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

It's been slow going for a few days - not sure why, think I probably shouldn't have given myself a night off when I did. Nonetheless, I seem to still be going and I've written a good amount tonight, so I'll take it as a win!

A REC FOR YOU GUYS:

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This fic made me laugh so hard my internal organs hurt. It's completely and utterly ridiculously funny crack - and yet, somehow, still seems in-character? If you would like to read about how Cobb is a registered nurse, Arthur has always secretly wanted to be Robin the Boy Wonder and Yusuf can move things with his mind, read on!


The Adventures of Yusuf, Best Superhero Ever by jibrailis. Extract: Yusuf had not expected the process that would start with him being bitten by a cat and end up with him becoming a superhero, but to be fair, he hadn't expected Casual Friday either.


Tags: inception, yusuf, arthur, gen, fic, cliche:superpowers, a:jibrailis

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Avatar: The Last Airbender (cartoon version only, I hasten to add) is one of the very few fandoms of mine where my most beloved pairing is in fact the canonical one. Aang and Katara are just so cute together that it fries all my anarchist, anti-conformist braincells into a big pile of squee. And thus, a fic where they are grown up and sexy and fancy each other! Yay!


turnabout by mekosuchinae. Excerpt: This most recent growth spurt had been very kind to Aang.


Tags: avatar, kataang, aang/katara, het, fic, a:mekosuchinae

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The other day two ideas that had never gone anywhere suddenly snapped together like jigsaw puzzle pieces in an internet game. One of them might be the dragonbird idea. And so possibly I might be developing a new novel project. Watch this space :D

...I really, really need to find that old high school notebook that I suspect has been long since thrown out.


Today's rec!

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Totally awesomely cute and in-character, something that very rarely happens, especially in a fandom like Inception where every character is a badass.


Sort of Revolution by pyrimidine. Extract: Before today, Eames had this ridiculous idea in his head that Arthur slept standing up, and ‘powered down’ seemed a more appropriate phrase than ‘slept’. This is one of the few times in his life that Eames has enjoyed being wrong and he has no idea why.


Tags: inception, arthur/eames, slash, fic, genre:fluff, a:pyrimidine

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I must have slept on my neck weirdly last night, because it has been soooo stiff and unhappy all day. Hope it feels better tomorrow :(

Today's rec comes to you courtesy of 2006; makes me realise how long I've been maintaining a delicious account for. Now on 1974 recs in 99 fandoms.

Wow, self. You read a looooot of fanfic.

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Having talked about our ancient love of The Sentinel last weekend I decided the time was ripe to revisit some of the old fic that I adored so much. Sadly a lot of it seems to be vanishing from the internet as servers go cold and hosts shut down; still, some of it remains, and it was always a fandom with an unusually high quality of fic (especially compared to the show which was, with the best will in the world, mediocre; it was the fandom that made it great.)

The Sentinel is one of those fandoms I recommend diving into even if you never get to see the show (though I may be able to, ahem, hook you up with some if you'd like.) You can pick up most of what you need to know online, and it's so rewarding fanfic-wise that it's totally worth it. Give it a go! This was one of my milestone fandoms and has shaped my fandom - and writing, and creating - experience in ways I am still discovering.

Please bear in mind that I haven't read this story in years, so I am going off my memory of loving this fic. Not only does Lemondrop have a delicate and hauntingly lyrical style, but she also writes the attachment between two people with so light and yet meaningful a hand that it lingers with you for a long time after you have finished reading. This, as I recall, is one of my favourites.


Cloud Mountain by Lemondrop. Extract: There were ten acres of apple orchards on Cloud Mountain, all dormant now after the harvest and press. They strolled through an old orchard, the trees gnarled and twisted, and then through a much younger one. Most of the leaves had fallen, and the ground was mounded with drifts of crunchy yellow leaves. Jim sorted through them until he found the perfect apple leaf and tucked it in his breast pocket, then searched until he found another for Blair, who took it solemnly.

They located the double wooden doors to the cellar and pulled them open to find half-gallon jugs of cider. Jim sniffed one cautiously; not hard, he assured Blair, and they carried two back to the house. The cider was icy cold and very sweet. Its flavor brought back memories of childhood to Jim: his mom getting apple cider for Jim and his friends while they played basketball in the driveway. An after-school drink for Stevie. Halloween. He didn't ask Blair what it reminded him of.


Tags: thesentinel, jim/blair, slash, fic, a:lemondrop

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I've been off work this week which has been lovely. Not only have I had lots of sleep but I have avoided being responsible and grown-up and done a lot of watching TV shows and read books.

This one book in particular you will be interested in, my loves, and I know you will be interested in it because it is called 'The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: The Erotic Adventures of Sleeping Beauty' and is all about how Prince Charming finds her asleep in her castle, has sex with her unconscious (virgin) body to wake her up then takes her as his BDSM love slave back to his castle where lots of princes and princesses are kept constantly naked as BDSM love slaves and tormented, because apparently this makes you a better ruler. How this works is yet to be explained.

It's one of those books that: a) has to be read to be believed and b) you keep reading even though it seems Anne Rice is really, really into spanking.

( Like REALLY. )



I am so tempted to buy volume two you have no idea, mostly because I am a bit sick in the head.


In other news, I am going to try to restart doing a rec for you guys every day, if people would be into that? Here's the first of them anyway!

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For those who love witty banter and crazy hijinks and dragons, this fic is for you! A fantastic fusion of Generation Kill with naominovik's Temeraire series, focussing on Ray and Brad. You don't have to have seen GK to read this fic, or in fact have read Temeraire, though as both are awesome you totally should. Really this fic's main strength is the wonderful characterisation of Ray, who has such potential to be irritating but is instead terribly endearing; also the skill with which the prose is written and the description used is so on-period for the Napoleonic era despite using characters who are quintessentially modern in their outlooks and syntax. Seriously, this is good. Read it!


