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

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)

i don't understand how this is possible, but it seems that no one has recc'd How Ray Got His Groove Back (http://www.mrks.org/~bone/duesouth/aristide/groove.html) by Bone and Aristide. Its the best in the fandom. They wrote others together, and all are A. MA. ZING. but HRGHGB is the best.

other dS authors to check out are:
Basingstoke
Brighid
Hth
Jacquez
Jessica Harris
Julad
Kat Allison
Pares
Punk
Te

EEE, I read that one as one of my firsts and I've already gone back and read it twice since. It's only been a week and a half! :O It's just - guh, so incredibly hot I can't even deal with it. I'm gonna poke through all these other authors appropriately, since you have awesome taste. But, uh, do these people have lj handles? I know basingstoke and hth and julad and pares and punk, but everyone else - my mind is failing me.

since you have awesome taste

*preens*

moving on, i can say nothing but good things about that story, and am happy to go on about it AT LENGTH. that scene with the rimming? and ray's "don't stop. DO NOT stop that?" yeah. i was once in a cab with another fangirl and we both quoted that to each other at the SAME TIME. that story, i love it so! (and fraser and ray, because oh! my heart!)

here are the lj handles, sorry i didn't give them before.

basingstoke

mz_bstone

hth_the_first

jacquez

julad

katallison

kormantic

runpunkrun

thete1

i don't know if jessica harris is on lj, but you can find her stories at ex-wood, i'm sure. have you found ex-wood yet? its the archive, so named because it moved and it was originally hosted on hexwood.com, thus ex-wood (http://www.squidge.org/dsa/). i just checked and her story Night Driving (http://www.squidge.org/dsa/archive/drama/nightdriving.html) is there. she has another story, called Horizons, but i don't know where that went.

and these are others you should check out: (you probably know them, but whatever)

thisisbone (you already know bone, i'm sure, from sga. omg john/ronon!)

cimmerians (this is aristide- she is the reason i read any TS at all - oh, blair! and JIM!)

shrift (shift - boot!porn)

cmshaw

wax_jism

liviapenn

dsudis

lalejandra

aerye

kaneko (mia)

laurakaye

laurashapiro

lynnmonster

rustler

dS is *awesome* and i'm really, really, really excited that you're getting into it. because, and i say this with the deepest admiration and respect, I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THE FILTHY FILTHY PORN YOU'RE GOING TO WRITE ABOUT THEM! oh, yesplease, ogodyes.

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

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