August 29th, 2007 
03:33 am By Any Other Name by Megan (PG-13)
Fandom: BAND OF BROTHERS
Pairing: Eugene Roe/Babe Heffron
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] sparrowette
Author Website: Author's memories
Why this must be read:

I almost missed this because it was modestly presented as simple fluff when in reality it's one of the warmest, most touching post-war fics I've read in a fandom that has many. This is just one of those stories that stays with you, in that secret place under your cold cynical fandom-weary heart.

Eugene once asked why they wintered up north and summered in the south, noting the lack of logic. Yet, it has nothing to do with rational thought, only sentiment. The swamps come alive in the summer—full of thunderous skies and clouds of insects. The noise is constant and low—the stink of water something ugly and beautiful. And Philadelphia…well, Heffron always says that it isn’t Philly without dirty snow and early nights.

...

“No one ever does, Gene. You were a soldier that got to be a medic. I was a replacement that got to be one of the guys. Everything’s chance. Everything but this.”


By Any Other Name
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07:29 pm Drivers Needed!
Drivers are needed for September and beyond in the Harry Potter and Sentinel fandoms!

We will also need October drivers for the DC Comics, Farscape, Highlander, Star Wars, and X-Men fandoms.

Go here to sign up!
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08:54 pm Campaign Secrets by Selena (PG-13)
Fandom: HEROES
Pairing: none, or all, depending on how reliable you think the narrator
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] selenak
Author Website: author page on fanfiction.net
Why this must be read:

Because it's hilarious. An intern on Nathan Petrelli's Congressional campaign keeps a diary of her observations and encounters, and tries to make sense of all the strange things that keep happening.

Was a bit late for work, so took taxi; taxi driver most beautiful man ever. Would have appreciated sight in mirror, but taxi driver started monologuing about evolution. Promptly fell asleep. Ah, well. Do not need a social life right now anyway. At campaign HQ was told to go to department store and pay for socks taken by Mrs. P in illegal manner. This apparently sign that am in trusted circle now. Wonder about significance of socks, though. Mafia symbolism, like fish? Catholic thing? Must decode for future best seller!

It just gets better and better, building on events from the season and this girl's loopy speculations. I love stories where the reader knows more than the narrator, and here it makes for laugh out loud enjoyment.

Campaign Secrets
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10:42 pm Thanksgiving Day by Helen (PG)
Fandom: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Helen's Fanfic
Why this must be read:

Helen writes some wonderful little character fics, getting into the minds and history of the boys and writing some great interactions. This one is about Ezra and Nettie, and how the 'wizened crone' comments haven't been taken to heart. It's sweet and wonderfully written.

Thanksgiving Day
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11:25 pm Out and About by Sandy (R)
fandom: popslash
pairing: Justin/Lance
author on lj: [profile] callmesandy 
author website: Suitable For Framing
why this must be read: HOW HAS THIS NEVER BEEN RECCED BEFORE? This is my favorite story of all time, my Number 1 forever, and I know everyone's already read it, but IT'S NEVER BEEN RECCED BEFORE! At least not that I can see. So here it is. The story I've read more times than any other story. Go read it again.  Here, have my very favorite scene:

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Out and About
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11:38 pm The Game of Making by ionlylurkhere (R)
Fandom: Doctor Who
Pairing: Doctor/Martha
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] ionlylurkhere
Author Website: N/A
Why this must be read:

This is a dark little fic that explores the consequences that messing with someone's timeline could have; the vast capacity for manipulation that the doctor's position gives him, even if he wouldn't really use it; and the limits of play, where and whether the game begins or ends.

"Your history is a river, flowing from the mountains of your birth down to the endless ocean. The river is broad and deep, difficult to divert. But if I climb up into the mountains, and put a rock in just the right place, its whole course changes. Valleys dry up and plains flood, at my merest whim."

The Game of Making
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