Ah, perspective. That's what that is, right?

[minxy]

So I'm out doing yard work with my Dad, which today involves chainsawing a lot of fallen trees into bite-sized pieces and hauling them by tractor or by hand the 30 or so yards to the burn pile in the center of the property and creating a bonfire.

I love fire. My family has started calling me a pyromaniac for this reason, but seriously, I have it under control, it's just cool to make and tend and watch fire.

So after stirring up the embers from yesterday (lots of downed trees. Lots) and starting a fire and tending it and feeding it (which involves manual labor, see above), yadda, I'm sitting back with my pitchfork handy and a beer handier. And watching mah faar. Because it's pretty.

This is when Dad decides to throw on a lot of bamboo branches from the stuff that we're drying (downed bamboo canes, we believe, can be useful in Unnamed Future Projects), also the ends of the canes and root balls, in some cases.

Dried bamboo leaves burn like a mo' fo', and that flame was 8-10 feet high, on account of the fire was hot, and Dad just tossed all those leaves right on top and wooom! column o' fire. Also, bamboo makes a sound like a shotgun when it burns, but that's neither here nor there. The point is that Dad looks at the fire and says, thoughtfully: "I burn the candle at both ends,
It will not last the night,
But oh, my foes and oh, my friends,
It casts a lovely light."

Which causes a slightly tipsy Minx (beer without lunch = interesting) to sit back and say to herself 'And I wonder where I get my habit of remembering random assed bits of literature.' Of course, then it occured to me that Grandpa (Dad's father, the same one who periodically sends me quirky forwards because he's addicted to the internet) used to type out stanzas of original poetry every once in a while when he sent us birthday checks... it was always interesting to me that Mom seemed to think that this was a less personal gift than the stationary other relatives would send me. Or, like, jewelry, which I always thought was odd because I've never been interested in jewelry and was only moderately enthusiastic about getting my ears pierced in general when I was a teen. Anyway. That was my Totally Not Thinking About My Job day.

Recently posted fanfic that stuck in my head:

mmmchelle's ode to spam blockers: Weirdness, in which D/s tendencies are contagious. *ebil grin* (Is okay I rec? I'll take it down if not, but am not a SGA newsletter, so I thought yes?)

I've been reading grand Farscape fic set in the first or early second season, head to comments in Farscape meta posts, people have recc'd me nothing but fantastic stuff so far.

ana_grrl wrote a Stargate Cam/Teal'c Ficlet that is so, so funny. Gods love RW for inspiring such madness. Soup! lordy.

In more Cam/Teal'c goodness, adafrog posted a series of 5 Ripple Effect snippets, all centering around Cam and Teal'c in one way or another.

minnow1212 a little while back wrote an SGA and SG-1 snippet each, the SGA one being more or less about bad p0rn and the SG-1 snippet about an alien planet and how they record the visits of other worlds. Funny and lovely, by turns; both gen/teen.

Also cofax7 wrote a brilliant team first impressions fic. The women (plural because I am so, so biased) are there even when they aren't, and that's a pretty strong team right there. Turnover, early season 1, gen/teen.

jssangel continues to write incredible Ronon POV about sex and progeny and restrictions and dreams: A Dream of Things That Never Are. Ronon, adult.

Comments

[cofax7]

Yay Farscape fic! You should totally go poke through the archives of uncharted_tales, which has a ton of good stuff in it. If, um, the links are still good...

Also, what did you like? You must tell us!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Loved Necessity. That's my favorite so far. Thought I'd read some more tonight or this week and then do a decent All Farscape post?

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

You should read Max's "Down Along the Barrel of a Gun." and "That Which Does Not Kill Us" - both at Leviathan. Both Season 1.

Mmm. What else? Analise's "One Split Second" I don't think there are any spoilers there.

Farscape Friday's very first challenge was a season one challenge.

I will think of more!! I'm just drawing a blank right now. I love Season 1 and 2 fic and there've been some great ones.

Shaye wrote a Season 1 fic for the Aeryn ficathon. I'll find you the link.

Oh, and Searose's "Human Reactions" is one of my favorite A Human Reaction fics.

Maayan's "Asystole" is also fabulous S1 fic.

I've written a slew of S2 porn, but well, I kinda hate reccing myself. I am, however, delighted to recc you some other S2 porn once you've seen "Out of Their Minds." in face, I will recc you probably the best porn ever:)

[cofax7]

Oh, and Shaye's "Foolish Girl"! Awesome!

