"Nothing Left to Lose" is probably the big tearjerker in the Sheppard/McKay neighborhood of Stargate Atlantis. I know don't read it unless I'm feeling particularly mentally sturdy.
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Connie Neil - Apr 07, 2013 3:41:30 pm PDT #8460 of 10434
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Juliebird - Apr 07, 2013 3:51:49 pm PDT #8461 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Rereading the summary for Twist and Shout fills me with despair. I cried, and was depressed and angry for days after finishing it.
Atropa - Apr 07, 2013 8:59:58 pm PDT #8462 of 10434
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I can't think of a big tear-jerker fic in bandom, but that's probably more a reflection of my reading habits than anything else.
P.M. Marc - Apr 07, 2013 9:59:42 pm PDT #8463 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
There was that depressing Cobra Starship hookerfic, but that was more gloomy than tear-jerking.
The "got popular enough to become a cliche" one in Sherlock is Alone on the Water.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2013 9:14:13 am PDT #8464 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Julie, can you put the Twist And Shout plot in spoilerfont?
Atropa - Apr 08, 2013 10:20:53 am PDT #8465 of 10434
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
There was that depressing Cobra Starship hookerfic, but that was more gloomy than tear-jerking.
Well sure, and some of the zombie apocalypse fics end with everyone dead, but I don't count those as tear-jerking, either. Much like the serial killer/cannibalism fic; disturbing, but not a trigger for weeping.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 08, 2013 10:29:05 am PDT #8466 of 10434
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
There is a Pete/Patrick mpreg fic by longtime_lurker that made me cry and cry, but it was ultimately happy. There is also a fic by sunset_mog where Spencer leaves the band because of Brendan, moves to Seattle, works in a office and is super-depressed.
chrismg - Apr 08, 2013 11:12:08 am PDT #8467 of 10434
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Connie, is that the one where most of the "action" is Rodney teaching university after he comes home from Atlantis? I liked that one a lot, and it certainly wasn't happy but I'd call it more elegaic than tearjerking.
Connie Neil - Apr 08, 2013 11:15:48 am PDT #8468 of 10434
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That's the one, chris, but I wept my way all through it.
Juliebird - Apr 08, 2013 11:35:38 am PDT #8469 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
For a moment there I thought I'd posted something that should have been spoiler-fonted.
It's not so much the summary that made me weep and wail, but just that it made me remember how painful Twist and Shout was/is:
What begins as a transforming love between Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak in the summer of 1965 quickly derails into something far more tumultuous when Dean is drafted in the Vietnam War. Though the two both voice their relationship is one where saying goodbye is never a real truth, their story becomes fraught with the tragedy of circumstance. In an era where homosexuality was especially vulnerable, Twist and Shout is the story of the love transcending time, returning over and over in its many forms, as faithful as the sea.