Rec, "The Third Man"
purna posted a new story, The Third Man, 20,000+ words long, a few days ago and I'm dying to read it but can't yet: it's SGA AU of the 1949 movie and I don't want to spoil myself (it's one of those classic movies that you tell yourself you'll eventually get around to and now I have incentive). So this is strangely a rec for a story I've yet to read, but from previous knowledge of purna's work (and OK, I fell to temptation and read part of the first section), I can confidently rec it.

I love her writing; she always writes characters that are adult and sane, and very appealing for their sanity. It was probably some dead Greek who said that drama is based on conflict, and conflict is easily manufactured with characters who act juvenile, insecure, unstable, crazy. This especially holds true with crack!fic: characters in crack!fic act with the and cognitive faculties of very bright, hyper bonobos -- the very nature of the genre requires cracked-out behavior from its characters. But purna's characters act and feel with a moral seriousness and decency that permeates all of her stories, a kind of maturity, that I find insanely appealing. Her stories are balanced, delicate and sincere, featuring grounded characters in extreme situations, bringing out the subtle best in them. Her Rodney is still kinda hyperbolic and excited, but he's given a fundamental base of decency that's unshakeable. And her Zelenka in Three Graces is a gorgeous characterization of a decent, morally alive man trying to be brave in dark times.