Pros Fic Recs...
Monday, 18 January 2010 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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
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
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Date: Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:27 am (UTC)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?