For those of you who enjoy giving recs, or maybe just like taking polls: phaballa on lj is running a poll on The Best Fic Ever. You can only give one title, and it can be in any fandom (she'd also appreciate an explanation of why you picked that particular story). She's looking for "...the best piece of fanfiction you have ever read. This is not necessarily your FAVORITE, although I suppose it could be. I want you to consider: which fanfic was so well-done that you were just stunned by its brilliance? Which one made you feel something deeper than the usual? Which one made you think or question your assumptions? Which one made you forget you were reading fanfic at all?" Currently it's a blind poll (I think that's the expression -- anyway, we can't see the responses right now) but she's going to post a list of all the stories nominated (but I don't think she's going to list who nominated what story).

Well, that was fun.

I ended up listing Kodiakke Max's In the Company of Ghosts. Because Farscape needs some love, and it really is an astonishingly brilliant story.

Even the idea of trying to choose makes me twitchy.

Normally requests like that would make me twitchy about choosing but one story came immediately to mind, so I went and listed it. It's not one I casually rec ever but it's That Story.

It's not one I casually rec ever but it's That Story.

I wonder if it's the story I'm thinking of.

Adena 1950.

oooh, Erika. Someday I really need to read that.

I nominated Yahtzee's "Goodnight Moon." There are quite a few stories I'd pick over it as my favorites, but I've never run across anything better written.

3 day-old coffee: I don't know if anyone besides me is still eager for good SGA fic, but I recently read "Sheppard's Law" by Cesperanza and was bowled over by it: [link]

It's tragic, Consuela, and novel-length, but it really made me see fanfic in a new way. I've always been sad that I've not been able to give the author props for it. (Older archive, before my time)