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[1-4] Amy Adams
[5-6] Ashley Greene
[7-11] Christina Hendricks
[12-14] Christina Ricci
[15-20] Emily Blunt
[21-22] Evangeline Lilly
[23-29] Evan Rachel Wood
[30-32] George Clooney
[33-38] George Harrison (w/ Pattie Boyd)
[39-45] Jennifer Connelly
[46-48] Jennifer Garner
[49-51] John Cho
[52-55] Kate Beckinsale
[56-57] Katie McGrath
[58-61] Kaya Scodelario
[62-75] Marion Cotillard
[76-77] Rachel Weisz
[78-83] Rosario Dawson
[84-91] Sam Worthington
[92-101] Sarah Michelle Gellar
[102-106] Zachary Quinto
  
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| Fanvid: Supernatural, Hey. |
[07 Jan 2010|06:24am] |
Hey
Vidder: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kaiyote
Fandom: Supernatural
Song: Hey [Pixies cover] by Bedroom Walls
Characters/Pairings: Lucifer/Castiel, Meg/Castiel. (Alastair/Castiel, Sam/Castiel, Uriel/Castiel; Anna/Castiel, Meg/Dean, Meg/Sam.)
Rating: R. At the least.
Spoilers: Up to 5x10.
Warnings: Non-con, incest.
Summary: Cut yourself a slice of that angel food cake.
Download Links
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| Last Call series by crayola123 (NC-17) |
[08 Jan 2010|12:40am] |
Fandom: BANDOM (Panic! at the Disco)
Pairing: Ryan/Brendon
Length: The series in total is probably well over 100, 000 words.
Author on LJ: crayola123
Author Website: None.
Why this must be read:
This story was one of my first loves in bandom - along with a few others, it was the story that really got me into bandom, P!ATD, and Ryan/Brendon. It made me cry, which is, oddly enough, something that makes me love a story. It's also one that, despite the epic length, I read over and over again, and never get tired of. It also has a happy ending, which is fantastic. Also, the sex is really hot. This writer is by far one of the best in bandom, and all her stories, not just this one, are worth reading. EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE YOU SHOULD READ THIS SERIES. IT IS THAT GOOD.
Link - this goes to the last part in the series, which also doubles as the master post
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| Words Rise by fresne (PG-13) |
[07 Jan 2010|04:15am] |
Hey again! This is your friendly neighborhood Lyr here, and I'm back driving the van for Firefly this January. As always, I'm going to attempt to bring y'all a wide range of shinies, from gen to het to slash to femslash. All aboard!
Fandom: FIREFLY
Pairing: Gen
Length: 3275 words
Author on LJ: fresne
Author Website: Life Am Good
Why this must be read: This story is about a group of original characters holed up during a Reaver attack, and using the last of the air to tell a story. The premise alone is intriguing, but Fresne does wonderful things with it. Even in such a short word count, the characters feel beautifully realized. The language is exquisite, vivid, and lush. The story-within-a-story structue works excellently to create layers of tension and meaning and texture. Fresne's writing is at once strikingly original and perfectly true to the 'verse. I simply can't come to the end of this story and not really want to know more about these characters, and that is perhaps the finest thing I can say about any story.
( read an excerpt )
Words Rise
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| POV by mak5258 (PG) |
[07 Jan 2010|10:00pm] |
Fandom: DC- Superman Returns
Pairing: Clark/Lois
Length: 56,000 words
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: FFN Profile
Why this must be read:
I love reading fics from different points of veiw than the norm. Sometimes, no matter how good the fic is, you do get tired of the same characters over and over again. This fic is pretty much everything I'd been looking for in a multiple perspective story. It tells the story of the aftermath of the movie from many different points of veiw- if the title hadn't clues you in already (seven to be exact).
While the plot isn't too original when you think hard about it, the way of telling the story is so interesting you don't even realize. The author manages to get into the heads of the characters so well you feel as if you're actually there int eh story feeling what they feel and seeing what they see.
( Excerpt )
POV
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| Beyond the wall of sleep |
[07 Jan 2010|10:08am] |
Title: Beyond the wall of sleep (it's nothing)
Fandom: Prison Break
Character: Michael Scofield
Song/Artist: Karmaway - Taproot
Genre: Angst
Warnings: AU, some pretty messed up scenes, violence, character death.
