Incunabula
A very long time ago, back when mementis and I were working on standing on the edge of nothing, we had a discussion about Generation Kill. I'd never seen the series, but I thought then and I think now that the fiction produced for this fandom is extraordinary. And because I was working with 1920s San Francisco at the time, it seemed a very short leap to thinking writing 1940s LA for this fandom (Hooker/Biker AU, post second world war) would be equally easy. Nearly two years later, I'm finally ready to write the story we were talking about then, but my schedule is brutal. I can do a 10K rough draft of a historical AU when I haven't yet seen the canon, in the gap between hlh_shortcuts and yuletide deadlines and Jan 31st, no?
I can try. Pimping anyway: smallfandombang. I signed up late, you've got ten days. Sign-ups close Oct 31st.
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On the subject of extraordinary fiction, recs:
Generation Kill
Dira Sudis (dsudis) - You Drive Through the Dust (Brad Colbert/Nate Fick, plus other pairings)
August 2002-August 2003. Nate and Bo lead their platoon to war and bring them home again.
What I liked: Part 7 of the Every Marine a Wolfbrother series, and if you haven't been reading this, where the hell have you been?
Hockey RPF
ellievolia,
hazel and
thisissirius - Take You There (Patrick Kane/Jonathan Toews)
It’s Kaner at the door. Balding, short, slightly paunchy Kaner, standing there with a duffel and a suitcase, looking obstinate and cranky and like the ground’s been taken out from under him. “We’re getting divorced. Let me in.”
What I liked: Older Person Fiction. Also, reconciliations, fragile bridges - I was always going to love this one.
thehoyden - King and Lionheart (Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin)
Sidney’s wedding day doesn’t go quite as he’d planned. When he’d bothered to imagine it at all, he’d thought of a nice June wedding in Nova Scotia, outdoors with the sun streaming down. He hadn’t imagined this hurried affair on the tarmac on a rainy and unseasonably cool day in early September, a month after his twenty-fifth birthday.
What I liked: pure comfort fic.
Marvel
orderlychaos - Murder at the Savoy Hotel (Clint Barton/Phil Coulson)
When tragedy strikes at the Savoy Hotel, a beautiful socialite is found dead in her room. Her prized possesion, the Blue Star Diamond is stolen amongst the chaos. Detective Inspector Sitwell of Scotland Yard calls on the famous detective Phillip Coulson for help on the case.
What I liked: The lovely period pastiche of Agatha Christie, which fits so unexpectedly well with Coulson.
Road Movie to Berlin - They Might Be Giants
broadcastdelay - Got a Medal of Freedom (from Self-control) (gen)
A B-list actor and his beleaguered agent star in a tale fueled by bourbon and propelled by gratuitous, thinly-veiled references.
What I liked: From the Jukebox 2013 challenge over on AO3. (Exactly, dammit, my kind of thing, but if I want to keep my job I will always be unable to write both Jukebox and Fic_Corner.) I love the frenetic, fragmented pace of this particular story, and the dialogue is gorgeous - snappy and cynical and stylish.
Teen Wolf
trilliath - Squids are to Llamas (Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
Merman Stiles isn't having a very good day. At all. But he's swimming to the surface to meet Derek and he's really hoping things are going to be looking up.
What I liked: Oh good god, am I really rec'ing Merman fic? I am. I really liked - it's the first time I've come across someone really thinking about how this inter-species human/merperson sex is actually going to work. I was amused.
verity - and home before dark (Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
The mystery of the absent Hale brother was hardly a mystery at all until he appeared at last, set on taking up residence out in the woods.
(In which Derek is a hedgewitch. With a cat.)
What I liked: the quiet, magical worldbuilding.
To no-one's surprise, I am horribly behind on e-mails now, I'm signed up for far too much, and I'm going to be away a lot. Please expect slow replies. But, I am very excited about:
The London Steampunk Halloween Weekend, for which q_i has dragged out the velvet hotpants last seen in Carlisle in 1996 and I am rocking vampire librarian. This means I will be in London next weekend - there will be Cutty Sark viewing as well.
Lumiere Durham, which Pet Mechanic only told me about *after* tickets had sold out, but PM will know someone who knows someone else and all will be well.
I'll be in Penrith just before the Lumiere, although parents will not be making it over the Pennines. (Chemo timetable.) A good thing, because my mother is sentimentally fond of PM and I think, lives happily in the belief that he's some kind of small cuddly person with a great accent whose lack of coasters is only the result of not having enough christmas presents, and not a utter and uncrossable cultural divide.
He does have a great accent.
Also, while I'm on excusions... Hayseed Dixie at the Liquid Rooms, Skalloween with Bombscare again (in that horrible skanky club down on Carlton Road, the one where they put the burlesque on at Festival?) Moscow and St Petersburg in February and Rome in April. I did just slip that in.That's my fortieth birthday present and q_i's, too - thank you so much, my parents and q_i's mum. St Petersburg! In snow!!! I am very happy.
