batman slash recs: batman/jim gordon

[cimorene]

I keep pimping this story to everyone and their mother, even if as far as I am aware they don't actually like slash, or Batman. And meanwhile I keep trying and sometimes succeeding to convert people to Batman/Gordon! So I thought I'd post a few recs here.

First of all, the current must-read, and I mean this for everyone, not just those already interested in the pairing:

The Clues in Front of Us by solaras is a post-TDK WIP. She's got six chapters up after, I suppose, two weeks or so. Her update rate is pretty good, is what I'm trying to say, so I consider this fairly safe as WIPs go (I generally avoid them when not DESPERATE FOR SOMETHING, ANYTHING TO READ). This story is Gordon's POV on his blossoming friendship with Batman and, at the same time, his friendship with Bruce Wayne, who seems to be seeking him out for political reasons. The summary seems to indicate that he's eventually going to start putting the pieces together. Now, the narrative voice is delicious perfection, ringing astoundingly true. The pace is exquisitely slow, the UST developing at an appropriately controlled speed. The atmosphere is nice. The dialogue is, at times, hilarious and fantastic. The parallels between the two story lines are very satisfying and neat, too.

Other recs:

First Priorities, by jen_in_japan, is Batman and Gordon gen and extremely short.

Getting Close, by jen_in_japan, an established-relationship piece saturated with angst and mood. Also very short and well-executed, although the flashback to the beginning of their relationship is a little bulky around the edges.

All Kinds of All Right by sua_lay is preslash focusing on Batman and Jim's son. There's awww, and some angst, but the implied things about Batman and Gordon's relationship are what stand out.

Dropping Masks by planetgal471 is a little longer than the others, and particularly the dialogue and the pivotal scene in the middle are remarkably good. The beginning and the end are both a little abrupt and seem slightly out of place, where an episode with Gordon's kids and some references to his divorce seem out of place in relation to what is otherwise a pretty specific (and cool) plot device. But that device is really cool.

Comments

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Oh... huh. Well, Unintended is definitely my least favourite trek fic by a factor of ten or so because it's almost completely rooted in fanon and not canon, and my writing was pretty... teenie back then. But you wouldn't be unlike the rest of fandom in preferring that one. I don't understand it, but I've come to accept it!

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Huh. I kinda feel a bit embarrassed that I love it so much now.

Is there a rule against going back and editing posted fics? You could have a Version II tha you're happy with.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

No, I'm sure you love it *because* of all the fanon, and you shouldn't be embarrassed about what you like (or about liking fanon - God knows in many fandoms it's a lot better than canon)! I'm just always kind of sad that fandom doesn't appreciate more the ones that I worked the hardest on, if that makes sense? I know taste doesn't work that way, but I can't help being slightly sad in the centre of my inner emo arteest. In a meta sort of way, Unintended is a fictional sort of... pondering of fanon and meta tropes in the fandom and it's pretty representative of a lot of them I think. I'd pretty much mainlined the entire online fandom 24/7 for a few months and then sat right down and wrote it, so that's not very surprising! And my knowledge of canon was still superficial when I started it. And the version up there is the edited version - I made certain corrections and rewrites in summer of 2003 for publication in a 'best of internet k/s' zine published by... oh, I forget who does those - Jenna Hilary Sinclair maybe?