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I swear somebody actually asked for this! also, there's a lot of dom/sub dynamic stuff in this pairing and especially in this rec set (sometimes formalized, sometimes not), so if that's not your thing maybe steer clear. I'm into it (also, I think it makes a lot of sense... oh Tyler, you just need someone to look after you better), but if you want more vanilla recs lemme know and I'll see what I can do!

gonna have to ask about (6783 words) by ferrassie
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jamie Benn/Tyler Seguin
Characters: Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn, Jordie Benn, Valeri Nichushkin
Additional Tags: Time Travel, Bodyswap
Summary:

This is not Tyler’s apartment. He has no idea how he got here or who he’s sleeping beside, face hidden in the pillow. He’s been sitting up long enough to wake him, though.

“Tyler,” he says, voice muffled and rough with sleep. “You awake?” He looks up with half-lidded eyes, dark hair a mess.

texas heat (9738 words) by Rest
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jamie Benn/Tyler Seguin
Summary:

He can't pretend getting traded didn't gut him. He gave that city his all, and some part of him really thought it was going to be a for-life thing. But he can see, now, that Boston wasn't actually that good for him. Dallas is giving him a chance to be better.

He doesn't think being better includes creeping on his dog walker, but whatever. Nobody's perfect.

Wanted (2852 words) by rsadelle
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jamie Benn/Tyler Seguin
Characters: Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - BDSM
Summary:

Jamie's met Tyler before, seen pictures of him, knows he's an uncollared sub, but he's not prepared for the force of that in a friendly personal situation. Tyler isn't submitting, exactly, when Jamie opens the door, but there's a vulnerability to him that wasn't there at All-Star Weekend, and the v-neck he's wearing makes his bare throat stand out like a beacon.

settle down, it'll all be clear (2002 words) by hapakitsune
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Tyler Seguin/Jamie Benn
Characters: Jamie Benn, Tyler Seguin
Additional Tags: Power Dynamics, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot
Summary:

It just felt right, going up to Tyler's place instead of his own.

take me now and shelter me (2686 words) by sabrina_il
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jamie Benn/Tyler Seguin
Characters: Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - BDSM, Light Dom/sub, Oral Sex, Come Shot, Praise Kink
Summary:

The first time Tyler asks Jamie if he can suck his dick, Jamie freaks out a little.

(ganked from mardia, because my usual meme will just make it so much more obvious that I stopped writing halfway through the year...)

This year I wrote:

hitched my apple wagon to your star: The Hobbit, fem!Fili/Kili
old dogs, new tricks: Women's Football RPF, Berta Carles/Ani Escribano
the wheels on the bus go round and round: Tennis RPF, Rafael Nadal/Novak Djokovic (technically I didn't write this in 2013 but this is when I posted it, so...)
radical reference: Football RPF, Victor Valdes/Andres Iniesta
passion of the pistol: Tennis RPF, Flavia Pennetta/Francesca Schiavone
quis custodiet ipsos custodes: Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter/Will Graham (co-written with my long-distance life partner aramley)
encara em bull la sang: Football RPF, Victor Valdes/Andres Iniesta
jeu décisif: Tennis RPF, Rafael Nadal/Novak Djokovic
the real hockey widows of new jersey: Hockey RPF, Danny Briere/Claude Giroux
Bourbon and Boys Give Me the Blues: Hart of Dixie, Wade Kinsella/Lemon Breeland

( so many questions )

Next up: a long-overdue personal update and some recs! I'm very very slowly working my way through the Yuletide fic I downloaded before reveals, but I promised khoshgeleh_16 I'd rec her my favorites of the hockey exchange, and I've already picked my way through that. 

it's the best time of the year!!! I finally got my dear yulegoat letter up, if anybody else is like me and likes to read the requests before assignments even come out and speculate about the fic that may be written this year.

also in this post, because why not: my dear friend orangecrush1189 asked me a while ago for recs that might be good for someone who's never seen a vid before. I thought about that a lot, since thinking about vids is one of my favorite things, natch. idk if there's a best way to ease someone into vids, but I think one of the major barriers to understanding them is not having the visual vocabulary to pick up what any given vid is trying to do without external prompting? so I decided that maybe it would make sense to show someone a few good examples of the more common types of vids -- as soon as you realize they're not all the same and they don't all use the same vocabulary, it gets way easier! (for most things, anyway. there's plenty of vids out there that I still don't really get.) if y'all have suggestions for different ways to introduce a friend to the fine art of vid appreciation, I'd love to hear them too!

