Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'

'The Message'


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.


Calli - Jun 19, 2012 12:48:37 pm PDT #7820 of 10434
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Sorry I didn't check back in time to help you out, WindSparrow. Any other takers?

That P&P fic looks good. Ovation's running the Colin Firth series, so I'm in the perfect mood for it.


Vonnie K - Jun 19, 2012 12:59:53 pm PDT #7821 of 10434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Yahtzee's stories are consistently engaging -- she gives amazing character voices. Like Consuela, I'm not reading XMFC, and she was big into Angel/Cordelia back in the day, a pairing that made me run screaming to the opposite direction. But anything else she's written, I think I've given a try. I remember she wrote an amazing Spock/Uhura shortly after the movie came out that made me very happy. Although, despite all her Jossverse fic and everything else she's written since, she'll always be the one who made me burst out sobbing at work with "Goodnight, Moon." One of my top 10 -- maybe 5 -- fanfic I've ever read.


DebetEsse - Jun 19, 2012 1:32:13 pm PDT #7822 of 10434
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Oh! That's what I know her from. "Goodnight, Moon."


Amy - Jun 19, 2012 1:41:35 pm PDT #7823 of 10434
Because books.

What fandom is "Goodnight, Moon"?


DebetEsse - Jun 19, 2012 1:42:32 pm PDT #7824 of 10434
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Joan of Arcadia crossover with (more like in the universe of) The Day After Tomorrow. It's much better than the movie.


SailAweigh - Jun 19, 2012 1:44:10 pm PDT #7825 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I may have to check out the Doctor Who crossover. If I can ever pull my head out of all the Avenger fic out there. I'm falling so far behind!


Vonnie K - Jun 19, 2012 1:49:36 pm PDT #7826 of 10434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Goodnight, Moon: [link]

You don't need to know anything about Joan of Arcadia to enjoy the story. All you need to know is that Joan is a teenage girl who talks to God, and she's got loving parents and two brothers: an older brother, Kevin, who is in a wheelchair and a younger brother, Luke, who is a science nerd. (Man, I loved Luke SO MUCH. I wonder what Michael Welch is doing now.)


Amy - Jun 19, 2012 1:51:05 pm PDT #7827 of 10434
Because books.

Aw, I watched some Joan of Arcadia! Not sure I feel like weeping at the moment, but thank you for the link. I'm going to save it to read later.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 19, 2012 2:11:35 pm PDT #7828 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

she'll always be the one who made me burst out sobbing at work with "Goodnight, Moon." One of my top 10 -- maybe 5 -- fanfic I've ever read.

I'd rank it as the best. I'd never watched Joan of Arcadia and felt nothing but contempt for TDAT, and she still made me tear up over that story.

I wish I could enjoy her writing these days, but every time I try to read I remember when a comment I made on one of her fics prompted her to essentially scream "Get out. Get Out! GET OUT!" at me in asscaps and it just overwhelms any emotional response I might feel to the story itself.


Consuela - Jun 19, 2012 2:27:30 pm PDT #7829 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I remember when a comment I made on one of her fics prompted her to essentially scream "Get out. Get Out! GET OUT!" at me in asscaps

Oh, dear. That's pretty unexpected, as my experience of Yahtzee has been that she's remarkably level-headed and mellow in the snakepit of drama which is much of fic-writing fandom.

I'm sorry that happened, Matt.