Slashy Awards 144: Strephon's a Member of Parliament!

[thefourthvine]

I've been trying del.icio.us for a while, and I've come to the conclusion - well, it's nice to have all my bookmarks resident on the web. And it's nice to be able to put everything up there. But - well, okay. It makes me not want to do actual recommendations sets, and that's kind of why I have this journal, and it's the thing I love most. So that

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[musesfool]

Well, mostly I've been reading Firefly lately, so um, The Maharani's Mocking Bird, which is about River and Simon - and is River/Simon (which is brother/sister incest, if that's a problem) - and River's been experimented on by the govt and so she's kind of a mind reader and it makes her a little crazy and she has no sense of boundaries and needs Simon to make everything better, and well, there's a reason they call it crazy space incest. Really good story, though, with a plot and everything.

[thefourthvine]

Well, but, see - incest is the reason I said no Supernatural. I've got an incest squick that just refuses to go away. I'd love a rec of Firefly gen, though - is there any story you can think of offhand that might work as an introduction to the fandom or characters?

If it helps, I've read a few Firefly crossover stories (besides this one, I mean), and, going by those, I think I'd be most interested in (in order of probability): Simon, Mal, River. Also possibly Kaylee (although I've hardly seen mention of her in stories, the few lines she's had have been interesting) and Wash (everyone seems to like him, but I only have slightly more data about him than Kaylee).

[katie_m]

You've read Big Damn Zombies, Sir, right?

[musesfool]

Hmm... I'm not so much with the Simon, personally, but there's Par for the Course by voluese, about Simon learning to live with less than he's used to having.

Reliance by Roseveare is a gen novella that captures the feel of the show really well, I think, and might serve.

Another Horsedreamer's Blues by loneraven is a great Mal story. (Er, most of what I read and rec centers on Mal somehow, so...)

Embracing a Life of Crime by Macha is a fun pre-series story about Wash becoming part of the crew, and wooing Zoe...

Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines by _astralis is a missing scene from the movie that feels like it should have been in there, in which Mal and Kaylee survey the damage to the ship.

and if you're looking for utter hilarity, there's Can't Stop the Turtle by uarazy2, which is a Firefly/Discworld crossover that literally made me laugh out loud...

And of course, "Big Damn Zombies" is totally worth reading. *g*

[wildgreentide]

I don't read a whole lot of Firefly fic, because I felt like the show itself gave me almost everything I needed, but I can rec two excellent stories that I've read and loved: vee_fic's Cradle Elbows Wide, gen, about Mal and Zoe and their regiment in the Battle of Serenity Valley, and nestra's Leaves are beginning to fall, a beautiful and very short post-Serenity story about acceptance.