Still Rediscovering the Great due South Writers
Now that I found Speranza again and even her lj acount as cesperanza I couldn't help but look for resonant8 and others too.
I found Kat Allison with, amongst others, her long epic "The End of the Road" which I vaguely remember reading. Must have been at least two years ago.
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ETA, late September: Just read it again and am stunned. This is one dark, dark
story. Last night, my dreams were suffused by its hopelessness and futility,
by the heartbreaking, inexorable disintegration of the sweetness they could
have had together. Kat manages to give us a Fraser I have never entcountered
before: the emotionally challenged intellectual that just can't hack it in
the love department. There are plenty attempts at this Brainy!Fraser but none
equal her version in relentlessness and elaborateness and complete lack of
humor. What she seems to say with this story is that, essentially, we can't
change who we are and compromises are just a load of crap. Quote
Benton: "Sometimes, love is not the point."
Her Ray on the other hand is mostly Angry!Ray, a variant that I find sometimes
hard to take in because I see much more tenderness in him than he is credited
with in this story. But put into an environment so utterly foreign and
basically hostile to any level of his existence, I suppose those softer parts
of his nature could easily get 'snowed under'. In this light, what he tries
to give to (and to give up for) this relationship is staggering.
The thing about 'need' though is what seperates them from beginning to end
[Quote Benton: "There are things I need more."]. Their need for each other
never did replace what other needs there were in the first place. They never
connected on a deep enough level to let this happen. I guess, one could argue
that their love just wasn't strong enough. I certainly would say that, being
the hopeless romantic I am. But Kat does seem to make another point - which
she succeeds in excellently - namely, that sometimes you can love all you want
but the divide between two persons, like the divide between two species,
cannot, will not be bridged, even if it tears both of your hearts out, rips
you to pieces and leaves you crippled for life. Rather like Casablanca.
Without Victor. Just much, much sadder. And, of course, totally different.
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There must be others still and I will browse my bookmarks under Opera for the URLs because I just cannot stop indulging in dS slashfic at the moment.
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ETA: Of course, there are others, first of all ds_flashfiction with a whole bunch of writers some of which I already know and like: KassRachel, dira_sudis, BethH, Shay and possibly others that I haven't discovered yet. Ah, yes, here for example: Pearl_o, Torakowalski -- you gotta love her simply for that name! And she writes solid dS fics too. "Thawing Out" is all kinds of lovely. *sigh*
Another ETA, late September: since I would like to find all the links in one place, I am just going to add to the list here. So, today I found this mouth-watering site: Stop_drop_porn and I already know it will be hard to stay away... What amazes me, is that dS is still honored and nurtured by so many devoted fans. Not that this is particularly surprising to me since, well, my OTP, duh! Yet I cannot help but glow with secret pride that "my boys" are proving that strong, that their creation has effected so many people worldwide. "The series that would not die" indeed.
I found Kat Allison with, amongst others, her long epic "The End of the Road" which I vaguely remember reading. Must have been at least two years ago.
----------------
ETA, late September: Just read it again and am stunned. This is one dark, dark
story. Last night, my dreams were suffused by its hopelessness and futility,
by the heartbreaking, inexorable disintegration of the sweetness they could
have had together. Kat manages to give us a Fraser I have never entcountered
before: the emotionally challenged intellectual that just can't hack it in
the love department. There are plenty attempts at this Brainy!Fraser but none
equal her version in relentlessness and elaborateness and complete lack of
humor. What she seems to say with this story is that, essentially, we can't
change who we are and compromises are just a load of crap. Quote
Benton: "Sometimes, love is not the point."
Her Ray on the other hand is mostly Angry!Ray, a variant that I find sometimes
hard to take in because I see much more tenderness in him than he is credited
with in this story. But put into an environment so utterly foreign and
basically hostile to any level of his existence, I suppose those softer parts
of his nature could easily get 'snowed under'. In this light, what he tries
to give to (and to give up for) this relationship is staggering.
The thing about 'need' though is what seperates them from beginning to end
[Quote Benton: "There are things I need more."]. Their need for each other
never did replace what other needs there were in the first place. They never
connected on a deep enough level to let this happen. I guess, one could argue
that their love just wasn't strong enough. I certainly would say that, being
the hopeless romantic I am. But Kat does seem to make another point - which
she succeeds in excellently - namely, that sometimes you can love all you want
but the divide between two persons, like the divide between two species,
cannot, will not be bridged, even if it tears both of your hearts out, rips
you to pieces and leaves you crippled for life. Rather like Casablanca.
Without Victor. Just much, much sadder. And, of course, totally different.
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There must be others still and I will browse my bookmarks under Opera for the URLs because I just cannot stop indulging in dS slashfic at the moment.
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ETA: Of course, there are others, first of all ds_flashfiction with a whole bunch of writers some of which I already know and like: KassRachel, dira_sudis, BethH, Shay and possibly others that I haven't discovered yet. Ah, yes, here for example: Pearl_o, Torakowalski -- you gotta love her simply for that name! And she writes solid dS fics too. "Thawing Out" is all kinds of lovely. *sigh*
Another ETA, late September: since I would like to find all the links in one place, I am just going to add to the list here. So, today I found this mouth-watering site: Stop_drop_porn and I already know it will be hard to stay away... What amazes me, is that dS is still honored and nurtured by so many devoted fans. Not that this is particularly surprising to me since, well, my OTP, duh! Yet I cannot help but glow with secret pride that "my boys" are proving that strong, that their creation has effected so many people worldwide. "The series that would not die" indeed.