Rivers of London icons, character meme

[hamsterwoman]

So it turned out that what I really, really needed to relax was something at once creative and mechanical, like making icons. Which I haven't done in ages, and I've been feeling an acute lack of Rivers of London icons in my life, so.

(One of these days I may actually learn something about aesthetics, but that day is not today...)

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Re: Mark and Gregor, part 3

[hamsterwoman]

Shameful admission: I've actually never read Falling Free at all, not even once... I've recently acquired a copy as part of an omnibus, but I've been sending out said omnibus out into the world to breed more Vorkosigan fans, so the opportunity hasn't really been there, and, to be honest, I've been kind of apprehensive, too -- I don't find the Quaddies very interesting where they've cropped up in the Miles books, and mostly reviews I've read are not that positive. The stuff I've heard about the engineering-ness of the story does intrigue me, so I intend to read it, but I've been kind of putting it off. (I've also never read "Winterfair Gifts", except for Amazon's sample -- but that one I'm kind of saving for a rainy day, so there's still a little bit of new Miles out there waiting for me even if we never get another book.)

but there's so much Bujold-pastiche fic with really compelling, thoughtful takes on bits of canon, and I've read such a large percentage of the fic out there, that I have no idea where "things I read in fic" and "things I read in canon" diverge any longer

That is a really good point too, and I feel the same (though I've probably read a significantly smaller percentage of fic than you) -- a lot of the fic tends to be, as you say, written in the same style as canon and with a very spot-on voice, and to be missing moments sort of fic, so it's much harder to tell where one ends and the other begins XD

I love rare pairings: the writer has to show more work to be convincing, and often has to take perspectives on canon that are rarely written with juggernauts

I don't intentionally seek them out, but I do find that very often it's the rare pairings that illuminate something unexpected in canon, like this one does. (And I think for me crossover ships, which I have a distressing tendency to become obsessed with -- distressing because nobody ever writes those -- serve kind of a similar purpose, although of course just on the level of noodling around with thoughts rather than actual crafter story.)

(Still backreading your Vorkosiverse tag!)

XP Sorry, my tags are probably a mess of, like, memes and fannish dreams and fic recs and deranged crossover flailing, but I hope something there is entertaining!