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I'm slowly working my way through Yuletide, though I'm only up to "S." Still, have some recs (and note I'm omitting Arrow and Sleepy Hollow from these, because I think you should just read ALL the stories in those fandoms--they were all excellent, as far as I'm concerned).

A-Babies v. X-babies, I always need to be sure of you. Completely adorable baby Avengers: 5 times Bucky Bear knew he was Steve’s favorite.

Appalachian Murder Ballads, Rose in June . "Nobody in all of God’s earth was going to take us out of our home. We got bit and died, or we got buried and rose back up, and well, that was the Lord’s business. But no way were we walking out of there of our own accord. If they wanted us gone they’d have to drag us out." A zombie twist to a traditional story, with a great narrative voice.

Biblefic, Flowers of Perhaps. I didn’t even remember Michal (David’s first wife), but I generally like Biblefic and decided to give this a try, and it is a gorgeous and heartbreaking look at what it means to be a daughter and wife of royalty in ancient Israel. 30,000 words.

Calvin and Hobbes, Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine. Susie Derkins, now a college senior, plays Calvinball with Death.

Cinderella, The glass slippers. The femslash version of Cinderella.

Fast and the Furious, It's hard to do these things alone. Brian can talk to cars. Seriously awesome.

Fast and the Furious, Dominic and Submission (Dom/Brian). I hadn't realized how much this fandom needed a BDSM AU until I read this.

Galaxy Quest, SMOF. You just don't talk about GalaxyQuestCon 99. One fan finds out exactly why. Awesome story with great fannish meta.

Greek mythology crossover with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, A New Point of View. Persephone visits the Island of Misfit toys and learns something about herself. This crossover sounded like total crack, but it's actually quite lovely.

Jolene (the Dolly Parton Song) Summer Rain. Very little to do with the actual song, but a really fantastic fantasy AU where Jolene is a mercenary hired by an heir to the throne to help recapture her throne. Excellent world-building.

Legally Blonde, Serious. "Yes," Elle said seriously. "If that is how you identify, I am one hundred percent committed to supporting your self-expression as a queer princess lawyer." Very sweet Elle/Vivan.

Norse Mythology, Parades’ Beginning, Middle and End. Crackalicious Fun. "This is the story of how the Bifrost, also known as the Rainbow Bridge, and the biannual Bifrost Trans Pride parade came to be."

Northern Exposure, It Came From Outer Space. An apocalypse is coming to Cicely, and everyone reacts very much in character. "I've always been an appreciate-the-sunrise kind of guy, but there's something a little bit special about what might be the last one I see from where I sit. This is 'Chris in the Morning' on KBHR, and I wish you a happy apocalypse." Awesome.

Practical Magic, A Pool in a Peaceful Place. A great look at the older Owens sisters--their loves and losses before Sally and Gillian come into their lives.(Includes canonical character deaths)

Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing . No More than Reason Beatrice and Benedick adjusting to married life. The dialogue is truly fantastic.

So as my long family trip winds to a close (I'm flying home tomorrow) I got to spend most of my day with my sister-in-law, who is a very cool person. She and my brother are trying to go vegan for health reasons, so if anyone has recs for good vegan cookbooks, especially kid-friendly ones (she has seven and nine-year-old daughters), that would be awesome.

I also introduced her to the concept of fanfic (I can't believe this is the first time we've talked about it, but on the other hand we're usually hanging out with her kids or my extended family), and as she is a pretty big Dr. Who & Torchwood fan, I am seeking recs. She doesn't seem to have any strong Doctor or Companion preferences, so any recs (or good rec sites) would be welcome. Preferably stuff you would rec to pimp someone into a fandom, since she's never read anything fannish before.

Okay, in case you missed serrico's recommendation of this amazing vid by dualbunny and sweetestdrain and greensilver, I must boost the signal. You must watch this if you've ever been a Clex fan. I can't say anything more about it except that it is a completely life-changing experience. I don't think I'll ever look at that relationship in the same way again.