We need to do like a wiki or something, to do fic recs by season, or even by episode.

(Best Porn EVER OMG. [I assume you're talking about Nine Lives?])

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

We need to do like a wiki or something, to do fic recs by season, or even by episode.

Dude, that's such a good idea. They had something similar at Kansas, but it was only fic that was archived there.

Foolish Girl, absolutely. So good!

And of course I'm talking about Nine Lives:) Best Porn Ever!!!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Foolish Girl was amazing.

Also, what's a wiki? Can I play?

[cofax7]

Well, a wiki is an html page that can be edited by anyone: wikipedia uses it. But it might be easier to just set up a series of pages on an LJ and have people comment in response.

Hmmm, that might be a use for uncharted_tales after all... ::ponders::

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Such a good idea, because lots of stuff is already there!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Oh goodness, I think Asystole just broke me. John's voice was so lonely, and Aeryn sounding serious, like a school girl, fixing it and helping him not be alone as best she can.

[eve11]

Isn't it good? Wait 'til after "Liars, Guns and Money III" when you can read Walk out of the Air. And then there's Black Ghosts and Sleep While I Drive, but those have to wait for seasons 3 and 4.

[cofax7]

Asystole is marvelous (as is all of Maayan's work, actually). Can you tell me where you found it, because I'm pretty sure Maayan took all her stuff off of Leviathan.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

eve11 linked it in the comments for Picture meta, and she sent me here (http://www.johnskeedvabbq.com/ficpics/nc17/nc17_asystole_maayan.html) which has links to the authors homepage as well, apparently.

[eve11]

which has links to the authors homepage as well, apparently.

Both the Divine Collective and The Janissary have been taken down by the author. Links for her stories are hard to come by.

[leadensky.livejournal.com]

Different homepage. The link there is good.

- hg

[eve11]

There are bits and pieces up at different spots -- I've been just using Google. I'm still trying to find a link for "Sleep While I Drive." Might have to email maayan and ask for a copy? I know she took most of her stuff down but maybe as long as it doesn't get archived anywhere and is only for personal reading pleasure she wouldn't mind emailing a request story out.

[leadensky.livejournal.com]

She posted a page a while back - here (http://www.butcheredart.net/fiction.html)


(Which I found by going to Levi and following the links list to Farscape Alley which still has a working link)

- hg

[cofax7]

Would you look at that, she took "No Dominion" down. Too bad; it's not nearly as bad as she claims.

Minxy, you should at least read Gravity, Gehenna, and Appetite from that list. The rest will have to wait.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Sigh. One can afford to be one's own worst critic when one writes like she does.

Because it's nowhere near as bad as she thinks it is (and that, is of course, in context. Bad being a sort of laughable word where Maayan's concerned.) It's well written, well paced and plotted and a lot of fun despite the self-indulgences.

[eve11]

Woot! Thanks so much for the link! *bookmarks* :)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Asystole is one of my favorites.

[eve11]

After Out of their Minds, there's also a "five things that never happened to John" fic by kixxa that is great. I know I just had a link the other day but now I can't find it.

And also I came across kixxa's There Once were Two People -- short and dark. Good read. No spoilers, so have at it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

You are so awesome with the links! *scampers*

[taselby.livejournal.com]

{{{hugs you}}}

Sounds like a great day.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

And now my hair smells like woodsmoke, always fun.

OMG, I need to sleep. Away from the computer go I, to dream.

[mmmchelle.livejournal.com]

It's fine for you to link it. Thank you for the rec.

I'm sometimes wary of publicizing some of my humor writing, because I don't want people to feel mocked. That isn't my intent. I just can't not find the humor in fandom. It's a curse, I think. /g/

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Oh good good good. I was actually going to ask in the comments to the fic itself, but I think I got distracted by the need to type HAHAHAHA repeatedly. *sheepish*

There is so much crack!fic in this fandom. I'm actually mildly convinced that some of the stuff I consider crack may, in fact, be really serious writers trying to do really serious stuff, but to my mind it's all entertainment, and once you put it out there to some degree people will laugh if they choose.

Which is all to say, I've read serious BDSM fics, I've read ones I thought were clearly cracked, and I've enjoyed them; I loved yours, it was a wonderful breath of fresh air and unique as far as I've seen. Yes. Nice draw, as curses go. *nods*