Tweet-and-walks and fanfic recs
In cheerier "actors and the social media" news, the West Wing actors just invented the Walk and Tweet. :)
(Incidentally, the first time I tried to watch The West Wing, the Bush years had just started and I couldn't continue because the gap between reality and fiction was just too big. Then years later I marathoned it at the close of the Bush age, back when not just the US had a lot of hope in change. Which turned out to be the ideal time, because I don't think I could stand to watch The West Wing for the first time right now without feeling sick at that gap again, this time without any hope it will ever change.)
As mentioned, the Being Human rewatch made me check whether anything new by way of fanfiction has been written since the immediate aftermath of the show. Luckily for my working schedule, it turned out there wasn't much that was of interest to me (though there was some, which you'll find below the cut, as I loved reading it). Lots of crossovers with a show called The Almighty Johnsons, in which Mitchell is paired with some of the cast, it seems. I assume this has something to do with the actors - is Aidan Turner in it, or has he acted with some of the actors in it elsewhere? Anyway, I don't know the show, my interest in Mitchell pairings is zero, so, not for me. Then there are crossovers involving Loki (Marvel Cinema Universe version) which do not as if they're about confronting Loki with his victims, so, no. Filtering these out and some that also didn't look promising to me from their summaries and tagging, I finally hit the jackpot with a couple of stories by a single author.
An excellent Hal character portrait, spoilers for the entire show. Handles the other characters very well, too.
Another Man Entirely (10645 words) by zoicite
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Being Human, Being Human (UK)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alex Millar/Hal Yorke, Tom McNair/Hal Yorke, Nick Cutler/Hal Yorke
Characters: Hal Yorke, Alex Millar, Tom McNair
Additional Tags: Series 5, Character Study
Summary:
It was easy. People did it all the time. Humans, yes, but vampires, werewolves and ghosts too. Everyone told themselves little lies to get them through the hardest, the longest and the loneliest of their nights.
Being Human has a canon AU, the timeline adult Eve came from, where the vampocalypse did happen. I've seen some people tackle it, but few as well as this story, which lets the timeline depart from the on screen one just a wee bit earlier - to wit, George can't bring himself to stake Mitchell. This is not a good thing. (For either humanity or Mitchell.) (Otoh, George is still alive.) Mitchell is the pov character, who becomes one of Hal's henchmen yet starts to realise he and his new boss have odder things than psychotic temper tantrums in common. Since Hal, Leo and Pearl never came to Wales, Leo died without Pearl going through the door with him, and thus Pearl is still around. Fleshing out Pearl beyond the brief sketch we get at the start of s4 is something that's very rarely done, and here she is a main character, with her own agenda and complex relationship with Hal (and later also with Mitchell). The story manages to be very dark - no kidding, given the premise - but not nihilistic, with that smidgeon of hope still prevailing in the way the characters connect.
Strange Company (18847 words) by zoicite
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Being Human (UK), Being Human
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: John Mitchell/Pearl (Being Human), Nick Cutler/Hal Yorke (implied), John Mitchell/Hal Yorke (almost)
Characters: John Mitchell, Pearl (Being Human), Hal Yorke, Tom McNair, George Sands, Nick Cutler, Fergus (Being Human)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:
It all changes when, for the first time in eight years, Mitchell finds himself face-to-face with George.
Diverges from canon toward the end of 3x08.
And lastly, a story that is somewhat timey-wimey in that it's not told in a linear fashion, and yet in one that makes complete emotional sense. It goes with the (confirmed by the additional dvd scene) theory that Alex, Hal and Tom were trapped in an illusion at the end of s5, starts months after they woke up, and then jumps back and forth to show us what happened both when they thought they were human and how they, and the world, dealt with the aftermath later. Co-starring Regus, chief of snarky exposition (who also gets to deliver an explanation re: Captain Hatch that I like, i.e. that he wasn't THE Devil but A devil, a "demon with delusions of grandeur"), and OT3ish without ignoring the crappy stuff Hal did.
hold on to you, hold on to me (28577 words) by zoicite
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Being Human (UK), Being Human
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tom MacNair/Hal Yorke, Thomas McNair/Alex Millar/Hal Yorke
Characters: Tom MacNair, Hal Yorke, Alex Millar, Regus (Being Human)
Additional Tags: Post-Series, Fighting and Kissing, Kissing and Fighting, Series 5
Summary:
One moment they were human and then the moment passed.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/918451.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.
