Fic reviews: merry_smutmas day 20

Oh God, I'm so behind... *flails*

Doing It Right by 1ightning 1/5

6600 words. Harry/Draco. Working as a private detective, Draco reluctantly enlists Harry's help when he finds someone trying to kill him.
( Actually rather kind of horrid. )

Voyages with a Vampire by ziasudra_fic 3/5

9900 words. Snape/Lockhart. Snape and Lockhart find themselves the only survivors after the war.
( Brilliant in parts, but uneven. )

Tempus Reversit by mskatonic 2/5 - Did not finish

27,000 words. Snape/Harry, Snape/Tom Riddle. Harry and Snape are accidentally sent back to 1943.
( I wanted to like this, but even with time travel, it was just really, really not my thing. )

Coming Out of the Cold by closet_zebra 1/5

2600 words. Sirius/Remus. Remus comes home from a very cold day and there really is only one thing that can warm him up again.
( Started off as just 'cute fluff, not my thing' and went downhill from there. )

Fic reviews: various fics by makesmewannadie

This was meant to be a Christmas present, but I am a slacker, and didn't even get it done in time to be a Boxing Day present. Instead it's a couple-days-after-Christmas-but-too-early-to-pretend-it's-New-Year's present. Unfortunately, there weren't that many fics that I hadn't already commented on, and of those few, several were in fandoms I'm completely unfamiliar with. So here are the ones I could read. Merry Christmas, makesmewannadie! :D

Diet/Junk Food 3/5
500 words. Diet did not want Junk Food.
Qualitative/Quantitative 3/5
200 words. "How do I love thee?" quoth Qualitative, "Let me count the ways."
Theory/Practice 3/5
200 words. Theory yearned for Practice.
Wrong/Wrong 3/5
200 words. Wrong and Wrong were drawn to one another.

These are anthropomorfics; if you can't tell by the titles, they're anthropomorphised concepts/things. I was going to write something separate for each of these, but they're so short, it's hard to figure out something substantive to say. They're all hilarious, though, and the Diet/Junk Food one is so appropriate for the Christmas season, especially considering I just uttered (or typed, rather) the words, "This See's candy is so tempting. I should just eat the last few pieces and remove the temptation." And now I have.

A Little Smackerel of Something 3/5
400 words. Piglet pops 'round to Pooh's for Tea.

Winnie the Pooh/Piglet. Yes, you read that right. This is both hilarious and mimics the tone of the original perfectly, no mean feat for Winnie the Pooh sex.

You Get What You Need 3/5
4200 words. X-Men, Rogue/Iceman. Marie and Bobby, directly after the events of X2.
( Interesting premise. I liked it. )

Fic reviews: yuletide (28 Days Later + 4 Addams Family)

The Sleep of Reason by DevilChild 3/5
28 Days Later. 7300 words. Jim makes a devil's bargain with Major Henry West.
( Well-written and interesting. I liked it a lot. )

Cleopatra's Needle by Fuschia 3/5
Addams Family. 2900 words. At fifteen, Morticia Frump is as interested in her graveyard gardening as her older sister is in her suitors. But gardens and suitors do not always stay in their separate worlds.
( Well-written and felt true to canon. )

The Bridal Path by Vyola 2/5
Addams Family. 1100 words. To marry an Addams means taking marriage very seriously.
( All right, but felt a bit summary-ish. )

Addams Family Therapy by bucketmouse 2/5
Addams Family. 1600 words. There are two ways you deal with marrying an Addams. Assimilate, or end up electrocuted. Joel isn't too keen on either option.
( Fairly interesting, but the ending is so sudden and there doesn't actually seem to be a point. )

Have Yourself a Scary Little Christmas by havocthecat 3/5
Addams Family. 1200 words. Joel is spending Christmas with the Addams Family. He's really not sure why.
( Pretty good, but not great. )

Mario has eaten my brain

I've done little else but play Mario for the past however many days it's been since Christmas. :( I've got to world 8 (and only have a few more levels unplayed on it, though I still haven't unlocked world 7) and have got all the coins on worlds 1, 2, and 6, with only a handful missing on 3, 4, 5, and 8. The levels on 8 are actually depressingly easy, especially after some of the harder levels earlier on.

But it's fun. Really, really, addicitingly fun. In fact, I just stopped writing this for a moment to play a bit more. I got another coin. I've also used up all the save spots, so unless I beat the world 8 fortress (which is still a couple of levels away) or find the secret route to world 7, I can't save my game. :( So the DS is just sitting here in sleep mode, and I open it up every once in a while and play some more. Which I just did, so I'm at the fortress now, but I kept dying, so I put it back to sleep.

I love that there are so many familiar things, along with the new ones. What's killing me now are these snakelike moving platforms, which I totally remember from some previous Mario. And of course I'll get to the boss and beat him and he'll run off with the princess to the next (and it looks like final (for real, not the fake final castle from earlier)) castle.

Oh, Mario. Why are there not more games like this? I miss side-scrollers. I'm sick of everything being 3D, and I'm sick of games where looks are everything. That way leads to madness (like the new Final Fantasy...that's one to skip for sure). I see there's a new Yoshi's Island for the DS, too, so I'll probably get that (though I didn't like Yoshi's Island nearly as much as Mario). There's also a port of the N64 Mario, which despite being 3D was pretty fun. I might get that since we no longer have an N64.

I played Mario Kart a bit, too. Now if they'd make a port of Diddy Kong Racing, that would really rock. I loved that game so much.

ETA: Fortress = beaten. Game = saved.