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NYXLILY

Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:48 AM

I'm sure that everyone have their favorite fics out there and wouldn't mind promoting 'em, so I'm asking you wonderful folks to give me a few recs! I do have certain things I look for (or not as the case may be)..

I'm not looking for any 'ships. There could be mentions of 'em (of strictly the canon kind) but would NOT be the main focus of the story.

I'm a huge huge Simon fan, and while he doesn't need to be the front and center of the story, I WOULD like him to be in it in a significant way.

I'm all for comedy, action/adventure, drama, darkfics (well, not too explicit), or just something damn silly. Right now I'm in the mood for action.

For some _strange_ reason, most Simon fics involve angst of the romantic type. I even found out the fandom had an acronym (CSI) for Simon/River... took me a while to realize it stood for crazy space incest. I had a good laugh.

In fact, if it's a good story with no shipping as the main focus, I'll read it. I found the delightful "Big Damn Zombies, sir" and absolutely loved it.

Anyway, enough of my yapping. Anyone want to share a good story you've found/wrote?

HAWKMOTH

Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:27 PM

I have a character study of Simon here:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=1437

and an action/adventure type story here:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=1437

(I'd recommend more, but I don't think they're what you're looking for.)

SPACEANJL

Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:35 PM

Post-BDM, canon, action-adventure? Got plenty of that. Start here - http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=10177

Warning: May contain guns, violence, swearing, sarcasm and a little box of crazy.

COSMICFUGITIVE

Saturday, October 28, 2006 3:52 PM

Shameless self promotion alert.

The following stories are from my archive, including: comedy, horror and angst. Most of these little stories are perfect for Halloween.

Schism: (River.) http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=2527

Schism part 2: (Inara.) http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=2661

Schism part 3: (Zoe, Jayne, Wash, River.) http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=2735

Schism part 4: (River, Mal, Simon, Wash.) http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=2769

Schism part 5: 13 pages of action/horror, and longer than the previous 4 chapters. (Simon/River, The whole crew.) http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=3523

Resurgence part 1: Action/Horror. Spin off series to Schism. (Mal, Zoe, Jayne, Simon/River.) http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=5599

Resurgence part 2: NOT for the faint hearted. (Mal, Zoe, Jayne, River and Simon. The young Doc is the focal point here.)

Broken: Kaylee angst. Simon and Kaylee are a couple. (Simon/Kaylee, Mal, Inara.) http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=4188

Bound part 1: Wacky fun. Comedy. (Wash, Kaylee, Zoe, Mal, Jayne, Inara.) http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=4040

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REGINAROADIE

Saturday, October 28, 2006 4:29 PM

Because I'm not only a Simon fan as well, and also because I'm a shameless self-promoter, I recommend my stories. I'm writing a trilogy of sorts that more or less focus on Simon.

The first part of my trilogy is "The Serenity Gig", which tells the story of Simon and Kaylee's wedding on the ship told from an outsider's perspective. The second part is "Blue Hand Blues" which focuses on River primarily, but Simon still has a part in it. As sort of a 2.5, there's "Shotgun Tam" and "The Repercussions of Shotgun Tam", which I think are very different from any Simon related fics out there. It deals with what happens to Simon when he finally kills someone out in the black. And the whole thing come to a sort of conclusion in my ongoing series "You Can't Go Home Again", where the Alliance goes bankrupt, and Simon, River and a five months pregnant Kaylee come home to Osiris after four years to deal with what has happened between them and their parents.

The first two stories are hit and miss, but it's the latter two stories that I think are my best material.

Peace

The Serenity Gig - http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=2755

Shotgun Tam - http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=3444

The Repercussions of Shotgun Tam - http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=3487

And because I don't want to have tons of links to my individual chapters, here's just all my stuff - http://www.fireflyfans.net/fulluserbluesunlist.asp?un=reginaroadie

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"We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?"
"Four"
You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?"
"We would destroy the Cybermen with ONE Dalek. You are superior in only one respect."
"What is that?"
"You are better at dying."

Trash talk between a Cyberman and a Dalek. It doesn't get any better than that.

REGINAROADIE

Saturday, October 28, 2006 4:31 PM

LEIASKY

Monday, October 30, 2006 3:57 PM

Wanmei has done some character studies of Simon. Amdobel writes some good stories with him as well, though they do turn 'shippy (cannon) at some point. I won't rec my own stuff because most of it is 'ship (cannon) related, though Simon, and by default, Kaylee, is the focal point of most of it.

It's hard to find non 'ship stories as everyone likes to pair all the characters with someone.

"A government is a body of people usually notably ungoverned."

MRSU

Monday, October 30, 2006 4:58 PM

Hmm, angst-lite, Simon-heavy fic? Not easy to find out there, as the man is practically angst-on-legs. :)

But try ManicGiraffe fics: http://www.fireflyfans.net/fulluserbluesunlist.asp?un=ManicGiraffe. It's humour, action, adventure, Simon-centric and not angsty, and even if it has a canon ship in it it's not too central. His Simon and Jayne stories are just pure humour, no 'ships. Try also "Generic S/K plot outline" - a hilarious parody on al those 'shippy fics.

Here's another funny story: Male Bonding ( http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=5849) - Serenity boys go to a bar, have a fight and spend the night in a police quarters. Nothing like that to promote male friendship. :)

Something in the same vein, Maystone's "Matinee" and "Last Night at Sally-Ann's". She also has a great non-shippy Simon character study: Ghosts. Get them here: http://firefly.populli.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?Author=Maystone&NumToLis
t=0.

Or this one, it's a parody/humour: Hormones ( http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=7482). It's a naughty but hilarious look at River growing up. Has Simon in it, who gets upper hand in the end. :)

RIVERISMYGODDESS

Monday, October 30, 2006 5:19 PM

Since several others have already done it, I don't feel so bad about self-promotion.

10 chapter fic, set between The Train Job and Bushwacked: http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=11178

Long fic (not yet complete), set post-BDM: http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=9954

I like to think I write pretty close to canon stuff. There is virtually no romance mentioned in these, except in passing (I wrote a few others that are solely romance/smut, but these aren't them).

~Jimi
jimi dot spettel at gmail dot com
Self-Proclaimed Grand Vizier of Georgia

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ELOISA

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:56 PM

Crashing Through by Farmgirl just got updated - her profile is http://www.fireflyfans.net/showprofile.asp?un=farmgirl. It's Wash-centric action and very good IMO.

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