Day 17: Line in the Sand

Saving Sheppard by ldyanne 1/5
10,200 words. Rodney was eight the first time he met Death.
( Way too much woobie!Rodney for me. )

Day 18: Down to Earth

Like Gravity (It Doesn't Matter if You Believe in It) by pogrebin 4/5 Recommended
5000 words. What's left after the war is over; a series of snapshots in a life.
( Feels very real. )

Grounded by kassrachel 2/5
6500 words. "Good news," John said, apparently ignoring his question. "Atlantis is returning to Pegasus!"
( Enjoyable. )

Oh right, I was posting these... XD

Day 9: Call of the Wild

Storm Front by lavvyan 3/5
3400 words. "What, so I'm going to end up a vegetable in some hospital bed while my mind goes frolicking among the waves, is that it?"
( Interesting, but I felt like it was retreading the same ground as canon. )

Romance Not Included by danceswithgary 2/5
19,800 words. There's one important thing to remember about islands; the only way to guarantee you'll find what you're looking for is to bring it with you.
( Fairly cute, but had some icky misogyny and pacing problems. )

Day 10: Point of No Return

Shine Like the Sun by busaikko 4/5 Recommended
7200 words. Detective John Sheppard knew Ava Dixon was trouble as soon as she walked into his office looking for her brother.
( Awesome AU. )

Those Three Words by argosy 3/5
5700 words. John has something he wants to say, but it won't be easy.
( Cute, though not really my thing. )

Day 5: Dead Letter

The Color of His Heartbeat by sonadorita 2/5
6300 words. After a tragic explosion, Rodney is caught between believing in alien tales and doubting his own sanity.
( Okay story, clunky prose. )

Day 6: Around the Clock

The Ethical Life by sabinelagrande 4/5 Recommended
5900 words. Rodney's system is already perfect, but it could be better.
( Really cute WWII AU. )

Pulled Out from Inside by altyronsmaker 1/5
15,400 words. While exploring an uninhabited planet for future recreational use, John's team gets kidnapped, and he must fight his way to the outpost beyond the Ancient City to take back the team that was stolen.
( Really contrived and pointless. )

Day 3: A House Divided

War Games by kisahawklin 2/5
2000 words. Sheppard needed Rodney for his plan to work. Convincing Rodney was the hardest part of the plan.
( I didn't really get the point. )

A Heart Needs a Home by shrift 2/5
5500 words. Sometimes when a door closes, a closet opens.
( Feels like I've read it a million times. )

Day 4: Skin and Bone

The Ones You Leave Behind by taste_is_sweet 5/5 Recommended
30,000 words. "I love you," Rodney said. "You can't die anymore."
( Daaaaaaaamn. It's like a super creepy giant robo anime. )

That Will Break You by mz_bstone 2/5
8500 words. Life can break your bones. It can also stitch you back together.
( Interesting idea, but really needed to be fleshed out. )

Well, I still haven't finished reading everything for Match, but I figured now that the names have been revealed, I can start posting the reviews for what I have read.

Day 1: Top of the World

Atmosphere by indy_go 2/5
2900 words. Nowhere else to go but up.
( Cute enough if you like fluff, but even then it's pretty bland. )

Day 2: Tilting at Windmills

Where the Brave Dare Not Go by telesilla 4/5 Recommended
18,000 words. John Sheppard has had over twenty years to come to grips with the fact that every four or five weeks, he turns into a mountain lion. Like most Were, he accepts that that's just the way it is, and so he's not particularly interested when he learns that researchers at the local university are trying to to develop drugs that will help Were control their cycles. Then he meets Dr. Rodney McKay, a brilliant but irascible biochemist with reasons of his own for spearheading the university's Were research and John suddenly finds himself struggling with more than just his attraction to McKay.
( I really enjoyed this, despite not being a fan of the werewolf genre. )

The Ingenious Dr. Rodney McKay of Atlantis by propinquitine 2/5
10,600 words. Who would have thought that defeating the Wraith was the least of Rodney's worries?
( Fairly well-written old-school-feeling slash. )

Temporary Vanity by sugargroupie 3/5
200 words. Teyla is not impressed with Earth's hair-straightening techniques.
( Cute, though I wish it had gone into a little more detail. )

Paraphiliac by sabinetzin 3/5
800 words. There are a lot of things that John wishes he could unlearn.
( Didn't quite live up to its promise. )

Strangers to Each Other by telesilla 3/5
900 words. As always, John is a man with a plan.
( Awkward sex. My favorite! )

John, When He's Gone by busaikko 5/5 Recommended
2200 words. He figures John won't know what his virginity would go for on eBay, so he names a price that makes John look at the door, and at the PlayStation, and at the bed.
( Creepy and disturbing and oh so awesome. )

What do you know, I've collected up enough random fandom stories for a review post.

