So I basically love lily’s writing no matter what; she’s written my other favorite sga rps story as well. She’s always, always, always fabulous on building plots and relationships and complexity. David is especially sympathetic in this, and I’m really just enamoured of the whole story really.

Safety Check

I really adore this story. The characterization is good but the pacing and the buildup and the intensity are what make this story so perfectly wonderful. Everything in the story fits together like tiny puzzle pieces; there are a ton of wonderful details, and the side cast is spot on.

a note on this rec: this entry was posted locked to the sga_rps livejournal community. I don’t usually rec friendslocked posts but since this is in an open community and not a personal journal I’m going to keep the rec, just don’t forget to join the community if you want to read it.

Late Night Television

Told in alternating sections of Dan talking with Abby in therapy and the events he tells her about, the narration in this story is amazingly tight. Unreliable narrators, when done right, are such an effective trick; they’re fallible, we only know what they know when they know it (but sometimes we can guess at more) and the building of plots is even more intense. And Annie is fantastic at all of this in Like Sailing and Home Runs. Her Dan is charming and fallible, sympathetic and stubborn.

Like Sailing and Home Runs

This is like, an entire afternoon read, but it goes by so quickly. Some authors fall into pacing traps and narrative potholes and diversions when writing stories this length but Annie is not one of them. Epic and at turns frustrating (because boys are just so dense you know?) and romantic but never, ever sappy. And the fantastic thing about Annie’s stories? Is that they always satisfy. She is the queen of telling not showing and she’s a true Sports Night writer, this isn’t just a story about two guys getting together, it’s a story about best friends and sportswriters and tv shows and so, so much more. Every cast member is fleshed out and full of life, and every pice of action is lived by you and the characters. This is how all fanfiction should be written.

Not Homophobic

These characters are so hard to get right and I’m always left with this incredibly pleased feeling when an authors just gets them. Written for the prompt: Wilson takes House home for dinner with the parents., there are some really fabulous lines in this, and the banter, like everything else, is spot on.

Maui Gold

Canon gives us hints of Wilson not being the good, nice guy he seems to be and this story expands on that in some really cool ways. Missing scenes from eight episodes in which Wilson is at his manipulative best. I couldn’t remember all of the details from each of the episodes Descrime wrote about, but I remembered enough.

Shape of the Universe

Episode 2×22 (aka Forever, aka the one with the crazy mom who seizes in the bathtub with her baby) left me with a total hankering for House/Cuddy or Wilson/Cuddy, or really, Cuddy anyone. This story is like the best of both worlds because I adore House/Wilson, too.

Knot

Ana has written some of my favorite Firefly stories. This one is new to me, and totally charming as ever. Jayne and Simon are both wonderful, although I think this is a particularly good Simon in this. There are heists and build-up and snark, what more could you really ask for in a Firefly story. note: this is post Serenity.

An Arrangement of Parts

I am such a sucker for crossovers and this one is awesome. Seth Cohen is Sam’s Stanford roommate and it just goes from there. I love this a lot.

On Taking It Like A Bitch And Ten Other Ways to Say I Love You

This is a really cool crossover. Set just before the tv series starts, it’s Dean on a job in New Orleans without his dad and in deeper over his head than he’d ever have known. I really like this story because the crossover potential between two canon universes like these is so strong but also because John Constantine is in a whole different league than the Winchester boys never even knew existed. Constantine goes up against the fucking devil himself and lives to fight more demons another day, and that is so much bigger than Dean’s rock salt shotgun and gritty bravado have ever faced.

Finding Hell

I don’t read a ton in this fandom because I’m picky and fickle about my House/Wilson fic but this is a great one. Snappy dialogue and lengthy enough to really work for me (about 10,000 words for those of you who like to count.)

Synchronicity

Sometimes, the fact that in her funny stories Pru makes all of her characters talk like teenagers annoys me and sometimes it makes me laugh. But the thing is, her stories are always, always entertaining no matter which feeling they inspire.

The Fine and Subtle Art of Cardiology

House/Wilson. I don’t read a lot of House fic but I’m always happy with the stories I have read. This is a really good buildup and the story just feels right.

The Manly Art of Home Repair

Shallot is one of those writers who writes in a lot of fandoms and characterized every single one perfectly. She’s definitely grown over the years but even her first stories were brilliant and her newest, including those in the House MD genre, are spectacular.

Pathogenesis and Intervention

I really love this tv show, and I like the idea of fic because the show is so slashy, but I’ve only sort of dabbled in the fic reading aspect, partially because I think these characters are all so defined that like The West Wing, it’s often hard to find good fic. This story is one of those good ones though.

All the Effects of Intoxication

There is no way in hell to describe how hard this story hit me. It’s gorgeous and detailed and painful and hot and so, so complex. Everything about it resonated. Joe’s reluctance and fear and David’s odd willingness and accomidation and god the painful, intense need of it all. This is an amazing story. I know some people are squicked by RPS but god-when it’s this good…

Find You Out

Hmmm, okay this story is like, incredibly long, and it’s a crossover with, wait for it, Queer as Folk US. It drags at times, could probably have used some good editing, but overall it’s really a good story. I especially like Lamardeuse’s use of magic in the story.

A Taste of Liberty

Awww yeah. The coolest, most underused character in Alias history in the HP universe. Hackthis most definitely owns me.

Where You End and I Begin

This was written for the Yuletide challenge of 2004, until then I hadn’t any clue that Jeeves and Wooster fanfic even existed, but color me pleasantly surprised. Shallot is an incredibly talented writer in any fandom and Jeeves and Wooster is no exception. The story is perfectly Wodehouse in every turn of phrase. If you’ve ever picked up one of the Jeeves and Wooster books or seen the tv series you must read this story.

Jeeves and The Blessed Indiscretion

This was also written for the yultide challenge and it too is quite well done.

Wooster’s School for Wayward Girls