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I've been talking about several fics that I NEED to link, and instead of the half-assed links post from a week ago, I instead reworked that into a more comprehensive and coherent list here. Enjoy!

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* Of locker rooms and lunch dates by zeldaophelia (CSI: NY; PG-13; 4,933 words)
Flack/Angell. One version of how they finally hooked up.

A series of fics about how Don and Jess got together. All kinds of adorable. I'm still enough behind that I need to see more of the episodes with the two of them (and ignore the season finale of great woe, lalalala) but I love the characterization of Jess here as someone who can put up with Flack's snark and dish it right back. Cute.

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* my life's come off its tracks by mimblexwimble (Supernatural pre-series AU; PG-13; ~29,000 words)
Dean tells her, things are going fine, yeah he got into a fight and no, he doesn’t want to talk about it. He’s getting better and better at this sign language thing. He looks at her brightly. Big smile. Opens his swollen eye as wide as it can go.

Ouch, shit.

Gorgeously written and paced. I would love to see later pre-canon or even canon written in this 'verse. Perfect nailing of voices with the kids and the adults (Bobby! Pastor Jim!) even when it kind of break your heart. Hilarious and sad all at once.

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* Empty Spaces by darkmagic_luvr (CSI NY/Criminal Minds semi-AU; PG-13/R; 13,200 words)
There's a serial killer in the suburbs of New York and the BAU has been requested to provide a profile. The NYPD and the BAU decide to collaborate, sending an FBI agent and a senior detective undercover, posing as a married couple, fitting the same criteria of the pervious victims. Don Flack and Emily Prentiss haven't seen each other in years, but now, seeing as they have to pretend to be married, they'll be seeing a lot of each other.

I know you are shocked (or not at all) that I am behind this story ;o) I'm sorry, but can we just talk about how hot the idea of Don and Emily would be? I love the idea that they met and had a relationship (even though I'm not sure I bought Prentiss logic in the story about why they broke up but whatever, I guess we needed it for plot reasons) and Garcia in this is perfect and spot on. Honestly I enjoyed it as much for the mental images (*grin*) as the story, which was an interesting casefile.

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*(Not Your) Superman Tonight by torakowalski (Multi-bandom AU; NC-17; 37,000 words)
Brian scratches his neck. "This is the NSA," he says, "The National Security Administration. They're feds."

Bob raises his eyebrows, all no, really?

Brian winces. "They employ telepaths. Like Asher and-" me. He can't say it. He folds his arms. "It's not as weird as it sounds."

Even if you're not a bandom fan, this story is all kinds of fascinating. It takes the premise of the movie Thoughtcrimes (mmm, Joe Flannigan as an FBI agent) and blurs it nicely with actual bandom (hey, turns out it's hard to manage a band and be telepathic at the same time, who knew?) and it's funny and sharp and violent and I wish it were a movie because it'd be awesome.

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* Small Town by ashinae and linden_jay. (Sports Night AU; NC-17; 41,750 words)
Welcome to Port Bowmore, Nova Scotia. Population 700.

Dan and Casey, roommates since college, co-manage the town's sporting goods store. Dan (who is not-so-secretly in love with Casey) spends most of his time hunting the local longshoremen. Casey (who is very secretly in love with Dan) is sleeping with Sally Sasser, the town's ambulance chasing lawyer. When Bobby Bernstein comes to town to recruit Dan for a GM position at SportChek in Halifax, Casey has to confront his feelings for Dan, or lose him to the 'big city'.

Hot and hilarious and witty enough that it sounds straight out of a Sorkin script. Despite the shift in universe, this is still totally Danny and Casey and the rest; the boys still suck at communicating about anything, and Dana still rules all. Genius.

The weather was horrendous earlier today, enough so that I only had one out of the four scheduled games for Chicks (with Lacrosse Sticks) so I got to spent time tidying my room and finally watching the DVD of season 1 CSI: NY. Aww, Eddie Cahill, you do puppy eyes so well. However, I wish you'd get a haircut. The episode where that happens will be so exciting.

This show depresses me a little (in the way that all the CSI: WHEREVER's do) because it could be smarter than it is, but sometimes it gives you all this neat information and fascinating characters and just doesn't tie up enough ends in a moment, or have people be all intense towards each other for no reason. For example, the episode I'm watching right now has a dead guy who was a gypsy cab driver. Danny and Aiden (who, ok, I like more as I watch her, makes me sad that Lindsey shows up) are having this whole spat about it, and I'm hoping that we'll actually get some kind of closure from it. Not holding my breath though. (Ok, Danny explained in this rushed end of episode way that felt like the writers went "oh, shit, we never explained that!")

