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Once again this year, I am barely halfway through the archive for the fandoms I know, so once again, recs aren't going to happen for a while.

But I must rec the fabulous story I got:

But a Dream, by Cori Lannam.

It's Crusoe, and it is the very first Crusoe story I had ever even seen, much less read, and it is so good! \o/

I'm not sure how to describe this without spoiling it; it starts with Crusoe waking up hurt and confused, and that confusion is crucial to the story. But Cori nailed everything I love about the show, in a way that I was not expecting at all, and I am flappy-handed with joy about the entire thing.

I admit, it probably won't make much sense if you haven't seen the series, but that should just provide incentive to go watch this show, which is incredibly fun.

(I can't believe this wasn't one of Yuletide's big fandoms this year, or that it isn't this year's hot new slash fandom [gen, too, but this is a show slashers should be going nuts over] -- two hot men, both smart and insanely competent, wonderful complements to each other, running around having adventures on a tropical island together. And living together in a treehouse, and utterly devoted to one another, but with plenty of room for arguments and misunderstandings because they're also very different. And with tons of fascinating backstory that's being spooled out a little bit at a time, to boot. And h/c all over the damn place. And banter and snark and teasing. And regular influxes of people who show up to make trouble before they go away again. Seriously, go watch this show! If you're in the US, all the episodes are on Hulu. If you're not in the US, I'm sure all the episodes are in the usual places. *g*)

And I wrote a story, too, for Thea M, who requested Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.

The Golden Afternoon
Gen, PG
~3,400 words
Summary: An autumn day in the woods with Caine and Peter.

It's also up on my site.

therienne and

llwyden betaed for me, and made the story much better than it was. Thanks, guys!

I had huge amounts of fun rewatching the show to get the voices back in my head properly; it's all about the emotion and people's relationships with each other, with regular forays into danger, fights, and chases to keep things moving.

I was a little nervous because Thea wanted Pop in her story, and I'd never written him; the little dabbling I did ten years ago (... omg, *ten years ago*) was all Peter/Kermit. So of course I wound up writing the entire thing from Pop's POV -- because once I got inside his head, it all just flowed from there. Bizarre speech patterns and all.

Once I recover from the slight burnout of trying to read everything before the reveal, I'll get back to going through the fandoms I know and start pulling an actual set of recs together. Meanwhile, I'm tagging my favorites on delicious.

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you so much! The thought of a story in any of these fandoms is already making me ridiculously happy. Whatever you want to do with them, I'm already grateful. And feel free to write in more characters than I listed; I like all the characters in these shows, and as long as the focus is on the characters I requested, I'll be happy.

My prompts were a little vague, partly because I love surprises -- so it almost never occurs to me to think "what kind of story do I want to get?" -- and partly because I didn't want to make you feel obligated to meet any requirements. Seriously, whatever you want to write is great, and the happier you are with what you write, the happier I'll be reading it. If you have an idea that you're itching to write, go for it!

If you want more info, though:

( my fic tastes )

( why I love these fandoms )

And thank you, again!!

(eta request characters and details, and clarify one bit)

I've been planning to add vid recs to my rec site for a couple of years now. The problem is, there are so many great vids that I kept feeling like I was leaving too many out.

I'm still leaving too many out -- vids, fandoms, you name it -- but it's at the point where if I don't suck it up and post these, they're going to languish on my harddrive forever. Better to rec some than none, right? So here are 107 vid recs in over 50 fandoms. (... yeah, I know.)

Most of my connection to the vid community these days is through Vividcon, so these tend to be slanted toward vids and vidders that I've come across there.

All of the recs in one place:

Recs by fandom:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Hercules: the Legendary Journeys

Heroes

Highlander

Holding Out For A Hero

Homicide: Life on the Streets

Xena Warrior Princess

X-Files

Multifandom

Please let me know if there are any problems with links, etc.

