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psocopteraV is for Vorkosigan!
Burn the Topless Towers, about Aral's first wife, and Ges.
Money often costs too much, third parties consider the problem of Miles.
A Fine and Public Place, Ivan and By.
Domestic Affairs, Ekaterin and Miles.
Keeping the Peace, an interesting AU (Shards of Honor era).
So, you might be asking, do I want to read either of the long Vorkosigan stories, the 18K word fandom AU or the 47K word Ivan/By novel? I prefer to stick to positive recs - I've read plenty of Yuletide stories and found them disappointing and I usually just wouldn't mention it - but I think it's actually possible that someone could be reading this who reads in the Vorkosiverse but hasn't automatically read every word of Yuletide Vorkosific yet and thus might actually be interested in my opinion. Which is that I read both and am not recommending either.
As far as Y being for Young Wizards - I sometimes forget that I am not actually into this fandom. I mean, I love the first three books and they're important to me, and I love fanfiction about them, but what I really care about is Nita, and secondarily Kit, and Nita & Kit, and Nita/Kit, and really not so much their sisters and their friends and their sisters' friends and the whole secondary cast that becomes important in the later books. (I guess Dairine stars in High Wizardry but I mostly read it for the Nita parts.) Of course I like Tom and Carl - who wouldn't like a gay couple smuggled into a kids' book in 1982 - but, enh, anyways, no recs this year.
I in fact only have one final rec for this year, which is Astolat's story, which I never would have read based on the fandom, but is of course excellent: Force Majeure. Washington and Hamilton + AU with magic.
Best-of list coming soon!
Burn the Topless Towers, about Aral's first wife, and Ges.
Money often costs too much, third parties consider the problem of Miles.
A Fine and Public Place, Ivan and By.
Domestic Affairs, Ekaterin and Miles.
Keeping the Peace, an interesting AU (Shards of Honor era).
So, you might be asking, do I want to read either of the long Vorkosigan stories, the 18K word fandom AU or the 47K word Ivan/By novel? I prefer to stick to positive recs - I've read plenty of Yuletide stories and found them disappointing and I usually just wouldn't mention it - but I think it's actually possible that someone could be reading this who reads in the Vorkosiverse but hasn't automatically read every word of Yuletide Vorkosific yet and thus might actually be interested in my opinion. Which is that I read both and am not recommending either.
As far as Y being for Young Wizards - I sometimes forget that I am not actually into this fandom. I mean, I love the first three books and they're important to me, and I love fanfiction about them, but what I really care about is Nita, and secondarily Kit, and Nita & Kit, and Nita/Kit, and really not so much their sisters and their friends and their sisters' friends and the whole secondary cast that becomes important in the later books. (I guess Dairine stars in High Wizardry but I mostly read it for the Nita parts.) Of course I like Tom and Carl - who wouldn't like a gay couple smuggled into a kids' book in 1982 - but, enh, anyways, no recs this year.
I in fact only have one final rec for this year, which is Astolat's story, which I never would have read based on the fandom, but is of course excellent: Force Majeure. Washington and Hamilton + AU with magic.
Best-of list coming soon!
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Date: 2012-02-06 09:11 pm (UTC)(Also, what is it about the Vorkosigan Saga that >70% of its fanfic gives me the reaction of "*falls over ded*"?)