Continuing White Collar adventures

[theoret]

I am now up to 2x13 of White Collar.

Guys.

Guys.

I was mistaken.

I do want fic. I WANT ALL OF THE FIC OMG.

I AM DYING.

HOW ARE THESE PEOPLE SO ADORABLE? I CANNOT. ;___;

Um. So. Y'know. If anyone has any recs for fic written before 2x13, that would be kind of great. :D?

HELP ME I HAVE TOO MANY FEELINGS.

Comments

[altogetherisi]

mwahahaha WELCOME TO THE FANDOM I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN

what exactly has happened at that point? do you want plot, romance, porn? pairing? tell me what you want and I will try to bring it to you :D

[theoret]

Plotwise they've found out Adler is the one after the music box, because of the fractal antenna, but they don't know where Adler is or what the fractal leads to or what Adler was doing with Kate behind the scenes in season one. Mostly I just want to avoid spoilers.

My pairing is Neal/Peter/Elizabeth (SHOCKING, I KNOW). I guess I have a mild preference for ship fic, but gen where everyone loves each other as wonderfully as they do in canon is also A+++. I haven't been in that much of a porn mood recently, so I'm probably not up for PWPs. Largely other than that I just like well written stuff? :D? Anywhere in the 0-25,000 word range is good, but I don't think I'm quite ready to jump into anything novel length just yet.

:DDD

[frith_in_thorns]

I'd recommend watching to the end of season 2 before diving into fic? This is because most fanfic in this fandom seems to be set in a nebulous sort of era which is pretty much season 2, with occasional refereces to the arc of the first half of season 3 - but most of the ones specifically set in season 3 are ones that definitely deal with the arc. Um, if that makes sense. (Reasons for this will become apparent if you keep watching, I think! Basically, no1curr about the middle of the arc, just the beginning (s2 finale) and end (s3.5 premier))

And, of course, right now everyone's journals are full of finale spoilers...

Basically there is loads of fic I want to rec to you, but it's really haaaaard to do so without spoiling you because of random plot dropped into random places... bear with me.

[frith_in_thorns]

In terms of general reccing, I will say forever and ever that sholio should be worshipped as a font of fic (Gen and Peter/Elizabeth). But I don't think she started writing until S2 had finished. Also kriadydragon and imbecamiel. But, again, spoilers everywhere right now.

Um, if you like hurt/comfort that is. The hurt/comfort part of this fandom is enormously active and that's where I spend all my time hanging out... *gg*

[theoret]

Haha, there were several points when I was catching up when I just went "Yes. Yes, I see why this fandom has a strong hurt/comfort contingent. Yes". Which were generally the times when I was rolling around in delight at people being protective of each other. :D

I just finished season two. In all honesty, I'm probably going to catch up in a few more days, so I could just wait it out for fic. Which I might do if avoiding spoilers prooves too hard. But. I'm impatient. I WANT TO SEE FANDOM'S TAKE. :DDDD

[lazy_daze]

if you read anything ever in WC it has to be Exquisite by sam_storyteller omg omg. I think gypsy_sunday recced it to you last time but YES. THAT. PETER/NEAL/EL CANON-ADJACENT FIC OF WONDER.

[theoret]

Eee! Thanks!

To be honest, I heard sam_storyteller had fic for the fandom when I was still not sure if my love of White Collar included a fic-wanting side or not, and then pretty much just went "Oh. Well. Even if I'm not craving fic, I'm definitely going to have to end up reading some of that."

What's Exquisite like on the spoiler front? Should I wait until I've caught up with season three?

[lazy_daze]

it follows canon exactly and IIRC ends at the end of Season 2, so either finish Season 2 which you're three eps off anyway, or read along and when you recognise your knowledge of events stop, also stop reading! :DD

[theoret]

I have been reading it over the last couple of days (still only on chapter 13 \o/ yessss more to read) and OMG. It is PERFECT. I loooooove how the power dynamics are being handled. I just love it! It's basically exactly how I think the power dynamics would work between them. *__* Ever-present but kind of low key, fluid and informal (although no less intense for that). Just. YES. PERFECT.

*clutches the fic to herself forever*

[laulan]

I think you should just read EVERYTHING by sam_storyteller, heh. I also love everything captanddeastar has written, though I HAVE betaed a decent amount of her White Collar fic so you may want to take that with a biased grain of salt. XD Despite loving White Collar AND White Collar fic, I haven't actually read that much because I'm behind! I think gypsy_sunday has a few good recs though, if you want to hit her up.