i'm thinking it's a sign

Woot! While I wasn't checking, Chapter 15 of the FFVII Sephiroth/Cloud fic Fusion by Knowing Shadows was posted! And it was a meaty chapter, full of....stuff. It feels like the story is progressing. God, I love this fic.

Newest KKM raw manga posted at conradxyuuri? Hilarious! There's a version of the silly bit in one of the CD dramas were Conrad and Yuuri sound like they are doing something very naughty and Wolfram loses it. And Gunter's frightening diary makes an appearance. XD

Today's happy song: No Sleep Tonight by The Faders is upbeat, fun, with a driving beat, and absolutely perfect for cruising on the freeway with the sun beating down shining brightly. AND the lyrics made me laugh (once I paid attention to them) because they reminded me of a certain type of McKay/Sheppard fic that SGA does soooo well.

( look at the lyrics and tell me I'm wrong )

And onto the SGA stuff proper:

A cool fic/music fusion based on Four Quarters by trinityofone, a band!AU, The Best of The Puddlejumpers: Bootleg Edition. The music, the lyrics, the snippets, they all kind of come together. Very cool.

Waltz, tango, Foxtrot by out_there is an adorable McKay/Sheppard AU (originally started for the Harlequin Challenge, so that should tell you something right there) in which Rodney takes dance lessons with his girlfriend. Their dance instructor? John. I loved Rodney: obnoxious and socially retarded, neurotic and big-mouthed. John just oozed, all over the place, yet managed to be real and sweet. ^^

mitethe pointed me at the terrifying clone!fic Convictions by graycastle. Yowzers. Fics that take a premise and run and run and run...in such few words just blow me away. And the angst!

Such Is The Way to The Stars by Otter is one of those fun McKay/Sheppard fics I smile at every time I read it. How can anyone resist the opening:

When Rodney sat down -- a little too calmly, considering he'd entered the room at a sprint -- he said, "I've been here for the last twenty minutes. In case anyone asks."

John raised an eyebrow and put down his sandwich. It didn't actually taste much like turkey, anyway. "McKay?" he said, and he managed to insert a few layers of inquiry and reprimand into the word with no additional syllables.

Rodney waved one hand dismissively, and used the other to steal one of John's crackers. "Relax," he said. "It's nothing. Well, nothing they'll be able to prove, anyway."

And it only gets better!

what do i do instead of going to sleep like a sane person?

Read fanfics, of course. *sighs* I am so going to sleep now.

In Return by tigs is a delightful gen fic featuring Zelenka. The summary is perfect. "Zelenka does a favor for a friend." Oh yeah.

And her untitled Lorne-Sheppard ficlet has made me crave for more good Lorne-Sheppard fics of a gen nature. I already love Domenika Marzione's fics that do that, like The Care and Feeding of a CO (and how does one not love a title like that?).

Walls by Bone has two things I absolutely go ga-ga for: Ronon assimilation and John/Atlantis. XDXD

John: Hero by Day, Death Eater by Night by the incomparable eleveninches:

"I used to be really, really evil."

Hardest Hue by micehell has a great feel to it. I love the beginning, with Rodney and John bantering and being rather silly. I love the serious and the grotesque bits as well.

Another fic by the same author, Down, is not a happy fic. It's a "not completely consensual situation," but I liked where the author took it. Different from the usual fare.