happy birthday, demelza!

* * *A belated but very, very heartfelt and petal-blowing happy birthday to loveliest badgermonkey!!!* * *

May bloomered lasses romp forever through the storage cupboards of your mind and cobwebbed cuties wank into the mag of all your futures!

*a thousand kisses from t'south*

recs omg (yes, she's still reading -- now and again!)

But oh, I needed these. Thanks to Cimorene and Isiscolo for reccing them!

No Refunds or Exchanges, by astolat
This has just the type of breezy pacing that I love, a zestful syntax that hurries on breathlessly and then stops short in a punch-to-the-gut final clause. There is sex and there is love and there is manliness. This is just so spot on!
Fandom: Stargate. (About which I know nothing beyond the fanon. Canon? What is that?)

A Long Time Looking by eliade
What I liked about this fic is the immersion in the real. There is the journey to the there (and you do get to a very breathless, gasmic there) but en route, you almost forget that there is a there and tarry with all the lovely observed details of street life, bookshop life, restaurant waitering and popcorn purchasing. Lovely dialogue, too.
Fandom: Sentinel. (Another canon that I know only through somebody's LJ summary thereof. Hah! At this rate, I shall never have to sully my hands with another canon ever again, I shall just live off fanons!)

Absurdity Theory by julad
I love this so much I could die of loving this. I have read it about four times and it makes me swoon with delirious pleasure. The dialogue, the pacing, the choice of words, the spot-on-ness of the punctuation even! Not to mention the drop-gorgeous sex and the chemistry sizzling between the two main characters, so that they immediately and irrevocably became one of my OTPs of all time (again, without me ever having had to go near a, what do they call that again? oh yes, a "canon").
Fandom: Stargate.