Summary: "Caught in this web I'll drown tonight/ Sinking away numb to the fright"
Watch it here
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[06 Jan 2010|11:58pm] |
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Useful to remember when writing: reviews are not for your benefit! Recs aren't either. They are for the readers' benefit.
One of the reasons I love sending things out to beta (aside from getting nerves, of course) is that I get feedback! People tell me what they're getting out of the story (if anything--I've had my share of duds) and construct theories and tell me what's confusing and stuff! It's very exciting! I am fundamentally kind of narcissistic when it comes to my writing, and anything you want to tell me about it will fascinate me. (Except on the rare occasions where there appears to have been a genuine reading comprehension failure.)
So I read reviews, too, out of the same narcissism. Because I love meta and theories, and goodness knows the inside of my head is so confusing, it's nice to have other people explain me to me. Realio trulio!
(This is embarrassing to admit, but true anyway.)
But the reviews aren't for me. The reviewer is not obligated to lay things out for my convenience or tell me what I need to do better. (Although that's usually implicit anyway.)
(It is different if you are writing in a setting where the "reviews" are direct comments in such a way that a dialogue between writer and reader is expected. At the moment I make it a policy not even to link to reviews--I just bookmark them privately--but there are other settings with different norms.)
I should go to bed now. I think I am becoming incoherent. *yawn*
This entry was originally posted at http://yhlee.dreamwidth.org/115689.html. There are  comments on the DW post. Comment here or there, whatever pleases you.
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| Another set of late recs! |
[06 Jan 2010|10:47pm] |
FINALLY finished working my way through the archive (great job, EVERYONE!) and posted a list of 48 recs in my journal.
30 Fandoms:
Alien: Resurrection, The Baby-Sitters Club, Back to the Future, The Big Bang Theory, The Boondock Saints, Bridge to Terabithia, Castle, Chuck, Dollhouse, Eureka, Fairy Tales, The Fifth Element, Glee, Greek Mythology, James Bond, Leverage, The Middleman, Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman, Night World - LJ Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Princess Bride, Quantum Leap, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, RPF - 20th c Arts & Sciences, Sahara, The Scarlet Pimpernel, TV Commercials, The Unusuals, Warehouse 13, Zombieland
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| Wednesday, January 6, 2010 |
[07 Jan 2010|01:34am] |
- ithiliana: Fandom: The Academic Kiss of Death, OR My Ongoing Meta on OTW - I'm interested in the ongoing surfacing of the anti-academic rants to smear the Organization of Transformative Works. -
- thedeadparrot: Oh, boy, here we go again. - I believe that we should not be ashamed of writing fanfic. Yeah, I write romance. Yeah, I even write porn. Yeah, I did this as a teenage girl. And yeah, I sometimes daydream about characters. None of this should mean that my writing -- our writing -- is automatically worth less than that of some fanboy who daydreams about being Paul Atreides and about things blowing up -
- executrix: Fandom Meta: In this Fight, We Are Dogless - If they said "Print out your story and leave it in a trunk in the Princess Theater in Pocatello, Idaho," I would consider it legitimate to say "I don't want to go to Idaho in this weather" but I wouldn't consider it legitimate to complain about the mods' choice. -
- executrix: Fandom Meta: Opening the Books on This Thing of Ours - When I have my lawyer hat on, I find it incredibly frustrating to try to reach *any* conclusions about the legal status of derivative works, under US law because of the paucity of case law. -
- frolicndetour: "Creative" "Process" - So here's a weird question for you, sort of spinning off of concrit debate 100,011 going on right now but not really having much to do with concrit: do you find that certain views of characters or canon bother you more when they're implicit in creative works (ie fic and vids) than they would if they were directly stated in a meta post? -
- rositamia: canon - I loooove seeing someone be in love. It's not enough to just tell me so-and-so is in love, they have to show me to make me believe it. -
- damned_colonial: Why I slash, by D. Colonial aged 34 3/4. - I like seeing gay movies, they are awesome... but it's the "straight" movies with gay characters (overt or otherwise) that excite me. The moment of "Is s/he... oh yes! s/he is! YAY!" Going through the process of spotting a gay character, figuring out what the tells are, etc. Especially if I can figure it out ahead of the other characters in the movie/whatever.//...So here's why I like slash: slash gives me more of those moments. When I wear the slash goggles, I get a more regular hit of my "is s/he? YAY!" drug. -
- branchandroot: The difference between manga and comicsI agree that fuzzy Orientalism is the most regrettably common way Western fans of similar media from different national/ethnic groups (eg comics and manga) express their differentiation. That particular expression is generally a lot of hot air, yes.
