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Title: Lion-Headed Goddess with Bandages in Her Mouth
Author: Katt (xenokattz)
Rating: Teen (strong language)
Fandom: DCU (aka comic!verse)
Characters: Lois Lane
Summary: I'm Lois Lane. I'm the best investigative reporter living.

Go now.  Run, do not walk, to read this story.

Even if you have no interest in comic books or the media based on them, you MUST read this story.  This is perhaps the best story about a professional woman I've ever read.  This is the Lois I love, the woman who is kickass and Made of Awesome and sharp and witty and strong and is able to balance being her own woman with sharing her life and love with Superman and isn't a bitch.  (I have a strong problems with stories where women can only be strong if they are bitchy, and if they're not bitchy the story is all hearts and flowers and puppy dogs.  Yeah.  This story?  This story is how to do a strong woman right.)

What are you waiting for?  Go!  Read!
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First, run, do not walk, to read the lovely remix written for me, Matters of Faith (The Ouroboros Bridge). (Babylon 5, Susan, Delenn) The noble Ivanova was known as the Strong, for she was strong in heart and in mind, in body and in faith.  This is such a beautiful exploration of both Susan and what the future will be like, past the hints JMS gave us. I love how this story pictures Susan living among Minbari, and I love how it handles the Rangers. It's wonderful.

( Remix Redux 7--Do You Feel Lucky? )
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There's been a lot of really great Star Trek fic written recently.  There has been a lot of discussion about Vulcans.  There have been a lot of people going back and re-watching the original series and re-reading the major books.

The Word for World Is -- by laurajv is the absolute best of it.  She writes about what it looks like for Vulcans to grieve, and to rebuild.  She writes Vulcans who are truly themselves, and not just humans with pointy ears.  They have a depth and realism and vitality that is breathtaking.  She also writes a Spock and Jim Kirk who are a little out of their depth, trying to feel their way in the new reality with the new insight they have into what they can become to one another.  The writing is spare, lyrical, and perfectly fits the story.  You really, really need to read it now.

( An excerpt: )

If you are a science fiction fan of any religion who gets annoyed at the dismissive way a lot of science fiction often treats religion, this fic is for you. It is Christian, but focuses mainly on the Doctor's reaction to events, not on events themselves, so it should be enjoyable for everyone.

Title: Correlation and Causality
Characters: One, Three, Susan.
Spoilers: inspired by a throw-away line in Planet of the Dead, but no spoilers for the episode.
Rating: U, gen.
Words: 740.
Summary: Ten seems quite confident that he knows what happened that first Easter. But it wouldn't be the first time the Doctor's exaggerated how close he was to historical events, or that he's leaped to conclusions...
Vaguely inspired by Spike's comment in Buffy about how more people remember being at the Crucifixion than can possibly have been there.
Warnings: Um, results from slight irritation with RTD's attempts to do theology? I nearly called it "Happy Easter, emo Time Lord", but decided not to.

Just saw the new Star Trek movie with jedibuttercup. One word: AWESOME! They managed to make it cool and hip and new while still hitting every single mark that an old school Trekkie will be looking for. And the casting was awesome. Two thumbs up!

(And I forsee much Spock/Uhura and Kirk/everyone (particularly green alien women) fic. For classic old school S/U fic, check out Wildcat's wonderful Spock/Uhura series.)

By Fandom


AA Milne--Winnie the Pooh
In Which Worlds collide, and Eeyore Investigates a Terrible Crime
This is an awesome crossover between Pooh and Discworld. The tone is perfect, it fits both universes, and it even has an illustration. Awesome.


Aliens Series
Far Across the Stars
Awesome look at what could have happened if not for Alien 3. Ripley, Newt, and Hicks, fighting a war against the Company's command of Species 001.

We Did Not Make Ourselves
Post-Alien Resurrection. We are all God's children.


Arthur Conan Doyle--Sherlock Holmes
Commonplaces
Only to be adored was, in the end, nothing; to be adored by someone worthy, everything. (Irene Adler/Sherlock Holmes.) After Reichenbach Falls, in Paris. On the nature of freedom, and love.


Bible--New Testament
Man of Cyrene


Bible--Old Testament
Understanding
For Miriam, the will of God has always been clear.


Big Fish
The Storyteller
The biggest fish in the river gets that way by not being caught. Jenny, growing up.


Calvin and Hobbes
the sandwich story
Hobbes is changing. A story about growing up.


Indiana Jones
Conversations in Sussex
Indy helps Russell wrap up a case; Holmes and Russell locate someone Indy can't forget.


