slashababy is still open for signups! It's the Lotrips holiday fic exchange, so the more, the merrier. Anyone who doesn't want to sign up on LiveJournal, please send email to secret slasha @ gmail.com -- we can do it that way, no problem.

It's rec the reccers month at lotr_fic_recs.

If you're thinking of writing adoptive kid fic, you must read viggorlijah's post, Fandom Primer on International Adoption as a story trope: read it and weep. But the stories based on RL issues could be really good.

RPS Kink meme - just getting started. Some of the other kink memes have been amazing and very inspiring...

And because I've been told I don't plug myself enough: links to all the LOTR RPS fic I could find through September are at lotrips (October to come soon), and I'm still posting my fic recs on delicious.

I have been making so many recs, I love reccing, I want all appropriate people to see the gorgeous fic! I also have about 800 recs at delicious.com/msilverstar, maybe you'll like some of those...

My main fandom is now and always will be Lotrips. But I've branched out a bit, and rec fic in lots of other fandoms (including ones like SGA that I don't even watch), because good stories are worth sharing.

So: ( my last 12 recs: lotrips, bandom, merlin, torchwood )

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That would be lotrips, bandom, merlin (mostly RPS and/or AUs), and doctor who/torchwood. Feeds are at delicious/rss/msilverstar, msil_fanfic_recs on LJ, msil_fanfic_recs_feed on dreamwidth.

I would post recs here more often if it wasn't such a huge pain in the ass. This took me hours to fix up and I hate the format. Anyone have a nice delicious to LJ/DW script that runs on Macs? I'll run a command-line program in the Terminal if I have to.

I'm looking for webcomic recommendations for my kidlet (she's now 9, she was 3 when I got sucked into fandom, wow). She has read and liked Get Medieval, Gunnerkrigg Court, and the Order of the Stick so far. She likes silliness, puns and adventures. Also, minimal angst and violence; and young sympathetic characters are always good. Thanks in advance from both of us!

PS I've been reccing a bit lately, Lotrips and otherwise, are at delicious.com/msilverstar

My Remix is woooonderful, thoughtful and sexy and gives me shivers in a very good way. There's a little bit of bondage and stuff, but it's not hard-core at all, really more about character than kinky sex. From What You Do, Because of You, Dom/Orlando, amazing!

I sympathize with all my SGA-loving friends: they shouldn't oughta cancel your show! telesilla is having The Second International Blanket Fort Day for group hugs and commiseration.


We watched Ocean's Eleven the other night. Didn't do much for me, but Andy Garcia was gorgeous.

There's an interesting fanfic and children's literature survey.

We now have corn-based cat litter and an amazing cat brush, The Furminator! (Wot, you think "cats" is not a fandom? I beg to differ.)

The new LOTR RPS remix stories are up! You can use the listing by pairing or just the 2008 tag. For earlier years, my new Remix web site is remix.lotrips.org, which also explains all about the origins and rules of Remix. (First rule: you can and should talk about remix.)

OMG, I am so lucky that a) my family was away yesterday and I could spend time formatting the stories for posting and b) feelforfaith is a fabulous person to work with. Though my left-hand trackball broke in the middle of the whole thing, and it slowed me down a lot, I'm not so used to mice any more. Anyway, stories are up and mostly excellent, authors are not yet revealed, lots of pairings, come read!

I'll be away tomorrow, see you all on Tuesday.

PS: the icon is ironic, mostly

Hobbit spam! Screenshots from the trilogy: all Hobbits, all the time. Great captions cracked me up, but the pictures made me all nostalgic.

I'm reading a very satisfying Dom/Billy WIP Boston by eff_reality. And I don't just say that because I suggested the name. It's Billy the film history graduate student, and Dom, the mostly-cheerful prostitute, but it plays with the conventions and there are missed connections and it avoids a lot of romantic clichés.

( omg bandfic? me? well, just these two AUs )

Also, I'm sorry that the feed msil_fanfic_rec (LJ) and msil_delicious (IJ) kinda went crazy, and started sending out tag links, alphabetically. It's del.icio.us, and I don't know how to keep it from happening again :-(

About a hundred more from my del.icio.us/msilverstar recs list.

