Oh, yeah. My to-read queue from Yuletide alone is brutal.
Yeah... That went well.
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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.
Betsy HP - Jan 17, 2015 3:57:40 pm PST #9416 of 10434
If I only had a brain...
DebetEsse - Jan 17, 2015 4:14:14 pm PST #9417 of 10434
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Yuletide, and when PolyRecs updates.
SailAweigh - Jan 17, 2015 4:48:59 pm PST #9418 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
My problem is I'm working my way back through an LJ comm of Sherlock recs. I'm on week 131 (it posts every Sunday) and that's from April of 2013, so I have a loooong way to go to check them all out. And that's even with me having found quite of few of them independently. Not that it makes me sad! But my kindle is getting pretty full of unread stories, because the longer, more epic ones get loaded on my Kindle for night time reading and the shorter/medium ones either get read right away or marked for later. No matter how long the current Sherlock keeps running, there will be fic to read for years.
Sheryl - Jan 18, 2015 5:36:50 am PST #9419 of 10434
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Has Yuletide been posted this year? If so, could someone post a link? Thanks!
DebetEsse - Jan 18, 2015 6:34:48 am PST #9420 of 10434
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Yuletide gets posted at Christmas, so it;s been up for a while. Here you go: [link]
Sheryl - Jan 18, 2015 7:25:08 am PST #9421 of 10434
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Thanks!
esse - Jan 18, 2015 9:09:53 am PST #9422 of 10434
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
One of my favorite Sherlock/John stories is a fusion story with the Kushiel world of Jaqueline Carey. Sherlock is a scion of one of the twelve houses of the book, though it's set contemporaneously to the stories and is primarily a casefic. While its richer for knowing the Kushiel fandom it is entirely unnecessary to read the story. The Shattered Marque.
There's another one that's set AU inside the world of Kushiel, which is also rather good & doesn't require the bookverse to read, although I find it was a bit florid in places for me and my tastes. Well recommended, especially for folks that like historical AUs. Then There Was You.
SailAweigh - Jan 18, 2015 10:05:13 am PST #9423 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
The Shattered Marque is awesome. If you're into Star Trek, Kirk/McCoy in specific, there's a great fusion with Kushiel called Love As Thou Wilt by caitri. She's also written some ST crossover/fusion fics with Buffy and Firefly, if you find you like her style.
esse - Jan 18, 2015 10:14:05 am PST #9424 of 10434
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Oh thanks! I look at Kushiel fusions with some trepidation, because the series was absurdly influential on me as a teenager, but I love getting good recs!
Consuela - Jan 18, 2015 11:46:00 am PST #9425 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The best stories I read on Yuletide this year were The Piper, a killer sequel to Pamela Dean's Tam Lin, in which Janet's little sister goes to Blackstock and finds things are just as weird in the Classics Department.
And this done, day comes up now, which is a sequel to the Rihannsu Star Trek books by Diane Duane.
Both of them are detailed and fairly long, with plotting and research and great characterizations. Worth the read, if you know the source texts.
Also, this The Martian story was a hoot.