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The Last Place You Look (Still in the anon period for the Just Married Exchange)
Psych
Gus/Shawn
Gus and Shawn pretend to be married for a case. This is spot on--perfect dialogue, perfect mix of the absurd and the emotional. A+ excellent read.

to recognise the heart in every person that you see by china_shop
Guardian
Gen; Zhu Hong and Wang Zheng
Absolutely love the two of them bonding and getting to know each other better.

To the city that blends and mends and tests by gloss
Always Be My Maybe
Marcus/Sasha
Marcus can't find weed in NYC. Makes me smile.

Don't Stop Me Now by Spellbound
Good Omens
Aziraphale/Crowley
Vid

1. They're gonna make my Rx today. Really, y'all. It's going to happen. LOL This is after four days of multiple phone calls to both the doctor and the pharmacy. I am so lucky to have a flexible job that allows me the time I have found it necessary to devote to begging medical professionals to help me. Is there anything more humiliating and time consuming than having weird medical problems in the US?

2. ( massive spoilers for third Trials of Apollo book; do not even peek, Spikedluv )

3. Emma and I went to see Spiderman a couple days ago. ( spoilers )

4. Look, look, look what misbegotten wrote for me!!!!!!!!

To See When Shown
Good Omens
Aziraphale/Crowley

misbegotten has such a good handle on the character voices; reading her dialogue is like reading the book or watching the show. Very hot and very sweet which is exactly what I'm looking for when I read this in this fandom.

1. We have eaten so well the last few days. A couple days ago, we had roasted broccoli and roasted butternut squash with baked chicken thighs and sauteed dandelion greens and vidalia onions. Last night we made a ham. Josh and I try to do a fair amount of cooking large cuts of meat like Boston butt or a beef roast and getting multiple meals out of it. A 12 lb ham cost $18, and we'll get at least five meals out of it. We crusted the ham with brown sugar, and Josh made dressing to go with it. OMG, it was so freaking good.

2. Have a Good Omens rec:

Ins and Outs by misbegotten
Aziraphale/Crowley
2646 words
Missing scene from the show

3. ( A. S. Byatt's In the Shadow of the Sun )

Josh and I watched Mission Impossible 2 tonight. It was . . . not good. The main issue is pacing. If you strip out all the long stretches of John Woo slow-mo and edit out a little dialogue, it could be a perfectly solid bottom B action movie. But as is, not so much.

Emma has gone off to camp. Fiona hasn't quite realized she's missing yet; she asked for her a few times today, but didn't dwell on her absence. Hopefully she won't be morose tomorrow.

I'm still reading Trigger Warnings, about to start Jane Eyre, and looking forward to Naomi Novik's Uprooted. We've never read any of her published works, but Josh just finished Uprooted and said it reminds him of Patrick Rothfuss and Kelly Link. So much of fandom has what is to me an inexplicable hateboner for Rothfuss but we only have loveboners in this house for Rothfuss, so high praise indeed.

Have a couple recs from this round of remix:

The Pendragon-Gorlois Family Reunion (The Historically Inaccurate Remix)
Good Omens/Arthurian mythology
Aziraphale and Crowley in Camelot? Perfection.

light as a feather [circling all round the sun remix]
New Girl
Schmidt/Elizabeth; wing-fic

100 Things Crowley Would Do Before the World Ended by Shewhoguards; Good Omens; long; PG
Just like all the best fics centered around Azriphale and Crowley, this one is funny, more than a little heartbreaking, and pretty much entirely about how this duo needs each other.

Cut and Fucking Paste by crimsonclad Trek Reboot; Kirk/Spock; short; R for language
This is really funny and a nice take on the whole "mindmeld opens up possibilties" for Kirk trope.

Light Unshone by liadan14 HP; Charlie/Draco; Adult; Medium
After the war, the Weasleys are grieving, Draco's trying to survive, and somehow Draco and Charlie find a way to make life after Voldemort work at a dragon preserve in the Scottish Highlands.

