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but ohgod, Due South. I keep watching the last scene from "Burning Down the House," over and over, because a) Fraser asks RayK out! and Ray smiles so pretty! and b) Fraser and his dad are assholes to each other. I feel that Due South fandom as a general rule downplays how much of a jerk Fraser can be, especially to people he's very familiar with (mostly his dad and Diefenbaker - PUPPY! I LOVE YOU PUPPY!). Fraser's conversation with his dad goes as follows:
FRASER SR: We need to start looking for a new place to live.
FRASER JR: What do you mean, we?
FRASER SR: Now that's a cruel joke, son. I've been thinking about getting an office...
FRASER JR: What the hell would you do with an office?
FRASER SR: Office work, memoirs, catch up on my taxes...
FRASER JR: Taxes? Dad, you've been dead for two years!
FRASER SR: Oh, they find you, son. They find you.
it's so... plebeian! I love you, Due South. you are an awesome canon and an even awesomer fandom. can I just express my gratitude for how good Due South fandom is? not necessarily the big archives, because I admit I'm too wary of badfic to go poking through those, but the author archives I've found have been as a general rule excellent. also Due South has fantastic AUs, and I admit I'm a huge sucker for wildly unusual scenarios for characters to be flung into. there are hockey AUs, and academic AUs (it's like my two separate universes are colliding!), and even an AU where RayK is a freaking dance instructor, and they are all fantastic. I don't know if anyone wants recs, but have a few anyway. I may do a more comprehensive post when finals are over and I have more time.
Eight Sessions, by Speranza
this is one of my all-time favorite set-ups for stories of any kind. you start in the middle, after the enormous disaster, and work both forwards and backwards until you, the reader, know what's going on. the characters know what happened, but they won't say - in this fic, they can't say - and I for one was completely blindsided by what was going on under the surface of the entire fic when everything finally came to light. honestly this is one of the best-written, best-structured stories I've ever read, in any fandom or even in print, and I don't think I can possibly recommend it highly enough. (PS: if you have any interest in Due South fandom, read everything Speranza's ever written. it will be recced to you sooner or later; why wait?)
Broadway Hotel, by Resonant
another excellent example of a story told from the inside out. we start with Ray, alone in Chicago, and move simultaneously forward, to find out what will happen to him, and backward, to learn what happened to Fraser. (goodness, that sounds dark! there's also a wonderfully schmoopy ending to all the angst, no worries.)
Sunday's Child, by Dira Sudis
I am very deliberately not reccing Dira Sudis' hockey AU. I enjoyed every minute of the six or so hours I spent reading that fic, but still. not something to pick up on a whim. Sunday's Child is really almost heartbreakingly ordinary - it's Ray in Chicago, without Fraser, taking care of Frannie. because she's pregnant, and she can take care of herself, but Ray's going to help anyway. I'm pretty slow on the uptake, so I really didn't figure out the twist until it happened. maybe you won't be surprised, but it really is a cool twist on the story. (again, there's a happy slashy ending, don't worry!)
Blind Justice, by Crysothemis
Fraser goes temporarily blind. I am such a huge sucker for hurt/comfort that I really don't need more than that.
Academic Punk, by the hoyden
RayK is an English professor. SO MUCH LOVE.
Deke, by Rhi Marzano
RayK is a hockey player! SO DAMN HOT.
Pas de Deux, by Sihaya Black
RayK is a dance teacher; Fraser needs to able to waltz at his wedding. so much crack that it came out on the far end, completely serious.
okay, Due South, I have many more recs for you but I need to go to bed sometime soon!
in other fandom-related news, I have just started watching Chuck, due to the lack of ANY NEW TV, DAMN IT, GIVE THE WRITERS THEIR DAMN MONEY SO I CAN HAVE MY DAMN TV. Chuck is amazing! obviously, any show that combines Adam Baldwin (Jayne from Firefly) and a Cake soundtrack must be awesome, but I actually love... everything. the title character is a computer repairman working in a Best Buy, living with his older sister and her boyfriend (whom Chuck has nicknamed "Captain Awesome" because of his habit of declaring everything to be, "Awesome"). then Chuck gets an email from his old college roommate, the one who incidentally got him expelled from Stanford and stole his girlfriend on the same day, containing a CIA/NSA database that Chuck accidentally downloads into his brain. so now Chuck is the only person who can access the super-spy database. he gets assigned a super-hot CIA agent (Sarah) and a super-deadly NSA agent (Casey) to protect him. sexual tension ensues between Chuck and Sarah, and Casey and his guns and his gadgets and his car (Casey really is just like Jayne, now that I think about it). the script is a bit Whedon-esque, lots of witty banter and lots of blowing stuff up.
so far as I can tell, the Chuck fandom is miniscule. someone tell me where I can find slash?
