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.)

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*.

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.

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.

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.)

I mean, okay, everyone knows I'm reading it.

I was going to say...

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!

My method of going through the archive was to open the list of stories by fandom and bookmark all the stories in fandoms I am familiar enough with to 'get.' I'm now going through randomly fandom by fandom.

So far, my favorite is this one from "The Departed." Fabulous Dignam voice and hot and twisted as hell.

Also, both Twin Peaks stories in the archive were written for me, which tickles me for some reason. Both are excellent, but this Maddy-centric one is breathtaking.

I'm seconding amych's rec for this Bull Durham story: [link]

It's my favorite so far I think.

Calvin and Hobbes rec [link]

damn allergies

eta: On the off chance that you are on this thread, JZ, DO NOT READ THIS.

Seriously.

eta again: This made people cry. Reader Beware!