Sunday Links & Recs Post: Things I Found That You Might Like

[merrily]

The "am I supposed to be at band practice?" edition.

(Standard PSA: In case you're new to my lj, I make these posts every Sunday. They're all tagged, for your convenience.)


Salted Water For Boiling [Epicurious]. Come for the recipe, stay for the comments.

Smile! Polaroid is Saved, courtesy of an eccentric Austrian artist.

Disorder in the American Courts: things purportedly actually said in court. Okay, so no one can really be this quick-witted. But it was funny anyway.


nwhepcat wrote Like The White Winged Dove, the one where Dean isn't the only one Castiel has saved.

pocketfullof wrote She Ain't Cautious, the one where Jo's out hunting, and Faith's out rescuing, and they cross paths.

tesla321 wrote It Is The Hour of Departure, an awesome, wrenching Faith/Wes quickie, totally in character, totally hot, totally heart-string pulling.


nifra_idri wrote Catch My Troubled Head, the one where Ray realizes he can't live without Frase. So much delicious, in-character angst! (Fraser/Kowalski, R, hurt/comfort)


inalasahl wrote Better To (Autumn Harvest Mix), about Zoe, post-Miranda, finding her feet again, and staying rooted in Serenity's family. (Zoe/Mal, Inara/Mal, team!, lovely, R)

voleuse wrote Into The Uttered Night, a lovely precanon, premarriage Wash/Zoe bit, where they have to go to ground after a job gone wrong, and Zoe doesn't want Wash to take care of her, so he's not trying. Nope.


astolat wrote Coming Of Age, which follows her previous origin story, Beltane.

Cherry Ice vidded Unsteady Ground, a fantastic Morgana-POV vid. Morgana can see the future. She doesn't want to.

claire_debonair wrote Not Quite Mary Poppins, and its sequel Not Quite Mrs. Banks, where Merlin is a manny and Arthur is trying heroically to not molest his employee. :-)

fabella vidded Make You Smile [imeem], which is basically an excuse to put all the footage of Colin smiling in one place. I HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH THIS.

greensilver, she of the very awesome girl!Merlin story, wrote Two For One (not part of the girl!Merlin AU), aka the one where Merlin tells Arthur that Merlin threw a magic sword in the lake, and Arthur's the only one who can get it out, and Arthur gets all puffed up about it. Bonus Lancelot appearance.

khirsah wrote State of Being, where Merlin & Morgana aren't the only ones with magic. [Porn Battle entry] (Arthur/Merlin, NC-17)

ladyflowdi wrote Birds & Bees, the one where Merlin teaches Arthur the fine art of, um, lying back and thinking of Albion. God, I adore Arthur-is-an-untouched-innocent stories. :-) (Arthur/Merlin, NC-17, first-time)

lavvyan wrote The Sword In The Stone: And yet somehow, in all the stories, no one had thought it important to mention that the sword wasn't so much a sword, as it was a man.

robot_sky wrote (wires/fingers) crossed, where Merlin gets named "Lord of the Bedchamber," but he doesn't bother asking about the duties involved before he says yes. (Arthur/Merlin, ahahahaha, R)

You've probably watched this already, but if you somehow missed solanyxe's VERY EXCELLENT vid, Reach Out & Touch Me, you need to go do it right now. Metaphorical shooting of unicorns in a homoerotic context will never not be awesome. (Arthur/Merlin)

solign vidded Be Our Guest [YouTube], which is MADE OF WIN. ("Tie a napkin round your neck, cheri, and we will do the rest.")

srin wrote Underdeveloped Instinct, in which there is snuggling. For warmth. :-) (Arthur/Merlin, UST, PG)

sweetestdrain wrote Peach, Plum, Pear. Merlin has been gone for twelve years when Arthur decides to hold tryouts for a court magician. (Arthur/Merlin, NC-17, angst, hurt/comfort)

the_orange_nin vidded Every Fear You've Ever Faced, which is heavy on the aesthetically-pleasing angst.

