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Four things!

First, mamoru22 made this Merlin-As-Princess-Bride vid ( found via mklutz, whose links & recs today were, as usual, awesome):

Merlin - The Princess Bride from mamoru22 on Vimeo.

Second, although it's already been recc'd up down and all around town, the Star Trek reboot fic So Wise We Grow by captanddeaster is wonderful. Spock receives word that his son survived the destruction of Vulcan. Spock knows he doesn't have a son. [PLEASE NOTE: This isn't for you if discussion (oblique, but certainly text, not subtext) of Kirk's past experience as an abused child will make you uncomfortable or unwell.] (Kirk/Spock, NC-17, kid!fic, novel-length)

Third, Sue (30toseoul) has been posting excellent compilations of her favourite fandomsecrets contributions. Her journal is flocked, but she friends back most everyone. You can see her fandomsecrets compilations here: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

And lastly -- in case you missed the fandom wank of the week -- there was, briefly, an lj comm devoted to kink-free fic: kinkfreezone. ( explanations, recs, kink-free-bingo )

IN SUM: being in fandom is never ever boring. Also, Merlin is pretty and one of the scriptwriters needs to make him say "as you wish" SOON.

This isn't very long, so I'm not going to cut.

Fandom Resources
Some awesome person has put together a blog of all the songs used on the show Glee, including audio files to listen to online and links to buy the songs on iTunes, if you so desire. I admit to playing Matthew Morrison's cover of "The Thong Song," um, let's just say "more than once".

Recs: Star Trek & Star Trek RPS
So, first you need to go watch Fist/Kiss, by bendtothesun (an unbelievably hot Spock/Kirk vid, about how they, um, like to hit each other). Then, when you've got the visual of bruised, bloody and yet ungodly smokin' hot Chris Pine firmly in your mind's eye, you need to go read waketosleep's story, A Kiss With A Fist Is Better Than None, inspired by the vid. (I'd rate the vid R, and the story NC-17.)

You can thank me later. :-)

I admit, the premise of the_deep_magic's story, You Had Me At Pon Farr, where Zach (that's right, I said Zach) gets Pon Farr, is slightly ridiculous. But seriously, who cares. Zach Quinto, hit with Pon Farr, in need of sexytimes assistance by Chris Pine -- is there anything about that description that seems like you wouldn't read through anyway? (Pine/Quinto, NC-17, PWP)

Recs: Merlin RPS
franticsga's Lucky Knickers Will Get You Everywhere features an inexperienced and fixated Bradley James who can't stop thinking about Colin and what Colin could be doing with his mouth. I'm pretty sure that's the best formula for Merlin RPS ever invented.

onelittlesleep did fandom a favour and compiled all of Bradley James' dorky moments into one vid. Glorious.

Recs: Stargate (SGA & SG1)
eponymous_rose put together a giant SG-1 picspam of hugs, done season by season. I notice that many of the captions center on the theme "Daniel Jackson has had a bad day". It's true, that's a major Stargate motif - and it's probably there as fanservice, because hey, wouldn't you hug Michael Shanks every time he looked slightly woebegone?

princessofgeeks had a fandom hivemind moment and wrote the absolutely delicious harlequinesque fic You Never Get A Second Chance To Make A First Impression, in which Daniel is a wealthy relic-hunter Indiana Jones kinda guy (I think?) and Jack's undercover as his pool guy (Jack/Daniel, NC-17, favourite). I say "fandom hivemind moment" because she was inspired by kuonjil4's Satisfaction Guarantee, and didn't realize it 'till later. I think they're great together - princessofgeeks story acts as a natural (sexy) sequel, and I love the trope. Read kuonjil4's story first!

pir8fancier wrote a SGA epic the way that SGA epics used to be written, back when the fandom was new and shiny and we were all in love. Her Damned If You Do And Damned If You Don't is an absolutely fabulous post-canon story, where Atlantis is in San Fran bay, and Rodney's on vacation with Jennifer... when he realizes that something is extremely wrong. Link to part one of four - story is complete. (McKay/Sheppard, NC-17, action!)

So, Jason Momoa. You know him, right? Here are some pictures, if you've forgotten. Now, with that in mind, go read this. It's a scene from the novel "A Game Of Thrones," which is going to be made into a miniseries. Jason's been cast as Khal Drogo, which means he's going to be doing this scene. Naked. God bless the casting director responsible.

Time for some Mythbusters!

The "oh my god head colds are the devil" edition.

( Links )

( Recs: Buffyverse )

( Fic & Non-fic Recs: Ironman (and a couple Ironman crossovers) )

( Art, Fic & Vid Recs: Merlin )

( Recs: Merlin RPS )

( Recs: SGA )

( Recs: SPN and SPN:RPS )

( Rec: The West Wing )

I'm going back to bed, with ginger tea. Someone kick my immune system for me? kthx.

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.)

( Links )

( Recs: Buffyverse (and Buffy/SPN crossovers) )

( Rec: Due South )

( Recs: Firefly )

( Recs: Merlin (Fic & Vids) and Merlin:RPS )

( Recs: SGA )

( Recs: Supernatural )

( Recs: Torchwood )

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.)

I'm pretending it's still Sunday, and that my weekend didn't disappear into a haze of band practice and studying and generally not getting things done.

Fine, it's Monday. >:-(

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

( Links )

( Fic Rec: Bones (crossover with SPN) )

( Fic Rec: Lotrips -- WHAT. STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT. )

( Recs: Merlin )

( Rec: SG-1 )

( Recs: SGA )

( Vid Recs: Torchwood )

Filled with Yuletide goodness!

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

( Links )

( Crossover Fic Recs )

( Fic Recs: American Idol )

( Fic Recs: Bones )

( Fic Recs: Calvin & Hobbes )

( Fic Recs: Indiana Jones )

( Recs: Merlin )

( Fic Recs: SGA )

( Fic Recs: SPN-RPS )

( Fic Recs: Torchwood )

I hope you all had a lovely holiday and that 2008 was good to you!