( Gorgeous LOTR RPS fic )

( LOTRIPS series I recommend  )

( A couple of good LOTR RPS archives )

I have no idea why I didn't post them before. Anyway here they are, and you can always find more at del.icio.us/msilverstar

( a whole lot of good fic, from last year and earlier )

( LOTRIPS archives and fic lists )

The Colour of Magic / Light Fantastic tv movies are premiering out this week -- the event is on Monday March 3rd 2008 at the Curzon Cinema Mayfair. The producers are encouraging anyone who would like to come along and wave and cheer before the first screening [6:30 pm] - costumes are, of couse, most welcome. This is the one where Sean Astin plays Twoflower.

I'm slowly updating my recs on del.icio.us/msilverstar (as a feed: msil_fanfic_rec), mostly LOTRIPS and a few Torchwoods and other fandoms. ( very hot cross-dressing Billy/Dom rec )

And birthdays! Hopes for a fabulous year to bunniewabbit, airgiodslv, rosiespark, rosamundeb, and v_angelique!!! *Sings various embarrassing birthday songs*

PS I am still stuck on chair or wheelchair, so rather bored. Talk to me, people! Lurkers, come out and say hi!

Two of my favorite Dom/Billy AU series are updating a lot these days! inclineoftrees is a complete revision, from the beginning, of the LOTR University AU, the one where Billy's a Philosophy professor and Dom's a German major. I love the intricate details, the strong supporting cast, the slow pace of story, and the emotional weight of the characters and their mutual attraction. While I'm not very fond of the teacher/student dynamic, this story completely overwhelms my scruples, I just adore it. [Warning for BDSM (very consensual) in chapters to come.]

On a much lighter note, v_angelique and rainbowcobweb have a romp of a series in which Billy owns a bookshop in Paris and Dom's a teacher at a primary school. First there's UST and then there's ST and then there's a whole bunch of happy sex and meeting the family and clubbing in Manchester and a move towards bottomy Billy that I'm finding delightful. A funny thing happened on the way to the librarie -- the best kind of fluffy smut!

For more, see the lotrips comm, where we link to at least 30 fics a week (some better than others). feelforfaith and I have it down to an art, or at least a craft.

Hobbits, six years ago (approx): December 8, 2001, on a British TV show during the FOTR premiere publicity (posted by not_alone ). They look so young....

And on, December 9 of this year, Dom with cohorts from "I Sell the Dead". (source is domweek)

Most of my recs are on del.icio.us/msilverstar, but someone at the moot today was fangirling Fry and Laurie (as one does), so allow me to recommend:

Slide Into Symmetry, by buckle_berry. Set at Cambridge, when Stephen meets Hugh, and they get along like a house on fire. This fic is WONDERFUL. There's banter, snark, angst and the inside of Stephen's head is exactly how it ought to be and Hugh is unexpectedly vulnerable...

I read and skim a whole lot of LOTR RPS. Now that all our fandom newsletters are gone, I've been thinking of doing a simple listing of the new fic that I come across. I'm not going to stop doing my recs, but I'm thinking I could set up a simple listing of everything I see on every journal system I'm on. That would help people find the fabulous new writers and great new fics from old writers. So, ( a poll )ETA: added LJ poll.

(spamming like mad today -- my family is out of the house and I'm resting :-)

I've been putting my recs in my del.icio.us/msilverstar account, and wrote a script to extract them. Here are a bunch that I have liked, from February to now. Some of them were posted several years ago, some this month.

FYI, I put the point-of-view character first in the pairing, just my quirk. I'm also relatively liberal in ratings, if the author hasn't rated a fic; I don't think that sex is something to hide from teenagers -- this is the good porn, after all.

It's not all the good fic out there by any means -- some fic I just lose track of, some is in tabs and I keep meaning to get back to it, some fic is so good I have a hard time describing it delicious's limited space. Which is to say: more recs to come.

To get them as I post them, use del.icio.us (where you can click on pairing tags, date, rating, etc.) or subscribe to msil_fanfic_rec. I've also been reccing the odd fic in Doctor Who, Torchwood, Heros, HP and even a bandslash fic.

( Genfic )

( Rare Pairings )

( F/F and Het )

( Billy/Dom )

( Dom/Elijah )

( Elijah/Sean Astin )

( Elijah/Orlando )

( Orlando/Viggo )

( Viggo/Sean Bean )

Viggo news: Eastern Promises preview review (with spoilers)

A long and thoughtful review of Pandemoniumfromamerica in Blogcritics Magazine.

