fics from 2009 and before

[tielan]

fancake is apparently have a redux back to the earlier days of online fandom - pre-2009 fic.

I have a vague memory of X-Men fics by an author called Minisinoo, but I lost track of her after, oh, around 2001 when the first X-Men movie came out, which was also around the time I ended up in Stargate SG1 fandom.

It was long ago.

Anyway, here's a selection of recs - in part, inspired by me wanting to go back and re-read these again. Slowly...

Phoenix Burning by Yahtzee
Buffy, Buffy/Angel, post-season 5, not canon compliant thereafter. Buffy dies and the world moves on, 350 years later, she's brought back to life for Reasons. It's pretty epic, kind of terrifying, and very awesome.


Monkey Screaming by WinterSong
SG1, Jack & team, Sam/Jack in the background, post the episode where they make baby clone Jack. A lot of psychology stuff in this, and in the two sequels - 'Mirror Image' and 'Silk and Chains' - but I recall them being really satisfying when read as a trilogy.


Intersecting Geodesics by Nancy Brown
Torchwood, Ianto and Jack, Ianto/Jack, time travel, builds on the tangled canon of Dr Who, while still brilliantly filling holes in the story/backstory.


My Kingdom for A ZPM (But I'd Settle For A Bicycle) by Ticklie
SGA, John & Teyla, Rodney & Ronon, hilarious and dramatic.


Fractured by AlliSnow
SGA, John/Teyla, based on The Time Traveller's Wife, powerful and painful.


After The End by Zsenya and Arabella
Harry Potter, Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, written long before the 2nd half of the book series came out, but long and involved and hits all the right emotional notes.


I also wanted to rec Hiraeth by Prufrock's Rage but couldn't find it (admittedly I didn't look very hard), and several others from SG1 and SGA fandom which I just can't find right now.

Oh, pre-2009, you were the heyday of my fannish existence and I do miss my innocent enjoyment of the fannish universes...

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Minisinoo's LJ and website no longer exist but her fanfiction.net profile seems to.

(that site apparently went away in 2010? damn it's been a while...)

...

GODDAMNIT. I would dearly love to squee to excess about Monkey Screaming et seq. (I think these are the ones I'm thinking of. not sure. if one of these involves bbclone!SG-1 on a field trip with a bunch of actual teens, weirding out their teachers for reasons including one of them is facing away from the campfire bc not screwing up night vision? then yes, these.) but I am currently tablet-exclusive, except when on my phone, and that page is one giant-ass column of teeny text occupying the left third of my screen. it is willing to zoom but it is not willing to stay zoomed or to avoid scrolling right when zoomed. I am not willing to play.

[tielan]

Huh. I think I was always a little scared of her work, she seemed just so damn amazing as a writer.

I think these are the ones I'm thinking of. not sure. if one of these involves bbclone!SG-1 on a field trip with a bunch of actual teens, weirding out their teachers for reasons including one of them is facing away from the campfire bc not screwing up night vision? then yes, these.

Yes, those are the ones you're thinking of. And yes, that whole sequences is JOY and DELIGHT.

I have them in a word file, which I copied the text into. It was that good and I wanted to read it off-line.

*shifty eyes*

[beatrice_otter]

Every fic I like well enough to bookmark, I keep an archival copy. And back in the days of LJ, that meant a LOT of copying and pasting into a Word file. (Thank God for AO3!)

My favorite of the Monkey series is actually the last one, with all the competence!porn and house renovations and stuff.

[tielan]

I also love the last one of the trilogy; it hit all my notes of self-reliance and gardening with the home-building, and all the functional dysfunction that I adored in SG1.

[kayim]

I remember her fic too! Her old website is archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20100528115850/http://themedicinewheel.net/

[kore]

My best friend at the time and I really mourned when she moved on to Harry Potter and Twilight -- "She made us love Scott Summers!"

[tielan]

I loved her stories when I first found them. You kind of wonder where such authors are now...

[kore]

Minisinoo's stuff is archived on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&work_search%5Bquery%5D=minisinoo

There was some other website where you could download some pretty well-formatted epubs of Grail and the other novel-length stuff, but arrrgh I can't find it or even remember the name right now. Not FFnet.

[beatrice_otter]

Minisnoo's X-Men fic that was on the Glass Onion got ported in as part of Open Doors. But none of their Harry Potter stuff is on AO3.

[kore]

And whoah, redshades at Tripod is still up! http://redshades.tripod.com/index.htm

[kore]

This Hiraeth?

https://web.archive.org/web/20040228165744/http://www.geocities.com/prufrocks_love/hiraeth.txt

http://fluky.gossamer.org/display.php?Hiraeth1.Love


(....why the fuck did I leave half a dozen comments, why. I blame the migraine I had on Friday.)

[tielan]

It's fine! You found me Hiraeth! (And - about 10 pages in, because I made the mistake of starting to read it - I now have a starting point for finding the one where Mulder is a baseball great in the post-war 50s. Oh, and the one where he's a soldier returning from war and she's a war widow whom he brings coffee.

THIS IS WHERE I LEARNED TO LOVE 'COFFESHOP' AUs)

[kore]

Oh, and the one where he's a soldier returning from war and she's a war widow whom he brings coffee

....OOOH.

Man I don't even remember the first real AU I read....I didn't read them for a long, long time. I think the furthest I ever got was canon divergent AUs until I got into Stucky. -- NO WAIT, I think I remember reading some X-Men/Harry Potter crossovers because of minisinoo.

[tielan]

So I just skim-read Hiraeth, and dear GOD I'd forgotten how frustrating men are in these stories.

Prufrock's Love @ Gossamer Archive

The ones I'm thinking of are 'Paracelsus' and 'A Moment In The Sun'. Both are crazy long (seriously, over a million words each), and enjoyable-but-frustrating.

I am so so so grateful to have grown up and been an adult in a time when some women have agency and freedom, even if we still don't have full equality and it's not across the board. Seriously.