Fannish love and reviews

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My Yuletide story was a character piece, Michaela Dupont from Anna to the Infinite Power.

Fannish things I have recently loved:

Sarah Walker vid, Creator, by talitha78.

linabean’s poem taken from snippets from sgastoryfinders.

…
the one where
McKay
is turned into a puppy!!!
It ends up
with John and Rodney together

I'm almost sure
I didn't imagine it.
I know it's out there

I'm looking for a story
Please?

John is very politely (with guns) asking
I am looking for a fic

See also trinity_clare’s riff on William Carlos Williams in the comments:
I have read
the stories
that were in
the comm

and which
you were probably
saving
as bookmarks

Forgive me
they were del.icio.us
so slashy
and so hot

And then there’s the additional material, not McShep, which is funny but also seems to me to serve as a critique of the pairing-centeredness of so much fandom, especially when it’s two white guys at the center.

Jayne Leitch, Dearly Divided: SPN/Dexter, Dean & Deb. I don’t know Dexter, but the SPN plot—oh, Dean. (Also, oh, Sam.)

Terry Pratchett, Nation: A tsunami kills everyone on Mau’s island while Mau is out being initiated into manhood. Daphne, a British girl about Mau’s age, is shipwrecked in the tsunami. Soon after, other survivors start to show up, and then the troubles really begin. Pratchett writes with a light touch about terrible tragedy, never forgetting that it is terrible. I don’t have anything helpful to say about the book, other than that it makes an interesting contrast to the end of the Lemony Snicket books in terms of castaways, morality, and making a new life out of the ashes of the old.

Stephen King, Just After Sunset: New short stories, and one old one never anthologized in a King collection before. The only real remark I have is that King’s shift from Maine to Florida as his default setting has given him some new landscapes. The best story is probably The Gingerbread Girl, a woman running from a tragedy who finds herself running for her life; it is straight-down-the-middle King in good form, but this is overall not a memorable collection. Not terrible, just not as juicy as King at his best.

Setona Mizushiro, After School Nightmare, vol. 9: More focus on Sou and his sister, entwined in the nightmare, as Mashiro tries (again!) to figure out how he feels and what he wants. This could all end well, or very badly.

Fuyumi Soryo, Eternal Sabbath, vol. 1: Ryousuke can bend people’s minds and make them believe anything—that they’re on fire, that he’s their son, etc. He uses this talent to mete out random justice, if there is such a thing, and get whatever he wants, though he doesn’t seem to want an awful lot. Mine is a brilliant brain researcher who thinks she ought to have a boyfriend but always chooses her career over softer pursuits, and who stumbles on Ryousuke’s secret. I’m not sure about this, but coffeeandink likes it, so I’ll look for later volumes.