Fanfic Rec: "Through Quartz, Sand, and Cellulose" by fujiidom [The Big Bang Theory]

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If anyone on my flist is sharing in my burgeoning affection for Big Bang Theory fanfic, I heartily recommend "Through Quartz, Sand, and Cellulose", one of the best fics I've read from this fandom. It's a long one-shot, with characterization that makes me gush.

Triple extra points for making Penny and Sheldon feel like real people beyond the cartoonish characterization of the show. Enjoy it!

Excerpt:
He took a deep breath and slid the paper into the long, elbow-to-hand length glass before quickly corking it up. He gave a discriminating look over the neck where it had been pushed in slightly and seemed to come to the most basic solution that there could be, to make sure it’d stay in.

He gave it a swift couple of knocks with the heel of his palm.

It was strange, then, to see Sheldon Cooper—Man of Science—using the oldest (okay, probably not oldest, since bottles and corks took a while to figure out, as he’d described in depth earlier, but whatever, you can get the picture) kind of reasoning that there was.

Comments

[mekosuchinae.livejournal.com]

DUDE, thank you so much for the recs! I'm reading cereal's fics now and OMG HOW HAVE I LIVED WITHOUT THIS IN MY LIFE. lkhjkjk. *____*

*bookmarks everything*

your icon is my valentine!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'm reading [info]cereal's fics now and OMG HOW HAVE I LIVED WITHOUT THIS IN MY LIFE.

I know! I know! It's seriously my new juicy little addiction, and the fandom has blossomed since 2x07 (the episode where they go to war and he steals her underwear), as that ep basically convinced all of us that this ship is too fun to ignore. And then we recruited! And then there were some great yuletide fics, and all of a a sudden our membership tripled and we're getting awesome fics.

irrel and I collaborated on "The Earth Moved 1,117.7 Miles In Our Kitchen ", which is fic + art. The sequel is a WIP that exists in the comment threads (with comic illustrations!). I also wrote "The Prime Distraction" for 2009 Porn Battle VII .

I decided that while I was talking to you, I should just refine my rec list for the future. Add these as well:

Solid Reads:

http://community.livejournal.com/sheldon_penny/71570.html - The Cooper Methodology or, How Sheldon Lost the Bet

http://community.livejournal.com/sheldon_penny/78998.html - The Peace Lily Soliloquy

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4793579/1/The_kissgiving_hypothesis - The Kissgiving hypothesis

http://community.livejournal.com/sheldon_penny/45409.html - Contingency Plans [zombies!]

http://community.livejournal.com/sheldon_penny/26010.html - Back Through Interruption [part 2, read the comments too]

Epic Chapter Fic:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4791372/1/The_Effervescent_Chlorine_Submersion - The Effervescent Chlorine Submersion


Porn Battle VII goodies:

http://community.livejournal.com/sheldon_penny/57898.html - On Checking the 'Check Engine' Light

http://community.livejournal.com/sheldon_penny/78590.html - Trial & Error ....[This is indescribable. The concept is so weird and hilarious I can almost see it happening.]

http://community.livejournal.com/sheldon_penny/71933.html - In The Name Of Science