Everyone else is doing this (sort of), so...
What with it being the end of the year and all that, I thought I’d be terribly self-indulgent and make a list of the J/D fics I’ve enjoyed most this year. I’ve tried to limit myself to one or two from my favourite authors - but as I’ve said before, you can’t go wrong reading any of their stuff.
akalettucehead was as usual incredibly prolific this year, and wrote some fabulous post-eps and independent stories and it was difficult to pick just a couple. But in the end, I’m going for We Keep Killing Off the Houseplants as my favourite of hers this year. And she’s one of the few writers who can get Toby right, I think, so I’m going to add Sanity and Salads which is a post ep for Life on Mars - a conversation between Josh and Toby. But I could easily have picked about half a dozen others.
I think bexatious' fabulous Ten Men just scrapes in as it was posted at the beginning of January 2006 - that’s one of my all time favourite fics - and I loved her Transition post ep, The Life Worth Living
cantbesilent has written some excellent fic, but I still think my favourite has to be her first one, You Think. And she’s just posted a wonderful post-Transition fic, so if you haven’t read it, GO NOW! The Heart and the Breath which has immediately made the list (!)
christinekh wrote a long and fabulous AU S6/7 fic, Coming Back to You which has Josh and Donna as a couple throughout most of S6&7 whilst (mostly) canon events unfold. (And she wrote me Donna getting to lick ice cream off Josh, and for that I will be forever in her debt!!)
You all know I’m dianora2’s biggest fan, so again, it’s hard to pick just a couple, but I think I’ll go for her post ep to Election Day I - not just because of the smut (which is, of course, excellent) but because it just fits so perfectly with the way things went in canon. The Skin of My Emotion. Honourable mention also goes to her two post-Transition fics Scenes From a Vacation We’ll Never See and Sex Scenes from a Vacation We’ll Never See.
In Silence by emrie is another excellent post ED1 fic which really captures the awkwardness and uncertainty between the characters.
The Pennies and Gold Exhange by imperviousness was fun and sweet and also, mindness wrote a pair of excellent ‘Hawaii’ fics - The Staying Thing and The Thing About Staying
quaggy-mire’s Expecting was just wonderful - a completely different take on Josh, Donna and their kids that hasn’t been bettered. Could Have Been is also a favourite of mine.
It was another hard choice to pick just a couple of salr323's fics because all her stuff’s so good, but I’d definitely single out her ‘vacation’ fic - A Truly Excellent Notion and her post ep for ED2, What Dreams May Come.
From Speranza- The Age of Aquarius and Epihpany
Over at TNL, there's Chai’s Patriot Acts . It’s angsty, dark and political, but well written and a good read.
Jen Wilson’s For the Most Part is quite possibly the best thing she’s ever written - the Lyman marriage through the years. Bit of a tear-jerker so have the Kleenex to hand!
And finally, reminding us that crack!fic is alive and well, the superb Republicans End the World Accidentally by storydivagirl
There are bound to be some I’ve forgotten, and you’ve probably already read most or all of these, but I hope there are some here that you might not have read in a while and will like to re-visit! Feel free to prod me if you think I've missed out something I shouldn't have!
Oh, and I was trying to get a list of new fic recs together for before Christmas, but real life and porn-writing intervened. So I’ll try to get it ready over the next few days, just in case any of you want some decent stuff to read to get through that period of post-festive blues!
akalettucehead was as usual incredibly prolific this year, and wrote some fabulous post-eps and independent stories and it was difficult to pick just a couple. But in the end, I’m going for We Keep Killing Off the Houseplants as my favourite of hers this year. And she’s one of the few writers who can get Toby right, I think, so I’m going to add Sanity and Salads which is a post ep for Life on Mars - a conversation between Josh and Toby. But I could easily have picked about half a dozen others.
I think bexatious' fabulous Ten Men just scrapes in as it was posted at the beginning of January 2006 - that’s one of my all time favourite fics - and I loved her Transition post ep, The Life Worth Living
cantbesilent has written some excellent fic, but I still think my favourite has to be her first one, You Think. And she’s just posted a wonderful post-Transition fic, so if you haven’t read it, GO NOW! The Heart and the Breath which has immediately made the list (!)
christinekh wrote a long and fabulous AU S6/7 fic, Coming Back to You which has Josh and Donna as a couple throughout most of S6&7 whilst (mostly) canon events unfold. (And she wrote me Donna getting to lick ice cream off Josh, and for that I will be forever in her debt!!)
You all know I’m dianora2’s biggest fan, so again, it’s hard to pick just a couple, but I think I’ll go for her post ep to Election Day I - not just because of the smut (which is, of course, excellent) but because it just fits so perfectly with the way things went in canon. The Skin of My Emotion. Honourable mention also goes to her two post-Transition fics Scenes From a Vacation We’ll Never See and Sex Scenes from a Vacation We’ll Never See.
In Silence by emrie is another excellent post ED1 fic which really captures the awkwardness and uncertainty between the characters.
The Pennies and Gold Exhange by imperviousness was fun and sweet and also, mindness wrote a pair of excellent ‘Hawaii’ fics - The Staying Thing and The Thing About Staying
quaggy-mire’s Expecting was just wonderful - a completely different take on Josh, Donna and their kids that hasn’t been bettered. Could Have Been is also a favourite of mine.
It was another hard choice to pick just a couple of salr323's fics because all her stuff’s so good, but I’d definitely single out her ‘vacation’ fic - A Truly Excellent Notion and her post ep for ED2, What Dreams May Come.
From Speranza- The Age of Aquarius and Epihpany
Over at TNL, there's Chai’s Patriot Acts . It’s angsty, dark and political, but well written and a good read.
Jen Wilson’s For the Most Part is quite possibly the best thing she’s ever written - the Lyman marriage through the years. Bit of a tear-jerker so have the Kleenex to hand!
And finally, reminding us that crack!fic is alive and well, the superb Republicans End the World Accidentally by storydivagirl
There are bound to be some I’ve forgotten, and you’ve probably already read most or all of these, but I hope there are some here that you might not have read in a while and will like to re-visit! Feel free to prod me if you think I've missed out something I shouldn't have!
Oh, and I was trying to get a list of new fic recs together for before Christmas, but real life and porn-writing intervened. So I’ll try to get it ready over the next few days, just in case any of you want some decent stuff to read to get through that period of post-festive blues!