"She leaned over and tugged on Tom's tie. "Tommy, of course, won't cry at all, for that's a disgrace for a soldier. And I won't cry, either, because I don't know how, and I never had a mother to teach me. So Annika will have to cry for all of us.""

"I require close physical contact in order to continue functioning with this level of muscle tension," Sherlock announced. "But I don't wish to have sex."
Halfway to the kitchen, John stopped walking in mid-step, frowning straight ahead at nothing. Then he looked at Sherlock with his head tilted at an amused angle. "You've had a shit day and you need a hug."

"A month has passed since Esca traveled north to Novantae to trade for some horses. Marcus tries to keep busy while he's gone."

"The point isn’t how many oddly specific capitalized phrases Abed can apply to his friends (answer: many). The point is how well they all fit together. In real life, groups of misfits just don’t assemble like this. A group so coincidental diverse but harmonious while still producing consistent tension has to be the result of network interference.
Cool.
Cool, cool, cool."

"In 1401, Aziraphale miracles the life right out of a minor government official, eyes cold, hands steady. It’s deserved, but then again it isn’t, and there’s the problem with humanity—once, Crowley is sure, there was a clear line."

"Here you'll find screencaps, textures, and other goodies as icon bases or stock photos." HD screencaps

"From now on, I'll post my screencaps in this community.
I've been thinking about the best way to organize them and I came up with an idea:
You can find the complete seasons in the community @ http://coloured-skies.livejournal.com/ (you'll find the links to each entry behind the cut) and the ones which are currently on air, here." -- HD screencaps

"Here you'll find screencaps, textures, and other goodies as icon bases or stock photos." HD screencaps

"Peter and Olivia on Stay - Hurts"

highres, logo-free caps from tv shows & movies
on lj: http://shadowofreflect.livejournal.com/

"Welcome to In A Dream Caps! A community full of HIGH QUALITY screen caps from a variety of tv shows, movies, music videos and trailers. Posts are made frequently and provide not only a zip file download, but a gallery as well! Several cappers have their dvd lists posted and open for requests. So please, feel free to join and stay up to date with everything we have to offer. :D Our gallery has caps of over 115 films and 30 different tv shows. We are organized by both tags and memories so you can find what you're looking for in a snap!"

"The sand gets everywhere. In his boots, in the creases of his robe. Between his toes and under his fingernails. In the food, sometimes. It's on his sheets, a subtle punishment against his skin. It's on the floor under his feet, slowly scouring the stone down to make more sand."

"A fifty-sentence look at the Holmes and Watson friendship. Unofficially written for the 1sentence livejournal community."

"Some days it feels like every time there is a new fest, comm, or exchange happening in a TV fandom, it is fic-centric. I'm extremely tired of sending out PMs or commenting screened to explain how that sucks for creative people who aren't writers and getting the same "oh, oops, it was just an automatic. I don't actually care, anything's fine" response. PLEASE CARE."

"In podfic meta discussions, it periodically comes up that some people want to leave feedback on podfic but just aren't sure what to say. This post is an attempt to give some new ideas to anyone who would like to expand their repertoire for expressing their thoughts about podfic. It is not meant to pressure listeners to leave feedback if they don't feel comfortable with that. Hopefully it will work more like a toolbox, providing tools that people can use to help them accomplish their pre-existing goals more easily and successfully."

"When I saw Google had somehow forgotten to include any ads in their Project Glass promotional video I just couldn't resist fixing that oversight for them.
So here is my slightly more realistic version of Google's augmented reality glasses - now featuring contextual Google Ads!"

"There was a smudge of black grease on Holmes's forehead, a small crescent moon shape where the man had pressed the cold barrel to skin and bone. Watson tugged his handkerchief free of his pocket and carefully wiped the imperfection away. Holmes stood unquestioning, watching him through lowered eyelashes."

"DAVID DUCHOVNY WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME?"

"Nights of insult let you pass, watched by every human love."

"To the sharp rule-bending chase to each as yet unsolved case
I turned to quench my boredom, and found it to be a cure
And it came to my attention (perhaps it does not bear to mention)
That my own captor's body I had now come to adore
And I wanted just to touch it, that rough body I adore
Only this, and nothing more."

"Legolas and Gimli come to an understanding." -- Gimli/Legolas

"Gene learns about the true meaning of Christmas … in some other story. In this one, he gets pissed and Sam drives him home."

"John can't write up the case until he finds out why. He needs to write their story true. [Post The Reichenbach Fall, major spoilers.]"

"I fell in love with Sherlock because apparently I am a magnet for angst."

"Yeah, I don't know," Rodney agreed, hitting something with a wrench and then jolting back as blue sparks came out of a different crystal. "It's not like I want to coerce him into having sex with us or abandoning the cultural traditions of his now-dead home planet or anything, but jeez, forty days?" Ronon/Teyla/Rodney/John

"I'm just saying, if you were in an accident, I wouldn't stop for a beer." -- Josh/Donna picspam

"You know," Toby said, pulling a cigar out of his inside coat pocket and regarding it thoughtfully, "I never found your relationship with Donna particularly baffling. I just figured you ran on sexual frustration like the rest of us. Though possibly," he added, pausing to sniff at the cigar before tucking it back into his pocket, "a slightly higher-octane blend."

