forget your Unified Theory of Everything

So much thanks to romanyg, for making me her kept girl. Hee! I haven't been around much but I have polls so this is super nifty! Thank you!

I had no idea your birthday was today! I almost missed it! Or I did miss it, in your neck of the woods . . . punctuality is the bane of my existence.

I really actually *can't* count the ways, but here are some reasons lostakasha really doubleshots my mocha:
1. You have a sense of humor that is flagrant, unashamed and devastatingly forthright. You say what you think and you do what you please, but you never make the mistake of taking unserious things too seriously.
2. You write thoughtful, meta-heavy fic that makes me see the characters in new ways. You write fic thick with metaphor and ways of phrasing things I never would've thought of. You write really hot fic, too. Sometimes (often) you do all three at once.
3. You keep on truckin'. You smile when you can, and your chin is still up when you can't.
4. Brillo balls.
5. You love with enthusiasm, and throw yourself into things you're interested in, and you have *fun* with your inner fire. I think that's so very important.
6. You metatate with me! Sometimes I wish I could sit down in a room with you and mine your brain for all your interesting thoughts on Buffyverse characters, and then all your thoughts on any other characters ever, and then on writing or living or watching grass grow. 'Cause with you, I bet even that would be interesting!
7. I could go on!

At the end of 2005 I decided that for 2006, I was going to put into my memories every fic I *really* enjoyed reading.

I failed miserably.

The times when I remembered to put a fic into memories where haphazard, random, and strange. Half of the fics listed below weren't taken from my handy-dandy memories list; I hunted down because I remembered them. As a result, every single one is from my flist, because with the ones off-list, I couldn't even remember who wrote them, much less where to find them (among fics I remember truly enjoying, but can't remember where to find them: there's a What Spike Did With Angel's Ashes piece, a Brink of Apocalypse Spike/Angel, in which Spike brings help from his poetry slam, and a truly creepy Firefly in which use is made of Inara's needle).

Anyway, this means most of you have probably seen the majority of these fics already, so it might not actually be useful to anyone. If it looks like I favor some authors--some of you are on there five or more times--it's because I totally do, not 'cause I like them as people (though I do) but because I totally pantyfan their writing. But my spotty organization also means that these are by no means the only fics I really enjoyed--it's just what I happened to have when push came to shove. And there are so many fics I plan on reading from 2006 that I haven't gotto yet (haven't done my holiday fb festive thingy--dude, I suck), that I can just *feel* I'm going to love.

If nothing else, it can be a Big Damn Supplemental Feedback List.

In the end, what I want to get across is a big ole THANK YOU. Thank you flist, for writing fic. For keeping at it and keeping me entertained. Thanks for making icons and graphics and vids and meta and creating. Thank you for reading and reviewing and pantyfanning and loving. Thanks to everyone not on my flist for being there and mysterious and wanky and slightly scary and yet attentive when I want to poke around and funny when I want to laugh at you. OMG THANK YOU, everyone. You made last year live-able.

( Big Damn Rec List, Buffyverse, 2006 )

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( Itty Bitty Rec List, Other Fandoms, 2006 )

Hey! I'm still not really here! But I wanted to do a fic-I-wrote-this-year post, at like, the end of the year, and I wanted to include this little bitlet and for organizing purposes wanted it to have it's own post. So, you may or may not have already read it. It originally appeared in entrenous88's hot hot hot! thread, where she asked for ficlets about characters dealing with the heat. Different feeling in winter, I guess! Also, I gave it a title and edited.

Title: Castaways
Length: Short!
Rating: NC-17! Please mind.
Summary: Connor/Wesley!

( Castaways )

Happy Hanukkah!

I thought this was fun.

There are things that happen in fiction that just don't happen in real life. Harry Potter turns out to be a wizard, Horatio Hornblower raids a fort with six guys and a grappling hook, and kicks ass, and in a fanfic, Xander Harris gets pregnant and has Clem's babies. But that's not the kind of don't happen I'm talking about.

( I'm talking about the little things, the little fantasies of *all* fiction, everywhere. Particularly about the little, everyday fantasies that pertain to communication, to interpreting our fellow (wo)man. And how even these tiny, everyday fantasies address a need in the audience. And in humanity. It's all very very hearts and stars and flowers. *sniffs* )

Title: Conceit(s)
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: B/A. Very B/A, except it's all about Spike. The ending is B/A/S.
Summary: This used to be titled, "5 Ways Those Bluggy Birds Never Shagged", but Spike decided to make it eponymous.
A/N: Warning for experimentation with style, POV, voice, and uh, reality. Take it with a grain of salt, I guess.

Part of the IWRY Fic Marathon.
With love, for chrisleeoctaves

( Conceit(s) )

Can you tell me what you mean when you say "bite the big one"?
And is it different from "bought the big one"?

Does either one mean to die? 'Cause. I need to make a fish joke.

I said it should be ('cause you know he wasn't born with it. hahahaha!) and then Lynne made it so!

Shareable if credited: Tamibrandt did the icon and Lynne did the text.