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First, run, do not walk, to read the lovely remix written for me, Matters of Faith (The Ouroboros Bridge). (Babylon 5, Susan, Delenn) The noble Ivanova was known as the Strong, for she was strong in heart and in mind, in body and in faith. This is such a beautiful exploration of both Susan and what the future will be like, past the hints JMS gave us. I love how this story pictures Susan living among Minbari, and I love how it handles the Rangers. It's wonderful.
Stargate: SG-1
Rules of Engagement (A Pity Beyond All Telling Mix). The only thing sadder than a battle lost. Sam, on war and being a soldier. The story is gritty and real, and at the same time detached; it's a very effective and evocative style for this story, well-used, and the Sam-voice is spot-on. References to possibly-triggery aftermaths of war.
Stargate: Atlantis
Double Vision (The Fight or Flight Remix) (John Sheppard). Rodney made him go to Colonel Carter with the story, and John, who was gradually getting more used to the idea that he trusted these people, finally agreed. This fic jumped into the middle of a complex situation and made it understandable to someone who had never read the original without retelling the original while at the same time doing a realistic and thoughtful look at what different timelines really mean to someone who can look at each choice and remake it. Lyrical and well worth reading.
Doctor Who
What We've Become (The Mt. Saint Helens Remix) (Donna Noble/Martha Jones.) Sometimes Martha thinks the world is like that: composite. Layers on layers, and no foundation in sight. This is lyrical and gorgeous. I love the way the metaphors build and build, and all the little background details come together, and everything fits. And I love the way the author handle the ways all three of them--Donna, Martha, Jack--have changed since travelling with the Doctor. And I love the way the author uses language, and I love the way the author faces the ethical dilemmas the Doctor leaves in his wake without flinching.
Suddenly a Small Fish (The Great Big Pond Remix) (Ninth Doctor, Brigadier) Carl Sagan said: "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." The Doctor's feeling like a very small creature indeed. This is a beautiful story about the ninth Doctor learning to live with the aftermath--fragile, but determined to go on, with a whole world of things he can't say, even to himself, because the wounds are too raw. And he's trying to hang on to normal by the skin of his teeth.
Thrice, Twice, Once More (The Backspin Mix) (Donna, Ten, One) Backspin: A spin that tends to retard, arrest, or reverse the linear motion of an object. Beautiful redemption of what was done to Donna.
Family Documents (The Multi-Generational Remix). Sarah Jane Adventures/Doctor Who, Family secrets, buried in a box. It made me go awwww. Sweet, but not sickly so.
Persistence of Memory (The Lives of Saints Remix). Martha Jones doesn't die for their sins, she lives with them. Four months after the Year That Never Was, Martha Jones meets Torchwood-- again.
Torchwood
Hard to Swallow (the Percolation Remix). Ianto Jones. Tea, coffee, and the transition from London to Cardiff.
Knocking at the Door (the Things Unspoken Remix). In the years between the Game Station and the end of the universe, Jack Harkness has a lot more time to think than he really wants.
Chronicles of Narnia
into something rich and strange (the tempus aeternum backbeat) (Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter Pevensie) There is no true measure of time. There are many stories about the Pevensies, after, growing up in England, and what it is like to go back to ordinary life after living that wondrous life in Narnia. This is one of the best.
Harry Potter
Cast a Long Shadow (We All Meet in the End). (Petunia Dursley, Lily Potter, Severus Snape). I love the way this takes Petunia and makes her into a real, three-dimensional person, one who makes choices that you can't help understanding even when they're wrong, whose point of view is so different from those of the heroes in the story and yet is real and true and valid in its own way.
Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
The Path of Thorns (Demon Girl Remix). There's no more coming back this way. Season 6, post-Hells Bells.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anntenapedia says it best: "I love the Anya voice, which is bangity bang hers, practical and stripped of illusion. And the way you give us the reason why vengeance feels like the right choice to her, by showing us an act we'd like to take revenge for ourselves."
Abandon Hope (the Mary Quite Contrary remix). She'd always wanted to grow a garden, full of delicate wickedness and the fragrance of blood. It can't be easy to write Drusilla, mad and yet perceptive. This author did a wonderful job.
