Title: On Love, In Truth
Fandom: Swordspoint
Pairing: Richard/Alec
Categories: Romance
Length: Short (1,035)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: lelek
Author Website: AO3

Author's Summary:
Languishing in the harsh, brilliant light of an endless summer afternoon, Alec watches Richard practice against the wall of their sweltering room and wants.

Review:
This is just flat out lovely. This takes Alec and Richard and gives you a snapshot of a moment in their lives that is just about perfect. I love Swordspoint. It's beautiful and tragic and ugh, that book, and this little fic does that gem of a book credit. It sounds so perfectly in line with the words of the book it's like reading from one of the pages--it's that good. It's short and sweet and just rich in details and feelings.

As I said, it's nothing more than a moment in Alec and Richard's lives. Not even a particularly important one, but just them being at home. For all of that it's pretty much perfect. Definitely worth the read.

On Love, In Truth

Title: A Great Storm in the Sky, the Sun in the North
Fandom: Juuni Kokki | Twelve Kingdoms
Pairing: None
Categories: Gen
Length: Long (17,712)
Warnings: Some violence

Author on LJ: daphnerunning
Author Website: AO3 | Tumblr

Author's Summary:
Following the events of "The Shore in Twilight, the Sky in Daybreak," Taiki and Risai attempt to liberate the Kingdom of Tai. But that may not be as easy as it seems, when traitors style themselves heroes, and the King is nowhere to be found.

Except for a faint voice in Taiki's mind...

Review:
One of my best beloved series/fandoms is the Twelve Kingdoms (go read/watch!). To my eternal regret and disappointment, the author has not resolved the events after the last book (and it has been years, okay, I check every so often to see if maybe she'll clear up that GIANT CLIFFHANGER and nope, not yet [unless she did it in the recently published short stories, but I doubt that]), so in lieu of canon resolution I turn to fic.

And this fic is wonderful.

It's the resolution we've never had. It's Taiki and Risai on an adventure to find Gyousou and free Tai from the usurper king. It's Taiki quietly guilty and sad and so very convinced that he's not a true kirin anymore. All of the characters were spot on and the events that spread out before you feel as if it could actually happen in that way. It's the conclusion that's desperately wanted and hasn't quite yet come.

It just feels so satisfying to read.

A Great Storm in the Sky, the Sun in the North

Title: Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine
Fandom: Calvin & Hobbes
Pairing: None
Categories: Gen
Length: Medium (3,066)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: starlingthefool
Author Website: AO3 | Tumblr

Author's Summary:
The lesson here, Susie thinks, is that tricking Death is tricky business. How do you outwit the personification of oblivion? Chess, obviously, won’t be the answer.

Or: Susie plays Calvinball with Death.

Review:
I'm a main character person. I usually love main characters and ignore most side characters, but once in a while a fic comes knocking that features a side character and I end up loving it. This fic is one of those fics. I'm not even all that fond of Susie! But this was wonderful.

Susie's in college. She has a stellar GPA and a not-so-bad life. Then she meets Death who comes rather suddenly, but Susie's not the type of person who'll just go quietly into the night. Instead she challenges Death to a game. A game of Calvinball. (This, of course, made me instantly grin).

Calvinball is a game with almost no rules. Or rather, a lot of rules, only all kind of made up and on the spot. Now you'd think the author's rendition would be messy and chaotic and make no sense. And it doesn't. Except it does!! Because it makes sense in the context of the fic, while being true to what Calvinball actually is. It's not over done. It's not too crazy. It fits and it fits perfectly.

And that end! That end that just wrapped the story up in a pretty bow. I loved this fic. If you like Calvin & Hobbes then you should read this. It's truly a wonderful little piece.

Hello Operator, Please Give Me Number Nine

New reccer coming onboard just in time for small fandom week! This is a Yuletide favorite from 2010, and one that I've probably read twenty times since then.

Title: Baby-sitters Club The Next Generation #6: Byron and the God of California
Fandom: The Baby-sitters Club - Ann M. Martin
Pairing: Byron Pike/Jeff Schafer
Categories/Genres: Humor, first-time, post-canon, virgin
Length: Long (29,893)
Warnings: Underage (sex between two consenting fifteen-year-olds)

Author/Artist on LJ: zelempa
Author/Artist Website: AO3

Summary: And then he was there, standing in the doorway.

