Gratitude for a Tuesday

[minxy]

I have been recc'd THREE TIMES in recent memory, for my WRITING, and not for reccing. This is amazing. And it's not even counting the self-pimping I did in the girlgate comm (because the only femslash I've written is hidden in a poly fic)... But I digress, because I really am pleased as punch about this.

Two recs of the slash:
dirty_diana recc'd Stadium Seating on crack_van (thank you, d*!)

rydra_wong recc'd The Eye is not Satisfied with Seeing on stargateficrec (*smootches RW*)

and then sg_fignewton also recc'd me on stargateficrec, but for het this time, for One Half of the Equation, which is Sam/Daniel. So thank you too, that was one amazing rec.

Quirky and smutty and angsty, folks. Wow.

My stuff, stories and recs and all, is all linked from the sidebar in my layout. You can also find the stories in this post, and may I say that I'm just tickled when you do.

And man, am I curious to see whether this means more than two people will read the uber-rare pairing that I have in beta-land.

So to celebrate and pay it forward, I am participating in the Holiday Feedback-a-thon Meme (ganked from ladycat777):

How to play -- Leave a comment to this post with a reliable link to a story you've written that you'd like me to read and leave feedback for. If you want con-crit or to ask if specific things worked, please specify, otherwise, this is a chance for you to point me to fic I may have missed, that you think I'll really like, or introduce me to your writing if I haven't seen it before.

You could then post this meme in your own LJ. If you think offering it up to anyone would be too much, you could offer it to just your flist or to a filtered section of your flist.

What I promise -- That I will read all fic and leave a minimum of a paragraph of feedback. Depending on how many people sign up, it might take me a while, though. At some point, if the list gets too big, I may call a halt to sign-ups. It's unlikely, though, as I really enjoy reading.

I will read ALMOST anything, but RPF, AUs of the more extreme kind, non-con and rape may require a backup story just in case I have to bail. Anything else goes: crossovers, kinks, NC-17, het/slash/gen, quirky, rare characters... all are welcome.

The fandoms --
Alias
Firefly
Harry Potter (prefer adults only pairings, kaythanx)
Stargate: Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Farscape (please don't spoil me past 3.04)
Dr. Who (Nine, some Ten)

Stories I've read/commented on are okay to offer up. You may want more feedback then an "aww", or you want serious concrit, or something else I can't think of. So unless I've already written a paragraph of feedback (which, very occasionally, I do) feel free to request that story again.

There was another, funnier meme that I saw at makesmewannadie's LJ, in which you look at the list of fandoms I know well, and think to yourself, 'self, how can she not know Due South/Torchwood/Andromeda/Angel/Buffy/some other fandom that I see on MMWD's list here???' and then ask me to describe it. I'll do it in the funniest way I can manage with the information I have, and then you can all laugh at my complete inability to focus on more than one or two fandoms at a time, or be in touch with American pop culture, scifi or otherwise.

I've seen very few episodes of the Simpsons, sue me. I do love the Daily Show, though.

Comments

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

congratulations! {{{hugs}}}

[frostfire-17.livejournal.com]

oh! me! me!

Lessee...okay, this is one of my favorites of my stories, and I have no idea if you ever read it or not. Predatory (http://frostfire.killerstar.net/stories/predatory.html), and if you want to read the (very short) precursor to it, My Soul From Out That Shadow (http://frostfire.killerstar.net/stories/shadow.html).

eeee! thank you thank you!

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

Oh you! You! I should have knoooooooowwwwwwnnnnnn....

And thanks, I've been meaning to read that, I swear, it's just... you need that little *push* for outsider's POV. That was awesome. You dun gud.

And, obviously, this is not the real feedback. That's at your LJ.

[gigerisgod.livejournal.com]

You deserve the reccs. I really enjoyed "The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing" Whoo! Very hot.

Here's the link to one of my stories posted in teal'c fic: http://community.livejournal.com/tealc_fic/27450.html#cutid1

Feedback's always nice, but don't go crazy or anything : )

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

Wow, very nice! That episode was calling out for a Cam/Teal'c fic, and I think yours is the first I've seen.

