moonshot

Summary: People liked stories to have a trajectory. Upward or downward, they liked a journey. So if there had been gossip after the reunion, Brian’s life might have looked something like this. This is one hell of a Breakfast Club fic - possibly my favorite so far. It’s set in the future from Brian’s POV as he looks at the difference between easy perceptions of his life and the reality he’s living. Bender is fantastic here. Yuletide 2009.

Most Likely To

Summary: The book’s been published, the movie’s being made, and Jim’s caught somewhere between reality and memory. This fic felt special which isn’t a work I tend to use when describing fic. It’s all about the making of Apollo 13 form Lovell’s POV and it feels just right. Yuletide 2009.

Cross Section

Penny racks her brain for the next twenty miles, trying to think of a subtle way to bring up the topic of meeting your time-traveling future self, or being sent on a mission to avert an apocalypse-related death. Finally she tells herself Forget it, Penny, it’s Nerdtown. Sheldon and Leonard have weirder conversations six times a day. Sometimes before breakfast. Sometimes over Twitter.

Sheldon + Penny + time travel + Sheldon!Prime + Road trip = awesome, awesome BBT fic. Yuletide 2009.

The Cheap Trick Acceleration

“Oh my God,” Raj says. “Leonard’s mother was right.” This is spot on characterization and exactly how Howard and Raj should make sense of things.

The Wolowitz-Koothrappali Consummation

November of Billy’s second to last semester at Royal Ballet and Michael comes to visit.  It’s a pitch perfect story that builds on the wonderful friendship the boys shared in Everington.  Only now they’ve grown up a bit.  Yuletide 2009.

A Lovely Trick

“It was like the routine found us. I did what he said, he listened when I had something to say, and we sorted out the rest of it between us.” A lovely fic set just prior to the beginning of the film.  Yuletide 2009.

A Veneer Upon the Surface