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pauraque_bkLinks o' the day:
-Monkey Shakespeare Simulator (courtesy of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
languagelog). I let it run until it had seventeen letters of Richard III, and then it started to freak me out and I had to stop.
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umbridged, for discussion of and fic about Dolores Umbridge. How did I miss this?
-minor_blue is starting up a movie discussion group over at _rosebud. I've always wanted a film "book club" setup like this, so hopefully it'll take off.
-Art: DUMBLEDORE (G) byalibi_factory. Just click, okay?
89. Love love love. I think we have similar writing toolboxes, as it were, you just use the tools better than I do. I was *stunned* when I found out you weren't a native speaker. I would never, ever have known.
Swallowed by the Sun (PG-13, gen, Scully-centric) byspican
It's hard to pick just one of Spica's stories; they're all so lovely. I singled this one out because the spare, gentle beauty of its prose can be appreciated even if your familiarity with X-Files canon is minimal. The images are absorbing, the way Spica shows us the natural world and the human moments that take place in it.
'The boat smells of sun-warmed wood and of tar and of their silver catch in a basket on the floorboards. They've caught rainbow trout that twisted flashing in the sun when pulled over the gunwale, cascading droplets like crystal quartz...'
If you have any interest in XF fic, do yourself a favor and read everything on her site. You won't be sorry.
It's also Miss Eighty-Nine's birthday today, and I hope she has a tremendously happy one. :)
48. We've met in person, and I remember it very fondly. I wish you lived closer to me. I really want you to be safe and happy in every possible way. You wrote a fic that is one of my top ten favorite stories ever, I think.
Thirteen Ways (R, Snape/Lupin) byeponis
What can I say about this story that I haven't already said in other venues, at other times? Perhaps just that I keep coming back to it, and that its harsh, dry beauty always reminds me of the best that fanfic has to offer.
'Snape's bones delineate his feet and toes, slender lines just covered by pale, waxy skin, lean and taut and suggestive. His ankles are thin and receding. Just as pale are his calves, thin as though stretched by some torturer's rack and specked with vividly black hair. Snape's knees disrupt the lines of his legs with dense, cobbled skin, toughened by hours of kneeling on flagstones, but the delicately sensitive underside of his knees is a secret for Lupin's hands alone. A hard valley between muscle and muscle climbs up the sides of his skinny thighs, narrow and articulate enough to guide a sliding finger.'
66. Yours is my favorite femslash ever. You are smashing. Your LJ layout hurts my eyes.
Post Bellum (NC-17, Ginny/Hermione) bylolaraincoat
I generally find femslash boring, but oh, this fic is far from. It's real and charmingly awkward, and Lola's writing flows like water.
Okay, I have to stop now, or I'm going to end up reccing something from every. single. person. on the list. Which, though it would be a worthy cause, would also be prohibitively time-consuming. But I think I hit most of them where I referred to a specific story, which was my original intent.
-Monkey Shakespeare Simulator (courtesy of
languagelog). I let it run until it had seventeen letters of Richard III, and then it started to freak me out and I had to stop.-
stiletto has started umbridged, for discussion of and fic about Dolores Umbridge. How did I miss this?-
minor_blue is starting up a movie discussion group over at _rosebud. I've always wanted a film "book club" setup like this, so hopefully it'll take off.-Art: DUMBLEDORE (G) by
alibi_factory. Just click, okay?89. Love love love. I think we have similar writing toolboxes, as it were, you just use the tools better than I do. I was *stunned* when I found out you weren't a native speaker. I would never, ever have known.
Swallowed by the Sun (PG-13, gen, Scully-centric) by
spicanIt's hard to pick just one of Spica's stories; they're all so lovely. I singled this one out because the spare, gentle beauty of its prose can be appreciated even if your familiarity with X-Files canon is minimal. The images are absorbing, the way Spica shows us the natural world and the human moments that take place in it.
'The boat smells of sun-warmed wood and of tar and of their silver catch in a basket on the floorboards. They've caught rainbow trout that twisted flashing in the sun when pulled over the gunwale, cascading droplets like crystal quartz...'
If you have any interest in XF fic, do yourself a favor and read everything on her site. You won't be sorry.
It's also Miss Eighty-Nine's birthday today, and I hope she has a tremendously happy one. :)
48. We've met in person, and I remember it very fondly. I wish you lived closer to me. I really want you to be safe and happy in every possible way. You wrote a fic that is one of my top ten favorite stories ever, I think.
Thirteen Ways (R, Snape/Lupin) by
eponisWhat can I say about this story that I haven't already said in other venues, at other times? Perhaps just that I keep coming back to it, and that its harsh, dry beauty always reminds me of the best that fanfic has to offer.
'Snape's bones delineate his feet and toes, slender lines just covered by pale, waxy skin, lean and taut and suggestive. His ankles are thin and receding. Just as pale are his calves, thin as though stretched by some torturer's rack and specked with vividly black hair. Snape's knees disrupt the lines of his legs with dense, cobbled skin, toughened by hours of kneeling on flagstones, but the delicately sensitive underside of his knees is a secret for Lupin's hands alone. A hard valley between muscle and muscle climbs up the sides of his skinny thighs, narrow and articulate enough to guide a sliding finger.'
66. Yours is my favorite femslash ever. You are smashing. Your LJ layout hurts my eyes.
Post Bellum (NC-17, Ginny/Hermione) by
lolaraincoatI generally find femslash boring, but oh, this fic is far from. It's real and charmingly awkward, and Lola's writing flows like water.
Okay, I have to stop now, or I'm going to end up reccing something from every. single. person. on the list. Which, though it would be a worthy cause, would also be prohibitively time-consuming. But I think I hit most of them where I referred to a specific story, which was my original intent.
