winter will never come for the likes of us

I hope everyone had an awesome holiday yesterday. Mine…was a thing. More on that later, for now I want to talk about all of my fic presents which are amazing and deserve to be adored by the universe at large. First of all, I was totally spoiled at yuletide this year with not one, but four awesome fics and ficlets. Then I also had lovely gift fics from my flist and from the crossover exchange and Lost HoHoHo. It's an embarrassment of riches, I kid you not.

Just Another Saturday Night (Ben & Tom, P&R)

“Dude, do you even live here?” he asked. “Or do you just rent this room to watch Game of Thrones?”

“Well, actually, the free HBO is the reason I picked this hotel instead of something closer - What are you even doing here?

Tom and Ben buddy fic with lovely, giggle-inducing dialogue and My Little Pony references. I could easily see every bit of this happening on the show, that’s how awesome this fic is.

A Little Awesome Life Planning (Ben & Tom, Ben/Leslie, P&R)

Tom spins around in his chair and opens up Farmville and Pimpville. Whatever, Ben can just be boring and non-depressed and Tom doesn’t have to care about it or worry for his well-being and lack of bro cred or anything.

Ben accidentally causes Tom to have a drunken existential crisis. Waffles ensue. It kills me how flawless Tom is in this. His voice is so dead-on it’s almost unreal. Plus, Leslie’s there! GUH, it’s wonderful. Go read it! :D

Vows (Schmidt/Gretchen, New Girl)

He ends up in the coat closet with Gretchen, a musty scarf tied tightly around his head, covering his eyes.

To be fair, she was wearing a dress this time, since it's summer.

Gretchen and Schmidt’s wedding hook-up greatest hits. Funny and sharp and so perfectly them I almost couldn’t deal with the awesome.

Seventh or Eighth Verse Same as the First (Henry/Casey, Party Down)

It wasn’t that he was rejected, or that he was terrible, it was that he wasn’t a match, or that they were idiots. Most of the time, it was that they were idiots, incredible, self-absorbed assholes. He felt comfortable now with that assumption.

Post-series, Henry indulges in a good luck ritual with Casey. Sweet, with just the right punch of realism that makes Henry/Casey and Party Down so much fun.


the record you used to play (Hurley & Sayid, Lost)

“Well, back in high school when one of my friends was really down because his dog died, we took him on a road trip. It was my mom’s idea. It’s like, the all-American cure for the blues.”

Sayid’s brow wrinkles in confusion. “But Charlie is English.”

“Yeah, and we’re on an island with no roads. So we gotta improvise. That’s why I’m thinking we should go on a camping trip.”

This is the Lost fic of dreams. It’s like a magnificent lost episode that fell behind Darlton’s (no, scratch that, this would definitely be a Kitsis & Horwitz ep, which is to say bittersweet and fun) desk. Camping, friendship, mythology—everything I love and so much more. I’ve already read it five times in three days.

all you have to do is call my name by dollsome(Schmidt/Cece, New Girl)

“Oh!” he says, jumping up and spilling a few drops of tea on some exposed thigh. “Gyahhhhh-that-burns! Uh. I mean. Lady Cecilia. Damn, girl. What up. You caught me. Hectic work week, you know. Rockin’ this weekend, Rebecca Black style! Partyin’, partyin’. Got my Tazo, got my ‘mono, got my Stars Hollow shenanigans. Ballin’.”

New Girl + Gilmore Girls x Cece/Schmidt adorableness = AMAZINGNESS.

Reach Out by norgbelulah (Tim/Raylan, Justified)

Tim’s hand comes around the back of Raylan’s neck before he even gets a glimpse of the boy out of the corner of his eye. He’s just there, a solid presence at Raylan’s back, then right next to him, looking fondly into his eyes and Raylan can barely think of why he would be touching him like that.

An AU where Tim is Raylan’s partner in Miami. In other words, my favorite universe of all the universes. This fic creates such a complete world and it’s so fully realized I never wanted it to end.

Surprise Visit by gottalovev (Miles/Bela, Lost/SPN)

What are you doing here," he asks, leaning against the doorway to his living room, arms crossed across his chest defensively. There's nothing in there that Bela hasn't stolen already, but it's the principle of things.

Sometimes I wish I could just hire gottalovev to write Miles/Bela for me full time.
She always paints such a vivid picture of the places where their lives could have intersected and she just gets both of the characters in a way that I envy. So perfect.

Crash Course in Interplanetary Diplomacy by shinealightonme (Abed, Troy, Annie, Claudia, and Myka, Community/Warehouse 13)

"A strange, unexplained light in the night sky...the next day, a stranger shows up with no identity, an individualistic cowboy attitude, no memory of her past – "

"No memory?"

"I'm extrapolating a little. But it's way too much convenient to be just a coincidence."