The 40 mg Job by norah 3/5
Leverage. 3800 words. Parker takes the Second Act Rehabilitation Center therapist's advice seriously.
( Cute. )

Not Proper (Chinese Boxes Remix) by penknife 3/5
Peter Pan. 1800 words. In which Mr. Darling goes to Neverland looking for something he's lost.
( Good story and works well as a remix. )

Getting On and Getting Off: Or How Touya Akira Got His Groove Back by beleidigung 2/5
Hikaru no Go. 6100 words. Hikaru and Akira may be older, but neither is much wiser.
( Cute if you like this sort of story, I guess. )

Strictly Method by thingswithwings 5/5 Recommended
Sherlock Holmes. 8600 words. "When I agreed to share lodgings with you, I didn't realise that I would be sharing with twenty-odd others as well," I said. "Perhaps you should be paying additional rent."
( This is now my canon. )

So uh, apparently last year I never read any more remixes than the one that was written for me? D: Or at least not in HP, because this review has been sitting on my hard drive for over a year as I waited and waited to get back to reading remixes and never did. *sigh* But I did read a remix this year! And the fic it was based on. And had one other HP review sitting around. And four reviews makes a post! So.

The Quintessential Team Q (Antiphonal Intermezzo Remix) by melayneseahawk 5/5 Recommended
1500 words. Eric is fourteen when the first issue of Team Q comes out.
( AWESOME! )

The Universe is a Procession, With Measured and Beautiful Motion (Remix) by magnetic_pole 3/5
3500 words. Remus runs into Severus at a party. Things have changed since they saw each other last.
( After reading this and thinking it over for quite some time, I'm still unsure what I think about it. )

Points Where All Shadows Meet by osmalic 3/5
1800 words. At this point (and that point), Severus Snape thinks he can leave it all behind.
( Well-written, but the focus wasn't on what I was interested in. )

Cast a Long Shadow (We All Meet in the End) by edenfalling 5/5 Recommended
8500 words. Lily left empty places behind her.
( Excellent Petunia fic. )

Hmm, I'm tired of long fics. Time to take a break from Big Bang and read some Remix maybe.

I've Seen the Future, Brother (It Is Murder) by kroki_refur 4/5 Recommended
37,500 words. It’s May second, and tomorrow is the first day of the end of the world, but Dean doesn’t know that.
( Awesome. )

And God, I Know I'm One by newredshoes 1/5
20,000 words. So Sam is willing to let his younger brother find their missing dad all by himself, but when his fiancee Jessica disappears, he'll drop his position at a D.C. law firm and hit the road to hunt again? Fine. Whatever. Dean can deal with that, just like he can deal with the strange dreams and crippling headaches. The demons, though? That part he doesn't want to do alone.
( Nothing more than a 20,000 word partial summary of a promising AU. Why is there not a warning for THIS? )

One Big Bang and a couple others. All recs! Amazing.

As I Descend the Stair by busaikko 4/5 Recommended
5900 words. Life, as it flashes before the eyes: "I don't know how to be what anybody expects --" and Sam's hand draws a sharp head-to-toe line -- "but I was halfway to figuring out how to be me."
( Finally an SPN transfic that's not about Dean! )

Dead Soldiers: An Oral History of the End Times by fryadvocate 5/5 Recommended
43,400 words. Although much has been written about the sociological and theological importance of the "End Times War", there has been much less written about the individuals directly involved. Using interviews with primary sources, this paper seeks to examine how Dean and Sam Winchester, two criminals with a history of violence and petty theft, became commonly known as a prophet of the Lord and the Anti-Christ.
( How could you not want to read it with that summary? In a word: awesome. )

Accidents Will Happen by holli 4/5 Recommended
6400 words. Some Goth teenagers accidentally resurrect John Winchester. No, seriously.
( Hilarious. )

