Yuletide insta-rec

Okay, so I have a larger recs post upcoming, but I just spent a delightful amount of time laughing my ass off while reading this fic, so I had to share:

Mission: Dinosaur Adventures (3781 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: The Losers (2010), Jurassic Park (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen
Characters: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez, Jake Jensen, Franklin Clay, Aisha al-Fadhil, Linwood "Pooch" Porteous, Tim Murphy, Lex Murphy
Summary:

Jensen couldn't decide whether he was having the best week ever, or the worst.

OH MY GOD, AHAHAHAHAHA. For starters, this is a crossover between The Losers and Jurassic Park. You really shouldn't need more than that. Jensen is hacker internet-friends with Lex Murphy, and she needs a favor. As you can guess from the title and/or summary (and/or the tags many dinosaurs were harmed in the making of this story and science took a pretty big hit as well), this favor does not involve his sitting-in-front-of-a-computer skills, but rather his shooting-things-with-large-weapons skills. The story is hilarious and wonderful from beginning to end, from the initial concept right down to the pitch-perfect hilarity of the Jensen-POV voice. I would quote something from the story to prove it, but this was definitely one of those "my favorite part was ALL OF IT" fics, so you should really just go read it already, okay?

This is one of those reasons I love fandom. ♥!

The Pacific

So, apparently there's something about me + being sick + Christmastime that leads to me watching HBO war miniseries. I don't know why this is, but considering the way I watched Generation Kill two years ago when I was sick on Christmas, and the way I just watched all of The Pacific since Sunday, I seem to be creating a pattern.

(I was reading through old posts while typing this up, and now I'm trying not to think too much about the fact that it's been a) 2 years since I graduated, and b) 2 years since I've gotten laid. Both are depressing for different reasons.)

People I was surprised to see on The Pacific:
- Joe Mazzello (probably best known as Tim from Jurassic Park; he grew up cute, and he's fantastic as Eugene Sledge, so I kinda have a crush)
- Ashton Holmes (aka Thom from Nikita, aka apparently some guy on Revenge) as Sid Phillips
- Anna Torv (aka Olivia Dunham from Fringe) playing a movie star selling war bonds
- Caroline Dhavernas (aka Jaye Tyler from Wonderfalls) as Leckie's girl-across-the-street Vera
- Clare van der Boom (aka Rachel, Danny's ex-wife on Hawaii Five-0) as that Greek girl Stella that Leckie hooks up with in Melbourne

People I was not surprised to see:
- William Sadler. That man turns up everywhere, and I love it. :)

Anyway. Unfortunately, fic for The Pacific seems to be much harder to find than fic for GK was. So. Recs? Anyone? I'm rather fond of Sledge, because he's great. Weirdly, my other favorite character from the miniseries was Lena, the sergeant that John Basilone marries in "Iwo Jima." I just thought she was awesome.

seriously, three people in the elevator laughed at me.

So, this is basically me, when I go to the library:



...um, yeah. Today, I renewed my card, paid my dues, and got seven different Band of Brothers-related memoirs/autobiographies and three different Tintin compilations. They wouldn't let me re-check out the four books on WWI-related topics that had reached their renewal limits, how sad. I already had a whole 'nother stack of books at home on WWI war poets, plus a collection of Lord Peter Wimsey short stories, in addition to all the non-library books I own.

But at least I didn't succumb to getting any The Pacific-related memoirs! I even was holding one of Robert Leckie's books in my hand, and put it back on the shelf. (If it had been Sledge's, I probably wouldn't have been able to do it.) Still, aren't you guys proud? :D?