( vid recs by type, mainly BtVS, Teen Wolf, FNL and Community )

I made it! Thirty days of recs! But I couldn't fit everything I wanted to in, so here's all the sets I started and didn't manage to finish. (Forgive me for not writing notes for everything -- I'm sleepy, and there's a lot of them.) I hope you guys enjoyed September Recs! And if you ever want recs for something from me, well, it doesn't have to be September for you to ask. ;)

The Hunger Games
Embers, by dayln03 [Katniss]
To the Victor, The Spoil, by Annakovsky [Katniss/Haymitch]
Come away to the water, by LLenkaLL [Katniss]

Sentinel AUs
Back to back (they faced each other), by harrycrewe [Hawaii Five-0, Steve/Danny]
Right on the Limits, by thehoyden [Hockey RPF, Sid/Geno]
Oldest Story In The World, by elyssblair [Eureka, Jack/Nathan]

Women on Roaring Rampages of Revenge (for idhren24)
Blow, by elipie [Revenge, Emily+Nolan]
Brush Your Shoulders Off, by elipie [Matilda, Matilda+Miss Honey]

Body art (for idhren24, recced with the caveat that if you're not into this kink, I wouldn't bother with the fic)
Written in the Scars, by zanzibar [Hockey RPF, Ebs/Hallsy]
The Taste Of Sweat And Metal On His Tongue, by slythatheart [Teen Wolf, Stiles/Danny]
The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Con Men, by OnYourMark [White Collar, Peter/Neal/Elizabeth]

Time loops (for idhren24)
Time in a Bottle, by astolat [Stargate: Atlantis, John/Rodney]
Ho'oponopono, by ember_firedrake [Hawaii Five-0, Steve/Danny]
A Vision Too Removed To Mention, by pocky_slash [Torchwood, Ianto+Gwen, Ianto/Jack]
all of those shots you didn't take, by dimbleby [Hockey RPF, Sid/Geno]

women in sports, non-RPF edition (for ladytelemachus)
Whatever It Takes, by fan_eunice [Bend It Like Beckham]
Firework, by leanwellback [Whip It]
5 Games Jess Played In, by grim_lupine [Bend It Like Beckham, Jess/Jules]
New In Town, by bop_radar [Whip It, Bliss/Pash via my tinhatted slash goggles]

hockey not-quite-rarepairs
Can't Stop (If You Don't Start), by VampireSpider [James Neal/Paul Martin]
You Could Have My Heart (Or We Could Share It Like the Last Slice), by distira [Tyler Seguin/Brad Marchand]
Nothing Worth Knowing, by beatperfume & shoemaster [Andrew Ladd/Ryan Kesler]
Warm Us From Within, by katarin (Bobby Ryan/Ryan Getzlaf)

Bechdel test pass: femslash edition
Devotion, by charmax [Xena: Warrior Princess, Xena/Gabrielle]
The Book of Love, by such_heights [Merlin, Gwen/Morgana]
Non Lievi Alchun, by halcyon_shift [Merlin, Gwen/Morgana]
Come On, by halcyon_shift [Vampire Diaries, Elena/Caroline/Bonnie]
Resolution, by meltingconfetti [Glee, Quinn/Rachel]

I'm so sleepy, and yet I also really want to make chocolate cookies! But instead I am here making a post for September Recs, such is my dedication to the cause. idhren24 asked for crossovers, but I'm not super into crossover fic, so I have decided to interpret this as crossover vids! I had a time and a half getting the list of my favorite crossover vids down to just five, let me tell you. So many delightful vids out there!