So, a while back I had a birthday, as you do. I tend to be incredibly busy right around my birthday for various reasons, so my friends celebrate it late, whenever we all happen to have time for it.

This year, it was this weekend.

Usually it consists of going out to dinner and then back to someone's place for cake and presents. So we went out to dinner (yum), and back to

therienne's house, which conveniently is also

merryish's house, as they were the friends who had taken me out.

Merry had said she was going to bake me a cake (she has discovered her inner baker, and as a friend who benefits from this, I can only say "yay!"). She wanted to know what I wanted; I told her I'm not fussy, I just like chocolate, and she really shouldn't go to too much effort. I'm honestly happy with cake from a box and frosting from a can. But she and

therienne went looking for recipes, and pondered frosting, and all sorts of complicated things -- all of which I knew about, since they did much of it in front of me, and Merry kept asking me things like "so, do you want a strawberry ganache in the middle? Or maybe raspberry?" (Complicated things!)

At dinner, I mentioned that I'd half expected them to announce "We made you a cake... but we eated it" when I arrived, and Merry said that, well, they hadn't decorated it as much as they could, because

marycrawford had sent them some lovely TARDIS and Dalek stencils to use and they just decided it was too much work, sorry! Which, dude. They made me a cake and didn't eated it! All was well.

So we get back to the house and watch some SGA, and then it is time for cake. They make me shut my eyes (I had been forbidden to go into the kitchen at all before this), and bring out the cake to put in front of me. By this time, I am wondering what the *hell* is going on with this cake, because... it's a cake! Did they load it up with a bajillion candles, or something? What was the deal, here?

There were no candles. Instead, I saw...

( can you guess? (pictures under the cut) )

Title: Sumer Is Icumin In
Author: Arduinna
Fandom: Anthropomorfic
Pairing: Ice/Water
Prompt: summer

Notes: Written for

oxoniensis's Porn Battle VI - The Undiscovered Country. I saw the prompt and this pretty much instantly sprang to mind, so I couldn't resist.

You can read the story over there, or on my website, or click the cut to read it here.

( Sumer Is Icumin In )

So, I meant to have these done by the end of January. Then certainly by the end of February. Then definitely by the first day of spring.

Um. In before Earth Day? *headdesk*

But they're no less sincere for being so delayed: 63 recs in 45 fandoms, for your reading pleasure.

All of the recs in one place:

Yuletide 2007 recs

Recs by fandom:

Belgariad & Mallorean

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Homicide: Life on the Streets

Hot Fuzz

The Incredibles

Ladyhawke

L'Engle - Time Quintet

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

In a fit of... something, I signed up for Sweet Charity this time around. The auction is now live, with some seriously cool stuff up for grabs from 146 different people.

I'm offering to write a 1,000-word-minimum gen or slash story in any of a bunch of fandoms, including Boy Meets World, Dead Zone (through s3), Dresden Files (tv), due South (s1-2 only), Invisible Man, I Spy, MASH, Night Court, Peacemakers, The Persuaders, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Tin Man. (Specific pairings are listed in my info on the auction.) There are other fandoms (& pairings) I may be willing to give a shot, but didn't want to commit to cold -- feel free to ask if you want to know about a particular fandom, or about a crossover.

The auction's running through March 28th, 11:59pm GMT. It's all for a really good cause (RAINN, again -- the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network), and there's something there for everyone. Go check it out!

I lucked out this year; I got one of my favorite fandoms for my primary story, and a Treat in a fandom I had totally never expected to get as a second story.

My main gift was was An Honest Man, by Michelle Christian (

movies_michelle), for Peacemakers, which is a fandom so dear to my heart I can't even say.

It's lovely. It's a slash story that weaves in and out of canon, using games of chess as a throughline to show Stone and Finch's deepening relationship, which is just perfect. (They play, canonically, and by the time we see it, it's clearly an established habit that they both enjoy a great deal, and it's a moment I adore for the sheer comfortable connection between them.) The character and emotional arcs in this are just wonderful; she starts from the literal beginning, when they barely know each other and don't like each other much, and builds steadily and gorgeously from there.