But I also think there are real fan-culture differences, touching on though not always rising directly from the mother-culture differences of the sources. This is my attempt to articulate the ones that I've seen.
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| 16 recs, 14 fandoms |
[06 Jan 2010|10:22pm] |
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Recs in Bridge to Terabithia, Bridgerton series (Julia Quinn), Dirty Dancing, Dollhouse, Ghostwriter, The Handmaid's Tale, Horatio Hornblower (TV), How I Met Your Mother, Leverage, Like Water for Chocolate, Oregon Trail (game), The Royal Tenenbaums, The Simpsons, and Wallace and Gromit at my journal here.
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[06 Jan 2010|09:50pm] |
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First: swan_tower, I swear I will print out the Logic Pro "score" for your piano piece and set about transcribing it nonproportionally. (I hate proportional spacing in music. There is a reason that professionally engraved pieces are generally not done that way.)
Second: I have a great deal of sympathy for people who get earwormed with things. I get earwormed sometimes (although I can usually just change the channel in my head by playing back Tchaikovsky in my head), but even worse is getting COMPOSERWORMED. (This doesn't actually mean I am necessarily good at it, but it still kind of sucks.) I am composerwormed right now. Even worse (or better, depending on your POV), this piece that has been in limbo for over a year used to be for straight piano. Now that I can play with Logic, I am being driven nuts by all the possibilities for orchestration. I already know where I want to use concert harp (it has to be concert harp, I am pretty sure, to hit notes in that range), and I know I need the piano (partly for timbre--I am fond of harpsichord, but harp + harpsichord is just asking for trouble in that section--and partly for the range at the other end. I then have to decide whether it's worth having a go at the soprano recorder (the plastic one, ironically, is more in tune than the wooden one), and on top of that whether I want to back the recorder with the ocarina (I love the timbre, but I suck at ocarina, and I'm afraid of mucking up the accidental, although preliminary testing indicates that the F# is not as difficult as I feared).
I need a string instrument, preferably cello but viola would do in a pinch, so badly, but M'Lady continues to need repairs. *sob* I wish that strings were easier to fake computer-wise, but I swear, digital bowed strings almost always sound terrible. The pizzicato is generally the most convincing, but I need arco. I may have to go into Sculpture and concoct something in the "I am obviously synthesized but I am nicely ribbony like arco-legato cello/viola" family. And I wonder if careful use of a glockenspiel (I am a great believer in careful use of glockenspiels) is called for. And I know I'm going to have to use an echo effect to get those notes in my head, but what patch? Something else in the harp family? Stick with harp? I guess I'll have to try it and see what works.
*flails* Help! My brain is consumed by music and it won't go away! (They never do until they're completed/written down. It is infuriating.)
This entry was originally posted at http://yhlee.dreamwidth.org/115162.html. There are  comments on the DW post. Comment here or there, whatever pleases you.
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| happiness is |
[06 Jan 2010|08:33pm] |
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1. Colcannon. OMG why does colcannon taste so good?
2. Sending out a story. (And I have to do revisions for another to send that out, too, but one thing at a time.)
3. BPAL's Spooky Resurrected, which is very, very close to the original Spooky. (That is a good thing! I adore Spooky and its clone sister to pieces.) I'm under the impression that Spooky Resurrected fades a little faster, but that might be because I'm in a (much) hotter climate. Eee, Spooky Resurrected! (It smells like chocolate and mint and rum, very smooth--I would kill to eat chocolates that taste like this smells.)
Tell me about a happy thing for you today, if you like. :-)
This entry was originally posted at http://yhlee.dreamwidth.org/114543.html. There are  comments on the DW post. Comment here or there, whatever pleases you.
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| getting rid of the b (she's a gdb) |
[07 Jan 2010|11:32am] |
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Yeah, I have no idea wtf SVU was about. I actually TRIED to make sense of it, but it didn't work. On the Alex front, she did have a fair amount of screen time, but her hair was really flat for the first bit of it, which hampered my enjoyment. Her hair improves a bit towards the end and she wears a low-cut shirt, so I was pleased. Evidently it's the norm now for her to look tired, annoyed, and like she hates her life and especially the DA's office. Probably because she knows MISCHA BARTON is going to be on the show soon.
