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The Daily Recs 01/28/2012
January 28, 2012The Daily Recs 01/27/2012
January 27, 2012-
Madoka Magica | Madoka/Homura | T | Memory
Her eyes remembered.
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Doctor Who | Master/Doctor, the Rani, Drax | A | Paean
This is basically all of my asexual!Master headcanon, in run-on sentence form.
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Rani likes to win, Luke cheats at board games, and Clyde doesn’t have a crush on anyone.
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Fake News | “Stephen”/Tad, Tad/Bobby | PG-13 | A Cabin in the Mountains With You
A pleasant weekend with the boss, then back home quick sticks to cuddle with your favourite stage manager. Nothing could possibly go wrong there, right?
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Magic School Bus | Arnold, the Frizz, ensemble | R | On The Ice
They are on a field trip learning about the tundra when it all goes horribly wrong.
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Star Wars | Luke, Vader | K+ | Missing In Action
When a mission goes wrong, Luke Skywalker crashes on an uninhabited planet. While waiting for rescue, he makes an unexpected discovery.
The Daily Recs 01/24/2012
January 24, 2012-
Fake News | Jon, “Stephen”, staff | PG-13 | Truthiness and Bakery
Jon says Stephen isn’t useful around the house. Stephen goes overboard and starts a show like Martha Stewart’s to prove that he is wrong.
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Sailor Moon | Rei/Minako, team | T | Guardian
Minako Princess of Venus is turning 18 in seven days and, according to tradition, must choose someone to marry by her birthday. Unfortunately, the one she wants is the one she can’t have: her common born Martian body guard.
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Star Trek (2009) | Chapel/Gaila/Uhura | NC-17 | Stress Relief Session
In which Dr. Chapel and Nurse Gaila have prescribed some relaxation time for the overworked Lieutenant Uhura.
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Sherlock | John/Lestrade, wee!Sherlock, wee!Mycroft, others | PG-13 | Ain’t Seen the Sunshine
Written for a prompt on the Sherlock fic meme where John is Sherlock and Mycroft’s nanny. It’s also somehow warped into a massive retelling of Hound of the Baskervilles.
The Daily Recs 01/23/2012
January 23, 2012-
Island of the Colorblind – Part 1 of 6 – YouTube
Oliver Sacks visits the Pacific atoll of Pingelap to visit an isolated community of islanders born totally colorblind.
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The Story of English episode 1 – An English Speaking World – Part 1 / 7 – YouTube
An English Speaking World is said to explore the development of modern English, and it illustrates English as the language of choice for technology, diplomacy, business and popular culture for many nations. Brief piece on a conference of French speaking countries to create French words for invading English words. At the end of the video, they promote the idea of English bubbling up from below.
The Daily Recs 01/21/2012
January 21, 2012-
Jeeves & Wooster/Sentinel | Bertie/Jeeves, families, OCs | NC-17 | Jeeves and the Uncommon Senses
An accident triggers unexpected changes in Jeeves’s life — and in Bertie’s.This story is set in a variant of The Sentinel universe.
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Sailor Moon | Chibi Chibi, others | G | A Chibi-Chibi Forever Voyaging
You are hit by a disgusting wave of kawaii. The human mind cannot begin to comprehend how cutesy this room is. Words on a screen cannot possibly cope with how pink and small and sugary and sweet and happy joy joy this room is. Your mind reels in sheer unadulterated horror.
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Fake News | (Aasif/)Olivia(/Kristen/Rich), (Evie/Stephen/)Jon(/Tracey) | PG-13 | No Yoda
Sedoretu fic!
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Stargate Atlantis | John/Rodney | M | Control Chair
John and Rodney talk about a fucking control chair.
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Jeeves & Wooster | Jeeves/Bertie, OCs, ensemble | R | Sorting Out the Dance Card
An overheard conversation changes everything. Histories, mysteries, romance, and a dive or two into the soup.
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Joan of Arcadia | Joan, family | R | Goodnight, Moon
This story was inspired by a challenge issued on LiveJournal to put characters from different fandoms into the events of the disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow,” in which the world is all but destroyed within days by hyper-accelerated global warming.
