neekabe | Entries tagged with recs

It's been a long while, but I've started dipping my toes back into fandom. This time Avengers and related. I didn't realize how much I missed it. Also Podfic now exist! So I've been listening to a tonne at work. And I've realized that things that bother me in written text are more managable when listening with a half a brain :)

Have some recs!
Advanced Coffee and Protection Detail I have read this and listening to it at least 3 times now. Winter Solider POV, and I love the narrative personality.

despite the threatening sky and shuddering earth (they remained) Hurt/Comfort little heavy on the hurt, but so nice.

Turing Test JARVIS centric, via OC.

Feel free to supply recs! I'm busy reading through years of backfic, but I'm out of practice and need to learn the language to filter and find things ;)

(this is me trying to post more by not feeling like it has to be a big thing, just a thing)

Everyone needs to go and read Six Lefts by

calvinahobbes.

It's the same person who wrote the fic I mentioned a couple of entries back. And this one is like the author reached into my brain and wrote the awesome long asexual Neal that I always wanted but never had the skills to write myself (because long fic and I don't get along).
( Excited blathering may involve fic spoilers )

I'm going to accept this fic as the the balance to all tooth pain I will have. And it's totally worth it
*snuggles up in fic and makes happy noises*

Crossposts: http://neekabe.livejournal.com/599724.html

It's coming up on 3am and I should have been sleeping long ago, but I started reading this fic and couldn't stop.

Shirts and Skins
Pre-season Peter and Neal and Elizabeth. Gen. A bunch of times that Peter and Neal encounter each other, right up to his final arrest. Hurt/Comfort in a lovely way except I need an epilogue, with warm fuzzies to address my desire to wrap Neal up in warm things and feed him pie. Because this was all hurt/comfort in a heart breaking way that can't actually fix things, just deal with them as best they can.

Crossposts: http://neekabe.livejournal.com/592733.html

The Not Your Teaching Tool Job
Leverage.

Parker doesn't understand why it has to be more complicated than: "I want to be with you, I just don't want to sleep with you." It's everyone else who has the problem. (Parker as a biromantic asexual)

Hardison/Eliot/Parker. Where Parker reveals to Hardison and Eliot that she's not that interested in sex and everyone becomes Very Concerned and she doesn't understand why they keep wanting to talk to her.

This was an awesome way to start the day.

These Jack Harkness + Discworld!DEATH fics. They are so full of crack and at the same time sweet and tender.

Death and the Definitely-Not-A-Maiden. They become friends. There are Christmas Cards. This totally explains why Jack didn't go insane during events of the Exit Wounds that aged him considerably.

This is how the Universe Ends

Torchwood fic.
Characters: Jack Harkness, DEATH (Discworld), The Universe

It starts out as Crack (Jack's holding up the End of the Universe, as he can't die). Continues as Crack (one way to die is to challenge DEATH to a game and lose). And then ends as something mildly profound (Jack figures out what's holding him back).

I got the link from here, which demonstrates quite nicely how wonderful Torchwood fandom can be.

- Today I typed in a postal code that began with L0L. This made me giggle.

- Doctor Who Fic - Dimentional Curves.
Exploring yet another aspect of the woob that you can do in a show where there are 10 different versions of the main character, and he travels in time.
http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=18135&textsize=0&chapter=1
Plus, I am loving Romana a whole lot.

- Supernatural/Boondock Saints crossover
http://spiderine.livejournal.com/299916.html#cutid1
This one got me entirely on the bit where it's a Supernatural/Boondock Saints crossover. You get not one, but TWO sets of overprotective pretty siblings who are a lot broken and hunt evil! I want more now. (preferably one better written)

- Supernatural Fics-
Positive Reinforcement
http://kalquessa.livejournal.com/528818.html#cutid1
Light and fluffy and it made me giggle.