I almost didn't ask for Peacemakers this year, since I've been lucky enough to get a fabulous story for it in a previous Yuletide, but I'm so glad I decided to include it on my list. *hugs story*

The second story I got was a Yuletide Treat -- extra stories that anyone could write for anyone, if they saw a request that sparked an idea. And someone wrote one for me!

It's Joey and Michael, Sitting in a Tree, by

zortified, for My Two Dads. Yes, My Two Dads. That sitcom you maybe kinda remember from the 80s, with the two guys and the kid. Seriously, I had no hope that anyone would pick this up; it had a whopping three offers on the requested-fandoms page, and I was the only person to request it.

And yet! A story! Slash, even, which was what I most hoped for, but expected even less than I expected the fandom. And it's adorable. I don't know how

zortified did it, but she nailed the voices and tone of the show, and gave me exactly what I wanted. It's a little cliched, but that is perfect for this show, and for its era. *hugs this story too*

Both of these stories make me ridiculously happy, and I rec them both whole-heartedly. Go, read! You'll love them.

As for what I wrote, it was also Peacemakers, which is a first -- there have never been two stories in one year for this fandom. Woot!

True Gold
slash, Stone/Finch
44k, PG
Summary: A rash of fires in Silver City strikes close to home.
written for Dorinda

On the Yuletide archive

On my site

Every year, Yuletide challenges me in a different way, which is one of the things I love about it.

This year, the challenge was writing for a good friend, without her finding out about it.

( Here's how it went: )

All in all, it's been a heck of a fun Yuletide.

I'll have more recs, as soon as I finish going through the fandoms I know. Meanwhile, I'm tagging my favorites on del.icio.us.

Dear Yuletide writer,

Thank you so much! I've been refreshing the fandoms list and bouncing at the sight of gold numbers next to all of my requests, and I'm so happy you're writing one of them!

My prompts were a little vague, partly because I love surprises -- so it almost never occurs to me to think "what kind of story do I want to get?" -- and partly because I didn't want to make you feel obligated to meet any requirements. Seriously, whatever you want to write is great, and the happier you are with what you write, the happier I'll be reading it. If you have an idea that you're itching to write, go for it!

If you want or need more info, though:

( my fic tastes )

( why I love these fandoms )

And thank you, again!!

I've just added 41 new recs in 15 fandoms (more or less).

While I was at it, I broke Good Omens out into its own page, because it hit ten recs with this new batch added in. I also added word counts for every story on my recs site (I hope -- please let me know if you see something that doesn't have a word count!).

All of the recs in one place:

Recs by fandom:

Crossovers

Good Omens/Arthurian legend

Stargate Atlantis/Smallville

Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis

At the Muskrat Jamboree (

muskratjamboree) in late March, I offered to give a couple people a tutorial in using del.icio.us, which came up as a way to find things in small/rare fandoms (although it's also great for big fandoms). We didn't really have time at the con, so I figured I'd write something up.

If you're reading this and wondering what all the del.icio.us fuss is about, here's very fast overview, before I get into the tutorial part.

The basics

At it's most basic, del.icio.us is... bookmarks. *g*

The bookmarks are spiffy, mind you -- they sit on the del.icio.us servers, not on your computer, so they're available to you anywhere, if you have a browser and a connection; no more worries about "oh, crap, I bookmarked that at work. At my last job. CRAP."

There's also a section to add notes or a description to any bookmark, which is really cool (you can put a quote from a story, for example, to remind yourself about it). And best of all, there are tags, which make finding things so freaking much easier than trying to scroll through 800 random bookmarks that you forgot to stick in folders, or figuring out which folder you stuck something into. Personally, I think it's cool just on that level, but trust me: there's more.

