recs omg (yes, she's still reading -- now and again!)

[lobelia321]

But oh, I needed these. Thanks to Cimorene and Isiscolo for reccing them!

No Refunds or Exchanges, by astolat
This has just the type of breezy pacing that I love, a zestful syntax that hurries on breathlessly and then stops short in a punch-to-the-gut final clause. There is sex and there is love and there is manliness. This is just so spot on!
Fandom: Stargate. (About which I know nothing beyond the fanon. Canon? What is that?)

A Long Time Looking by eliade
What I liked about this fic is the immersion in the real. There is the journey to the there (and you do get to a very breathless, gasmic there) but en route, you almost forget that there is a there and tarry with all the lovely observed details of street life, bookshop life, restaurant waitering and popcorn purchasing. Lovely dialogue, too.
Fandom: Sentinel. (Another canon that I know only through somebody's LJ summary thereof. Hah! At this rate, I shall never have to sully my hands with another canon ever again, I shall just live off fanons!)

Absurdity Theory by julad
I love this so much I could die of loving this. I have read it about four times and it makes me swoon with delirious pleasure. The dialogue, the pacing, the choice of words, the spot-on-ness of the punctuation even! Not to mention the drop-gorgeous sex and the chemistry sizzling between the two main characters, so that they immediately and irrevocably became one of my OTPs of all time (again, without me ever having had to go near a, what do they call that again? oh yes, a "canon").
Fandom: Stargate.

Comments

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

eliade's such a wonderful writer!!! though i have a special weakness for first of the month...possibly, b/c it's the perfect example for me on how you can twist canon, create a different version of the character that sits counter to the community interpretation and still be right somehow...

TS has some wonderful fic, though it does seem very old school these days [i just talked to someone about the debates after Ces's The Fire...which now seem so bizarre when there's chan at every corner :-)]

Give Yellow Roses a try...it really hit home for me... (most of her stories are great...though her DS is even better :-)

Also, have you read astolat's latest? gorgeous!!

And if you can stand another rec...check out seperis...

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so desperate for fanfic at the moment! I pick up novels and they drop from my hand because right now I'm cravin' the slash! But, as always, hah, I am not understanding 20 percent of what you're writing! Who is TS? What is 'old school' and in respect of what other thing, and what are the debates re Ces' Fire, and what fandom are we even talking about?? And what is DS? I am going to lap ut Astolat's latest; it already sits on my hard disk, awaiting print-outing -- I'm so glad you reminded me it's there! That's my evening rescued.

b/c it's the perfect example for me on how you can twist canon,
As I currently seem to be in a supremely canon-indifferent phase, reading only fic whose canon I know virtually nothing about, this is the kind of double-layered meaning I will simply not get. I read in blissful ignorance!

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

oh, trust me, you will :-) read 3 other TS (The Sentinel :-) and then read First of the month and you will *so* get it :-)

old school simply describes the type of writing that was slash in the eighties and easrly nineties (probably in the seventies as well, but i haven't read any 70s slash :-) All the stuff people are annoyed about, much more emphasis on the romance, much less hard core stuff, a lot of WNGWJLEO (We're not Gay We Just Love Each Other), often plotty and lots of sex standing in for other stuff (what one of our essays beautifully terms intimatopia).

I love old school slash where gay politics don't exist and the guys are quite often battling with their masculinity but their love for one another, the deep abiding friendship and in sync nesds overcomes all that...

A lot of folks have called SGA old school, b/c the source text is much more like the cop buddy shows than Smallville or The OC, for example...the extrapolation from the text and the fannish responses canbe differnt (must be maybe?)

I'm horribly overgeneralizing, bbut I think one of the reasons so many fans that came to slash via older fandoms are falling for SGA may be that particular vibe...

Oh, DS is Due South...TS and DS has a lot of overlap in terms of writers...

Fire debates...read the fic and we can talk :-) or check out Prospect-L* (I wasn't in the fandom at the time, but I read my way backward through Prospect-L...and learned quite a bit about the fannish debates in TS...)

*a critique-oriented mailing list for The Sentinel...one of the few that got and stayed off the ground in a fandom!

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

oh, the fire is francesca as well, same site as yellow roses and it features very underage blir...thus the chan refernce and the amusement that it actuallyused to be an issue...just likethe bindlestitch archive used to be a big deal, b/c it had DS actorslash...

the good old days :D (before my time, but traces still there when i started )

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

So what's blir?

I love 'we are not gay but just love each other' plot premises! I adore them. Actually, there were quite a few of these in lotrips and as far as I can tell, lotrips was not 'old school' at all because it was rps and not very plotty. come to think of it, a lot of the fics weren't even 'we're not gay' fics but of the type where that simply didn't become an issue. The man/man thing wasn't even thematised, it was just presented as the only thing. I loved that! When I read the word 'gay' for the first time in a fic, I was quite some way into the fandom already, the word was that rare, and I was shocked and totally turned off.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

argh..BLAIR *g*

and yes, i quite like WNGWJLEO...b/c it's about the *love* !!!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I love the love!

And I don't like the gay. To me, slash is not gay.

Not. Gay.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I really love SGA fic at the moment, although I only once saw 2 minutes of SGA, stumbling across it when the children were zapping past it (but they didn't watch it because it bored them and I couldn't see Zelenka, John or Rodney so lost interest).

Mainly, I love the fanon because of Zelenka, because of geeks, and because of Julad's Zelenka-fic (see rec above). And the enclosed environment thing seems to furnish such a lot of promising juicy plot potential!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I love your recs! :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Aren't these wonderful stories?? It warms my heart to know that such are still out there! And one doesn't need to be embroiled in a fandom to love and enjoy them!!