He obviously hadn't put much thought into what he was wearing, but somehow, he made a white T-shirt and jeans look like designer fashion. Unlike most of my shirts, his actually fitted him perfectly, showing off his slim waist and muscular arms. The bright white set off his golden skin perfectly. Around his throat he wore one of those hemp-and-shell surfer necklaces. His pale blond hair had been cut short and stuck out in every direction. He was grinning that wide, friendly, dimpled grin of his.

Oh, man. Oh, man. I was in trouble.

Review: Fast forward a few years past the eternal eighth-grade of the books, and 15-year-old Adam Pike is President of a Baby-sitters Club composed of former sitting charges. Byron, the sensitive and shy Pike triplet, has "wishy-washily half-joined" the club as an Associate Member. He has bigger things on his mind than baby-sitting as he tries to come to terms with his sexuality. On the other side of the country, Jeff Schafer has just come out on his blog, making Byron's secret crush on him more exhilarating and terrifying than ever. Byron tells himself that, if he has to be gay, at least his crush lives safely off-limits in California. But Byron's life gets a lot more confusing when Jeff and his sister Dawn return to Stoneybrook for the summer, just as the original BSC members come home from their first year of college to see how the club has been running in their absence.

If you grew up devouring BSC books like Claudia's hidden candy, then this story will bring you on the nostalgia trip of your life! I love the romance between Byron and Jeff. This story does a fantastic job of capturing the terrifying thrill of first love along with the fear and isolation of growing up queer in a small town. But it's the tension between the old club and the new that really makes this story come alive for me. In pitting Kristy and the original BSC members against Adam and the Next Generation club, zelempa really highlights her ability to stay true to the girls we knew and loved, while also creating new and dynamic characters from the former sitting charges, who only played minor roles in the books. Even as I rooted for Adam and the Next Generation sitters to come into their own, I understood Kristy's desire to hold onto the club that's meant so much to her. The first time I read this, I was giggling out loud through most of it because it captures so much of what I loved about the BSC as a little girl -- the club drama, the outfit descriptions, the notebook entries, the LUV, the sense that Stoneybrook would fall apart without the BSC around to watch over its kids . . . . What zelempa has really managed to do is create a BSC book for adults, but without losing the core of friendship and belonging that is really at the heart of the Baby-sitters Club. I just wish this really were the sixth of a series because I would happily read them all. Fortunately, this one does have a sequel, which is equally good.

Baby-sitters Club The Next Generation #6: Byron and the God of California

Also make sure to check out the sequel! Baby-sitters Club: The Next Generation Super Special #1: What Happens in Sea City…

It's Small Fandom week here at ER!
We'll be reccing in fandoms that have 5 or fewer reviews here, regardless of actual fandom size.


Title: (o>------
Fandom: Solar System (anthropomorphic)
Pairings: Ison/Dark Matter, Ison/Neptune, Ison/Jupiter, Ison/Sol
Categories: Journal entries, self discovery, crack that turns more serious, humor, loneliness, romance
Length: Medium (5,177 words)
Warnings: Discussion of future major character death

Author on LJ: fresne
Author Websites: fresne

Author's Summary: So, hey I'm ISON, or you know Ison, not to be all shouty at you, because I'm not a shouty Comet. Not like some. I also go by C/2012 S1, but I like totally prefer Ison.

I use this journal for writing about my thoughts and dreams and stuff. Okay, mostly my love life, which... gets complicated.

But I'm looking for that special someone, who makes me light up.

Review:
I'm a sucker for anthropomorphism; give me a mitten on a quest to find a lost mate or a deflated old basketball remembering the glory days, and I feel compelled to give it a look. So the first thing I read from Yuletide this year was the comet Ison's online chronicle of the trip through our solar system.

The glib way Ison speaks had me thinking I was in for a quick, funny read, and it is that, in part. But as Ison grows through disappointing experiences and moves from darkness toward light, we end up with a relatable story about loneliness and connection. Even as a young sounding Ison never drops the use of "like" and "dude," there's a depth to this story that has me thinking back to it weeks later. Ison finds serial monogamy a bit soul crushing, and Sol talks about the creation of the universe and the events leading up to Ison's one way journey, about the stuff that made us all coming from the same place.

