ISO really cool stories
Jun. 2nd, 2011 09:35 pmThanks to a recommendation by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sassbandit, I recently read ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
helenish's story Take Clothes Off As Directed, a Stargate Atlantis AU set in a world in which human, or at least US-ian, culture is divided into two groups based on sexuality: subs and tops. This division carries much the same weight that gender does in our world and serves many of the same social functions. It's a fantastic premise, and although the story in the end didn't explore it as much as I would have liked, I'm still very glad I read it.
So, folks, can you rec me (fanfic) stories that do really innovative and interesting things like that? Stories that take their universe and give it a twist that changes everything, stories that genuinely reimagine and transform the text, or contest it, or bring out aspects of it that had been glossed over and ignored? They don't have to focus on gender or sexuality, and they don't have to be AU; it could be something as simple as calling into question the heroic-ness of the hero's actions, if the source text doesn't do that. Metafiction, agenda fic: it's all welcome so long as it's well-written and mind-blowing or at least mind-expanding in some way.
Besides "Take Clothes Off," other examples of the kind of thing I mean are Samdonne's "The Kids Aren't All Right" (I can't link to it because the URL I have is now listed as an "attack page" that's being blocked by my anti-virus program; anyway, this is the brilliant Iron Man story told as a Vanity Fair article) andgloss's Theses on a Philosophy of Power.
It doesn't matter if I'm not familiar with the fandom, provided the story isn't so fandom-dependent that it's incomprehensible to the uninitiated. I prefer gen and m/m slash, but all genres are okay, since I assume you're not going to rec me pure PWPs or pure shipfic.
sassbandit, I recently read helenish's story Take Clothes Off As Directed, a Stargate Atlantis AU set in a world in which human, or at least US-ian, culture is divided into two groups based on sexuality: subs and tops. This division carries much the same weight that gender does in our world and serves many of the same social functions. It's a fantastic premise, and although the story in the end didn't explore it as much as I would have liked, I'm still very glad I read it.So, folks, can you rec me (fanfic) stories that do really innovative and interesting things like that? Stories that take their universe and give it a twist that changes everything, stories that genuinely reimagine and transform the text, or contest it, or bring out aspects of it that had been glossed over and ignored? They don't have to focus on gender or sexuality, and they don't have to be AU; it could be something as simple as calling into question the heroic-ness of the hero's actions, if the source text doesn't do that. Metafiction, agenda fic: it's all welcome so long as it's well-written and mind-blowing or at least mind-expanding in some way.
Besides "Take Clothes Off," other examples of the kind of thing I mean are Samdonne's "The Kids Aren't All Right" (I can't link to it because the URL I have is now listed as an "attack page" that's being blocked by my anti-virus program; anyway, this is the brilliant Iron Man story told as a Vanity Fair article) and
gloss's Theses on a Philosophy of Power.It doesn't matter if I'm not familiar with the fandom, provided the story isn't so fandom-dependent that it's incomprehensible to the uninitiated. I prefer gen and m/m slash, but all genres are okay, since I assume you're not going to rec me pure PWPs or pure shipfic.