This fic…I don’t even know what to say. If these shows ever had a crossover episode, this would be the result right down to the spot-on dialogue and the inadvertent time travelling. I love every single thing about this story. Every. Single. Thing.

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It's a Wonderful Life. Christmas isn't Christmas without at least one viewing.

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I celebrate Christmas because I enjoy the decorations and plethora of TV specials...not to mention the food. I try not to focus on the religious aspect of the holiday. Mine is a secular celebration, for sure.

Dear Yuletide Author,

Hi, there! Okay, so you got me and since I’m the fandom equivalent of the cat lady from The Simpsons, chances are you don’t know me unless you’re one of the lovely people on my flist. Don’t let that worry you. I’ll love whatever you write for me. I swear. I already love you for having such awesome taste in fandoms! I am ridiculously easy to please fic-wise, but I’m sure you’re thinking, “Gee, that’s nice, but not at all helpful.” So in an effort to be less vague I’m going to give you a general list of things I like and things that hit my squick button, then I’ll offer up some fandom specific ideas. But please don’t feel bound by my ideas. My fic writing philosophy is follow your muse and do what feels right for you. As I said above, I will love whatever you write for me and I absolutely mean that.

( likes, dislikes and assorted rambling )

Title: pockets full of stones
Pairing: Jo/John
Word count: 1,404
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Kripke and company. Title from the Florence + Machine song, “What the Water Gave Me.”
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Off-screen character deaths, sexual situations.
Summary: In front of them is the road. Behind them are the ghosts, the dead, all the things they buried. AU season two.
A/N: Written for ghostwriter056 as part of spnraritiesfest.A big thank you to dulcedeusex for the beta! Any lingering mistakes are my own.

( “You’re going to have to get hard,” he says, voice rough like sandpaper. )

My Favorite Episode:


credit: forsakenwitchery

1x11 “Missing”

“Missing” was basically The Killing’s version of a bottle episode. It was a welcome break from the Rosie Larson drama that doubled as a crash course in “why Sarah Linden is both awesome and kind of screwed up.” Her son goes missing and she and Holder spend one rainy day driving around Seattle looking for him and talking about pork rinds and their personal lives and it is basically the greatest thing that happened to me all of last season. It made me yearn for a show where Sarah and Holder just drove around and chatted all of the time.

It’s a terrific character piece for both Sarah and Holder and their burgeoning partnership. Sarah is more vulnerable in “Missing” than she is in any other ep and her fear for jack is so raw that at times it became squirm in my seat unbearable, but I couldn’t look away. I love when we get to see Sarah the cop and Sarah the mother converge and we see her operating on both wavelengths at once here: she knows the streets, she knows what kind of danger is out there even more than your average non-detective parent does. This is the first ep where we (and Holder) get to see Sarah let her guard down and it’s amazing and painful to watch. I came out of “Missing” feeling like I knew who Sarah was and what made her tick in a way the previous ten outings hadn’t conveyed.

Recs:

All Their Thinkers, All Their Ghosts by lowriseflare

The Sarah characterization in this is so spot on it blows my mind.

Icons by x_holdfasthope

I commend this awesome person for making The Killing icons. There’s a lovely one of Sarah on her own and some nice partner icons as well.

Closeskies
Dallowayward
NolongerTwo

These ladies make/reblog gorgeous graphics for The Killing and since Sarah is the show, there’s plenty of gorgeous picspams and such featuring her. Speaking of pretty Tumblr graphics, this one is both gorgeous and the perfect summation of Sarah’s character.

10 Reasons Why I Love Evi

1. She’s a rogue. A lady rogue and honestly, most guys that get described as rogues don’t do it for me, but you give me a con-artist lady smuggler and my eyes turn into hearts every time.

2. She banters!

3. She’s loyal to the people she loves; we may not know the particulars of why she was working for The Rev, but we do know that she did everything she did for Duke.

4. She’s fearless. This is a lady who happily breaks into cop cars and demands answers from snipers.

5. As entwashian pointed out she was totally doing shots with Nathan at bar.

6. Evi knows what she wants and she goes after it whether it’s a man or potential buried treasure.

7. Her gorgeous, gorgeous hair.

8. Because she’s got an edge to her. She’s a tad bit morally ambiguous, and more than willing to cross lines. She fills the Bela Talbot shaped hole in my heart quite nicely.

9. She throws Duke off balance. He’s not so cool around her, she challenges him and she’s playful with them and the easy dynamic between them makes me happy in ways that I can’t even express.

10. Because if Evi were a real person and she knew how many fangirls disliked her, I have no doubt she’d laugh her ass off.

Title: it’s the pirate's life for me
Pairing: Evi/Duke
Rating: PG-13
Words: 169
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A/N: Pre-series. Written for the womenlovefest.

( The first time Duke takes her out onto the ocean with the belly of the boat stuffed full of illicit goods, she feels it. )