Tangentially, I have noticed that Hulu has all of the show Life. Did anyone watch it? Is it any good? I am greatly intrigued, mostly because I enjoy Damien Lewis and crime shows.

I have now moved on to watching Sherlock Holmes again as background noise and amusement as I put together some banana bread. Yummmmmm. Though the rain is bad, ick.

Which is a nice segue to my poem of the day (er, for the month. poem of the day of the month? never mind), which is not a new one by any means, but mentions rain, which reminded me of it once again.


somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by ee cummings

( somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond )

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I made Alton Brown's banana bread and after taking FOREVER to bake (partially because I overfilled it, not quite sure what I added too much of... maybe my bananas were huge?) it is out and DELICIOUS. MMMMMM.

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Had to edit to add on to this, because I'd already forgotten. I've been doing so much cooking and rambling about it that I keep thinking I should make a blog just for cooking, but I've been stumped on what to call it. Thoughts? There's always Flyakate Cooks (Flyacooks? Flyakooks? Oh dear...) All the good ones I've thought of (Starfish & Coffee, Stone Soup, The Night Kitchen) are all taken. Though "The Accidental Foodie" has promise...

Yikes, raining hard again. Clearly means it's bedtime :o)

Catching up to current tv (although I'm leaving Leverage for tomorrow, because Younger Sister and I record it at home) with Mom before we leave early in the morning to get back to San Francisco. Sheesh, I need to pack like woah. Also, I have been inundated with NCIS during this extended break and it's kind of cute. Tim/Tony forever, or Tony/Ziva UST, yespleasethankyou.

So here are the overly long (at least in the case of the second) thoughts during the 9-11pm block of CBS.

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Criminal Minds: ( spoilers for The Uncanny Valley )

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CSI: New York: ( spoilers for Criminal Justice )

Okay, so the episode of CSI: NY that I'm watching is not so subtly mirroring their plot off of PostSecret. It's kind of bizarre.

Then there was one with Scott Wolf (the younger, more unstable brother on Party of Five) and surprise!Julia Ormand (which was strange, especially as more recently I've seen her in a continual rerun of Legends of the Fall, and how cool would it be to have not only Brad Pitt but Aiden Quinn? wow) AND Rumer Willis, Bruce Willis' daughter.

Oooh, now there is an episode where the killer had an avatar in Second Life! This is crazy!

Is this how CSI: NY is trying to stay current, with this not so subtle co-opt of technology all the "crazy kids" are using? Because mostly it just amuses me.

Mostly, Don Flack and Danny Messer are kind of adorkable. Especially Don's expressive eyebrows. So it's about darn time for me to make a tag for them, don't you think?

I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed the Black Irish inherent hotness of black hair and bright blue eyes. I periodically record episodes of CSI: NY and I've discovered (re-discovered?) not only am I still a huge fan of Gary Sinise, but Eddie Cahill--he plays a detective on the show and is awesomely sarcastic and New Yorkishly accented--has these stunning blue eyes that take me back to countless Saturday nights watching The Practice with Dylan McDermott and being mesmerized by just how PRETTY he was.

So that was a happy place realization... which then meant that I wandered off onto the internet and read lots of fabulous stories in a universe where the New York CSI department instead investigates supernatural crime and it's creepy and hot. So go explore stellaluna_'s BSI'verse. This made me wonder how that would work for our boys and girls in Criminal Minds... which meant that I lost a few hours in amichevole's WiP story where Prentiss is a vampire and Morgan is a werewolf. Oh! Which reminds me of the awesome mcshep_match story where John Sheppard just happens to be a were-mountain lion. Hey, it happens? At least it does in Where the Brave Dare Not Go by telesilla XD

This icon strikes me as highly appropriate, even though Adam Storke is not Eddie Cahill (though might also have the same coloring, so it still kind of works, and I was such a Larry fangirl from The Stand, oh goodness).

And I've been working on posting this since yesterday (when I lost half the night to CSI: NY fanfic, man, I don't have time to watch a new show, knock it off, brain) so I should post it now.

Don't even get me started on accents, sheesh, Simon Baker has this awesome Australian accent and is so cheery and blond and smiley, it totally makes every episode of The Mentalist (though he does act "American", which makes me want there to be an episode where he has to trick someone by pretending to be Australian... please?)