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Stargate | Rodney(/John), others | PG-13 | Freedom’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose
SGC finally stops calling him by December. Rodney celebrates by writing a final exam for his relativity class so difficult that it reduces four students to tears in the exam hall. Upon reflection, he decides to be merciful and offer partial credit.
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Glee, Hunger Games | Kurt/Blaine, Finn, Sue, ensemble | M | Your Heart Outside Your Body
For the Fiftieth Hunger Games, the Capitol required each District to send twice the number of tributes- two boys and two girls. For the boys, District 8 sent Finn Hudson and Kurt Hummel.
Megaupload news.
January 20, 2012Megaupload, the Hong Kong-based site I’ve been using for large-file storage (including fanmixes and fanvids), is down. The US government has messed with their DNS info, meaning the URL no longer works, and while theoretically it’s still accessible by IP address, that’s given me nothing but timeout errors.
Several people involved with running and promoting the website have been arrested in New Zealand, to be extradited to the US. It’s still not entirely clear how solid the charges are with respect to (a) US law and (b) our extradition treaty with NZ.
Anonymous has lost no time in firing back, hacking involved sites (from the Department of Justice to the RIAA) right and left.
Here’s a pretty good breakdown of the case as it stands, and this FFA thread is keeping tabs on new updates as they hit. Will probably be out-of-date within the next eight hours, but I’m going to be offline for much of the weekend. If you’re reading this from The Future, do hit up Google to see what’s happened since.
And for anyone who wants to complain that this, like PIPA or SOPA, is part of the Epic Battle between good moral people and Those Darn Pirates, let me drop a few timely links: PIPA co-sponsors and supporters violating copyright on the Internet and the author of SOPA violating copyright on the Internet.
The Daily Recs 01/16/2012
January 16, 2012-
Sailor Moon | Usagi/Mamoru | G | In the Docks
“Do you ever just get sick of it sometimes?”
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Hellsing | Alucard/Integra | NC-17, warnings | Dirty Duet
She’d had her suspicions about Alucard.
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Sailor Moon | Artemis/Minako | PG | Knight In Shining Armor
Minako is upset that she no longer serves a purpose as the Senshi’s Leader, now that their Princess is in charge, and Artemis comforts her in a most unexpected manner…
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Sailor Moon | Usagi/Mamoru, Hotaru, ensemble | K | Oh, Baby!
The trials of Darien when our favorite little meatball head has an ::ahem:: little crisis.
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Sailor Moon | Usagi, ChibiUsa, team | K+ | ChibiUsa Times Two
People should be careful how they wield powerful magic objects. Can Usagi undo the damage she caused?
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Sherlock Holmes | John/Mary, Sherlock/Irene | M | Intemperance
“Intemperance,” a story from the secret journals of Doctor John H. Watson, intimate friend and long-time companion of the infamous Sherlock Holmes: A most curious and instructive report of the great man’s improbable fecundation, gestation, and parturition.
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Red Dwarf | Cat, Rimmer/Lister | PG | The Scent and the Fury
It took time to adjust to the smell.
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Doctor Who/Black Books | Bernard, Martha | PG | Bernard’s Rules
After the Year That Never Was, Doctor Martha Jones buys a book in a shop she’s Never visited.
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Sailor Moon | ChibiUsa, Inner Senshi, others | K | Adventures of the ChibiScouts
The Sailor Scouts get what some adults dream of — a second childhood, but not everyone is happy about it. How did this happen and will they stay as children?
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Sailor Moon | Usagi, ChibiUsa, ensemble | R | Mama’s Hand
An unexpected evil comes calling. When Usagi discovers a little girl who’s been beaten and claiming to be her daughter, what does she do? And how will she deal with the events that unfold because of the information that comes to light?
These Weeks, through 1/8
January 8, 2012But I’m A Cat Person
BICP Sketchpile – Earrings (sketches | ensemble | worksafe)
Characters V (designs | Bianca and family | worksafe)
Fake News
In Summer’s Parching Heat (fic | Olivia/Kristen (pre-femslash), Jon(/”Stephen”), John Oliver, Wyatt | G)
Neo-Colonial Kyriarchal Consumerist Slavery (comic | liberal!”Stephen”, Jon, special guest | G)
Tiny Troop Support (art | tiny!Jon, troops | worksafe)
Castle Down Chibis (art | Stephen, Jon, Kristen, Olivia | worksafe)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Big Bangs and MadoMagi (writing meta)
Warm Feelings (AO3 Mirror) (fic | Junko, Madoka/OFC | NC-17)
Fireworks and Waterfalls (AO3 Mirror) (fic | pre-Kyoko/Sayaka, Yuma | G)
Sailor Moon
Tuxedo Chibi-Mask and Phoebe (art | boy!Chibiusa, girl!Helios | worksafe)
General/Miscellaneous
Cowboy vs. Ninja (commissioned art | OCs | worksafe)
2011 Summary of Art (art meme)
Next Week in But I’m A Cat Person:
New chapter! Woobiness for Patrick, intrigue for Miranda.
