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So, I've been through the whole of this year's archive, clicking on all that immediately interested me. I will, of course, read more once authors are revealed and you guys let me know what you've written, so there's at least one more rec post coming after this one. (Also, I bookmarked what looks like a seriously awesome Lewis and Clark RPF that is eleventy million pages long and must be read when I am not so far into my cups LOL)

The Eagle Conspiracy
Fandom: Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next Series
I somehow managed to comment a billion times on this fic without realizing it. My computer kept giving me an error every time I tried to post a comment when it was really going through each time. *sigh* I am AWESOME!! Anyway, I have Melanie to thank for my fondness for Thursday Next. She loaned me The Eyre Affair and I was immediately smitten. This fic is, as I say in my oft repeated feedback, perfectly in keeping with the original and incredibly fun and mischevious. If you don't giggle like mad while reading this, all I can say is BLESS YOUR HEART and shake my head.

Talking, All We Ever Do
Fandom: RPF--Oscar Wilde and associates
For those of you who don't know, I'm a Victorianist. I wrote my MA thesis on Ouida, one of the most influential and famous writers of the Victorian era (even though she is now largely unknown) and incidentally an acquaintance of Mr. Wilde. I am fascinated with the period and with its people and most of all with its voice. This fic is almost entirely dialogue and not a single word is dull or out of place. The conversation here is as enchanting and witty and razor sharp as anything Oscar ever put to paper. There is a deep sorrow here (as there was in the lives this piece commemorates) and a very strange sort of resigned joy. I am absolutely besotted with this piece. You all must go read it NOW!

The Strange and Not Entirely Ineffectual Courting of Jon Stewart by Stephen T. Colbert
Fandom: RPF--Punditslash
This is just silly. And funny. And, honestly, I think it actually happened. Or is going to. Or maybe I just wish it did. LOL

The Fearless Moral Inventory of Millhouse Van Houten
Fandom: The Simpsons
I hope I'm not boring you all dreadfully by waxing reminiscent about the source material for these recs; that hope, however, does not mean I'm going to stop. LOL I was not allowed to watch The Simpsons when I lived at home. My parents thought it was vulgar or perhaps commissioned by the Great Satan himself, along with sex, beer and activist judges. I didn't start watching until I was in college and I had a lot of very enjoyable catching up to do. I am clearly not the only person who thinks this fic is made of awesome since it has the highest comment count of any fic I noticed in the archive, but I will tell you that the piece lives in those wonderfully poignant moments of the show where all the funny is stripped away and if that sounds lame, then I'm not telling it right.

Pluck on Laughter
Fandom: Toy Soldiers
And this is why she came to the party, folks. This is what Lorraine was hoping for (well and Frasier/Niles slash, which alas is not to be this year). TS will always and forever be one of my favorite movies. Truthfully, it's a pretty terrible film. It's dated and watching it now, sometimes the laughs come in places I know the director did not intend. But every time I watch it, I'm 12 again and sitting in Sandy's darkened living room drinking in everything Wesley Crusher says and does and developing what will be a life long crush on Sean Astin (which if you share please to not be reading his autobiography as he comes off as a crush-crushing egomaniacal whiny baby, but I digress). This is about grownups who are kindly but unable to fix the situation; it's about hot boys sitting undie clad in a big pile on each other's dorm beds; it's about pranks and friendship; it's about THE FUCKING MACHINE GUN LOL. This fic is a missing scene from the film; it's almost entirely dialogue and it is entirely perfect.

Some Small Town, One Different Summer
Fandom: Toy Soldiers
*Goes all flaily* Oh, man. I don't even know what to say about this except that it is AWESOME. TOTALLY AWESOME. It is long which is yay. It is excellently characterized which is yay. It is very, very hot. Also yay. It has perfect voices and an excellent dissection of the dynamics between all the guys. A must read.

And I'm saving the Live Free or Die Hard recs for another day as I'm all eye swimmy.