The Lightning Strike, by obsessive24 [Kings, Merlin, Alexander]
An absolutely masterful job marrying together the stories of David and Jonathan, Merlin and Arthur, and Alexander and Hephaistion. I've never seen a vid that used external sources like this -- the slow pan around the Michelangelo statue of David was especially cool! And the way the cinematography is used to point out parallels is really stunning, too. Every time I watch the clip of Hephaistion's ring falling and then Arthur's torch, I get chills.

I Enjoy Being A Girl, by absolutedestiny [Alias, Buffy, Veronica Mars, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly]
I think this is one of the more accessible vids I've ever watched; I remember trying to show my mom a few vids several years ago, and this is the only one she really "got". You don't have to be fully conversant in the idiom of vidding to appreciate girls kicking ass! I really enjoy that Veronica Mars is included, even though she doesn't kick ass in the conventional manner. Intellectual ass-kicking still counts!

Needs, by tearful_eye [Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha]
The cinematography! SO GORGEOUS.

Starships, by bironic [Scifi Films and Television]
This is possibly the best vid to work out to that I've discovered so far. So bouncy! So inspiring! So full of spaceships! The external shots of various ships are total nostalgia bait and they work, god damn it. Now I'm having feels about all the Star Trek series.

Destiny Calling, by charmax [Superhero Films]
This was made in 2006, before the explosion of Marvel comics movies, and I think it's really interesting to see all the superhero movies that show up here! And it's charmax, so the fact that the technical details and artistic vision of the vid are amazing goes without saying. Love how seamlessly animated source material is integrated into live action.

Wow, September is almost over. Noooo, September! Stay longer! I'm going to have to do something writer-ly for October to get in shape for yuletide and I'm just not ready for that yet. Anyway! dreamofthem asked for friendship fic, so here we go...

Fortunate Son, by astolat [American Idol RPF, David Cook+David Archuleta]
David Cook and David Archuleta get stranded in the wilderness together and have to rely on each other to survive. This is one of the more realistic lead-ins to the kind of codependency that shows up in platonic friendship fic -- Cook and Archie just went through an incredibly traumatic experience together, of course they don't want to be apart when they return to civilization. There's a slash sequel which I enjoy very much, but I like that this fic is pure friendship fic.

That Awkward/Awesome Moment, by wistful_fever [Community, Troy+Abed]
True bromance is visible even when you can't hear the words.

His Majesty's Dragon, by Naomi Novik [original]
Ok this is maybe cheating but if you like friendship fic you really, really, really need to read the Temeraire books, because they are basically friendship fic turned up to eleven. The entire plot revolves around how much Laurence and Temeraire love each other and cannot bear to be separated even for the good of the nation. Like, if an Austen novel were written about a man and his dragon, that would be the Temeraire series, and the scene where Laurence finally admits to himself and Temeraire that he would rather leave his entire life behind than lose Temeraire is seriously Darcy's-second-proposal level of OH GOD MY FEELS. I have a .pdf of the first book that the publisher was distributing for free as a promotional thing and I will share it with anyone who can't make it to the library to check out a physical copy. (After the first book you're on your own, though. I have paid for all eight books so far, four in hardcover, and JE NE REGRETTE RIEN. Give Naomi your money so she can write us more books!)

Rely On You, by rsadelle [Hockey RPF, Tyler Brown+Tyler Seguin]
Oh, Segs. :( As fond as I am of the Tylers as a romantic pairing, there's something that really gets me about Brownie being there for Segs throughout all his disastrous drama just because he loves him and wants him to be happy, despite having zero interest in him as a sexual being. (I already recced Love in Fast Forward for similar reasons, and if you didn't click on it the first time round you really, really should. The scene where Jeff is having a slow but inevitable meltdown because he's closeted and lonely and Mike grumpily cuddles him so he won't be touch-starved anymore kills me every time.)

