Arduinna

I haven't done one of these in ages, but figured this was a good time to spread the word about some recs communities. These are all open to any fandoms, any genres, any ratings.

bestthingever is for recs of stories (and only stories, no other fanworks) that are no more than three months old; anyone can post.

fanart_recs is, as you might suspect, for reccing fanart. This one's run more along crack_van lines, with reccers signing up for a month to rec in their fandoms.

fancake is a themed rec community, where anyone can rec stories based on that month's theme. It's mainly fic-based, but any fanworks are welcome to be recced. Themes so far have been amnesia, telepathy, and superpowers, and a few times a year there's an amnesty period for reccing things under any previous theme. There's currently a poll to determine the next theme; I'm rooting for crossovers/fusion, myself.

list50 is for 50 recs at a time (or shorter lists during "minilist" challenges), on a reccer-chosen theme. The recs are generally just one line each - title, fandom, and link to story are the only required things, although people can add more info if they want. Anyone can post here.

And bonus community, which is restricted to gen fanfic but which is open to any fandom and apparently any rating:

gen_rec It's a little quiet right now, but I'd love to see this pick up, since I've only just discovered it. *g*

I watched Big Eden this week - it's been on my mental to-watch list since I saw gwyn's vid for it a few years ago, and it was every bit as sweet and warm and happy-making as I'd hoped it would be.

What I was not expecting was a scene that showed off Tim Dekay's very nice abs. Bonus!

Which I felt the need to share. *g* I didn't want to bother with embedding a video, so I went with an animated gif instead. The clip is a bit long for that (and I didn't want to cut too many frames out, to keep it relatively smooth), so unfortunately the file size is a bit big. The version under the cut is the smallest I have (cropped and half-size), and it's 2.2 MB, so give it a minute to load.

( pretty spoilers for a Big Eden scene *g* )

I don't want to kill anyone's bandwidth by putting it in the post, but here's a link to a larger version (still cropped, but full-size -- 7.8 MB).

For the record, this is what Peter would have looked like 10-11 years ago, back when he was dating and marrying Ell...

The short version of this post: I made an AO3 skin! And it is blue! \o/

( longer version cut for rambling and nested screencaps )

And to answer the question I know at least a few people will want to ask, this is how you increase the margins on story text so it's not sprawling across almost your entire browser:

#chapters { margin-right: 10%; margin-left: 10%; }

Those are the settings from the screencap, to give you an idea of what percentages you want to play with.

Yay for skins!