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brigdhSome random unrelated links I've collected and want share:
Final Hour - really lovely BtvS vid.
A wonderful rec list of SFF books by female authors.
An interesting post about sex in Colonial America.
An incredibly sad but true comic. It's hila-terrible!
The Uncharted Sea by Mahoni. Bandom (though I totally just read it as original fic), M (for violence/non-con), mostly gen (with subtext), 118k. Absolutely fantastic story. I love the worldbuilding in this- it's a mix of steampunk, sci-fi, and fantasy elements, which seems like it shouldn't work, but which really, really does, and is constructed and revealed in such an well-done way. The backstories and central mystery are given a slow-burn tension that's rare to see so well-done in fanfiction (like, I love fanfiction, but it does tend to specialize in shorter formats). It has many of my favorite tropes- found family, honorable criminals, desperate rescues. There's action and fight scenes and travel and it's just basically a fantastic novel.
Three Days (or The One Where Javert and Valjean Take a Road Trip Through France and Raise a Child) by zamwessell. Les Miserables, E, Javert/Valjean, 36k. Well, the subtitle really says it all, doesn't it? I haven't read much on the JVJ side of Les Mis fandom, but I'm so glad I read this one. It does a wonderful gradual build of affection and love between the two main characters, and the writing is lovely and in-character.
Final Hour - really lovely BtvS vid.
A wonderful rec list of SFF books by female authors.
An interesting post about sex in Colonial America.
An incredibly sad but true comic. It's hila-terrible!
The Uncharted Sea by Mahoni. Bandom (though I totally just read it as original fic), M (for violence/non-con), mostly gen (with subtext), 118k. Absolutely fantastic story. I love the worldbuilding in this- it's a mix of steampunk, sci-fi, and fantasy elements, which seems like it shouldn't work, but which really, really does, and is constructed and revealed in such an well-done way. The backstories and central mystery are given a slow-burn tension that's rare to see so well-done in fanfiction (like, I love fanfiction, but it does tend to specialize in shorter formats). It has many of my favorite tropes- found family, honorable criminals, desperate rescues. There's action and fight scenes and travel and it's just basically a fantastic novel.
Three Days (or The One Where Javert and Valjean Take a Road Trip Through France and Raise a Child) by zamwessell. Les Miserables, E, Javert/Valjean, 36k. Well, the subtitle really says it all, doesn't it? I haven't read much on the JVJ side of Les Mis fandom, but I'm so glad I read this one. It does a wonderful gradual build of affection and love between the two main characters, and the writing is lovely and in-character.
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Date: 2014-03-02 12:11 am (UTC)More people should read Diane Duane's cat wizard books. ^.^ And there are a lot of authors I didn't know about!
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Date: 2014-03-02 04:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-02 05:39 am (UTC)She gets recced a great deal for her Young Wizard's series, and the cat wizard books are in the same universe - but the protagonists are cats rather than children, and the worldbuilding is fascinating. Diane Duane is also one of the few authors I know who can write the climax of a book in a way that I can feel, viscerally, as I read it- to be pulled into the world, the emotion, the culmination of everything and the turning point of the story. She doesn't hit it every book, but when she does, it's glorious. I remember Night With Moon being one of those. (Deep Wizardry was another good one, if you decide to read the children's side of that universe)
Spock's World is made up of one plotline in the modern TOS universe, trying to convince Vulcan to remain part of the Federation, interspersed with shorter stories of people's lives, throughout the history of the planet Vulcan. Again, the worldbuilding is AMAZING, and the characters come through really strongly. (And as a lot of it is OCs and worldbuilding of Vulcan history, you don't need to know everything about Trek to appreciate it, I think).
I've managed to find copies of a few of the Door into Fire series, but I haven't read them all yet.
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