not too short for a stormtrooper

A by product of our Pretender marathon on Friday:

This Is Going To Get Weird, Isn't It by mah girl piecesofalice. Pretender / 30 Rock, because we were sitting on the couch, and someone said, "Kenneth as a pretender," and it was clearly destined to be amazing.

It opens like this:

It's a Tuesday when Liz Lemon thinks she sees Kenneth smoking a cigarette and swearing at a cell phone in the alley behind 30 Rockefeller.

AMAZING

Yuletide ficrecs to come.

Hey so, do you remember that time I had a recs journal? Yeah, that's what I thought.

I've updated unproductive with 11 x post-Prince Caspian recs (both movieverse and bookverse).

So Remix fics are out. myopia, and how the present takes hold (a remix from lightyears away) is a remix of taking cue (past holds on). The original was a Kara-centric, slightly KaraandBoomerish piece. The remix is set over the time period, but weaves Leoben into the story in this amazing way. At first I was surprised, I don't think I've ever used Leoben as a character, but as I read I was delighted with Leoben's characterisation, with the way he was written and the way the story unfurls. So I guess the summary is, I am delighted with the remix that has been written, and you should all go read it, even if you don't like Leoben. Seriously.

I did a very quick run through this morning, as I was trying to work up the motivation to write my essay. I wish I'd worked up the motivation earlier - I went to look for my notes I made from a text which is pivotal to my essay, and let's just say it's not anywhere to be found so now I have to go to the library. ANYWAY, here are some recs that I would like to make:

By Any Other Name (The Fool’s Paradise Remix) . This is a piece about Raven, picking up the pieces after, and waiting. Also, reading it makes me wants to write more fic based after X3, and I haven't had that feeling in an absolute age.

Unconscious, as some human lovers are (Sympathetic Resonance), primarily features Percy Shelley and Death being awesome, and of course Aziraphale and Crowley.

Normal (The Quintessential Question Remix), Violet Baudelaire. This piece is fairly explicitly incesty, so that's your warning, but the tone of the piece is very Lemony Snicket, and was quite a delight to read.

Functions, Forms (Keep The Customer Satisfied remix) is Tia Dalma and Will Turner, and it is Will's acknowledgment and Calypso, weaving as she is. And now I want to see more of this Will, after he has the knowledge of the sea within him.

When reading for Remix, I like to read the remix first, and then read the original fic. It makes a nice comparison, to see what is reflection and what is more, and I think it enhances the experience.

And remember to leave feedback, hokay? I still don't have feedback on the fic I wrote, from anyone, and I'm all aaaaarghhhh was it terrible etc.

I wish someone had written a Dune remix, or a Pretender remix, for anyone, not just me. I've never seen a remix for either of those fandoms, and I think that would be delightful.

crack_van is calling for submissions of interest from people who would like another Small Fandom Month. You may recall that last year for small fandom month I volunteered to rec The Pretender, and this year I would love to rec Children of Dune but for one HUGE PROBLEM.

All the Dune fic that I like (aside from alpha/omega by resmin and A Universe by Sloane, and Water for the Dead by Leda) was WRITTEN BY ME. DAMN YOU FANDOM.


A solution: someone else volunteers to rec? AND THEN LOVES ME.

The worst thing about being in fandom and living in the future is this: remix stories go live Sunday, today is Sunday, it's twenty past nine, but I know I won't get to read the stories until Monday because it's still Saturday in the US. The anticipation is so frustrating, just because you get to the day and you still can't get the goods.

the_grynne discusses and links to some very interesting discussions about 2006's Miami Vice. Very interesting.

From the Devon/Danziger Ficathon, I would like to rec AJ's Just a White Disorder Everywhere and Ness' Patterns in the Snow

skywardprodigal made a post with pictures of the ever lovely Michelle Yeoh here.

