Two Harry Potter recs; a story and a vid.
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I was in the mood for Harry Potter tonight, partly because of seeing the new movie a few weeks ago and partly because I was just chatting about it with a couple of RL friends.

So I went browsing through crack_van, and found a story and a vid to enjoy.

The story is The Courtship of Benjamin Jink by [info - insanejournal.com] atdelphi, and it's Snape/Slughorn slash (seriously!), and the writing is just lovely.

Let me show you a little bit!

The story is set post-series, so don't click if you're still avoiding spoilers. )

Secondly, a vid: Beautiful Struggle by [info]nightchik. It's a gen vid, not a shippy one, and I'm not sure how to describe it because I totally don't have a language for talking about vids. I just liked it.

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By the way, I'm writing! I'm working on "That Good Night." It'll be a while still before I have anything ready to post, but I just wanted to let you know. It's not dead, it's just resting!

A squeal of glee, plus a fic rec (S/X this time!).
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Yesterday, I completed a fic! ::insert squeal of glee::

It's a standalone Spike/Xander story in which I play with the Groundhog Day trope (a thing I've wanted to do since practically forever). And man, would I like to post it right now! But ... I think I'm gonna wait. I'd really like to participate in Fall For S/X (as I have every year since my Writercon 2 roommates talked me into it, even if in the Autumn of the Newborn Baby I only managed a tiny 200 word-ish slice of life thing in place of an actual fic). And I suspect I'm not going to have a chance to complete anything else before December 21st, keeping in mind my general inability to keep a fic down to less than 10,000 words!

So hey you guys, does anybody know for sure if Fall for S/X is happening this year?

Okay, in other news, as soon as I finished writing my own Spike/Xander story, I went off and read somebody else's! So now I have a rec for you:

Xander Harris vs Destiny by [info]cordelianne, [info]reremouse, and [info]savoytruffle

Okay, not that there are probably many people on my flist who missed this when it first came out, but still! I just read it this morning, so I'm reccing it, darn it. It's a lighthearted, sexy road trip with a mystery built in. Or something like that, anyway! And it all makes sense in the end. (And oh man, now I understand the title!)

ETA: I have a Fall for S/X posting date—September 23rd. Woot!
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Babylon 5 fic rec
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Um hey, remember when I said that I'd be trying to keep up some kind of minimal level of fannish participation by posting little recs/reviews when I read stories? (That was two entries and two months ago, here.)

Turns out even that was more than I could manage so far, but I've finally got one!

Splinters of the Past by [info]cdybedahl
fandom: Babylon 5

This story takes place after the end of the series. Susan Ivanova is awesome in it, perfectly in character. Her relationship with Talia Winters was something that we didn't see enough of in the TV series, and it ended horribly abruptly—this story builds plausibly upon what we saw onscreen, and finally provides a kind of closure.

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Firefly fic rec
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I'm not writing much these days! (You'd noticed, right?)

So here's a plan I have for not being completely invisible in fandom—I'll make an effort to post a little rec whenever I read a good fic. Well, okay, whenever I read a good fic and then still have time and energy afterwards to write even a minimal post. Heh. Do not expect a sudden deluge of rec posts.

Today I read Air by [info]ana_grrl. (I got the link off Crack Van, which is pretty much cheating, recs-wise. You forgive me, right?) It's a Firefly story—a short, sweet Kaylee/Inara slash fic set a little while after the movie.

Gosh I love Kaylee. And this fic captures her voice really nicely.

By the way, if you're reading my posts on Livejournal or Insanejournal, you might notice that I'm redirecting comments to Dreamwidth! So, yeah, this is what I've decided to do for now:

1) Crosspost completely (ie: Dreamwidth, Livejournal, Insanejournal).

2) For meta and general musings, redirect comments to Dreamwidth.

(Why? Well, in the event that any conversations happen in comments, I'd like them to be all in one place. The place where I have lots of icons to use.)

3) For fic (when I eventually get some more written), leave comments open everywhere.

(Why? Because I want to make leaving feedback as easy as possible. I mean seriously, if I could go to your house and do the typing for you while you lounged on your sofa eating grapes, I would.)

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Fic rec: Angel's (Not So Much) Inner Monologue by girlpire
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Hey there, world! I'm still not posting very much. Sorry! I am writing, I am, (on rare occasions) and eventually I will post something, even!

I'm also not reading very much. But, happily, tonight I have insomnia! (No, really, there's a happy ending here!) So I came online, and saw [info]shapinglight's rec for Angel's (Not So Much) Inner Monologue by [info]girlpire. And truly, it made my night.

Warning: if you happen to be reading it in the middle of the night, and there happen to be sleeping entities in your immediate vicinity such as spouses, toddlers, and/or random house-guests, you may have to go to great lengths to stifle your delighted laughter.
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