But back to the humor... Earth especially made me laugh, and the images from 'LOL-stars' and online quizzes add to the cracky charm. Plus I loved the way Ison's up and down posts reminded me of LJ journals.

(Shout out to margi_lynn whose rec led me to this.)

(o>------

Title: Promises Made
Fandom: Spirited Away
Pairing: Haku/Chihiro
Categories: Future Fic, Spirits
Length: Medium (5,087)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: AO3

Author's Summary:
Chihiro tasted the rain cool and sweet on her lips, and remembered, fleetingly, what clouds had tasted like as she flew through them.

Review:
I swear this fandom has some of the prettiest writing.

I love Yuletide because it gives me fics like this that I just sort of sigh over and clutch to my chest and wish could just go on and on. Promises Made takes place in the future, where Chihiro lives her day to day life, but still remembers Haku and is still connected to the spirit world in mostly little ways. She's pragmatic, but she keeps an eye out for spirits and there's this dreamy quality to the entire fic that touches her, but doesn't overwhelm her.

I wouldn't say that Chihiro is waiting for Haku to come back, but they do have a promise to see one another again and it's important even if she doesn't let it define her. I think that's an important distinction and one I'm glad that the author made.

And it's so pretty. So very very pretty. It's not even--it's in the descriptions. It's in the way Haku smiles with his eyes and the way that clouds taste. It's the promise of more that kind of hovers in the background without overwhelming you. At the end I'm left with this brimming of feelings that just make me want to gush and leave me wanting more.

It's crazy because it's not like a lot happens. But there's a sort of internal pull in the chest and--I have no idea. Read it. It's lovely and fits the world of Spirited Away so well.

Promises Made

It's small fandom theme week!

Title: und mit Geistesstärke tu ich Wunder auch
Fandom: The Time Traveler's Wife
Pairing: Alba (with Alba/OMC)
Categories: Time travel, family, growing up
Length: medium (3,249 words)
Warnings: Although there's no direct mention of Henry's death, it's clear Clare is grieving for him.

Author on LJ: leiascully
Author Website: leiascully

Author's Summary: Alba loves time traveling.

Review:
This story of Alba, Clare and Henry's daughter, has stuck with me for years. It's bittersweet and full of the beauty Alba's grandmother sings about: love and loss and joy. From telling her younger self she lost their virginity, to meeting her grandchildren before her husband, Alba grows up as a traveler in time in a way that's kinder than her father's fate. 'Travelers' are better understood, and, though not without its dangers, slipping through time is safer than it used to be.

I particularly love Alba's scenes with herself, and the ways she helps raise her younger selves along the way. Seeing her father is a rare and happy accident, and Clare is a loving mother, but she's never fully recovered from Henry's death and can't understand or think of time in the same way Alba does.

Leiscully takes us through Alba's life from childhood to old age in little snippets that are much like Alba's time travels. My favorite is the opera scene at the end where so many phases of her life come together.

und mit Geistesstärke tu ich Wunder auch
on yuletidetreasures

It's Crack/Humor/Silly Theme Week!

Title: Texts From Cephalopods
Fandom: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording (Youtube)
Pairing: Gen, Octopus & Squid friendship
Categories: Humor, Crack, Texting, YouTube Videos, Embedded Images
Length: Short (1,547)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: volta_arovet
Author Website: volta_arovet

Author's Summary: It is a well-established fact in marine biology that the octopus is the drunk texter of the cephalopod family.

Review:
As soon as I saw the theme for this week, I thought of Texts From Cephalopods. It's brilliantly silly crack and humor. If you're one of thousands of readers who've already laughed out loud, then this won't be news to you.

So the plot, which I'm supposed to summarize... It's probably best to go straight to this 3 minute video, which is the fandom for which Texts With Cephalopods was written: Octopus Steals My Video Camera and Swims off with It While It's Recording.

Your day is already better, right?

Now you know everything you need to know to start reading texts Octopus sends to long-suffering Squid during his adventures. I love Octopus' can-do attitude and crazy antics! I love the little links -- small, tucked between the images -- to other videos along the way, so that you can see more live octopus action. Though they aren't required viewing, I think it adds something to have seen what he's gleefully texting about. And I love the way this story is told in cell phone images (though there's also a transcription at the end for accessibility. I know someone who uses a screen reader, so thanks for that, volta_arovet!).