As I move into week 3 of the cold/respiratory infection that will not die, I am in dire need of some cheering up. Anybody have recs for comfort fic--you know, absolute schmoop, humor, fluffy cuddly stories that you just want to wrap around you like a blanket, that sort of thing? Any fandom, really. I'd appreciate them.

Thanks to redteekal and duskwillow for the virtual presents brightening my userinfo page.

OMG, I have so many things to do before I leave town tomorrow it isn't even funny. And then I have to get up at 3:30 for my marathon day of flying; I'm just hoping the east coast blizzards aren't snarling air traffic too much in the west and midwest.

I'm still looking for things to read on my new netbook while travelling, so if you have any suggestions for long fic, especially SPN, J2, Star Trek Reboot, or Harry Potter--especially stuff that's in one long file, like on AOOO or a website, could you let me know? Thanks.

Things currently making me happy this morning:

1. talitha78, angel that she is, sent me the vids from vividcon, so now I have many happy hours of vid watching to look forward to. Yay!! Thank you so much!!

2. My show-promotion-fu seems to be strong these days, since not only is slinkling working her way through season 1 of SPN, but I've also apparently drawn in rsadelle by deluging her with J2 recs. Yesterday I couldn't stop babbling at her about Jared and Jensen actually living together, and apparently that tipped the balance or something, since she has actually written a short story snippet about that.

3. rivkat finally finished posting Captured By the Game , which is a wonderful long SPN AU (Sam/Dean) in which Sam, along with all the other psychic kids, is raised by Azazel and then sent out as an adult to seduce Dean. It's a very compelling look at what Sam and Dean might be like if they were raised apart, and a fascinating re-examination of season 1 from scary!Sam's perspective. It's also a very satisfying romance.

The only thing that is making me sad is that John Connor's emo!hair narrowly lost my poll on the premiere of T:SCC , after leading for most of yesterday afternoon. I liked the emo!hair. (And I'm surprised only ten people on my flist are watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It is awesome and you should totally be watching!)

Here are some more recs from this year's SPN/J2 bigbang, this time a mixed bag: J2 and SPN (including gen, het, and Wincest)

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So, I was recently complaining to someone about the dearth of actual sex in all the Tony/Pepper fic I'd been reading. A big exception to that is svilleficrecs's stuff, especially the newly posted story Irreparable, which has tons of sex, albeit of the deeply fucked up kind. Pepper sees something she shouldn't; Tony reacts and things get out of control; then after Pepper gets kidnapped their relationship gets even more seriously messed up. Parts of this story are quite dark (I would heed the warnings at the beginning), but it's wonderfully done: psychologically complex, fascinating, hot and disturbing--yet with a believable happy ending.

I've been reading a fair bit of Iron Man fic lately, mostly Tony/Pepper --I am hoping to get together a rec list at some point --but in the meantime, basingstoke has just posted a completely awesome Ironman/Spiderman story, Paparazzo , which features a completely adorable Peter rescuing Tony from a bad situation and then learning a few things from him. Go! Read! And if anyone out there gets motivated to write more Tony/Peter, I really wouldn't complain.

First of all, thanks to all you anonymous folks that gave me love in svmadelyn's Valentine's Game . Smooches to you all!!

And speaking of the marvellous things about fandom....Last night, when I was simultaneously watching the season finale of "Psych" and reading SPN fic (well, during the commercials) I thought, hmm, wouldn't a Psych/SPN crossover be fun to read? And then today without even deliberately looking for one I happened to stumble across trolllogicfics's Burnt Ash and Golden Eyes , which is marvellous. It turns out that Shawn Spencer is actually one of the "special" kids from Supernatural. It's hilarious, and has a marvellous Shawn voice (his conversation with the YED is especially funny), and great interactions with Gus. The Winchester brothers aren't a very big presence in the story, but they're there too. If you like Psych and know anything about the SPN-verse you'll like this story.