Some Fanfic
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rushthatspeaksBased on a conversation I had over dinner this evening, I am posting the links to my two favorite fanfics of all time, the ones I feel are masterpieces of art all by themselves and wish could be published in book form. Enjoy, peoples.
1. Sakura and Snow
http://www.firecat.net/fanfics/sakura/sakura.html
This is a Tokyo Babylon/X fic. I'm not sure how well it would read to one who is unfamiliar with the series involved, but my own familiarity with these series was only partial when I first read it. The difficulty is that Tokyo Babylon and large portions of X are not yet available in English. I read them in French. However, any halfway competent Tokyo Babylon site will give sufficient info to make the fic comprehensible. Heck, there're probably translations out there-- I think homasse's site had some up for a while? Anyway. This. Is. Brilliant. Warnings: *long*, novel-length, though handily divided into parts; still in progress and updated all too infrequently. NC-17 bits which are clearly labeled and have good warnings of their own, besides being really necessary to the plot and being the best psychological writing about sex I have ever read. Also angst all over the place.
Actually, I recommend anything Natalie Baan writes, unless it is a collaboration (she works best alone). Funny, charming, witty, beautiful prose and a way of really grabbing the emotions.
2. The Fire and the Rose
http://www.witchfics.org/fr/
This is Harry Potter fic. Specifically, this is Harry Potter slash. And it is a pairing that in all other circumstances I would think of as a Really, Really, Really Bad Idea for anyone to even attempt writing. Except here. This is genius and is laugh-out-loud funny. This is the fic in which Snape and Hermione get into a Potions accident and switch bodies. I do not read Harry Potter fic. I really don't read Harry Potter slash. But this was recommended to me by a dear friend, and she turned out to be very, very right. Warnings: novel-length, though handily divided into parts and, fortunately, finished. NC-17 bits, which are not labeled in advance but which are necessary to the plot and which contain in the later chapters some very insightful and interesting writing.
Sadly, I can't recommend anything else these people do, as they write as a team and have never managed to come up to this level again.
So, to the people I was talking with at dinner: here are the fics I always use to justify the existence of fanfiction as an artform in itself, in which art is possible, if the writer is good enough.
1. Sakura and Snow
http://www.firecat.net/fanfics/sakura/sakura.html
This is a Tokyo Babylon/X fic. I'm not sure how well it would read to one who is unfamiliar with the series involved, but my own familiarity with these series was only partial when I first read it. The difficulty is that Tokyo Babylon and large portions of X are not yet available in English. I read them in French. However, any halfway competent Tokyo Babylon site will give sufficient info to make the fic comprehensible. Heck, there're probably translations out there-- I think homasse's site had some up for a while? Anyway. This. Is. Brilliant. Warnings: *long*, novel-length, though handily divided into parts; still in progress and updated all too infrequently. NC-17 bits which are clearly labeled and have good warnings of their own, besides being really necessary to the plot and being the best psychological writing about sex I have ever read. Also angst all over the place.
Actually, I recommend anything Natalie Baan writes, unless it is a collaboration (she works best alone). Funny, charming, witty, beautiful prose and a way of really grabbing the emotions.
2. The Fire and the Rose
http://www.witchfics.org/fr/
This is Harry Potter fic. Specifically, this is Harry Potter slash. And it is a pairing that in all other circumstances I would think of as a Really, Really, Really Bad Idea for anyone to even attempt writing. Except here. This is genius and is laugh-out-loud funny. This is the fic in which Snape and Hermione get into a Potions accident and switch bodies. I do not read Harry Potter fic. I really don't read Harry Potter slash. But this was recommended to me by a dear friend, and she turned out to be very, very right. Warnings: novel-length, though handily divided into parts and, fortunately, finished. NC-17 bits, which are not labeled in advance but which are necessary to the plot and which contain in the later chapters some very insightful and interesting writing.
Sadly, I can't recommend anything else these people do, as they write as a team and have never managed to come up to this level again.
So, to the people I was talking with at dinner: here are the fics I always use to justify the existence of fanfiction as an artform in itself, in which art is possible, if the writer is good enough.
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Date: 2003-04-02 05:45 pm (UTC)