She Only Reveals What She Wants You to See by amadi 3/5
The West Wing. 1900 words. They've been together for two years. Now Donna's dropped a bombshell on Josh. What's next?
( Enjoyable, even not knowing the fandom. )

The Pattern of All the Process by raedbard 4/5 Recommended
The West Wing. 19,000 words. At the Emergency Room the doctor calls Huck your brother. Molly doesn't bother to correct him, neither does dad, not at first anyway, though she does wonder -- not for the first time -- why, with her short hair and dungarees, she never gets mistaken for a boy anymore.
( I liked the story, but not the writing style. )

Making Your Bed in the Prison of Your Mind by merle_p 3/5
Leverage. 3000 words. There are a lot of reasons why coming out is a bad idea.
( Interesting, but I couldn't really get into it. )

The Epiphany Job by shrift 5/5 Recommended
Leverage. 3600 words. When he rolled out of bed that afternoon, heated up some Philly Steak & Cheese Hot Pockets for breakfast, and then went to the office, Alec Hardison was not expecting to experience a paradigm shift.
( Oh man, this is so awesome. )

Bright as the Rain in the Palm of Your Hand by inlovewithnight 5/5 Recommended
8800 words. It's a package deal.
( Fics this long usually take me several days to read as I tend to wander away and do other stuff, but I read this all in one sitting. )

Not Paige, Please by amadi 5/5 Recommended
2500 words. It's hard enough being a part of the Walker family as it is. Much worse when you don't have an expected ally.
( Really feels like it could be an episode. )

Growing Up Paige by amadi 3/5
2500 words. Scenes from the life of a Walker family grandchild.
( Nice collection of vignettes in the same universe as the fic above. )

Between Two Rooms by romanticalgirl 4/5 Recommended
1300 words. When Kevin is outed, he goes to Saul, but doesn't find the support he'd hoped for.
( Feels like it could be canon. )

And Time Yet for a Hundred Indecisions by cinaed 2/5
1200 words. Saul was nineteen the first time he kissed another man. It felt as though the world was ending. Now, half a century later, Henry kisses him, and it feels less like disaster and more like rebirth.
( A little too tell-y for me. )

Bring Him Home by marea67 1/5
1900 words. What if your mother has a different opinion of what "home" is?
( Needs editing badly. )

I Beg Your Pardon, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by merle_p 4/5 Recommended
3300 words. Two mothers, two sons.
( Similar theme to the one above, but so much better. )

Black Soul Choir by busaikko 5/5 Recommended
Supernatural. 25,400 words. The Winchesters' dying thoughts on shaping your own destiny and making deals; in which Mary is a hunter, John is a father, Dean is a transsexual man, and Sam is pretty happy being Dean's B-side. Featuring 4 hunters, 3 deals with the devil, 2 brothers, 1 blessing, and 1 curse.
( This is just amazing. )

The Violet Hour by zooey_glass04 3/5
5500 words. In the bright glare of the overhead light it's impossible to ignore what he's been seeing all along: the broad, masculine shape of his sister's shoulders underneath the jacket.
( Better than the other one that used this prompt, but my like never quite became love. )

Three Shots Fired by jargonelle 2/5
3000 words. Jo tries to find her place in the hunting community.
( I wanted to like this more, because Jo! But alas. )

Bloody Knuckles by chasingtides 2/5
3800 words. Sam never figured a bar fight in Nowheresville, Tennessee would lead to learning so much about his brother - or the hunting community.
( Exactly the sort of thing I dread from this fest: the exposition-heavy coming-out story. )

Caught My Heart in the Middle of a Feeling by beckaandzac 4/5 Recommended
5900 words. Sam goes looking for new friends and finds something he never would have expected.
( Cute. )

First batch of lgbtfest fics for this year! So far only one that I really, really loved, but I (obviously) haven't read much yet, either.

