Fandom Snowflake Challenge Day 2: Recs
It's still Day 2 here in the wilds of the Pac NW, just barely, my days are crazy.
Recs as per Snowflake Fandom Challenge Day 2.
In Aubreyad fandom I give thanks to two recent fic-writing additions to our community,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
josbanks here on DW and renaiya880727 over at LJ. To me they both capture the voice and dialogue and spirit of the Aubreyad wonderfully, helping explicate and navigate the complexities of emotion and plot that POB weaves. They have been remarkably prolific, writing oakum to fill in so many of the gaps in the series. And neither are done yet! What a delight they have been; every week more fic to enjoy :D
Sherlock fandom is so huge it is easy to overlook many gems by writers who for whatever reason do not get the attention they deserve. I can't even identify all those who should be read more than they are. I will limit myself to two who always come to the top of my mind.
parachute_silks: I especially enjoyed Rhyme, a very long and thorough case!fic mixed with some lovely angsty UST (my favourite combo :-) Currently also at work on Names for the Galaxy, a very intriguing futuristic space AU, still a WIP. Zie can take a long time to complete WIPS (Rhyme took 18 mos, maybe?) but they are worth the wait! Since zie completed at least two very long WIPs, I remain confident this one will be completed too :-)
Also thoroughly delightful is the WIP(?) Tell New Weather, which is both ACD and BBC. Moriarty explores a number of parallel universes, but can't get away from Holmes no matter where he goes! Worth reading for this part alone:
For complete list of parachute_silk's Sherlock fics and links to all the parts, check the masterlist.
Finally, I will rec unsentimentalf. Her work is on the darkish side, explores Moriarty quite a bit, mostly in relationship to Sherlock. Very Sherlock-y, very intriguing. And I love her AU's. Or are they AU's? Thoughtful, almost philosophical. A pleasure to read.
As a bonus, I lured her into reading the Aubreyad and she loves it! Has even written a fic, well worth your time to read: The Broken Lock.
OK, well, didn't quite manage to post this on Day 2, but at least it's done! Now good read and enjoy! :D
Recs as per Snowflake Fandom Challenge Day 2.
In Aubreyad fandom I give thanks to two recent fic-writing additions to our community,
josbanks here on DW and renaiya880727 over at LJ. To me they both capture the voice and dialogue and spirit of the Aubreyad wonderfully, helping explicate and navigate the complexities of emotion and plot that POB weaves. They have been remarkably prolific, writing oakum to fill in so many of the gaps in the series. And neither are done yet! What a delight they have been; every week more fic to enjoy :DSherlock fandom is so huge it is easy to overlook many gems by writers who for whatever reason do not get the attention they deserve. I can't even identify all those who should be read more than they are. I will limit myself to two who always come to the top of my mind.
parachute_silks: I especially enjoyed Rhyme, a very long and thorough case!fic mixed with some lovely angsty UST (my favourite combo :-) Currently also at work on Names for the Galaxy, a very intriguing futuristic space AU, still a WIP. Zie can take a long time to complete WIPS (Rhyme took 18 mos, maybe?) but they are worth the wait! Since zie completed at least two very long WIPs, I remain confident this one will be completed too :-)
Also thoroughly delightful is the WIP(?) Tell New Weather, which is both ACD and BBC. Moriarty explores a number of parallel universes, but can't get away from Holmes no matter where he goes! Worth reading for this part alone:
At that moment the door of a room across the hall opened and a man with luxuriant shoulder-length black hair strode out of the room. His imperious expression should have been rendered ridiculous by the fact that he was wearing something that reminded Moriarty an awful lot of a woman’s corset and a skirt made of swishing tin spikes. Somehow, it wasn’t.
‘Don’t be an idiot,’ he was calling back into the room. ‘They’re no threat.’
At this moment, two men, one in a fairly respectable looking suit and the other in what would have been a respectable looking suit if its skirt had been replaced with trousers, stepped out.
‘Sherlock Holmes,’ one said, extending his hand.
The man in the corset shook it. Moriarty closed his eyes, then opened them again, but the scene remained distressingly identical.
Everything after that happened very fast. One of the men drew a gun, and was evidently about to shoot Holmes when a woman in a wheelchair suddenly came hurtling out of the room, her one hand holding a gun of her own. She fired it without any apparent hesitation or compunction, and the would-be assassin dropped to the floor. The other man glanced at her once, then bolted.
‘Told you so,’ the woman said cheerfully.
Holmes looked half-disgruntled, half-admiring. ‘Fine,’ he murmured. ‘That was impressive. You didn’t even have a second to aim.’
‘This new gun’s brilliant,’ the woman said. ‘Much less recoil than I’m used to, and easy to fire one-handed.’
‘No gun’s easy to fire one-handed,’ Holmes said, rolling his eyes. ‘You’re just an absurdly good shot.’
For complete list of parachute_silk's Sherlock fics and links to all the parts, check the masterlist.
Finally, I will rec unsentimentalf. Her work is on the darkish side, explores Moriarty quite a bit, mostly in relationship to Sherlock. Very Sherlock-y, very intriguing. And I love her AU's. Or are they AU's? Thoughtful, almost philosophical. A pleasure to read.
As a bonus, I lured her into reading the Aubreyad and she loves it! Has even written a fic, well worth your time to read: The Broken Lock.
OK, well, didn't quite manage to post this on Day 2, but at least it's done! Now good read and enjoy! :D