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melagan and goddess47 asked me to participate in romancingmcshep this year but I haven't been doing much writing lately. Instead here are recs for 5 of my favorite HEA McShep fics.

Title: Bell Curve series
Author: Rageprufrock
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 63,164
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: In his rational mind, Rodney knew that following a girl who'd just dumped you into a strip club was really, really pathetic.
Notes: I can't say with 100% certainty that this was the first McShep story/series I read but it's always the first one that comes to mind when I try to remember. And, okay, I will never get over my amusement over the title of the first story in the series - Bell Curve, Or, Ladies Night at the Boom Boom Room. Either way it's Rodney at his acerbic finest with Stripper!John.

Title: Time in a Bottle
Author: Astolat
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 14,216
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour.
Notes: This is always the second story that come to mind when I think of my first forays into McShep. Astolat has always had way of story telling that pulls you in and refuses to let you go until the story is done and just makes you fall in love with the characters.

Title: Entangled Particles series
Author: Zinnith
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 139,712
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: The Entangled Particles 'verse is an AU in which John is a former Air Force pilot and Rodney is a writer. It's set in Sacramento, California and tells the various tales of two men and a relationship.
Notes: Another of the early McShep stories/series I read in fandom and still periodically reread.

Title: Wraith Killers
Author: LadyRa
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 69,959
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Canon Typical Violence
Summary: Atlantis ends up with some unexpected new residents.
Notes: Well, it's LadyRa and kittens! Hard to go wrong with either.

Title: Lord John Sheppard versus Earth
Author: LitGal
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 61,696
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence
Summary: Canon diverged before Jackson found Atlantis. The IOC stepped in and decided to make things more efficient. A gene testing program brought Major John Sheppard into the program earlier, but budget constraints and international treaties have kept Dr. Jackson out of the antarctic. So now John has to find his own team--and his own geek--or he's in danger of being stuck in the mountain forever as a light switch. However, as the universe changes, fate forces some things to return to proper form, and other things... they get wildly out of control. John isn't sure how he came to be Earth's enemy, but he's going to have to deal with the cards he's dealt.
Notes: LitGal is one of those writers who is able to combine such incredible world-building with great word economics that you'll think you've just finished a story twice as long as it actually is and loved every minute of it. This story in particular is canon divergent yet still gets to Atlantis in an unexpected way. In the end it's a big love letter from John to Rodney.

Since I never got to them in June I decided September would be a good time to clear out some of my Marked For Later list. I didn't get through as many as I wanted to but I did find myself clearing out a few unread simply because I couldn't figure out why I'd marked them for later in the first place. ::shrugs::

September Word Count: 1,831,699

As always heed the tags.

Marked For Later Stories Read:

BTVS - Series: Hyena Packverse 1 - No Laughing Matter - quicksylver28
MCU - At the Heart of the Matter - Pookaseraph
MCU - Assembling an Audience -Suzelle
NCIS - A Long And Winding Road - SpencnerTibbsLuvr (KliqzAngel)
PotC - Will Turner Sequence 1 - Paterfamilias - Zwarte Parel
PotC - Will Turner Sequence 2 - Finding William Turner - Zwarte Parel
SGA - Coping Mechanisms - amireal
SGA - Moka - Martha - Warning: This has flashbacks of torture and, while a well-written story, I found it disturbing.
SGA - Pegasus Purgatorio - MrsHamill
SGA - Antarctic Drift - smilebackwards
SGA - Prime, Not Prime 1 - Forged in Fire - Tarlan
SGA - Prime, Not Prime 2 - Prime, Not Prime - Tarlan
Supernatural - Across the Universe - iamthemagicks
Teen Wolf - Celebrity Wolf - Alexdoesthings
Teen Wolf - Heartbreakers and Howls 1 - 4 Rules of Being a Heartbreaker - hellbells
Teen Wolf - The Alpha and the Pack 1 - Who's the Alpha? - penumbria
Teen Wolf - The Alpha and the Pack 2 - The Alpha and the Pack - penumbria
Teen Wolf - Red Riding Hood 1 - Little Red Riding Hood (you sure are looking good) - textbookchoices
Teen Wolf - Red Riding Hood 2 - Claiming Red - textbookchoices
Teen Wolf - Chocolate and Notebooks - thisnewjoe

Well, I sort of accomplished my goal for this month. I didn't read any Marked For Later stories but I did manage to read some fics by my old favorites. Not as many as I would have liked. My 9-1-1 fascination is still going strong apparently. LOL

Basic stats for the month ended up as:

9-1-1 - 2,482,171 words - 154 stories read
due South - 5,880 words - 1 story read
Harry Potter - 62,000 words - 1 story read
Losers - 4,330 words - 1 story read
Merlin - 56,096 words - 4 stories read
Original - 182 words - 1 story read
Pacific Rim - 35,731 words - 1 story read
SGA - 22,630 words - 3 stories read
Teen Wolf - 188,600 words - 3 stories read
Transformers - 162,024 words - 28 stories read

for a total of 3,019,644 words - 197 stories

Here's the list of stories I read for the June challenge - it's just fandom-title-author-link so please heed the tags but I don't recall there being anything that needed warning for.

due South - Housekeeping by Resonant
Losers - Rubber Ducky, You're the One! by Creed_Cascade
Merlin - The Crown of the Summer Court by Astolat
Merlin - Despoiled by Atolat
Merlin - Favorite by Astolat
Merlin - The Truth Will Out by Orithain
Pacific Rim - Shatter Me by Macx
SGA - Weddings, Plural, and a Yak by Speranza
Transformers - Imperfection Deviation Series 1-33(ish) by Macx - I skipped 4 stories because I was impatient to get to the point where it started crossing over with Iron Man .