There are a pair of fabulous podfics for this too, by bessyboo, lunate8, pennyplainknits, reena_jenkins, revolutionaryjo, sly_hostetter, and XanaTenshi. They do a beautiful job of editing the voices together and adding sound effects.

Since I massacred the vowels a few times while searching for this again on AO3, I'm proud to say I have learned how to spell cephalopods correctly. Which means the story's even educational, on top of everything else. :D

Texts From Cephalopods

Title: That Untravelled World
Fandom: James Bond (Skyfall)
Pairing: Gen
Categories: Post-canon, Yuletide
Length: short (1,105 words)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: lonelywalker
Author Website: lonelywalker

Summary: Every Christmas, they each have their own lies to tell.

Review:
Set at the holidays, but thoughtful rather than festive, That Untravelled World is post-Skyfall head canon for me now. It sets the right, almost melancholy tone; it's well written and suits the characters, and it manages to make a couple of things that didn't ring true in the film fall into place. I don't want to give anything away, so I'll continue under the spoiler cut, but if you enjoyed the film at all, this is a great, short continuation and a good read.


So the spoilers... It didn't make sense to me that Bond would take M to Skyfall with little idea of how he'd protect her there. He didn't know there would be weapons or that Kincade would be there to help. I especially didn't like the fact that M let Kincade keep that flashlight on, when it was an obvious signal of where they were. In light of the story, that scene becomes a setup to fake M's death, instead of uncharacteristic mistakes leading to her death. So, thank you, lonelywalker, for writing what was, for me, a more believable ending.


That Untravelled World

Apologies again for late posting; Wednesdays have not been kind to me lately.

Title: Strange and Distant Shores
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Pairing: Elim Garak/Julian Bashir
Categories: Romance, Interviews, Post-Canon, Yuletide
Length: Medium (6,839 words)
Warnings: n/a

Author on LJ: gryvon
Author Website: gryvon on AO3, Gryvon on ff.net

Summary:
In 2398, reporter Felix Marian interviews Chairman Garak and Ambassador Bashir about the formation of the Cardassian Democratic Union and ends up learning more about Cardassia than he intended.

Review:
Set far after the series ended, the story alternates between interviews with Garak and Julian talking about working on Cardassia after the war and telling how they met again and finally got together. I really enjoyed the outsider perspective in the interview scenes, and they perfectly frame the flash backs scenes of both Julian and Garak of their early romance. Garak is working on rebuilding his home planet, while Julian has quit Starfleet ("In retrospect, he shouldn't have called the Rear Admiral a xenophobic asshole.") and has come to Cardassia to where the need for doctors is the greatest.

Garak and Julian are so very themselves, their character voices and reactions are pitch-perfect. The bits of Cardassian culture are fun and surprising, and the original character is well done. A great story that shows the beginnings AND future of their relationship, in a completely believable way.

( Click here to read an excerpt. )

Strange and Distant Shores

Title: Paper Bag Diplomacy
Fandom: The Paper Bag Princess
Pairing: gen
Categories: Humor, Post-Canon, Yuletide, Fanart
Length: Medium (~3,000 words)
Warnings: n/a

Author on LJ: galaxysoup
Author Website: galaxysoup (on AO3)

Summary:
Princess Elizabeth has vanquished the Dragon and danced off into the sunset. Too bad the story doesn't end there! Now she has a kingdom to run and some very uppity neighbors to manage. Her only weapons: a half-burnt country, a certain way with words, and the kind of moxie that lets her bluff a dragon while armed only with a paper bag...

Review:
This story is a delight! Ever wonder what happened to the princess after the picture book ended? Fear not, for galaxysoup has provided an illustrated account of how Princess Elizabeth gets her kingdom in order after the dragon business...with a little help from the dragon himself, but mostly with her own clever moxie. The drawings are adorable, especially the last one, and the whole thing put a huge smile on my face.

Paper Bag Diplomacy

I'm sorry for missing the last two weeks but I was quite sick and couldn't spend time on the computer.


Title : Cherish the Day
Fandom: The Bodyguard
Pairing: Frank Farmer/OFC, Rachel Marron/OMC
Categories: Domestic, Future, Friendship, Post-canon, Yuletide 2012
Length: Medium (3879 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ:
Author Website: tvashti

Summary:
Fame, travel, marriages successful and failed, children...maybe it's purely by the force of Rachel's personality, but somehow they remain friends.