What a Man's Gotta Do by sto_helit_lace 2/5
Dr. Horrible. 4600 words. Everyone's got villains they must face. Captain Hammer has never thought this particular villain was very cool at all.
( I don't know who this person is, but it's not Captain Hammer. )

Modern Love by penknife 5/5 Recommended
Discworld. 2900 words. It's amazing how the world rarely gets less complicated.
( Totally my personal canon now. )

Sacrifices by elementalv 3/5
Stargate: Atlantis. 2600 words. John has always been willing to pay the price for his career and to keep his people safe, but he's just found the one price he's not sure he can afford.
( Surprisingly good considering how clueless the prompt was. )

Turn the Page by messageredacted 3/5
Supernatural. 9000 words. Sam hasn't seen his sister in four years. A lot more has changed than he ever imagined.
( I would have liked this a lot more if it hadn't been wincest. )

Now You're a Man by cho_malfoy 3/5
Supernatural. 5300 words. Dean completed a journey in the body he was born with, but just because he's started a new journey doesn't mean he's likely to forget the last one.
( Enjoyable, but I wasn't really loving it. )

Hrr, so. I had this last batch of lgbtfest fics from last year that I never read. XD And now the fest is running again, so I figured I'd better get these out of the way first before I start on the new ones. ^_^;;

Four Years Later by ria_oaks 2/5
Supernatural. 4800 words. Retelling of the pilot, but the reason Sam left home was because he's gay.
( Needs editing. )

The Braid by pandore27 2/5
Star Wars. 5400 words. Dormé loves Amidala. Amidala loves politics. That's the problem.
( Not really my style, but not horrible. )

Fantastica by pandore27 2/5
Star Wars. 2200 words. Everything feels the same, and yet everything's changed.
( I'm not sure why this is even labelled fanfic... )

A Remote Aspect by lilfluffykitten 2/5
Dracula. 1600 words. Jonathan finds his enforced loneliness leads him to some uncomfortable realisations.
( Fits the tone of the novel well, but I just wasn't feeling it. )

Marching Orders by bwinter 3/5
Discworld. 2900 words. Polly's next war, and Maladicta.
( Cute, though I think I would probably have enjoyed it more if I could actually remember much from Monstrous Regiment... )

How Stephen Colbert Proved Jon Stewart Is a Lady by sarken 4/5 Recommended
Colbert Report. 4900 words. Stephen is a straight man. Stephen is attracted to Jon. Therefore, it logically follows that Jon must be a woman.
( Hilarious. )

What's this, I actually have some reviews? I've been trying to read some fic every day, but one of them (which was SGA, so it's actually in another batch) was super long and ended up taking me weeks to read, so I still feel like I haven't read much fic. :p

Three Women Who Never Brushed Hermione's Hair by wisdomeagle 4/5 Recommended
300 words. Habits learned in youth can't be untangled.
( I can totally see this being canon. )

Platform Nine and Five-Sixteenths by mtfierce 3/5
1800 words. Luna always considered the lack of imagination in the wizarding world to be one of many reasons Thomas Riddle was able to do all he had done. (She hated the so-smug anagram he made. Not that anagrams weren't neat, just that self-proclaimed honors were, well, premature at best, and if he really wanted to get rid of his muggle name, wouldn't he just call himself something else that didn't include it?)
( Cute and very, very Luna. )

An Unequal Magic by lyras 3/5
11,000 words. When Petunia grudgingly offers Snape sanctuary, the pair discover that they have certain things in common.
( Well-written, but heavily jossed, which made me enjoy it less. )

Thirteen Months by argosy 2/5
6300 words. The Wizarding World has forgiven Snape, but Snape hasn't forgiven the Wizarding World. And gardening.
( I am just not the audience for this fic. Shippers might like it, though. )

Number Thirteen by Lemuel Cork 5/5 Recommended
Arsenic and Old Lace. 4800 words. Dr. Einstein and Jonathan Brewster on the run.
( So awesome! )

In Which Worlds Collide and Eeyore Investigates a Terrible Crime by flambeau 4/5 Recommended
Discworld/Winnie the Pooh. 5400 words. In which worlds collide. Also, Eeyore investigates a terrible crime, with some unexpected assistance.
( I don't usually like crossovers, but this is great. )

Miracle at 23 Meteor Street by soupytwist 3/5
Spaced. 400 words. Tim is not pleased at the idea of Kylie Minogue on Doctor Who.
( Cute little vignette. )

What Friends Are For by spamala97 2/5
Spaced. 2800 words. Tim doesn't know what he wants. Daisy tries to help.
( Wow, this was really horrible. )

It's Midnight and Daisy Steiner's Ex-Boyfriend is a Massive Wanker by smithereen 5/5 Recommended
Spaced. 1200 words. Daisy's just got dumped, but Tim is there to comfort her.
( Utterly perfect. )

Harry Potter and the Reluctant Fanboy by puritybrown 3/5
Spaced. 3400 words. Tim's been a fan before. He's determined not to get burned again.
( I really liked the beginning, but the rest not so much. )

Oh hey, would you look at that. I took a break in my fanfic reading, but I had a couple reviews written up on my harddrive, and then the last two were holiday exchange fics I betaed that I can now talk about after reveals, and tada, magically there's a review post.

