Taking Chances by bistokids (R)

[blueteak.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm blueteak and I'll be driving the van this month. I'm going to rec a huge range of work, from older material to newer work, case fic to kinky fic (and maybe kinky case fic) and gen, slash, and het. Hope you enjoy the ride! 
Fandom: LIFE ON MARS
Pairing: Sam/Gene
Length: 2,262
Author on LJ: bistokids
Author Website: Fiction index on LJ
Why this must be read:
In addition to mixing humor and sexiness in just the right measure, ensuring that neither cancels out the other, bisto's given us a fic that shows Sam analyzing Gene, trying to figure out how best to deal with him. And not being sure he has the right answer. This also wins for plotting!Sam, spot-on dialogue, a surprise appearance (as bisto says in her summary, "Guten tag"), and a wonderful depiction of the atmosphere in CID. 

Brief Excerpt:
Their relationship, hardly one which could have been called auspicious from the moment when Gene had dragged Sam by the lapels into the bearpit that he laughably called an office, had recently nose-dived with startling rapidity – to the point where even Ray had stopped sniggering and started to look genuinely concerned. Sam’s one attempt to address this issue, to point out the lack of professionalism and its effect on the officers around them (and, by extension, the smooth and effective operation of the team as a whole) had been met with an exhortation to ‘cut out the poncey Hyde bollocks and piss off and bother some other poor bastard.’

Taking Chances

Comments

[mikes-grrl.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty familiar with the thing, I've been fighting it for a while. I did not have any troubles adding a couple of tags -- except in one case, where Delicious just borked the entry so badly I had to delete it and start over. But no, not much trouble there. The real problem was adding new tags to bundles; sometimes I could, sometimes I couldn't, sometimes it would "take", sometimes it wouldn't. *shakes fist*

The sort feature for the tags is helpful, but only if you know what you are looking for. At least they are showing all tags now, instead of the "top 20" or whatever their brilliantly stupid idea was a while back; also, picking a tag to filter is unreliable. For instance, if I select "bistokids" then it also filters in "bistokids-reccer" which is not the same thing.

Why and how Delicious could utterly destroy what was working so well is beyond me. It's functional now, but hardly useful.

[chamekke.livejournal.com]

Ah, tags in bundles: sorry, I managed to misread that bit. Yes, it seems to be completely haphazard. And the filtering on tags is wonky, I've no idea why.

Why and how Delicious could utterly destroy what was working so well is beyond me. It's functional now, but hardly useful.

WORD.

I really appreciate your persisting with the maintenance of LoM Crack Van, especially in the face of all these frustrations and challenges. It IS a huge service to the fandom, and we are lucky to have it--and you. Thank you! *grateful hug*