Close Enough by Helenish; HP; Harry/Ron; Adult; long
Nobody writes HP like Helenish. I wish Helenish wrote HP all the time. There is so very little Harry/Ron out there (which shocked me to my very bones when I first started dipping my toes in the HP waters), and this is such a fine example of how amazing that pairing can be. This is set after the War and features a relatively fucked up Harry and clueless Ron.

Careful Where You Touch by dira; SG-1; Sam/Vala; PG; short
Vala understands the rules that govern how she and Sam must behave in public, but the secrecy is sometimes painful. Vala and Sam come out to the team. Yay, teamfic!

If You're Quick, For a Kick, You Can Pick Up a Christening by executrix; Firefly; Mal/Simon; medium
This is wedding fic as only Exec could write it, laugh out loud funny and deeply sweet. Wash shrugged. “Good things get better, bad get worse. Wait, I think I meant that in reverse. If you have problems, it doesn’t take them away. And there are special separate problems. There was that whole you could set your watch by Mal getting hysterical thing, but I guess he can’t make a thing out of it considering that he’s marrying you. I guess if you do make an honest man out of him, that could be a problem, unless you have some smart vocational ideas?” Simon shook his head. “I can recommend the married state heartily,” Wash said. “I mean, when you first came here, I didn’t think of you as someone I’d want to spend the rest of my life with, but then, I’m not the one who has to. Also, when you’re married, they can’t make you testify against your…against the person you’re married to.”

Froodian Slip by executrix; Firefly/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy XOVER; short
I've never read Hitchhiker's Guide, and this fic makes me wish I had because I know this story would be even more awesome. Exec has a gift for character voices and this fic is no exception. If you want some wry humor, this is the fic for you.

Stealth Nanny McPhee by ariadne; H50; Steve/Danny; short
I don't even watch this show and I'm in love with this story. If you like sweet and happy with awesome dialogue, you won't be disappointed.

in a shadowed forest by possibly_thrice; Good Omens; long; PG-13; pairings not listed by the reccer
Who wants to read the best Good Omens fic of ever? You do! P3 is probably the writer in fandom I am most jealous of. Everything she writes is absolutely pitch perfect in every way. The dialogue is always spot on; you can hear the characters speaking their lines as you read. The language is always gorgeous--beautiful imagery and turns of phrase, lovely detail, description so fine that you are immediately placed in the setting. I cannot think of another writer in fandom who so consistently turns out writing for which I can think of no descriptor but perfect. So this is what happens on the day the world ends, and it is by turns hilarious, haunting, cutting, heartbreaking, and full of wonder. Much like the story on which it is based. I feel like the runner ought to be sliding into home here, but I just want to reiterate how much I love P3's writing. From Discworld to Good Omens to Star Trek 2009, everything she writes is fascinating and interesting and achingly, achingly beautiful.

Syndicated Sci-Fi Show by cluadiapriscus; SG-1/SPN XOVER; Gen; PG; long
In the midst of "Changing Channels," the brothers Winchester find themselves on another planet with SG-1. This is really funny (and at times poignant). Because Sam and Dean think this is just another crappy and fake TV show they've fallen into, they can provide interesting commentary on the plotholes and general cheesiness our beloved show sometimes devolves into.

'Verse War Z Day 1: Firefly and 'Verse War Z Day 2: Sleeping Beauty by lyrstzha; Multifandom project
Lyr is doing this thing where she's bringing the zombie apocalypse down on all her fandoms, and it is glorious. The Sleeping Beauty one in particular is very finely done; I love Lyr's wry humor and the way she shows that what begins in even the deepest of love can be twisted and perverted to other ends.

Just about every day, I take a look around lj and think, "I get to hang around these people for free? Wow." I am surrounded by some of the smartest, funniest, most clever people--and let me not forget, kindest and most generous while I'm at it. Sometimes it boggles my mind that so many exceptionally good writers are just one mouse click away from me at all times. Y'all make me feel lucky and grateful. Here's what a handful of you have been up to lately.

