Amalthia's recs and fan works

It's been a few years since I've made a favorite fics of the year posts. I thought it was time to start it again. Sorry if my reviews aren't all that great, I try very hard not to give spoilers, and I sometimes hit that point where it's hard to find new ways to say a story is amazing...The stories are listed in no particular order.

( Marvel (Avengers, Thor, Iron Man, X-Men, Spider-Man) )
( Stargate Atlantis )
( Teen Wolf )
( Rise of the Guardians )

The stories below are listed in no particular order or fandom preference. This year it was again difficult to narrow down my absolute favorites.

Star Trek Reboot, Supernatural, Stargate Atlantis, Merlin, Inception, Vid Recs

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The stories below are listed in no particular order or fandom preference. These are my personal favorite fics from the year 2009, as in I've re-read or obsessed about the stories more than normal. Out of the 400-600 fics I've read this year it wasn't easy selecting just under 20 to highlight. My original plan was to do a top five fics per fandom but I actually want to have a life. :) This year there were some truly awesome fics that were shared in multiple of fandoms and I look forward to seeing what the year 2010 brings. :)

I don't normally say much about fics when I do my normal recommendations mostly due to fear of leaving a spoiler but on these ones I wrote a bit more than normal and some fics may have spoilers so read the reviews at your own risk.

( Recs under the cut )
( Some conclusions )

EDIT: Forgot to say that this is the first year I'm trying this format for my end of the year recs. My format for Favorite Stories 2008 was a list of stories sorted by fandom. The plus side of that method was more stories! But the downside was that I couldn't really talk about why I loved the stories so much.

This year it was rather time consuming to do reviews for each story on the 2009 list so I narrowed my list down even further to get it posted before midnight tonight.

If anyone has an opinion on which type of recs they prefer I'd love to hear your thoughts. I wasn't sure if I should do this again next year, or go back to how I did things in 2008.

I'm finally home. We left Houston to go to San Angelo, TX on Friday night, stopped in San Antonio spent the night at my mom's and got up the next morning and continued our trip. It was a VERY LONG drive, it took about 7 hours to get there and 7 hours to get back. Luckily, we were able to stop in San Antonio to break up the trip a bit.

Anyways, I had a great time visiting my youngest brother, sister-in-law, and baby niece. She's such a sweetie and doesn't cry nearly as much as she used to.

In other news, I finally updated all my master rec lists on 5/23/08.

Stargate Atlantis

I had to split my Supernatural list into Gen/Het, and Slash.

I'll be getting these updated to IJ as soon as possible.

It was weird not really having internet all weekend.

Moved rec list Here Please update your bookmarks.

I got tired of my rec list being completely disorganized. So this is my attempt to consolidate all my SGA and SG-1 recs into one list.

EDIT: I'm done for now. I decided to organize the McKay/Sheppard section by author if possible because there were so many fics for this category.
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