[Recs] may you live in intersting times by scarlet_carsons
So I'm reccing Watchmen at crack_van this month, so I thought I'd cross-post the recs over here for archival purposes and also to throw good fic at you guys. If you don't know it, the fandom overview was written by apathocles, who did a wonderful job. Please do give it a spin! ( Here)
The recent Watchmen movie really revived the fandom, so I'll be trying to rec some of the cool new stuff, although I'll also be flinging some of the older jewels of the pre-movie fandom your way too. Hold on to your hats, folks, because this is going to be a dark, dirty, wonderful ride.
Fandom: WATCHMEN
Characters: Walter Kovacs, Adrian Veidt, Daniel Dreiburg, Laurie Jupiter, Jon Osterman
Length: Around 2500 words
Author on LJ: scarlet-carsons
Author Website: Author's LJ has a fanfic tag
Why this must be read:
The author summarizes this fic as "little snippets of childhood" and that's a pretty good description of the piece. We take a peek into the lives of the Watchmen characters during their youth and get surprising insight into who they were before they were heroes and how their worlds have changed since then. Little bits and pieces make us wonder at what might have happened had they not pulled on the spandex, who they might have grown into, where they might have gone.
Excerpt: Above them, a F-86 Sabre screams through the air, sleek and otherworldly, and startlingly at odds with the chunky, muddy-colored Allied fighters of Daniel's childhood. It seems to promise the future; not a peaceful future, perhaps, but an interesting one.
may you live in interesting times
The recent Watchmen movie really revived the fandom, so I'll be trying to rec some of the cool new stuff, although I'll also be flinging some of the older jewels of the pre-movie fandom your way too. Hold on to your hats, folks, because this is going to be a dark, dirty, wonderful ride.
Fandom: WATCHMEN
Characters: Walter Kovacs, Adrian Veidt, Daniel Dreiburg, Laurie Jupiter, Jon Osterman
Length: Around 2500 words
Author on LJ: scarlet-carsons
Author Website: Author's LJ has a fanfic tag
Why this must be read:
The author summarizes this fic as "little snippets of childhood" and that's a pretty good description of the piece. We take a peek into the lives of the Watchmen characters during their youth and get surprising insight into who they were before they were heroes and how their worlds have changed since then. Little bits and pieces make us wonder at what might have happened had they not pulled on the spandex, who they might have grown into, where they might have gone.
Excerpt: Above them, a F-86 Sabre screams through the air, sleek and otherworldly, and startlingly at odds with the chunky, muddy-colored Allied fighters of Daniel's childhood. It seems to promise the future; not a peaceful future, perhaps, but an interesting one.
may you live in interesting times