Flying Blind, by scintilla10 [Code Name: Verity, Julie/Maddie]
I was struggling to come up with a fifth rec for this theme and upset that it was such a sausage fest, and then I realized that I literally could not think of a single fic that presents female friendship the way the platonic friendship trope is handled in fic: as love that isn't sexual but is overwhelmingly important, more so than any other relationship is those characters' lives, to the point where actions that are usually coded as romantic are seen as normal displays of friendship. And that is bullshit, guys, because women are every bit as capable as men of sustaining deep, meaningful, nonsexual friendships with each other. And then I went poking at the Friendship tag on the AO3 and got angrier and angrier about how impossible it was to find a story like the three fics I just recced but about women. (Please rec me some. I'm like 95% sure there must be some Clint+Natasha SUPER INTENSE DRAMA FRIENDSHIP CUDDLING fic that I just couldn't find.) Long story short go read Code Name: Verity by Elizabeth Wein, because it is beautiful and Julie and Maddie's relationship is the stuff of which a thousand thousand slashfics should be born, and then come back and read this fic. (I'm cheating because this is indeed a slashfic, not friendship fic. But it's friends to lovers and they spend most of the story being friends and most of you probably need to read the book first which IS just friendship so whatever I'm calling it a night.)

Today is a day to appreciate PK Subban and Carey Price and all the joy they bring to our lives -- especially mardia's, since she was the one who told me to post this set today! Here's to you, adorable goofball and supernaturally attractive dimpled one. We love you very much.

It's Complicated, by katarin
Feelings, feelings, ALL MY FEELINGS, behold the fic that made me ship this with the fire of a thousand dying stars. Carey! And his horrible insecurities! And PK not getting it, and not getting it, and not getting it, until you want to grab him and shake him and scream YOU BOTH LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH WHY ARE YOU MAKING CAREY SAD. But uh I promise everything is fine in the end! It's great! YOU'LL LOVE IT.

All Talk, by thefourthvine
The first section is PK/Carey and the rest are other pairings (and all very hot as well!), just fyi. There should be so much more fic about Carey tying PK up. REAMS of fic. Everybody go write fic about Carey tying PK up. But this is an EXCELLENT start.

Five Days in Toronto, by cominginside
PK makes Carey come visit him during the offseason and do all kinds of touristy stuff and he takes him to the fair to look at the horses because HE TRULY LOVES CAREY'S INNER COWBOY and I just. I cannot. My heart. PK WINS CAREY A STUFFED UNICORN YOU GUYS.

Attention, by mardia
Ok so there is a little more fic about Carey tying PK up! Although it's kind of less about the actual tying up and more about, like, feelings, just, ugh, it's only a short short fic and I'm still wailing internally over how Carey doesn't even know how much PK loves him YOU DUMB INSECURE COWBOY WHO COULD FAIL TO LOVE THAT FACE.

dress up and coloring... a lot of coloring, by katarin
Carey is jealous. Of PK's devotion to a pair of little girls. I DIE INSIDE.

In conclusion Carey Price is a stupid dimpled prince of a cowboy and people should make terrible youtube slideshows about how much he loves PK Subban set to Taylor Swift and Shania Twain. GO.

Back when I did fics about food (incidentally I just found this Vikings fic and I am SO MAD that I discovered it too late to include in that post so uh yeah if you're into haute cuisine, restaurant AUs and banging threesomes I strongly advise you click that little link) I promised a post of recipes that even I, kitchen incompetent and super broke, can make and love, and lo and behold I have delivered!

crisp rosemary flatbread
So easy, so delicious, so cheap! It will make your life easier if you have baking paper and some sort of rolling pin but you can use a glass or your bare hands if you need to. I'm not a huge fan of rosemary so I usually use garlic instead, and chive works too!

baked apples
Even easier! I like to sprinkle on brown sugar and cinnamon before baking and then adding some maple syrup to the bowl when I eat it, but I've got a bigger sweet tooth than most people. This is a great way to use up apples that are a little bruised or mushy or are even starting to rot -- just cut off the gross parts when you're chopping up the apples.

