Story Recs
Mar. 7th, 2013 07:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhI found two new, excellent Swordspoint stories, and everyone should read them!
Who'll Give You Time by wishlark. The summary on AO3 is "Five Times Alec Didn't Cry", but this story is so much deeper and more complicated and better than that. It's about Alec, and his history, and Richard/Alec, and the good and bad of that, and how people change, and ugh, it's just so good, go read it right now, seriously.
A Room, also by wishlark. "Marcus meets the Duke." Another story with perfect dialogue and characterizations, if happier than the first. A quote:
“Marcus,” he repeated. “Can you read?”
The duke was notoriously unpredictable, and the question seemed innocent. But Marcus feared it was a test of some sort, a double-edged question which he had to consider carefully. He opened his mouth, but didn't know what the duke wanted him to say. “I -”
“It is not,” the duke began, “A difficult question.” Each of his words filled up the space of ten of anyone else's.
Both of these stories are fantastic, and if you know the fandom at all, I highly recommend them.
Also, I'm heading to Rajasthan tonight, whooo! (I think I forgot to mention it here on LJ, but I've been in India since January. However, unlike my usual travels, I've had continuous access to the internet this trip, and so it doesn't make much of a difference. Except for the time zones. No one ever posts when I'm awake.)
Who'll Give You Time by wishlark. The summary on AO3 is "Five Times Alec Didn't Cry", but this story is so much deeper and more complicated and better than that. It's about Alec, and his history, and Richard/Alec, and the good and bad of that, and how people change, and ugh, it's just so good, go read it right now, seriously.
A Room, also by wishlark. "Marcus meets the Duke." Another story with perfect dialogue and characterizations, if happier than the first. A quote:
“Marcus,” he repeated. “Can you read?”
The duke was notoriously unpredictable, and the question seemed innocent. But Marcus feared it was a test of some sort, a double-edged question which he had to consider carefully. He opened his mouth, but didn't know what the duke wanted him to say. “I -”
“It is not,” the duke began, “A difficult question.” Each of his words filled up the space of ten of anyone else's.
Both of these stories are fantastic, and if you know the fandom at all, I highly recommend them.
Also, I'm heading to Rajasthan tonight, whooo! (I think I forgot to mention it here on LJ, but I've been in India since January. However, unlike my usual travels, I've had continuous access to the internet this trip, and so it doesn't make much of a difference. Except for the time zones. No one ever posts when I'm awake.)