Carrying Dangerous Goods by novembersmith. Summary: From the Signal Code of the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Aerial Corps: B, or Bravo -- I am taking in, or discharging, or carrying dangerous goods.


Tags: generationkill, temeraire, brad/ray, slash, fic, au, crossover, fusion, crossover:generationkill, crossover:temeraire, fusion:temeraire, a:novembersmith

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Wow. I read a lot of fic this evening. Maybe it's my spiffy new glasses (well, lenses) making the world all sharp again. No wonder I was getting frustrated - my sphere (the basic refractive error) had gone down but my cyl (astigmatic error) had increased, making the fine details a bit smear-y looking. Nothing I'd be able to identify without knowing, but enough to drive me batty.

One-hour service at optical express, though? Not so one-hour. Add another 50% on top of me sitting around in there waiting. Also the guy kept trying to tell me that I really should have the pupil distance set to my proper pd (my last optician found out I'd been wearing glasses set 6mm wrong for years and years and never noticed, so left them as they were since it seemed fine) and that it might induce a squint, despite the fact that I'd already told him I was an orthoptist. Um, I think of the two of us, I'm the one who would notice me starting to squint first, mate. Also, I'm exophoric, and the decentration of my lenses will only help with that rather than exacerbating it. I really wanted either to smack him or to say 'There there, dear. Stop worrying the fluff in your brain and accept that I know what I'm talking about.'

And now for something interesting to those in non-optical professions!

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I never thought anyone could write perfectly in-voice Psych fic until I read this. And then gobbled up everything else she'd written in the fandom in quick succession.

The Dah-Ling Store-It-Yourself by nixa_jane. Summary: The bad news is that one of Lassiter's highest profile arrests has just escaped from prison. The worse news is that his best hope of tracking him down is a sleep-deprived Shawn Spencer.


Tags: psych, shawn/lassiter, slash, fic, genre:mystery, a:nixajane

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I believe the review I just left for this fic went something like "GUH. UM. I THINK. BRAIN BROKEN? SOMETHING? My occipital lobe feels all tingly."

This fic is so outrageously hot that my brain didn't work properly for about five minutes after I read it, and I still feel a little... odd right now.

Consider this one of my Not-So-Daily Recs.

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Hotter Than Tales of Crack Peddlin' by hackthis. Extract: It's not the fancy dinner over which Eames had planned to seduce Arthur. Not that Arthur knew Eames was planning to seduce him, but facts are so unimportant in the long run. Or the short run.


Tags: inception, arthur/eames, slash, fic, a:hackthis

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I'm planning a longer post about my thoughts on Inception, but some friends have invited me to see it for a second time with them tonight, so I'll hold fire until I've rewatched it. Or until the tingling stops.

THIS VID. THIS VID. OrigiTrek? Clearly non-stop party!




Spent the day in Hyde Park lolling around on a blanket eating lots of yummy food and chilling with some of my favourite people :) I wish everyday could be as nice as today!

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So hanging out with the merlin_london crew and talking fandoms, the almighty Adam Lambert came up, which made me think of this fic! Adam Lambert as a glamrock vampire in a show where vampires are shown as being unbearably, dangerously sexy/glam? Nice!


We Are Not Your Friends (We're Here To Eat You) by randomeliza. Summary: "Welcome to Fangtasia," he says into the microphone, and grins sharply. "Eric says drink more."


Tags: americanidol, trueblood, rps, kris/adam, slash, fic, au, crossover, crossover:americanidol, crossover:trueblood, fusion:americanidol, fusion:trueblood, a:randomeliza

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All I will say about this fic: OMG IT'S COLLEGE!AU ANNE/GILBERT ANNE OF GREEN GABLES FIC. READ IT READ IT NOW.

Still He Offers the Sea Shell by longsufferingly. Summary: Gilbert Blythe is back from his semester abroad, and he wants to meet this Anne Shirley he's heard so much about.

Tags: anneofgreengables, gilbert/anne, het, fic, au, students!au, modern!au, a:longsufferingly

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Thank you to everyone who replied to my post last week, and sorry it took so long for me to respond. It was a really horrible day in the long, ongoing saga that is my work situation - too long to go into in detail here and now, though I think many of you know about it already. We'll have to see what happens, as ever, but things are not as bad this week. I'm feeling better, anyway.

Though today I found out at the gym that I have lost a stone and a half since this January, and let's just say my gym visits haven't exactly been religious, so I know where that's all gone. Stress as a slimming aid?


On a happier note, I've started writing again! Or at least, I've written about 350 words two days in a row now, which is better than the nada it's been up until now! In celebration of this, a wordcounter and a rec for you all! I'm sorry I haven't been doing the recs up until now, btw, but things at work... well. You know.



This Mortal Armour

My old word counter from Zokutou seems to be all gone - poop! I loved that wordcounter! - but this is an acceptable substitute :) A lot of this is from previous work, though, so only the last six hundred or so words are fresh.


And the rec:

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What if Bella realised the power she has over Edward, and used it? This vision of Twilight, even if you hate the original, is mouth-wateringly dark, with Bella portrayed as a sociopath who knows exactly how best to use a vampire who is utterly devoted to her. Turns the original on its head without changing the premise, a task that sounds much easier than it is. Absolutely perfect.


The peaceable kingdom By orange_crushed. Summary: "Say it," he tells her. He is so goddamn arrogant. He orders her words to come out in front of him like he'd order a coffee. If, you know. He drank. "Say it."


Tags: twilight, edward/bella, het, fic, au, dark, a:orange-crushed

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