i first came to chicago on the trail of my father's killers

[unamaga]

• I went to a concert last night! My voice is all but gone! I have no idea how this happened, but I suspect the "Back in the USSR" cover had something to do with it. Oh, and pentapus being far too awesome for my health. (summertea was also, as usual, absolutely darling, and took being bopped on the head by balloons throughout the show with grace and aplomb. ♥) My only beef with the place besides the fact that my ears still ache a little? FOUR DOLLARS for a bottle of water. What. What.
  
  
• What've you all been up to the past few days? I've been a horrible friend and haven't checked my flist much since Friday. I blame Constable Benton Fraser and his attractive cohort! I watched seasons three and four in something like thirty six hours and oh god, you guys.  villainny and chopchica warned me, but I had no idea what I was getting into.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I cannot even deal with how dorky and adorable and achy and in LOVE they are. And then, fjagoiajgm, ficccc. I've torn through everything by lamardeuse, resonant, cesperanza, china_shop, isiscolo, and shrift, and more names that I know just keep popping up! *flaps delightedly* Any of you who've seen this show and read fic in its fandom, do you have a favorite story you'd recommend? I have a three hour trip with no internet both ways and the fics I'm writing are almost done. Halp!
  
  
• Last one, I promise: Shore Leave in, like, A DAY. Some of you will have no choice about meeting me and letting me hug you. Everyone else, I think I'll post my cell phone number tomorrow morning before I leave under flock and filter (tell me if you want in) in case anyone wants to get in touch with me. If you'd rather just surprise glomp me, there are a few events on the schedule I'm pretty sure I'm going to attend - nothing's really set in stone yet except for the Hewlett Panels and autograph sessions (well, and the fact that I'll be hanging off kashmir1's arm for most of the duration), but you should be able to find me easily enough; I think my name tag says Mel on it. If all else fails, look for the girl with the ridiculous donkey laugh who can't keep her hands to herself.
  

  - Supernatural: Gone to Hell in a Handbasket (7-8 Salon B, FRI)
  - A Dog's Breakfast (10-12 Valley, FRI)
  - Season Premiere (12-on Valley, FRI)
  - Atlantis: Rodney Gets No Respect (12-1 Salon F, SAT)
  - David & Kate Hewlett (2-3 Hunt Valley, SAT)
  - Jewel Staite (3-4 Hunt Valley, SAT)
  - Firefly/Browncoats (5-6 Salon B, SAT)?
  - Dr. Who, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures (10-11 Salon F, SUN)?
  - Jewel Staite (2-3 Hunt Valley, SUN)
  - David & Kate Hewlett (3-4 Hunt Valley, SUN)

Comments

[ismenetruth.livejournal.com]

Jesus, what is it with the upsurge in dS love all over my flist? It's making me so damn happy.

Recs for you, all F/K:
Un-American (http://www.dementia.org/~jacquez/writing/dsfic/unamerican.html) by Laura Valentine. Hilarious and awesome and lovely.
Everything by arrow00. Seriously. Everything.
The Fraser Record (http://community.livejournal.com/ds_flashfiction/513181.html) by berty_bertle. Creepy as fuck, but wonderful.
Five Ways to I Love You (http://community.livejournal.com/ds_flashfiction/579564.html) by caersmane. Five AUs of AWESOME. Zombies. Stargate fusions. Love.
Field Trip (http://www.strangeplaces.net/torch/fieldtrip.html) by torch. John + RayK + blowjob. That's all I've got to say to you.
The Small Indian Mongoose is Not Immune to the Cobra's Venom (http://community.livejournal.com/ds_flashfiction/572182.html) by brigantine1. Wonderful RayK characterization, adorable F/K.
Everything (http://members.tripod.com/~happyfriendbox/DSmainpage.html) by brooklinegirl. Her F/K/V stuff is fabulous, too, but I'm a RayK girl, so.
Everything by spuffyduds.

um. others, I'm sure. These are just off the top of my head. Enjoy! And I envy you Shore Leave people like you wouldn't believe.

[unamaga.livejournal.com]

I haven't read really any of these at all. It's like a veritable buffet of oblivious, adorable boyyyssss. *brandishes tongs* I dive in!

<333 If I manage to make it to the front of the picture line without fainting, I promise to touch you with the hand that was around David Hewlett's waist.