Review:
The Bodyguard is a movie I can't help watching when it happens on TV. What can I say I'm not afraid of cliché and this film is one of my all-time favorite.
This fic is what I hope happened after the end. It's full of heartwarming feelings and realistic details.
And the storytelling is just amazing. Tvashti has a real gift for giving life to Rachel's voice.
I also love how the friendship between Rachel and Frank rings very much true and survives all the hardships they met.

Cherish the Day

I'm sorry for missing the last two weeks but I was quite sick and couldn't spend time on the computer.


Title : Cherish the Day
Fandom: The Bodyguard
Pairing: Frank Farmer/OFC, Rachel Marron/OMC
Categories: Domestic, Future, Friendship, Post-canon, Yuletide 2012
Length: Medium (3879 words)
Warnings: N/A

Author on LJ:
Author Website: tvashti

Summary:
Fame, travel, marriages successful and failed, children...maybe it's purely by the force of Rachel's personality, but somehow they remain friends.

Review:
The Bodyguard is a movie I can't help watching when it happens on TV. What can I say I'm not afraid of cliché and this film is one of my all-time favorite.
This fic is what I hope happened after the end. It's full of heartwarming feelings and realistic details.
And the storytelling is just amazing. Tvashti has a real gift for giving life to Rachel's voice.
I also love how the friendship between Rachel and Frank rings very much true and survives all the hardships they met.

Cherish the Day

Title: The Cuckoo's Agenda
Fandom: C.J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union 'verse, primarily Cyteen
Pairing: gen
Categories: Drama, Post-Canon
Length: Medium (4,813 words)
Warnings: ( Spoiler )

Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: vanillafluffy (on AO3)

Summary:
There is more than just a scientific breakthrough on the table when the second Ariane Emory meets with a spacer of humble origins.
Or, as the Author's note put it, "a young woman confronting Ari II with an important discovery and suspicions about Ari's part in her life."

Review:
This is one of those stories where you really have to have read the canon to really get it; if you haven't read Cyteen, it probably won't make a lick of sense. But if you have, it's brilliant. There was a little something, a backstory sub-plot about a certain character, that always tickled at me...always made me wonder. This fic fills in that hole, and does so marvelously with an original character's vibrant first-person narrative. The original character, Grette Pedersen, fits seamlessly into Cherryh's greater Alliance-Union universe, and has a unique voice. Confident, smart, and clever, she's a great conversational foil for Ari, and I really enjoyed Grette's story and it's addition to Cherryh's world.

The Cuckoo's Agenda

Title: The Cuckoo's Agenda
Fandom: C.J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union 'verse, primarily Cyteen
Pairing: gen
Categories: Drama, Post-Canon
Length: Medium (4,813 words)
Warnings: ( Spoiler )

Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: vanillafluffy (on AO3)

Summary:
There is more than just a scientific breakthrough on the table when the second Ariane Emory meets with a spacer of humble origins.
Or, as the Author's note put it, "a young woman confronting Ari II with an important discovery and suspicions about Ari's part in her life."

Review:
This is one of those stories where you really have to have read the canon to really get it; if you haven't read Cyteen, it probably won't make a lick of sense. But if you have, it's brilliant. There was a little something, a backstory sub-plot about a certain character, that always tickled at me...always made me wonder. This fic fills in that hole, and does so marvelously with an original character's vibrant first-person narrative. The original character, Grette Pedersen, fits seamlessly into Cherryh's greater Alliance-Union universe, and has a unique voice. Confident, smart, and clever, she's a great conversational foil for Ari, and I really enjoyed Grette's story and it's addition to Cherryh's world.

The Cuckoo's Agenda

Title: Top Billing
Fandom: Singin' In The Rain
Pairing: gen
Categories: Drama, Post-Canon, Character Study, Yuletide
Length: Medium (3,568 words)
Warnings: n/a

Author on LJ: romanticalgirl
Author Website: romanticalgirl

Summary:
Singin' in the Rain was the end of the beginning for Don and Kathy, but what was it for Cosmo and Lina?

Review:
After the movie, life moves on. Lina makes a life for herself as gossip columnist and Cosmo moves into acting and eventually writing. Mostly by happenstance, they start meeting periodically for drinks and sniping. Through these meetings, we see what happens to them, and peripherally what happens to the other characters from the film.

