Who needs RL? I have Farscape.
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minxyI'm starting with the Farscape recs, which is only a little bit ridiculous since they were recc'd to me in comments in this very journal, but with prodigious use of exclamation points I was told to report on my findings, and here we are. By season, more or less, because my gorgeous flist is reccing fics that won't spoil me past episodes seen at that moment. How I love thee, my 'scaper flist pals; I probably don't tell you that enough.
To be updated as the reading permits and I work through all the wonderful titles you guys have pointed to.
Season 1& 2
In the Space Between by Scapekid is a marvelous sensual, if uncomfortable, tale of frustration, hurt, lashing out, protecting and plans that shouldn't work. Loved John's voice, loved Aeryn's allowances and fear of children, loved the OC, loved the Earth memories.
A Set of Common Tools by KodiakkeMax I loved for the exploration of the feeling that you are out of your depth, and letting a background character be the hero of his own story. Set during A Hidden Memory.
Set just after A Hidden Memory: Asystole by Maayan. Gorgeous pained stream of consciousness. Loved the scientist in John, the logic and trying to fix what was wrong; adored Aeryn's sincerity. NC-17.
Maybe there should be a subset of just Hidden Memory related fics? Probably. In any case, Shaye's (aka![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fourteenlines) Foolish Girl is another perspective and a fine, multilayered psychological complexity.
No particular episode: Beyond Speech by pene, written tocofax7's challenge to invoke another planet in 250 words. Does a marvelous job of creating one of those moments between John and Aeryn where so little is said and so much is felt.
Post The Way We Weren't (2.05): Cofax's The Naming of Names. Will make you broken for Pilot. It's wonderful. Gen.
thassalia's remix piece Tit for Tat, which is Chi centric and Season 1, post A Human Reaction, maybe? Anyway, Chi new to Moya, Aeryn dubious and suspicious, John still homesick and yet all about Aeryn, Zhaan wise as ever... the group is all on their game, in the wacky messed up world of Farscape interpersonal relations, and it's incredible to see Chiana making her way, learning from them in her way and their way and deciding to stay. Great feeling of the story that the series didn't have time to tell, but if they had? It would have sounded a lot like that. Especially D'Argo's chaos line. Gen, PG for Aeryn being characteristically violent.
Big huge massive spoilers for Out Of Their Minds (2.09? I think):Scientist, Astronaut, and Nymphomaniac: the 9 Lives of John Crichton by feldman =rubberneck. I have not seen it's like for variety, heat, attraction, exploration, first-times in many many senses or sheer numbers. I have not seen anything like this before. It's that good. NC-17, really. Really really. Het, at at least one point.
Out Of Their Minds (2.09):Out of Their Clothes bycrankygrrl turns from whimsy to lust to love to confusion in the blink of an eye. Amazing. Het.
Annigmatic's 24 Hour Pass, is a John character study. Spoilers through A Clockwork Nebari.
kixxa's Memento Mori is and incredible AU of Look At The Princess. Loss and clutching and forgiveness and family and change.
M/samdonne's Walk Out Of The Air, post Liars, Guns and Money arc.
Season 3:
KodiakkeMax wrote an AU future story spinning off Different Destinations. How Sleep the Dead. Awesome story about heroes and history and forgetting and remembering.
Cofax (cofax7's novel: goes AU after 'Scratch 'n Sniff'. Written on a Thumbnail. One more meeting. Incredible.
Future/beyond the mini:
Flying Low at Night bycofax7 is the final form of the Farscape/SGA crossover WIP she had going there, which is John Sheppard's POV as a transplant from Atlantis into the Farscape 'verse something like 6 years after the end of the series. Aeryn is tough and alien and beautiful and decisive and wonderful and electric. John is guarded and on the brink of finding something. Adult, Sheppard/Sun.
No Joy (the extended operatic remix) by Shunda (=sugargroupie) of The Devil To Pay by Lynda (=pdxscaper) is set after the Peacekeeper Wars Mini, and an interesting remix. The original story spins the last few moments of the mini differently, setting up a more dangerous un-resolution, and the remix plays out the physical and emotional repercussions (as far as Aeryn is able to deal with them) of the setup through the fade to black to the coda that Scorpius sees from afar, only in Aeryn's POV. Neat. Crafty, man. I do love Aeryn's enduring confusion, and I love the feeling that this could be kicking off another season of Farscape with arcs and twists and fallout that none of us would see coming.
To be updated as the reading permits and I work through all the wonderful titles you guys have pointed to.
Season 1& 2
In the Space Between by Scapekid is a marvelous sensual, if uncomfortable, tale of frustration, hurt, lashing out, protecting and plans that shouldn't work. Loved John's voice, loved Aeryn's allowances and fear of children, loved the OC, loved the Earth memories.
A Set of Common Tools by KodiakkeMax I loved for the exploration of the feeling that you are out of your depth, and letting a background character be the hero of his own story. Set during A Hidden Memory.
Set just after A Hidden Memory: Asystole by Maayan. Gorgeous pained stream of consciousness. Loved the scientist in John, the logic and trying to fix what was wrong; adored Aeryn's sincerity. NC-17.
