Pros Fic Recs...

[byslantedlight]

... because it occurred to me that I started to do this for Torchwood, but I've never really done it for Pros - not just in a here-are-my-favourites kind of way... So... I shall just add to them as I go along, and as I re-read fic and fall in love with it again... Feel free to chime in at any time... Not sure if I'll re-post this now and then, or just keep adding to it, but... we'll see! *g* Hmmn, also wondering about adding sort of categories - I-die-everytime-I-read-this, I-enjoy-this-every-time, and nice-read sort of thing... Hmmn...

Pros Stories That I Adore
It occurs to me that I should explain exactly what it is that makes me love a story... My favourite stories sweep me off my feet - transport me completely to their world, so that I feel everything that happens to the characters. And I don't mind if that includes angst, trauma, deep sorrow or even death - I know they're just stories and it's that exact depth of feeling that I want, whatever that feeling might be! So there might be sad stories recced below, happy stories, funny stories, death stories, and everything in between - and I'm not going to describe them or warn for them or anything (if you need that sort of thing, you can find it in various places for the majority of Pros stories). I like a story to have atmosphere - if it's a cold day, I like best to be able to feel the cold as I'm reading, not just be told so...

Things that leave me disliking, or unconvinced about a story are when I don't see "my" lads in the characterisation, if I'm "knocked out" of the story by too much poor grammar, too many Americanisms/Australianisms/other isms (*g*), lack of any kind of atmosphere, too much explanation ("telling" rather than "showing"), clever-clever author stuff, too much back-tracking to tell me what's happened before, rather than including it as part of the story...

The Alchemist's Measure and The Devil's Apprentice by Kitty Fisher

Redemption by Kate Maclean

The Siren series by Sebastian and Helen Raven

Comments

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

It's great to see what other people love, and also to be reminded of fic I haven't read in an age... plus there's so much I still haven't got round to reading for the first time yet. Meep!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - I'm jealous! I tore through fic so fast when I first found Pros - I have streets of fics printed out, just sitting waiting for me in Alaska, and shelves of zines even... which considering I have shelves and shelves here... *g*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

I still haven't got around to getting the CD... ah, the upside of being a slow reader *g*

I love that you seem to have belongings scattered all around the world - you're global, you are!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeah - a wee bit too global unfortunately, sometimes I'd like to use some of that stuff!

And lucky you - years of reading ahead of you yet... Mind you, I've had the CD from very early in my Pros life, and I don't think I've read everything on it yet - not nearly!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I, too, adore Redemption. It worked for me in a way YBR never did, probably because I got to see them together after everything was over. I knew they were together because I'd seen it in black and white. *g*

And would you believe, I don't think I've ever read the other two! Not that I can recall, anyway (which doesn't really mean much.) So I've put them on my desktop as a reminder.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like YBR too, I've just not re-read it recently... am trying to keep myself in line by re-reading and then posting the recs! *g* I'm absolutely convinced they were together at the end of both stories - it never occurred to me that they might not be!

And ohhh - I like Kitty Fisher alot, and these two are historical bdsm fics that I really like alot... I'd forgotten how much until I re-read them... I was on my way somewhere else, and was completely distracted... *g*

[siskiou.livejournal.com]

Recs are wonderful, even if Redemption (when I finally got a chance to read it) didn't work all that well for me.
And I don't think I've read the two Kitty Fisher stories.

When you say, you'll add more recs to this, do you mean this post? Or do you have a rec page
planned somewhere?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I should just keep posting them here, or perhaps post a new page each time I add to the list... maybe a combination of the two... Either way, I just meant here at my lj!

Was wondering about "categories" of recs too - wonder if that'd be helpful... Hmmn... *g*

I adore Redemption, and anything by Maclean, though I know other people are less keen. I like to be swept away by fic... hmmn, perhaps I should explain what I like in fic at the top of the thingie too...

Diversity

[ma-donna196.livejournal.com]

I love the diversity in Pros fandom. One person's treasure is another's...;) Those are three stories I wish I hadn't read and would like to expunge from my memory. Characters I disliked and who annoyed me to no end.

My most recent discovery is Who Caught and Sang the Sun. This is the future Bodie and Doyle I see in my mind's eye. The dialogue is clever, Bodie and Doyle are brilliant and dangerous and cool and witty and tender and loving and a joy to read. (I've only about 50 pages left to read and I'm savouring it. I'm really hoping that one or more of the "Hollywood" group get a good come-uppance from either of the lads - or at least a smashed camera or two;)

Re: Diversity

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The world would be nothing without diversity - viva everyone liking different things!

And thank you! I am glad you're enjoying Who Caught and Sang the Sun! *g*

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

I loved Redemption and it's on my re-read pile (just as soon as I get through all the new stuff! Who'da thunk a fandom 30 years old would still be quite as prolific?)
I haven't read the Kitty Fisher fics though. *adds to pile of new stuff to read*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm told that most people who fall for Pros at all, tend to hang on to it rather than just flutterby off somewhere - or if they do flutterby off, they often come back, or keep it at their heart... Got to admit that nothing else has grabbed me like Pros - much as I loved Torchwood I'm not so fussed at the moment - but Pros has been going strongly for me since 2005! *g*

[ma-donna196.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. There is something very special about Bodie and Doyle. Writers can take them in so many directions. I sometimes take a break from my other fandom love, but not Pros. A new story lightens my day. I've only been reading Pros since 2003, but I can't imagine ever leaving the lads;) I always like to compare a story written in the early 80's to a similarly themed one written today. It's quite interesting.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I always like to compare a story written in the early 80's to a similarly themed one written today. It's quite interesting.
Oh, it'll take me a minute to remember where, but I was talking about that with someone just the other day! We were wondering how older and newer fics compare - I'd love to hear about two similarly-themed fics like that, how you found the comparison?