monkeyscorpion

I'm the first to admit I'm a complete fangirl and love to read fan fiction. There's only a handful of fandoms/pairings I will read at the moment and I'm having issues finding anything to sink my teeth into. I always like to have a couple of fics going along with whatever actual book I'm reading at the time.

Is it too much to ask for something well written (proper spelling and grammar at the least), with a bit of a plot, and maybe a side of smut? 99.9% of the time I avoid PWP like the plague, but I'm ok with a little sex in my plot. But basically, I'm after a good story revolving around specific characters.

I think what sucks the most is the two main pairings I'm reading right now, are in shows that are no longer on the air (except in wonderful reruns on random cable channels). Thus making it difficult to find active authors in those fandoms especially once you've basically bled the current pool of fics dry in massive reading binges months ago.

I just finished a wonderful 36 story series and now I'm at a bit of a loss on what to read next.

There really is no point to this post. I'm not going to beg for recs, because I think there's maybe one or two people on my flist who even like the 2 shows I'm currently wanting to read. So I guess this was just to get it out there that I'm a fic-reading fangirl and leave it at that.

I stole the idea from some nice people over on one of the communities I follow. sj_everyday I think. But it could be another fandom related one. And of course, they'd stolen the idea from someone else, so I really don't know who to credit for the original 'icon battle' idea.

In any case, xheartrockx and I decided to challenge each other and start an icon battle. We had so many ideas of what to cap, that we're going to have to do this in phases or we'd be iconing for months and not posting. So we decided to break it down and do a few fandoms at a time.

Part one is posted here! Hope everyone likes what we're doing. We'll be planning phase 2 soon.

Since fandom_stocking doesn't do the big reveal until Jan 5/6, I thought I'd pimp my stocking here.

Now, back to the Chelsea match that has me up WAY too early on a Saturday.

Scenario: You have the home address of someone (semi)famous. You speak to them online and run a couple semi-official online things for them. You've never disclosed said address, nor do you plan to.

Question: Would you be overstepping bounds of fandom and such by sending a holiday card?

( Behind cut to contain the squee and save others if they haven't seen itCollapse )

I have to keep reading that fic. I'm suffering withdrawals. If only there was a way for the author to give me 'brain bleach may be needed to make it through the next chapter' warnings. Guess I'll just have to suck it up.

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