The cool stuff

Okay, now on to the real reasons for fans to use del.icio.us: it will bring you stories and vids and suchlike that you might not find on your own. There are two main ways to do this: the Network, and the Subscriptions.

Network

The network is sort of like a Friends list. You find people whose bookmarks interest you, and you add them to your network, and then any time you go look at your network page, you see all the bookmarks from all the people in your network.

Subscriptions

The subscriptions are... not like anything on LJ, I don't think. *g* They're how you track different subjects across the entire del.icio.us network, by subscribing to tags. I use these for pretty much all my fandoms, but they're crucial for small fandoms, so you don't miss anything. You can subscribe to any tag you can think of; if someone uses that tag on a bookmark, you'll see it show up on your subscriptions page.

This is really the strongest feature for fans, because it gives you access to everyone's tags, regardless of whether you know them, or whether they're really in the fandom or just doing a flyby one-shot bookmark on something.

The extras

There are some other cool features, too.

search

del.icio.us comes with a search, which lets you search either all of del.icio.us, just your own bookmarks, or the web. I don't use this often, but when I need it, it's a lifesaver (usually when I remember a keyword in a story that I neglected to use as a tag, but stuck in the description somewhere).

Links for...

del.icio.us lets you send links to specific people, as long as they also have a del.icio.us account. You just tag something for:username and it shows up in a private section called "links for you" in their account. No one else (not even the person you tagged) can see that you used that tag; the for: tag is only visible to the person who actually uses it.

privacy

del.icio.us allows you to save things privately, so that only you can see them, and it gives you a little indicator on any privately saved link so you know it's safe. This is fabulous.

Checking things out

If you want to see what someone's bookmarks look like, mine are here:

http://del.icio.us/arduinna

and you can see my network and subscriptions here:

http://del.icio.us/network/arduinna

http://del.icio.us/subscriptions/arduinna

If all of that sounds good and you're an intrepid sort who likes to figure things out completely on your own, go get an account at del.icio.us, and start bookmarking and tagging. Yay!

More info

If you want a more info, read on below for a basic tutorial, or go to my website for a far more detailed version.

( On to the tutorial )

( Getting an account )

( Bookmarks )

( Tags )

( Subscriptions )

( Network )

( Privacy )

( Egoboo )

( Advanced stuff )

And again, if that wasn't enough information, I put a far more detailed version up on my website, covering more features, and with step-by-step instructions on a lot of things, including screencaps.

... Yeah. It's not my fault. Someone on del.icio.us linked to a story in

oxoniensis's Hugs, Cuddles and Kisses multi-fandom, commentfic, prompt challenge.

And I went and looked at the prompts, and there were a bunch that I said, "oh, maybe!" about, and then this is what I wound up writing. I have no idea.

here as commentfic in

oxoniensis's LJ

( Or here, if you prefer: )

.

Thank you, whoever gave me the lovely little electric car! I was completely surprised to find out about it, and it's just adorable. :)

On the theory that there's now enough I Spy fanfic on the web to need an archive -- easily one or two dozen stories! -- I... created an I Spy archive.

It's strictly for classic I Spy (the tv show, IOW, not the movie), and already has a half-dozen stories uploaded to it, with hopefully more to come. Right now it's all slash, but the archive is open to anything.

True True: the I Spy Fanfic Archive

So I gave a bunch of people an end-of-month deadline, and it was only fair that I give myself the same deadline. And this counts as end-of-January because I haven't been to bed yet, and it's not Feb. 1 until I wake up, so there.

Pie, by Arduinna
SGA, John/Rodney
post-Siege, earthside, slight crossover with SG1
unbeta'd, complete fluff

( cut for fluff )

posted directly to LJ because I'm too damn tired to do a proper site update for it right now

I've added a new page to my recs site: quick recs. It uses

astolat's very spiffy script that lets you pull bookmarks from del.icio.us into an automatically generated, sortable page. I've got mine set up to handle a bunch of different things, from new_recs (anything that I'm planning to add to my recs page in a future update), to recs (anything I've ever recced, including new_recs), to Yuletide, to various fandoms, to vids. I bookmark things much more often than I update my recs site, so I'm seriously happy about this script.

