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Small Fandoms

Oct 21, 2008 16:23

As a belated birthday present to myself, I'm seeking small fandom recs. The full list of small fandoms I currently read is below, but I'm pretty open to reading any small fandom, even ones that I've never read before. I read slash, het, and (occasionally) gen. All I ask is that the stories be completed and that they have a happy ending.

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*multi-fandom, *het, *classics, *slash, *anime, *comics_fandom, *gen, *book_fandom, *books, *westerns, *movie_fandom

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msmcknittington October 22 2008, 00:14:30 UTC

AGH. I just read some good Gosford Park and damn me if I can remember where it was. Check out Yuletide. Though none of those are the stories I read. Hmm.

Dammit. Now I remember what I forgot to rec for Yuletide.

jane_elliot October 22 2008, 00:24:56 UTC

Heh. I've totally cleaned out Yuletide (as well as ff.net -- darn it, I read way too quickly...)

If you think of the other fic, I'd very much like to read it. Thanks!

msmcknittington October 22 2008, 00:43:05 UTC

Ah, I should have known, but it's always worth mentioning, right?

I did some sleuthing on LJ, and found these via the gosfordpark comm.

LJ Comm fic master list

Another list, though it looks like it all might be more of the same

Have you read Days May Pass and Years May Pass? Mary/Robert, at the beginning of WWII. There's another one, too, where Mary goes to London just before the war and ends up working at an orphanage that's quite good. None of the titles that are linked there are ringing any bells. It might have been on FF.net.

jane_elliot October 22 2008, 00:48:52 UTC

Eee! Gosford Park links! You are my hero:)

(BTW, I've definitely read the Mary working at an orphanage one, so it was probably at ff.net -- LJ and I don't generally get along when I'm searching for fic without help.)

Also, yay North and South (based on your icon:) I can't understand why there aren't more N&S fics out there after that fabulous mini-series...

msmcknittington October 22 2008, 00:51:32 UTC

Hopefully there's something there that you haven't read!

Have you read the book by Elizabeth Gaskell? It's quite readable, though John isn't quite as awe-inspiring as Richard Armitage. But who is?

jane_elliot October 22 2008, 01:00:00 UTC

I did read the book (I've cut a pretty wide swath through British Literature in general) and while I think that Mrs. Gaskill does a fabulous job at plotting and characterization, her actual writing is a bit, well, clunky. But still very readable ( ... )

msmcknittington October 22 2008, 02:18:10 UTC

Hmm, I don't know. Thornton had a lot going for him that Higgens doesn't. Like, Thornton comes from a family that had traditionally been upper middle class, so he has that "well-born" cache that never goes away, even with poverty. (Did he work in a sweatshop? I thought he was just a draper's apprentice. Hmm.) The family's fall from grace had been recent and short-lived.

Higgens, on the other hand, is about as cultured as a rock, as noble as he is. To make an analogy, Nicholas Higgens entering into "proper" society would be like fitting an elephant through a mousehole. He also has radical social ideas, and I can't see him doing the things necessary to run a mill at a profit. I can see him maybe opening a charity or being a lecturer, but not a mill owner. I think he has too much of a chip on his shoulder and too much of a conscience to make it work.

John could have gone from working in a sweatshop to running his own factory without speculation or seed moneyDidn't he have speculation/seed money? Didn't what's his face -- ( ... )

jane_elliot October 22 2008, 02:47:09 UTC

Oh, I never thought they'd run a mill together -- the bailout would totally be for John (and Mary! Can't forget about Mary:), after which Margaret and Nicholas would to go America. And I totally agree on the social reform front, especially in one of the fledgling West Coast cities, like San Francisco. Man, I'm going to have to write that some day ( ... )

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