It's been a couple of days so probably everyone who cares has seen these by now, but Jamie and Tricia photoshoot from Statement Casablancas Magazine. This is an awesome photoshoot. Tricia Helfer always looks so stunning.

I am in love with My Moon, My Man by Feist. It's a great song, and an adorable video clip.

via hjsnapepm, The Pretender season one is apparently available on iTunes.

We're mainlining Scrubs right now. It's pretty awesome.

Someone ENTERTAIN ME PLEASE.

I wrote two ficlets for Medie's Kissing challenge:

These Circles Of, prompt: Miss Parker; she speaks in tongues

( She hums pleasantly. )

AND

Walking on the Lines, prompt: Eva Greene/Daniel Craig; goodbye

( Ahead, he sees a familiar figure, and he speeds up. )


ALSO, some complete nobody who shall remain Piecesof wrote Promenade, about our favourite geek BROOTSIE

Signups for rpfremix are open here. I would sort of like to sign up, but I don't have three 500 word fics in any rpf fandom. I've got two in a couple (in Narnia, and in BSG), but not three. So if anyone has any ideas for anything that I can write in the next couple of days, that would be great.

Speaking of, hobviously talks briefly about why she loves RPF. <333

I wanted to say, thank you very much to everyone who said lovely things about me in the love meme. It made me feel all glowy inside. :o)

The Pretender 2001 and Island of the Haunted are available on DVD as of Tuesday. WOO.

I updated unproductive with 12 x Firefly recs (including crossovers) and 6 x spy fandom recs (LFN, Spooks/MI5 and James Bond).

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I wasn't going to do this, but then I found myself reading other people's responses and reading their fic, so I thought, why not? Let me know if you do follow my links, just for my own curiosity.

Post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

Cutting it down to just five was very difficult, and I know that five was probably just picked as an arbitrary number but nonetheless I did my very best to stick to it. I decided it would help if I only allowed myself one from each fandom, allowing crossovers to blur the lines.

The Wreck Keeps Running. Miss Parker and Jarod in the fleet, a BSG/Pretender crossover. I will never love another fandom the way I loved BSG, so bright and so fast, but there will always be a distant fondness, reminiscent of the way I feel about Roswell, perhaps. This fic, a combination of my oldest love with one of my newest loves, was self-indulgent but written with love, and the love/hate that Miss Parker and Jarod feel will continue until they're both dead.

A Restaurant with White Tablecloths, Smallville/DCU. This fic, about Chloe and her mission to find her place in the world, is kind of sordid and a little bit skanky and secretly my love letter to Gotham City. This took me months of constant picking and carving, and the end result makes me grin every time I think of it, and contains my favourite opening line (of my own fic) ever: Chloe's house phone rings, and she answers it before she realises she's never had it connected.

Out From Under (天高皇远), HP. Cho Chang, growing up and trying to fit into her own skin. There are no words that I can say to describe what this fic means to me, and every time I read another treatise on how Cho is crap, and every time I see Cho's significance and presence pushed aside like she's nothing, I hate fandom just that little bit more.

Divided, But with Half a Heart, Children of Dune. Because the years will be long, and Leto will miss his sister very much, and the twins are so beautiful and Frank Herbert was so crazy and I will admit it, I arbitrarily picked this one because I see all of my Dune fic as one long, never-ending story, even this one and this one, though they're crossovers.

Joining Hands as Nations, Narnia. Because Susan loves Narnia, no matter what, even though Aslan later keeps her away. I wish we had seen more of Susan, seen what plans Aslan had for her after her family had left the Shadowlands, because how could Aslan have loved her and cared for her and seen into her heart and then thrown her away?

BONUS: Slowly Creeping In, X-Men Movie. I love Kitty in all her incarnations, and though she was a bit too attracted to Bobby in X3 I feel that with this fic, I managed to reconcile who she was in the movie to who I see her as (ie, AWESOME).

That was very difficult.

