Rec-Go-Round Meme

[przed]

From faramir_boromir's LJ, because lord knows I need some good fic right about now.


Rec-Go-Round: Rec me one story you've written that you're proud of, any genre, here on my LJ.

Then go forth and ask the same in yours.

Or two or three, if you really want to and can't decide, but if you go for that, then rec in different fandoms. But try not to do any of that self-effacing, "Oh, I'm an attention whore so it might not be," or, "But I'm not very good" or whatever. I just want to read what you're most proud of - I'm not going to reassure you that you're fabulous.


Me again. I won't reassure, because of course you're all fabulous. *g*

Comments

[faramir-boromir.livejournal.com]

In Lord of the Rings, I'd say "The Naming of Qualities." (http://faramir-boromir.livejournal.com/1977.html) I've written longer series, and more twisty plots, but this one is my baby, my favorite. It's angsty to the max, Faramir brooding half the time, but for a logical reason. And I think of it as special because it was also the first fiction I had written in nearly 20 years after giving that up.

I've only just begun with Queer as Folk, but of what I've written thus far, I'd say "10,000 Fucks." (http://faramir-boromir.livejournal.com/125499.html) Pre-series Brian spoke to me, and I think he did so in an authentic, non-abused, non-romanticized, non-corrupted way.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Well, you know I love 10,000 Fucks, but I'd missed The Naming of Qualities, and that was definitely a loss. It is utterly lovely. You shortchange neither Eowyn nor Boromir and show the importance of both of them in Faramir's life. Of course, it doesn't hurt that I'm an angst addict and rather fond of death stories. Which probably goes a ways to explaining why I love Boromir so.

[faramir-boromir.livejournal.com]

I don't think we were friends back when I wrote "Naming" so it's unlikely you'd have found it unless you went through my memories. I'm happy that you like it so, for it is my complete favorite of all the LotR fic I've ever written. Faramir's balanced grief, for both his lost loves, makes it break my heart every time I reread it.

[kassidy62.livejournal.com]

I'm not much for go-rounds of anything, being so utterly antisocial lately, but this sounds interesting. So here's my rec for you: http://shslash.kassidyrae.com/fiction.html - it's called "Blood on the Sun."

Now let me go forth and post this up in my journal, thanks! I think.

[przed.livejournal.com]

That is one awesome, wrenching story. I love dark angst, and this is quality angst of the darkest sort. Thanks for the rec.

[kassidy62.livejournal.com]

You betcha. Glad to make you wrench;)

[fileg.livejournal.com]

Slouching Toward Gondolin (http://www.gryphonsmith.com/fileg/tay/gondolin.html) because it's so different from what I usually write, and yet unmistakably my writing voice.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Very different and very powerful. I love viewing tales from a different angle, and this is one of the best stories of that sort I've seen. And I adore these two sentences in the penultimate paragraph:

You are pig-iron and we are steel. We have been remade, refined, perfected - fashioned, formed and forged for fury.

Pure, vicious poetry.

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Another friend posted this meme and it reminded me I meant to post something here. It might not be in a fandom you read but you did ask. :-)

http://ksarchive.com/viewstory.php?sid=47

[przed.livejournal.com]

I don't usually read K/S, but Star Trek was my first fannish love, though I didn't know it at the time.

Very nice story. I love that you gave the Mirror universe Kirk and Spock a relationship as close as our own two.

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I don't usually read K/S, but Star Trek was my first fannish love, though I didn't know it at the time.

Yeah, I hear that a lot.

Very nice story. I love that you gave the Mirror universe Kirk and Spock a relationship as close as our own two.

Thanks. :-) I tend to prefer the angst coming from outside the relationship (of any of my pairings,) so I don't think I could have written them any other way.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear that a lot.

No doubt. I always loved the slashy ST novels, but never quite made the transition to slash with them. I think they're to tied up with my childhood.

BTW, while we're sharing recs, you know I've made a ST vid, right? (http:przed.com/vids at the bottom of the page.)

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

No doubt. I always loved the slashy ST novels, but never quite made the transition to slash with them. I think they're to tied up with my childhood.

I was already thirteen when the show first aired and fell immediately in love with Spock, so sexuality, no matter how immature, has always been part of my connection with the show. Actually, it wasn't until I got into K/S that I learned to appreciate Kirk. Before that, he was sorta just there.

BTW, while we're sharing recs, you know I've made a ST vid, right? (http:przed.com/vids at the bottom of the page.)

Oh, yes! I knew about it even before I started going to your site for UNCLE, and now Pros, stuff. Someone posted the link to it on a K/S group quite awhile ago (July 2003.) Though, I assume, meant to be gen, it conveys so much of what makes their relationship, it can easily be seen as slash, too. :-)

[przed.livejournal.com]

I was one when ST first aired, and four when I first saw it. (Seeing The Galileo Seven is my first memory of watching television. The big aliens with the spears scared the daylights out of me.)

And yeah, the vid was meant to be gen, but all my K/S friends read it as slash, which is perfectly okay with me.