The character voices are pitch-perfect superb, and this story allows them to age and grow and be more nuanced while still very identifiably themselves. Lina especially is a delight!

( Click here to read an excerpt. )

Top Billing

Title: Top Billing
Fandom: Singin' In The Rain
Pairing: gen
Categories: Drama, Post-Canon, Character Study, Yuletide
Length: Medium (3,568 words)
Warnings: n/a

Author on LJ: romanticalgirl
Author Website: romanticalgirl

Summary:
Singin' in the Rain was the end of the beginning for Don and Kathy, but what was it for Cosmo and Lina?

Review:
After the movie, life moves on. Lina makes a life for herself as gossip columnist and Cosmo moves into acting and eventually writing. Mostly by happenstance, they start meeting periodically for drinks and sniping. Through these meetings, we see what happens to them, and peripherally what happens to the other characters from the film.

The character voices are pitch-perfect superb, and this story allows them to age and grow and be more nuanced while still very identifiably themselves. Lina especially is a delight!

( Click here to read an excerpt. )

Top Billing

Title: Unthinkable
Fandom: Dragonriders of Pern
Pairing: gen (with background OFC/OMC)
Categories: Angst, Drama, Family, Sad Story, Yuletide
Length: Medium (4,898 words)
Warnings: Suicide (both past Suicide by OC and Attempted Suicide by main character)

Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Kastaka

Summary:
Being left Standing - it gets easier, and it doesn't.

Review:
This yuletide story hit me right in the gut. It's a thoughtful exploration of Pern's society, and what it would mean for those who don't like dragons and/or don't make the 'cut' to get chosen. Told through the lens of three women: the main character who grows up in a Weir and despairs of never bonding with a dragon, her distant but well meaning mother, and her loving yet overwhelmed foster-mother. What would it be like to grow up with all your life geared toward training to be a dragonrider but not be picked. How do you pick up the pieces? How do you communicate with your mother, when her whole world revolves around something you're excluded from. How hard it must be for a woman acting as a foster-parent to child after child that is trained to ride and fight and likely die.

There are no easy answers for any of the three women and their heartbreaks, and it had me crying and crying. Great storytelling, but read only if you're ready for intense emotions and real and immediate references to suicide.

Unthinkable

Title: Unthinkable
Fandom: Dragonriders of Pern
Pairing: gen (with background OFC/OMC)
Categories: Angst, Drama, Family, Sad Story, Yuletide
Length: Medium (4,898 words)
Warnings: Suicide (both past Suicide by OC and Attempted Suicide by main character)

Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Kastaka

Summary:
Being left Standing - it gets easier, and it doesn't.

Review:
This yuletide story hit me right in the gut. It's a thoughtful exploration of Pern's society, and what it would mean for those who don't like dragons and/or don't make the 'cut' to get chosen. Told through the lens of three women: the main character who grows up in a Weir and despairs of never bonding with a dragon, her distant but well meaning mother, and her loving yet overwhelmed foster-mother. What would it be like to grow up with all your life geared toward training to be a dragonrider but not be picked. How do you pick up the pieces? How do you communicate with your mother, when her whole world revolves around something you're excluded from. How hard it must be for a woman acting as a foster-parent to child after child that is trained to ride and fight and likely die.

There are no easy answers for any of the three women and their heartbreaks, and it had me crying and crying. Great storytelling, but read only if you're ready for intense emotions and real and immediate references to suicide.

Unthinkable

Title: Submitted For Your Approval
Fandom: Muppets, The Twilight Zone
Pairing: gen (with background Gonzo/Camilla)
Categories: Crack, Crossover, Humor, Yuletide
Length: Medium (3,849 words)
Warnings: n/a

Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: tartary_lamb

Summary:
A freak accident turns Gonzo’s latest stunt into a one-way ticket into the unknown.

Review:
It boggles the mind that I can say a fic that crosses over two such different canons as The Twilight Zone and The Muppet Show can be pitch-perfect for both, but this author somehow pulled it off marvelously. I almost want to say it's not crack, because it's so plausible that if Gonzo was somehow on The Twilight Zone this is what would happen. It's insta-head-canon territory.

The zaniness of the Muppets. The unique Serling narration. Gonzo and the narrator conversing. The mini "Time Enough to Last" episode parody. It's all brilliant, and had me giggling!

Submitted For Your Approval