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Snowflake Challenge #6
Jan. 12th, 2021 08:58 amSnowflake Challenge #6: Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.
How Do You Celebrate, a post-canon fic for Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, Theo Decker/Boris Pavlikovsky (but very much in an awkward, uncertain, trying to establish a relationship but also terrible at relationships kind of way).
Excellent Theo voice - it’s told in his POV and really feels like a continuation of canon - and excellent Boris voice, too. Theo and Boris goes out to eat, and the waitress mistakes them for a couple, to Theo’s horror. Afterward Boris tells him, “I’ll go back tomorrow, yes? I’ll bring a picture of you, say, remember him? Not dating me. Very heterosexual, this man. Real lady-fucker.”
Hour of Need, Brideshead Revisited, past Charles Ryder/Sebastian Flyte. At the age of 90, Charles remembers Sebastian, and grieves Sebastian’s long-ago death. (The summary is a quote from the Iliad: "He has fallen far from home, and in his hour of need my hand was not there to help him.”)
I don’t usually read tragic fanfic - generally I get my tragedy fix from published works, like Brideshead Revisited itself - but this one is really well done, understated and cathartically tragic about things long past and long beyond repair.
Ending on a lighter note! come down and kiss me fairly is a Kidnapped! fic, Alan Breck Stuart/David Balfour, “Five times Alan kissed Davie.” Excellent Davie voice, with some lovely moments of sly humor.
How Do You Celebrate, a post-canon fic for Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, Theo Decker/Boris Pavlikovsky (but very much in an awkward, uncertain, trying to establish a relationship but also terrible at relationships kind of way).
Excellent Theo voice - it’s told in his POV and really feels like a continuation of canon - and excellent Boris voice, too. Theo and Boris goes out to eat, and the waitress mistakes them for a couple, to Theo’s horror. Afterward Boris tells him, “I’ll go back tomorrow, yes? I’ll bring a picture of you, say, remember him? Not dating me. Very heterosexual, this man. Real lady-fucker.”
Hour of Need, Brideshead Revisited, past Charles Ryder/Sebastian Flyte. At the age of 90, Charles remembers Sebastian, and grieves Sebastian’s long-ago death. (The summary is a quote from the Iliad: "He has fallen far from home, and in his hour of need my hand was not there to help him.”)
I don’t usually read tragic fanfic - generally I get my tragedy fix from published works, like Brideshead Revisited itself - but this one is really well done, understated and cathartically tragic about things long past and long beyond repair.
Ending on a lighter note! come down and kiss me fairly is a Kidnapped! fic, Alan Breck Stuart/David Balfour, “Five times Alan kissed Davie.” Excellent Davie voice, with some lovely moments of sly humor.