Maybe there should be a subset of just Hidden Memory related fics? Probably. In any case, Shaye's (aka
fourteenlines) Foolish Girl is another perspective and a fine, multilayered psychological complexity.No particular episode: Beyond Speech by pene, written to
cofax7's challenge to invoke another planet in 250 words. Does a marvelous job of creating one of those moments between John and Aeryn where so little is said and so much is felt.Post The Way We Weren't (2.05): Cofax's The Naming of Names. Will make you broken for Pilot. It's wonderful. Gen.
thassalia's remix piece Tit for Tat, which is Chi centric and Season 1, post A Human Reaction, maybe? Anyway, Chi new to Moya, Aeryn dubious and suspicious, John still homesick and yet all about Aeryn, Zhaan wise as ever... the group is all on their game, in the wacky messed up world of Farscape interpersonal relations, and it's incredible to see Chiana making her way, learning from them in her way and their way and deciding to stay. Great feeling of the story that the series didn't have time to tell, but if they had? It would have sounded a lot like that. Especially D'Argo's chaos line. Gen, PG for Aeryn being characteristically violent.Big huge massive spoilers for Out Of Their Minds (2.09? I think):Scientist, Astronaut, and Nymphomaniac: the 9 Lives of John Crichton by feldman =
rubberneck. I have not seen it's like for variety, heat, attraction, exploration, first-times in many many senses or sheer numbers. I have not seen anything like this before. It's that good. NC-17, really. Really really. Het, at at least one point.Out Of Their Minds (2.09):Out of Their Clothes by
crankygrrl turns from whimsy to lust to love to confusion in the blink of an eye. Amazing. Het.Annigmatic's 24 Hour Pass, is a John character study. Spoilers through A Clockwork Nebari.
kixxa's Memento Mori is and incredible AU of Look At The Princess. Loss and clutching and forgiveness and family and change.M/
samdonne's Walk Out Of The Air, post Liars, Guns and Money arc.Season 3:
KodiakkeMax wrote an AU future story spinning off Different Destinations. How Sleep the Dead. Awesome story about heroes and history and forgetting and remembering.
Cofax (
cofax7's novel: goes AU after 'Scratch 'n Sniff'. Written on a Thumbnail. One more meeting. Incredible.Future/beyond the mini:
Flying Low at Night by
cofax7 is the final form of the Farscape/SGA crossover WIP she had going there, which is John Sheppard's POV as a transplant from Atlantis into the Farscape 'verse something like 6 years after the end of the series. Aeryn is tough and alien and beautiful and decisive and wonderful and electric. John is guarded and on the brink of finding something. Adult, Sheppard/Sun.No Joy (the extended operatic remix) by Shunda (=
sugargroupie) of The Devil To Pay by Lynda (=pdxscaper) is set after the Peacekeeper Wars Mini, and an interesting remix. The original story spins the last few moments of the mini differently, setting up a more dangerous un-resolution, and the remix plays out the physical and emotional repercussions (as far as Aeryn is able to deal with them) of the setup through the fade to black to the coda that Scorpius sees from afar, only in Aeryn's POV. Neat. Crafty, man. I do love Aeryn's enduring confusion, and I love the feeling that this could be kicking off another season of Farscape with arcs and twists and fallout that none of us would see coming. ![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2006-04-01 01:50 am (UTC)And these are definitely some of my favorites set early-on. *g* (There's a link here, to Foolish Girl.) (http://skywithoutstars.net/candles/fanfic/foolishgirl.html)
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Date: 2006-04-01 01:51 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-04-01 02:03 am (UTC)Jintian wrote one of the best Nerve/Hidden memory fillers called Search For Search For Signs In The Dark (http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/3/searchfor.html) that gets into John's head while he is sitting in the cell between sessions in the chair. It gives me chills.
Debby A wrote a wonderfully clinical story that is filler for just after Hidden Memory called Wayfarers In the Night (http://fffa.soliii.net/cgi-bin/story.pl?ArtID=10481&AuID=1109&tf=LBA) that describes John's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how Aeryn comes to help. It is full of heart and compassion.
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Date: 2006-04-01 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 02:10 am (UTC)Ah, hurry up and finish season 2 so we can rec you some more good stuff...
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Date: 2006-04-01 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 04:58 am (UTC)Robyn Bender's (http://www.geekturnedvamp.net/robynbender/) Talyn Suite.
It was the first fanfic I ever read (that wasn't SG-1 or La Femme Nikita)
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 06:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 06:53 am (UTC)Bwahahaha! I have two episodes coming TOMORROW. And I shall now prioritize and possibly decide to watch them rather than read Sandman, or His Majesty's Dragon.
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Date: 2006-04-01 07:08 am (UTC)Seconding the rec for Jintian's story and "Wayfarers at Night", hassling you to read both of Max's S1 (Down Along the Barrel of a Gun, and That Which Does Not Kill Us) stories because I love them so. Also, Searose's "Human Reactions" which you can find at Leviathan. Oh!! And Rainer's Domino is Season 1 and really beautifully done.
If you do need a porn fix, however, I'm self-reccing (with much embarrasment). Not reccing, putting forth:
Lavandaria: http://thassalia.livejournal.com/131926.html
and it's sequel:
Checkmate: http://thassalia.livejournal.com/133854.html
They're early Season 2. I'm just having trouble thinking of good porn that's earlier than this. After you hit the half way point, I can load you up with fabulous authors!!:)
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Date: 2006-04-13 03:32 am (UTC)Actually, I would encourage you to read Mely's Outcast, which I suspect is on Leviathan, as another early-season story. It's a brilliant snapshot of Aeryn and her past, at the end of the pilot.
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Date: 2006-04-13 04:24 am (UTC)You're so welcome, that is a gorgeous little fic.
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Date: 2006-04-13 05:09 am (UTC)I think I could say that In the Company of Ghosts is the best fan novel I've ever read. It's just amazing. (But you can't read it until you've seen the end of season 3...)