We were playing in the surf-MzA, Leah, and me-today, plashing merrily in the salty sandy water, when Leah looked down at a broken bit of oyster I had offered her (a luminous lavendergrey shard) and said, “My shell!”

( Michelle )

please tell me where this--the first vague beginnings of what G has dubbed "Kate's Multiple Gap Theory" (ahahaha) but which i am calling ZOMG SO MANY QUESTIONS!--makes sense and where it does not. i am getting tangled in the language, which is an occupational hazard with semiotics, and am very tired (as well as medicated to the gills)... so i need ( Read more... )

Except maybe Peter Petrelli, my God. But I digress.
Please, please, please, Lords of Kobol: do not let RDM (and/or the PTB) ruin this season of Battlestar Galactica, I beg you! Because a bad end would, I think, retroactively spoil the whole series; I can live with last season's rushed pacing and superficial narrative, its ridiculous attempts at ( Read more... )

To celebrate the return of the second half of Stargate: Atlantis (Season Four), I give you the happiest McShep vid ever: Four Years (Of a "Life Extraordinary") by Fabella.

My favorite episodes of the first half of the season, the ones my mind has lingered on the most, were all about John's darkness: his fears, and what he will do (who he is capable ( Read more... )

"Written by the Victors"
(a novel of future history)
by Speranza

It is likely, then, that Se Narsaugir, like its companions in the Liant Codex, will remain as much a source of mystery as of enlightenment to scholars seeking to understand the literatures and histories circulating around the Secession and the Great Schism with Terra that ( Read more... )

The Doctor / Rose Tyler: the Oncoming Storm and the Bad Wolf
"I'm the Doctor, and this is Rose. She's my 'plus one'."
It's better with two.

Fade Together vid by MartoufMarty (Nine/Rose/Ten)
"When you're far away / O God you are so far away..."
The Doctor and Rose, together and apart.

"Roundabout" or the swiftly tilting planet fic, by Casira
(Nine, Rose, ( Read more... )

Three vids:
Die Another Day vid by MartoufMarty (Peter, Sylar, a bit of Claude)
Being an empath is not all it's cracked up to be, and life as a bomb sucks.

Goodnight, Moon vid by BradCPU (ensemble)
The only way to describe this is as a fever dream, with Mr Muggles assuming a strangely ominous role.

The Wreckoning vid by Charmax (NikiJessica)
She came, ( Read more... )

Well, here you have it: three months of fiction addiction (and mono-induced sloth) reduced to a single recs post.

SGA: why I <3 McShep (stages of love)
1. “Share” by RagePrufrock (Rodney and John friendship; episode tag for The Return Part One)
He's never been a part of something like he was in Atlantis. Maybe it's a betrayal, but even more than he ( Read more... )

"Hall of Mirrors" by KatieM (a set of AUs for Lantash and Martouf)
Lantash keeps him bald, at his request. When people ask him why, he affects an expression of mild incomprehension and says, very sweetly, "Why not?"
"Snakeskin: the Tok'Ra in Five Acts" by KatieM (all the rest of the Tok'Ra we know)
I liked the Jacob Carter and Selmak one the best: ( Read more... )

SGA: the City on the Edge of Forever *
Major or Lt Colonel John Sheppard / Dr Rodney McKay--aka McShep:
"Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose"
(Rodney POV; character death, futurefic)
There is a gravestone in Arlington National Cemetery. It sits watch over an empty grave, and there is a vine with small blue flowers, one the gardeners ( Read more... )