Bitter If Steeped To Long (The Broken Orange Pekoe Remix) Buffy makes tea. The real kind of tea, just the way she learned to do it. I love the way this story weaves together the four characters (Buffy, Giles, Spike, tea) and their relationships. A wonderful vignette about life after Sunnydale, and moving on.
Family Skeletons (the “We Put the ‘Funk’ in ‘Dysfunctional’ ” Remix). All those secrets hidden in the closet? A family reunion is when they tend to come out. That goes double and triple and then some for the Buffy-Angel crew. This story is hysterically funny, with humor that fits the characters and the situation.
Star Trek
Field Lines (The Russian Invention Remix). (Pavel Chekov) They need a way to escape this cold, hard planet. This story takes Pavel (who can sometimes be a bit of a joke, the wunderkind with the thick accent and the comic Russian chauvinism) and makes him real, makes him Russian on the deepest level and takes him seriously. Yet he is still, recognizably, the young exuberant wunderkind ensign.
Fear No More (The May-December Remix) (Curzon Dax/Arandis; Curzon Dax/Jadzia Dax (unrequited), Jadzia Dax/Arandis (unrequited)) All lovers young, all lovers must/ consign to thee, and come to dust. Knowing Dax through the ages. Not quite a love story. I love the way the author handles the transition from host to host here, and the outsider perspective is spot-on.
MASH
Missing Hawk (The Anger Turned Sideways Remix) In the days after the war, Hawkeye stands still and the world turns around him. I don't generally read MASH fics, because usually either they're depressing in the bad way or they're zany without a heart, particularly ones that take place immediately post-war. I'm so glad I made an exception in this case--this fic is awesome. It has humor and pathos and hope, realism and surreality, in a wonderful blend.
Battlestar Galactica
You Sexy Thing (Not-the-Angel Is a Centerfold Remix). That picture of Lee Adama was just too good to only use in the documentary that D'Anna Biers shot. And when Bell sold it to the Fleet-News magazine, it gave a whole new meaning to improving morale. A wonderful look at the unseen side of the fleet and Galactica, all the little day-to-day things that bind them together.
Lord of the Rings.
Ash and Smoke (Retrospective Remix) This is the story of Denethor, last of the ruling Stewards of Gondor. You say you know this one already? Maybe you do, and maybe you don't. I loved the way the author made the art of story telling itself, and the nature of history, a part of the story.
Stargate: SG-1
Rules of Engagement (A Pity Beyond All Telling Mix). The only thing sadder than a battle lost. Sam, on war and being a soldier. The story is gritty and real, and at the same time detached; it's a very effective and evocative style for this story, well-used, and the Sam-voice is spot-on. References to possibly-triggery aftermaths of war.
Stargate: Atlantis
Double Vision (The Fight or Flight Remix) (John Sheppard). Rodney made him go to Colonel Carter with the story, and John, who was gradually getting more used to the idea that he trusted these people, finally agreed. This fic jumped into the middle of a complex situation and made it understandable to someone who had never read the original without retelling the original while at the same time doing a realistic and thoughtful look at what different timelines really mean to someone who can look at each choice and remake it. Lyrical and well worth reading.
Doctor Who
What We've Become (The Mt. Saint Helens Remix) (Donna Noble/Martha Jones.) Sometimes Martha thinks the world is like that: composite. Layers on layers, and no foundation in sight. This is lyrical and gorgeous. I love the way the metaphors build and build, and all the little background details come together, and everything fits. And I love the way the author handle the ways all three of them--Donna, Martha, Jack--have changed since travelling with the Doctor. And I love the way the author uses language, and I love the way the author faces the ethical dilemmas the Doctor leaves in his wake without flinching.
Suddenly a Small Fish (The Great Big Pond Remix) (Ninth Doctor, Brigadier) Carl Sagan said: "For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." The Doctor's feeling like a very small creature indeed. This is a beautiful story about the ninth Doctor learning to live with the aftermath--fragile, but determined to go on, with a whole world of things he can't say, even to himself, because the wounds are too raw. And he's trying to hang on to normal by the skin of his teeth.
Thrice, Twice, Once More (The Backspin Mix) (Donna, Ten, One) Backspin: A spin that tends to retard, arrest, or reverse the linear motion of an object. Beautiful redemption of what was done to Donna.
