book rec and fic recs
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psocopteraFanfic and profic mixing it up in the same post, oh the humanity!
The Shattering - Another excellent YA by Karen Healey, who is going on my "read whatever she writes" list. More serious than Guardian of the Dead - real-world serious - as it's about three teens whose older brothers all committed suicide. Or did they. Three things I liked: 1) smart, genre-savvy protagonists who are 2) realistically placed on a spectrum of credulous/skeptical, when the possibility of supernatural explanations comes up (I hate it in books when real-world characters are either too quick to easily accept fantastical stuff, or stay in denial when there is like a vampire right there argh, unless it's lampshaded like the Sunnydale effect). 3) There is enjoyable romance but sibling relationships and friend relationships are major plot drivers. Also it made me cry. Recommended to all YA readers. (If anyone *has* read it, I would love to discuss, I have problems with the last chapter...) (Also: she seems to read fanfic and is possibly in fandom? I know it's not cool to ask to out someone, but if anyone happened to know if there was a fanfic author whose work I might also really like if I like Karen Healey's profic, I would be interested in that...)
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gyzym, 37K words, Avengers, Natasha/Clint. I don't ship this pairing in canon (Natasha/"being a female character whose character arc is about something other than her relationships" all the way!) but in fanfic, anything goes, and wow, this is incredible. Post-movie, about dealing with, uh, fallout of the movie. Intense and heartbreaking and so well done. Hits my competency kink hard. And, oh, the ways these versions of them fit each other. And - I will admit that a lot of times these days I get bored with sex scenes in fanfic, I enjoy the leadup but the actual porn, it's like, okay, yes, body parts, check, but this fic has the best and best-written sex scenes I've read in ages, hot and plot-meaningful and profoundly in character.
The Sky and Everything Beneath It,jibrailis, 7K words, Avengers, Steve gen. Also post-movie, also coming to terms, although more with his personal situation than movie-plot fallout. Also heartbreaking, except also extremely funny in spots. Had me at the Toyota Corolla.
Also, Avengers question: how can he possibly be named Clint? Isn't that the name no one can have in comics, in the same way that "flick" is the action no one may narrate? Was that a deliberate flick-you to the poor letterer, or something?
The Shattering - Another excellent YA by Karen Healey, who is going on my "read whatever she writes" list. More serious than Guardian of the Dead - real-world serious - as it's about three teens whose older brothers all committed suicide. Or did they. Three things I liked: 1) smart, genre-savvy protagonists who are 2) realistically placed on a spectrum of credulous/skeptical, when the possibility of supernatural explanations comes up (I hate it in books when real-world characters are either too quick to easily accept fantastical stuff, or stay in denial when there is like a vampire right there argh, unless it's lampshaded like the Sunnydale effect). 3) There is enjoyable romance but sibling relationships and friend relationships are major plot drivers. Also it made me cry. Recommended to all YA readers. (If anyone *has* read it, I would love to discuss, I have problems with the last chapter...) (Also: she seems to read fanfic and is possibly in fandom? I know it's not cool to ask to out someone, but if anyone happened to know if there was a fanfic author whose work I might also really like if I like Karen Healey's profic, I would be interested in that...)
we were emergencies,
gyzym, 37K words, Avengers, Natasha/Clint. I don't ship this pairing in canon (Natasha/"being a female character whose character arc is about something other than her relationships" all the way!) but in fanfic, anything goes, and wow, this is incredible. Post-movie, about dealing with, uh, fallout of the movie. Intense and heartbreaking and so well done. Hits my competency kink hard. And, oh, the ways these versions of them fit each other. And - I will admit that a lot of times these days I get bored with sex scenes in fanfic, I enjoy the leadup but the actual porn, it's like, okay, yes, body parts, check, but this fic has the best and best-written sex scenes I've read in ages, hot and plot-meaningful and profoundly in character.The Sky and Everything Beneath It,
jibrailis, 7K words, Avengers, Steve gen. Also post-movie, also coming to terms, although more with his personal situation than movie-plot fallout. Also heartbreaking, except also extremely funny in spots. Had me at the Toyota Corolla.Also, Avengers question: how can he possibly be named Clint? Isn't that the name no one can have in comics, in the same way that "flick" is the action no one may narrate? Was that a deliberate flick-you to the poor letterer, or something?
