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serrico: Jan 7: What are some of your all-time classic/favourite fics, and why do they hold a special place in your heart/bookmarks? Any fandom.
Holy cow this is hard. Nascent’s XF output is first-class, with a complicated and intense Scully and science-based plots (at least as science-based as any X-File). Jane Mortimer’s The Sin-Eater inspired me to write my first fan letter to an online author. I started from the best. This is an incredible X-Files story, brutal and uncompromising and yet full of the love that Mulder and Scully had at their best. Koi’s Mercy can, actually, be described in much the same way, minus some of the love—it’s about Lex’s obsession with Clark, his fundamental brokenness, and also about Clark’s capacity for forgiveness. At least, I hope it is, though like Lex I can’t really be sure.
I reread pretty much everything by astolat (not everything is at AO3), because I love the mix of plot that just embraces a situation and runs further with it than I would’ve thought possible; witty dialogue appropriate to the characters; and sex. More SV: Liviapenn’s Manifest Destiny is the perfect SV/Justice League amalgam, with every major JL character doing wonderful things and a pitch-perfect Lex being better than he thinks he can be. It’s the story I’d ask to podfic if I could do that sort of thing. I reread many things by lenore in SV, as well as by CM Decarnin because they are very hot and angsty, which is my default preference.
For SPN Sam/Dean, leonidaslion’s Parting Shots is my favorite angsty preseries story because I embraced selfish-by-way-of-self-sacrificing Dean early on and have never (will never) let go. It will surprise no one that I am a big fan of classic tropes, both sf/fantasy and romantic, and for the latter runedgirl’s The Ghost of Somebody at His Side does mutual misunderstanding perfectly for me. Candle_beck’s voice is so distinctive, and distinctively American, that I always enjoy their stories, even though I often really can’t make myself reread the ones with the unhappy endings. Also tryfanstone basically hits my kinks every time and helped ease my transition into reading J2.
serrico: Jan 7: What are some of your all-time classic/favourite fics, and why do they hold a special place in your heart/bookmarks? Any fandom.Holy cow this is hard. Nascent’s XF output is first-class, with a complicated and intense Scully and science-based plots (at least as science-based as any X-File). Jane Mortimer’s The Sin-Eater inspired me to write my first fan letter to an online author. I started from the best. This is an incredible X-Files story, brutal and uncompromising and yet full of the love that Mulder and Scully had at their best. Koi’s Mercy can, actually, be described in much the same way, minus some of the love—it’s about Lex’s obsession with Clark, his fundamental brokenness, and also about Clark’s capacity for forgiveness. At least, I hope it is, though like Lex I can’t really be sure.
I reread pretty much everything by astolat (not everything is at AO3), because I love the mix of plot that just embraces a situation and runs further with it than I would’ve thought possible; witty dialogue appropriate to the characters; and sex. More SV: Liviapenn’s Manifest Destiny is the perfect SV/Justice League amalgam, with every major JL character doing wonderful things and a pitch-perfect Lex being better than he thinks he can be. It’s the story I’d ask to podfic if I could do that sort of thing. I reread many things by lenore in SV, as well as by CM Decarnin because they are very hot and angsty, which is my default preference.
For SPN Sam/Dean, leonidaslion’s Parting Shots is my favorite angsty preseries story because I embraced selfish-by-way-of-self-sacrificing Dean early on and have never (will never) let go. It will surprise no one that I am a big fan of classic tropes, both sf/fantasy and romantic, and for the latter runedgirl’s The Ghost of Somebody at His Side does mutual misunderstanding perfectly for me. Candle_beck’s voice is so distinctive, and distinctively American, that I always enjoy their stories, even though I often really can’t make myself reread the ones with the unhappy endings. Also tryfanstone basically hits my kinks every time and helped ease my transition into reading J2.
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