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Off-LJ Links

cmroundtable posts extended promo for Episode 23 & 24 Hit/Run
cm_fanatic posts a promo for Episode 7x23, Hit
cmroundtable posts a review of Episode 7x22, Profiling 101
cmroundtable posts an interview with Thomas Gibson about the finale and Season 8
cmroundtable posts a Sneak Peak of the finale, Hit/Run
cm_fanatic posts Behind the Scenes with the CM Ladies
cm_fanatic posts a preview for Hit


Challenges and Communities

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Fanfiction

Het
Friday Night Fix-It Night, Chapter 15 by katecholamine [Reid/Prentiss, FRAO] AO3 link
Wooing by sycamoregirl [Morgan/Garcia, G] off-LJ link
The Secret Keeper by mcgarrygirl78 [Anderson/Gina, Hotch TEEN]
Of Bunnies and Other Plots by wojelah [Rossi/Prentiss, TEEN]
A Helping Hand by zamboni12 [Rossi/Prentiss, PG-13]
That's What Friends are For by microgirl8225 [Rossi/Prentiss, PG]

Slash
The List, Part 11 by ardatli {Team-centric, Brian/Justin, QAF x-over with Queer as Folk MATURE]

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I just had one of those labor-saving strokes of genius that I need to share with the world. Which is to say, the easiest method ever in the history of popovers.

Here is my basic popover recipe:

2 tablespoons solid fat (butter or animal fat (duck fat, mmm) or solid shortening)
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1 cup (250 ml) whole milk, at room temperature
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1 cup (140 g) all purpose or white whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon vital wheat gluten

This tactic assumes you own a wand blender and a wide-mouthed quart Mason jar and a microwave. If not, just make the popovers the way you normally would--or if you are missing the wand blender but have a normal blender, you can melt the butter in a different container and use the normal blender.

About an hour or two before dinner, take your Mason jar. Put the butter/whatever in it. Put it in the microwave and melt it. (If you are making Yorkshire pud and are waiting for the roast to be finished before you add the fat, skip this step for now, and stir the fat in before you bake the popovers.)

Add the milk, eggs, salt, and sugar to the butter in the Mason jar (or blender)(or just put them in the blender if you are adding the fat later). Do not put the eggs directly into the hot butter before diluting it with the milk. Otherwise you will have scrambled eggs, which are nice, but not popovers.

Whiz them all up with the wand blender.

Add the flour and the wheat gluten.

Whiz that too, until you have a nice smooth batter.

Let the batter sit on the counter until dinner is nearly ready. If you are roasting something at 400 degrees, you're good; otherwise preheat your oven to 400 (F). (200 C) 

Liberally grease 9 cups of a 12-cup muffin tin, or if you are making Yorkshire pud, drizzle a little of the fat from the roast into the bottom of the cups. If you have one of the giant-sized six muffin muffin tins, then you will have bigger popovers and they need to bake a little longer.

Using silicon cups for this results in popovers without stumps or a lot of loft, as they just levitate themselves out of the super-slick cups entirely. They still taste good!

If you are using fat from the roast you're making, add it now and stir it in.

Divide the popover batter between the nine greased cups. You can just pour it from the blender or the Mason Jar.

Stick in oven. Do not peek! If you open the door before they are set, they won't rise properly.

Bake for 35 minutes or until deep mahogany brown.

Pull pan from oven. Tilt popovers in cups, or remove them to a rack or basket. Pierce each one with a bamboo skewer. (careful of the steam!) The purpose of these two procedures is to (a) prevent them from getting soggy and (b) prevent them from collapsing.

Eat.

However you meant to eat them. Do not plan on leftovers.

Wash your one. dirty. dish. Oh, and the wand blender, sure. And the muffin tin. But that was inevitable.

Title: The List
Author: ardatli
Rating: Mature (language/mild sexual content)
Pairing: CM: Gen – Casefic / QAF: Brian/Justin
Timeline: CM: Between 307 and 308 / QAF: Two years post-513
Parts: 11/15
Beta: roane, the wonderous and amazing. She's never seen QAF, alas (working on it!), so the character sections there are only beta-ed for the writing. All errors are mine.


Summary:

Criminal Minds / Queer As Folk (US)

Someone is mutilating and killing men in Pittsburgh's gay village. When Pittsburgh's finest can't save Pittsburgh's hottest, they call on the FBI for help. Can the BAU stop the Liberty Avenue Killer before the unsub strikes again?

