summergen recs!
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snick_backupThanks to my Kindle, I have been making progress on summergen again and enjoying myself hugely. And look, I bring you recs!
Legacy - 8k, S8 spoilers
In the bunker, Dean falls through a time trap and has to explain himself to the Men of Letters. So S8 gave us time with the boys' grandfather; this fic introduces us and them to their grandmother, Geraldine. I've rarely seen a fic that develops a minor character (an OC, really) as richly as Geraldine is here; she's competent, fiercely determined women with her own motivations, who makes her own choices and suffers her own losses. This fic is from Dean's POV, but never is there any question of Geraldine being a secondary character in it.
But it isn't just about her, either; in a sort 8k the story develops a relationship with her and the boys that just makes my heart ache, because it's so much the kind of family that they've never really had since Mary died. And yet this isn't sugary sweet; these are all people who've made hard choices and had to live with them.
It's just wonderful, every line.
In the Presence of Another World - 7k, post-S8
I don't even know where to start with this one. Sam and Dean are living with a bunch of monsters in the Maghreb, and Sam has a garden and might be a little crazy. Yes. This is Sam and Dean in a setting totally alien to them for reasons that don't become clear until the middle of the fic, and all they can do is try to survive and not kill each other. This is such a richly imagined setting, and the tenuous relationship between the brothers is so delicately told, and meanwhile there are worldwide machinations that we only see glimpses of, because we're stuck here, in the Maghreb.
If you think you know what genfic is like, this isn't it. This is a writer taking the bones of SPN and making it into something new and grotesque and wonderful. And yet it isn't all setting; there's a story here, too, with a beginning and an end.
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Legacy - 8k, S8 spoilers
In the bunker, Dean falls through a time trap and has to explain himself to the Men of Letters. So S8 gave us time with the boys' grandfather; this fic introduces us and them to their grandmother, Geraldine. I've rarely seen a fic that develops a minor character (an OC, really) as richly as Geraldine is here; she's competent, fiercely determined women with her own motivations, who makes her own choices and suffers her own losses. This fic is from Dean's POV, but never is there any question of Geraldine being a secondary character in it.
But it isn't just about her, either; in a sort 8k the story develops a relationship with her and the boys that just makes my heart ache, because it's so much the kind of family that they've never really had since Mary died. And yet this isn't sugary sweet; these are all people who've made hard choices and had to live with them.
It's just wonderful, every line.
In the Presence of Another World - 7k, post-S8
I don't even know where to start with this one. Sam and Dean are living with a bunch of monsters in the Maghreb, and Sam has a garden and might be a little crazy. Yes. This is Sam and Dean in a setting totally alien to them for reasons that don't become clear until the middle of the fic, and all they can do is try to survive and not kill each other. This is such a richly imagined setting, and the tenuous relationship between the brothers is so delicately told, and meanwhile there are worldwide machinations that we only see glimpses of, because we're stuck here, in the Maghreb.
If you think you know what genfic is like, this isn't it. This is a writer taking the bones of SPN and making it into something new and grotesque and wonderful. And yet it isn't all setting; there's a story here, too, with a beginning and an end.
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Date: 2013-08-21 05:19 pm (UTC)Lovefilm, who I subscribe to for rentals, didn't carry season 7 and won't carry season 8 (which is a good reason to cancel my subscription when I've watched enough of Mad Men to tide me over). I guess Netflix got them, but I must find out. Is not good.