I would not usually tag anyone, and please, if you want to do this meme, feel free! I certainly was not tagged. But I would like to see what hobviously has to say, and what voleuse has to say, and if she ever comes back to us, I would like to see what stars_like_dust has to say.

This is a listing of fics for the (mini) Pretender ficathon! There are a few missing, but I guess they'll sort of trickle in, so be sure to check back to see if the list has been updated!

anr wrote for permissionslip: Child's Play. Prompt: porn, sunrise, and red pumps.

bantha_fodder wrote for mandysbitch: Palindrome. Prompt: Miss Parker/ Jarod - with an appearance by Mr Lyle, some kind of intervention from him. Twincest is awesome if you feel like going down that road...*g* and no happy endings.

blademistress wrote for daygloparker: Some Disassembly Required. Prompt: Miss Parker/Jarod, clicking, opposites, no torture, no post-IotH, no mushy

familyarchives wrote for juliefortune: Waffles in Idaho. Prompt: Jarod saves Ms. P from a fate worse than...

juliefortune wrote for familyarchives: Rain Runs Cold. Prompt not specified.

mandysbitch wrote for blademistress: The Home Fires Are Burning

daygloparker wrote for anr: If Strangers Meet. Prompt not specified.


zeplum didn't write for anyone, but she DID write all the same: The Lonliest Valentine, a post ep for Gigolo Jarod.


In other Pretender related news, you should all know that medie has made some FABULOUS icons that you can find here.

In other Pretender fic news, you should all read five things: cinq mots que mlle parker a appris dans sa lycée, which is five words Miss Parker remembers from high school French, by quasiradiant, and it is awesome! Tahlia especially will appreciate this one.

This covers one of the things on the wishlist that I wrote after seeing the movie. It's like a combination of desires four AND five, and it is MORE THAN AWESOME. I've read it twice today, and I've only been awake half an hour!

Spark, by Mary. Marie finds John holed up in a large house in a small suburb, the kind where everyone's too polite to pay attention to anyone else's business.

MORE THAN AWESOME GO READ IT.

I have a guilty love! That love is for CRACKFIC AUS. And this is a list of five crack AU fics that I read and reread all the time because they're AWESOME. Please note the distinction - these are all AUs, not just crackfic. That's a whole other list.

five crack fic AUs I love like woah

The SVU AU Game, as played by several people. Law and Order: SVU, obviously. My favourite is probably Eleison, by Kovsky.

Remembering Monsters, which is only MOSTLY AU, by daegaer. A Good Omens fluffy Japanese schoolboy AU but THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER. eta: okay, okay, I'm rereading this right now, and I just. YOU HAVE TO READ IT. IT'S SO GOOD. MY FAVOURITE OMG. I'm not kidding about THE AWESOME. Please. I can't tell you anything because it'll ruin it but ooommmmmggggg.

The Caprica High series by Tris and Rawles. As Friends, Sociability, and Nature. Battlestar Galactica characters as American teenagers.

These Desert Places, by Ingrid. Battlestar Galactica "In some faraway desert land, a nomadic people are on the run, fighting for their lives against a terrible enemy. A "Battlestar Galactica" AU Regency Romance fic." I also include, because I love them and want to save more room, Desert Wind, by Tris; Desert Mysteries by Lizzen. Oh, okay, also, some other people wrote some, but I cannot find the links! So if someone has them, they should tell me.

To Serve a Queen by tielan, a Stargate: Atlantis AU, based on the 'Black Jewels' series by Anne Bishop. Just from the way this fic was written, I am guessing that the series it is based on is hilarious and crazypants and I cannot wait to read it even though it sounds exactly like the sort of speculative fiction that I hate, but this fic was OF AWESOME. Although not written as tightly as it could have been, and although it contained some gaps in narration that I suspect would have been obvious to one more familiar with the series, I thoroughly enjoyed this.


AND NOW: please share any crack AU fics that you may have! You can rec someone else's, or you can pimp your own. I don't mind! Any fandom.