Chapter Eleven:

Link to Archive Of Our Own
Link on LJ

invaderxan offers a beautiful artist's impression of sunset on Venus. With bonus rising evening star--Earth and its Moon, in this case.

So I'm finally catching up on the last three episodes of Criminal Minds. And damn, I really like "The Company."

Title: Friday Night Fix-It Night
Author: katecholamine
Rating: FRAO / Explicit / Mature
Pairing: Emily Prentiss/Spencer Reid [note: Chapter 12 contains a flashback involving Emily Prentiss/Original Female Character]
Chapters:  15/? (updated 5.13.2012)
Summary: After six months in Paris, Emily returns to find that the one person she didn't want to leave no longer trusts her. Will Friday Night Fix-It Night repair Emily's relationship with Spencer? And is there any way to fix the love and longing she feels for him? Will the wounds created in the process destroy both of them or will they finally be able to heal the damage they've done to each other?
Note: It is both a case-based fic and a hurt/comfort/angst/romance fic, with the overall focus on the relationship between Emily and Spencer.
Warning: Contains graphic, realistic scenes involving sexual behavior and drug use.

Read Chapter 15 here at fanfiction.net or here at AO3.

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cmroundtable: Criminal Minds TVLine SPOILER!
cmroundtable: Kirsten Vangsness Set for Blank Theatre Benefit
cmroundtable: Criminal Minds Comment thread for Episode 7.22 'Profiling 101'
cmroundtable: Criminal Minds Promo for the season 7 finale 'Hit/Run'
cmroundtable: Spoiler Thread: Profiling 101
cmroundtable: Spoiler Thread: Hit & Run


Discussion and Miscellany
7x22 dicsussion @ criminalxminds [spoilers]
lumiere42: Review: "Profiling 101" [spoilers]


Fanfiction
Slash
The List: Part 8, Part 9 & Part 19<&a> by ardatli [Mature; Brian/Justin] (crossover with Queer as Folk)
For a Price by amy494walker [PG-13; Hotch/Reid]
Live and Die This Way [8/13] by just_jasper [FRT; Morgan/Reid]
That was then, this is now (Chapter 1-9) by polarsternblume [PG-13; Reid/Seth Gecko] (crossover with From Dusk Till Dawn)

Femslash
Life Is This (2/?) by grens_geval [PG; Emily/JJ]

Het
Birthday Surprise by seraphina_snape [PG; Hotch/Garcia]
Say My Name by mcgarrygirl78 [teen; Anderson/Gina]
The Curse of the Gift by mcgarrygirl78 [teen; Rossi/Strauss]
Kissing a Fool by mcgarrygirl78 [teen; Anderson/Gina]
Lyrical (3/?) by fbi_woman [M; Hotch/Prentiss]
To Touch Your Lips and Hold You Tight by mcgarrygirl78 [teen; Hotch/Beth]
Variables by the_deep_magic [FRAO; Garcia/Reid]
Strange Attractors by the_deep_magic [FRAO; Garcia/Reid]
That Don’t Impress Me Much by mcgarrygirl78 [teen; Anderson/Gina]


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Icons, Vids and Screencaps
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Title: The List
Author: ardatli
Rating: Mature (language/mild sexual content)
Pairing: CM: Gen – Casefic / QAF: Brian/Justin
Timeline: CM: Between 307 and 308 / QAF: Two years post-513
Parts: 10/15
Beta: roane, the wonderous and amazing. She's never seen QAF, alas (working on it!), so the character sections there are only beta-ed for the writing. All errors are mine.


Summary:

Criminal Minds / Queer As Folk (US)

Someone is mutilating and killing men in Pittsburgh's gay village. When Pittsburgh's finest can't save Pittsburgh's hottest, they call on the FBI for help. Can the BAU stop the Liberty Avenue Killer before the unsub strikes again?

Chapter Ten:

Link to Archive Of Our Own
Link on LJ

Includes spoilers and cannibalism ick:

http://lumiere42.livejournal.com/31636.html

"Monkeys and Penguins" by Daisyangel
PAIRING: Hotch/OFC
RATING: FRC
SUMMARY: Written for the CCOAC Original Character challenge. Pinch-hit for Thn7015. Her chosen character, Aaron Hotchner, her assigned character, Whitney Crabtree a mother of a friend of Jack's. They go on a trip to the zoo with their kids class.

Has just been added to Criminal Minds fan ficiton and is listed on the new stories page and the other pairings page.

Crossposted to chancesarchive.