Billy news: May interview in which he talks about a Beecake video and mentions interest from Viggo and Peter Jackson, also a Scottish Youth Theatre fundraising project and charming tidbits about baby Jack.

ETA: my fic recs are at http://del.icio.us/msilverstar, you can also subscribe to the feed: msil_fanfic_rec

Rec: There's an utterly charming geek!Orlando/Viggo fic that's almost crackfic, what with geek!Orlando working at 'Best Buys 'R Us' and loving spam and velveeta, but it's also got fabulously smutty sexual awakening at the hands of a caring and careful Viggo. I find myself reluctantly addicted.

sex sells! erotic_authors has info about the erotic fiction marketplace

LJ rulz! 'White List' of writers, editors, and other publishing professionals that have LiveJournals or LJ RSS feeds.

from a Spanish-language site, via nikkie222 news of ( Viggo's film,  )

ETA: ( not a spoiler, but the best line in this ep )

I've been putting my recs in my del.icio.us/msilverstar account, and finally wrote a script to extract them. So here's about a hundred that I have liked, from last October to now. It's not all the good fic out there by any means -- some fic I just lose track of, some is in tabs and I keep meaning to get back to it, some fic is so good I have a hard time describing it delicious's limited space. Which is to say: more recs to come.

To get them as I post them, use del.icio.us (where you can click on pairing tags, date, rating, etc.) or subscribe to msil_fanfic_rec.

( giant recs list )

Keys found! I've been so worried that I lost them on the street but they were by the washing machine the whole time. PHEW. Also found my credit card at the restaurant I went to last week and my phone charger in the back of the car (huh?)

( overdid a bit today )

*collapses in a heap on the floor*

PS: Last night, I spent a happy hour or two reading viva_gloria's RPS. Some of the best Sean/Viggo I've ever read -- strong, sweet and incredibly hot -- and lots of other good stuff too: Hugo! Laurence! Elijah! Orlando!.

Lots of good new fic, and I'm finally focusing enough to rec. Mostly Lotrips, including some of the the slashababy fic (not all my faves, just what I happened to be coherent about).

They're all at deli.cio.us/msilverstar, syndicated on livejournal in: msil_fanfic_rec.

I found myself leaving tabs open and saving bookmarks, because it's so hard to rec things properly. It just wasn't getting done :-( So now my recs are all on del.icio.us/msilverstar, and I have a feed here that you can subscribe to: msil_fanfic_rec . I post there in fits and starts, but it's better than waiting.

( librarianish organizing thoughts )

I'm finally starting to do these recs again. A lot of notes and links are on del.icio.us/msilverstar, but I also want to post them here (and on lotrips_recs). Somehow it feels more like their place.

I have to divide them up somehow, so am going by rating. Lovely smut to follow, soon I hope!

( Four canon-compliant (non-AU) fics, Dom/Elijha, Dom/Billy & Dom/Evi, Elijah/Dom, Billy/Sean Astin )

( Three AUs, Dom/Billy, Elijah/Dom, Elijah/Orlando )

Please remember to comment on the stories that move you. Late feedback is unexpected and all the sweeter.

Billy/Viggo is not my OTP (really!) but it sure is fun for me to read. And my friends got inspired, and wrote me two more v/b stories! *dances around the room*

Slightly Cool (NC-17) by mdbfan is nice hot shower sex, but also full of the intimate moments. Strong sensual imagery and fascinating changes in Viggo's perceptions through the course of the story. It's wonderful!


( kaydeefalls )

And from my husband I got ROTK art books, dinner, cake with candles (the kids loved them), he put the kidlet to bed, and we had happy married people sex. So, porn, sex and chocolate, what a good birthday!

In no particular order, I present to you my favorite recent stories:

chaosmanor: Telling Secrets - desire delayed, Viggo/Orlando.

knowledgequeen: tempo di valse - two drabbles about Dominic and Miranda. Allusive, hinting at an earlier complex relationship, it's like peeking through a keyhole into an art museum.

thejennabides: The Fit of the Stretch, a nice sexy story of Dominic and Orlando on a couch.

shaenie has been writing all sorts of wild stuff in response to the challenges. Harry Potter and DomLijah and Faculty Casey/Zeke and my Dom/Bean...

Please note that her web site address has changed: it's now http://shaenie.digitalcandy.net.