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can you share some SGA fic recs? : D
LOL you know, I should’ve expected someone would ask that. If you’re serious about needing recs, @popkin16 has like, every fic ever published arranged by category, and might even have a category that features Highfalutin’ Poetic Writin’ That Makes You Jealous, I don’t know. She’s got it all. She is a treasure.
I honestly don’t know if they’re all still there, the ones I loved particularly, so many of them were on LJ. And that was why I fell into that fandom, honestly, because I’d seen so many of them go by in realtime years before, among the friends on my LJ who were into the fandom. (I actually went to undergrad with one particular semi-BNF in the fandom, so, I was already following her…)
Alas, I went and looked at my half-hearted bookmark file, and it is a semi-gibberish mess of fics I liked and fics I meant to read, with no marking of whether I did, and I know for a fact I started it too late, I’d already devoured innumerable stories and loved them and digested them and forgotten where I’d seen them.
The Farm in Iowa ‘verse is one I know affected me (I read it before I watched the show, and the show suffered a little for it), speranza’s stuff (like Sheppard’s Law) affected me, toomuchplor’s ‘verse where John’s brother dies and he has to go back to Earth and raise his brother’s two kids affected me a lot linguistically and world-building-thinkingly.
I don’t really remember, I’m just pasting down the ones I know I read and loved. Oh Whizzy’s Black Helicopters made it to AO3, that’s great. I loved those, some of them I read on a clandestinely-circulated PDF while various of the fandom-specific archives were in death throes, so I probably ought to pop over and comment on the AO3 series. I don’t know that the language of that one affected me but the tropes and worldbuilding are brilliant. SUCH GOOD TROPES. And details, like, how someone who knows that sort of thing can identify a good helicopter pilot by how precisely the thing has been landed, and using such for dick-measuring contests and the like.
Auburn had a ton of really heartbreaking stuff that I found hard to read but Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves was a phenomenal look at genuinely-damaged characters, beautifully-written.
There was another one I know I’ve made people find for me before, an LJ-based one about Rodney having amnesia on earth, that one is also pretty much perfectly-written, I know I absorbed phrases from that totally whole, but I forgot the identifying details.
And I know I was super into @esteefee‘s coffee shop AU stuff, but I don’t remember the language so much as the characterization, it was such a good chronic-pain rep and the emotional truth stuff was great, and also, it has the distinction of being the first time I ever encountered a coffeeshop AU, and it spoiled me entirely for the genre, I can’t read any others.
A linguistic note: as I recall, most of the best fics in that fandom, the really popular often-recced soul-destroying ones, were in present tense. I was just talking with someone about present tense. It has never come naturally to me, and if I try to use it I slip out of it all the time and need agonizing proofreading, but I have always had it in my head that The Best People With The Most Literary Chops use it, and so it’s hilarious to me, when on the rare occasions I do use it, people are so violently opposed to it.
I love it, as a reader. I think of how goddamn good so many of those fics were (i think aesc uses it a lot, a lot a lot, and she’s like, *kisses fingers, gestures like chef*), and it’s hilarious to me that other people have such different associations with it. I don’t mind not ever ever using it, but I’m a little sad that it’s not the instant ticket to fame and fortune I got the impression it would be. That would have been nice, if just mastering this slightly difficult but not impossible technique would solve all my readership problems, lol.
can you share some SGA fic recs? : D
LOL you know, I should’ve expected someone would ask that. If you’re serious about needing recs, @popkin16 has like, every fic ever published arranged by category, and might even have a category that features Highfalutin’ Poetic Writin’ That Makes You Jealous, I don’t know. She’s got it all. She is a treasure.
I honestly don’t know if they’re all still there, the ones I loved particularly, so many of them were on LJ. And that was why I fell into that fandom, honestly, because I’d seen so many of them go by in realtime years before, among the friends on my LJ who were into the fandom. (I actually went to undergrad with one particular semi-BNF in the fandom, so, I was already following her…)
Alas, I went and looked at my half-hearted bookmark file, and it is a semi-gibberish mess of fics I liked and fics I meant to read, with no marking of whether I did, and I know for a fact I started it too late, I’d already devoured innumerable stories and loved them and digested them and forgotten where I’d seen them.
The Farm in Iowa ‘verse is one I know affected me (I read it before I watched the show, and the show suffered a little for it), speranza’s stuff (like Sheppard’s Law) affected me, toomuchplor’s ‘verse where John’s brother dies and he has to go back to Earth and raise his brother’s two kids affected me a lot linguistically and world-building-thinkingly.
I don’t really remember, I’m just pasting down the ones I know I read and loved. Oh Whizzy’s Black Helicopters made it to AO3, that’s great. I loved those, some of them I read on a clandestinely-circulated PDF while various of the fandom-specific archives were in death throes, so I probably ought to pop over and comment on the AO3 series. I don’t know that the language of that one affected me but the tropes and worldbuilding are brilliant. SUCH GOOD TROPES. And details, like, how someone who knows that sort of thing can identify a good helicopter pilot by how precisely the thing has been landed, and using such for dick-measuring contests and the like.
Auburn had a ton of really heartbreaking stuff that I found hard to read but Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves was a phenomenal look at genuinely-damaged characters, beautifully-written.
There was another one I know I’ve made people find for me before, an LJ-based one about Rodney having amnesia on earth, that one is also pretty much perfectly-written, I know I absorbed phrases from that totally whole, but I forgot the identifying details.
And I know I was super into @esteefee‘s coffee shop AU stuff, but I don’t remember the language so much as the characterization, it was such a good chronic-pain rep and the emotional truth stuff was great, and also, it has the distinction of being the first time I ever encountered a coffeeshop AU, and it spoiled me entirely for the genre, I can’t read any others.
A linguistic note: as I recall, most of the best fics in that fandom, the really popular often-recced soul-destroying ones, were in present tense. I was just talking with someone about present tense. It has never come naturally to me, and if I try to use it I slip out of it all the time and need agonizing proofreading, but I have always had it in my head that The Best People With The Most Literary Chops use it, and so it’s hilarious to me, when on the rare occasions I do use it, people are so violently opposed to it.
I love it, as a reader. I think of how goddamn good so many of those fics were (i think aesc uses it a lot, a lot a lot, and she’s like, *kisses fingers, gestures like chef*), and it’s hilarious to me that other people have such different associations with it. I don’t mind not ever ever using it, but I’m a little sad that it’s not the instant ticket to fame and fortune I got the impression it would be. That would have been nice, if just mastering this slightly difficult but not impossible technique would solve all my readership problems, lol.
