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One Fic:

the ruins we have built by juno_chan [ASoiAF; Jon Arryn/Lysa Tully, PG13]

Here I am with yet another fic I didn't know I wanted in my life until I read it. Jon and Lysa have such an unhappy marriage, and this is a wonderful take on all the issues underneath that -- that he is older than her father, that she is in love with someone else, that she suffers a string of tragic pregnancies -- all from Jon's POV. Beautifully done.

One Art:

Peeta by renisanz [Hunger Games; Peeta, G]

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Today's fannish5:

Name your five favorite historical fandoms

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I was going to do that music meme that's going around, where you list your favorite songs based on an assigned letter, but then I realized they'd probably all be My Chemical Romance songs anyway, so.

All right. Off to finish my fest fics.

Good evening morning, kids! I'm up so late it's almost early because frontbits is poaching my internet connection. She keeps telling me she's doing her online homework, but the muted laugh-track in the background suggests she's watching Hot in Cleveland.

Thusly, I come bearing recs.

Hunger Games:

Battle Scars, by ladyofspring [Haymitch/Effie, teen]

featherxquill linked me to this after I was complaining about the general lack of Haymitch/Effie fic, and it was... everything I was looking for, really. It isn't overly angsty, because I don't think Effie would allow it, but it isn't romantic by any stretch, because Haymitch wouldn't even know where to begin.

A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones:

I'll know my name as it's called again by janie_tangerine [Jon/Ygritte, adult]

I love this pairing so much, and this is smoking hot.

my mouth is full of stars by honey_wheeler [Jon/Robb, adult]

This is also smoking hot, and it's also 20,000 words long, so it's smoking hot repeatedly.

Diamond glints on snow ren [Jon/Robb, teen]

This is a Five Things fic -- four places where Jon and Robb might have met again, and one where they did not. The first four are very well done and the last one nearly broke my heart.

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I also have some shiny art, all work safe.


Harry Potter:

Young Sirius Black by hitofanart [Sirius]

Harry Potter by gabyd70 [Harry]


Hunger Games:

Hunger Games by daekazu. [Gale, Peeta, Katniss]

After the Storm by chelsea-bee [Peeta/Katniss]

Katniss and Gale by blackfeatherz29 [Gale, Katniss]

Mockingjay by blackfeatherz29 [Katniss]

The Lord of the Rings:

The King by d17rulez [Aragorn]

Eowyn and the Nazgul by deligaris [Eowyn]

Watching by unita-n. [Nazgul]

Elves Leaving Middle Earth by araniart [Various]

This post on Pete Wentz's blog pretty much sums up my life for the last week. I quit my job last Sunday¹, and since then I cannot be persuaded to leave the house with a cattleprod. What's that, we need groceries? Call Pink Dot. Son needs a ride home from the mall? Take the bus. Friends are going to the movies? I'll wait for the DVD.

Since I have you here, allow me to recommend some things I read/looked at this morning:

A Trinket, A Trifle by thistlerose. [Hunger Games; Effie Trinket, Mrs. Everdeen, gen]

This is very well done. It nicely explores one of my pet theories about Effie -- that over the years, she eventually began to realize that the Games were wrong on some level, maybe because losing her tributes every year started to wear her down, but she chose not to examine it too closely, because it was easier that way, because she was from the Capitol and so much of her daily life was tied up in the Games.

This also manages to make Mrs. Everdeen slightly sympathetic, something I'd never thought I'd say in a million years.

Denude by faithwood. [Harry Potter; Harry/Draco, adult]

Everything about this is delightful -- the atmosphere, the imagery, the different things and ideas that turn Harry on, the whole idea that their mutual obsession is a naked, obvious thing reaching an inevitable conclusion.

Also, smoking hot.

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And now for some art -- all Harry Potter, and all distressingly work safe.

Concealed by achen089. [Sirius]

This House is Not a Home by viria13 [Sirius]

Lupin by ullakko. [Remus]

The Marauders by jackpot-84 [Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, Prongs]

Spinner's End by ullakko. [Snape, Bellatrix, Narcissa]

I also found this gorgeous piece of Harry/Draco art on the fuckyeah-harrypotterfanart Tumblr, but I can't figure out who drew it because of reblog drift. Alas. [ETA:] faithwood to the rescue! It's an older piece by reallycorking -- which, yeah. I should've know, based on how pretty it is.

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So, my hp_beholder fic hates me like I murdered its mother in cold blood.

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Speaking of the Hunger Games, where is all the Haymitch/Effie fic? Seriously. I'd read the hell out of that.

I was telling themostepotente on the phone last night that I'd also read the hell out of some Robert Baratheon/Ned Stark, set right after Robert wins the Iron Throne, and Robert is all loud and enthusiastic about it, and Ned really is kind of into it, but admitting that wouldn't be honorable, or whatever, so on the inside he's like oh fuck, yes Robert, harder, but on the outside he's all *sigh* whatever pleases you, My Grace.


¹ It's a ridiculous, super tl;dr story. Suffice to say I did everyone involved a favor, including myself.