Gonna be some changes made

[minxy]

svendra and mmmchelle are running what looks to be a bloody marvelous challenge: the femslash cliche challenge. Seriously, has this never been done before? SERIOUSLY??? Because now I really want a satirical, over the top and yet strangely sexy, undeniably arousing, FEMALE SLASH FIC. I leave the cliche up to you, but I'm thinking Aliens Made Them Do It and then got bored with how much foreplay was involved and went away whilst our heroes (I dislike the word heroine, sue me) get on with it and enjoy themselves. alien_altars, people. I hope to see you all there.

I was outside today doing plumbing work (outdoor) when I wasn't sorting out a problem with the bracing in the wall frames and covering up a little oops with a failure to sink the bolts properly into the concrete foundation (there really isn't a way to go back and fix that.) And that's after I sewed the other arm on my Mother's wing chair that she wants a slipcover for (*patterned*, God help me, again. She never makes it easy) and found half a dozen apartments I wouldn't mind living in from Craig's List in the New City.

So you may imagine why my hands are tired I thought I had nothing of note to post.

But I was wrong, because I have this cheeky new browser! Yay! That is much more compatible with my del.icio.us account! YAY! So I've been marking things with the tag ReadMe and then going back to change that to RecMe (are you guys interested in this? I know I have librarians on this list, and so, I *organize* and assume you care.) Right, so you are so more than welcome to peruse the del.icio.us account (me=minxy) but be aware that it's a hold-all place for things I intend to read, and are not necessarily recommendations. There is a link in my sidebar now, though, because it's working pretty well for me.

Also, I would just like to say that despite the subject line, I am *so into* Mary J. Blige and Amy Winehouse at the moment. I believe I can blame my flist for pointing me to Amy Winehouse.

But yes! RECS! There are 10 in my RecMe tag! Because that's what I do, and I have a sneaking suspicion that while I'm technically writing and stuff, the fact that my mostest trustedest betas are having wonky health and head issues means... you may or may not see those for a while. And if you do see them? It might just be smoke and mirrors for the fact that I'm all distracted by the imminent move.

But, recs:

synecdochic writes my very favorite versions of Cameron and Sam ever: in the long slow friendship with amazing benefits, where Sam is adopted into Cam's family since forever and he wants to take care of her and is the only, ONLY one she doesn't hold at a distance... this is Cam dropping by like the old friend he is, to find Sam in the recovery aftermath of a mission she absolutely can't tell him anything about, and it's so heartbreakingly Everything It Should Be. Comfort(able), Sam/Cameron, ca: S1? R rated.

princess_bunny wrote a cracky, hilarious John/Rodney that is marvelously funny and flamingly gay. Reminded me a little of Dr. Jackson's Diary in the 'really not your canon characters, but we love their queeny ways anyway' way. And also, you just have to overlook how clearly *nothing ever gets done* in Atlantis, but people are fine with it. Glitter and Lube. NC-17, cracky.

For your genderswitch reading needs (there were a remarkable number of remarkable genderswitch stories lately,) I suggest you begin with spike21's Teyla: Maybe Oracle, gen, genderswitch. Really interesting contrast in losses and gains and a remarkable Teyla voice. (Also, if you read the next fic, her reaction is so interesting compared with John's.)

Chase that with John and Rodney, in a series of changes that takes them so far into each other that heterosexual identification becomes so very irrelevant and limited. Remarkable femslash, but it's the journey towards wanting each other that made the story for me. Always Should Be Someone You Really Love (links to part 2, this series is complete), NC-17, John/Rodney, genderswitch and discussions of het, slash, femslash and use of toys. It runs the gamut, really well. From thingswithwings. Also, Ronon and Teyla are distinct presences.

from princessofg, a Rising tag for Jack and Daniel, a first time and a happy: Evenings of Barbeque, Evenings of Chess. It's PG, Jack/Daniel, but a marvelous baby-steps/talking/just-so-we're-clear way to approach changing a friendship.

This is (sadly) a WIP, which I didn't know before I started reading, but I need to rec it anyway, even as a place holder. It is marvelous writing and extraordinary Daniel voice, complete with philosophical asides, pettiness, liguistics, and random lateral jumps in thinking. The Continuation of Life (Not Quite San Souci). Crossover with SGA, slash, from ethrosdemon. She promises to finish soon, so I'll rerec (OMG wips kill me.)

While we're on crossovers, this is John on Earth, not quite sure why he's accepted an invitation to road-trip with SG-1. Loved minervacat's deft understanding (and clear love) of basketball, how John and Cameron bond so easily over the game, and how it becomes a platform for seeing how many other ways they can connect. Multileveled growing connection is seven levels of awesome: minervacat's Steal The Thunder From The Sky, John/Cameron, NC-17, SG-1 with John Sheppard.

Lessee, what else I got? (I'm loving the timing of starting this whole del.icio.us rediscovery thing just when my comment notifications are on the fritz).

Oh, a series tag from niamaea, and one of those gen fics with a partnership *also*. This is Sam and Teal'c POV (the Teal'c is particularly lovely) as the team is given a chance to live and die quietly, no fanfare. Cameron/Sam in there, but it really is a nice little story about our heroes finding their own ways to live like normal people (or not, as the case may be). A Million Years Into the Sky, gen, Cam/Sam, PG, finalefic

Two S10 Jack ficlettes, one slash or Jack and Daniel friendship, and one pre- or post-het. The first is a drabble from teand: Half Crazy, PG and the second is a long, slow, gentle connection between people who loved and hurt each other once: Something Old, PG, Jack and Sara, in one of the most wonderful relationships our show ever gave us, from moonshayde.