For Yuletide, I've got 48 recs in 39 fandoms, and I still feel like I've missed most the archive. But at it's time to put these, at least, up.

All of the recs in one place:

Yuletide 2006 recs

Recs by fandom:

Addams Family

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hunt for Red October

Life on Mars

The Lion in Winter

M*A*S*H

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

Randall & Hopkirk (deceased)

I wrote two stories for Yuletide this year, for fandoms and pairings I love, and I had a blast, as always. A panicky blast, but a blast. I love Yuletide.

Hearthstone
Dead Zone, Johnny/Walt.
NC-17, 36k, 5,500 words
Summary: Light in the darkness.
(Yuletide archive version)

Rx
MASH, Hawkeye/Trapper
PG, 11k, 1,450 words
Summary: This is what he'd been waiting for.
(Yuletide archive version)

And since I don't quite have my recs ready to go yet, I have to take this opportunity to pimp the story I received, which I've been very happy to see has been getting a lot of positive response, because it *rocks*:

Strange Bedfellows, by Lyrastar.
It's also MASH, and also Hawkeye/Trapper, and it made me incredibly happy. She nailed the show and the characters perfectly. Go, read, comment, praise!

And, er, about those Yuletide recs...

I was hoping to have a recs post ready for today, but I was reading right up to the reveal last night, and I still have something like 15 entire fandoms bookmarked to read, never mind fandoms I don't know as well that I was hoping to get to eventually. OMG, 1,057 stories. So I'll either put up a recs-so-far listing sometime in the next few days, or will hold off and do a final version in a week or two.

In the meantime, I've been bookmarking Yuletide 2006 stories I particularly like here on del.icio.us, if anyone's desperate for links in this vast wasteland of no Yuletide recs anywhere. *g* I know it's tough to find things to read! I haven't pulled these out into

astolat's nifty script on my website, so they're not all pretty, but they're functional.

70 new recs in 20 fandoms

All of the new recs can be found together on the What's New page.

Or go straight to the individual fandoms, with new recs at the top (everything's dated):

Boy Meets World (2 recs)

Dangermouse (1 rec)

Dead Zone (1 rec)

Doctor Who (3 recs)

Due South (2 recs)

Farscape (1 recs)

Forever Knight (1 rec)

Invisible Man (2 recs)

I Spy (5 recs)

Justice League (1 rec)

Life on Mars (1 rec)

Lord of the Rings (1 rec)

Mac/PC (1 rec)

Man From Uncle (1 rec)

NCIS (1 rec)

Professionals (5 recs)

Quantum Leap (1 rec)

Stargate Atlantis (28 recs)

Stargate SG-1 (15 recs)

Wiseguy (3 recs)

Crossovers (each crossover story is also counted under its individual fandoms, unless otherwise noted):

Dr. Who/Farscape (1 rec)

NCIS/Stargate SG-1 (1 rec)

Professionals/Dangermouse (1 rec)

Stargate Atlantis/Dr. Who (1 rec)

Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis (3 recs)

Multiverse - House, others (1 rec) (listed only under Multiverse)

And now the question.

I've been listing recs as mixed-up as possible within fandoms -- trying to vary gen/het/slash, pairing, general tone, author, etc. -- so that anyone reading their way through a given fandom's recs would have some variety, and maybe would click on a link they wouldn't have noticed otherwise because it's not in their primary pairing or what have you, but catches their attention when they see it.

That's no problem for a handful of recs, but several fandoms have enough to warrant their own pages, and are probably going to get bigger over time. I was wondering if it would better suit people to sort those recs out by gen/het/slash, and by pairing within that. It's six of one, half a dozen of the other for me -- both methods involve a certain level of sorting while I'm writing recs up, but nothing major.

