melymbrosia writes excellent second person. So does Suela.

Holli wrote that wonderful one that was recced all over LJ about a month ago.

And thinking of melymbrosia and Suela, somehow Farscape seems to lend itself well to 2nd person POV.

What Elena wrote maybe thirty posts ago is second person.

Some second person Buffy fic:

mely's Truly and Forever

Sheila's Light Walks

Holli's Four Ghosts

Some other fandom second person:

Suela's The Money Changer's Tale (Farscape, SPOILERS through Season 3.)

Elizabeth's _________ (Alias)

Elizabeth's You Always Wanted (Roswell)

mely's What Flesh Felt (X-Files)

And because it's Friday, and I am self-indulgent, my In Step (Alias) and Remembering the Gaze (Farscape).

What Elena wrote maybe thirty posts ago is second person.

My post was a delayed cross post. Elena was so successful of making me Joyce (making Spike - whee) that I forgot it was second person.

I'm trying to think of happy 2nd person I've liked (note: I haven't gone to Dana's recs). For some reason, I can better handle being led into sadness.

But mostly, it's like amych said -- it puts me in a place to second guess the responses. "I felt what? I don't think so." As opposed to being told someone else experienced them, which is fine by me.

Connie, I just read "Touch." Which I maybe shouldn't have read at work. Hot hot stuff, woman!

More, please?

Suela's The Money Changer's Tale (Farscape, SPOILERS through Season 3.)

That's the second FS fic I ever read, and I lovelovelove it. It came right after Mosca's John/Aeryn have sex fic.

Warning, this is a bad morning, so if I sound terse, apologies in advance.

With respect to any individual tastes, I have to say that I've written both first and second, and frankly? Second person is much easier and allows for a lot of laziness in my work. First person is much more difficult, period.

Why? Because it takes about a bazillion times as much courage than simply playing God in the Machine and moving other peoples' lives around a landscape. In first person - which I write far less frequently, for this very reason - you have to take a leap of faith, and show some genuine courage. It isn't arrogance, it's bravery, period. You have to drape that character around yourself like a second skina nd shed your own, if you're doing it properly. If that character gets hurt? So do you. In second person, you're the big cahuna, the pain or loss or humiliation or sex is going to be at a remove of at least one level. First person? It's you.

So, anyway.

{{{{deb}}}} for the bad morning. But do you mean third person (he said...) instead of second (you said...)? I'm a mite confused.

Huh. I always read 2nd-person POV as a distanced form of 1st-person. Not that there's a controlling narrator dictating what the character does, but rather that the character wants to be distant, possibly disaffected, from the action of the story.

When I write it, it's to put that space between self and characters.

Well written, I like all POVs. First person is something I've done a couple of times, and it's not that much different from, say third person limited. (The show itself went back and forth between TPL and TPO, the most extreme examples of TPL being The Zeppo and much of AYW. AYW fell down for me in a lot of ways because it felt like it was trying to show things from an exagerrated Buffy POV, but kept that POV up even when she was off camera. Had Sam seemed more normal/less perfect when Buffy was off screen, it might not have stunk up the show.)

Cindy, that sort of thing is what I handle doing 3rd person limited with overlapping POV swaps.