Slashy Nominations 44: The End of the Affair

[thefourthvine]

Sometimes what comes after is neither happy nor forever. Those wedding bells do not ring out. Keys are returned, photos burned, hearts broken.

Sometimes people fall out of love. Sometimes, so do the men we slash.

Best FF That Features Someone Who Is Even Worse at Telling Jokes Than I Am: A Lesson in Business, by alestar. X-Men comics, Nightcrawler/

Comments

[thete1]

Bone: thisisbone

:D

[thefourthvine]

Thanks! I googled her, and poked around LJ for her, but couldn't find her. I will now update my post with a promptness.

[destina]

Ditto everything shell said. Kat's story is fabulous.

[raveninthewind]

Oh, yeah, I'm not one for angst, and this was painfully real, but in some (totally fucked up) universe, this is exactly what happened to RayK and Fraser.

[thefourthvine]

I have indeed; it's sad (and sad is worse when the story is long, I find, because you have so much more time to wish for things to be better and so much time to get attached to this version of the characters) but1 *incredibly* good. It's waiting patiently for the day when I do the noms set with the epic-length fics.

End isn't my favorite Katfic, though; that prize would have to go to "Roots Rain," which is just an amazing story. Just - wow - incredible. Wish she wrote more.

[pearl_o]

I think Bone's current site is here: http://www.geocities.com/coffeeslash/bone/index.html

It has the sequel to the story you recced, as well.

[thefourthvine]

Thank you! I had not seen "Old Shit, New Shovel." I am off to read it at once, but I can tell you this - I already love the title.

[firesignwriter]

Alestar is one of my favorite human beings, both in person and through her writing. And this is a fic I've not even read! I rejoice, and bookmark, and thank you.

[thefourthvine]

I love the way Alestar writes the comics universes. In point of fact, I love her versions far more than the canon ones. This is especially true with Marvel; it's like the canon authors work industriously to remove every shred of sense, coherence, and character from every title, and then FF writers like Alestar come along and patiently put it all back in, and then add some stuff way better than the canon ever was.

I'll go back to reading comic books the day they call me about who to hire to write the damn things.

Of course, that'll be the same day that all the teenaged boy comic fans will stop reading, probably immediately after being scarred forever, so I doubt Marvel will be asking for my number any time soon.

[ardent_muses]

I adore "Old Lock, New Key". Not only is it one of my favorite stories, but it is, hands down, the Best Fanfic Title Ever.

There are other stories that posit Vecchio leaving Fraser brokenhearted, too. One is Aukestrel's "Waiting to Fall", which, like OLNK, was also published in the Serge Protector zine. WTF is not my favorite of AuK's stories, and it's very hard on Vecchio, but it's still well worth reading.

[thefourthvine]

Hadn't read "Waiting to Fall," in part 'cause it's only available in pdf. But now I am, and, well, it's not going to be one of my favorite of AuK's stories, either. You're right that it's worth reading, though, and I'm glad you rec'd it to me.

And good call on OLNK; great title, and I'm also fond of the title of the sequel, "Old Shit, New Shovel."