- when were those fic deadlines again...?
Hope all is well with you guys, too.
I can try. Pimping anyway: smallfandombang. I signed up late, you've got ten days. Sign-ups close Oct 31st.
A 10,000-word big bang for small fandoms!
FAQ | Rules | Authors | Beta/Cheerleader | Affiliate
On the subject of extraordinary fiction, recs:
Generation Kill
Dira Sudis (dsudis) - You Drive Through the Dust (Brad Colbert/Nate Fick, plus other pairings)
August 2002-August 2003. Nate and Bo lead their platoon to war and bring them home again.
What I liked: Part 7 of the Every Marine a Wolfbrother series, and if you haven't been reading this, where the hell have you been?
Hockey RPF
ellievolia,
hazel and
thisissirius - Take You There (Patrick Kane/Jonathan Toews)
It’s Kaner at the door. Balding, short, slightly paunchy Kaner, standing there with a duffel and a suitcase, looking obstinate and cranky and like the ground’s been taken out from under him. “We’re getting divorced. Let me in.”
What I liked: Older Person Fiction. Also, reconciliations, fragile bridges - I was always going to love this one.
thehoyden - King and Lionheart (Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin)
Sidney’s wedding day doesn’t go quite as he’d planned. When he’d bothered to imagine it at all, he’d thought of a nice June wedding in Nova Scotia, outdoors with the sun streaming down. He hadn’t imagined this hurried affair on the tarmac on a rainy and unseasonably cool day in early September, a month after his twenty-fifth birthday.
What I liked: pure comfort fic.
Marvel
orderlychaos - Murder at the Savoy Hotel (Clint Barton/Phil Coulson)
When tragedy strikes at the Savoy Hotel, a beautiful socialite is found dead in her room. Her prized possesion, the Blue Star Diamond is stolen amongst the chaos. Detective Inspector Sitwell of Scotland Yard calls on the famous detective Phillip Coulson for help on the case.
What I liked: The lovely period pastiche of Agatha Christie, which fits so unexpectedly well with Coulson.
Road Movie to Berlin - They Might Be Giants
broadcastdelay - Got a Medal of Freedom (from Self-control) (gen)
A B-list actor and his beleaguered agent star in a tale fueled by bourbon and propelled by gratuitous, thinly-veiled references.
What I liked: From the Jukebox 2013 challenge over on AO3. (Exactly, dammit, my kind of thing, but if I want to keep my job I will always be unable to write both Jukebox and Fic_Corner.) I love the frenetic, fragmented pace of this particular story, and the dialogue is gorgeous - snappy and cynical and stylish.
Teen Wolf
trilliath - Squids are to Llamas (Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
Merman Stiles isn't having a very good day. At all. But he's swimming to the surface to meet Derek and he's really hoping things are going to be looking up.
What I liked: Oh good god, am I really rec'ing Merman fic? I am. I really liked - it's the first time I've come across someone really thinking about how this inter-species human/merperson sex is actually going to work. I was amused.
verity - and home before dark (Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski)
The mystery of the absent Hale brother was hardly a mystery at all until he appeared at last, set on taking up residence out in the woods.
(In which Derek is a hedgewitch. With a cat.)
What I liked: the quiet, magical worldbuilding.
To no-one's surprise, I am horribly behind on e-mails now, I'm signed up for far too much, and I'm going to be away a lot. Please expect slow replies. But, I am very excited about:
The London Steampunk Halloween Weekend, for which q_i has dragged out the velvet hotpants last seen in Carlisle in 1996 and I am rocking vampire librarian. This means I will be in London next weekend - there will be Cutty Sark viewing as well.
Lumiere Durham, which Pet Mechanic only told me about *after* tickets had sold out, but PM will know someone who knows someone else and all will be well.
I'll be in Penrith just before the Lumiere, although parents will not be making it over the Pennines. (Chemo timetable.) A good thing, because my mother is sentimentally fond of PM and I think, lives happily in the belief that he's some kind of small cuddly person with a great accent whose lack of coasters is only the result of not having enough christmas presents, and not a utter and uncrossable cultural divide.
He does have a great accent.
Also, while I'm on excusions... Hayseed Dixie at the Liquid Rooms, Skalloween with Bombscare again (in that horrible skanky club down on Carlton Road, the one where they put the burlesque on at Festival?) Moscow and St Petersburg in February and Rome in April. I did just slip that in.That's my fortieth birthday present and q_i's, too - thank you so much, my parents and q_i's mum. St Petersburg! In snow!!! I am very happy.
- when were those fic deadlines again...?
Hope all is well with you guys, too.