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Monday, September 28th, 2015
Since I keep saying I’m going to pick this story next, here it is! The title is a quote in and of itself, but I think it’s the Weltschmerz parts that I remember the most clearly. “He suffers from Weltschmerz, I’m sorry to say. Apparently he feels that it is his destiny to channel the […]
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Monday, July 13th, 2015
“Dief! Follow!” He should have known that those would be the last words he would ever say to Diefenbaker, would have known if he’d ever bothered to give the matter a moment’s thought. -from About A Dog, by Speranza Kickin’ it old school with the Due South fandom this week! (This fic was posted in […]
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Monday, January 5th, 2015
At least for the month of January, I decided on ‘fic quotes that have stuck with me’ for the Monday theme. (Of course, then it turned out that I’d remembered this one all wrong anyway, but the idea of it was still there.) “That was my important story, that used to be the important story. […]
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Friday, September 12th, 2014
Excellent collection started over at The Left Hand of Franklin on AO3. (Oh, Due South. It was like seeing old friends again, and look, they’re so happy together!) Reaching Out, by mific The discovery of Franklin’s ship in the Northwest passage proves something of an anticlimax, and Ray wants to know why. Symbolically or something, […]
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Sunday, July 6th, 2014
I haven’t been feeling so great this weekend, with my crazy sinus congestion as the main contributor to the feeling that everything is suddenly immensely difficult. Since it’s easy and distracting, I’ve been reading fics on my nook, starting with the A’s and working forward. So far I’ve run into: Harry Potter, West Wing, Avengers, […]
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Somehow, I managed to schedule myself a four day weekend. (\0/) Given that today was beautiful, and a perfect day for playing outside, of course I spent my time sleeping and reading fanfic. Well, at least I wasn’t working. I followed a White Collar fic back to china_shop’s fic on delicious. Some long White Collar […]
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
I was puttering around over at AO3 last night and found Your Bottle is Empty (But Your Glass Has Been Filled), by jjtaylor. Which is basically a story in which Sam has emo!angst, Gabriel has problems of his own to worry about, and Chuck must want to wash out his brain with soap sometimes. As […]
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Number of Fics Read: 100 exactly — totally cool. Number of Fandoms: 12 (Fandom that made no sense having seen none of the background canon: Sarah Connor Chronicles. Fandom that made perfect sense having seen none of the background “canon:” American Idol. Although, if it’s based on a reality tv show, does living in reality […]
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
The heat has me feeling all wilty. And lazy — more lazy than usual? Hard to say. Here’s some fics where the weather is also very hot. Merlin: Summer Country, by seperis “Can’t you do anything about this?” Arthur says finally, running a hand through sweat-slicked hair. due South: Somewhere Else to Be, by Kellie […]
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
The Internet has not been kind to my attention span. I used to pass by stories under 5000 words (mostly because I was using dial-up, and it wasn’t a lot of return on time investment, you know?). Now I see something over 5000 and I’m all, “Hmmm, I don’t know… Do I want to make […]
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