My fave fic: flist edition
Sep. 17th, 2008 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
transemacabreI know I'm not the world's greatest feedback giver; that's partly because sometimes I just like something for what it is, and saying 'good job!' sounds silly, and other times because I have difficulty talking one-on-one with people, even friends, even through the internet. But I've been dwelling on some of my favorite fics, which happen to be written by people on my flist, and I thought maybe if I did it like a rec, it'd be easier telling other people why I liked your fic than it is telling you I liked your fic.
And I don't really consider this sucking up, because I'm not much of a bullshitter and to be honest, if I thought your writing sucked or was only so-so, I probably wouldn't have friended you in the first place. Obviously, this doesn't apply to my non-fannish friends, of whom there's like five.
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redcandle17. She writes ASOIAF fanfic, one of the few non-comics fandoms I'm into, and surprise surprise, one of the tiniest. What can I say, I like being in small fandoms. It makes me feel elitist. Anyway, she writes a lot of great Sandor/Sansa fic, but my favorite SanSan fic is actually You Get What You Want (It's Not Enough). The split between Sansa and Sandor's viewpoints is just perfect -- Sansa is just naive enough, and Sandor's just cynical enough. Also, I love it when sex isn't portrayed as all soft light and gasping. There's something about realistically portrayed sex (especially a first time. Especially a first time with a virgin) that's way hotter than any sanitary fantasy.
On the slash side, I think If the Walls of White Sword Tower Could Talk is just fantastic. We've actually got three hot pairings -- Jaime/Arthur Dayne, Arthur/Oberyn, AND Oberyn/Jaime, and god, what more could you ask for -- and there's this humorous side to it that's rare as a blue rose in ASOIAFic.
Just about everything ASOIAF Red writes is pretty awesome, but I want to point out two stories really quick -- For Warmth and Fool, because they're Theon-centric, and I think Theon must be one of the hardest characters to write well. He's such a nasty little punk, and Jon can be boring, but amazingly Red can write BOTH of them in "For Warmth" and it's fantastic, which is a hell of a lot harder feat that writing, say, a Dorne orgy fic. So there you go. Go read Red's stuff and write her lots of juicy feedback and then write her the ASOIAF pairing fic of her choice to make her happy, because she deserves it. Peace out.
And I don't really consider this sucking up, because I'm not much of a bullshitter and to be honest, if I thought your writing sucked or was only so-so, I probably wouldn't have friended you in the first place. Obviously, this doesn't apply to my non-fannish friends, of whom there's like five.
So we'll start with
redcandle17. She writes ASOIAF fanfic, one of the few non-comics fandoms I'm into, and surprise surprise, one of the tiniest. What can I say, I like being in small fandoms. It makes me feel elitist. Anyway, she writes a lot of great Sandor/Sansa fic, but my favorite SanSan fic is actually You Get What You Want (It's Not Enough). The split between Sansa and Sandor's viewpoints is just perfect -- Sansa is just naive enough, and Sandor's just cynical enough. Also, I love it when sex isn't portrayed as all soft light and gasping. There's something about realistically portrayed sex (especially a first time. Especially a first time with a virgin) that's way hotter than any sanitary fantasy.On the slash side, I think If the Walls of White Sword Tower Could Talk is just fantastic. We've actually got three hot pairings -- Jaime/Arthur Dayne, Arthur/Oberyn, AND Oberyn/Jaime, and god, what more could you ask for -- and there's this humorous side to it that's rare as a blue rose in ASOIAFic.
Just about everything ASOIAF Red writes is pretty awesome, but I want to point out two stories really quick -- For Warmth and Fool, because they're Theon-centric, and I think Theon must be one of the hardest characters to write well. He's such a nasty little punk, and Jon can be boring, but amazingly Red can write BOTH of them in "For Warmth" and it's fantastic, which is a hell of a lot harder feat that writing, say, a Dorne orgy fic. So there you go. Go read Red's stuff and write her lots of juicy feedback and then write her the ASOIAF pairing fic of her choice to make her happy, because she deserves it. Peace out.
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Date: 2008-09-18 12:46 am (UTC)Also, I love it when sex isn't portrayed as just soft light and gasping. There's something about realistically portrayed sex (especially a first time. Especially a first time with a virgin) that's way hotter than any sanitary fantasy.
Did you like the Butch/Marissa first time as much as I did? I was so pleasantly surprised to find a sex scene like that in a romance novel. It was so wonderfully realistic.
By the way, Theon's actually one of the easiest characters for me to write. I know, I know. That's the way it is in Harry Potter fandom too. It's easy for me to write Tom Riddle and harder to write good guys like the Marauders. I think of it as catharsis for my dark side. :P
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Date: 2008-09-18 01:00 am (UTC)I sort of flip-flop on Theon, because on one side he's a despicable little punk, and on the other he's SO FAR in over his head that it's fascinating watching him flail around. He brings out good reactions from other characters, too. As you noted, he's one of the few people Jon Snow will be outright mean to. IMHO, Jon's only interesting when roused from his vows/honor/Starkish comfort zone.