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

[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.