Not the first Cam/Teal'c makeout fic, though, which IMO, is marvelous. Might be my very favorite sub-genre. *g*

Thank you for the request, and the fic. I'm glad to have read that.

[eve11]

woot! Congrats on the recs :) Recs are always cool.

Recs, hmm. In the midst of thesis procrastination I wrote Expectation and Maximization. Doctor Who, Tenth Doctor takes on iterated gradient descent? Go easy on the math metaphors... ;)

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

That is a *brilliant* thesis procrastination technique. I must applaude. Loved the math metaphors, too, and you just nailed the teacher-student glee between those two. Very nice.

[psychofilly.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'd love to play. I'm writing one now that's no where near ready, but here's one that I don't think you'd ever read. Even (http://psychofilly.livejournal.com/103655.html) It's a very slightly McSheppy coda to Irresistable and Pegasus Project. Concrit is welcome if you want.

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

You got a lot said for such a short piece! I'm sorry I missed that one before and I'm really glad you pointed me to it. I think antagonism is really such an interesting aspect of these guys' friendship, and they are, in their own ways, so socially wierd with interpersonal relationships, that to have them so confused and angry was bang on characterization. Plus they clearly had a connection and were just being assholes, as Teyla so succinctly pointed out.

Very nice! Thanks. Will watch for new fic. *glee*

[whimsicalwhims.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the recs. :) This looks like a fun meme, and I might end up ganking it myself.

I just recently friended you, and I don't think I said hi yet. So hi!

Here's a J/D SG-1 fic I wrote recently: The Nature of a Man (http://whimsicalwhims.livejournal.com/18910.html).

To be fair, since I'm just now popping in, is there a particular story that you'd like detailed feedback on?

Hi!

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

Wow. That was an amazing way to introduce yourself! Thank you for pointing me to that fic, it was awesome. I have a dark fic prompt I really need to get writing on, so reading an Absolute Power fic was so appropriate.

Welcome, and if you want to read something Daniel-centric, I'd suggest the gen Like No One is Watching. Yup. We have Jack and Daniel, and some very slashy stuff, like One Day I'll Fly Away, but for pure Daniel, go for No One Watching.

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Darling, who can resist a courting fic?! Go you! Deservedly recced!

(What uber-rare pairing? What? What? George/Walter? *pokes*)

I totally love that fandom meme. I think MMWD got it from Telesilla, whose version (http://telesilla.livejournal.com/498517.html?style=mine) is also hi-larious. You must do it!!

And iffen you are still up for reading/commenting, I'd love to see whatever you want to say about http://green-grrl.livejournal.com/31877.html

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

green_grrl, I realize you are poking our hostess, but really. Need I mention spaghettios?

I'm not above handing out a link for the feedback thingy, especially since your feedback is usually particularly good! However, I am embarrassed to ask anyone to read one of my hideously long sagas. SG-31 (http://brainofck.livejournal.com/78649.html) if you can read past the non-con. Or possibly Five Things that Never Happened to Daniel Jackson (and Jack O'Neill) (http://brainofck.livejournal.com/158081.html), if the non-con is a deal breaker.

[roslyn-f.livejournal.com]

I'd like to jump on this bandwagon, if I may.

I have a SG-1 fic that I'd love to hear an opinion on. It's at

http://www.area52hkh.net/asr/roslyn/touched.php

And then there's a follow-up WIP at my LJ rosyln_f, along with a couple of Sentinel stories, if you feel so inclined.

I've certainly enjoyed many of your stories and it doesn't look like you need a beta, but if you ever do, just let me know.

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

Excellent, I was really hoping to find some new authors this way. Awesome. Thank you for showing me your fic, that was a lovely little moment. I'll watch your LJ for when you finish the WIP, but I do try to avoid them since I prefer to read all at once.

Glad to have read your fic, thanks for writing and pointing the way!

