[REC] Firefly (265/365)
Oh my goodness, after this one I only have 100 recs to go. What craziness! How am I going to cope without this daily routine? What will I do with myself? How will I stay friends with everyone? Nobody knows. Well... I'm sure I'll come up with something. There are some lessons I've learned here that I wouldn't have predicted a year ago, and some ideas I've had for building some new tools or services. Additionally all signs point to how I might get more heavily back into editing, too. I have a possible project on the horizon. We shall see!
Meanwhile, there is lots of reading and reccing still to do. I picked up this one on my last run through this fandom, something like 80 rec posts ago. I left it for later at the time, thinking I'd best not overdo it, but I was just looking at it again this morning and it's just... such a quiet and interesting character piece that wouldn't leave me alone after, so here we are.
Noble as a grape (Jayne/Simon (Firefly) | R | 11,178 words)
"Jayne guesses everyone looks like that when they sleep. The Doc's face is soft, mouth closed for a change and the lines of his forehead different somehow, softer now that he ain't awake and thinking. "Doc," Jayne says, a growl gauged just loud enough to penetrate, and he don't even need to shake him, because the Doc comes awake instantly like he was just waiting for Jayne to speak."
Author:
Hope
I actually think I'm reccing this as much for the gentle and quiet little... companionship (not quite friendship, but getting there) that builds so slowly throughout it, between Jayne and River. Part brotherly protectiveness, part self-preservation, part... who knows what else, it's enough to make Simon look at Jayne a little differently, enough to make Mal clue in that something unexpected is happening... It's such a quiet piece, so internalized, so much of it taking place in Jayne's head, where he gives none of it away to anyone else. But even so, it feels so well-constructed that I see the rest of the crew through his eyes and recognize them so, so thoroughly. Reading this made me miss the show more than most, all over again.
The story ends more abruptly than I was expecting, which - rather than make me frustrated - actually made me start over from the beginning, sifting for additional clues. I don't know what to tell you about that, really. It isn't so much about giving anything away. In the end, I kind of settled into this understanding that it was just... one of those things. A journey more than a destination. A precious thing, but not necessarily an explicitly verbal one. Kind of like Jayne, really. You know?
Thinky, for sure. Wistful and melancholy and good, too.
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Further bits in my 2012 one-a-day slash recs experiment can be found on my rec: 365 tag ( LJ/DW)
(cross-posted from http://mementis.dreamwidth.org/93262.html -
comments @ DW - reply@DW)
Meanwhile, there is lots of reading and reccing still to do. I picked up this one on my last run through this fandom, something like 80 rec posts ago. I left it for later at the time, thinking I'd best not overdo it, but I was just looking at it again this morning and it's just... such a quiet and interesting character piece that wouldn't leave me alone after, so here we are.
Noble as a grape (Jayne/Simon (Firefly) | R | 11,178 words)
"Jayne guesses everyone looks like that when they sleep. The Doc's face is soft, mouth closed for a change and the lines of his forehead different somehow, softer now that he ain't awake and thinking. "Doc," Jayne says, a growl gauged just loud enough to penetrate, and he don't even need to shake him, because the Doc comes awake instantly like he was just waiting for Jayne to speak."
Author:
Hope
I actually think I'm reccing this as much for the gentle and quiet little... companionship (not quite friendship, but getting there) that builds so slowly throughout it, between Jayne and River. Part brotherly protectiveness, part self-preservation, part... who knows what else, it's enough to make Simon look at Jayne a little differently, enough to make Mal clue in that something unexpected is happening... It's such a quiet piece, so internalized, so much of it taking place in Jayne's head, where he gives none of it away to anyone else. But even so, it feels so well-constructed that I see the rest of the crew through his eyes and recognize them so, so thoroughly. Reading this made me miss the show more than most, all over again.
The story ends more abruptly than I was expecting, which - rather than make me frustrated - actually made me start over from the beginning, sifting for additional clues. I don't know what to tell you about that, really. It isn't so much about giving anything away. In the end, I kind of settled into this understanding that it was just... one of those things. A journey more than a destination. A precious thing, but not necessarily an explicitly verbal one. Kind of like Jayne, really. You know?
Thinky, for sure. Wistful and melancholy and good, too.
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Further bits in my 2012 one-a-day slash recs experiment can be found on my rec: 365 tag ( LJ/DW)
(cross-posted from http://mementis.dreamwidth.org/93262.html -
comments @ DW - reply@DW)