Scratching Post

Have been writing a lot of hurt/comfort, serious, no-seriously-do-you-not-like-the-characters-or-do-you-just-like-to-see-them-suffer fic lately.

Does anyone have any cute/fluffy but still in character recs of the Clint- or Natasha-prominent type? Friends/teammates/more all accepted?

These are my recs so far. I'll try to remember to update as I read more.

First and foremost is, of course, the awesome Alphas fic written for me. :)

( Alphas )

Then I started on other fandoms I like.

( Old Kingdom - Garth Nix )

( Being Human - North American Version )

( Arthurian Mythology )

( Boondock Saints )

( Iron Man - Movie Version )

( seaQuest DSV )

( Thor and The Avengers )

( The Witch of Blackbird Pond )

Already edited a few times, and there may be more. :)

Okay, so that sounds weird, but sherlockbbc just posted an awesome list of things to look out for when posting both to your own site and to communities. It's lovely, really, and I highly recommend giving it a quick read through.

Link is here.

Just wonderfully done and not demeaning or anything, which these types of posts can so easily can become. Seriously, it could be titled "How to (Help) Avoid Ending Up on fanficrants."

So wolfie74 and I finally watched the recorded episode of Rizzoli and Isles from Monday night. It’s a new TV series based off of a series of novels. This definitely goes into the recommended category. *g*

Rizzoli is a homicide detective with an overbearing mother, a protective-yet-hero-worshipping brother, and a cell phone programmed to different tunes to represent each person in her life.

Isles is the medical examiner/coroner who believes you should look good while doing everything and wears designer clothing to a crime scene. And to clean. And to sleep in. She’s also insanely smart. Her ringtone is the Funeral Dirge.

Rizzoli is the butch to Isles' femme and, though they both flirt with the same guy, there’s plenty of subtext to go around. wolfie74 likened it to the Xena days of old with Xena and Gab’s relationship. She feels that, by today’s standards, it would be the female equivalent of a bromance, or something she would like to call a “bramance”.

Anyway, it’s on TNT at like 11 pm on Mondays, and then re-aired 1001 times as per usual TNT policy. I think I might just like it better than In Plain Sight, though not sure if it’s Leverage or Merlin levels yet. *g* Check it out.

Oh, XKCD, never change. Hee!

I finally got a chance to sit down and read the story gifted to me from sga_santa tonight.

Bound to Heart, Bound to Home is an AU fic that sets the team in the time of the expansion to the prairies in the 1800's. There is drama and danger and a bit of angst and a whole lot of team. It is mostly team-y friendship, but could also be seen as leading to near OT4-ness as well. Be warned though, it is about 25,000 words and you will likely settle in for the long haul and read it to the end. :)

Now, an admission:
I've been feeling very separated from the SGA fandom as of late. Merlin fandom has been my pretty shiny to obsess over and swim in the seas of fic being created for it. A lot of SGA fic lately has seemed far too similar with the same aspects being brought up again and again and again. Kind of like there's a set of plot points and people pick and choose from them to make their stories and never really venture out to see if there's anything else they could add to it. While the stories may be good, it's like they aren't as good as they could be.

I don't mean to knock anyone with this as I noticed it in my own fic as well, which is why it was put on the back burner while I played with my new toys. Maybe it was the lack of new canon to play with, or maybe people just need a break for a while, I'm honestly not sure.

This story actually broke away from a lot of that. It's an AU, but it's still the team and still very much recognizable as the universe we're used to, only it's being looked at in a new way that made it all sorts of interesting to see. I would love if there were more fics like this, where they took the chance and tried something new even knowing there may not be the set audience of X number of people to respond or reply to it because the newness makes it interesting and oh so very worth it for the readers.

I honestly don't know if I will ever get back into SGA the way I was, but just reading something so well written in a fandom I at least once loved does make me want to try again. At the very least, it makes me want to take a look at what's on those back burners and think about what I could make of them again.

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PS: If anyone has recs of truly excellent SGA stories out there that do break the molds, I would love to hear them.

Have to post this because it is just too awesome. Found out about this via a friend from college who is one of the stars of the video. Too fricken awesome. Seriously, watch this.

Link to video

or

( Video Embedded Under the Cut )

Link to the second version of the video here

Before anyone takes offense, listen to the beautiful satire. Also, know said friend is incredibly out and gay.

Archaeology.org linked to an article on The 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies. They really don't like Mel Gibson...

Highly amusing.

cliche_bingo is up and running.

Come on, you know you want to... *g*

So I kinda sorta want to see the new Trek movie, especially now that I know a bit more about it. I grew up with Star Trek and have managed to watch at least a smattering of all of them (very small smattering in the case of "Enterprise") over the years.

Which leads me to this. Television Without Pity compares and contrasts New Trek versus Old Trek. At least a handful deserve a possible spit-take warning, so be warned and all that. Seriously amusing.