twobees wrote Moments of Weakness, in which Arthur is drunk and grabby. (Arthur/Merlin, NC-17)

waldorph wrote All The Laughter From Before, which is huge and epic and combines the legend with the BBC show, and then goes post-canon and god, I loved it. I do not want to give away anything -- but I urge you to continue reading even if it feels (pretty close to the beginning) like the sunshine is gone forever. (Arthur/Merlin, hurt/comfort, NC-17)

AND THESE ARE THE RPS fics. I feel so dirty. They're such babies! and here I am thinking of them naked!

Spiny wrote this untitled bit, in which Bradley's a bit unsettled by all the hot sex he's having, and that he's always on the bottom. (I'm ashamed of myself. But this was a fantastic drabble.)

timetraveled wrote Dog Bites & Love Bites, aka the one where Colin gets bitten by a dog and Bradley absolutely does not go crazy with worry. (Colin/Bradley, sweetness, R)


chattycatsmeow wrote Name Calling By Cowardly Lion, the one where John tells Rodney that Rodney could give him a pet name. Y'know, if Rodney wanted to. *hearts emotionally retarded John Sheppard* (McKay/Sheppard, R, sweetness)

leupagus wrote Happy Tails To You (until we meet again), aka the one where Ancient!tech gives the team tails. And they all like it, except for Sheppard.

lunabee34 wrote Slip, the one where John goes and buys lingerie. A most worthy contribution to the cross-dressing!Sheppard body of fanon. (McKay/Sheppard, NC-17)

mirabile_dictu wrote Kahlua, which is team, on the pier, drinkin'. (McKay/Sheppard, Dex/Emmagen/Kanaan, drinkin', awesome, NC-17)

sabinalagrande wrote Press-ganged, aka the one where fast-talking geeks get John hot. [Porn Battle] (Jackson/McKay/Sheppard, NC-17)

xparrot wrote Out In The Open for SGA Secret Santa last year, but somehow I missed it then. Totally awesome action story in which Team goes looking for one of Michael's labs, gets caught in an avalanche, and then have to contend with a raiding party of Wraith.


concernedlily wrote Three Times Sam & Dean Went To Church, which is just AWESOME. (wee!chesters, PG)

dotfic wrote Pretzels, a great Dean/Ellen snippet. *hearts on Ellen*

extraonions also wrote a Dean/Ellen story: Cold As Ice.

innie_darling wrote I Like The Girls With The Boom, which is a story about teenage!Dean falling in love with a smart shy motormouth teenage girl. *hearts this story* (Dean/OFC, sweetness, first-time, NC-17)


morebliss made Stationary Hub, a story in pictures, where they're all paperclips. And Jack's a bit bent. :-)

derryderrydown wrote Pobol y Ffaglcoedwig. Jack finds Ianto in the basement of the Hub, just after Ianto's settled Lisa for the night. Ianto is desperate to distract Jack. I've read other stories with this premise that have searingly hot sex -- this, instead, is excellently awkward. Jack's oblivious, Ianto's feeling conflicted, the sex is bad-but-good-but-weird.

Aha! not supposed to be at band practice. Good. It would have been hard to use "I was busy pointing people to awesome fanfic" as an excuse. (We're not that kind of band. Yet.)

Comments

[ana-grrl.livejournal.com]

The salt link is high-larious!

Personally, I wish that they would tell me what kind of salt I should be using for best results. Are we talking Hawaiian Lava salt? Himalayan pink salt? Maldon salt? Or, that rare and delicious Peruvian pink salt?

[merrilily.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. You should leave that as a review on the recipe.

[mklutz]

Recs! I am saving a bunch of these to read later. Thanks!

[merrilily.livejournal.com]

Welcome! I highly recommend starting with the Merlin vids. (They're all things I bookmarked on delicious, though -- aren't you in my network there? If so, these won't be that different.)