That's sort of what I meant by waiting for them to bring it up.
Rosenbaum also falls into that category, I think.
You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
DebetEsse - Mar 12, 2006 4:43:27 pm PST #1936 of 10434
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Nutty - Mar 12, 2006 4:55:54 pm PST #1937 of 10434
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Freedom was a pretty good story, but I hated the title. Also, I'm unclear on why the framing device of the grave was necessary. (I mean, I know that spoily events occur, etc., but, said events didn't figure nearly as heavily into the resulting story as they might have.)
Still, yes, good story -- and very much a telling story rather than an intimate one. I find the fannish attachment to viewpoint character intimacy (and, oft-times, to lyric excess in prose) kind of overwhelming, so this story came across as -- minimalist. Good style.
Consuela - Mar 12, 2006 5:29:41 pm PST #1938 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, I'm so glad I'm not the only one thrown off by the title. I thought it was kind of over-dramatic.
esse - Mar 12, 2006 7:30:25 pm PST #1939 of 10434
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
...or that could actually *be* Syn's big epic SGA fic and I've just not checked my livejournal all weekend. Anyway, yeah. Yay for you guys liking it.
Dana - Mar 13, 2006 6:42:13 am PST #1940 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I always feel like such a baby when stories like this come around, but...I don't want to read it. I was pretty sure what happened in the story, and I peeked, and...I don't wanna.
shrift - Mar 13, 2006 6:48:08 am PST #1941 of 10434
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
You know I'll read it for you.
Vonnie K - Mar 13, 2006 7:05:54 am PST #1942 of 10434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
It's odd, the different reactions people seem to have to the story. In the comment thread (now up to, like, 800 comments in total!) they were all these people saying it was all so unbelievably sad and made them bawl, etc., and I didn't get that at all. Of course there was tragedy, but the story didn't wallow in it--it was more about rebuilding of self in the aftermath. I thought it was lovely and quite hopeful, actually.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 13, 2006 7:14:12 am PST #1943 of 10434
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'd say it's bittersweet with a hopeful slant, but the writing's good enough that the sad parts bring on tears where a story that's just tragedy piled on top of angst might not.
Consuela - Mar 13, 2006 7:50:36 am PST #1944 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I don't know if it makes a difference, Dana, but all the sad happens in the past of the story. The story itself is all about rebuilding, as Vonnie said.
P.M. Marc - Mar 13, 2006 8:53:10 am PST #1945 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Dana, you should read it. Matt's description is spot-on, and it's just lovely.
And I really, really, really didn't need a new reading fandom.
Curse the good writers and favorable syndication schedule.