The Daily Recs 01/08/2012
January 8, 2012-
Fake News | Lorraine/Jon/”Stephen”, kids | through R | Prompts?
“So then, he pushed me up against the wall and started unbuttoning my pants,” Stephen enthuses, settling his head in his wife’s lap. “And I said, ‘Aren’t you going to bother with my shirt?’ and he said ‘Babe, this is what we call a quickie. We don’t have time.’”
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Fake News | Jon/”Stephen”, baby | PG | But I Can Carry You
Something about Jon, ftm!”Stephen”, and baby!Marian.
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Glee | Sue, ensemble | PG | Up Yours
Sue has some vengeance to administer like the hand of an angry god.
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Glee | Kurt, Brittany | PG | It Means No Worries
After the events of Duets, Kurt and Brittany bond over a topic with which they’re both apparently familiar: Disney movies.
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Glee | Karofsky, others | R | Unfair
He hadn’t meant to put Hummel in a coma, he hadn’t meant to become a poster boy for bullying, and he definitely hadn’t meant to wind up on the national news.
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Glee | ensemble, Brittany/Santana | PG-13 | It Goes On and On and On and On
Kurt makes a deal with a higher power to trade his life for his mother’s. (She never dies, he does instead). Glee Club are the only ones who remember Kurt. And after that…
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Glee | Finn/Kurt, Burt, Carole | NC-17 | Images of Broken Light
Finn and Kurt are kidnapped and put into a room studded with cameras. They begin to learn what it means to no longer be in control of their own lives.
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Fake News | Jon/”Stephen” | PG | [untitled college AU]
College AU, “Stephen” and Jon first meet.
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Fake News | Jon/Stephen | NC-17 | Transgressions
Jon finds himself in a world with different stars in the sky.
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Fake News | Jon/Stephen | R | Almost
I was wondering if we could meet up at some point soon. I have something I need to tell you that’s incredibly important and
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Fake News | Jon/liberal!”Stephen”, Jon/”Stephen” | G | Four Cookies
Four prompt ficlets: Santa is real! (any)!”Stephen” and Jon; Liberal!”Stephen”‘s Christmahanukwanzakah party; Jon/”Stephen”, home for the holidays; Jon/Stephen, holiday shopping.
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Good Omens | Aziraphale/Crowley, DEATH, a plant | PG | The Ghost and A. J. Crowley
A heartwarming tale of grisly ghost plants and fearsome floral apparitions. Has Crowley finally met his match? Will Aziraphale come to the rescue? And just how difficult is it to remove dirt stains from white carpet?
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Doctor Who/Good Omens | Eleven, the Them | G | Playing Gods
He smiled one of his very best smiles at the girl – Pepper, that was it. He found himself liking her in spite of her scowl; there was something vaguely Pondish in the way she folded her arms.
Historical same-sex weddings, fantasy female armor, texting in West African languages, and more
January 7, 2012How to talk about gender with first graders in a way that gets them thinking and not bullying.
Musings on fantasy armor versus female figures, as crafted by someone who actually makes armor.
A history of Chicago’s underground abortion services in the years before Roe v. Wade.
A cryptographer takes a closer look at Biblical Greek and inadvertently discovers that Paul’s only clear condemnation of homosexuality…was a mistranslation.
Debunking the myth that pre-colonial Africa had no homosexuality. With research!
The tensions faced by a mixed-race family.
How do you keep a language from dying out? Make it available to text in, as is being done with the Mande family of West African languages and hopefully plenty more to come.
Next time someone tells you they support traditional marriage, send them this link: records of Christian same-sex weddings from the 300s through the 1600s.
