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[sunshine_queen]

Day 15 → A fanfic

I absolutely could not pick one. Also, it's a lot harder to me to find all the Alias fic I love, because when I first started reading it, I wasn't obsessive about keeping track of things. I mean, website archives were around forever, right? WRONG. Sometimes they disappeared, and took all the fic with it

Also, while compiling this list (namely, going to get the link for Jodhpur,) I found out that I favorited a BSG fic in 2007 on ff.n. And not just any BSG fic- a Gaius/Six BSG fic. In 2007. By an author who I have since seen on LJ, but I don't know her, and I didn't follow any of the other fandoms she wrote for on ff.n, and ESSENTIALLY THIS IS A BIG OLD MASSIVE MYSTERY and it is making me insane. HOW DID IT HAPPEN? Did I watch the entire series and then just forget it because I was... given selective amnesia? What is this nonsense!

Anyway. Fics!



Alias

J/I
The Prophet's Right Hand by yahtzee63
The premise is this: what if Jack had been assigned to spy on Irina in the USSR? And it totally changes everything- except for what is constant, like LOVE. Every fic Yahtzee writes is amazing, but I think this one is my favorite.

Syd/Vaughn
Jodhpur by darkstar
This was one of the first Alias fics I ever read, and it's just... striking. It's gritty and real and amazing, and I'm actually a bit shocked I liked this when I was sixteen.

Jack/Nadia (shut up.)
Platinum by yahtzee63
Or maybe this one. Yahtzee is too talented. Also, Jack/Nadia isn't even a guilty pleasure, it's a straight-up fantastic pleasure.

Also, this is really hard, so I'm limiting my BSG fics to like... five. I have so much fannish love for this show it's sick.



Battlestar Galactica

Keep You So by dollsome
I am not reccing this because Nita is a friend of mine, I am reccing it because it's one of the greatest Gaius/Caprica fics I've ever read. I'm rating these by the amount of times I've read them- because when I love fics passionately I reread them over and over. This is one I hit again and again because it is pitch-perfect from beginning to end. Oh them.

The Life Within by millarific
It's kind of babyfic, which, oh, I know- I am a huge snob about it too. It is not at all what you expect. It is perfect and aching and achingly strong.

Ear Tuned To The Roar by inlovewithnight
This fic. For one thing, it manages to be all about Helo without any Eights, which is basically all I ask for. And it features a Six instead! Christmas in a fic form. And Lee, being Lee-like. It really is ingeniously done- what parts of us make us humans and them Cylons? Is that all that we are?- and I couldn't recommend it any higher.

Like Rogue Unicorns by nicole_anell
Do you like crackfic? Yes? Then this is what you need in your life.

The name of this story is your name. by beccatoria
I can't even explain this story. It's so sweeping and powerful and I read it months ago and I still think about it. Fics that involve an actual plot and passage of time always impress me, because I utterly fail at that sort of thing, but this one is so effortless and beautiful and yet rich and deep in meaning. Fantastic.


THIS IS LIKE 1/13138247 OF ALL THE FICS I LOVE. Impossible assignment.

Comments

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU, HOME GIRL. I'm glad you like it!!! I am also glad that, for that one shining occasion, I triumphed over my crippling fear of writing Bstar fic and actually managed to produce something, because that was such a pleasure to write. My hat's off to you, milady, for the badass prompt.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

And your crippling fear of writing my prompts!

But seriously- it is incredible. I can't really talk about it without getting all gushy and incoherent, but the slices of life you chose to show, the word choice, the way you describe things- you're a real writer and it shows, and... this is going to sound weird, and I'm actually not trying to flatter you, but there is a very Adelle DeWitt-like elegance to it. Like, a cool, sophisticated glamour.

(Shut up.)

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Fact: thou art the kindest person ever! Busting out an Adelle comparison of any sort immediately makes it THE GREATEST OF PRAISE. And from what I recall re: writing this, my weird Gaius Baltar channeling was weirdly similar to my Adelle DeWitt channeling for Dollhouse fic! They felt rather similar to write. This is undoubtedly due to the great cylon/spylon similarity.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

I can see why- dark-haired British geniuses that everyone is in love with!

SPYLON. I am inching my way through season two. THERE IS NO DOMINIC WHY AM I CHALLENGED SO.

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

I do so love yahtz's stuff. :)

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

She is immensely talented! Her fics make up an embarrassing percentage of my favorite Alias stories.

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

... I had forgotten that "Platinum" existed.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

I have a crazy amount of your fics saved under various headers in my memories- so many that sometimes I space on them. Like Dragonfly! I really love Dragonfly! Rats.

[lady-padme.livejournal.com]

I didn't read the other fics, but I read The Name of This Story Is Your Name and I was blown away by it. Thanks for the recommendation!!

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

Isn't it amazing? It's so well-written and crafted and the details are just stunning.