Lois McMaster Bujold--the Vorkosigan series
He Only Said 'Neigh': The Lord Midnight Precedent After the Time of Isolation
David Galen's thesis topic. Now I want to read that thesis, dangit!



Love Actually
Letter To America
Karen tells Daniel what's going on. Wonderful sequel to the movie.

You guys have got to read this, whether you're Doctor Who fans or not.

The Gift of the Mad Guy by sam_storyteller

The Doctor joins some Kings of Orient following a star, helps a quartet of sociologists, gets thrown in prison, meets shepherds (ditto: talking sheep), finds a baby in a stable, uses Christmas carols for nefarious ends, and learns The True Meaning Of Camel.

Everybody needs to go through the remix stories and leave lots of feedback--there are still some stories (including mine!) that don't have any, and the one that was written for me which is really cool only has my comment and it deserves more than that.

Anyway, here are the second half of my recs from remixredux08:

On the Care And Feeding Of Time Lords (La Gherardini Overdrive Remix). Rose and Romana, post season 2. Wrong Universe, wrong Time Lord. Like Rose Tyler’s gonna let that stop her…

Cruciatus (the fire and blood remix). Bellatrix Black, and Cruciatus: a love story. It ends, as it began, with the Cruciatus.

The Grass is Always Greener (the Known Temptations Remix). Stargate SG-1. All the characters, but not really "team fic." No reality is perfect.  No matter what it may look like on the outside.

Things Kept (Caliban Bass n' Drums Remix). Doctor Who, post-series 3. Harriet Jones has always had her reasons, and always had her pride.

Go check out all the lovely stories in remixredux08. Here is part one of my list of recs:

Desert Glass (Ordinary Time remix). In his years on Tatooine, Obi-Wan finds he has a lot to learn. Lyric, painful, but full of life.

Lucid Diamond Sky (the Misogynistic Lash cut-up). Two's company, three's a crowd. Doctor Who, the Master/Lucy.

More of the Stars and Sea (The Three Meals Remix). Stargate: Atlantis, Teyla and Radek. They were merely colleagues who dined together from time to time. Strangers on the cusp of becoming friends.

Copper and Moonlight (The Mimi & Rodolfo Remix). B:tVS, a beautiful, heartbreaking look at Giles after Becoming.

She Bangs the Drums (Losing, Losing, Lost Remix). Doctor Who, the year that wasn't. Lucy's tragedy is that she loves him.

Reverb (Three Toasters, One Dead Body, and Ellen Tigh Walk into a Bar Remix). BSG, written for me! Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl. Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl. Spoilers for Crossroads II.

I Have Become (Death) (The J.Robert Oppenheimer Remix). Babylon 5, Lyta Alexander and the Telepath War. You never forget your first. Or your last. Lyta Alexander would know.

Hush-A-Bye Baby (The Blackberry Remix). BtVS, Dawn and Drusilla. At night, the dark-haired girl without a name glowed at her through eddies of green light.

Enemies & Friends (The “Ogron, Ogron, Ogron” Remix). Sarah Jane Adventures/Doctor Who. In which there are Ogrons and Sarah Jane Smith struggles to figure out what the hell is going on. Starring Sarah Jane Smith, Vislor Turlough, Luke Smith, Maria Jackson, Clyde Langer, K9 Mark IV, Mister Smith, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Ianto Jones, Jack Harkness, Ace, Chrissie Jackson and Lots And Lots Of Ogrons.

The Art of Memory (Bold and Lonely Remix). Doctor Who. The Doctor's a hard man to forget.

Five Pay Phones Buffy Almost Called Giles From. BtVS, the summer she ran away.

Some Mother's Son (The A-Z Remix). Stargate: Atlantis, pre-series. Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The Great Bikini Incident (The Key to Time Remix). Doctor Who/BtVS. Dawn’s suspicious of the three electricity inspectors outside her sister’s Rome apartment.

Okay, in my quest for Chameleon Arch fics (which, by the way, if you know any let me know), someone recced me the dwseason4, an AU season 4 written by ariastar in which the Master chose to regenerate at the end of season 3 and travel as the Doctor's prisoner. It is Made of Awesome, and if you have any interest in Doctor Who at all, you absolutely have to read it. Go. Now.

Here's what the author has to say about it: An alternate Doctor Who season four. In which the Doctor and the Master have dysfunctional adventures in time and space, Martha becomes a fully qualified doctor, Leo Jones wonders what all the fuss is about, the Torchwood team recounts Himalayan hijinks, and Lucy Saxon refuses to let the averted end of the world sideline her.