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Winter has found us, oh woe
I appreciate the irony of my icon. Thermometer says -20 (about -28C); however, the Internet weather claims that it's -30 in town, so either it's warmer on our side of the hills, or the thermometer is reading high because it's next to the window. It's definitely cold, though -- bitter, hands-freezing-to-metal cold. Isn't Dec. 21 supposed to be the official "first day of winter"? Is it entirely fair that it's supposed to be -40 tonight when it isn't even officially winter yet?
Some recently read stories that I can't rec at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
stargategenrec because they're either not SGA, or not gen:
Next Year in Jerusalem - SPN, PG, gen
A short, really wonderfully written Bobby POV, overlapping with the events of the flashback in the SPN Christmas episode. It reminded me how much I love Bobby, and why.
12 Days of Christmas - SGA, PG-13, John/Rodney
Rec'd not so much for the Christmas-ness of it (which doesn't matter that much to me) but the hilarity of it. My sister and I used to joke about this exact problem with the "12 Days of Christmas" song when we were kids, and I loved this Atlantis twist on it. If you're not a slash reader, there's actually just a little bit of slash at the end; you might want to give it a try anyway.
Crap, my dish towel just fell in the bread dough! Ahem. Sorry. You can tell what I'm doing while I'm writing this. Continuing...
Male Enhancement - SGA, NC-17, John/Rodney
I'm actually very, very torn on this story. I'm torn because the first 3/4 or so is, hands down, one of the best AUs I've ever read in this fandom; I would seriously read this one as a novel. I was amazed at how deeply it drew in my emotions. And then there's something about the ending that I had so much trouble with that it affected my enjoyment of the rest of the story as well. I wish I could give this one a wholehearted rec, but I just can't -- however, it impressed me so deeply that I want to rec it anyway despite the problems I had at the end.
Because I know people are going to ask, here's the problem I had with it.
SPOILER SPACE
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I was gliding along on a lovely cloud of suspension-of-disbelief right up until the story was shoehorned into actual, canon continuity. That's when my disbelief unsuspended with a resounding crash, because I don't for a minute believe that canon!John or [other canon character that is a major spoiler] were robots up until a month or so before the Stargate program began. I can't make myself believe it, and this had a domino effect on most of the other things I'd been willing, up to that point, to believe about the story: that it could be a world exactly like our own, but with sentient robots that look and act exactly like people (which we now know is supposed to be happening in about 2002); that this is pre-Atlantis, Redemption-era Rodney (which I just didn't really get from him); that any of the characters knew each other that well prior to Atlantis ... no, it just didn't work for me, and where I'd greatly enjoyed the story as an AU taking place in some undefined AU-space that kinda has a Stargate program off-camera, I just don't buy it as "our" SGA except, by the way, John is a robot.
But I hate to sound like I'm ranting, because I really loved most of the story. I just wish I'd been able to love all of it.
.
.
Aha, I just figured out how the dish towel which was on top of the bowl of bread dough ended up in the bread dough. *glares at cat*
And a couple from my slightly older bookmarks, but I don't think I've ever rec'd them here:
Dysmas - Due South, gen
I don't usually read DS fic, but this was absolutely brilliant.
The Doctrines of Natural Law - Coldfire, gen (yes, gen!)
As book fandoms go, finding Coldfire fic isn't all that hard, but I didn't think there actually was any such thing as Coldfire gen. It might not stay gen if the author wrote the full version (as mentioned in the author's notes), but I was delighted to find this nonetheless.
Eight Crazy Pilots Serenity Didn't Keep - Firefly (crosses over with a bunch of fandoms), PG
A bunch of very entertaining what-ifs. Although one of them broke my heart ... again. Guess which one. *g*
Some recently read stories that I can't rec at
stargategenrec because they're either not SGA, or not gen:Next Year in Jerusalem - SPN, PG, gen
A short, really wonderfully written Bobby POV, overlapping with the events of the flashback in the SPN Christmas episode. It reminded me how much I love Bobby, and why.
12 Days of Christmas - SGA, PG-13, John/Rodney
Rec'd not so much for the Christmas-ness of it (which doesn't matter that much to me) but the hilarity of it. My sister and I used to joke about this exact problem with the "12 Days of Christmas" song when we were kids, and I loved this Atlantis twist on it. If you're not a slash reader, there's actually just a little bit of slash at the end; you might want to give it a try anyway.
Crap, my dish towel just fell in the bread dough! Ahem. Sorry. You can tell what I'm doing while I'm writing this. Continuing...
Male Enhancement - SGA, NC-17, John/Rodney
I'm actually very, very torn on this story. I'm torn because the first 3/4 or so is, hands down, one of the best AUs I've ever read in this fandom; I would seriously read this one as a novel. I was amazed at how deeply it drew in my emotions. And then there's something about the ending that I had so much trouble with that it affected my enjoyment of the rest of the story as well. I wish I could give this one a wholehearted rec, but I just can't -- however, it impressed me so deeply that I want to rec it anyway despite the problems I had at the end.
Because I know people are going to ask, here's the problem I had with it.
SPOILER SPACE
.
.
.
I was gliding along on a lovely cloud of suspension-of-disbelief right up until the story was shoehorned into actual, canon continuity. That's when my disbelief unsuspended with a resounding crash, because I don't for a minute believe that canon!John or [other canon character that is a major spoiler] were robots up until a month or so before the Stargate program began. I can't make myself believe it, and this had a domino effect on most of the other things I'd been willing, up to that point, to believe about the story: that it could be a world exactly like our own, but with sentient robots that look and act exactly like people (which we now know is supposed to be happening in about 2002); that this is pre-Atlantis, Redemption-era Rodney (which I just didn't really get from him); that any of the characters knew each other that well prior to Atlantis ... no, it just didn't work for me, and where I'd greatly enjoyed the story as an AU taking place in some undefined AU-space that kinda has a Stargate program off-camera, I just don't buy it as "our" SGA except, by the way, John is a robot.
But I hate to sound like I'm ranting, because I really loved most of the story. I just wish I'd been able to love all of it.
.
.
Aha, I just figured out how the dish towel which was on top of the bowl of bread dough ended up in the bread dough. *glares at cat*
And a couple from my slightly older bookmarks, but I don't think I've ever rec'd them here:
Dysmas - Due South, gen
I don't usually read DS fic, but this was absolutely brilliant.
The Doctrines of Natural Law - Coldfire, gen (yes, gen!)
As book fandoms go, finding Coldfire fic isn't all that hard, but I didn't think there actually was any such thing as Coldfire gen. It might not stay gen if the author wrote the full version (as mentioned in the author's notes), but I was delighted to find this nonetheless.
Eight Crazy Pilots Serenity Didn't Keep - Firefly (crosses over with a bunch of fandoms), PG
A bunch of very entertaining what-ifs. Although one of them broke my heart ... again. Guess which one. *g*