labyrinth recs
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elke_tanzer's i blame bowie (recs) and scattered logic's recs: i haven't started on the archives yet.
it seems to me this fandom is high on the high-class harlequin kind of thing. het does tend that way, doesn't it? but i'm feeling sort of addicted anyway, so without further ado, here you are, the results of my (to date) 1,600,042 minutes of reading:
a little place of forgetting by velviet. pg-13, a missing scene, which you don't see a lot of. it works in the movie and makes the movie more interesting, in my view.
do you want to play a game? by aisuru is the only humor(parody)fic i've yet encountered, and it made me laugh out loud. a lot. just really, really really funny.
and the thunder rolled, by edmondia dantes. dark and messily done, but with a kernel of idea which i feel is good. people say about fic like this that it's exploring the darker implications of something or other; usually when they say this what they mean is that someone has written a horror au and tried unsuccessfully to cram it into the source universe. however, the labyrinth universe does have some very dark echoes in the descent myth, and although i balked a bit at first, i decided that this one is really quite believable.
the enticement, by scattered logic. there's sex in it. i can't remember if it's nc-17 or r. anyway, it's the most harlequiny of all, because it's set all modernly, in the real world, and involves being snowed in in a cottage, and a lot of those scenes of realizing that you really like someone, and that it wasn't his fault he was an asshole and that kind of thing. sappy, sentimental, glorious trash; it's separated from harlequins by being much better-executed. for what it is, in fact (i believe the sap is inherent), it's very good and quite enjoyable. although after you read it you may want a something salty or sour to wash away the taste.
elke_tanzer's i blame bowie (recs) and scattered logic's recs: i haven't started on the archives yet.it seems to me this fandom is high on the high-class harlequin kind of thing. het does tend that way, doesn't it? but i'm feeling sort of addicted anyway, so without further ado, here you are, the results of my (to date) 1,600,042 minutes of reading:
a little place of forgetting by velviet. pg-13, a missing scene, which you don't see a lot of. it works in the movie and makes the movie more interesting, in my view.
do you want to play a game? by aisuru is the only humor(parody)fic i've yet encountered, and it made me laugh out loud. a lot. just really, really really funny.
and the thunder rolled, by edmondia dantes. dark and messily done, but with a kernel of idea which i feel is good. people say about fic like this that it's exploring the darker implications of something or other; usually when they say this what they mean is that someone has written a horror au and tried unsuccessfully to cram it into the source universe. however, the labyrinth universe does have some very dark echoes in the descent myth, and although i balked a bit at first, i decided that this one is really quite believable.
the enticement, by scattered logic. there's sex in it. i can't remember if it's nc-17 or r. anyway, it's the most harlequiny of all, because it's set all modernly, in the real world, and involves being snowed in in a cottage, and a lot of those scenes of realizing that you really like someone, and that it wasn't his fault he was an asshole and that kind of thing. sappy, sentimental, glorious trash; it's separated from harlequins by being much better-executed. for what it is, in fact (i believe the sap is inherent), it's very good and quite enjoyable. although after you read it you may want a something salty or sour to wash away the taste.