Breathe On, Sister
http://vee-fic.livejournal.com/27691.html
Sam and Dean being Big Damn Heroes

Breathe On, Sister (They Pass Me By remix)
http://community.livejournal.com/remixredux08/56602.html#cutid1
Breathe On Remixed, Same story, different slant.
Henrickson attempting to mesh Big Damn Heroes with serial killers

And through that I found

-

copsandhunters, because I likes me my Victor with Sam and Dean, because the dynamics are just shiny ^_^

Which lead me to

- Going Down Swinging
http://miss-aprosexia.livejournal.com/1427.html
(3 parts. Complete)
Because, yes, that is exactly how Victor would become a hunter. And that is also Sam and Dean being Sam and Dean ^_^

But for all the answers, this road trip has raised some questions as well...
“I can't believe you.”
“Well, I am pretty unbelievable.”
“You changed the wallpaper on my laptop.”
“Come on Sammy, you know you loved it.”
“Dean, I am never going to be able to unsee that image.”
“I know, it was pretty awesome, right?”
"You're such a jerk.”
“Bitch.”
...like, how can two incredibly well-trained dangerous men be so unbelievably immature?

And
-Always Some Door Open
http://dotfic.livejournal.com/82971.html

Nothing fit with these Winchesters. Nothing. No wonder they were giving him an ulcer. He'd hunted a number of criminals who worked in teams, and never once had they argued like a couple of kids stuck for too long in the back seat on a very long car trip.

- Now I think I might go see if there's a way I can sate my odd craving for Stuffed Peppers

Somedays, you just need a fic where you can read about the Doctor and Jack getting absolutely plastered on Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters.

Somedays you don't even know that that's what you need untill you click the link =P
*giggles*

You may want to be careful about what you have in your mouth while reading this one ^_^

Couple of geeky days with Emmy, I wanna say it was a weekend, except it wasn't. Just felt like one.

Watched all of Jack's episodes, though Doctor Who and Torchwood (in order by his timeline even) and watched Stargate Crack and ate good stuff and it was a good time ^_^

And tonight I I went though a chunk of my bookmarks in an attempt to organize them. Plus there were some I wanted to send to Emmy.

The result is this giant pseudo-rec list. All entertaining enough to get me to bookmark them.
(this is about 1/3 to a half of my who bookmarks, minus a bunch that aren't really worth reccing and I remembered that within the first couple of sentences. THe rest of the bookmark organizing will have to wait untill later. So tired)

( behind the cut )

Links!
Origami insects

Supernatural rec

Harvester of Eyes Supernatural/Sandman. Good brotherly relations. John's off hunting what he suspects is no normal serial killer with a preference for eyes. He leaves Sam and Dean with Caleb hoping that'll keep them out of harms way... and there's always a but ^_~

Cops and Robbers

Poor Henrickson =P

The case had gone nowhere by Christmas. Every trap that Victor set, Dean Winchester and his brother managed to wiggle through them by margins so slim that they made Victor want to drink, and with every instance more questions were left behind. For every body that Dean Winchester abandoned, he also left two or three witnesses who swore up and down that Dean and his brother were the only reasons that they were still alive at all. Victor would have no problem with writing them off as hysterical, if his labs were not also telling him that impossible things followed Dean Winchester around like a storm cloud.

Wicked Little Town I think this fic is going to be utterly gorgeous in a hot i>damn! kinda way.

"Point is, you're not going to be seeing Dean for a long, long time."

Those words seem to hit home, and now Henrickson's rewarded with a shudder. The tremor starts at Sam's neck and flashes down his body. "No chance of escape, huh?" Sam's first words in the room sound small, restrained, and almost breathy, almost regretful.

Henrickson shakes his head, lets a small hint of victory flavor his voice. "Not a one."

"Okay. If you say so." And there is the confidence he's been expecting from a brother of Dean Winchester, but the words sound dangerously chilled, an unpleasant contradiction to Dean's heated sarcasm.

(that's as far as I got before I had to ~~flail~~ post ^_^)

Visited Lush a week or so ago, now my hair smells really really nice. I think possibly I could become addicted to that store ^_^

Also, have seen icons based on end of Crisis Core. I think a bit of me is broken. As soon as I figure out which box my speakers are in, I will see if I can dig up that trailer online somewhere.

Dear stories:
Stop making me go all leaky eyed, damnit.

Dear self:
If you would demonstrate some self-control and not read stories at 3am thry wouldn't make you go all leaky eyed.

*wibbles happily*
(Highlander. Gen. Niiiice plotty twists. Long.)

Millennium A gathering fic. A death fic. I started reading it half way through (... this is not uncommon for me)

But this one chunk of text stuck with me. It is very spoilery for the fic though.

( Spoilers )

Dear self:

You have spent the last 3 days doing little else but reading highlander fanfiction (I love this whole no school thing!). You spent roughly 7 hours last night watching Supernatural (yay social life!). You ought to have expected the dreams you had last night.