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm shameless. ;-) Someone saying give me your story and I'll concrit/fb? Waving a red flag in front of a bull?

Did you ever read Many Roads (http://aurora-novarum.livejournal.com/742.html), and if you find it too weird after/especially when Daniel shows up first, Maybe you could read Just a Scientist (http://aurora-novarum.livejournal.com/2601.html).

Both are gen SG-1 of course (it's me! Hee hee. Though evil minx, I've spread out my palate to some of your awesome recs).

And I know at least the stargateficrec was very well deserved. That fic was wicked good! I'll give more coherent fb later. ;-)

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

Too wierd? Ha. I laugh in the face of too wierd. Minor character POVs do not scare me, and I point to my take on S6's Frozen (I made a S6 mildly slashy in a Jack/Daniel way, that's gotta be worth something) Laced with it's Presence as proof.

Nope, read Many Roads, and thought that one of the more creative POVs I've ever seen. Thanks!

[lyr]

Hey, congratulations on the recs!

And oooh, feedback-a-thon. That sounds like good fun. I'll offer up my Firefly story Tramping Out the Vintage Where the Grapes of Wrath are Stored (which, by the way, stands alone just fine, so it's not actually necessary to read the two parts of the series that precede it).

And I'll bite on the fandom-description meme, too. How about Buffy?

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

Wait, wait-- Mal/Simon? One of my very favorite pairings EVER IN THE 'VERSE?

I love you. Seriously.

[ladyjax.livejournal.com]

mmm, i'd love to have a little more detailed crit about Shatter (http://ladyjax.livejournal.com/403541.html), if you are so inclined

and a rec: my Cadman/Cater stages of love entries (http://community.livejournal.com/stagesoflove/tag/laura+cadman/samantha+carter)

Thank you!

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

Wow, I really did leave you the 'awww,' kind of feedback for that. Apparently, though, when I say 'so, so emotionally moving' and you say 'really? could you maybe elaborate?' you get Way More Than One Paragraph.

Um. I have no excuse.

I have no idea who Cater is, and I have never actually seen Duet, to my shame, but I will also check out the Stages of Love entries. I'm starting to get really into Stages of Love in general. That is one awesome idea.

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

I'd love for you to read The Misadventures of Laura Cadman (http://www.sliverofice.com/fanfic/sga_fic/misadventuresoflc.htm), Beckett/Cadman, Cadman/McKay, and Cadman/Weir, NC17.

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

Oh, that was fanTAStic. You know I've never actually seen Duet? I suck. I am a bad, bad fan. But I do love what fandom has done with her personality.

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

Oh what the heck. I get a little uncomfortable with this sort of thing, but I've been a bit down lately, so another eye viewing my work for better or worse isn't so bad.

By her Judgement, a Sam centric gen/team fic for SG-1. http://moonshayde.livejournal.com/270589.html

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

That was a crazy good story and I'm darned glad you spoke up. Thanks!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll share. Several years ago I wrote this Firefly story you might like, called Time Flies You Can't (http://fromthesabrary.livejournal.com/9928.html). It's definitely Simon/River, which is a thing, but it's broadened a little with a a complicated sort of...fivesome? And there's also guns. You like it, it's yours! I'd wiggle with glee to hear your feedback.

It's also on the yuletide archive; they have nice formatting and a soothing brown scheme, but they're closed for the holidays till we all do our thing, and so. Tis the season. Enjoy!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait! I'm dumb! It was not for Yuletide after all, but for the Remix, and it's still here (http://remix.illuminatedtext.com/dbfiction.php?fiction_id=79) in all its soothing khaki glory.

[havocthecat]

How about one of these two? It's an SGA pseudohistorical/fantasy pirate AU that I'm two stories in on.

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

Oh, man, you're really laying down the challenge calling me out to an AU.

But I'm game, and I have to say, that that was a compelling little jaunt of a story! With Janet! Story with Janet = of the yay!

[sid]

I'll play!

