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This is a whole slew of arbitrary mod prizes. All podfic is read by me, and all of it is up at megaupload. In order of length:

Best Kink That's Totally Appropriate in Front of a Six-Year-Old: Into Character by spuffyduds
White Collar, Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey with reference to Peter/Neal Elizabeth, animal play, 4:28
Into Character mp3 | Into Character m4b

Best Use of AU Kink to Reveal Canon Kink: Black Fedora by bluflamingo
White Collar, Diana Barrington/Nola Caffrey, costumes, 4:38
Black Fedora mp3 | Black Fedora m4b

Hottest Kinky Scenario That Never Happens: Control Chair by busaikko
Stargate: Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, fucking machines, 10:49
Control Chair mp3 | Control Chair m4b

Hottest Use of Anachronistic Kink: Hourglass by tristesses
Star Trek: AOS, Christine Chapel/Nyota Uhura, breathplay, 13:41
Hourglass mp3 | Hourglass m4b

Most Heartbreaking: Courage in Pleasures by megyal
Naruto, Kakashi/Iruka, bodily secretions, 16:13
Courage in Pleasures mp3 | Courage in Pleasures m4b

Best Exploration of a Kink: three stories on tentacles by theleaveswant
Swell Memory (Otherness), Star Trek: AOS, Uhura + Sulu/extraterrestrial organism, 8:02
Gripped with Tenor (Sensation and Iconography), The Losers, Jensen/Pooch, 6:40
Make Light Work (Multiplicity), Inception, Ariadne/Arthur/Eames, 4:23
Swell Memory mp3 | Swell Memory m4b | Gripped with Terror mp3 | Gripped with Terror m4b | Make Light Work mp3 | Make Light Work m4b | all three in one m4b

Best Kinky Roleplay Scene: Marcia Militare by temve
Actor RPS, Liam Neeson/Daniel Craig, costumes, 22:31
Marcia Militare mp3 | Marcia Militare m4b

For those of you who don't read officialgaiman or Neil Gaiman's blog at neilgaiman.com (and there are probably all of three of you), this is a very very important link:

A Study in Emerald.

Yup, that's his story from Shadows Over Baker Street, a book of short story Lovecraft-Holmes crossovers. (Discussion of that book inspired mlechan to begin to write her first fanfiction ever -- Holmes/Cthulhu eldritch tentacle pr0n.) And the story's been nominated for a Hugo -- that's why it's online, along with all the other nominated short stories, novellas, and novellettes. A really, really powerful story, and I think my favorite of the selections, although of course I read the book in the bookstore and that was a while ago so I might have forgotten something.

If you've got a moment, you should go read it. Even if you don't know anything about the Lovecraft universe.

(ETA the total random note that it's 55 degrees outside and foggy and overcast -- the exact same weather as in the East Bay right now. It'll get horrible by mid-day, of course, but right now it looks and feels like the Bay Area. When I walked down the hill this morning, the sun was muted and the trees across the way were obscured by the mist over the river. *happy sigh*)

(Edited again to add: there are a few characters in Gaiman's story who are never identified by name, just by obscure reference to canon. You can certainly read the story and still not care who they are -- I mean, it's no big deal. But if you do care, leave me a comment and I'll tell you who they are and how we're supposed to know. In nice white text, even, so's not to spoil it for anyone else. Although I can't imagine it being a spoiler. But some people are really anti-spoiler.)

Hey mlechan -- Are you tired of worshipping Cthulhu by yourself? Do you need a cuddly companion to join you in your dark rituals? If so, check out the Cthulhu Cultist Teddy Bear! (I first heard about this from morgandawn -- not trying to steal her mad websearching thunder, as it were.)