Amusedly,
neekabe

So yeah... Sam and Dean? Totally immortal. And in deference to... I have no idea what, the soundtrack changed. There was a line, where they were sitting in the woods plotting and talking about what had to be done. They came to an agreement, and then one went "You know what that means?" and they both finished with "Irish Drinking Songs!!" and there was totally a musical montage, with them singing, of their preperations. Which seemed to involve toughening Sam up. Or testing to see if his healing abilities were back up to par. Or something.

Yeah, I have no idea where the irish music came from.

So... have some Highlander/Supernatural crossover fic =P

http://shade-shifter.livejournal.com/44134.html#cutid1
http://lisaroquin.popullus.net/hl.html (scroll to the bottom) Average writing occasionally decend snark
http://cindyryan.tripod.com/spfic.html Adequate-mediocre writing. Unfinished
http://vaznetti.livejournal.com/374833.html Het smut. John/Amanda Decent writing

And a creepy good pure Supernatural fic
http://trollprincess.livejournal.com/1024531.html

I think I'm getting ill. Stupid throat.

So, to distract myself... ^_~

Have many Dean with his weaponry pictures.

And fic!

Knee High to a Sasquatch Supernatural, gen.
"Summary: Though Sam didn’t realise it, his training started before he could even walk or talk. Mostly happy moments through Sam’s childhood (age 1-5)"

Sam was currently singing Old MacDonald at top volume, Dean throwing in the next animal for him to sing about when it came around in the song. Dean, slouched down in the front passenger seat, looked about as bored with the song as his father did at this point. About three verses ago he’d begun to substitute actual farm animals for supernatural creatures. Currently Sammy was singing about how the farm had a sasquatch, which, after some debate, he’d decided made a squelching noise.

Parental Supervision Advised
Supernatural, Gen. A 4 year old Sam and nature documentaries. I love Dean ^_~

Sam’s sadness was only suddenly equaled by his outrage at being exposed out from under his pile. His cheeks red and wet, he kicked at John a few times before huddling back under the stack of every pillow the living room had.

John wondered briefly if he should be concerned for his kid's apparent need to burrow.

now I'm going to go drink another kg of honey and hope that it wards this throat ick off ^_^
(as you can see, there's not much actual content happening in my life now =P)

I am going to fail out of school, but I'm going to fail happy =P

Fic rec!
Winterborne
(and the Interlude and Mayfair) all of the same arc.

Highlander fic. Occasional Non-graphic het. Like... three times in the entire thing. It's long and plotty and action-adventureness. At least I'm prety sure. I've been reading it between articles about euthanasia =P

Set in the future, a plague has (figuratively) decimated the population. This plage was released by an Immortal and now they are a race hated, and feared by mortal humans. Certain groups are working for Immortal rights. There are cyborg-like Hunters, and clones and fun stuff happens =P

http://wreathsandbells.livejournal.com/tag/final+fantasy+xii cause they made me wibble
(school work? what school work?)
Mostly gen.

(I spam LJ because my system of bookmark folders can no longer keep things contained and I'm to lazy to fix things. Too many bookmarks per folder, have been stuffing things in random places just to keep them available without having to scan through screens of links. But that isn't going to last long. Right now I remember that the "FFVII" folder also contains 8 and 12 stuff, and that the "0_o" folder contains supernatural fic in amoungst the websites that are just shiny, and that some authors sites are in the "my social ife" and some in the "literary fluff" but that's not going to last =P Plus I think they're shiny things people should read ^_^)

I finished watching the youtube cutscenes last night. There is much annoyance when reading fic involving characters with multiple names (especially when you then watch canon and realize that all the stuff you've read has involved name a and that the name used in came timeline is b), but it's all clear now. Yes I know that reading fic when I actually know the canon or history or general outline would make life a lot easier, but less fun =P

I was almost afraid I was going to have to dislike Balthier there. But it's all good ^_^

Con prep is going quite well, I really want to abandon school work and play with my pannels and events and such so I have everything nice and planned for the chaos of this year. We recieved boxes from Viz, Funamination and Copic. Going through this stuff for auction is going to be a good time ^__^

(note to self: figure out auction outfit. It ought to involve the tux shirt ^_^)

6 days till Jess, 9 days till con!

edit: Happy Valentine's Day =P