I think J and I are off to run errands and maybe actually do something with this slug of a day, but have some more Yuletide recs, from both archives.

Fandom: Eastwick

well, maybe just a half a drink more (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: It doesn't take long for annual martini night to turn into what Darryl would call "some serious debauchery".

This is a sexy fun story about women and magic and sex. Lovely and fitting to the show.

Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (Fairy Tale)

Beleza and the B.E.A.S.T. (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: Belaza was angry with her father for selling her to the B.E.A.S.T. in order to settle some old shipping debts, but mostly she was frightened--frightened of what her life would be like on the space station, of the empty corridors and the lonely days, and, more than anything else, frightened of the B.E.A.S.T. itself, the Biomechanical Electronic Ahuman Sentience Transfer which was responsible for all of the station's functioning.

AWESOME rewrite.

Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (Disney movie)

A Different Path (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: The Beast wasn't turned human again and is wasting away in misery.

The Beast stays a beast! What more do you need to know? This is the ending I always wanted for the movie.

Fandom: Hellboy (movieverse)

Stars are Born (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: Hellboy has chased werewolves into plenty of strange places, but this one might just take the cake.

This combines two of my favorite things and I love it.

Fandom: Little Red Riding Hood (fairy tale) and Rapunzel (fairy tale)

Soldier On (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: Red's cloak didn't always used to be red, and Rapunzel's hair wasn't always so short.

Red and Rapunzel in a post-war world is AWESOME.

Fandom: Fringe

Cleanliness and Hard Work (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: A short introspection into how Astrid views herself and the lab. (Goes through Season 2, Ep 9, "Snakehead")

Astrid fic for the win! I love the scenes of Astrid and the lab and the way her views of it and herself change with time.

Help Wanted
Summary: Astrid didn't want to be Walter Bishop's lab assistant. Unfortunately, neither did anyone else.

Another amazing Astrid fic, with a great look inside her head and her reasons for not wanting to work with Walter, and her reasons for finally deciding to do so. I love Astrid so much anyway, and here she is amazing.

Fandom: Thriller (music video)

The Funk of Forty Thousand Years (Yuletide Madness)

Deliciously fun and creepy.

Fandom: Lost Boys (1987)

Hynopompic (Yuletide Madness)
Summary: David... won. In a way.

Michael dreams in a delicious, twisty, dark little story.

Fandom: Secret Garden - Burnett

Wick
Summary: Dickon's first year after he comes home from the war.

This is heartbreaking, painful and lovely, with a couple spots with gorgeous turns of phrase.

Fandom: Saving Face

Yum Cha
Summary: Even after you get your happy ending, you've still got to get up in the morning and deal with your relatives. And yourself. A story about trains, family, and dim sum.

This is lovely.

Fandom: Saddle Club - Bryant

A New Home, A New Chapter
Summary: Lisa Atwood is moving to Colorado for college and plans to stay at the Bar None Ranch, but a fight with her mother causes those plans to come to fruition faster than she'd anticipated. Mild AU; this is a future-fic that follows the continuity of The Saddle Club but not the Pine Hollow series.

I love Lisa here, bisexual and proud and dealing with a lot of shit without losing her sense of humor or her love of life.

Fandom: Whip It

Purple
Summary: When she had been in high school, Bliss had thought that escaping from Bodeen and the beauty pageant circuit and getting to avoid real college would be so perfect that she wouldn't ever be unhappy. But it was hard for her to make friends at work, and her derby friends didn't know how to talk about anything else. Bliss kind of sucked at making friends, but she almost didn't need them, 'cause she still had Pash.

This is sweet and sexy and hilarious and so very in character.

Fandom: Bend It Like Beckham

Five Days, Five Months
Summary: Coming to the US was the last thing Jess thought would put a rift in her relationship with Jules, but the moment she arrives everything starts to change.

This is such a sweet story, slightly sad but mostly just adorable and lovely and wonderful, Jess and Jules growing apart and then coming back together in a whole new way.

Fandom: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Ordinary Chocolate
Summary: Most times, Wonka made candy for the sake of making candy. This time, he made it for Charlie.

Lovely, entertaining story about Charlie trying to balance being just a boy and being Wonka's heir and Wonka not really understanding why Charlie wants to do the things he does, but helping nonetheless. It really captures the fun of the movie.

Fandom: Finding Nemo

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia: Editing Moorish Idol
Summary: A yuletide treat: tell me how Gill got caught in the first place (and it can't have been easy, can it, not when it was Gill).

This is a glorious, fantastic story about Gill being a badass fish in a big giant ocean.

Fandom: Blue Crush

Truth or Dare
Summary: Anne-Marie wants to know what it's like.

I love this story, though it's painful and a little heart-breaking. Anne Marie is kinda an idiot here, and Eden is so long-suffering, so in love but unwilling to settle for less than what she wants, which is Anne Marie's love.

JJ Says...
Summary: "Tell Eden she's a hottie!"

I love this story, Anne Marie being a little shy about the things she does with Eden, but wanting it anyway. It's lovely, sexy and sweet and funny all at the same time.

I miss my icons, but that's about it from the paid account. Last time I tried to not have one, I ended up renewing it, but this time I really don't havea ny spare money and so I am going to try to be strong and not do it.

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I'm finally catching up with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and I'd forgotten how tired I was of a) political ads and b) Lakeview Terrace trailers. (Yes, I tend to fast forward through them, but still.) Also, the season opener really looked like a fanvid there at the beginning.

Starting the second episode now, and I kind of like the roll call in the beginning. And also, Derek is hot. When did that happen? How did I miss it?

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Speaking of fanvids, have you seen "Unnatural Selection"? Holy hell. It's glorious.

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Fanfic rec. I think I've created a monster. crimson_keys wrote another Twilight/Lost Boys fic, this time not anything I'd requested, but something to make me feel better.

"The Departure" is Star, Emmett, and Rosalie, threesome, and is pretty damn fantastic. It's three people who've lost their families coming together in the destruction after.