Right Here Next to Yesterday by sageness 3/5
5300 words. Kate woke to the chirp of a radio and the rustle of Teyla digging her earpiece from the tangle of clothing on the floor.
( That rare bird, female to male genderswap. )

Stationery Orbit by busaikko 3/5
800 words. In which the team and Elizabeth are items in a small child's pencil box.
( I'm normally not a huge fan of this sort of fic, but this was cute. )

On the Bunny Trail by busaikko 3/5
5400 words. The team takes a holiday on a planet where they herd fluffy bunnies.
( Cute and funny. )

It's Growing Day by Day by telesilla 4/5 Recommended
27,500 words. During a routine mission to check out an off-world Ancient lab, team Shep is cut off from Atlantis when the stargate is buried beneath a ton of rubble. There's another way off the planet, but getting there will not be easy.
( Didn't sound like my thing, but I ended up really liking it. )

Ten more and I still haven't finished my first pass. I ended in the Bs, so unless there turn out to be a ton of small A fandoms I know, the final first pass batch will probably be smaller.

Tension by lucathia_rykatu 3/5
Bakuman. 1400 words. Mashiro and Takagi argue over the reason for the popularity of their most recent chapter in Jump, disagreeing about the 'tension' between the characters.
( Cute, though the writing could use some work. )

The Sandwich Story by obfuscate3 4/5 Recommended
Calvin and Hobbes. 1300 words. Calvin grows up.
( Loved the ending. )

The Tiger Song by rabidsamfan 3/5
Calvin and Hobbes. 100 words. Hobbes makes Calvin sing a song about the awesomeness of tigers.
( Cute. )

Heaven by LMT 4/5 Recommended
Closer. 1500 words. Larry comes to the strip club again, looking for Alice.
( Great missing scene. )

Out of the Dark by technosage 5/5 Recommended
Dr. Seuss. 1300 words. They shouldn't have been in the park that night. It came from out of the dark, into their lives, into their hearts.
( Damn, this is completely awesome. Dr. Seuss horror. )

I Am Not Clark, My Name Is Pete by googlebrat 4/5 Recommended
Dr. Seuss. 1200 words. These children found me, in the park. They took me home. They called me Clark.
( Very impressive! )

There Is No I or You by nyssa23 3/5
Frasier. 1300 words. Niles tries to communicate with Daphne using someone else's poetry.
( Good voices for all the characters. )

What Happened After by steelneko 2/5
The Dixie Chicks' "Goodbye Earl". 400 words. The police did find Earl eventually.
( Very summary-ish epilogue to the song. )

Strawberry Jam by vampedvixen 3/5
The Dixie Chicks' "Goodbye Earl". 1800 words. The story of Wanda and Mary Anne.
( Fleshes out the song some, but doesn't add much )

Suddenly I See by norah 3/5
So You Think You Can Dance. 6200 words. Being on the show is a journey, all right. But it's not just about dancing.
( Cute. No canon knowledge necessary. )

Still not done with my first pass through, but here are another ten. I might get a final first-pass batch up sometime later tonight before going to bed. I've seen lots of stuff I really want to read as I went through, but as I said before, I'm holding off on any larger fandoms and only reading stuff with one or two fics. (Also holding off on anything with fics that seem too long.)

