Yuletide 2015 Recs #2
By some MAGICAL FAIRY I have been gifted SIMON ILLYAN PORN, that's right, Simon Illyan porn with BREATHPLAY and POWER DYNAMICS and AGE GAPS and REAL FUCKED UP LOYALTY THINGS. This is my laundry list of porn likes and somehow my author went and slowly ticked each one off. !!!! So: Vorkosigan Saga - The Hand that Takes
Chess (Board game) - the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
WHERE DO I BEGIN. One: it is in log/diary format, which I am an absolute sucker for in the first point and which is absolutely fitting if you think about it in the second. Two: it is hilarious and poignant in equal part. Three: it is, if something you haven't read yet, something you should go read. Go!
Breakfast with Scot - Figuring It Out
FEELINGS. I HAVE SO MANY SAM FEELINGS. I HAVE SO MANY ERIC FEELINGS, AND SCOT FEELINGS, and feelings in general. Great character insight, and packed into fewer words than you'd expect for something with these many... feelings (I have lost all vocabulary, sorry).
Sam knew that Eric didn’t do subtlety. Eric liked to be told what to do. Preferably in a raised tone of voice, with lots of pointing at diagrams on a whiteboard. That was just the way his brain had been wired since adolescence. Take your shoes off. Throw dirty clothes in the laundry basket. Don’t drink the pear soda. And don’t leave any stray hairs in the soap, thank you very much.
L'Engel - Austin & Murry-O'Keef Families - & in this world of/ yes
Truth be told, I haven't read my L'Engel canon in years, but here we have something that captures the true heart of it: and that, for me, was always what L'Engel did best and brightest: heart, and faith, and science all intermingled. Great tone, great clean writing.
History Boys - The Only Education Worth Having
Scripps! Scripps! Self-aware but still bulldozing-forward Dakin! Posner recognised for his capabilities! Reflection, introspection, questions, resolutions, more questions. I'm out of nouns, but this is just... bittersweet and true to life and true to canon and wonderful all over.
Chess (Board game) - the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
WHERE DO I BEGIN. One: it is in log/diary format, which I am an absolute sucker for in the first point and which is absolutely fitting if you think about it in the second. Two: it is hilarious and poignant in equal part. Three: it is, if something you haven't read yet, something you should go read. Go!
Breakfast with Scot - Figuring It Out
FEELINGS. I HAVE SO MANY SAM FEELINGS. I HAVE SO MANY ERIC FEELINGS, AND SCOT FEELINGS, and feelings in general. Great character insight, and packed into fewer words than you'd expect for something with these many... feelings (I have lost all vocabulary, sorry).
Sam knew that Eric didn’t do subtlety. Eric liked to be told what to do. Preferably in a raised tone of voice, with lots of pointing at diagrams on a whiteboard. That was just the way his brain had been wired since adolescence. Take your shoes off. Throw dirty clothes in the laundry basket. Don’t drink the pear soda. And don’t leave any stray hairs in the soap, thank you very much.
L'Engel - Austin & Murry-O'Keef Families - & in this world of/ yes
Truth be told, I haven't read my L'Engel canon in years, but here we have something that captures the true heart of it: and that, for me, was always what L'Engel did best and brightest: heart, and faith, and science all intermingled. Great tone, great clean writing.
History Boys - The Only Education Worth Having
Scripps! Scripps! Self-aware but still bulldozing-forward Dakin! Posner recognised for his capabilities! Reflection, introspection, questions, resolutions, more questions. I'm out of nouns, but this is just... bittersweet and true to life and true to canon and wonderful all over.