Second, the idea of dubbing anything "best story ever" sort of disturbs me

Sounds like somebody watches too much VH-1, to me. Also, way to play fast and loose with language, people! Language is kind of important to written stories, so, that's generally to be taken as a bad thing! Ironic, even! Eventually, you are going to run out of superlatives, and won't you feel like the shmuck then!!

(Umm, hi. I referred to it as the best SGA story ever, in full awareness that it's an overtly over-the-top gushing "you must go read this now" kind of insta-rec statement. And don't feel remotely like a shmuck, for just the above reason.)

I wasn't talking about you, fwiw. Your saying that didn't register with me, so I think it must have been clear that you meant it as a rec, and not an absolute barometer of quality.

Maybe I should just go read Punk's new story.

Thanks. I feel kinda stupidly lame and all-about-me now

Ooh, new Punk story!

I feel totally lame too, so we're a matched set. *g*

I only mentioned it to underline the fact that I genuinely liked the story, and that this response may have shown a lack of literary discrimination on my part, but it definitely wasn't tinged by fangirling.

I think I know how you feel. I don't like every story that really popular fic authors write, and I get defensive when people assume that I'm -- er, to put it bluntly -- sort of brainlessly following the crowd.

As Dana said, Cesca is a force of nature and I imagine that not everyone finds her as entertaining as I do.

As noted above, Sweet Charity is live. Bid on a hapless writer or artist or vidder or knitter and make them follow your orders!

I'm up there, but what's pretty exciting, I think, is the number of good vidders who can be had for a relative steal, considering the prices that get paid in the Vividcon auction.

I think that for me, the best story in SGA fandom is a tie between Martha Wilson's Retrograde series, which is awesome plotty crossover comfort-fic, and M.'s Your Cowboy Days are Over, which is critical thinky post-colonial deconstruction of the Atlantis mission. With porn.

As long as we're plugging Sweet Charity, note that yours truly has knitting -of-your-choice up, and I note a number of other Buffista names I recognize are also offering fic and whatnot.

Is it too late to sign up to contribute? As in, to offer to write something?