So does anyone have a preference?

I just added a Halloween story written for

sga_flashfic:

Title: Booty
Author: Arduinna
Rating: G, gen
Word count: ~925
Summary: It's a custom.

on my website

on sga_flashfic

Dear Yuletide Santa,

Thank you so much! I've spent the entire week refreshing the fandoms list and being gleeful at the sight of gold numbers next to all of my requests, and I'm so happy you're writing one of them!

My prompts were mostly vague partly because I love surprises so it almost never occurs to me to think "what kind of story do I want to get?", and partly because I didn't want to make you feel obligated to meet any requirements. Seriously, whatever you want to write is great, and the happier you are with what you write, the happier I'll be reading it. If you have an idea that you're itching to write, go for it!

If you want or need more info, though:

( my fic tastes )

( why I love these fandoms )

And thank you, again! Yay!

Title: Signals
Author: Arduinna
Fandom: I Spy (TV)
Pairing: Scotty/Kelly, explicit
Challenge: Cliche (sharing one hotel bed)
Word count: 3,173

This was my entry for the Blast From the Past challenge.

Signals on

challenges_past.

Or if you prefer reading on a website, it's here.

Feedback is always welcome!

I've scoured the web and come up with what I hope is a fairly complete list of I-Man stories, writers, vids, archives, mailing lists, LJ communities, transcripts, and episode guides.

Invisible Man master list

The stories are split out by gen / het / slash and by pairing, but that's it -- no ratings, no warnings, no recs. I'm not listing stories on archives, only things I find on individual pages.*

If I'm missing anything, I would love to hear about it, either here or by email.

Please do pass the URL around to anywhere it might be useful. Thanks!

*The exceptions are teeny-tiny archives, or multi-fandom archives with tiny I-Man sections that seem unlikely to ever be expanded, or "archives" that are really one or two people's collected work. But once something gets up to 10-15+ stories by more than a couple of people, I list it strictly in the archive section.

Title: Candygram
Author: Arduinna
Illustrator:

cynicatlantis
Rating: G, preslash (McKay/Sheppard)
Summary: "Do you think it ate Colonel Sheppard?" Crackfic.
Spoilers: None.
Roughly 1,800 words

So, I posted a story in

merrymakings about a month ago to cheer

merryish up while she was recovering from surgery, inspired by a drawing

cynicatlantis had done. After she read the story, to my absolute delight,

cynicatlantis made several fabulous illos specifically for it, including the perfect cover. So, just in time for

merryish's birthday:

Candygram, broadband version (~400k, image-heavy)

Candygram, dialup version (~20k, linked images)

Happy birthday, Merry!

All of the new recs can be found on the What's New page.

Or go straight to the individual fandoms, with new recs at the top (everything's dated):

The Dark Is Rising

Doctor Who

Due South

Hercules: the Legendary Journeys

Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis

I broke out four fandoms into their own pages - Due South, Invisible Man, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate SG-1 - because they all had 10 or more recs and were making the mixed-fandom pages too crowded. If more fandoms reach that level, I'll break them out as well.

I also added a page that lets people look for recs by category -- nothing fancy, just a list of links to sets of my del.icio.us bookmarks for specific tags (e.g., everything I've got tagged as both h/c and recs).

I wrote two stories for Yuletide this year -- my assignment and a pinch hit. I'd never written anything in either fandom before, so Yuletide continues its tradition of making me try new things.

Jolly Roger
Boston Legal, written for Yochan
10k, gen (...ish), Alan and Denny

"I always thought I'd make a good pirate," Denny said idly.

my site

Yuletide archive

I Coulda Been a Defendant
Night Court, written for pepperlandgirl
10k, PG, Harry/Dan

Harry sees Dan in a whole new way.

my site

Yuletide archive

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