where there's smoke there's--

Once again formatting an old post, originally for Fandom Snowflake, for this. Adding some of my own metas (after deleting a spite!meta, more or less) and apparently I posted this without closing a tag on one of the older links? Whoops.

The downside of watching Burn Notice is that there are over 100 episodes, making it one of USA Network's few shows to reach that milestone. There’s also a TV movie. The upside is that, if you watch a few episodes, you do get what the show's about, despite the changes in Michael's burn notice arc over the seasons. The only thing that might throw you off is the addition of Jesse, a spy Michael accidentally burns in season 4. Other than that, well, feel free to jump into this show's canon anytime.

Some show related meta follows, although a lot of it is sorely out of date and mentions characters that have since been given the Chuck Cunningham treatment or have actually been taken out of or literally killed off the show.

First fandom overview @ crack_van by wizefics
Second fandom overview @ crack_van by jebbypal
Fandom overview @ smallfandomfest by iamrosalita
Sam Axe shipper manifesto @ het_reccers by rise_your_dead
Fiona/Sam shipper manifesto @ ship_manifesto by rise_your_dead
Fiona/Michael shipper manifesto @ het_reccers by abvj
Trigger Happy Lovers: A Fiona Glenanne/Michael Westen Ship Manifesto (1506 words) by merryghoul
Lying to Find the Truth: Jesse Porter Versus Michael's Team in Burn Notice (2826 words) by merryghoul
Analyzing the "Reckoning" (1931 words) by merryghoul

Probably good I’m doing this, since editing one of my posts kept crashing on me, wtf.

Anyway, these are all the FSC recs I made that haven’t been taken off the internet in some way (I know one rec I made was deleted because of a deleted journal, alas). Also free of unprompted self-recs now (there will be another post for prompted self-recs, because that was part of FSC).

( 2012 )

Rec a favorite fanwork creator? Easy. I like sariagray's Torchwood fics. I like the thoughtfulness and dream-like qualities of her works. They linger in my head long after I'm done reading her fics. The stuff I have in my LJ memories include:

Exchange the Experience | Jack/Ianto, team | PG-13 | Summary: Jack finds a device he hasn’t seen since he was in the Time Agency; Ianto finds a way to use it.

The Poor Man's Heart | Jack/Ianto, team | PG-13 | Summary: Three moments in the days before Christmas.

The Downfall of My Many Hours | Ianto | R | Summary: Ianto has killed people.

Better Than Silence | Suzie/team | PG-13| Summary: Suzie’s good with people, in her own way.

This is my letter to the World that never wrote to Me | Suzie/Jack, OCs | R | Summary: Like most women, Suzie Costello was once just a little girl. This is her story.

And this meta piece on Suzie Costello, which, I'll have to admit, caused me to think about Suzie in my own way, right down to my big bang fic I just finished. (Oh, there's another one looming, but I'm thinking about it and waiting for inspiration to hit me.)