"Donna knows why she got her job, and what she's doing now. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks."

"What happens in a tent offworld doesn't stay offworld."

""So," Daniel said, uncurling from his corner of the sofa, looking noticeably less inebriated than he had a couple of minutes ago when everyone else was leaving."

"They've never been evil before."

"Rodney isn't normally the kind of guy to stop talking without some sort of outside force exerting pressure on him (what Sheppard calls Newton's First Law of Rodney McKay), but Abed's emphatic nodding and wide eyes make him lose his train of thought."

"Welcome to "Mystic Confessions" a tumblr based confession blog about the hit CW show, The Vampire Diaries."

"Heat still lingers under her skin and something inside Max is moaning low with the pressure, a fire that won’t go to sleep." -- Dark Angel, Max Guevara/Original Cindy & Max Guevara/Alec McDowell

"Whenever one hears the word “gritty” or “grimdark” appended to other adjectives used to describe a video game, you’ve likely stumbled on a game that does what I’m going to discuss in this article: promote a rather cliched perspective as ‘real’. Various other euphemisms for this include ‘adult’, ‘mature’, and the like."

"I would like to know how we can get anything said at all if, before we even open the virtual equivalent of our mouths, we are judged by whatever forum or platform we use to host our statements on."

"Peter Bishop searches for Olivia through multiple parallel universes, adjusting to each new world -- and each new Olivia -- he finds. Set between seasons two and three."

"“Pictures of Dom tonight, Eames,” Yusuf replies from the doorway, “or I swear to you, I will point out to Arthur that he has a stalker with no shame and a thousand dollar camera.” From celebutaunt's prompt at the kink meme, "Cobb is the presidential candidate, Ariadne is his running mate, Yusuf is campaign manager, Saito is the sponsor, and Eames is the campaign photographer who spends way too much time taking picture of Cobb's speechwriter, Arthur."" -- http://and-backagain.livejournal.com/578.html

"Written for a prompt at inception_kink which, when condensed, is: Arthur hates Christmas, and with good reason. Eames very much does not. They meet, they fall head-over-heels, and Eames sets to work figuring out what exactly is going on here."

"So as it turns out, Arthur is in love. This is not a particularly welcome revelation, besides which he isn't quite sure what to do with it."

"You have to kiss,” one of the portraits on the wall informs them in tones of sternest authority. If Arthur squints, the fierce-featured, curly-haired woman pictured reminds him a bit of one of his great aunts. In which the dream world is cupid-ing Arthur and Eames together, and it is definitely not Arthur's fault. From bookshop's inception_kink prompt, here." -- also on http://amazingly-me.livejournal.com/133782.html

"Oh Arthur,' his mother says rapturously after Arthur has escaped the ill intentions of the second magician and been singled out for embarrassment by Lord Godfrey’s steward through no fault of his own, 'I always hoped one of my sons would be a Heroic Archetype!' From the inception_kink prompt, "Fairytale AU. Don't care if it's crack or really a dream or completely serious as long as Arthur/Eames is the main pairing. Hell, Arthur and Eames could both be Princess Ariadne's rescuers who fall in love on the journey, IDEC. ""

"Except that this has happened before, he thinks with a start, and something in his throat closes up as he revolves on the spot, already knowing what he's going to see. Charles' back is arching as he falls, his eyes wide, and the crumpled bullet falls to the sand beside him like a calling card. X-Men: First Class Groundhog Day!AU, written for a genius prompt at 1stclass_kink." -- on lj: http://and-backagain.livejournal.com/6669.html

"He wakes from a half-doze when someone shakes him by the shoulder, hard, and he tries frantically to wrench himself out of his dreams (Charles falling to the ground, his face twisted up with pain; surgeons' tools dripping with blood; a voice in his head, a voice he trusts, whispering blame into every corner and crevice). An Ending!AU where Erik doesn't leave, written for a prompt at 1stclass_kink." -- on lj: http://and-backagain.livejournal.com/7128.html

"It was Wickham who first asked me an honest question of what kind of a woman I should want to marry, were I given the chance to choose my own lady. I was sixteen at the time, and I had given the subject some thought for a couple of years already. I do not remember quite how I put it -- not the exact wording -- but I remember him commenting on it, telling me that there was probably no such woman in the whole world.
"Maybe you need to travel overseas," he had then said. "They say exotic lands carry exotic women."" -- Darcy muses on the must-have qualities of a future spouse.

"Prompt: On the cover of a magazine"

"Winn Adami and renewal, rebirth and resurrection."

"Two years, two new identities, 4000 miles, and the struggle to survive. For Ray, the only thing harder than leaving home is finding a way back."

