Patron Saint of Falling Over Things

Using my DCU icon because there's two DCU crossovers in this post. Also because I like it.

2019-09-13T05:34:19Z

I've missed a bunch of reccing Thursdays, and the recs are building up. A couple of these came from musesfool's reccing comm, unfitforsociety which I'd also rec, because there's always great stuff there. (I heard you like recs, so I recced a recs comm in my recs post so you can get recs while you're getting recs...)

I started this post on SUNDAY, omg. And still totally missed reccing Thursday (on my end of the world, at least.)

Good Omens
A Nightingale Sang in Russell Square by melannen (Rated General, Rivers of London/Good Omens)
What happened at the end of the world, from Peter Grant and Thomas Nightingale's perspective. So many lovely canon details overlap in this, it's wonderful.

So You Need To Get Into A.Z. Fell & Co.; Now What? (A Guide For Unfortunate Bookworms) by arkhamcycle (Rated General, Aziraphale/Crowley)
An amazing collection of hints, tips and timetables to assist you in achieving your book purchases. Hilarious and adorable. I love all the little allusions to Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship in the background.

sign my name across your heart by sabinelagrande (Rated Explicit, Aziraphale/Crowley)
Crowley tries a few nicknames for his angel; it doesn't go well. Sweet and hot and beautifully written.

Are You There, God? It's Me, Crowley by marginalia (Rated Teen, Aziraphale/Crowley)
Five times Crowley prayed - lovely and gentle, and also there's a prize winning potato.

Leverage
Three Things Nate Made Parker Give Back When The Job Was Over (Because He's A Spoilsport) by penknife (Rated General, Leverage/MCU)
I think I like Parker's adventure with Stephen Strange best of all - she would get along very well with the cloak.

Five times the Leverage Crew was not in Gotham, no, really, they weren't, no by noelia_g (Unrated though I'd rate it General, Leverage/Nolan Batman movies)
Excellent flashbacks - I love that everyone except Nathan has a healthy fear of Gotham, and then Nathan has to go *poke* at it.

your body is a war zone but you are not a ruin by postcardmystery (Rated Explicit, Hardison/Parker/Eliot)
Eliot POV, hot and sweet and full of Eliot-style introspection.

I Lie, I Cheat, I Steal (and I Just Don't Get Any Respect) by fierclydreamed (Leverage/White Collar, Rated Teen, Gen)
Really good amalgam of the two show. The thing I like with crossovers of ensemble shows is finding out who has crossed paths with who, and this is one where there are several areas of overlap all handled in a clever and satisfying way.

Miscellaneous
I Can Go Twice As High by anonymous. (Rated G, Temeraire, f!Will Laurence.)
Lovely Temeraire art for rule63exchange. F!Will is so dapper in Regency menswear, I love it. Worth clicking through to the large size to see the beautiful detail in this drawing.

Anything Goes by anonymous (Rated Teen, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, m!Willie Scott/Indiana Jones)
Eeee, drag performer Willie is amazing, and this fic is glorious. Another one from rule63exchange

Bruise by misbegotten (Rated Mature, Craig!Bond Movies/DCU, James Bond/Bruce Wayne)
Short, punchy and super hot, and all in 100 words. It's exactly what a drabble is meant to be.

don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo by firstaudrina (Rated General, Stranger Things, Eleven/Max Mayfield)
Apart from having the perfect title, this is a sweet teenage penpal romance set after S3. (Which I haven't watched yet - I am just really enjoying the f/f shipping that is happening all over Tumblr. I'm sure the reality of canon will be much less satisfying.)

And that is me caught up on recs, yay! Now I can eat this mandarin, though it be full of pips.

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I'm meming! I'm meming!

2017-04-26T07:27:53Z

I'm still trying to catch up on posting fic to my Dreamwidth. As I go, I'm trying to post to a comm or two as well, because that's where DW falls down a bit, I think - there aren't as many active comms as there were on LJ. Some really, really active ones! But not as many.

Speaking of which, is there a place I could post my Black Tapes genfic? A general fandom genfic comm? I couldn't find a specific Black Tapes comm, but in searching, I did find that there's an option for DW to add that topic to your interests. (Which is awesome.) And then through that, I found addme_fandom, which is like addme, but fannish.