( here there be screencaps )
Interesting points to note:
- There was a judge that appeared for the first time and she is TOTALLY A COUGAR. Or Alex's mom. Seriously, I bet that one has had threesomes with Donnelly and Petrovsky and then came home and admired A.J.'s macaroni project.
- If you're an A/O shipper, you'll probably notice many "meaningful glances" Alex gives Olivia while Olivia's talking, but if you look closely, it's totally because SM is anticipating the next line and who says it. Watch the group scenes if you don't believe me. Oh, SM.
My paid account expires in two weeks, I think, which means I'll be downgrading to a basic, which means I only get six icons. Thus from now the ICON CAGED STEEL MATCH begins! Which icons get to stay? Which get discarded like pieces of last night's hooker after I squeezed my hands around her neck a teeny bit too hard when I came and so I had to bring out the chainsaw? THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS, GUYS.
(I'm leaving this entry public because because I think the TRUE FANS of SVU would enjoy my dismembered hooker bit.) (Please note the hooker does not have a penis.)
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| Head Down by Shaitanah (G) |
[06 Jan 2010|06:43pm] |
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Fandom: STAR WARS
Pairing: none
Length: ~1500 words
Author on LJ: istne_pieklo
Author's website: FFN profile
Why this fic must be read:
This story layers the Dark Times Intertrilogy Era with remarkable characterization regarding Asajj Ventress and her savior Obi-Wan Kenobi. The Sith's assassin is unable to completely sever her ties to the one Jedi Master who she had obsessed over so long. Ventress' own story after her abdication from the Clone Wars comes through in a cohesive manner, almost in an undertone, as she follows through on her impulse to find out the whereabouts of Kenobi. Her discovery of his plain bed on Tatooine is not to be missed.
Head Down
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| OMG Victor Garber |
[06 Jan 2010|08:32pm] |
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So, my TiVo recorded "The Martha Stewart Show" for me today. Why did you do that, Tivo, I thought, before seeing the episode is entitled "Stir Fry Recipes; Victor Garber." I begin watching to see that, in the intro, Martha and Victor are among the group sitting on stage with a GIANT BOA CONSTRICTOR in their laps, and Victor has a look on his face that is totally, "Why show business? Why not podiatry? Jesus, why not anything that would not involve sitting here with a HUGE DAMN SNAKE in my lap oh Martha shut up." And I am filled with love.
ETA: Late in the episode -- "Next, Victor Garber joins Martha in the craft room to make a decorative plant stand for your home!" My cup runneth over.
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| The Mandy Thing by bribitribbit (PG) |
[06 Jan 2010|07:26pm] |
Fandom: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL
Pairing: Chad/Ryan, Kelsi/Martha
Length: about 6,000 words
Author on LJ: bribitribbit
Author Website: Fic Tag on LJ
Why this must be read:
Despite its enormous plotholes, High School Musical 3 did give us some good things, and one of the best, in my opinion, is the friendship between Ryan and Kelsi. Since the film, Ryan and Kelsi's BFF-ness has popped up in several fics, and this is one of the most charming examples. Kelsi isn't present in this fic just to observe and support Chad and Ryan's relationship (although she does that); she's a character in her own right, with her own crush and worries. This is a warm, fun fic full of engaging little details.
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Go. Read. Love. Tell the author.
The Mandy Thing
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| Sting Like I Feel by severinne (Brown Cortina - Adult / 18) |
[07 Jan 2010|01:53am] |
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Hi everyone, first of all apologies about being a little late in getting started, all the snow has made it impossible to get the van up and running, but I am now ready to go with my Life on Mars recs for this month.
Fandom: LIFE ON MARS
Pairing: Sam/Gene
Length: 3600 words
Author on LJ: severinne
Author Website: Link to the memories at Life in 1973 community
Why this must be read: I thought I would start with one of my favourite authors and the truth is I could have recced any of Sev’s fic to you. The set up is straightforward: they are in a club where Gene sees Sam dancing with a woman and gets turned on/possessive and proceeds to show Sam how he feels. Along the way we get to see Gene being jealous, teasing sexy dancing, Sam being the strong character we see on the show, realisations, vivid imagery, real feeling, spot on voices, perfect characterisation, and sex so hot it will melt your brain. Just spectacular from start to finish.
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Sting Like I Feel
And if you enjoy the story there is a sequel Drive Like a Car
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