Wind in the East 5/5 Recommended
Mary Poppins. 3200 words. Mary Poppins is magic. Bert has known this since he was nine years old.
( This is totally my canon now. )

Overture 3/5
Mary Poppins. 1000 words. Bert and Mary's first meeting.
( Cute, but suffers from being read after the one above. )

Audition 2/5
The Decemberists' "The Mariner's Revenge Song". 1800 words. The narrator of the song joins up with the pirates. ( Didn't really feel anything like the song to me. )

Final Moments 4/5 Recommended
The Decemberists' "The Mariner's Revenge Song". 3200 words. After fifteen years of waiting, the widow's daughter finally gets her hands on the captain.
( Now this one fits the song perfectly. )

Rarely Told in Full 4/5 Recommended
Lemony Snicket. 2100 words. And if a woman you loved for years says, "I love you, but I can not be with you and I hope this two hundred page book I have sent with your engagement ring explains why," you would likely look over the fact that she still loves you and instead focus on the fact that she is now married to another man and pregnant.
( Great Snicket voice. )

All's Fair in Love 2/5
Kusatta Kyoushi no Houteishiki. 3400 words. Masayoshi wants something Atsushi isn't sure he can give.
( Oh dear. Just bad. )

One Night at the Pizza Pizza 3/5
Moxy Fruvous' "King of Spain". 800 words. Life may never be the same again at the Pizza Pizza for this former King of Spain.
( Great up until the super-rushed ending. :-/ )

Coffee with Membrane 1/5
Invader Zim. 1000 words. Zim and Professor Membrane chat.
( This is like all those horribly unfunny Zim fics I found on FFN. )

Back to the Hideous Future 5/5 Recommended
Invader Zim. 1700 words. The more things change, the more things stay the same. Particularly Dib's unfortunately prominent forehead.
( Best Zim fic I've ever read, hands down. )

Animals! Heed the Story of Kun 2/5
Wicked. 600 words. Students of Ozian history may be interested to know that the propaganda of the Glorious Wizard was not directed solely towards non-Animals.
( Doesn't quite live up to its promise. )

I decided to start at the end of the archive and go backwards, though I skipped over a lot of fandoms that had more than three fics each as I figured I'd make individual fandom review posts for those.

The Amazing Adventures of Hat Guy and the Girl Who Stole His Hat 5/5 Recommended
xkcd. 1000 words. It's not all fun and games, being an evil dude in an evil hat. Except, it kind of is.
( Perfectly captures the feel of the comic. )

OMG Velociraptors! 4/5 Recommended
xkcd. 300 words. It started with velociraptors and ended with the LHC.
( Totally feels like it could be a strip. )

I Could Never Be Your Woman 3/5
Ugly Betty. 2200 words. Christina catches Daniel trying on women's clothes, trying to figure out what made Alex want to be a woman.
( Good idea turned out to be nothing but a vehicle for porn. )

Marc's Guide to Dating 1/5
Ugly Betty. 1000 words. Daniel decides he's "gay curious" and goes to Marc for advice.
( This was so bad it could have been on babb_chronicles. )

Hunting High and Low 4/5 Recommended
A-ha's "Take on Me". 3100 words. Why is there always a pipe wrench when he needs one?
( Yes, Take on Me. This is pretty damn awesome, actually. )

You're Too Blind to See 2/5
Penny Arcade. 1300 words. The thing was, it really had all started off not much different from Gabe's usual sort of insanity.
( Trying to hard to be funny and thus ends up not funny at all. )

Loathing 1/5
Penny Arcade. 1200 words. Ever since he'd first played against Tycho Brahe, Johnathan Gabriel hated his guts.
( Wow, this is so bad. D: )

The Meeting: or How Gabe Came to Fight the Devil 4/5 Recommended
Penny Arcade. 1200 words. "Everything was going great - That is, until he fought the devil."
( Backstory for the PA video game, but totally enjoyable even without having played it. )

Tears Dry on Their Own 2/5
Paradise Kiss. 2800 words. Time keeps moving forward, and Yukari still feels like she's racing to catch up. But she's not behind, not anymore.
( More a summary than a proper story. )

Fumbling Cartography 2/5
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. 1200 words. A little vignette set the morning after a night with Tracy Bacon.
( I feel like this would have worked better as a drabble. )

Hey, more reviews that have been building up for a while.

