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summergen recs
Jul. 14th, 2013 12:16 pmI have a goal this summer to read or at least try all the summergen fics. Hence, occasional recs! (Anon, because authors aren't revealed until the end.)
I See My Light Come Shining (From the West to the East) - post-S8, 9.4k words
Wingfic! Somehow this has become a favorite trope of mine; I think it ties into my interest in body horror/general weirdness. "My body is doing what?" Anyway, post-S8, Sam starts growing wings in a very well-reasoned, plot-relevant way. (Hint: Lucifer.) These is a creepy, low-key story with a really striking finish. Kevin is great in it, too - so cranky and surly.
Would You Walk to the Edge of the Ocean - S2, two parts
It's like... temporary curtainfic? After Folsom River Blues, the boys' friend Deacon sends them to a beach cabin to lay low for a while. You guys, I loved this SO MUCH. This is a fic with no easy answers, no easily defined emotional beginnings or endings, just moments that roll together into something bigger, maybe.
Sam and Dean's dynamic is wonderful: caring about each other, but still talking past each other. And though they don't get each other a lot of the time, they're not picking at each other, either. Sam's studied calm, impervious to Dean's questions and apparently weird hang-ups, is a thing of beauty.
The author uses the setting to great effect, too: there's this sense of time slowing down, of plenty of space and quiet, letting the boys think through and talk around things they haven't been able to for a long time.
This is one of my favorite fics that I've read this year, I think, definitely one of my favorite Sam-and-Dean centric. It helps me remind what I loved about those early seasons. I can't recommend it enough. GO READ.
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I See My Light Come Shining (From the West to the East) - post-S8, 9.4k words
Wingfic! Somehow this has become a favorite trope of mine; I think it ties into my interest in body horror/general weirdness. "My body is doing what?" Anyway, post-S8, Sam starts growing wings in a very well-reasoned, plot-relevant way. (Hint: Lucifer.) These is a creepy, low-key story with a really striking finish. Kevin is great in it, too - so cranky and surly.
Would You Walk to the Edge of the Ocean - S2, two parts
It's like... temporary curtainfic? After Folsom River Blues, the boys' friend Deacon sends them to a beach cabin to lay low for a while. You guys, I loved this SO MUCH. This is a fic with no easy answers, no easily defined emotional beginnings or endings, just moments that roll together into something bigger, maybe.
Sam and Dean's dynamic is wonderful: caring about each other, but still talking past each other. And though they don't get each other a lot of the time, they're not picking at each other, either. Sam's studied calm, impervious to Dean's questions and apparently weird hang-ups, is a thing of beauty.
The author uses the setting to great effect, too: there's this sense of time slowing down, of plenty of space and quiet, letting the boys think through and talk around things they haven't been able to for a long time.
This is one of my favorite fics that I've read this year, I think, definitely one of my favorite Sam-and-Dean centric. It helps me remind what I loved about those early seasons. I can't recommend it enough. GO READ.
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