For those of you who were involved in pimping me in to Supernatural, this section is for you (I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time.)

angstslashhope (in hopeful_fiction) wrote a fantastic Sam and Dean having a prank war related to laundry: socktacular socktacular. Gen, PG-13 or R (brothers fight dirty).

onelittlesleep wrote a lovely last trip before Sam went to school, and it's got great slightly-younger voices and topics and Dean learning about Sam in great ways. But I Never Could Sharpen No Blade, Quite the Way He Say. Gen, pre-series, PG.

And in conclusion, runpunkrun is writing oodles of wonderful happy John/Rodney this... month I think? I don't know why, I just know it's consistently happymaking and possibly too much to rec individually, so we shall just fangirl Punk in general. *fangirls*

Comments

[wraith816.livejournal.com]

I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time


Uh-huh. I believe you. *nods*


Am I convincing enough?

[spike21.livejournal.com]

weee! thanks for the recc. *g*

[becky-monster.livejournal.com]

So I've been marking things with the tag ReadMe and then going back to change that to RecMe (are you guys interested in this? I know I have librarians on this list, and so, I *organize* and assume you care.)

Of course we care! Admittedly, as wonderful as del.icio.us is, it does need to work on being able to search more than one tag at a time. But that's me thinking like a librarian again!

I stupidly! volunteered to rec on crack_van and am using it to collect possible fics for reccing. And intel on future holiday destinations too.

BTW - check the Alien Altars link, I don't think it's working properly...

Did you catch princessofg's latest superserkit OT3? Wonderful stuff!

[feather-autant.livejournal.com]

I can quit any time too! ::looks shifty:: I, um, just don't want to. But when I do, BAM, I'm outa there. *nods* /g/

Thanks for the links to your del.icio.us account. I've got then opened in another window right now. :D ::squishes you::

[cofax7]

I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time.

Sure you can.

The two stories that put me over the edge into SPN were probably nilchance and beanside's Of Bastard Saints (an AU spinning off "Devil's Trap" in which Dean gets amnesia and runs off, leaving a gravely-injured John and Sam to chase after him: it puts the emo in emo-porn) and big_pink's Red (which is everything you've heard about it, and more besides: plot, characterization, theme, and setting like whoa--Dean and Sam among the loggers and tree-huggers in the PNW, hunting a monster who has a taste for Dean).

Socktacular Socktacular is absolutely hysterical.

And lookit all this SG-1 fic I can't read until I finish watching S10! Argh!

[bugchicklv.livejournal.com]

Hey you! Lots of good recs here--have to wait to read some of them as I have a fic I need to finish writing first (actually 2). And LOL one of them is for the Femme cliche challenge! I figured it was time I just DID THE DAMN THING, you know? And a cliche is always so much easier to write, and usually doesn't require plot. YAY! (cause I couldn't come up with one)

Speaking of which, if you're up to it come this Friday, would you be my beta? It won't be terribly long (as it's PWP) and it's River/Kaylee. Please? *puppy eyes*

[kres.livejournal.com]

I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time I can quit at any time

YESSS!

[destina.livejournal.com]

I can quit at any time

*points and laughs* Yes, as I was updating my recs page this weekend - I think there are well over 150 recs there now, and I could easily have 250 more, if there were more hours in the day to code them - I remembered fondly when I thought the same thing. So I mock with love. *g* Nice to see you reccing onelittlesleep's classic, tho. (Can something be a classic in less than a year? If so, that's one.)

[niamaea.livejournal.com]

Hmm. A Minxy rec list...research paper. Rec list...research paper....

Wheee! Thank you for all the great new links to read! And for the rec of 'A million years' too -- very grateful and flattered, as always.

[dvswraatins.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks for the pimpage! :-)

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for your v. generous rec.

and all you sg-1 cool babes who are stampeding into SPN, be sure to say hi to my friend vshendria. when she finishes her "The Faculty" epic and starts writing SPN, liek woah. look out. and oh, yeah.... angstslashhope! she rocks.

it's so weird now to have been in fandom long enough that people i know are meeting other people i used to know in new fandoms. weird. like a cocktail party on six floors of a building, you know?

i heart this. hee hee.

[chopchica.livejournal.com]

Argh! For some reason I never got the notification when you friended me! Forgive me?

[dustandroses.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. I've only written full-out, no-stops femmeslash once, but alien_altars has tempted me to commit femmeslash once again. This time it's going to be Firefly: Zoe/Kaylee - Amnesia fic. Or Sandman/NCIS: Death/Abby (OMG GothGrrrlSlash!), but I can't figure out which cliche I should go with...so it's still up in the air. Any suggestions?

About the del.icio.us account. I love mine. I just added you to my network; it's rather small, but then, it's kind of early, yet. But it's pleasing my obsessive/compulsive librarian's soul to no end. Well, my mother was the librarian, so I think I'm actually channeling her, but I'm tagging like there's no tomorrow. I seem to have gone over the deep end, to be honest.

But then that's probably got something to do with the fact that I'm slowly importing all my firefox bookmarks into del.icio.us (long story...clean out my bookmarks...switch operating systems...can't back up my data - yadda, yadda, yuck.) But I love the importing feature - I'd hate to have to add them one at a time. And the fact that you don't have to "share" them until you're ready to make them public is an added plus for me.

I'm actually putting all the ones I haven't read yet in a different account so they don't clutter up dusty_ryder. Are you getting the idea that I'm taking this all too seriously? :::headdesk::: And of course I'm adding them as I read, so right now I'm more than a bit top heavy on Spike/Xander fic, since that's what I'm reading the most of at the moment. (Just what I need - *another* fandom!) But I'm slowly getting the other fandoms caught up, sharing them as I clean up the entry and get the tags in shape. Oi. I think I need a life.