Double the ficcing, double your pleasure.

First up, Helo fic by the delectable SabaceanBabe. Can be found here. Contains spoilers through Flight of the Phoenix for new Battlestar Galactica, season two.

Why it should be read:
Because it's damned good, and it's Helo, and there just isn't enough love for the big galoot.

Second, Doctor Who fic. Ace meets the winter, no explosions ensue, but what does ensue? Winter and bittersweetness that's like drinking a margarita too fast.

Why it should be read:
Ace. Winter. Snow. If that's not enough? Deft narrative, careful handling of characters... This is the reason I stay on the fringes of Who fandom. For fic like this.

Music pimp: Radio Iodine

I've heard them compared to Annie Lennox (favorably), and one reviewer once said they were Annie Lennox meets Nine Inch Nails. I'd make them a little less... hardcore and say they're more Annie Lennox meets Gravity Kills, except no one knows who GK are, either. (seriously. Does anyone other than me remember they did more songs than 'Guilty'?)

The album is very Gothy. It's all OMG my life is horrible! music, much the same as a Nine Inch Nails or Gravity Kills or, y'know, Nickelback/Puddle of Mudd/System of a Down. Except, of course, the last three came more recently and are far more commercial. Or Evanescence. They're very much the same kind of mentality as Evanescence, except without the pseudo-God lyrics or the pianos.
( Music goodness )

Glee!

OMG. I forgot Painkiller Jane is on tonight! *prepares to watch*

fic pimp! newBSG

Kara/Anders fic! Go. Read it.

It's hot and NC17 and, guh.

Painkiller Jane.

Not as bad as I'd thought it would be. Oh, it had some of the standard SFC cliches, but surprisingly, it was also good.

The changes in story are amusing, as she's now the dead version of Jarrod from The Pretender. Sort of. He was a Mary Sue, too.

I really liked her. But then, I have a thing for tough chicks who kick things, blow shit up and kill people.

*happysigh*

Nicely-shot, too, though they went a little over-board on the "OMG!EDGY!" camera work (much like Galactica does).

And Leoben! OMG!

Jane/Leoben = new OTP. And I actually missed every scene they were in together, as my dad called.

MWAHAHA.

Er. Yes. Will watch again later.