I remember when I used to read actual books

[jaina]

It never fails-- I go through my day thinking "I should post this to lj, I should post that to lj" and then I get home and can't remember what the hell I was going to post.

So have some fic recs:

Hero for a New Age, by smittywing
SGA; Ronon and Rodney mostly, with some team stuff
"Superman's the last of his kind, too," Ronon said quickly. “I'm going to try to get McKay to rig me up some heat vision so I can melt steel like Superman."
Delightful.

The Making of an Emperor, on the TFN boards
Star Wars: Legacy of the Force and Star Wars: Legacy (seriously, they've got to come up with better names for these things)
OMG YOU GUYS. It's a Jaina-and-Jag-restart-the-Empire fic that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out! I've been wanting one of those since I first read Legacy. It's not high art, or anything, but compared to the general level of SW fic it's very passable. (Why does most EU fic suck so badly? Why?)

Bromanian Rhapsody, by dollsome
How I Met Your Mother, Barney/Robin
“You know what?” he continues pensively. “We need our own country. King and queen of Bromania.”
I love Barney/Robin like I love cake. And I *love* cake. Why isn't there more fic??

Comments

[rosiewook.livejournal.com]

Ooo. Thanks for the recs! Those first two sound intriguing.

And I'm with you. I rarely look at SW fanfic, anymore. It's just too painful for me.

[duncatra.livejournal.com]

Why does most EU fic suck so badly? Why?

Because most fic sucks. Badly.

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, but it seems to be much, much harder to find anything approaching decent in SW. It's especially hard to find anything decent that isn't prequel-related.

[duncatra.livejournal.com]

Audience size, no doubt. The bigger the [area of] fandom, the better percentage of goodfic?

[wendyhouse.livejournal.com]

except that I have a hard time wrapping my head around Barney being that depressed, I liked the Bromania fic! and generally I hate fic....

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Ted is abandoning him! His wingman! Barney can put on a pretty good depression when he wants to. :)

Here are two more superb Barney/Robin fics, if you're feeling brave:

Leave No Man Behind (http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/39/leaveno.html)

like the border between greece and albania (http://irishmizzy.livejournal.com/166508.html)