So for the first time I haven't completed the goals I set for my bingo. I did read at least two stories in every fandom on my card and most of them I did manage to read three like I planned. I fell short on Harry Potter, due South, and The Sentinel.


I blame 9-1-1 entirely. And Jilly James because it was her story that got me started.


I was not looking for a new fandom or even a new show to watch. But April is a Rough Trade/NaNo month and Jilly wrote a 9-1-1 Buck/Eddie series and against my better judgement I decided to read it. 169 stories, 860,888 words, and having binge watched the entirety of 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lonestar later I clearly have a new fandom.

It might also account for how I managed to read 2,022,608 words this month. It'll be interesting to see how May goes.

For anyone interested in the stats: https://tinyurl.com/yp76t6pk

Fast and the Furious	Harry Potter	Pacific Rim
due South	Teen Wolf	CSI: Miami
Sentinel	Marvel Cinematic Universe	Stargate: Atlantis

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Back in October or so I realized I'd fallen into a bit of a rut with my fanfiction reading. Not only was I reading only Teen Wolf but even that I was largely reading the same tropes and/or fics over and over. A fan of Trope Bingo I decided to do one specifically for reading. Initially I created a 5x5 trope bingo card specificaly for Teen Wolf. A conversation shortly after that made me realize it had been months since I'd read anything outside Teen Wolf. To that end I created a 4x4 Fandom Bingo card using a list of my favorite fandoms. Then to prevent myself from just rereading a bunch of my favorite fics I made a second 4x4 card with tropes.

I've managed to finish the Fandom and Trope bingo cards. They're below with links to the fics I read. There are some duplicates between them in an effort to get them done by the end of the year. Also to save some time I'm just posting the links to stories so please check the story headers for pairings and ratings as well as any warnings. They're all slash except for the Arrow stories, which are Olicity, and none of them exceed canon-level violence for the fandom. If anyone has any questions just leave a comment below.

I'm not quite finished with the Teen Wolf card so I'll put that in a separate post.

Fandom Bingo

Eureka Oldest Story in the World by ElyssBlair	Harry Potter The Absence of War by Keira Marcos	Magnificent 7 Caught by the Dance by Kris Krisser	BTVS Small and Scaly by Devo79
Pacific Rim Winner Winner Chicken Dinner by Gutterball	Losers Sniper at the Gates of Heaven by JoeLawson	Chronicles of Riddick Only The Strong by Jaye_Voy	Hobbit Alone This Yuletide by Emsiecat
MCU Pony Up by HogwartsToAlexandria	Supernatural Shortskirts 'Verse by twentysomethng	Merlin License to Thrill by Lady_Ragnell	NCIS Charlie Potatoes by Rose_malmaison
Stargate: Atlantis No Enemy Within by Keira Marcos	Arrow Titles by Thatmasquedgirl	Hawaii 5-O Feels Like Coming Home series by Saddle_Tramp	Star Trek: AOS You'll Get There in the End by Seperis

Trope Reading Bingo

AU: Fusion Eureka: Oldest Story in the World by ElyssBlair	Handcuffed/Bound NCIS: Charlie Potatoes by Rose_malmaison	Transformations SGA: Mating Rituals by KarenMcFadyyon	Role Reversal Merlin: His Missing Piece by Seravid
Epistolary Hobbit: A Glittering Abyss by Salvia_G	Sex Toys MCU: Pony Up by HogwartstoAlexandria	Bets/Wagers Arrow: Fifty Bucks Says by entersomethingcleverhere	Immortality/Reincarnation Arrow: Felicitas series by Jess_S
Telepathy ST:AOS: You'll Get There in the End by Seperis	Rivals to Lovers HP: Birth of the Serpent King by Keira Marcos	AU: High School/College SPN: Shortskirts 'Verse by twentysomething	Kid Fic BTVS: Small and Scaly by Devo79
Death Fic SGA: Freedom is Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose by Synecdochic	First Time/Last Time Losers: Walk With Me by JoeLawson	Everyone Thinks We're A Couple H5O: Feels Like Coming Home series by Saddle_Tramp	Food & Cooking PacRim: Winner Winner Chicken Dinner by Gutterball

Sex Toys: MCU: Pony Up by HogwartstoAlexandria
Warnings: If you couldn't tell from the category and the title this story involves the kink Pony Play. That means two of the characters in this fic roleplay as if they are actual horses, specifically a mare and a stallion. Everything depicted in this story is completely consensual but it is a dehumanization kink that can squick some people. Read at your own risk.