Famous Brown Raincoat by executrix; Firefly; Mal/Zoe; Wash/Zoe; PG-13
Among executrix's many gifts is the ability to tell a hell of a backstory. I love this picture of Zoe and Mal following the war, of the minutiae of the lives of two people putting themselves back together. I love Zoe's voice here--how plainspoken and unapologetic she is even as she's apologizing. And mostly I love that River gets to save them all this time.

Let's Give 'Em Something to Talk About by ariadne83; SG-1; Cam/Sam but mostly gen; PG-13
Ariadne is one of the most thoughtful and insightful writers I've ever read. Her understanding of character motivation is unparalleled, and she has a way of spooling out tiny plot points in canon to the far-reaching consequences that escape me sometimes as a viewer. This is the story of how Cam and Sam's marriage fails, and they learn to be friends. The voices are amazing here (Lorne in particular brings a grin to my face), and the end is pretty much the definition of perfect.

In Imitation of Apples by possibly_thrice; Good Omens/Trek Reboot XOVER; Chekov-centric gen; PG
P3 is a genius, pure and simple. To call her a wordsmith somehow reduces the magic she makes to mere craft, and believe me, y'all--the way she puts words together goes far beyond the limitations of craft. I think she's the most evocative, sensual writer I've ever read anywhere, not just fandom. Her fic just begs to be read aloud (by Alan Rickman LOL). Sometimes I get chillbumps when I read her work; I *always* get jealous. In this fic, Chekov meets Azriphale and Crowley and it is GLORIOUS!

Apocalypses I Have Known by lyrstzha; Non-fiction
I love Lyr's stories. I love the way she sees the Buffyverse, the way she writes the ensemble cast of Firefly, the way she lets me imagine Dean interacting with the world of Babylon 5, but I never love her writing so much as when she's writing about herself. This piece is, in a word, exquisite.

Absumption by drsquidlove; Voyager; Paris/Janeway; Adult
This fic does not fit the category of lately, but thanks to the timelessness of the internet, it's as new to me as if it was written yesterday. I was introduced to the Doctor through hir Buffy fic (specifically Giles/Xander), and I was struck by hir skill with characterization and plotting. The Doctor tells a damn good story. So when I discovered that the Doc had written Voyager fic, I was pretty much beside myself with joy. This is a riff on the episode "Timeless," and it is just as angsty and heartrending as you might imagine. The depiction of grief and shock in the wake of the accident is particularly fine.

The Price He Pays (The Luxor Casino Inevitability Remix) by bruttimabuoni; [BtVS/AtS; Wesley, the last Guardian]

Fever Dreams (The Five Times Remix) by irisbleufic; [Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley, R]

Missing Hawk (The Anger Turned Sideways Remix) by eponymous_rose; (M*A*S*H; Hawkeye; PG-13)

Not Proper (Chinese Boxes remix) by penknife; [Peter Pan, George Darling/Captain Hook]

Congrats, You've Met Your Match (The Space Captain Remix) by roga; [Star Trek XI/Stargate Atlantis; Sheppard/Kirk; Adult]

Prism (Falling Feather Extended Jam) by nwhepcat; [Castiel-centric gen; Firely Xover]

No one Said it Would Be This Hard (the find you in the dark remix) by musesfool; [SPN; Smith and Wesson]

Jo (Brewed Under a Bad Sign Remix) by dark_roast; [SPN]

Grace (Let Down Your Hair Remix) by extraonions; [SPN; Anna/Dean; Adult]

The Gospel of Robert Singer (the Heavenly Choir Remix) by vylit; [SPN]

Grounded (This is Not my Beautiful Life Mix) by kyuuketsukirui; [HP; Ginny/Luna; Ginny/Harry; Adult]

( Good Omens )

Goodbye, Earl-inspired ficlet by ana_grrl Wanda/Mary Ann PG-13ish

Once More With Stealing’s Quicker by executrix B7 filk to the tune of BtVS. Sing the songs aloud like I did; it'll be fun.

( Newsies )

( SPN )