that!

(I swear tomorrow I will rec you something you have actually said you like.)

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Jim Kirk meets John Sheppard! Two slutty space captains in one place!

Congrats, You've Met Your Match (The Space Captain Remix) by lex_zeppelin. Summary: Jim Kirk has issues with the new guy.


Tags: startrekxi, sga, crossover, crossover:startrekxi, crossover:sga, kirk/sheppard, slash, fic, humour, a:lex_zeppelin

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What if Bones was the seventh cylon?

Downloaded by ennyousai_fic. Extract: When he opens his eyes he feels steadier. He remembers now what happened. They'd been on Capella IV only to discover the Klingons were already there, and he'd stepped forward without thinking to pull Jim out of the way and -

"You're lucky you were in range of the Resurrection Ship," says the woman on his right softly, and he sees that she is tall and blond and beautiful. "Just a little further out and we wouldn't have been able to download your consciousness."


Tags: startrekxi, battlestargalactica, crossover, crossover:startrekxi, crossover:battlestargalactica, kirk/mccoy, slash, fic, angst, cliche:someoneisarobot, a:ennyousai

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Arthur is Batman! And Merlin is... his gardener?

The Dark Knight by stripedpetunia. Summary: Merlin Emrys lands a job as a gardener for the enigmatic playboy Arthur Pendragon, and discovers that what he gets up to at night is not necessarily drinking with celebrities.


Tags: merlin, batman, dcu, crossover, crossover:merlin, crossover:batman, merlin/arthur, slash, fic, au, a:stripedpetunia

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Written pre-CoE, Ianto becomes a Reaper ala Dead Like Me. His specialism? People killed by or because of Jack.

Non Linear by misswinterhill. Summary: Ianto Jones died on a Monday night at exactly six thirty-seven p.m. This wouldn’t have been so remarkable if not for the fact that Ianto Jones was fated to exist for longer than almost any dead man in the known multiverse.


Tags: torchwood, jack/ianto, slash, fic, crossover:deadlikeme, angst, doctorwho, a:misswinterhill

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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.)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Today's fic not only has a surfeit of exquisite, fantastically gorgeous writing, but it uses an OC's point-of-view (don't run away!) for a large portion of the fic with seamless fit into the universe and wonderful insight into Jim Kirk's character, putting forth an image of his childhood and education that will really stay with you. This is my new canon.


Graduate Vulcan for Fun and Profit by lazulisong. Summary: It really does take a village to raise a Jim.

Tags: startrekxi, kirk, gen, fic, outsidepov, oc, a:lazulisong

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A quick roundup:

Another week has gone by and I still haven't been fired!

I made an offer on a flat, which was rejected, then upped my offer slightly which has been accepted, so hopefully I will be moving into a place of my own very soon :)

Having only mobile broadband blows.

Not a lot to talk about, really - trying to make myself write, but failing somewhat at the moment. Hopefully will give myself a kick up the backside this week and really get going. I suspect the problem is because I wrote myself into a boring bit that didn't want to go anywhere, and I'm just reluctant to go back and cut. Fail, self, epic fail.

On the other hand, assuming I manage to get Paintshop Pro onto my new laptop to finish up the graphics for it I should be uploading a Kirk/Spock fanmix I've been working on this week, so watch this space :)

Title: Asymptote

Fandom: STXI

Pairing: Kirk/Spock

Word Count: 5974

Rating: R / NC-17, for language and sex

Warnings: None

Author's Notes: I hadn't written anything in months when I started this, and haven't written fanfic in years. But somehow Star Trek has got me going again - which I'm totally loving, because I really missed writing! Thanks to everyone who's left such lovely comments on the original meme thread (here). Feedback is love! Crossposted to kirkspock.

ETA: You can now also find this fic at the Archive of Our Own and at the automated Kirk/Spock archive, once it's been approved, thanks to kind prompting from awarrington.

Summary: Prompt from st_xi_kink: Prompt: K/S. So, this idea kind of hit me out of nowhere. Pretty much following the tradition of aliens-made-them-do-it [only kind of inverted], in which Kirk and Spock end up at a planet where they are not allowed to touch each other [due to religious issues, politeness protocol, whatever].

This makes Spock realize how many times a day, Kirk had been touching him, [his shoulder, pat at the back, random hugs, etc] and how much he had been enjoying those touches. In fact, Spock is a bit annoyed [angry!] that he's been deprived his daily ration of Kirk-touch. And when he tries to sneak in a touch, however subtle, the aliens get in the way. [Damn aliens!] This pretty much pushes his control to the limit.

Then when the whole ordeal is over, Spock jumps Kirk in the conference room as soon as the briefing on the away mission is over because he cannot wait! \o/

Bonus: Kirk and Spock aren't together yet, so first time.

Double bonus: Kirk has no clue what the hell going on with Spock until the jumping happens.



( Anticipation was not an emotion Spock had intended to allow himself to feel. )

...somehow, despite the fact that in general I super-despise mpreg, I am writing one anyway. Why, kink meme, why?

My other fic - less embarrassing in many ways - is still ongoing and I'm actually pretty pleased with it. The fact that I'm writing again at all, actually, I'm really pleased about. Clearly the kink meme has given me back my mojo.