Gimme Some Recs!

[ithildin]

As some of you have probably read over the last few months, I'm reading and rereading really old Highlander fic that I've stashed away over the last ten years. I have found some some wonderful new stuff lately by keerawa & amonitrate, amongst others, but I'd love to read more. So if there are stories you've read, or have written -- don't be shy! -- that you'd like to rec that are het or gen, please do. Even if you have a rec that's vaguely slashy (I think I've seen the term pre-slash?) that would be kewl too. OCs are fine, so are xovers, any rating at all.

Thank you in advance for your input!

Comments

Uhm... do you want a complete list?

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Well... I don't have time to look for links now, so you'll have to try google (but if that doesn't help, you can ask me and I'll try to find the link for you). Anyway: Here's most of what I've printed out over the last eight years:

- almost everything by Sylvia Volk
- lots of stuff by Amand-r, esp. Heat Goes to Cold, No-Flesh And Not-a-Man
- most of amonitrate's stuff
- Kat Allison's September Song and Strata (kinda slashy, but not focused on the sex)
- Cassidy: Gretchen Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- some stories by Teresa Coffman, esp. The Better Part of Valor
- a lot of Julie Fortune's stuff
- devo's Bitter As Honey
- quite a few of jacquez's stories, esp. Methos By Firelight
- Jeanne Rose: Black Sand
- quite a few of Jay Tryfanstone's fics
- Sandra MacDonald's WW2 trilogy and parts of the Lay Down Your Sword trilogy
- the Wombat: Rapture (slash, but not D/M - it's an X-Files crossover, with a Mulder/Methos pairing that works very well for me, somehow. Brilliant dialogue and a juicy plot, too.)
- Paula Stiles's Armed Intervention series

There ya go. All in all, around 2500 pages of fic, I'd guess. That should last you a while. But you probably know more than half of these already. ;-)

Eeek! Overlooked one of my folders:

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

in which there is:

Janeen Grohsmeyer & Genevieve Clemens: Long Have I Waited

Janeen Grohsmeyer: Just A Game

selenak: Incubus, Transferences and Once Out of Nature

Re: Eeek! Overlooked one of my folders:

[mischief5.livejournal.com]

I didn't know there was that much gen out there! Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough...VBEG. I'll do a search on your recs. I'd like to read them. Thanks!

Re: Eeek! Overlooked one of my folders:

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember reading lots of gen back when the show was still on, it was just finding newer fic that was the problem. And I do like to read more adult sorts of things too, and anything new in that category has been impossible to find. Not saying it might not be out there, just I can't find it :)

Re: Eeek! Overlooked one of my folders:

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

A few recs from me. I'll pimp one of my best friend's fic :)

The Centre Cannot Hold
http://www.seventh-dimension.org/stories/Allen/CentreCannotHold.txt
For the Reckoning Comes
http://www.seventh-dimension.org/stories/Allen/FortheReckoningComes.txt
In Fire Restored (I titled the third one if I recall)
http://www.seventh-dimension.org/stories/Allen/InFireRestored.txt

And Ecolea's Changing of the Guard series is great. They're all on seventh dimension.

Well, to be fair...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

a couple of the stories I recced here *are* slash. I'm predominantly, but not exclusively a gen reader in this fandom.

But checking out these authors will in most cases lead you to *some* gen at least, even if most of them also write slash.

You know...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

sometimes I really wonder if we shouldn't try to find a way to raise the visibility of gen in this fandom a bit. I'd like to see a little bit more gen produced again... And, while the fandom is not *hostile* to gen, I think many - newbies in particular - take HL as a pretty much exclusively slash fandom, and that's a bit sad, considering the quality of some of the gen out there. There's quite a bit of brilliant HL gen out there, and I'm sure more could be produced...

Re: Eeek! Overlooked one of my folders:

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

Great selection!

Re: Uhm... do you want a complete list?

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) some I've read, some I haven't -- or at least don't remember them by titles [g] It's funny, because as much as I don't like Duncan/Methos, I like Mulder/Scully even less! So it's not just slash pairings that I can't get into.

I'm just not much of a shipper in general.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Even in fandoms like Farscape, where the main pairing is the perfectly canonical, and perfectly hot, John/Aeryn, I'm not much one for shippy fic. It's not that I'm not interested in human interaction or relationships - but I'm not much interested in the romantic part of human relationships, I guess.

Then again, occasionally I get weirdly shippy about unlikely pairings, both het and slash, so... ;-)

Re: I'm just not much of a shipper in general.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I've always said I'm something of an anti-shipper :) I rarely like the 'canon' pairings. and if I do like a pairing, it's never the usual. I think Buffy/Angel was about the only canon pairing I was into. [thinks] I liked Duncan/Tessa, and I like Amanda/Duncan just fine too.

Re: Uhm... do you want a complete list?

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

me either. I prefer DM/M to Mulder/Scully, oddly.