[link] Choc_Fic.
AKA, a challenge of AWESOME.
An obvious case of punctuational determinism! How could you be expected to do otherwise?
I was helpless before it! It couldn't be helped!
Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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.
P.M. Marc - Sep 07, 2007 6:50:06 pm PDT #4327 of 10436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
amych - Sep 07, 2007 7:05:16 pm PDT #4328 of 10436
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I was helpless before it! It couldn't be helped!
Egg-zackly!
In other news, if I'm even going to try for Days of Awesome, my shows need to be so much more jewy. Tis sad.
Consuela - Sep 07, 2007 7:57:12 pm PDT #4329 of 10436
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I think I would have liked the story better if it had been gen.
Nutty is me in this. I ended up skimming the porn: I've read too much McKay/Sheppard to have any emotional attachment or response to the sex scenes. And like Nutty, I wish the story had been more ambitious, more challenging. Eh. Perhaps I'm just hard to please today. On edit: which is not to say it's not well-done; I just wanted more and different from it. Which is really my issue and not the writer's.
I also feel just a tiny bit snubbed, since the structure of telling the story through a variety of historical lenses, interspersed with straight narrative, is one I used less than two months ago, and got no more than a nod. Okay, yeah, not 55,000 words and I'm not Speranza, but it's not like the form was invented for that story...
Fay - Sep 07, 2007 9:53:29 pm PDT #4330 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Oooh! Linky link, 'Suela?
Katie M - Sep 08, 2007 4:08:35 am PDT #4331 of 10436
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Consuela - Sep 08, 2007 5:52:08 am PDT #4332 of 10436
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Fay, here: [link]
Like I said, neither epic nor slash, but it's not that unusual a format.
Eh, I sound all bitter and sour grapesy, which I don't mean to be.
Theodosia - Sep 08, 2007 7:05:09 am PDT #4333 of 10436
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I do think Cesperanza is very talented, but there is enough fannish awe that she's accumulated over time that I think fannish critical circuits get overwhelmed about her current work.
Fay - Sep 08, 2007 7:21:02 am PDT #4334 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
That's entirely possible.
For my part, I didn't register who the author was until I'd finished reading, and in point of fact I've heard some highly unflattering things about her conduct towards other fen which does not predispose me to fangirl her - indeed, quite the reverse. But I liked the story, and I liked the format. ymmv
Connie Neil - Sep 08, 2007 9:09:28 am PDT #4335 of 10436
brillig
I am plot's bitch, so I wanted to see more of the actual story unfolding rather than just the commentary on the action, though it was enjoyable to see the characters through others' eyes. I rarely read the sex scenes, either, I'm more interested by the emotional porn.
shrift - Sep 08, 2007 10:24:57 am PDT #4336 of 10436
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I've heard some highly unflattering things about her conduct towards other fen which does not predispose me to fangirl her
I honestly have no idea what this is about and I know Ces (although I won't claim to know her well), but now I'm even more paranoid about what people are saying about me -- if in fact they're even saying anything at all.