(Incidentally, the first time I tried to watch The West Wing, the Bush years had just started and I couldn't continue because the gap between reality and fiction was just too big. Then years later I marathoned it at the close of the Bush age, back when not just the US had a lot of hope in change. Which turned out to be the ideal time, because I don't think I could stand to watch The West Wing for the first time right now without feeling sick at that gap again, this time without any hope it will ever change.)
As mentioned, the Being Human rewatch made me check whether anything new by way of fanfiction has been written since the immediate aftermath of the show. Luckily for my working schedule, it turned out there wasn't much that was of interest to me (though there was some, which you'll find below the cut, as I loved reading it). Lots of crossovers with a show called The Almighty Johnsons, in which Mitchell is paired with some of the cast, it seems. I assume this has something to do with the actors - is Aidan Turner in it, or has he acted with some of the actors in it elsewhere? Anyway, I don't know the show, my interest in Mitchell pairings is zero, so, not for me. Then there are crossovers involving Loki (Marvel Cinema Universe version) which do not as if they're about confronting Loki with his victims, so, no. Filtering these out and some that also didn't look promising to me from their summaries and tagging, I finally hit the jackpot with a couple of stories by a single author.
An excellent Hal character portrait, spoilers for the entire show. Handles the other characters very well, too.
Another Man Entirely (10645 words) by zoicite
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Being Human, Being Human (UK)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alex Millar/Hal Yorke, Tom McNair/Hal Yorke, Nick Cutler/Hal Yorke
Characters: Hal Yorke, Alex Millar, Tom McNair
Additional Tags: Series 5, Character Study
Summary:
It was easy. People did it all the time. Humans, yes, but vampires, werewolves and ghosts too. Everyone told themselves little lies to get them through the hardest, the longest and the loneliest of their nights.
Being Human has a canon AU, the timeline adult Eve came from, where the vampocalypse did happen. I've seen some people tackle it, but few as well as this story, which lets the timeline depart from the on screen one just a wee bit earlier - to wit, George can't bring himself to stake Mitchell. This is not a good thing. (For either humanity or Mitchell.) (Otoh, George is still alive.) Mitchell is the pov character, who becomes one of Hal's henchmen yet starts to realise he and his new boss have odder things than psychotic temper tantrums in common. Since Hal, Leo and Pearl never came to Wales, Leo died without Pearl going through the door with him, and thus Pearl is still around. Fleshing out Pearl beyond the brief sketch we get at the start of s4 is something that's very rarely done, and here she is a main character, with her own agenda and complex relationship with Hal (and later also with Mitchell). The story manages to be very dark - no kidding, given the premise - but not nihilistic, with that smidgeon of hope still prevailing in the way the characters connect.
Strange Company (18847 words) by zoicite
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Being Human (UK), Being Human
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: John Mitchell/Pearl (Being Human), Nick Cutler/Hal Yorke (implied), John Mitchell/Hal Yorke (almost)
Characters: John Mitchell, Pearl (Being Human), Hal Yorke, Tom McNair, George Sands, Nick Cutler, Fergus (Being Human)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Summary:
It all changes when, for the first time in eight years, Mitchell finds himself face-to-face with George.
Diverges from canon toward the end of 3x08.
And lastly, a story that is somewhat timey-wimey in that it's not told in a linear fashion, and yet in one that makes complete emotional sense. It goes with the (confirmed by the additional dvd scene) theory that Alex, Hal and Tom were trapped in an illusion at the end of s5, starts months after they woke up, and then jumps back and forth to show us what happened both when they thought they were human and how they, and the world, dealt with the aftermath later. Co-starring Regus, chief of snarky exposition (who also gets to deliver an explanation re: Captain Hatch that I like, i.e. that he wasn't THE Devil but A devil, a "demon with delusions of grandeur"), and OT3ish without ignoring the crappy stuff Hal did.
hold on to you, hold on to me (28577 words) by zoicite
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Being Human (UK), Being Human
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tom MacNair/Hal Yorke, Thomas McNair/Alex Millar/Hal Yorke
Characters: Tom MacNair, Hal Yorke, Alex Millar, Regus (Being Human)
Additional Tags: Post-Series, Fighting and Kissing, Kissing and Fighting, Series 5
Summary:
One moment they were human and then the moment passed.
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/918451.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.