February 13th, 2011 
01:23 am Look To The Heavens And Number The Stars by minervacat (R)
Fandom: STARGATE SG1
Pairing:  ensemble gen
Length:  16,000 words [sequel: 4,000 words]
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] minervacat
Author Website: when the floods roll back
Why this must be read:  This is an awesome look at SG:1 (and Stargate Command in general) from the POV of an outsider.  Plus, library science - who can resist that?  \o/

Her second day underneath the Mountain, she was sitting in her office trying to make sense of a stack of scrolls that looked pre-Egyptian, except they were too real to be forgeries and too new to be from the era they should have been from, and a distracted looking man drifted through the door and made a couple of circuits of the junk they'd brought Claire to catalog before looking up and noticing her.

"Hi," he said cheerfully. "How would you classify the Stargate, if you had to?"

Claire stared at him.

"Library of Congress or Dewey, either's fine," the man said.


Look To The Heavens And Number The Stars and the sequel the silent language of the star
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06:29 pm Anything But Normal by preromantics (PG)
Fandom: THE VAMPIRE DIARIES
Pairing: Elena/Vicki (background Vicki/Jeremy)
Length: ~1400 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] preromantics
Author Website: fic tag
Why this must be read: Okay, so. With a few exceptions, I'll read just about any pairing. But I admit that this fic moved to the top of my to-read list as soon as I saw it, because a)there's disturbingly little femmeslash in this fandom and b)Elena/Vicki struck me as bizarre and I wanted to see how it was done.

"Anything But Normal" turned out to be one of those fics that I didn't know I wanted until I read it. It's set pre-series, in the midst of Elena's grief over the death of her parents. In comes Vicki, "hazy enough to pull Elena out of her own haze just by being herself" (comment from [livejournal.com profile] summerstorm). The author not only keeps both girls in character, but manages to slip in fragments of characterization on those not central to the fic. Hopeful and a little heartbreaking.

Anything but Normal
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11:51 pm You Are Not This Kind of Boy by aiscat93 (PG-13)
Fandom: THE VAMPIRE DIARIES
Pairing: Stefan/Katherine (AU)
Length: 1000 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] aiscat93
Author Website: [livejournal.com profile] firefly_crush (most of her fic, friend-locked, open membership); ff.net account (incomplete); this story is from her Christmas Present post (all these fics are public)
Why this must be read:
I was disappointed when [livejournal.com profile] aiscat93 f'locked her fan-fiction community, because I'd wanted to recommend her! (I definitely suggest joining her fic comm, there's some gems.) Then she posted this awesome piece in a public post, and I realized that I still could.

This is an AU with vampire!Stefan meeting human!Katherine, creating an unusual dynamic. While Katherine as a modern human teenager is obviously very different from her usual vampire self, the author manages to make her still feel like Katherine - definitely not someone to be trifled with. Stefan is delightfully bemused by this dangerous teenage girl, but knows better than to play easy.

You Are Not This Kind of Boy
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