Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.

'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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.


juliana - Jan 07, 2015 1:18:07 pm PST #9287 of 10434
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Oh, the Losers. I will & have read pretty much all of the fic on AO3. Some great werewolf fic came out of that fandom (like this one [link] There's also a really great series about Cougar/Jensen & Aisha coming in to that mix [link]

The Losers comics are definitely rewarding, if you've a mind.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 07, 2015 1:54:02 pm PST #9288 of 10434
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I have no idea about this fandom, but I am enjoying picturing Aisha Taylor, Jensen Ackles and John Cougar As these people


§ ita § - Jan 07, 2015 1:56:31 pm PST #9289 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That is a little bit awesome, and a little bit less hot.


P.M. Marc - Jan 07, 2015 9:31:45 pm PST #9290 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

Feather also writes some completely addictive to me Steve/Bucky stuff.

I'm weirdly fond of the one where Jensen sometimes turns into a cat.


juliana - Jan 08, 2015 8:28:43 am PST #9291 of 10434
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I'm weirdly fond of the one where Jensen sometimes turns into a cat.

That's a good one, as is the followup SGA crossover. (For never having watched the show, I've read an awful lot of SGA.)


Betsy HP - Jan 14, 2015 8:51:14 am PST #9292 of 10434
If I only had a brain...

I have just discovered the degree to which fic writers are not like normal people. I got into "The Thick of It", the very dark and cruel British political comedy starring Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker. (The creator/showrunner moved on to create "Veep", if you know that.)

There are three major pairings with Malcolm (if you discount Rose Tyler and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD HOW DID THAT HAPPEN): Malcolm/Nicola (the politician he shepherds), Malcolm/Jamie (his right-hand man during one season), and Malcolm/Sam (his personal assistant).

Somebody put up a video of all Sam's appearances in the show. All of them. They clock in at 3 minutes and 4 seconds total, and most of them she doesn't have any lines.

Fans: we are crazycakes.


P.M. Marc - Jan 14, 2015 8:56:48 am PST #9293 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

Could be worse. Mycroft and Lestrade, the biggest non-John and Sherlock pairing in BBC Sherlock, didn't even share a scene until S3, and even that was a blink and you'll miss it. I mean, the hell?


SailAweigh - Jan 14, 2015 9:28:21 am PST #9294 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Never understood that ship, either, Plei and Sherlock fic is about all I read anymore. It irks the heck out of me when a fic spends as much, or more, time on the Mycroft/Lestrade as it does the Sherlock/John. I feel with the mutual antipathy between Sherlock and Mycroft on the show neither would want to share the spotlight.


esse - Jan 14, 2015 9:30:10 am PST #9295 of 10434
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

::sneaks into thread::

I feel like someone should do an "entirely invented ship" ficathon. Clint/Coulson, Mycroft/Lestrade, Ori/anyone from the Hobbit...


P.M. Marc - Jan 14, 2015 9:34:00 am PST #9296 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

Clint/Coulson is weirdly sort of sneaking into the comics, because... why?????????????????????????????????????????

Ahem.

Types of fanfic I apparently read, based on today and yesterday:

  • Wow, this is amazing, and I am filled with a horrible combination of feels and envy. BRB, deleting everything I've ever written now.

  • This is really well written, so why isn't it working for me? It's working for everyone else, damn it!

  • You know, I thought this was great the first time I read it, in that other fandom, five years ago.

  • This idea was so promising, and I am so sad the execution betrayed it.

  • God, I want to be able to read this writer's native tongue.

  • This story is awful. The porn, however, is really uncomfortably hot. Thank fuck for private bookmarks.

  • Dear fucking lord, there is nothing about this that is good, why the hell am I still reading it, why?

  • ACK, WHERE THE FUCK DID THIS STONY COME FROM, YOU FUCKING FUCK! THAT WASN'T IN THE FUCKING TAGS! MAKE IT FUCKING GO THE FUCK AWAY! I HATE YOU! EWW! EWW! EWW! (I may have a strong NOTP. Like, Angel/Cordy strong.)