X Never Marks the Spot

Yuletide is posted! I lucked out with two fics, both wonderful fun friendshipping - for Sapphire & Steel there's Quiet and Peace (an Epilogue in Dialogue), a lovely post-series tale - Steel being a comfort for Sapphire in his own special Steel way, and bonus Silver FTW! And then for Red Dwarf there's Upgrade, which is perfect, with dialogue and plot that had me literally LOLing, and then it winds up sweet in just the terribly wrong Dwarfish way of being sweet.

Holidays with the family have been nice, and now that I have given my gifts I will have to post them (have gotten into amigurumi - I've known how to crochet for years, but it never quite occurred to me to make cute stuffed toys before...)

And Sherlock Holmes was exactly what I wanted it to be, e.g. awesome and fun and funny and slashy as hell (or unbelievably old-school smarmalicious! pick your poison!) and I hope it inspires a legion of ficcers, because I've secretly been into Holmes/&Watson for years and it would be great to have company. Also, sekrit message to Ritchie, Downey, Law et al: with the sequel? Please to be including Reichenbach Falls! <3

We have thoroughly succeeded in bringing utopiantrunks over to the MUNCLE dark side - Illya is far too blond and tiny for her to resist. She responded by writing her own fabulous tag to "The Gurnius Affair" - and unlike certain slash fans, she can actually write the NC-17, and write it well. Hot stuff, and awesome character insight, what more do you want?

I keep forgetting to say it - big huge thanks to whoever nominated my fics for the Stargate Fan Awards! Very cool.

Last Thursday's Supernatural (4x18) entertained us as much as it entertained everyone else - as naye relates here, with five fangirls in the room it was quite the deafening experience. We kept having to pause and rewind to catch lines missed due to the squealing. Ah, I am gonna miss our fangirl gatherings so much...

The author reveals for sga_santa have been posted - go, read, enjoy! There's tons of great stories there, I'm still working through them. I definitely recommend "my" story, Mended by sheafrotherdon, featuring sleep-deprivation and lovely Rodney-comfort. Yays!

While I'm at it:
aesc's Faith Healing is a cool AU with Ancient tech and the Trust and Rodney & John coming together.
argosy's Five Stories Jeannie Miller Tells is angst-with-a-happy-ending.
leupagus's Happy Tails To You is the kind of really silly crack SGA fandom excels at (it particularly got to me because it was posted only two hours after gnine and I happened to be musing about what John & Rodney would do with prehensile tails...)
And lillyjk's My Other Car's a Puddlescooter has a puddlescooter, which has to be one of the cutest names for a vehicle.

And there's my own fic:

SGA: Out in the Open {~22,000 words}
PG-13, McShep + Team gen, set after 5x14: "The Prodigal"
It's Situation Normal for the team when they're caught in an avalanche, but digging themselves out uncovers more than they counted on.

While this is technically a John/Rodney fic, it's really much more of a team action story with a sprinkle of McShep for flavoring. It was meant to be more McShep-focused, but then, there's plenty of McShep out there, and not nearly as much Teyla kicking ass and taking names. So, here's Teyla! And Ronon, too, dealing with their idiot teammates as best they can. ...Oh, yeah, and it starts with an avalanche on a snowy mountainside. Because, y'know, I'm contractually obligated to write one such story in every fandom I'm in (or more like when I flail for ideas, that's always one of the first to pop up...)

As all of SGA ficdom is probably aware by now, Big Bang 2008 has officially gone live.

Being on vacation, I haven't had the chance to read any of the stories yet, but if you're looking for a fantastic read I can guarantee "A Clear and Different Light" by friendshipper and naye. I was privileged to beta this one and am almost as eager to share it around as they are. It's high/urban fantasy Atlantis, The One Where John's ears are pointy for a reason, and Rodney is a long-haired golden-skinned tattooed swimmer who talks to whales, and Teyla's a Patryn, and Ronon's got wings. Yes, wings. Also the Wraith are truly genuinely freakishly scary as the Wraith of the show only wish they could be. It's Team with a touch of McShep for flavor (mmm) and worth every minute.

Firstly, gnine has finally produced another vid! SGA (big surprise there), McShep (we are, indeed, the worst gen fen ever), awesome timing as always, and so flippin' cute that you want to pinch its cheeks:

All for You (Sister Hazel)
(Clips all the way through the most recent episodes, and she does great stuff with the 4th season footage especially.)

Secondly, naye is writing again, finally! And writing h/c! For me! Because I was sick, and she rocks like that. So, super-adorable team-fic here:

In Good Hands

gnine just posted her second fanvid, and I hereby command all Clexers on the flist to go watch it, and leave her gushing comments, so she is inspired to do more vids! Specifically, so she is inspired to do more vids for me, as I lack the time and talent to do them myself, and am eager to exploit encourage her mad skillz.

Clex vid: Dela

I also tell you to go watch it because it is the cutest vid ever, no really. I wanted happy!Clex and this delivers in spades. It's to Johnny Clegg's "Dela,"* which is one of the happiest love songs I know, and if you can watch this and not be convinced that Lex is totally completely head-over-heels...well, watch it again! (er...I may be biased. A little teeny bit.) The best part is she managed to find quite a bit of 5th and 6th season footage fitting the theme (even if some of it is edited in wildly out-of-context ways. Most especially the bit from "Promise" near the end.)

(Okay, and I have to admit, I feel very much like the godmother of this vid, considering how much time I spent downloading codecs for her when only my laptop was getting the wireless, and looking up tutorials on how to use After Effects or trying to figure out why Premiere stopped working (the gods of slash did not want this vid made) but it was totally worth the travails.)

* I am something of a Johnny Clegg fan now (mostly thanks to naye's great taste in music) but my first exposure to "Dela" was in the live-action George of the Jungle, which I confess to having liked more than anyone ought to. (Okay I actually own it on DVD. Brendan Fraser in a loincloth! Come on!) This lead to the passing thought of "Clark of the Jungle" and Lex, of course, as the billionaire heiress swept off his feet by the jungle lord, and Oliver Queen as the repulsive fiance Lyle, and would that make Jonathan or Jor-El the Ape Named Ape? and...I stopped there. Consider yourselves lucky.