Being Human

Precious, vid by angelmoogle. Not especially stylistic or flashy, but with only one episode, there's not a lot of source material. The lyrics work and it's nice to see Mitchell anyway I can get him. If you're thinking about torrenting the episode but are wavering, give this a looksee.

Dark Angel

Standing the Heat by veronamay Alec/Logan NC-17. Alec goes into heat. Yes, it's a fandom cliche, who cares? Very yummy fic.

Gossip Girl

The Wake Up Toast by them0rgue Eric, mild Eric/Asher. My favorite fic in the fandom, hands down

The first thing they make him do in the Ostroff Center is write down, in his own words and handwriting, exactly what happened. What he did, what he said and felt. Everything. The further he gets from the Event, his therapist—“Call me Rebecca,” she says, looking him straight in the eye—tells him, the less clearly he’ll remember it.

Eric gets as far as It was a dark and stormy night before he runs out of steam.

Instead he makes a bulleted list. Went to the bathroom. Turned on the shower. Sat down in the shower. Cut lengthwise down the wrist. Waited.

His therapist reads it in silence before looking up at him. “This is good, Eric,” she says gently, “but we’re really interested your feelings.”

He doesn’t know how to say that he’s not sure he has any.

and



When Eric turned thirteen, he spent the night curled in an unforgiving hospital chair while they pumped Serena’s stomach and hooked her up to an IV. Their mom was there, kind of, pacing in and out of the waiting room, on the phone with their dad, speaking in hushed tones or getting watery burned coffee from the mess.

They weren’t alone. There were other pinched, desperate-looking families glancng up hopefully whenever someone passed through. He remembers thinking that this was where you waited around for people to die. Another mother sat directly across from him with a son, a little boy asleep in one of those wrap-around papoose carriers. She never looked up when someone came in, just scratched into a Times crossword with heavy bags under her eyes.

Rebecca nods when he relates this story but doesn’t write anything down. “Do you think about her a lot?”

Eric nods, then processes the question and shakes his head. “No. The baby.”

“Why the baby?”

He pushes a fingernail under his bandages. He doesn’t really remember wanting to die. More like he just wanted to calm down. “I just thought it would be nice to be able to sleep through all that.”

Really, really amazing read.


RPS

This One Time at Band Camp by hackthis Ari Gold/Robert Downey Jr., PG-13. The on-going adventures of Ari Gold. Wonderful fun, funny, smart read.

Smallville

Paranoid Android, vid by bop_radar Lex character study, includes footage for all of season 7. This vid can be summed up in two words.

Fucking. Stunning.

If you have ever for one second of you life had a passing curiosity about Lex Luthor, you must watch this vid. Then watch it a couple more times, because it is perfection.