Okay, so my first set of remix recs:

Shed Your Skin Remix by kassrachel - I am totally like this and am reccing it again now that I know who the author is, because a.) I totally guessed when chopchica asked me. I didn't know I *could* identify her style that clearly, but in this case, I couldn't think of anyone else. It was happymaking in extreme. And it's a fantastic remix; to me, this works as a remix *should* and I've never been able to do: take what is needed from the original, and write it anew. It's good.

Acceptable Risk by darsynia, remix of First Monday by flyakate - okay, one, how did I miss this author? As an intro to a new author--wow. This one was just *amazing*. The characterization was spot on, the dialogue was so them I could practically see it on the show, the careful work to show their relationship building and coming together, the pieces of their lives integrating--and people, the dog tags. The author did justice to the original beautifully.

It's What You Hear (The Fives Senses Remix) by argosy, remix of It's What You Don't See by telesilla - okay, to be fair: I am in the middle of a supernatural and vampire phase of reading, so when I hit this one (by accident! I didn't know), I nearly jumped off the bed in delight. The remix was change in character, from Rodney to John--the structure was kept, but the fine difference of what character *is* what shone through. That's some damn fine work considering the built in limitations of writing inside the original story; I loved the story, but was immensely impressed as a remixer how well the remixer worked to keep to the original story and create something new as well. Also--God in heaven this is hot. Hot hot hot.

More later.

So I keep re-reading the remix of Shed Your Skin, because it is just that damn cool. Mostly because I'm always most curious about why a particular story was chosen. For me, it's usually a single thing--a line, a word, a short and bright second of a scene, and I think, yes, that. (I mean, I have loved all my remixes indecently, but remixing Trin's fic into Empty got me high--I spent half of it going "Oh my God I can soulbond scientifically. I love SGA! I love holograms! I LOVE EVERYTHING" and half of it going "Probably don't want to create a universe where people say 'Hail Rodney full of Grace' even if that would be really really cool." You know, as one does.

However. I have not been genuinely shocked by a choice of remix before. Except when Katherine freaking redid an entire series and I'm still amazed she pulled that off. That was neat.

So anyway. In a combination of egoism (whee my story!) and also because if the remixer is like me, they stared at it for ten minutes (hours, days) and told ten friends "She is going to hate this and unfriend me and then send ninjas, I can feel it"--what I liked about this.

For reference:
Shed Your Skin (The Sledgehammer Remix)
Shed Your Skin (original)

Below cut.

( shed your skin; the extended edition )

Okay, so.

The remix I did was for sheafrotherdon's Traturian Thaw.

Remix title Kahs-Wan.

For the person who did the little jig in the comments--animated? I wondered where it came from originally! I got it from the books. Um, Star Trek The IDIC Epidemic by Jean Lorrah (?), I think, with the half-Klingons doing that in place of their Survival thingie. I have such a memory for completely useless information, but the first thing I thought after reading sheafrotherdon's story was, "Oh my God the aliens watch Star Trek too."

Which lets face it. Atlantis? The aliens totally watch Star Trek.

Um, usually, I'd post it here and all, but honestly, it's happy where it is and I owe sheafrotherdon an apology--by the time I got this back for editing, I was totally beyond able to deal, so I did a very fast and dirty spellcheck before posting. I'd planned to go back that weekend and do a polished version, but that totally did not even come close to happening. As soon as I can, I'll at least go through and do something cleaner than I have now, if not the fuller additions I'd originally planned.

Author Notes:

I just--liked this one. Unlike last year, where trinityofone's fic just magnetized me, this one made me warm and happy and all--pleased. It's sweet and warm and has that cool aliens-doing-weird-alien-things and there's h/c and Rodney in danger, but the pure emotion in it drew me in and I just couldn't imagine trying to touch any other story when this one took up my total attention. I hope I did it justice, and I hope you truly enjoyed it. Thank you for the privilege of being able to work on something that made me so happy when I was done. Not a lot of my fic does, but this one made me smile the entire time.

PS - aurora_84 - if I'd thought to make it a competition, you totally win. *g* That was a good guess.

...and my remix is submitted and I am closing it and crying into my keyboard now. Right now.

To the author I totally massacred, because I have a week window before you know it was me:

Thank you for writing a story that gave me *nightmares* and stole my sleep and made me bang my head on my pillow, made me download more music these last two days than I do in *months*, that followed me to work and to my rabbits and back to bed, that made me needle my betas and friends every time I changed a single *word*. I had a blast.

And if I'd been given a choice of who I wanted to remix, if I'd been given a list and told I could choose anyone I wanted, I would have chosen you. Thank you for writing something so amazing.