Need Fanfic Recommendations for PICKY reader

POSTED BY: LeeH
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 17:16
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ETHAN

Saturday, January 28, 2006 11:36 AM

These two are wildly entertaining, original and true to the characters. Pass them up and you'll be sorry...sorry in the hypothetical sense of course.

Downtime by Djinn
http://firefly.populli.org/archive/10/downtime.shtml

and it's sequel

Playing with Fire
http://firefly.populli.org/archive/10/playingwith.shtml

LILKRISTY

Saturday, January 28, 2006 4:04 PM

I havent' read all the recs but I have seen RinnyPJ mentioned. I'd second that one and specifically suggest her recent (and hopefully soon to be continued) Ain't No Soldier. She also wrote a short one shot Jayne/Inara piece that she actually had me buying. That's a miracle IMO.

I think I saw Jacqui mentioned. She's good and I loved the recent joss_100 she did. I think she labaled the whole she-bang Pieces.

Also thanks for starting this thread. I always love new fic recs.

LEEH

Saturday, January 28, 2006 8:19 PM

OMG, now how do I stop this thing?! If I read every good fic y'all have recommended, I will do nothing else--including write my own (something I'm too likely to procrastinate as it is). Then again, it might be fun to hole up for a few days and just bury myself in FF fic. . . .

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. . . ."

ENGINEANGEL

Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:13 PM

LeeH.
how do you feel about NC-17 stuff? not slash, but pairings such as Jaylee (Jayne/Kaylee) and Rayne (River/Jayne)?

LEEH

Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:28 PM

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Originally posted by engineangel:
LeeH.
how do you feel about NC-17 stuff? not slash, but pairings such as Jaylee (Jayne/Kaylee) and Rayne (River/Jayne)?

NC-17 is fine, although I have to admit to not being all that comfortable with sexually explicit fanfic. Not that I don't like good steamy erotica! I tend to feel like a voyeur, to be honest! And although I know there is a Jaylee school out there--God help me, I didn't know about Rayne--I just don't see the characters going there, so I'd probably not look at that. I tend to be very canonically-minded when it comes to character pairings, I'm afraid!

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. . . ."

ENGINEANGEL

Sunday, January 29, 2006 4:51 AM

ok, well, there's this great author here on fireflyfans.net. ItsaWash, the writer i'm speaking about, writes mostly NC-17 jaylee stuff, although her latest is about Jayne's early life (later fics of that are NC-17 too though), and i know how ya feel about not seeing the characters going in that direction, but her work with it really makes it make sense, it's my absolute fav now, and she's totally my favorite writer. she has an amazing way with words and her grasp of the characters are perfect. even if you're a bit iffy 'bout jaylee, i'd check her fics out at least. they're great and totally worth the time.

check her profile out at: www.fireflyfans.net/showprofile.asp?un=ItsaWash

Her blue sun room stuff is down on the bottom of that, the first one of her fics is the series "The Measure of Jayne", and then it goes on to "The Pleasuring of Kaylee". The fics get more NC-17 as they go along and they're all ruttin amazing. i highly recommend them.

keep flyin'
EngineAngel

River: Little soul big world. Eat and sleep and eat... Many souls. Very straight, very simple...

AGENTROUKA

Sunday, January 29, 2006 8:59 PM

If you are looking for well-written, character-driven and emotionally explorative, then mal4prez's "The Fish Job" is the right thing for you.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/showprofile.asp?un=mal4prez

Careful, it's a work in progress, but it's addictive and worth it.

Do you have favorite characters you'd like to see explored, favorite pairings, favorite genres (fluffy and sweet, gritty and harsh, angst but with some relief, down and dirty raunchy, comedy)?

PSANDUSKY

Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:15 PM

Let me throw in a hurrah for the stories over at http://www.firefly-tvs.com. They're also working up a virtual second season, and I must say, their material reads quite well.

They're taking the relationships among the characters in some interesting directions, and what I find so enjoyable is that their progressions make sense to me, given what's come before.

LEEH

Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:20 PM

Mal4prez was kind enough to flag me, and I've been reading FJ and enjoying it. But you are on the right track with that recommendation!

I'm primarily interested in Mal, whose thematics really compel me. But I can imagine some amazing stuff being written about any of the characters. More to the point, I am looking for stories that explore the characters--morally, emotionally, psychologically. I read stories (and watch TV and movies) in order to learn about human beings and how we function in a complicated reality; so I want stories that exist for that purpose. I could even see reading Jaylee or Rayne or those other side-lines of fic, if that were where the stories took me.

But again--it's got got got to be well-written, and in the FF 'verse, that includes the characters' voices. I've never read in a fandom where this was more important. I mean, yes, you had to get Spock's (or Data's) voice right in Trek fanfic, but the other characters spoke generic good English, so there wasn't much in the way of distinctive patterns to capture. With FF, each character has a different way of speaking, reflective of his or her way of being, and I just can't find pleasure where the writer isn't sensitive to that. Some writers 'do' some characters better than others--LJC writes Kaylee and Simon incredibly well, but I think she doesn't do Inara as well--and that's okay; it's hard to get all those nine voices right. But the writer needs to be able to evoke the voice of the particular character that is the focus of the story. For me, where there isn't an effort to do that, or where the author has a tin ear, I'm just too put off to keep reading.

It's a tribute to Joss and the other FF writers that they built such distinctive individual characters in so short a time, isn't it?

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. . . ."

LEEH

Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by PSandusky:
Let me throw in a hurrah for the stories over at http://www.firefly-tvs.com. They're also working up a virtual second season, and I must say, their material reads quite well.

They're taking the relationships among the characters in some interesting directions, and what I find so enjoyable is that their progressions make sense to me, given what's come before.

Not well enough written, style-wise, for me. When characters "enthuse" or talk "gruffly," all I see is the amateurishness of the writing. I work my ass off as a writer to avoid those adjectival short-cuts, and want the same effort from others. It's hard to use description instead of adjective to capture the effect of enthusiasm or gruffness, but it's the difference between good and less good writing.

Told ya I was picky.

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. . . ."

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