Still more Yuletide squee
There's, like, 1000 stories in Yuletide this year, which is insane! I've barely begun to read them, but I'm starting my way with the fandoms with which I'm most familiar.
Rosemary Kirstein - Steerswoman series - The Best Medicine - PG - This one was my request, so of course I have to start with it. The author took an obscure fandom -- a really obscure fandom; there was over a decade lag between the second and third books in the series, which still isn't complete -- and (s)he managed to get the characters and the world spot on. I'm so so thrilled with this story. (If you aren't familiar with the canon, all you need to know for this story, I think, is that Rowan is a sort of traveling naturalist/scholar in a pseudo-medieval society that is actually an alien world.)
Agatha Christie - Poirot - Coffee and Cognac - PG, Hastings/Poirot - Hastings has always been a little fascinated by Poirot. Here, the author takes that one step further, bringing on the slash but keeping Hasting's essential, uhm, slowness.
Askewniverse - Banky's Night Out - R - This fic, set post-Chasing Amy, should win awards for the most uses of the words "pussy" and "bitch," which pretty much makes in indistinguishable from canon. Anyway, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this fic, but things were so messed up at the end of Chasing Amy that this outcome is actually not too unlikely.
Askewniverse - Second Verse, Not Exactly Same as the First - R - Post-Clerks Dante/Randall - A wonderful bizarrely-random look at the day after the movie, and the window of opportunity it created.
Beautiful Thing - Make Your Own Kind of Music - NC17 - Ste/Jamie - A long, gorgeous look at Ste and Jamie's lives after the movie, from Ste's POV. The Ste voice is excellent.
Bring It On - Roundoff, Half-Twist - R - Les/Tim - The world needs more Bring It On slash. Seriously.
Connie Willis - Bellwether - Five Things They Don't Teach Fairy Godmothers - PG - A look into Shirl's life, at times funny and touching. Nice character study.
All of the Entourage stories were good, but I particularly enjoyed the following (at least in part because it was long, which I like in a fic:
Entourage - Get Where You've Been Going - NC17, Vince/Eric - A nice, long story about Vince and Eric finally getting a clue.
Similarly, I haven't finished the Asimov stories yet, but the ones I've read were very good. I particularly liked this one:
Isaac Asimov, Robot series - Nice Work If You Can Get It - NC17 - A long, plotty look at Donovan and Powell's first assignment, with slash.
I'm not nearly done with the fandoms I know, but I did a quick pass of the fandoms with which I'm most familiar. This list, of course, is not exhaustive. Although I'm a little exhuasted from reading all of them.
Rosemary Kirstein - Steerswoman series - The Best Medicine - PG - This one was my request, so of course I have to start with it. The author took an obscure fandom -- a really obscure fandom; there was over a decade lag between the second and third books in the series, which still isn't complete -- and (s)he managed to get the characters and the world spot on. I'm so so thrilled with this story. (If you aren't familiar with the canon, all you need to know for this story, I think, is that Rowan is a sort of traveling naturalist/scholar in a pseudo-medieval society that is actually an alien world.)
Agatha Christie - Poirot - Coffee and Cognac - PG, Hastings/Poirot - Hastings has always been a little fascinated by Poirot. Here, the author takes that one step further, bringing on the slash but keeping Hasting's essential, uhm, slowness.
Askewniverse - Banky's Night Out - R - This fic, set post-Chasing Amy, should win awards for the most uses of the words "pussy" and "bitch," which pretty much makes in indistinguishable from canon. Anyway, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this fic, but things were so messed up at the end of Chasing Amy that this outcome is actually not too unlikely.
Askewniverse - Second Verse, Not Exactly Same as the First - R - Post-Clerks Dante/Randall - A wonderful bizarrely-random look at the day after the movie, and the window of opportunity it created.
Beautiful Thing - Make Your Own Kind of Music - NC17 - Ste/Jamie - A long, gorgeous look at Ste and Jamie's lives after the movie, from Ste's POV. The Ste voice is excellent.
Bring It On - Roundoff, Half-Twist - R - Les/Tim - The world needs more Bring It On slash. Seriously.
Connie Willis - Bellwether - Five Things They Don't Teach Fairy Godmothers - PG - A look into Shirl's life, at times funny and touching. Nice character study.
All of the Entourage stories were good, but I particularly enjoyed the following (at least in part because it was long, which I like in a fic:
Entourage - Get Where You've Been Going - NC17, Vince/Eric - A nice, long story about Vince and Eric finally getting a clue.
Similarly, I haven't finished the Asimov stories yet, but the ones I've read were very good. I particularly liked this one:
Isaac Asimov, Robot series - Nice Work If You Can Get It - NC17 - A long, plotty look at Donovan and Powell's first assignment, with slash.
I'm not nearly done with the fandoms I know, but I did a quick pass of the fandoms with which I'm most familiar. This list, of course, is not exhaustive. Although I'm a little exhuasted from reading all of them.