Penance, with pleasure

[itsallovernow]

So, now that I actually look and sound coherent (I guess I can't actually look coherent, but I look less spacey, that's for damned sure), I'm gonna follow up on yesterday's post.

Taking to heart my guilt over not sending feedback to all of the fantastic authors whose stories I have adored and reread over the past couple of years, I'm gonna at least make an attempt to acknowledge them. I'll never be able to get everybody, so I'm gonna just do themes for a while. Since I started with Rain yesterday, I'll just focus on the pre-Infinite Possibilites Talyn arc fics today.


This arc didn't produce a lot of fic, strangely enough, but those pieces that were inspired by it were generally fantastic, and for me a couple really stood out.

First and foremost, although it's really outside of the mold of any other fic, regarding this arc or not is Cofax's Written on A Thumbnail. I could gush about this fic, about the risks the author takes, being one of the few people brave enough to deal with both Johns simultaneously, and doing it with such skill that you felt for everyone concerned. But, it's also well plotted, well thought out, plausible, painful, beautiful, sexy and conflicted.

The Whole Brain's East of Hezmana is a romp in script form. Psychotic -but not on purpose -Stark, tensions among our favorite love quadrangle, visions and nightmares and an inopportune bra. This is fun, well written, well paced and well characterized.

Orchidcactus' The Good Times is a well plotted, sexy, romantic action adventure set after Meltdown. The link here takes you to Farscape Ally, and the fic is labeled NC-17. There's a pg-13 version available as well.

There are other stories, and after IP airs, I'll list some more of my favorites, as tribute if nothing else, since their are far better rec lists and more thorough reccer's out there - waving to Cretkid!

Oh, and the icon is courtesy of kernezelda. Didn't she do a lovely job.

And I'm writing, at least sporadically. I took another look at the AU LATP fic, and it just said, hey, come on over, come visit, ignore the post WSS porn that you have languishing. That's already been done by other writers. So, for the moment at least, I'm trying to listen to that bunny.

I want to talk about Infinite Possibilities, but I think I'll wait until it finishes on Sunday.

Comments

[cofax7]

I'm blushing here. You're too generous.

Re:

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Umm, no. It's a great piece of writing, and I've reread it several times. And plot, it has beautiful, glorious plot! (Can you tell I have serious plotting envy).

A romp?

[(Anonymous)]

Well right on. Thanks for that. A romp in script form. Cool. And how funny, I forgot about the bra totally. The really funny thing about that script is I wrote it before I'd seen any of the Talyn episodes. I'd read the transcripts so I wasn't totally oblivious to the storylines, but still for how much movement was in it, I had no idea what Talyn looked like inside. I kept asking the Left Brain "how's this?" "What does this look like?" "where's this." LOL.

Anyway, very cool. Glad you enjoyed it so much. :-)

Red/The Right Brain

Re: A romp?

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I did mean that in the best way possible. It is still intense and emotional and totally engrossing, and even a little eerie, but it's also a hell of a lot of fun!

Re: A romp?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm good by romp. That's a perfectly fine word and I'm very pleased to have it apply to one of my fics. I can't bring myself to go back and reread it, though, so I'm going to take your word on the other bits. ;-)

Seriously, though, I know some people have a hard time reading script form fics but we didn't actually write it as a fic, we wrote it as a script for a screenwriting contest (brutally slapped down, we were. brutally) so I wasn't sure how fans would take it. I'm just really glad people read it and enjoyed it. :) (not the contest people, of course, but they are obviously stupid and I declare jihad and glare in their direction - I think an Ally McBeal script won. gack)

Red

Re: A romp?

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

I almost never read anything in script form - scripts or stories because of the format, but East of Hezmana was incredibly easy to read. It's visual, compelling, fun, and in character, not to mention well written. The contest people - clearly morons:)

And romp is a great word (I'd hate to be repetitive, but I think your Tuesday fic fits under the same category. It's so much fun that I have to keep myself from checking your site multiple times on Tuesdays, waiting for it to appear:)