Lady in the Looking Glass by jackandahat 4/5 Recommended
Breakfast on Pluto. 1300 words. You have to start somewhere, and in front of the mirror's as good a place as any...
( Loved this look at young Charlie and Patrick. )

Making Changes by jackandahat 4/5 Recommended
Breakfast on Pluto. 500 words. But there's still hints, the line of her jaw and the length of her hands. Nothing that can be helped, nothing she can't live with, but this... she touches her hair again, curling a lock around her finger as she looks in the mirror... this she can change.
( Excellent. )

Talk of the Town by makesmewannadie 4/5 Recommended
Cars. 5500 words. Everyone noticed Sarge was different when he returned to Radiator Springs. Only Fillmore said, if he was around to hear them, "Naw, man, he's not really any different." But that was Fillmore, and God only knew what he'd been putting in that organic fuel of his, so nobody listened. The thing was, Fillmore was right. Sarge wasn't really any different.
( This is totally adorable and fits in perfectly with canon. )

Nova by puella_nerdii 4/5 Recommended
Death Note. 2300 words. "This is different," Misa says. "People are watching us because they love us."
( Exactly the sort of fucked-up dynamic I love about them in canon. )

More stuff I had piling up, some of it that's been sitting there since Christmas. D: But I finally have enough for a post, yay.

Not Really Queer by pepperlandgirl 2/5
Simon Pegg/Nick Frost. 800 words. What really happened when Simon moved into Nick's flat.
( Cute, but more things bugged me than not. )

Kick Back, Sit Down by pirateygoodness 3/5
Keira Knightly/Sienna Miller. 400 words. Keira likes dark corners and quiet things and secret places, and Sienna likes finding them for her.
( Cute. )

Just Another Tuesday Night at Joe's by telesilla 3/5
Joe Flanigan/Jason Momoa. 700 words. "Do you mind?" Jason's unusually sharp tone of voice registers with Joe at about the same time he realizes that there're three guys fucking on the TV screen.
( N'awww, friends. )

Casting Couch by the_reverand 5/5 Recommended
Christian Bale/Bret Easton Ellis. 700 words. He wants my blessing to play Bateman, my horrible Patrick, though I don't know why he's asking me.
( So awesome! )

My Sight Grows Stronger by darkrosetiger 5/5 Recommended
Dylan Neal/Joe Flanigan. 3400 words. Dylan Neal explains how he came to realize that slavery is wrong.
( Part of a sprawling RPF slavery AU, but works really well as a stand-alone. Recommended even if you've not read the other series (I haven't). )

Because I haven't been reading much fic lately, I decided to go through the bits and bobs I had collected in my "reviews" file and see if I had enough for some posts.

So...ages ago I was determined to read some Zim fic and see if anything wasn't dreck. Unfortunately most of the fandom is on FFN, which I hate trolling through even more than I hate LJ comms. I managed to find ten fics that didn't sound completely horrible, so I delicioused them, but now I find I just really don't want to go back to them. I know I'm probably not going to find anything good because even the ones I bookmarked barely sounded passable and I just don't feel like it. So here are two I read back when I first bookmarked them, and two from last year's Yuletide.

Gir and the Jehovah's Witnesses by Rabbit's Paw 2/5
600 words. When Zim goes to skool Gir gets a couple of visitors!
( Not horrible, but the funny lines were all just quotes from the show. )

A Guilty Pleasure by The Dramatic Monarch 2/5
1200 words. After a long and tiresome day, Zim and GIR indulge in a guilty pleasure.
( Again, not horrible, but not good, either. )

One Week by cadetdru 4/5 Recommended
2200 words. Dib has to write a journal about his week as homework; of course it's all about Zim.
( Zim fic that doesn't suck ass! Woohoo! )

A Small Story by basingstoke 3/5
1100 words. The Tallest discover coffee and use it to stunt others' growth.
( Also pretty funny! )

Just a handful of short fics here. I really have not been reading a lot of fic lately. I need something to suck me back in...

Untitled by lunabee34 3/5
300 words. Most of Eldon Thompson's left cheekbone is ground into Jo's low ponytail.
( Enjoyable. )

Wind from the North-North-West by tabaqui 5/5 Recommended
300 words. Megan scrubbed the towel through her hair - looked at the girl in the mirror. New girl - pretty girl. Girl who was going places, doing things - not running away, just....
( Oh, oh, oh, love. )

Lazarus Falling by rivkat 3/5
1300 words. Castiel smiled, dimpled and guileless. Dean wished he hadn't. "I am commanded to make you fit for what is to come."
( Interesting, though not as much so as I'd hoped. )

Family Resemblance by fryadvocate 3/5
1400 words. Dean's first three years of life.
( The summary talks about Dean, but this is really a story about Mary (incorporating the new info from S4). )