Fic Rec: Harry Potter, Star Trek, Being Human
I was traveling when I got the news about this and it was really delightful to be surprised during the rare time I was getting to check my email.
"Broken," the Drusilla/Buffy piece I wrote for snowpuppies during Round 25 of femslash_minis won "Best Overall Dark" and "Best Slash" in round three of the absence_oflight awards. I was actually kind of nervous writing "Broken" because I wasn't sure I could pull off a convincing Buffy/Drusilla, but I love the story and I'm glad other people did too. Also, Absence of Light awarded some incredible fics and I can't wait to read the ones I haven't.
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More Remix Redux recs.
Harry Potter
20 Random Facts About Sirius Black, as Annotated and Explained by the Man Himself starts out as a sweet, hilarious, sometimes touching bit of back and forth between James and Sirius, who frequently addresses Harry with his annotations, but just as I was giggling and grinning, it took a sharp turn and left me heartbroken and wanting to cry. Excellent, high praise, that.
Star Trek
The Loudest Noise (affannato, affettuoso, agitato) is an incredibly well done story about language and communication, but it is so much deeper than that, so much more powerful, and Nyoto and Gaila are both amazing in it. Gaila in particular made my heart clench.
Free, Freefalling (The Home is Wherever I'm With You Remix) is a beautiful, painful story in which Chekov makes an official report, but is so very young and so very human and feeling so very guilty as he does so.
Four Times Kirk and McCoy Ended Up Together on Valentine's Day (The Hallmark Moments Remix) is funny and sweet and touching and charming, just a feel good fic about four years and two friends and broken hearts and lots and lots of love.
The Moment of Our Greatness Flickers (The Love is a Losing Hand Remix) is McCoy and Jocelyn falling in love and falling apart and is harsh and tense and painful because it is so exquisitely well done.
Pipe Dreams (The Marzipan in Your Pie Plate Megamix) is horrific and wonderful and shocking and just amazingly twisty. Why are Starfleet captains so fragile? And what happens after?
Never Put My Hope (the Second Generation Masters of Our Destiny Remix) definitely needs to be read after the original story, but the two go together so well it all feels real, like a story I grew up reading, like our history and our religion shaken down to its bones.
Being Human
Flowers in Your Footsteps (The Renewal Remix) is a lovely, layered story about Annie wanting new clothes, but also much deeper than that, about how we live without change and how we find our own ways to take up space and be real.
"Broken," the Drusilla/Buffy piece I wrote for snowpuppies during Round 25 of femslash_minis won "Best Overall Dark" and "Best Slash" in round three of the absence_oflight awards. I was actually kind of nervous writing "Broken" because I wasn't sure I could pull off a convincing Buffy/Drusilla, but I love the story and I'm glad other people did too. Also, Absence of Light awarded some incredible fics and I can't wait to read the ones I haven't.
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More Remix Redux recs.
Harry Potter
20 Random Facts About Sirius Black, as Annotated and Explained by the Man Himself starts out as a sweet, hilarious, sometimes touching bit of back and forth between James and Sirius, who frequently addresses Harry with his annotations, but just as I was giggling and grinning, it took a sharp turn and left me heartbroken and wanting to cry. Excellent, high praise, that.
Star Trek
The Loudest Noise (affannato, affettuoso, agitato) is an incredibly well done story about language and communication, but it is so much deeper than that, so much more powerful, and Nyoto and Gaila are both amazing in it. Gaila in particular made my heart clench.
Free, Freefalling (The Home is Wherever I'm With You Remix) is a beautiful, painful story in which Chekov makes an official report, but is so very young and so very human and feeling so very guilty as he does so.
Four Times Kirk and McCoy Ended Up Together on Valentine's Day (The Hallmark Moments Remix) is funny and sweet and touching and charming, just a feel good fic about four years and two friends and broken hearts and lots and lots of love.
The Moment of Our Greatness Flickers (The Love is a Losing Hand Remix) is McCoy and Jocelyn falling in love and falling apart and is harsh and tense and painful because it is so exquisitely well done.
Pipe Dreams (The Marzipan in Your Pie Plate Megamix) is horrific and wonderful and shocking and just amazingly twisty. Why are Starfleet captains so fragile? And what happens after?
Never Put My Hope (the Second Generation Masters of Our Destiny Remix) definitely needs to be read after the original story, but the two go together so well it all feels real, like a story I grew up reading, like our history and our religion shaken down to its bones.
Being Human
Flowers in Your Footsteps (The Renewal Remix) is a lovely, layered story about Annie wanting new clothes, but also much deeper than that, about how we live without change and how we find our own ways to take up space and be real.