recs pls?

[slinkling]

I've just gotten back from The Trip To California That Lasted Three Days Longer Than Intended Because We All Got Too Sick To Travel. Big fun, y'all. Lessons learned:

1) Do not talk trash about southern California while still in southern California. The state will get its revenge.

2) If you MUST become debilitatingly ill while 3000 miles from home, doing it at the house of your most low-key sibling is probably not a bad way to go.

Anyway. Home now. Haven't eaten real food in several days and don't especially want to, but we're all on the mend. And I will spend as much time vegging out with my laptop as I possibly can this weekend. Which leads me to...

Recs? Anybody? Anything? I haven't been on LJ for the last 10 days, so if there's anything recent, I haven't seen it. If there's anything older and great, that's good too. Any fandom, any style, I don't even care. PLEASE ENTERTAIN ME I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH PUKE AND POOP FOR TOO MANY DAYS.

/self-pity

thank you.

Comments

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

That sounds really cruddy. Have some awesome and silly Star Trek: Reboot fic:

How to Avoid Kicking Puppies and Other Valuable Lessons in Leadership (http://sparky77.livejournal.com/596751.html)
A Formal Dance in the Bowling Alley (http://loneraven.livejournal.com/630427.html)

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

Thank you! As luck would have it, before we all got sick, we WERE able to leave the kid with his grandparents to go out and see the new Trek. (Which was a lot of fun, incidentally.) I am not surprised to find the internets full of related fic.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I recently read A Hundred Happy Things (http://busaikko.livejournal.com/94799.html), by busaikko. It's an SGA AU (no Stargate), Harlequin romance-style, and John's had a sex change. (I know, I know, but it's actually really good! Um. I sound insane, don't I?) Or, if you want something a little bit less cracktacular, esteefee's Fair Trade (http://esteefee.livejournal.com/12350.html?style=mine), an SGA AU in which John is a coffee roaster and Rodney is a cranky customer. :-) Both of these are pretty long, but quite tasty.

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

I don't know what's been posted lately -- I've been out of touch myself -- but I can offer some good long comfort reading among older stories. I second Kass's rec for "A Hundred happy Things"; I just reread it the other day myself. All of (http://busaikko.livejournal.com/profile)busaikko (http://busaikko.livejournal.com/)'s stories I've read that involve genderqueerness are really good, in fact, so if that's something you like in your fic, go for it.

Also, I know that Kass will second my rec of (http://astolat.livejournal.com/profile)astolat (http://astolat.livejournal.com/)'s SGA story Time in a Bottle (http://www.intimations.org/fanfic/stargate/time_in_a_bottle.html). Heh. Just ask her. Lots of astolat's zillion other stories in multiple fandoms are long and comforting, too.

I have no idea what you may have already seen, but another absolutely charming feel-good story is (http://rageprufrock.livejournal.com/profile)rageprufrock (http://rageprufrock.livejournal.com/)'s Merlin modern-day AU Drastically Redefining Protocol (http://archiveofourown.org/works/3189).

I don't remember how you feel about SPN and Wincest, but my go-to comfort stories in that area are Lazy Daze's Keep Our Eyes on the Sum of Each Other (http://lazy-daze.livejournal.com/452858.html) (bodyswap) and (http://setissma.livejournal.com/profile)setissma (http://setissma.livejournal.com/)'s Long Lay the World (http://setissma.livejournal.com/542405.html) (Christmas fic, utterly sweet). Both are shorter than the above, but if yuo're okay with the genre, they'll make you feel warm and happy. Which it sounds like you sorely need; I'm sorry things have been so horrible! I hope you can collapse comfortably at home now.

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I have read that Merlin fic and it's fabulous. Definitely worth a re-read. And I'm pretty much a judgement-free zone when it comes to SPN and Wincest (so long as it's well written, I'm game for just about anything), so both these stories sound fantastic. Thank you!

And I'm pretty sure I've read that astolat piece too, but if I'm not entirely certain, clearly it deserves another look. (She's one of those writers I tend to return to on on days when I need well written comfort food. She's kind of like the fandom equivalent of Jane Austen, in that way.)

Thanks for these!

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, is that the famous barista AU? Or am I thinking of something else?

In any case, SGA crackfic sounds just about right for this weekend. Thanks!

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I haven't read the famous barista AU! This is a different one, relatively new and quite wonderful. Though now that you mention it, I might have to dig up the barista AU this afternoon, just for kicks. :-)

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the new Star Trek movie yet? If so, here's a place to start: http://delicious.com/norwich36/st%3Axi

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

I have! This was our one outing for us during the week of relative-visiting: we left the kid with D's parents and took ourselves out for a movie. Which was a surprising amount of fun, even after all the online squee I'd seen.

*heads over to look at recs*

Thank you!

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

So sorry about the sickness - glad you're back and on the mend now. (I have no entertainment, sorry.)

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

It's very, very good to be home, thanks. And of course, right up until we got sick, we'd been congratulating ourselves on how our first big trip-with-baby was going so smoothly.

[meret.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon!

I just posted some SPN recs yesterday.
http://meret.livejournal.com/838791.html