Meme with me? (as seen everywhere, probably because it's a good meme!)
Ask me:
1. the character I least understand
2. interactions I enjoyed the most
3. the character who scares me the most
4. the character who is mostly like me
5. hottest looks character
6. one thing I dislike about my fave character
7. one thing I like about my hated character
8. a quote or scene that haunts me
9. a character I wish died but didn’t
10. my ship that never sailed

Also, from yohijideranged, a music meme!

1. A song you like with a colour in the title.
I have three, because how do you choose these things?
( Under this cut: Birdy, Lorde, David Bowie )

Youtube, why do you do that massive gap thing with your embeds? Why?

( The rest of the topics )

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Chatty December: Hardison's Sucky Apocalypse

2013-12-10T10:40:28Z

Talk to us about how amazing it would be if Alec Hardison was stuck in Sleepy Hollow where he would join forces with Abbie as they had to save the world together (Requested by lyssie.)

It would be so amazing.

It would be so not amazing. Because even though there's Abbie (hot! smart! tough! It's like the universe knows Hardison has a type!) and a walking time capsule with this weird, honest humanity that makes you feel like your twenty-first century life is basically built of cynicism and synthetic food, there's also a dead guy living in the sewers who really wants to help but he's tied into this literal contract with the devil, and oh, yeah HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE. Hardison is guiltily relieved that the Horseman has a weird boner for Ichabod, because he knows that if the axemen cometh for Hardison, Hardison's gonna trip over his feet and wind up getting a little more off the top than he asked for. Ichabod seems to roll natural twenties every time he has to face the Horseman down, and Hardison doesn't know why, but he's not going to argue.

On the other hand, Hardison can see a place for him in this team. Jenny (is this the most awesome spook squad family ever, or what?) has got the historical stuff down - she's been all over the world tracking down myths and artifacts. Ichabod was there, way back when, so he's got first hand knowledge you can't find in library archives, even if some of the things he says about Jefferson and Paul Revere blow Hardison's mind. You get used to that, though. And then there's Abbie, with beautiful, clean, legal access to so many things, better than Hardison can fake. But Hardison? He's the one who can pull it all together - chemistry and history and logic and heart. It was all about pattern recognition. Honestly, he's kind of relieved that even in the realm of the supernatural, (The realm of the supernatural? Does he have the coolest job or what?) there are predictable models of behaviour. Demons want stuff, the way greedy humans want stuff. Just, bigger. And with more brimstone. (Speaking of which, how weird is it that sulfur looks like blood when it melts? Freakish.)

So, on the whole, fighting the undead is pretty damn awesome, when you have a team like this. Hardison could do worse than Sleepy Hollow, and maybe he'll be the difference between peace on Earth or a big sucky apocalypse.

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Science fiction, double feature

2010-07-22T11:55:18Z

The whole point of updating more regularly was supposed to be so that I didn't have to do these massive posts all the time.

*sighs and keeps trying*

Holiday was brief but fun. We saw a pair of brolgas in a paddock with cows. (A brolga is a kind of crane. The ones we saw looked like this.) They were almost as tall as the cows, but had very droll faces. I think they're less frightening than ibis. Ibis scare me - birds shouldn't have proboscises. And things with proboscises shouldn't swarm.

Catching up on TV before the next round of episodes comes along:

( Covert Affairs 1.01 )

( Leverage 3.06: The Studio Job )

( Rizzoli and Isles )

What else? *ponders*

Fringe 2.13 - spoiler-free thoughts.

I have refined my theory on the science of Fringe. In first season, I had to tell myself that it was set in a universe without gloves, where it was okay to touch the gooey, infectious stuff with your fingers, and spread it all over your lab. *shudders*

Today I realised that Fringe is actually asking us for the kind of suspension of disbelief that you see on the stage - a foil-covered crown is really gold and jewels, a row of spear-carriers is an army. I love the show dearly, and even more for its fifties-inspired cardboard and paint colour-coded science. "Ladies and gentlemen, if this swab turns purple, then the fly DNA has merged with the muskrat. Behold!"

Science. It works, bitches. Walter Bishop told me so.

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