not another hp rec, oh no

Yes, I fear so. I have been strangely drawn to that fandom of late, mainly because nearly every one of the fics that people have recced has been absolutely fantastic.

And this one, Friends, is mindblowing:

fearlessdiva, Tissue of Silver.

A number of you have been reccing this for months. I finally finished it this morning. I was rivetted and spellbound and delighted. The characterisation is delicious, the pacing is mostly spot-on, some of the dialogue is nigh perfect, and, most wonderfully of all, there is a mix of text types, there are changes in narrative level, there are changes in focalisor! It's a tight (and oh, it's a deliciously tight) third-person pov, interspersed with first-person letters and reports from a variety of other people who sometimes also feature as characters in the third-person plot. Or, I suppose you could alternatively describe it as a series of letters and reports, written in different prose styles, intercalated with an ongoing past-tense third-person narration.

Anyway, whatever it is, it is an outstanding, and I stand in awe. It's also deliriously long (146 pages in Word, Times New Roman, font size 11). Because I caved in and printed it out. I had to -- I needed to read it everywhere and all the time.