Stand-Out Yuletide Recs

...Renfield and it is brilliant. I don't know why I've never considered that pairing, but it makes everything make so much more sense. Also, it's told through Renfield's diary, with sidenotes from Dr. Seward. Tipping the Balance , a Graveyard Book story. There are a bunch of really very nice Bod/Silas stories this year, and I think I bookmarked all of them. But this one absolutely stood out. It's ...

nor should you plan to die

... would happen if Renfield went to Transylvania instead of Harker.) True to the characters, true to the canon, true to the canon voice -- oh my god, the diary style, and Dracula's menace. It has Seward's inline case notes, which I would like better if the formatting were more consistent -- I was very unclear on what happened when towards the latter half of the story -- but they don't detract from ...

All hell breaks loose tomorrow

...0006.091224T0600Z-091226T1200Z/ /O.EXB.KOAX.WS.W.0007.091224T1200Z-091226T1200Z/ HARRISON-SHELBY-WASHINGTON-SAUNDERS-SEWARD-LANCASTER-SALINE- JEFFERSON-GAGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MISSOURI VALLEY...HARLAN...BLAIR... WAHOO...SEWARD...LINCOLN...CRETE...FAIRBURY...BEATRICE 401 PM CST WED DEC 23 2009 ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN ...

... and stealing some of them to minneapolis again. oh, and i met the most handsome man on the bus. he's a barista and lives in seward and grew up in bayview. seward is to the west bank what bayview is to riverwest. so he gets it or whatever. we're going to hang out when i get back. i'm going to watch ...

... shop to buy lube, which Zack had to admit made them seem quite gay and very much like a couple. But, obviously, they weren't. Zacky already had a boyfriend, one very sexy Johnathan Lewis Seward, who Zack was currently picturing dancing around in his boxers singing to his current obsession. After all, that's what had been the cause of the trip, Zack had walked downstairs to see tiny little Johnny ...

Never Too Late

Title: Never Too Late Author: xlorains_stormx Rating: PG Pairing: Johnny Christ(Seward)/Zacky Vengence(Baker) Summary: He couldn't help but wonder why they took his love away. Disclaimer: Sadly, no I do not own them. here @ my lj

Here we go again...

...- STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-BUTLER- SAUNDERS-DOUGLAS-SARPY-SEWARD-LANCASTER-CASS-OTOE-SALINE- JEFFERSON-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON- INCLUDING THE ... POINT...TEKAMAH...COLUMBUS... SCHUYLER...FREMONT...BLAIR...DAVID CITY...WAHOO...OMAHA... BELLEVUE...SEWARD... LINCOLN ...PLATTSMOUTH...NEBRASKA CITY... CRETE...FAIRBURY...BEATRICE...TECUMSEH...AUBURN...PAWNEE CITY... ...

... introduced like this, by John Seward, the asylum administrator: R. M.... does it to embarrass Seward. Interestingly, Seward comes to refer to ...Renfield has never killed anyone. Seward thinks it's just because...Back away from the madman, Seward! Finally, when Renfield is sanest...Let me entreat you, Dr. Seward, oh, let me implore you...Quincey Morris, Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, and Lucy? What would that...

He's got a very special set of skills.

.... AND NOW HE HAS TO HAMMER A STAKE THROUGH LUCY AND GET COVERED IN IT? O HALE NO. And then Quincy, Arthur, and Seward totally make fun of him for being a pansy. You know it's bad when Seward is calling you a pansy. Course, then Mina probably eats Jonathan's face because she's a fucking vampire and the count is dead ...

Matthew's Best Books of the Decade

...-- most notably that it was actually a massive, coordinated attack on Lincoln's entire administration. There's a particularly gory account of Lewis Powell's attempted murder of Secretary of State William H. Seward, complete with knife wounds to the face. Blech! This book is definitely not for the squeamish -- but for history buffs, any of the many people endlessly fascinating with the U.S. Civil...