Daydream believer

Title: La Vie de Famille
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Arthur/Eames
Rating: Explicit
Word count: ~22,000
Summary: Arthur takes a job babysitting for Eames's son. Family happens.
Notes: There's a sad story about this story. I wrote it a while back for the Inception kink meme, and I got it to a good ending point, but I wanted to take it a little further. I worked on it off and on, and made progress, and then—lost the flash drive it was on. Sigh. There's no way I can recreate what I'd written, but since it was already a complete story, I decided at last to clean up the existing draft, post it and stop mourning what was lost. So here it is.

You can also read it at AO3:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/939581

( If there was one thing Arthur really should have learned by this point in his life, it was not to answer a call from any member of his family on his way to a job interview… )

4,000 hits. Wow. Just wow. What an amazing accomplishment.

I have to admit, though, that I wasn't watching. I've been a bad Yankees fan this year. It's not that the team has been losing. It's that I don't even recognize them as my team. In pretty much every game, there's someone who comes up to bat or in to pitch, and I'm like: Who the hell is that? The most fun I had at the ballpark this year was at a Mets game watching Matt Harvey pitch.

Is it hockey season yet?

I haven't watched much TV this summer. Teen Wolf came back on and I just...had no interest in tuning in. I caught one episode of Rizzoli and Isles, and I enjoyed it, but then I kept forgetting it was on. I have caught up on some British shows--Broadchurch, The Fall, Luthor--and I've been making use of my Amazon Prime free instant videos to watch many episodes of Trial and Retribution.

Have there been any commercials for new fall shows? I can't remember any. Is it just me or has TV been largely disappointing the past few seasons? I mean, I adore Elementary, and I like POI very much. I watch Castle and sometimes enjoy it. I'm excited about new seasons of Ripper Street, Haven, and Whitechapel whenever they come along. I can't really think of anything else.

So what are you guys watching? What do you recommend? Are there any upcoming shows you're excited about?

First, for anyone who needs a quick primer on these guys, check out this post.

Now on to the fic! The Kaner/Tazer corner of hockey fandom has SO MANY good stories, something I was reminded of when I started making this list. There are so many good stories, in fact, that I'm breaking these recs into two posts. Part two will come tomorrow.

( Now on to the recs... )

Title: I'm Your Handyman
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Pairing: Kaner/Tazer
Rating: Explicit
Word count: ~7,000
Summary: Patrick breaks things, Johnny fixes them, and then there are feelings; or a tale of home repair and boys being really, really dumb.

Notes: This story is for the vanilla square of my Kink Bingo card. Big thank you to fanofall for the speedy beta. My apologies to home repair.

You can also read the story at AO3:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/910724

( 'If this were porn I'd totally blow you in gratitude right now.' It's the kind of thing that Patrick says, and yet Tazer's mouth drops open in a genuinely shocked sort of way, and huh, did shit suddenly get weird in here? )

Title: Hockey Garters
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Pairing: Sid/Geno
Rating: Explicit
Word count: ~5,000
Summary: Hockey garters can be sexy, Sidney realizes, especially when Geno is taking his off.

Notes: This story is for the prostitution/sex work square of my Kink Bingo card. Big thank you to mindyfromohio for the speedy beta.

( For whatever inexplicable reason, his brain chooses this moment to serve up a picture of that dancer in the garter and to note that Geno is striking very much the same pose, sitting with his leg stretched out in front of him to take off his hockey socks. Sid stares as Geno's fingers undo the catch of the--okay, yes, it is a garter, but a hockey garter, a necessary piece of gear. Only now it seems like something else, something that belongs on a stage or behind closed doors. Geno slides his socks down his legs. Technically that's stripping, Sid thinks in a daze… )

Title: Side effects include…
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Pairing: Sid/Geno
Rating: Explicit
Word count: ~11,500
Summary: In this rewriting of history, Sid gets an experimental treatment for his concussion that has some rather unusual side effects. Geno helps him out, and there are complications.

Notes: This story would bear much less resemblance to actual facts if it weren't for the hard work of my beta readers, stlkrchck and mindyfromohio. Thank you! There are still some (hopefully minor) details of the Penguins fall 2011 schedule that I'm fudging in places where history just refused to cooperate with my dramatic arc. Beware dub con of the sex pollen variety.

You can also read it on AO3:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/847368

( Worry spikes in Geno's chest, and it only grows worse when he gets close enough to make out Sid's face in the dim light, feverish and glassy-eyed. He puts the back of his hand against Sid's forehead, well trained by his mother. Sid is burning up, and he moans out loud at the touch. Geno snatches his hand away, afraid he's hurting him. This only makes Sid moan louder, with more distress… )

Title: Accept No Substitutes
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Pairing: Sid/Geno
Rating: Explicit
Word count: ~7,000
Summary: Sid shows up to practice with a hickey. Misunderstandings ensue.

Notes: Thanks to my hockey fangirl friends for encouraging me in this even though I totally forgot to tell them the punch line. Special thanks to fanofall for the beta. If warnings are important to you, please see the note at the end for something you may like to know before reading.

You can also read it on AO3:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/828686

( There are surprises in life, things you never see coming, and then there is Sid showing up for practice with a hickey the size of Siberia on his neck; that is a whole other level of freak occurrence… )

So...I seem to have fallen hopelessly under the spell of Sid and Geno. Does anyone want to discuss their awesomeness with me? (Because I probably shouldn't keep e-mailing pun every few seconds.) I mean...if there is anyone still on DW/LJ, that is. :)

If you're like me and have felt left out of all of the excitement over hockey fic but you don't actually want to bother to learn anything about hockey, you should check out this Tazer/Kaner primer that linaerys put together. It is awesome!

http://linaerys.livejournal.com/888155.html

Now I am off to start reading...

So...I had intended to post today about Ripper Street, because I have totally fallen for that show and feel that other people need to appreciate it's delightful slash-fest-ness, and I will still do that at a later time, BUT FIRST!

I'm sure by now everyone knows that a Veronica Mars movie is well on its way to being fan funded on Kickstarter. Oh my God, I'm so excited I can't even. I've been hoping and pining for a movie since the show ended. I just rewatched the first season and was reminded of how absolutely amazing the show was with its razor sharp writing, fantastic acting, interesting characters and relationships, and a murder mystery that had me on the edge of my seat. MORE OF THIS PLEASE, YAY!

I'm also just really excited to see how this is happening. I'm a populist at heart, and I love the great democratizing force of the Internet. The kinds of stories that get told in popular culture don't just reflect our society they shape it. Until the Internet, the decisions about what those stories would be were held in too few hands. The Internet lets us turn our voices into votes and our spare change into movies. This is an awesome day to be a person who cares about storytelling.


ETA: GOAL REACHED!! IT IS FUNDED!