rps rec

[cimorene]

this doesn't go on the recs page¹, but i just had to mention it because i liked it so much:  a piece of matt damon/ben affleck rps that doesn't suck--that not only doesn't suck but is very good!  anybody remember that archive i found a year and a half ago or so, the one full of grammar so bad the stories were occasionally anatomically impossible?  i'd basically given up on anything remotely decent existing in the fandom, after i exhausted google that one time.  and then i was just following links and i found THIS:

daredevil's dilemma by cupidsbow.  1, 2, 3, 4 parts of a wip.  (but usually i hate wips, and i encourage like-minded people to read it anyway.)  pg to r.  this is, in my opinion, more or less what rps should be like.  good, engaging, funny dialogue, realistic details, occasional beautiful sensory images, some really remarkably tense peaks of emotion and just wow.

this reminds me of the equally astounding situation when i discovered stellaluna_ producing truly excellent mac/danny slash for csi:ny (a basically unheard-of event in any csi related fandom as far as i can tell) and keeping it on fanfiction.net (not known for containing lots of truly excellent fic, really).  i don't think i have been this delightfully surprised, in terms of author/fandom/etc discovery, since then.


1. that is, yet. because i don't rec wips except in extremely extenuating circumstances.

Comments

[thegoldsky.livejournal.com]

just out of curiosity: if you like it so much, why aren't you going to put it on your recs page?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

only because it's not finished yet. i do have a few wips on my recs page, but as a rule i don't like to put unfinished things there.

[penm.livejournal.com]

I have actually discovered stellaluna_'s work recently - I got into CSI: NY just a couple weeks ago - and it makes me full of squee.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

stella is so good that i will still read her fic when it's absolutely soggy and dripping with melodramatic angst. i mean, i won't (usually) rec it when it's that angsty, but i even still enjoy it as opposed to wanting to bludgeon her with a happy pink fluffy bunny pillow until she starts writing something happy. yes, i'm still very happy to have discovered her. :)

[norah.livejournal.com]

She wrote my favorite piece of Afflection so far, yes! There are a few decent pieces that she recs at rec_room and there's damon_affleck, too. However, though I love Cathy, and I always enjoy her writing, I no longer read her WiPs, as I don't think she's finished one in the two years I've been following her work. Still, maybe she will, I know she hasn't officially abandoned any of them.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

yeah, i usually don't read wips at all--i don't trust anybody to finish them! the thing was that it wasn't marked as one on her fic index, and i'm very glad it wasn't. i'm happy to have read it anyway; it was resolved enough to not make me want to claw my eyes out, anyway.

i also went right through her recs at rec room last night, too--not many, still, but in terms of percent increase it's infinitely more decent fic than i previously thought existed in the fandom, so it's all good. :)