FRASER SR: We need to start looking for a new place to live.
FRASER JR: What do you mean, we?
FRASER SR: Now that's a cruel joke, son. I've been thinking about getting an office...
FRASER JR: What the hell would you do with an office?
FRASER SR: Office work, memoirs, catch up on my taxes...
FRASER JR: Taxes? Dad, you've been dead for two years!
FRASER SR: Oh, they find you, son. They find you.
it's so... plebeian! I love you, Due South. you are an awesome canon and an even awesomer fandom. can I just express my gratitude for how good Due South fandom is? not necessarily the big archives, because I admit I'm too wary of badfic to go poking through those, but the author archives I've found have been as a general rule excellent. also Due South has fantastic AUs, and I admit I'm a huge sucker for wildly unusual scenarios for characters to be flung into. there are hockey AUs, and academic AUs (it's like my two separate universes are colliding!), and even an AU where RayK is a freaking dance instructor, and they are all fantastic. I don't know if anyone wants recs, but have a few anyway. I may do a more comprehensive post when finals are over and I have more time.
Eight Sessions, by Speranza
this is one of my all-time favorite set-ups for stories of any kind. you start in the middle, after the enormous disaster, and work both forwards and backwards until you, the reader, know what's going on. the characters know what happened, but they won't say - in this fic, they can't say - and I for one was completely blindsided by what was going on under the surface of the entire fic when everything finally came to light. honestly this is one of the best-written, best-structured stories I've ever read, in any fandom or even in print, and I don't think I can possibly recommend it highly enough. (PS: if you have any interest in Due South fandom, read everything Speranza's ever written. it will be recced to you sooner or later; why wait?)
Broadway Hotel, by Resonant
another excellent example of a story told from the inside out. we start with Ray, alone in Chicago, and move simultaneously forward, to find out what will happen to him, and backward, to learn what happened to Fraser. (goodness, that sounds dark! there's also a wonderfully schmoopy ending to all the angst, no worries.)
Sunday's Child, by Dira Sudis
I am very deliberately not reccing Dira Sudis' hockey AU. I enjoyed every minute of the six or so hours I spent reading that fic, but still. not something to pick up on a whim. Sunday's Child is really almost heartbreakingly ordinary - it's Ray in Chicago, without Fraser, taking care of Frannie. because she's pregnant, and she can take care of herself, but Ray's going to help anyway. I'm pretty slow on the uptake, so I really didn't figure out the twist until it happened. maybe you won't be surprised, but it really is a cool twist on the story. (again, there's a happy slashy ending, don't worry!)
Blind Justice, by Crysothemis
Fraser goes temporarily blind. I am such a huge sucker for hurt/comfort that I really don't need more than that.
Academic Punk, by the hoyden
RayK is an English professor. SO MUCH LOVE.
Deke, by Rhi Marzano
RayK is a hockey player! SO DAMN HOT.
Pas de Deux, by Sihaya Black
RayK is a dance teacher; Fraser needs to able to waltz at his wedding. so much crack that it came out on the far end, completely serious.
okay, Due South, I have many more recs for you but I need to go to bed sometime soon!
in other fandom-related news, I have just started watching Chuck, due to the lack of ANY NEW TV, DAMN IT, GIVE THE WRITERS THEIR DAMN MONEY SO I CAN HAVE MY DAMN TV. Chuck is amazing! obviously, any show that combines Adam Baldwin (Jayne from Firefly) and a Cake soundtrack must be awesome, but I actually love... everything. the title character is a computer repairman working in a Best Buy, living with his older sister and her boyfriend (whom Chuck has nicknamed "Captain Awesome" because of his habit of declaring everything to be, "Awesome"). then Chuck gets an email from his old college roommate, the one who incidentally got him expelled from Stanford and stole his girlfriend on the same day, containing a CIA/NSA database that Chuck accidentally downloads into his brain. so now Chuck is the only person who can access the super-spy database. he gets assigned a super-hot CIA agent (Sarah) and a super-deadly NSA agent (Casey) to protect him. sexual tension ensues between Chuck and Sarah, and Casey and his guns and his gadgets and his car (Casey really is just like Jayne, now that I think about it). the script is a bit Whedon-esque, lots of witty banter and lots of blowing stuff up.
so far as I can tell, the Chuck fandom is miniscule. someone tell me where I can find slash?
