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Title: Exothermic Reactions
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis AU, Ocean’s 11, Bones, Criminal Minds, and Due South
Pairings: John/Rodney, Fraser/Ray K; others pretty much gen
Word Count: 1,504 in total
Rating: PG for language and mention of nakedness.
Warnings: none. No spoilers either!
Summary: It’s too darn hot. Five looks at some of our favorite people surviving the warmth of summer.


1. Thermoregulation
(Elementary!verse AU, 258 words)

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2. Hot Streak
(Ocean’s 11, 339 words)

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3. Home Remedy
(Bones, 271 words)

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4. Boiling Point
(Criminal Minds, 393 words)

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5. Pressure Changes
(Due South, 255 words)

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This started as a bizzare list where first I just wanted to list some generative random bits of several characters' canon (or personal fanon), but instead... it became this. Let me know what you think.


Title: Six Degrees
Fandom: SG:A, O11, Supernaural
Rating: gen
Characters: Danny and Rusty; Sam and Dean; John and Rodney
Word Count:: 1,270
Summary: People are made up of more similarities than differences.
Disclaimer: These boys belong to Steven Soderbergh, Eric Kripke, and Brad Wright. Not mine!


( Six Degrees )

Rusty Ryan likes peanut M & Ms.

I don't know where and/or when I decided this fact, but it's very firm in my head. How odd.

No wonder he and Dean would get along XD

*scurries back to my story*

This one practically wrote itself. If anyone actually knows Linus' canon middle name, I'd love to know as well. And he was in Chicago in O11; I decided that this clearly meant he'd gone to Northwestern. So sue me :o) Enjoy! (though it pains me that I don't have a Linus icon. *pout*)

Title: Gotta Pick a Pocket or Two
Fandom: Ocean’s 11
Rating: PG
Characters: Linus, Bobby and "Mrs." Caldwell, short cameo by Danny at the end
Word Count:: 1,097
Summary: Life in the Caldwell household.
Disclaimer: Ocean’s 11 and Linus don’t belong to me, but instead to Steven Soderbergh (and probably George Clooney at this rate). No profit was made.

( You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em. Know when to walk away and know when to run. )

Wow, if you haven't seen it and need a laugh (or to roll your eyes) go watch the trailer for Ocean's 13. I'd be irritated about the penchant for continuing to make sequels about this, if they were all so aware of how amusing and corny it is. And Al Pacino, George Clooney, Brad Pitt AND Andy Garcia? Hell YES. *giggles*

Incentive to work on my yuletide pinch hit, that's for sure. *waggles eyebrows* I dutifully made a list of all the fic ideas that had been rattling in my head and have finished/worked substantially on... none of them. Oops?

But Older Sister is here! Now all we need is Older Brother (2nd Older Sister-with-Husband can't get off work) and it will officially be Christmas! And, you know, a tree. Somewhere.

Title: Courage and Convictions
Summary: Linus needs to steal some things, but others only take the courage to want them.
Notes: Written for the takethehouse challenge and more specifically trakkie, who wanted Rusty/Linus: Linus is almost a master thief. Hope this amuses and satisfies. No characters within belong to me (though neither does the airport policy about no liquids, of course).

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Courage and Convictions

That time again! The wonder that is the rec triad. I know you've been quivering in antici...pation. *grin* Don't lie. It's perfectly clear. So, anyway, to liven up your July days, I greatly recommend the following Rec Triad:

Book:

Someone, on some site, mentioned that they "had to read To Say Nothing of the Dog because someone had told them it was full of Peter Wimsey allusions". This stuck in my mind and so I picked it up due to a Six Degrees of Separation sort of thing. All Wimsey aside (no pun intended), it's a really fascinating sci-fi timetravelly fantasy thing, that reads a little like a Wildean romance written by Jasper Fforde. Now that's a description you don't see very often, huh? If you've ever wondered about the payoffs and problems in time travel, or if you are amused/entertained by Jeeves/Wooster type stories, pick this up.

Fic:
Punk Academic by Hoyden. It's a Due South AU, Fraser/Kowalski, NC-17. Simply put, it casts Fraser as a new profesor in the English department of a Chicago university, with "Ray as an openly gay professor in his department and Stella as the headmistress". Yes, you read that correctly, but I swear it's a fabulous fic, as cracked out as that concept may sound. Some AUs thrust the characters into some situation and they lose all what made them that character (you know you've read them), but this one lets Ray and Fraser be exactly who they were... if they had been English professors. Also amusing because of the slightly cynical and sarcastic take on teaching it gives. I wish Ray had been one of my professors in college *swoon*

Song:

In honor of my renewed love of Ocean's 11, I give you A Little Less Conversation (A Little More Action) by Elvis Presley. OMG I love this song. Also, I am finding Paul Anka's swingy Big Band cover of Oasis' Wonderwall (you wouldn't think it would work) extremely appropriate for creating the correct mood for my O11 caper fic I am writing.

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Wow, my sub-theme this time should be "You Wouldn't Think This Would Work/Be Good, But..."

Life continues apace, and I feel that clarity about the shape of the rest of my summer will surface soon. Maybe tomorrow. Which will also include the wonderful bizzarity that is Sweeney Todd with rhymester and one of alemara's friends. Joy! I shall attend the tale of Sweeney Todd! This should not amuse me so much...

Oh, and Due South-influence GIP. For those who know, it's from "You Must Remember This"when Fraser, Ray, Huey and Louis are playing poker... with matchsticks. Because Fraser would report them for gambling with real money. *snerk*