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The Enchanting Wedding of Magica de Spell
Disney Ducks (comics)
Summary: "You are cordially invited to celebrate the wedding of Magica De Spell (witch) and Rosolio (fully trained magician) this All Hallows' Eve. You may bring a guest."

My yuletide gift this year is cute, fun, and EXTREMELY satisfying - basically everything that I ever wanted! 8k of pg Disney Ducks fic, Magica de Spell/Gladstone Gander accidental marriage and adventure. Featuring: a villain who’s not very good at being bad, a hero who’s only heroic when pestered, and a raven who is going to make this work or someone’s losing an eyeball. Guest starring: one of the best versions of Scrooge I’ve ever read, some truly great cameos from the Beagle Boys, and a volcano.
I read a bunch of duck comics when I was a kid, and I watched some of the shows, but @modmad​‘s Magica & Gladstone fancomics really brought me back into the fandom this year. I’m so glad someone picked up my desperate pleas prompt and ran with it!

1) Podfic.
susan_voight recorded a podfic of Team the Best Team (my Elementary OT3 fic)! It is here and it is excellent. I should have mentioned it foreeeeveer ago, but my memory is full of potholes. Definitely check this one out, I love susan_voight's delivery.

2) Remix.
It is remix time again! Someone remixed me! I'm so excited. Lost in the Fire is a remix of Continuing Care, which is a Who fic that I had completely forgotten existed. The remix is sort of a graceful and painful meditation on the Doctor's relationship/guilt complex/duality with the Master, and so I obviously I am super into it and I suspect a lot of my f-list will be too? Check it out, I'm already dying to know who wrote it.

3) Rec.
So I am going to a Red Sox game this week, and in preparation I watched Money Ball, because everyone keeps telling me to watch it. This is what happens when you hang out with statistics geeks. The movie was reasonably fun, but it left me with one of those yanking-in-my-chest character obsessions with Billy Beane. Idk, man, these things happen. I went off in search of fic, mostly without hope, but the internet came through for me. Oh, the internet came through. Front Offices is Theo Epstein/Billy Beane Baseball RPF. It's gorgeous, and heart-breaking, and I am going to read it at least fifteen more times this month. The writing is really excellent, the character arcs are believable and thoughtful, and man, this thing is funny. I promise you don't have to know anything about baseball to read it. Do you care about middle-aged dudes being assholes to each other and then making out and then having feelings and then making fun of each other? You will love this fic, I think.

I was chatting with a friend about baseball today, and impressed him with all of my sudden knowledge about the A's and the Red Sox's games in the early 2000s. Also knowing that the Dodgers used to play in Brooklyn, and being able to discuss Tim Lincecum's hair. I still have no idea how baseball is actually played.

( New Who and Torchwood )