DS/SGA: Birds Of A Feather, by julia_here.

11 April 2015 10:00 am
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FANDOM: Due South/Stargate: Atlantis
FIC LINK: Birds Of A Feather [in memories - all parts listed]
AUTHOR LINK: [livejournal.com profile] julia_here
RATING/WARNING(S): PG
WIP?/WORD COUNT: novelette | ~ 15,400 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Benton Fraser, Rodney McKay

FIC SUMMARY: Benton was still shorter than his grandmother's shoulder when he realized that he was not, in fact, quite fully human. There were things that everyone around him did, and he did not do them. There were ways in which everyone around him behaved, and he did not behave in those ways. - Childhood stories and adult friendship.

RECCER'S NOTES:

Beautifully woven together. Both Fraser and McKay seemed so real to me, and I loved their interaction. Love the building of their friendship, and how they relate to each other as adults.

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Star Trek TOS: Expanding the Oecumene, by AAmuse

5 April 2015 03:37 pm
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FANDOM: Star Trek TOS
FIC LINK: Expanding the Oecumene
AUTHOR LINK: [fanfiction.net profile] AAmuse
RATING/WARNING(S): none / K+
WIP?/WORD COUNT: complete / 48 500 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Spock, Pike, Number One, OCs

FIC SUMMARY: The events taking place during Spock’s final year at Starfleet Academy continue to shape him into the person and officer he will become. A tale about friendship and adventure.

RECCER'S NOTES: A tale of Spock's first, dangerous trip on the Enterprise with mentor-to-be Captain Pike. Plotty character explorations are always great. However it is easy for an author who loves a character (as we all do) to fall into the trap of only exploring the positives, or of doing a little fannish revisionist history. This story of what Spock's Academy days might have looked like never loses sight of the fact that Spock of Vulcan, later saviour of the known world, could also be a bit of a rebellious brat.
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Starsky & Hutch: The Beginnings and Endings series, by kuonji14

2 August 2014 11:02 am
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FANDOM: Starsky & Hutch
FIC LINK: The Beginnings and Endings Series
AUTHOR LINK: [livejournal.com profile] kuonji14
RATING/WARNING(S): varies from PG-13 to NC-17, contains scenes of both statutory and violent rape
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 8 installments, 27,789 words total
MAIN CHARACTERS: Kenneth Hutchinson, David Starsky, OMC

FIC SUMMARY: A case taking a bad turn reveals a part of Hutch's past that he had thought long buried.

RECCER'S NOTES: My first rec here! It's a plot that's rarely tackled in gen fics, but this series is one of the best stories I've ever read about a character struggling to deal with and communicate his experience of child sexual abuse. It's subtle, sensitive, and thoughtfully-crafted, with a keen, sophisticated awareness of how to structure a scene. It's candid about sordid details and stigma, and contains breathtaking displays of intense affection and intimate observations and conversations between the two main characters that few authors have the maturity to portray in a platonic friendship.
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