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

[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!