Ah, fanfiction, how I love thee... three recs, two SPN, one SGA.

It looks like it's crossover day. (More or less.)

My astolat addiction continues apace, with two Sam/Dean stories I enjoyed:

Old Country, R, Sam/Dean, Supernatural/Harry Potter crossover
I so buy this premise and I really shouldn't. But the best part is Dean's reaction to magic in all its forms and his... let's just call it stubbornness, shall we? (Sam makes a great Slytherin. Dean's house is so perfect, I'm not going to tell you what it is.) Very fun story. And the ending has that "you want to wring the Wizarding world's necks" pure Harry Potter feel.

Kings and Queens and Jokers, Too, NC-17, Sam/Dean
I love how we know what's going on even as they don't. In fact, I love how the gas station attendent knows what's going on and they don't. You see, the trouble started when Sam and Dean put away a trickster....


My latest SGA discovery... eleveninches. I know I'm late. But I have to imprint on my mind the name of any author who blows up the United States.

There's No Such Thing As Daniel Jackson, John/Rodney, SGA/SG-1 AU crossover
Now this is cooooool. As well as hilarious. I'm not sure how eleveninches manages to take a post-apocalyptic world and make it funny, but John has a lot to do with that. Because John Sheppard, sans black mark or even any reason for a black mark, is a lackadaisical, easy-going, disconnected sort of guy with high scores on his XBox. The knid of guy who'll note that nuclear winter sucks because it's pretty cold outside but is generally optimistic about things. That's just the way he is. The plot is gripping and original, but what I loved best was seeing John in a completely different life turn into the John we all know.

School has started up again so... busy, busy. So far Sanskrit is still manageable, but I'm going to be up late reading Chinese history.

Fwiph. Back to normal.

Sanskritsanskritsanskrit hasn't gotten to the hard part yet. I haven't forgotten the script from last year, fortunately.

I think redoing Sanskrit has been a good idea (so far, knock wood). I would have struggled if I'd tried to pick up where I quit last year when WG's mom passed away. If I'd plunked myself into second quarter this winter... *whistles*. I'm easing in -- there's no way I still have those paradigms still memorized.

But there is quite a lot of reading to do for the Ancient Chinese History class. Oh-! enname? I asked the professor -- the reason why most of our source texts are by western scholars is twofold:

1) Very few Chinese scholarly texts are translated into English, and
2) Chinese scholars aren't writing for a western audience. They make assumptions that the audience has a general sense of Chinese history.

Now I'm waiting for my Ancient Indian History book so I can grill my Sanskrit professor. It's only available as a reference book at UW -- in the Architectural library of all things. See, unlike China, not much has survived from Ancient India. Okay, okay, we have religious texts, but little history. For India you have to piece together potshards and play Daniel Jackson to get the story.

Now to work on the SGA 2005 Flavor of the year essay a little more. Write a few more sentences to Out Of Bounds. *chip, chip, chip* Fanfiction feels like marble sculpture right now.


ETA: My solution to cramps and lower back pain? Beer.

I'm sure both John Sheppard and Dean Winchester would approve.

*sips*

Book meme!

Meme borrowed from enname:

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. As usual, bold what you have read, italicise what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. Add an asterisk to those you've read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

(Let me short-cut the asterisk list: if it's sci-fi or fantasy, I've read it more than once. Am I the only person who reads the same books over and over and over again, like I'm stuck on continuous loop? Wait. I'm asking a group of fanfiction readers. Of course you do.)

( Yes, I'm killing time before Supernatural starts, why? )