That really is Gemma. She got her dead to rights.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Beverly - Dec 26, 2008 4:52:14 pm PST #5558 of 10436
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
amych - Dec 26, 2008 5:07:03 pm PST #5559 of 10436
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
More Yuletide recs:
WALL-E: [link]
Bull Durham: [link]
Futurama: [link]
The IT Crowd: [link]
Black Books: [link]
Laga - Dec 26, 2008 7:12:43 pm PST #5560 of 10436
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
That Bull Durham one is outstanding.
P.M. Marc - Dec 26, 2008 7:37:35 pm PST #5561 of 10436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It may be just my literal years of seeking it out speaking, but that IT Crowd one has, since I first read it, rocketed to the top of my all-time Yuletide chart.
I need to organize my recs. I set up the iPhone with a bookmark to the random 2008 story link, and have been mailing myself the to-rec links all day.
Also, my written story has exceeded my expectations (OMGWTFHOWMANYCOMMENTS?) and I've determined that, again, I managed to lose at least two conjunctions and possibly a preposition when I was rewriting a section at the last second. Oops?
(I did actually finish in time for a Real Actual Beta, but none of the usual suspects were around, and I didn't want to ping a Hippo in IRC. So, umm, I used my good buddy F7.)
amych - Dec 26, 2008 7:43:36 pm PST #5562 of 10436
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I set up the iPhone with a bookmark to the random 2008 story link, and have been mailing myself the to-rec links all day.
Ha! I'm more or less a slug this holiday, so I hit random, hit random, hit random, look at what looks promising, hit something godawful halfway through the tab, decide it's a keeper, open a new tab and hit random... Stephen keeps asking me how many tabs I have *now*.
P.M. Marc - Dec 26, 2008 7:46:20 pm PST #5563 of 10436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I have... a lot of tabs open now. I may also have Random set up as a button on my toolbar at home. I've done a couple del.icio.us recs, but not as many yet as last year.
amych - Dec 26, 2008 7:50:04 pm PST #5564 of 10436
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I've completely failed the fandom del.icio.us train -- I can't live a day without del.icio.us, but I use it constantly for work, and I'm too scattered to keep multiple accounts on anything; and so since I don't ever use it for my own bookmarks, I always kind of forget to look there for recs. Le sigh.
P.M. Marc - Dec 26, 2008 8:22:49 pm PST #5565 of 10436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I only use it for fandom. But I also have a faves account. For, umm. Stuff I don't want EVERYONE to know I'm reading. *cough*
(Which is to say, appallingly bad, chock full o' UK or Australianisms, OOC, heternormative Dark Angel crap. I mean, okay, everyone knows I'm reading it. I just... don't want to tell people WHICH specific stories I am madly in love with for their strange window into an entirely foreign mindset.)
(Really, this is healthier than that period of time where I would go to WalMarts in the middle of the night in search of America.)
amych - Dec 26, 2008 8:25:50 pm PST #5566 of 10436
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I mean, okay, everyone knows I'm reading it.
I was going to say...
Lee - Dec 26, 2008 8:34:50 pm PST #5567 of 10436
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I can't use the random link, because I'm afraid a FNL story will come up, and I've only seen one ep of this season yet.
I made it up to the Animaniacs going A to Z and up to SCC going Z to A though!