Family Documents (The Multi-Generational Remix). Sarah Jane Adventures/Doctor Who, Family secrets, buried in a box. It made me go awwww. Sweet, but not sickly so.
Persistence of Memory (The Lives of Saints Remix). Martha Jones doesn't die for their sins, she lives with them. Four months after the Year That Never Was, Martha Jones meets Torchwood-- again.
Torchwood
Hard to Swallow (the Percolation Remix). Ianto Jones. Tea, coffee, and the transition from London to Cardiff.
Knocking at the Door (the Things Unspoken Remix). In the years between the Game Station and the end of the universe, Jack Harkness has a lot more time to think than he really wants.
Chronicles of Narnia
into something rich and strange (the tempus aeternum backbeat) (Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter Pevensie) There is no true measure of time. There are many stories about the Pevensies, after, growing up in England, and what it is like to go back to ordinary life after living that wondrous life in Narnia. This is one of the best.
Harry Potter
Cast a Long Shadow (We All Meet in the End). (Petunia Dursley, Lily Potter, Severus Snape). I love the way this takes Petunia and makes her into a real, three-dimensional person, one who makes choices that you can't help understanding even when they're wrong, whose point of view is so different from those of the heroes in the story and yet is real and true and valid in its own way.
Buffy: the Vampire Slayer
The Path of Thorns (Demon Girl Remix). There's no more coming back this way. Season 6, post-Hells Bells.
anntenapedia says it best: "I love the Anya voice, which is bangity bang hers, practical and stripped of illusion. And the way you give us the reason why vengeance feels like the right choice to her, by showing us an act we'd like to take revenge for ourselves."Abandon Hope (the Mary Quite Contrary remix). She'd always wanted to grow a garden, full of delicate wickedness and the fragrance of blood. It can't be easy to write Drusilla, mad and yet perceptive. This author did a wonderful job.
Bitter If Steeped To Long (The Broken Orange Pekoe Remix) Buffy makes tea. The real kind of tea, just the way she learned to do it. I love the way this story weaves together the four characters (Buffy, Giles, Spike, tea) and their relationships. A wonderful vignette about life after Sunnydale, and moving on.
Family Skeletons (the “We Put the ‘Funk’ in ‘Dysfunctional’ ” Remix). All those secrets hidden in the closet? A family reunion is when they tend to come out. That goes double and triple and then some for the Buffy-Angel crew. This story is hysterically funny, with humor that fits the characters and the situation.
Star Trek
Field Lines (The Russian Invention Remix). (Pavel Chekov) They need a way to escape this cold, hard planet. This story takes Pavel (who can sometimes be a bit of a joke, the wunderkind with the thick accent and the comic Russian chauvinism) and makes him real, makes him Russian on the deepest level and takes him seriously. Yet he is still, recognizably, the young exuberant wunderkind ensign.
Fear No More (The May-December Remix) (Curzon Dax/Arandis; Curzon Dax/Jadzia Dax (unrequited), Jadzia Dax/Arandis (unrequited)) All lovers young, all lovers must/ consign to thee, and come to dust. Knowing Dax through the ages. Not quite a love story. I love the way the author handles the transition from host to host here, and the outsider perspective is spot-on.
MASH
Missing Hawk (The Anger Turned Sideways Remix) In the days after the war, Hawkeye stands still and the world turns around him. I don't generally read MASH fics, because usually either they're depressing in the bad way or they're zany without a heart, particularly ones that take place immediately post-war. I'm so glad I made an exception in this case--this fic is awesome. It has humor and pathos and hope, realism and surreality, in a wonderful blend.
Battlestar Galactica
You Sexy Thing (Not-the-Angel Is a Centerfold Remix). That picture of Lee Adama was just too good to only use in the documentary that D'Anna Biers shot. And when Bell sold it to the Fleet-News magazine, it gave a whole new meaning to improving morale. A wonderful look at the unseen side of the fleet and Galactica, all the little day-to-day things that bind them together.
Lord of the Rings.
Ash and Smoke (Retrospective Remix) This is the story of Denethor, last of the ruling Stewards of Gondor. You say you know this one already? Maybe you do, and maybe you don't. I loved the way the author made the art of story telling itself, and the nature of history, a part of the story.