millionaire's shortbread
This one can be a little bit tricky but I promise it's worth it! Once you get the hang of lining your pan with baking paper, it will save you so much energy on cleanup, you don't even know. Definitely melt the chocolate and make the caramel in the microwave, life is too short for double-boilers. If you have an electric egg beater or similar tiny self-whisking device, that will make combining the melted butter and condensed milk for the caramel much less labor-intensive. The layer of caramel takes for-e-ver to set, so plan to leave it in the freezer overnight, pour on the layer of melted chocolate in the morning, and stick it back in the freezer to get the chocolate to solidify until whatever afternoon or evening festivities you're bringing this British delight to! Share the wealth with all your friends, and DO NOT EVER tell anyone how much butter goes into the recipe.

cream scones
I'm going to make your life so much easier with this handy little trick: forget everything about rolling out, cutting, whatever. Mix up the dough and slap it into a muffin tin to bake. Your scones will come out circular and scone-like and perfectly attractive, and you don't need to tell anyone how they got that way.

avocado mac and cheese
Probably the most expensive recipe on here, because you do have to buy avocados and decent cheese (I like to use extra sharp cheddar, not Monterey Jack), but it's so worth it. If you don't eat it all immediately it'll turn brown, but any leftovers will still taste fine the next day, they'll just look pretty gross. If you care about that (I don't! Your stomach doesn't have eyes, as my grandmother says), just make sure you've got a couple friends over to help you consume the whole pot.

I was whining on twitter about how all I wanted to do was read jailbait Chekov/Sulu fic all night and somehow this ended up in a conversation about how @bophew had never read any AGally/BGally fic??? AN UNACCEPTABLE SITUATION, I think you will all agree. So here, have lots of jailbait Gallys! Sometimes with Prusty for bonus defilement purposes! (I already recced the one where BGally is a girl and Prusty teaches AGally how to give better orgasms for genderswap day but if you missed it somehow you should rectify that.)

Lucky Pierre, by hapakitsune
Basically nothing to me will ever top the succinct hilarity of the summary, which I quote in full:

"Complicated like you have two underage boyfriends?" asks Brian.

"They're both over eighteen," hisses Brandon.

It's not quite as cracky as that would lead you to believe (I actually feel a lot for Alex, it sucks to be the one left out when your friends are hooking up) but it's still pretty damn funny! And Brandon's paranoia that someone on the team is going to find out he defiled the rookie is really excellent for me.

I don't know about me but I know about you, by duchessofavalon
AGally's friendship with Nail is adorable. This is all.

Odd Man Rush, by hanet
BGally's intrinsic sluttiness draws AGally into his somewhat ambiguous relationship with Prusty, giving Prusty a sexual identity crisis in the process. Also there's a lot -- a lot -- of porn.

i said if i'm honest, i fell for you that last night, by mistfarer
This list needed at least one straightforward story about dumb children in love. God. They're so DUMB and so IN LOVE I almost can't stand it like this is Hallsy and Ebs level here.

(Getting Off) the Training Wheels, by sabrina_il
I.e. the one where Prusty teaches the Gallys how to have better sex with each other. A lot of it is so clinical that it shouldn't really be hot? And yet it is, and there's something so weirdly joyful about these two idiots finally getting to share orgasms the way they want to.

I've progressed to the hacking up a lung stage of my cold, which means I sound much worse but feel much better! I'm not even on Nyquil right now. YAY!!! YOU CAN'T DEFEAT ME, NEW ENGLAND WEATHER.

Still sick. :( All fics are OT3, i.e. Neal/Peter/Elizabeth, because that is the only acceptable ship in White Collar fandom and if you ship Neal/Peter without including Elizabeth in some way I will shank you!!! Or probably just yell for a while about how Elizabeth is the greatest, whatever.

Always Starts the Same, with a Boy and a Girl, by lightgetsin
Four Meals, by copperbadge
Both Sides Of The Conversation, by OnYourMark
Separately and Together, by china_shop
Light-Fingered, by shrift

Pray for my soul and that I feel better in the morning, I hate being sick. D: D: D: