Fish Recs

For my policy on things such as spoilers, warning, and ratings, please see [my policy post].


Once upon a time, a long time ago, vibrantharmony bought my rec set services for help_haiti. I was given the following prompt:

begin quote Could I get a multifandom rec list? I'm into Merlin, Psych, and SGA (and Smallville and Doctor Who, from your minor list), so any combination from those fandoms would be awesome. As for a prompt, I love funny fics, not crackfic necessarily but more just amusing things or unusual situations. end quote

And here, only an age later, is that rec set. I have at least a few recs in all of the listed fandoms and I threw in some crossovers for good measure. This is mostly fic with the occasional podfic. I am very very sorry that this has taken this long to be finished! I hope you find some new friends in this batch! Thank you for your donation!

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Doctor Who, which also includes Torchwood and Captain Jack Harkness**: 3 fics, 1 podfic
**I treat him as his own fandom because, well, it seemed to make sense at the time :)
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Merlin (BBC): 3 fics
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Psych: 4 fics
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SGA: 2 fics, 1 podfic, 2 illustrated fics
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Smallville: 4 fics (including 1 associated podfic), 1 fic with occasional illustrations
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Crossovers solely among the given fandoms: 4 fics
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Crossovers which include other fandoms: 4 fics.
The other fandoms: Fandom RPF, Discworld, NCIS
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Podfics: [Highly Classified And Very Hush Hush (mp3)] (14.1 MB, 11:44) // [Strictly on a Need to Know Basis (mp3)] (11.5 MB, 9:36), read by reena_jenkins (added 4 May 2011)

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Author Recs
( Three authors. I wanted to rec many more things by these authors than I possibly could, so I'll call them out specifically. )

As always, if anyone spots any inaccuracies/dead links/missing info/additional transformative works (e.g., podfics, commentaries), please let me know.

For my policy on things such as spoilers, warning, and ratings, please see [my policy post].


A rash of new shows have shown up on my flist and Yuletide has begun. So how about some recs for small fandoms? And some for fandoms which aren't small but that I don't read much in. I had intended to put links to canon for the rarer ones, and to sort the recs somewhat (like keeping the fairy tale fandoms together), but this is kind of an insanely long set as is, so I decided to go see what desert was in the kitchen instead. ETA: If you saw the version before I ran spell-check, can you just pretend that you didn't see it?


( 20 fics, 1 pic-spam, a few podfics. Fandoms are many and varied )

My policy on how I do my recs (including for things like warnings and spoilers) can be found at [my post about my recs], for those interested.

I've been watching these vids repeatedly for much of this week. It's been one of those weeks where these stupid little things keep happening and adding up and you feel redicolous by feeling put out by the whole thing, but you just really want to tear out your hair and yell a lot. So these have been comfort-vids for me right now. I don't know why, exactly, but I figure, any vid I can stand to watch somewhere between twenty-five and fifty times in a five day period I may as well rec. You needn't wait for a bad day to watch them though! I do love them even when I'm not in a mood :)

Vid: [Handlebars]
Vidder: Seah and Margie flummery
Song & Artist: Flobots
Fandom, Etc.: Doctor Who (Tenth Doctor, specifically), 3:27
Format: AVI, no lyrics, no captioning
Summary: I'm the Doctor. Look me up.
My Notes: This is how I see the Doctor-- yes, he's wonderful and fun but also ever so very powerful and alien. He may consider the Earth (one of) his pet planet(s) but that doesn't mean that he's not scary too.

Vid: [Four Years]
Vidder: Fabella wistful_fever
Song & Artist: "Life Less Ordinary" by Carbon Leaf
Fandom, Etc.: SGA, 3:44
Format: xvid avi, no captioning, no lyrics given
Summary: Four years of John loving Rodney. Rodney is a) oblivious, b) deliberately ignorant, or c) not as smart as he likes to think he is. Mckay/Sheppard. John POV.
My Notes: Oh, John and Rodney love each other so much! And then they do Atlantis things!

Vid: [The Temptation of John Sheppard]
Vidder: isagel
Song & Artist: "The Temptation of Adam" by Josh Ritter
Fandom, Etc.: SGA, John/Rodney, 3:46
Format: DivX AVI, DivX, streaming at BAM Video Vault, not captioned, lyrics provided at post
Summary: I never had to learn to love you like I learned to love the bomb.
My Notes: From inside John's head, we look at Rodney. Oh, I love this vid simply amazing amounts.

Vid: [Apple Candy]
Vidder: talitha78
Song & Artist: Apple Candy by Ben Lee
Fandom, Etc.: Star Trek Reboot, Kirk/Uhura/Spock
Format: WMV, AVI (XVid), YouTube, not captioned and no lyrics given
Summary: James T. Kirk believes in having it all.
My Notes: Everyone and their pet cat has already recced this, it really is that awesome. I love the cutting and the pacing and how well the clips are suited to telling a story along with the song. I love the longing that Kirk feels and from the looks of Uhura and Spock I'm convinced that they all end up together. (For extra fun, I quite enjoy watching this vid and thinking about where those shots were in the movie-- it gives me a sense of how one can clip things to say things other than what precisely was shown on the screen.)

Vid: [Open Secrets of the Pegasus Galaxy]
Vidder: yevgenie
Song & Artist: Everybody Knows -- Leonard Cohen
Summary: That's how it goes, everybody knows.
Fandom, Etc.: SGA, cast (gen), seasons 1-4, rated PG, 4:04
Format things: mp3 and mov, not captioned but lyrics included in post
My Notes: This is one of those vids I had to watch a bunch before I felt that I was understanding what the vidder was trying to do. She says "This is my love letter to Stargate Atlantis. It is also a letter about how Stargate: Atlantis drives me fucking crazy." I like it because it reminds me that the situation in Pegasus is much more complicated than the show often portrayed it and that things are not always simple and easy and such in a war zone.


I have no real idea what I'm doing with formatting these vid recs, so if you have suggestions, please let me know.

As always, if you spot any inaccuracies/dead links/missing info/additional transformative works (e.g., podfics, commentaries), please let me know.

Look what I found lying around in my 'to be posted' folder!

I have a shiny new fandom and it makes me ever so happy. So now I shall share it with you!

*offers up Leverage*

*you may commence with the ooh-ing and aaaah-ing now*

*everyone ooh's and aaah's*

The show is Ocean's 11 crossed with The A Team and Robin Hood as a TV show. If you actually know anything about the topic of the week, you'll likely find something that makes you yell at the screen 'it doesn't work like that!', but that's okay, you're not watching it for accuracy, anyway. You're watching it because there's loads of great banter and lots of silly faces.

Sidenote about episode ordering-- evidently S1 episodes were shown out of chronological order on TV, but they're in the right order on the DVDs. So depending on which scheme for numbering the episodes the author uses, an episode number might refer to one of two episodes. In cases where it's obvious which episode the author meant, I'll add the name of the episode. If I have to refer to a list of episodes to figure out the relevant episode, well, that's (a) clearly not much of a spoiler and (b) too much work. In that case, I'll just report the episode number as given by the author.

( Character list/description. Cut for spoilers for 'The Lost Heir Job' (aka the episode at the end of the summer season of season 2.) )

My policy on how I do my recs (including for things like warnings and spoilers) can be found at [my policy post], for those interested.

( Ten billion Leverage fics. Or maybe only 17. I'm not exactly sure, I think I lost track around number six. )

Leverage seems to get lots of crossovers. Some of it seems to be the shared last names thing (Spencer seems to be popular on TV, which gets you Psych and NCIS, at least), some of it is the "we're both running cons" thing (that gets you SPN and Psych and the Stargates*), and then there's the "we're running a con and the law notices to some degree" (which gets you every procedural show ever, plus the Stargates). And then there's whatever other crossover the author can make work.

*not that the Stargates are running cons so much as they are full of massive secrecy and bad cover stories, which just happens to smell the same as running a con.

( Crossovers! SPN, SGA, and Psych. Only a half dozen thousand fics this time. (Give or take a bit) )

Hmmm, looking over this rec list I can spot some themes that evidently tickle my fancy for this show. Also, where are the longer fics? Is it just that the fandom's new (this is by far and away the earliest I've ever gotten into a fandom) and they haven't had time to be written yet, or am I not finding the longer works, or is Leverage tending to produce shorter stories?


As always, if you spot any inaccuracies/dead links/missing info/additional transformative works (e.g., podfics, commentaries), please let me know.

For my policy on things such as spoilers, warning, and ratings, please [see my policy post].

These podfics didn't fit in elsewhere in this meme but I like them! So today's theme is no theme! Whee!

( X podfics in Y fandoms. <--That was originally dummy text, but I'm keeping it because *mystery podfics* )

[Originally posted] at fish-echo on 29 August 2009

For my policy on things such as spoilers, warning, and ratings, please [see my policy post].

Last post I recced really short podfic so it seems fitting to discuss really long podfic today. There's a sharp drop-off in number of submissions at the [audiofic archive] that are >2hours long, so I'm going to use that as my criterion for 'long'.

I like to listen to podfics mostly in one go, so it is much more difficult for me to find the time to listen to long podfics than really short ones. (Especially now that I've no longer got huge chunks of time full of mindless tasks on my hands. This is good for my brain not petrifying, but not so great from the point of view of having hours at a single go to listen to podfic.) So I've listened to less of the really long fics than I might like, especially recent ones. But I have managed to listen to some long fics, so here's some recs!

( Three podfics, one SGA and two HP )

FYI: It looks like I'll be doing five days of podfic recs, so this is mid-meme! :)

[Originally posted] at fish-echo on 26 August 2009

For my policy on things such as spoilers, warning, and ratings, please [see my policy post].

( tl;dr about the meme, about podfic, about me and podfic, and really just generally tl;dr )

( The podfic recs! Wheeee! )


[Originally posted] at fish-echo on 20 August 2009

For my policy on things such as spoilers, warning, and ratings, please see [my policy post].

The lovely and wonderful pixiequeen10thk has made me an [SGA action figure comic]! It is quite funny and you should go read it :) (It is very image heavy, so if you are on dial-up give it a bit of time. Also, there's thought-bubble shots of action figures having sex and one thought-bubble shot of a naked tush, so probably not good for reading at work.)


[Originally posted] at fish_echo on 5 May 2009.

For my policy on things such as spoilers, warning, and ratings, please [see my policy post]; however, note that I have not reread these stories when importing this post, so while I think none of these stories have spoilers or other items which readers might like to know about before reading, I do not swear that it is so.

After I [posted] an SGA Happy/Fuzzy rec list last week yonks ago, I realised that I had left a bunch of really good fics off of it, due to simple forgetfulness. I've attempted to fix this somewhat in this (multi-fandom) rec set, but in the process I've realised that I have lots of good happy fics to rec and that I'll need more than two LJ posts to list them all. So I've restricted myself here somewhat arbitrarily to fics (a) that I don't see as also belonging to one of the other rec lists I have in prep and (b) that meet some subconscious criteria (which if I knew what it was I'd tell you *looks on in bafflement at the workings of her own brain*).

I haven't put a 'why this story belongs on this rec set' line on these recs because for these stories the 'My notes' section contains that. Or sometimes simply the author's summary is explanation enough.

As always, let me know if there's missing podfics/commentaries/etc, broken links, inaccuracies, etc., and feel free to drop more fics in the comments.


Here are more fics that make me laugh or that make me feel warm and fuzzy inside:

( Harry Potter, 1 story (Draco/Hermione, Harry/Ginny) )

( House, 2 stories (both House/Wilson) )

( Stargate: Atlantis, 7 stories, (gen, het, slash) )

( Angel the Vampire Slayer, 1 story (Spike/Connor) )

( Torchwood, 1 story, (gen) )

( Captain Jack Harkness, 2 stories, (Jack/cheese) )

[Originally posted] at fish_echo on 3 April 2009.

For my policy on things such as spoilers, warning, and ratings, please [see my policy post].

Because I [just did] a sad rec list, I feel the need to give a happy rec list. I'm beginning to think that I should really give in and get a delicious account so I can tag things to my heart's content. However, that sounds like a lot of work and I don't like work! So for the moment I shall continue pretending that delicious doesn't exist.

Like last time, these are all SGA. Unless otherwise stated, these are gen, tame in ratings, and only 1 LJ post long. Oh, and if you have other fics (any fandom) that you think belong in this sort of list, feel free to drop things in the comments! I think I've got links to all the podfics, but if I missed any, please do let me know.

So, in no particular order, I present funny stories/stories that make me happy the vast majority of the time:

( eleven stories, cut because it's *really long* otherwise )

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I really love the following stories and they can almost always be guaranteed to make me happier, so I clearly had to include them on the happy-making list. But they actually have plots and things! So they're a bit different than the ones above. These are all John/Rodney, some form of AU, and 2 LJ posts long:

Story: Small Primes and Square Roots
Author: liviapenn
Podfic: Does not exist, even though I wish it did. :(
Summary: "I hope you picked someone really intelligent, otherwise it seems like it would be kind of a waste. Of incubation time, if nothing else."
My Notes: The one where Jeannie chose John to donate sperm, then gets killed in a car accident, so Rodney adopts her daughter. John looks up Jeannie before heading off to Antarctica and ends up pen-pals with Rodney. Really, really sweet. I lost the link to this for a while and was really happy when I found it on someone's rec list.

Story: Mau Loa Means the Time We Have
Author: gaiaanarchy
Summary: AU in which John never gets to Antarctica. He and Rodney meet anyway.
My Notes: Takes place on Hawaii. The characterisation is very well-done and the story is very sweet, but I am not quite sure I can explain exactly *why* I love this story so much (clearly I am the despair of my Literature teachers), just that it is better than the sum of its parts. :)

Story: Strangers on a Six Train
Author: eye_queue
Summary: No summary given.
My Notes: So Rodney works as a prof at NYU and takes the train (subway?) to work. On one claustrophobic day John talks him out of a panic-attack. Flirting eventually ensues. And there's even a phone call to Jeannie (who is mostly-somewhat-kinda estranged but not really) and their relationship/relationship-fail is very awesomely done-- it walks the line between caring and dysfunctional-but-trying, and Jeannie gives good advice without being some deus ex machina... There's the line: A minute later, he called her back to apologize and ask how she was, because she was his sister and he loved her, and he was working on changing that bad habit he had of screwing things up with people he cared about which defines this Rodney for me (and also exhibits the author's grasp of language-- so very lovely!). Please to be disregarding the part where I spent most of my review talking about Jeannie-- John is there! I promise!


I shall stop now. This list is getting slightly ridiculously long.

And any of these which currently lack podfics I think would be awesome podfics. *hints to the internet at large*

ETA3 (3 Apr): Part two of this list [has finally been posted]

ETA1 (8 Feb): I may have spent nearly a week assembling this list and I still managed to leave fics off of it. Grrr! And I've thought of enough others at this point that I'll be just making another post in a bit (probably another week). And any fics that get left off of that list will have to wait, because I want to do a different themed rec list next (either 'sentient objects/Atlantis' or 'bait and switch'). I'll put a link here to the happy recs (cont.) post, whenever it does go up.
ETA2 (31 Mar): Wow, I still haven't posted the second edition of this list. Do I rock or do I rock, N/N? It is in the works, though, I promise! In actual news, I have begun updating this list with info (eg, wordcounts).

As per usual, if I've got inaccuracies, broken links, or missing info (especially podfics, DVD commentaries, and sequels/prequels), please do let me know.

[Originally posted] at fish_echo at 5 Feb 2009