This is really supposed to be a pared-down list of recs, I swear! After reveals, I'm going to go back in and add the author names to this post, too. Ahhh so much great fic.

( A ridic number of recs in 36 fandoms )

The short version: Read The Cable and Deadpool Yuletide Special, Encounter Specialists, a little bit of something, Fevers and Mirrors, Cookies and MILF and There's No I in Team.

I'm off to do family things all day, so I can only steal a quick look at yuletide before late tonight.

Gratuitous video link: The Nutcracker Suite from Fantasia

It is once again that time of the year where I upload a ridiculous mix. So, there are traditional Christmas songs, non-traditional Christmas songs and then there are very non-traditional Christmas songs.

( A mix? A mix! How delightful, a mix. )

Ugh, can I tell you guys that trying to dive (headfirst into what is clearly marked as a "NO DIVING. ALSO RAPIDS AND SHARKS AND SHITTY ART!" zone) into the DCU is doing terrible things to my need to organize and schechter. I'm looking at you, pretty much every Batman title in the late 90s. Do you really need that many crossover storylines? I'm such a completionist and want to read things in remotely chronological publishing order, which I'm sure will lead to me being hunched over in a dark corner, rocking back and forth while I renumber hundreds of .cbr files. I'm just saying that I have a .txt file on my external HD called Reading Order and Tim goddamn Drake's section is way too long.

In Awesome, Long DCU Fic Which Requires No Canon Knowledge But Tugs on Your Heartstrings Anyway News: 'Twas the Groundhog Day Before Christmas by poisonivory. 28,000 words of Ted Kord (Blue Beetle) being stuck in a Groundhog Day-style loop. Funny and touching and supremely satisfying. If this fandom is going to keep throwing great fic at me, I'm not going anywhere.

I should be uploading my new holiday mix tomorrow, if all goes well. Until then, have another of Chbeeb's awesome dance videos: The Sleep Sweepers.

FINALE OMG ( ONE HOUR IS NOT ENOUGH )

Things that I have been immersed in for the past couple of weeks:

- Dance, obviously. Little birdies have told me that there are no solos and no intro packages in the finale tonight. It is wall-to-wall dancing and judging. However, some of the dances are supposed to be insanely spectacular, so I'll see if I can deal. Also a ton of SYTYCD ladies from the past three seasons (4, 5 and 6) will be back to dance with JLo.

- Bollywood movies. IDK either. Mmmm Abhishek Bachchan and Hrithik Roshan. Mmmmm Bipasha Basu and Preity Zinta. Om Shanti Om is fantastic on every level, even if a lot of the jokes rely on Bollywood references that I totally miss. Kabhi Alivda Naa Kehna has some misleadingly upbeat songs and 30th St Station standing in for a train station in NYC. Which can be disconcerting while you're watching the emotional climax of the movie.

- DCU comics. I REALLY DON'T KNOW. Wait, that is a lie. I know exactly what got me reading: Close to Home by iesika. 65,000 words of Kon starting an LGBT-rights club at school and having to be pretend boyfriends with Tim. I read some DCU fic waaaaay back in the day, maybe four years ago when I was bored and reading around Smallville fandom, as you do. But knowledge of canon is totally not necessary to enjoy this fic. Kon = Superboy, aka the clone son of Superman and Lex Luthor (NO REALLY) and Tim = Batman's third Robin. Ahh comics, your canon is crazy. And also clearly I am crazy for even trying to wade into this clusterfuck of continuity.

- Holiday shopping. I am more broke than usual and it is making shopping an adventure in discounts!

- Yuletide. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

- Not reading my flist. Because I am a terrible person, but I'm working on catching up. :D?

That about sums it up, I think. Oh and this. Legacy is a man who knows what I like.