"here it is: my line by line analysis of Alyjude's "Restrained Sex"" -- sporking of a Sentinel fic with too many unattached body parts.

"Gear up 'Cause here goes nothing.
Scotty, beam us down with a push of your button.
Everyone watch out there might be Gorn.
I'd keep my phasers always on.

If I were you I'd make no bets
Ain't no Jango Fett, but there is someone who better get
He's sitting right there -- Cyrano Jones
I was trying to tell ya, it's now a Tribble-toge."

"With the second flogging, a first sweet kind of pain set in and Jensen relaxed into his bonds and went with it." - Jeff/Jensen, BDSM, breathplay, fearplay, d/s

"On John Watson’s sixth birthday, his mum gave him a flat wooden box to hold his wish stones."

"It is a well-established fact in marine biology that the octopus is the drunk texter of the cephalopod family."

"Well," Morgana said, looking pleased, "Maybe Arthur won't actually throw the tourney this year."

"French toast, pancakes, steak and eggs -- I could make you anything in the world, pet, but no. Egg-white omelette, morning after morning. It shows a distinct lack of imagination."

"Arthur has been his editor from the beginning. Eames says he won't work with anyone else, and what Arthur will never tell him is that he would cut anyone who tried."

"In the heat of the moment, Jack lets slip something he thinks he shouldn't have."

"Charles encounters a young mutant with an unsettling power."

"When Alex Summers broke out of supermax to rescue his stupid kid brother, he had no idea it was going to be so fucking complicated."

"Thinking that a reporter genuinely likes you is pretty much on par with feeling like you really are special to that stripper."

"Buffy needs a reason to like the world. Spike shows her one of his."

"While controlled by the First, Spike sired a number of fledgling vampires, something he'd specifically refused to do ever before. Recovered by Buffy from the First, Spike sets out, with Dawn's help, to assassinate those fledges, while assisting Buffy with training the SITs and trying to avoid resuming their destructive sexual patterns of Season 6."

"A Tarot reading tells Scully more than she would have thought possible -- and more than the tarot reader would've thought possible, either."

"The basic assumption is that, if people are in some way queer, something must have happened to make us that way. Something genetic or environmental or cultural or personal must have happened to us, in the same way bad things often happen to good people. But the search for the origins of this tragic event is enmeshed in a lot of dicey assumptions and discourses, not even counting the one where we assume it's a tragic event."

"The following story is not strictly a BtVS/HDM crossover; it’s more a “Buffyverse with dæmons!” story—watch me pull a genre out of my hat! Basically, it answers the question, “How would ‘Beneath You’ have been different is Buffy and Spike had had dæmons?”"

"These are variously rated, often explicit, and always--without exception--feature John Watson and Sherlock Holmes being ridiculously in love with each other. They are almost always, with hugely varying degrees of sucess, tied to a canonical case or two, none repeated. So there you have it: you will find nothing here that is not slash, and I am delighted to meet you."

"What the hell is this, an Austen novel?"

"Be it the comics or the movies, whether you love them as friends or ship them as more than friends, this is an Erik/Charles, Magneto/Xavier blog."

"only in sga fandom would you ever google "tens unit voltage," "prosthesis," "chemical composition of semen," and "factorial function" all for a fic under 2000 words"" -- Exquisite amputee fetishism

"I’ve vaguely wanted to vid this song for a long time. It has a fairy-tale creepiness to it that’s very evocative. Scarlet ribbons, red shoes, little rivulets of blood trickling down a girl’s face. Just after Christmas I was paying attention to the full lyric for once and for about 5 minutes I thought it could be a Buffy/Joyce vid (no, not like that). But it needed something less literal so Joyce became the mother of all Slayers/Sineya/that girl whoever she was and Buffy became Buffy and Faith and Kendra and Nikki and Xin Rong and Dana and Kennedy and Rhona and Vi and countless, nameless girls around the world."

"This is set before 5.19 "Vegas," and contains spoilers for the episode, so if you haven't seen it and don't want to be spoiled, do not pass the LJ cut. Also, if you have a difficult time with scruffy, disheveled John, you may want to double-check your heart medication."

"Written for the following prompt: Erik dies, or finds a reversey-time mutant, or a magical time travelling device, and wakes up in the past. This time, though, it's before he ever met Charles - in fact, it's before his mother died.

He can save his mother that one time (thanks to his mastery over powers carrying back), but what does Erik do after that? Does he stick around, or escape and run to find Charles again (and hope everything doesn't go wrong)?"

"In which Charles rescues a gladiator from the arena and soon becomes somewhat disconcerted by this handsome new slave and his sharksome grin."

"Jack is stranded on a desert island. When he is joined by an unexpected companion, he becomes much more cheerful."

"George R.R. Martin is not your bitch."

"Adorable, aren't they? You're watching the antics of one of our most recent litters. Our puppies are born here on campus, carefully bred for their outstanding personalities and intelligence. Because one day, these little guys will be charged with the safety and guidance of our visually impaired students."