In the midst of this sea and on the edge of this desert.

Oh hai! I'm just going to pretend I've been here the whole time.

Just read a great little Agent Carter, Peggy/Dottie fic by st_aurafina, Teamwork posted to FemslashFiclets which I started following this week. Definitely think writing a few femslash tidbits could get me through this upcoming revision!

I also posted Vikings fic this week!
Title: Purgatory Road
Author: Me!
Fandom (pairing/characters): Vikings, Athelstan/Ragnar, Odin.
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 948
Summary:There’s a god at the end of this road. Perhaps more than one.
Odin assists Athelstan in resolving some of the conflicts of Athelstan's afterlife i.e one more way to ensure Athelstan and Ragnar end up together.
Warnings: A character is dead. :O
Author's Note: Basically I wrote pseudo-religious backchat between Athelstan and Odin to try and resolve Athelstan's faith crisis and also get him to Ragnar in Valhalla. IDEK!

I had two other Vikings fans staying with me last week and pretty much forced them to write and post fic for me too! YAY GUESTS! So I'm thrilled to rec I Dreamed a Dream which is the fix-it fic we all needed after the Born Again episode by Lil. And Inga wrote sexy bathing fic from a happier time. So delightful!!

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you did not create... See if you can rec fanworks that are less likely to be praised: tiny fandoms, rare pairings, fanworks other than stories, lesser-known kinks or tropes. Find fanworks that have few to no comments, or creators new to a particular fandom who maybe aren't well known or appreciated. Appreciate them.

FANMIXES! I have listened to some fantastic mixes this year that have either buoyed me up or torn my heart in two.

colin_chaotic made A Journey of Fifty Thousand Words - a mix for nanowrimo (!) that was superduper cool and tracked the stages of that particular writing journey really well. I love how you can feel the ups and downs, the desperation and exhilaration all the way through it. 

somehowunbroken made Spark - a Hunger Games, Peeta/Katniss mix that really gets under the skin of how unsure they are of each other and how much they have the power to hurt each other even as they cling together. It's excellent. 

Savage Antinous is pure paincake of the Enjolras/Grantaire variety. Stabby and beautiful by The-Cynic on 8-tracks. 

hbics just posted my waywardmixes holiday exchange present, Live Like You Choose To which was Bomb Girls women inspired by Marge Piercy's The Low Road. It is exactly what you would want for a meeting of this show and this poem, about the women banding together and relying on each other and finding their voices. Her song choices are perfect. 

The same mixer has also done two really excellent Bible/Jesus Christ Superstar mixes that examine the relationships so well; the first, Stoic Minds and Bleeding Hearts is Jesus/Judas/Mary and is really well configured to the dynamics of that particular OT3; the second, Mary Go Round, is about Mary Magdalene and Mary, Jesus's mother becoming each other's surrogate family after the deaths of Jesus and Judas. Both of these are really interesting and really fantastic. 

And finally, mementis made a totally lovely and fun Due South, Ray K/Fraser mix, Time Make Us Wise last year that just makes me want to rest my chin on my hands and blink 2D hearts out of my eyes.

Go forth and listen! 

 Oh ho ho, but there's been a good haul this year! 
Christmas here has certainly been a bit chaotic what with a hospitalised grandfather, a stroppy uncle, a leaky roof, a brother getting married and almost-step-siblings turning up all over the place but I've at least managed to read all the lovely fic written for me. I'm still making my way through the excellent Generation Kill fic over on the YAGKYAS comm but I am taking note of everyone else's Yuletide recs with great interest! 

I am so happy to have received, not one but two GK stories this year! It totally makes up for last year when I only pinch hit so didn't have a story written all for me. Both stories were Eric Kocher-centred and all kinds of awesome. 

Squared Up  is an Eric Kocher/Doc Bryan story that is utterly glorious. It's full of anger and sensuality and an unwillingness to put up with bullshit. Sections of it sent shivers up my spine and made me want to cry with how beautifully their relationship was painted. There was also bonus Kocher & Colbert friends-chat which sealed the deal on this being the best thing ever. 

The Exiled Prince is a GK/Avengers crossover of awesome. Ray as Iron Man. Nate as Captain America. Brad as Thor. Seriously. :DD I love that the author kept to the GK characterisations despite putting them in the Avengers world, that made this really special as well as a really fun read. It's written from Kocher's perspective but with a side of Brad/Nate that is quite delicious. 

And for Yuletide!!!! My first time participating has been really fun and I got a fantastic Dance Academy story that really played into lots of things I love about the show, particularly the Kat/Abigail friendship that is the theme of the fic. 
Making The Name Fit is a brilliant story about Kat learning to do away with her self-sabotaging habits with the help of Abigail's unique brand of friendship and honesty. I heart this story so much!! 

 femslashex  reveals were this week! I feel so lucky, I got such a wonderful fic, exactly what I was hoping for in fact!! 

Lights Earth With Her Silver is a Bletchley Circle fic by scintilla10 that focuses on Jean just after the conclusion of the season as she goes back to her life after all the excitement of reuniting with the Bletchley girls to solve the case. I love how it starts with that slightly weird city thing where you live intimately with total strangers whose lives you overhear through thin walls. I love how it takes that loneliness, combined with the loneliness of something ending, and secrets you are unable to share, and then gently opens Jean's life back up, showing her how her neighbour could be just as ready to share something new as Jean is. It's truly gorgeous! The OC is beautifully rendered and the tone is just so, so lovely. <333333333333

In return, I wrote Slowly, You Cleave To Her for AO3 user Aoife. It's a Vorkosigan Saga fic about Kareen Vorbarra and Alys Vorpatril. It charts their relationship from Alys's wedding to Gregor's. I had a lot of fun pairing these two up and thinking about how they would support each other and how their friendship could develop into something more.

I plan to give lots more of the femslashex fics a read so I hope I will be back with lots more recs!