Sunday, with art and recs.

Our library has some rotating art installations out front. Right now, there are some metal sculptures I thought nightdog_barks and blackmare_9 might get a kick out of.


      

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Unrelatedly, I've read some excellent stories this weekend:

- if death's waters came by lanthano (900 words). Exceedingly well-written, as all of lanthano's stories are, this is a strikingly prescient look at John and his family at his father's funeral—prescient because it was written last summer, and while "Outcast" jossed a few of the plot points, it's still a very believable window into John's head and home life.

- In a similar vein, the fourth installment of nightdog_barks's Annals series (15,000 words), a.k.a. the Ancient Rome House AU, in which Gregorius struggles with his father following the death of his mother, and James gets caught in the middle. It's suspenseful, terrifically sad, and beautiful.

- I don't know how I hadn't read Fix by crysothemis before. Hot, hot, hot story wherein John becomes addicted to an Ancient sex room and comes to Rodney for help. There follows several encounters and angst and miscommunication and did I mention hot? There are three versions, each with a different POV; I definitely recommend reading Rodney's first (25,000 words).

- Lustrous by rageprufrock (15,000 words). She'd been posting this unhappy girl!John/Rodney AU sort-of-divorce plus parallel-universe-Rodney cameo fic in snippets for a while, and finished it for the first day of the 14 Valentines celebration of women. While I was indifferent about the first half, by the end of the second I was tearing up. It's a wonderfully honest and painful look at what can go wrong in marriages and what might still go right if only both parties could communicate.


Also, I posted commentary to "Untouchable" at midnight last night. I wonder if it would be appropriate to cross-post to house_wilson?

The end. Need to do taxes, catch up on comments and do some thinking before the game and Extra Special House Episode come on later.

*grumpy face*

Dammit, I have to go to bed soon. They could have been showing the episode for 20 minutes half an hour 45 minutes already.

ETA: Wait, what? Other people are seeing it? WHY IS OUR FOX SHOWING NEWS INSTEAD OF AIRING THE HOUSE EPISODE THEY'VE BEEN PLUGGING ALL WEEK?

11:02 p.m., episode begins. AGH. *hits Record and goes to bed*