I wrote a drabble (and you're thinking, "Well, this won't take up much of my time...") which I see you never commented on, but this link is to the extremely unpopular DVD commentary on the drabble which followed! My one and only DVD commentary, and I don't think very many people saw it. Or maybe they were just speechless. ;-)

http://sidlj.livejournal.com/26180.html
"In Vino Veritas" DVD commentary

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

I didn't ever see that one. And you know, I should look at drabbles more often--they're like poems in the way they pack a punch with relatively few words. Sometimes I think I read them too fast, though, and don't have time for the ideas to percolate.

Good thing there was a commentary on that drabble, eh?

[feather-autant.livejournal.com]

Okay, since you asked twice, I've got one I'd like your opinion on. *g* SG-1, NC-17.

http://www.area52hkh.net/asf/fautant/mandm.php

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

I did ask twice! And you, lovely girl, are the first to suggest something rated NC-17, so let me just say thank you for that! Yummy.

You sent me to Area52, though, so the feedback went to you via the email fairy.

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

Neat meme. :)

I honestly can't remember if you've read this one: Earth 2 (http://ltlj.livejournal.com/285725.html). It's SGA/SG-1, (John, Rodney, and Sam on an adventure), gen PG13. I think I posted it while you were on your trip.

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

Wow. You know, I hoped for a few lurkers to come out of the woodwork, I thought a friend or two might offer up an older piece or an unusual one, but to have *you* offer up a MARVELOUS Sam and Rodney story, with a bonus of John-but-not-John, and Teyla so awesome that in one scene she totally takes over my head... is just icing on the cake.

I'm so glad you told me you'd written something while I was gone. I'd have imploded if it'd taken me six months or something to realize it.

I adore your crossovers. Dunno if I've ever explicitly said so, but just the fact that you have a handle on the best aspects of characters from two different shows is awesome, that you then blend them believably and compellingly into great plotty adventures is brilliant. Plus I love Sam and Rodney. LOVE.

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

I'll sneak in a Sam ficathon fic. :)


"But It's a Good Refrain" (http://infanity.ficlaundering.com/moa/fic/sg_butitsagoodrefrain.html). SG-1/SGA crossoverish for S8 SG-1 and S1 SGA.

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

Awesome. I'm going to read them all someday, you know.

I'm gearing up for a post of Sam recs, actually, so I could dive into them if my internet connection would stabilize a bit over the next day or two.

LOVE Sam and Rodney. LOVE, I say.

[elliejane.livejournal.com]

Heya :) After reading your post about keeping this meme open, I decided I'd take the plunge and link you up to the last one of mine. I'm not sure if you'd have seen it or not, but it's a "Five Things" thing based on Cameron Mitchell & Sg1.

Tread Softly - Five Ways that SG1 break Cameron Mitchell's heart (http://elliejane.livejournal.com/24308.html)

(I was so tempted to try one of my Farscape fics on you, but I think they could very well contain spoilers, or at the very least, be wildly AU).

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

You know what's funny about Farscape is that I don't really have time to learn a new fandom right now, so where I can ask for Stargate or Firefly recs and read them all in no time, I still don't think I've entirely been through all the episode specific recs I've gotten in the comments to my posts.

One day, I'll finish watching all the episodes, go back and do it again, and then I'll start working my brain into 'what ifs' and possibilities. And by then, I will be the only one left in the Farscape fandom, possibly, but at least there will be a lot of fic to reeeeeeeaaaaaaddddd. Yum.

The Cam fics were lovely, thank you for those.

Feedback, please?

[(Anonymous)]

Wanders over to play.

Firefly, spoilers through, oh, "War Stories", but mostly just the two hour pilot. "Patience"

http://firefly.populli.org/archive/1/patience.shtml

And when you do, tell me a story of yours, and I'll pay you back.

(Or, you could point me at someone else that you know needs the stroking.)

(Firefly, Farscape, BSG, LoTR, Supernatural would be your best bet)

- hossgal

Re: Feedback, please?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh - hosscheka at yahoo dot com.

- hg