Mira Mira off the wall...

For today's recommendations by other people, I'm going to confine myself to non-Harry Potter stories not written for me or by friends.  One below, two under the cut for spoilers.  All gen (or with background pairings), and content shouldn't be problematic unless you're really just in the mood for fluff.

Chasing Normal by dotfic - "There was this one time I saved the world..." (Justice League/Justice League Unlimited)

I don't remember how I stumbled across this one at all, but I love it.  It's probably the most accessible of these recommendations if you're not familiar with the canon, and you don't need to have read the other stories in the series to follow along.  The plot is simple - ordinary guy gets superpowers through freak lab accident - but the "ordinary guy" is simultaneously relatable and more special than even he realizes in the way he handles the situation, and the powers are really clever, and it's just a ton of fun.

( Homeward Bounders and Neverwhere recs )

Welp, so much for getting things done in their allotted time frame. (Don't even ask about NaNoWriMo. I've decided that if I do the writing prep that would have allowed me to get further than a one-paragraph concept pitch had I done it in advance, I'll count that as a win.)

The good news is, I do have some reason for distraction: I start work on Monday! And I have been writing little bits of fic in the meantime, including a couple of pieces on my favorite Harry Potter family, the Boneses. Very depressing pieces, granted, but I had to balance the 2001: A Space Odyssey crossover somehow.

Anyway, I promised myself I'd finish this meme, and I will. Just not on any guaranteed schedule. Let's see how far I can get today before I get bored or devolve into rambling.

( Day 10 )

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( Day 12 )

Sorry for skipping yesterday; got a little distracted by Lev Grossman's The Magician King. (Also finally bought Dance with Dragons, but that's going to take longer to get through, and I promised I'd hold off on really delving in until the job search was going better.) I'll probably post a proper review in a bit, but I think I need to digest it a little first. Initial reaction: much like the first book, while I love several of the parts, they don't add up to a satisfying whole. Only this time, I have much more concrete reasons for finding the whole dissatisfying, and I really wish someone had warned me about one of them in particular.

In the meantime, onward with the meme!

( Day 7 )

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*glances over last question* Wow, that came out more confrontational than I intended. Maybe I'm angrier about the book than I thought.

Whoops, fallen a bit off-schedule. Let's fix that.

( Day 4 )

( Day 5 )

What the hell. This one's borrowed from musyc:

Pick one of my fics, and I'll give you three details that didn't make it into the fic. Background canon, deleted scenes, or a look into the future. My choice, but if you have a specific question you can ask it in your request.

Unfortunately, I don't have a master list (should probably fix that, shouldn't I?), but you can browse through my Ao3 collection here.