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eccentric_hat2017-09-28 03:14 pm
Everything started in September. The Grand Prix series took care of autumn. Nationals followed the Grand Prix Final and Europeans followed nationals and Worlds followed Europeans, as reliable as Christmas and Epiphany, Lent and Easter. The wheel of the year was endlessly reassuring, a lifebelt to cling to when the fog was drowning him; a compass when it lifted, allowing him to orient himself by the red or the purple. Or the gold.I think of this as the fic where Victor is Russian Orthodox, because I found it when I was wondering if there were any of those and did a text search for "orthodox" on the AO3. But it's much more than that, too. It's a story about Victor living in time--skating time, seasonal time, liturgical time--and learning something about love each time the wheel goes around. The story has a really nifty structure, organized by the months of the year, and a thoughtful perspective on Victor, who we see here taking comfort in ritual and repetition at the same time as he learns how to let his life be transformed by love.
Dom thinks that they have woken. Mal knows better, and it terrifies her. i know (but i am not resigned) is another 'mal was right' au, which looks at mal's point of view of being trapped in a dream because of fear, because of what once was love. we see mal's quiet fear grow into a roar too loud to ignore as she watches dom cling to shadows while they wait for a train that never comes. until mal eventually decides to create her own form of inception, planting inside dom's mind a horror so great that he'll have no choice but to wake up. |
germankitty2017-09-25 09:42 am
sailorzeo on LJ; dormant since 2008)eccentric_hat2017-09-21 02:29 pmIt’s startling to watch videos of his practices and see angles where he’d seen straight lines, broad shoulders where he’d seen a waist that had made him think sometimes, in a cool quick flash, girl.Yuri on Ice takes place in a world without homophobia, and a couple fanwriters have taken that idea and run with it: why not consider it a world without transphobia as well? What if you tell a story about someone figuring out their gender, and the only difficulty they face is in finding the right version of themselves? This is that story for Yuri Plisetsky, who's now eighteen, a lot taller and broader, and starting to miss the days when he was encouraged to be pretty. The narrative voice is perfectly suited to the story; it's vivid and opinionated and gentle, all at once. And the compassion in Yuri's relationships with the important people in his life is like a balm to the soul. As a bonus, I really love this version of Otabek, who is warm and patient and wry and shows pictures of Yuri to his mom.
germankitty2017-09-17 08:55 pm
"This is my dream journal. I must write the twists of every dream: I must write the details of every day. Now, more than ever before, it's vital I remind myself, minute to minute, of the fine lines between dream, memory and the waking world." sworn to lucidity is a 'mal was right' au, which examines the whole of inception as a dream from which dom needs to wake up from. we watch as mal struggles to come to terms with the invasion of her mind by dom and the loss of her husband, because his desire to create is stronger than his will to live in a world so immalleable. this fic examines and proposes answers to questions that a lot of viewers had in regards to the ending of inception. and the whole thing is so plausible, especially when you take into consideration the symmetry of the length of the film and the length of the kick song, "Non, je ne regrette rien". |
eccentric_hat2017-09-14 04:31 pmGeorgi looks up. "Go fuck yourself," he says, more or less, in Russian. He lifts the bottle and takes a drink, chokes a little before he gets it down.So hey, have you ever considered Chris/Georgi? If not, that's okay, neither had I; and neither has Georgi; and neither has Chris, until halfway through the Cup of China, when he happens across Georgi drinking and crying in a hotel stairwell and decides to take it as a challenge. This starts as a PWP of the can-this-ship-work variety, and then the characters turn out to be in such a complicated place that the story grows an emotional arc. And then the arc grows beyond the confines of one story! I like what this fic does on its own but I love what happens as it grows into a series. It turns out that the sex machine and the angst monster have some stuff to deal with, separately and together, and it's fascinating watching them both try to figure out what on earth they want and how to get it.
"If only I could." Christophe leans on the metal handrail. "If only we all could."
eccentric_hat2017-09-07 10:00 amIt’s always awkward, seeing Yakov again; it brings back creeping, crawling memories of the night Victor missed the podium at Skate Canada last year, when Yakov cornered Yuuri in the hall. The way Yakov picked up the gold medal around Yuuri’s neck and tugged at it, hard enough to hurt. Is it worth it? he'd spat, in his guttural English. Holding him back so you can win? You think love is enough?This is a short fic, less than 3k words. But after I read it once it haunted me. Here’s something we don’t always talk about in YOI fandom: Yuuri and Victor’s relationship is going to be hard to pull off. It’s a logistical nightmare, its romantic and professional elements are all knotted together, and the people in it are passionate perfectionists who don’t necessarily communicate very well. This is one of the only stories I’ve seen to push that train of thought to its logical conclusion. Both the emotions and the physical details are incredibly grounded in careful thought. It's also a shippy Yuuri/Victor fic, so don’t worry too hard about your heart getting smashed.
Whether Dom is asleep or not, Mal is always watching... creation mated to destruction is an inception fic from the point of view of mal, and also my first bookmark on ao3. here's my original comment on why this fic is so good: i like how mal was aware of ariadne and dom from the moment they entered the dream; how mal is connected to the projections but is also stronger than them, how they sense and act on her emotions. i love how mal's anger is directed at dom, how she wants to punish him before she can forgive him for what he did to her. i also love how mal sees herself as protecting ariadne from a similar fate that mal suffered through, even if she doesn't particularly like her. it never occurred to me that mal would see ariadne as someone who is replacing her in both dom's work life and love life. my favourite line is: The girl needed to learn that the act of creation also implied that there were acts of destruction as well. another line i really liked is: Her chance came again in due time. It could have been a week, it could have been a month, it could have been a day later. because it shows that time is such a fluid and ambiguous thing, especially in the dream-world. it shows how mal is existing in a place where the traumatic events in her life could have happened days ago instead of years, and mal is perfectly justified to sit and stew in her anger when her pain still feels so recent to her. overall, this is beautifully written! |
meretricula2017-08-31 09:00 amgermankitty2017-08-28 04:08 pm
Josh Ray Person is a US Marine. He thinks he knows what war is. He thinks he knows what friendship means. He thinks there’s no such as time travel. Ray is about to find out he’s wrong on all three counts. a devil dog in baggy pants is a time-travel, body-switch, crossover between generation kill and band of brothers. and it's done so beautifully. ray is literally thrown from his war in iraq into the d-day landing of world war two. we travel with ray as he tries to navigate his way around a war that's already over, with people who are mostly already gone, while trying to get back to bravo company and the people he left behind. it's an emotional journey, with frustrations and fears and heartbreak as ray grows attached to the men of easy company. knowledge of band of brothers isn't necessary, but there are nods to the canon that would be better appreciated with experience of both miniseries. |
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