jasmasson

Damn, some of these are HARD.

Pitting Jack and Daniel against John and Rodney? Original K/S against reboot K/S? That's just mean!

http://www.afterelton.com/poll/2012/08/ultimate-slash-madness-tourney-round-one

Oh, that's annoying. You wait until a WIP is finished to read it and then, after reading x thousand words, there's a cliffhanger ending and the promise of a sequel.

*seethe*

Stuff I've been reading recently in a range of fandoms (I really need to commit to one) that has been AMAZING.

1) Julia Roberts Sits on a Throne of Lies by smithereen, Hocky RPS, Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane, NC17, whore!fic, WIP, in which Tazer is the worst hooker ever and Kaner sucks at paying for sex. OK, I have never seen these guys play a game of hockey but that doesn't matter, even if you know nothing at all about them, this is brilliant.

FYI, all I know about hockey I learnt from Of Hawks and Hands a F/K 200,000 word fic by dsudis. If you like slash and haven't read this you have no idea what you've been missing out on. You will forever rue the days weeks months and years in which you had not read this fic. Easily one of my top 20 fics of all time.

2) Team Building Activities by valtyr, 38,000 words, The Avengers, Steve/Tony, R. The best avengers fic I've read, I think.

3) The Illusion of Life by toestastegood, Heroes, Mylar, 6,600 words, set in the 5 years gone universe, read the author's warnings. Shona writes in many fandoms very much to my taste, and this is the best Mylar fic I've ever read (I read it years ago, it was written straight after Season One, I think). Brilliant fic, just as good on the re-read.

4) Kings of the Mountain by sloganeer, The Social Network, 12,000 words, Mark/Eduardo, NC17, AU. Nice AU in which the separation never happened and they slowly developed a relationship instead. Lovely, sexy, curtain!fic.

So, this is my top 10 fic on AO3 in hit order.

1) The Mechanical Heart. 4,000 words. PG. Holmes/Watson gen. They discover the Victorian Age was one of great danger as well as great advancement.

2) Bertram and Bunnies. Jeeves and Wooster 1,700 words, PG13, Slash. There's something loose in Bertie's bedroom...

3) Crumpled: The Social Network, Eduardo/Mark, NC17, 1,300 words, for this prompt at the the tsn_kinkmeme, warnings for PWP, D/s, underwear kink, orgasm control. Porn, is what I'm saying here. Maybe slightly disturbing porn - Eduardo keeps himself useful while he waits for Mark to finish coding...

4) Touching Times : Arthur/Merlin, NC17, 3,500 words, warning for spanking and toys, for the prompt 'skin hunger' at kinkme_merlin - He couldn’t remember the last time his father had touched him.

5) Off the Script: Completed 3 part, J2, NC17, 22,000 words – Jensen and Jared are porn stars! Warnings for vague hinted reference to past abuse, spanking, cross-dressing and schmoop. spn_j2_bigbang 2007 entry.

6) In Retrospect (I'd rather have been a poet): Completed 4 parts, J2, NC17, 23,000 words – Jensen and Jared are secret agents! Warning - non-explicit reference to past abuse and non-con. spn_j2_bigbang 2009 entry.

7) One Day. James Bond, Bond/boy!Moneypenny, slash, PG, 500 words. John Moneypenny works for M. So does James Bond

8) Chuck Norris and John McClane Walk into a Bar. Die Hard 4, Gen, PG, 1,400 words. ... the bar immediately exploded. Just to save waiting for the inevitable.

9) Maybe Baby: Clex, PG13, 10,000 words, Lex reverts to childhood.

10) Palm to Palm: Arthur/Merlin, PG13, 5,700 for amythystluna for the hs_merlin challenge, In which Merlin writes his own obscure indie shit, thank you very much. Merlin's lyrics probably aren't as good as Shakespeare's verses, but then Arthur's no Romeo.

It tells me:

-that my first attempt at Yuletide was very successful, as 1, 2 and 7 were the yuletide fics that year, and the first things I put on AO3. Subsequent attempts at yuletide got barely any hits at all :( (Even though one of them, about Myron and Win, is one of my favourite things I've ever written).

-I'm too not surprised to see Off the Script creeping up to 5 because it was by far the most popular fic I ever wrote. It's only as low as 5 on here because I put in on AO3 with absolutely no announcements anywhere, and it wouldn't even have been on the AO3 recent works list under SPN because as I imported it in it has the same date (2007) so people would just have been trickling in to read it.

-My biggest surprise was Maybe Baby in at number 9. A very old fic in a very old fandom. I think someone must have rec'd it recently, though, because I've had quite a few kudo on it recently, which makes me happy.

- My favourite? None of these! It's 'Popularity', which I wrote about 8 years ago - F/K in DueSouth fandom. A paltry 142 hits D: Again, no fic announcement when I put it on there, but still! Of these? Probably Palm to Palm.

Show me yours?

I am sad that there is no Suits in FMM D:



For the first time since I started watching Supernatural and saw Dean Winchester, I'm watching a show where every episode I'm suddenly struck by the thought at least three times: 'Good God, that's a good looking man.'



Also, for the first time since then, there's a new number one on my celebrity shag list. Helllllllloooo Andrew Garfield. Sry, Jay-red. I do still love you and your sparkly balloons, though. <3 You're number two! \o?

Go here for the Social Network Fic of your dreams.



Eduardo's face was just meant to be framed by fluffy bunny ears, don't you think?

1) Yuletide:

I did yuletide again this year. Sadly, it was not the universally positive experience it had been in previous years as my recipient has not responded to my fic which, as you can imagine, makes me feel pretty awful. However, I wrote two pinch-hits, which the recipients were very kind about, so I probably will still do it next year. Particularly as I got such an awesome Toy Soldiers fic as my gift. \o/

The fics are the top three here at my AO3. They are:
1) Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar novels, gen, 2.2k, PG13, casefic;
2) Holy Flying Circus (Monty Python RPF), sort of John/Michael, PG13, 1.2k, mostly dialogue; and
3) Wolverine: Origins, Logan/Remy/Victor, NC17, 2.2k, mostly porn.

For serious, though, if you haven't seen Holy Flying Circus, about the debate on a chat show on Monty Python's Life of Brian when it was released, it was an awesome show. A one-off at about 1.5 hours long, and one of my TV highlights for 2011. You can download it from the link at my recipient's DYW letter here if you like. Well worth it, I assure you.

Major thanks to tehomet, montmorency and gestaltrose for various stepping into last-minute beta breeches. <3333

2) New Year Resolutions.

a) To update my DW/LJ once a week.
b) To loose 30 pounds.
c) To do some training at work and not rest on my laurels.
d) To write 1,000 per week. Not 52,000 words per year (although I would obviously take that!), but get some words out every week. Wish me luck!

So far, only a) is going well ;)

In the past I'm SURE my timezone has worked for me on yuletide and I've been able to dash on while my transatlantic chums have been asleep before Christmas dinner to check out my gift and even a few more. Not today, alas, as the archive wasn't up until half an hour before we sat down to Christmas dinner BUT it was so worth the wait!

A beautiful Toy Soldiers Billy and Joey fic for me! \o/ In actual fact, Toy Soldiers was the reason I started doing yuletide three years ago, because I was looking for TS fic and could only find it on the yuletide archive. And now I have a TS fic of my own to hug and squeeze and call JoeyGeorge! ♥_♥

http://archiveofourown.org/works/294251

More recs later, because I only quickly nipped on to read my gift. Hope you guys are having an happy holidays! <3